I had planned to lead the field trip today to Lindsay Parsons, but only two people showed up and because so much had been going on locally we decided to change our plans and went to the Hawthorn Orchards instead. We immediately ran into Chris Tessaglia-Hymes who was listening to the Yellow-breasted Chat. We heard it too and before long it made itself visible. In that same spot was a pair of Scarlet Tanagers, a Wilson's Warbler, a Nashville, Common Yellowthroat, a flyover Indigo Bunting or two and an Ovenbird. We spent about an hour in that spot enjoying the Chat as it came and went.
The walk through the Orchards was rewarding, but it wasn't nearly as busy as I had hoped. The full eBird list is below.
Green Heron 1 Killdeer X Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) X Mourning Dove X Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay X American Crow X Barn Swallow X Black-capped Chickadee X Tufted Titmouse X White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin X Gray Catbird X European Starling X Ovenbird 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 3 American Redstart 2 Magnolia Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow X Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal X Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch X House Sparrow X -- Paul Anderson, VP of Engineering, GrammaTech, Inc. 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x118; http://www.grammatech.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
