Yesterday (Sunday, 5/13) our SFO group made a quick stop at the
Hawthord Orchards at ~7:20am, where we heard a CANADA WARBLER singing
in the NE corner (near the white house), saw a female BLACK-AND-WHITE
WABLER, near the NE entrances, and saw/heard a BLUE-HEADED VIREO in
that NE forest/ravine. We
This morning Tim and I went to Hawthorn expecting to find little and
were pleasantly surprised. The numbers were low, but we found a nice
mix of warblers, all in the NE corner, mostly down the slope of the
ravine, and all singing persistently: Canada, Northern Parula
This morning, I met up with Katy Payne, who joined me for a couple of early
morning hours of birding. We birded the relatively quiet but peaceful Hawthorn
Orchard from about 5:45am to 7:45am.
Best bird was a single adult male ORCHARD ORIOLE that sang one explosive song
just as we were getting
This morning, I birded the Hawthorn Orchard on East Hill in Ithaca, NY from
about 8:15am until about 9:15am.
It was a very nice morning to be out and about, but it was relatively quiet
bird-wise. The sunshine definitely brought out some song by some birds early
on, but it got quiet as the time
Today was like birding after a late September cold front. It was overcast. It
was cold. It was dark. It was breezy. Initially, it was very quiet. Birds were
primarily giving flight notes and were foraging in very tight groups.
I was at the Hawthorn Orchard from about 7:15am to 8:30am.
By about
This morning, I was at the Hawthorn Orchard (on the East Hill of Ithaca, NY)
from about 7:30am to 9:00am. Ran into several birders, including Chris Wood and
Jessie Barry with visitors from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) – Andy
Clements (Director of BTO), Andy Musgrove (Director of
This morning, I decided to check out the Hawthorn Orchard, in the event of a
potential fallout, despite the drizzle and wind. I birded there from about
8:00am to 8:45am.
Highlights are below:
1 GREEN HERON (likely built a nest, growls heard and bird later seen in
flight, SW corner near
Today, I was at the Hawthorn Orchard from about 7:45 to 8:45am.
Very quiet start to the hour I was there. In part due to the cloud cover. Seems
birds are less vocal when it's really cloudy in the morning. Birds seemed to
become most active in the final 15 minutes of my time there. The most
I must have just missed Chris in the Hawthorn's where I meandered from about
0845 to 1000 h. Most of the same birds for me including the singing WIlson's
Warbler in the north central part of the tract. I can add a Black-throated
Blue Warbler male singing briefly and a Red-eyed Vireo both on
I got a late start to the Hawthorn Orchard today...was there from about 10:45am
to about 1:15pm. Much of my birding was done with Rick Lightbod, while
remaining stationary at one spot just South of the Northeast corner, and later
a little bit with Kristin Hodge.
Upon arrival, the warblers were
Today, I birded the Hawthorn Orchard (East Hill of Ithaca) from about 8:45am to
11:45am. For most of the time there, I was birding along with Matt Medler and
his girlfriend Diane. Due to the relatively cold temperatures, it was fairly
quiet until it warmed up and the warblers began to arrive.
Today, I birded at the Hawthorn Orchard from about 8:45am to 11:15am. It was a
really nice day there! This was my first visit with migration in full swing. I
was out of town Tuesday through very early this morning, so missed the big
fallout over the prior days.
Here's a run-down of what I
It was another fantastic day at the orchard. I was there from 10:00 - 12:00
A.M. I tried to count numbers of each species, but it didn't quite
work.(sorry Chris) They were moving around too much. Anyway, there seemed
to be a number of birds in just about every tree. It was a real treat! As
Gary
first WARBLERS of the season spotted (admittedly, a bit late to the
game on my part) April 29th: yellow-rumps in Six Mile Gorge.
this morning, May 4th, WARBLER HEAVEN in the Hawthorn Orchards on East
Hill (roughly 10 am - 12:30 pm), with an amazing fallout from
yesterday's thunderstorms
37 Species, 12 warblers. 2 PINE WARBLERS.
Evan B
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Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, US-NY
May 3, 2012 10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
My dozen warbler species were different from Evan's, so add Ovenbird, Orange-crowned Warbler and Blackburnian Warbler to today's Hawthorn Orchard list.--Dave NutterBegin forwarded message:From: do-not-re...@ebird.orgDate: May 03, 2012 1:40:37 PMTo: nutter.d...@mac.comSubject: eBird Report -
I'm confessing that I officially love the Hawthorn Orchard during migration !
I've only been able to get there in late afternoon yesterday and today, but
still had 46 and 51 total species with 15 different Warblers. I missed some
warblers, like Orange-crowned and Ovenbird, so 20+ warbler
Not to detract in any way from the spectacularly magnetic Hawthorn Orchard, but
I too found 15 warbler species today, without moving more than 1000 feet from
my house, and probably could have made it 20 without leaving the greater West
Danby area. There are lots of birds around!
-Geo
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Amazing day for birding, try to get out if you can! Hawthorn Orchards was
filled with migrants from 7:30-10:50am today. At least 45 species and simply
too many Yellow-rumpeds to count, plus a lot of highlights. I'll send an eBird
checklist later, but here are some of the highlights:
Prairie
45 species total, 15 warbler species, excellent day.
Evan B
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Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, US-NY
May 2, 2012 7:40 AM - 8:50 AM
After returning from the Savannah Mucklands area this morning, I birded the
Hawthorn Orchard on East Hill in Ithaca (located between Pine Tree Road,
Mitchell Street, and the East Ithaca Recreation Way) from about 9:45 to
11:00am. It was fairly quiet, in part due to the cold, windy, damp
This morning, I birded the Hawthorn Orchard from about 7:00am to 8:45am. It
was really quiet, but I was please to find two YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERS
actively foraging and sporadically calling and chasing each other around.
I have placed a handful of recordings up on SoundCloud, including the
Today, from 5:30am to 6:30am, I did not encounter any transient migrants in
the Hawthorn Orchard. It could have been that I was just there too early,
but I certainly suspect that all have picked up and migrated North with the
Southerly winds we've been having. The only potential transient migrant
Hawthorn Orchard is very birdy today. TONS Blackpolls, lots Bay-breasted,
still Tennessees. -- Chris T-H
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Gin I birded in the hawthorn orchard this morning, starting at 7:30am.
Some of the notables:
--Tenessee warblers singing everywhere, finally got our sights on some
in the dense foliage. The best views I had was in the open at the south
edge of the woods, looking in from the field. (This is
Carol I spent a pleasant hour and a half birding at the Hawthorn Orchard this
morning. Highlights:
Awesome views of a singing Wood Thrush
More Blackpolls and Tennessee Warblers than I could keep track of
Great looks at a singing Bay-breasted Warbler
Many American Redstarts, Red-eyed Vireos,
I birded the Hawthorn Orchard today from about 6:30am to 9:30am, again,
painful to pull myself away for work.
Today, many birders were there enjoying what the Hawthorn Orchard had to
offer for the day. Am I keeping a life birder list? Anyway, there was a
rare sighting today among those that I
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard - 5/20/2011 - 21 Warblers - Very
Active, Very Muddy
I birded the Hawthorn Orchard today from about 6:30am to 9:30am, again,
painful to pull myself away for work.
Today, many birders were there enjoying what the Hawthorn Orchard had to
offer
Hawthorn Orchard - Good birds, better light, no rain, still muddy. MOURNING
WARBLER NE corner. Tons of Tennessees. -- Chris T-H
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I made a lunch-hour run to the Hawthorn Orchard, hoping the excellent
variety of songbirds would be active in between rain showers. I was
not disappointed (who could be?): when I arrived just after noon there
was a cacophony of warbler song as I entered the northeast section of
the
This morning, I birded the Hawthorn Orchard from about 6:15am to 9:00am. I
was joined by Pete Marchetto for a good portion of the morning. While there,
I was pleased to see several other area birders in the hawthorns enjoying
what the place has to offer. Throughout the morning, I saw or met up
Hawthorn Orchard - WET - same birds, similar numbers, more evenly dispersed.
MOURNING WARBLER at NE corner. -- Chris T-H
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This morning, I birded the Hawthorn Orchard from about 7:15am to 9:30am.
While there, I met Heidi Bardy, Beth Bannister, and Mark Scheel. Later, on
my way out, I ran into Andy Johnson and Jay McGowan.
Really great birding there today. There's a sizeable flock of birds that are
slowly moving
Swainsons Thrush among same Warblers as yesterday minus the Golden winged.
Alberto Lopez
Chris Dalton
Nancy Chen
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This morning, I hit the Hawthorn Orchard in East Ithaca around 6:30am and I
birded there quite thoroughly until about 11:30am. I was joined for a period
of time by Larry and Sara Jane Hymes and Stuart Krasnoff. Had the pleasure
of meeting some fellow birders while there today. I met Dana and Mamie
I spent from 6:30 until 9:00 am in the Hawthorns this morning and ran
into at least 9 other birders! The morning began quietly, with an
occasional Tennessee Warbler song, a few yellows and yellowthroats. By
7 - 7:30 the pace picked up markedly. There seemed to be Tennessee
Warblers
This morning, I met up with Pete Marchetto, and together we slowly made one
round through the Hawthorn Orchard. Briefly ran into Kevin Ripka (good to
meet you!).With the winds and lack of sunlight early in the AM, the behavior
of birds was very different than the previous days.
The diversity
There are two birds I need to add to this morning's Hawthorn list. All
of the morning's birds were in the NE corner or along the northern
edge of the Orchard. I never got out south into the tangle.
NASHVILLE WARBLER 2
BALCK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER This guy was foraging in the flowering
Since I was up early this morning, I decided to head over to the Hawthorn
Orchard earlier than expected. I was there birding from 5:30am until 8:15am.
Highlights include: EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, SWAINSON'S
THRUSH, BREWSTER'S WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, WILSON'S WARBLER, and
After reviewing my pictures, I realized that I forgot to mention a couple of
birds: two, grunting, Common Mergansers that were circling over the Hawthorn
Orchard in the pre-dawn twilight, and I had flushed two Green Herons that had
been roosting in the Hawthorn Orchard. The Green Herons had
Overnight, there was clearly a heavy movement of Vermivoras, as evidenced by
the abundance of that genera at the Hawthorn Orchard this morning.
Vermivoras were still in movement well into the morning (warblers still
flying well above tree-top height, producing seet flight notes).
After a
I haven't taken too many digi-binoc bird pictures at the Hawthorn Orchard
yet this year, but I have put up a tiny handful here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cth4th/2010HawthornOrchardBirds#
These include my best shot of the cooperative Blackburnian Warbler that Anne
Klingensmith and I saw
This morning, I made my first visit to the Hawthorn Orchard this spring. I
was there from about 6:30am to 9:30am.
Except for fresh footprints from one or two other persons, there were no
people birding this Hawthorn Orchard this morning. It was a little drizzly
early and it was certainly muddy
When I arrived at 8:00, the orchard was hopping, but I didn't come
across anything new. Interestingly, I heard no Black-throated Green
Warblers. Most of the activity was along the eastern edge today. Here
are the highlights:
Yellow-rumped Warblers--still lots of them
Northern Waterthrush
I had two personal hawthorn firsts this morning - scarlet tanager and
black and white warbler. Also three solitary sandpipers, Baltimore
oriole, cedar waxwings, common yellow throat, yellow warbler, yellow
rumped warbler, redstarts, and brown headed cowbirds doing as much
watching as I.
Meena left for work just a bit too early: two minutes after she left I
had had my best ever encounter with a singing NORTHERN PARULA. It was on
the north side just a bit in from the path running along the gully.
Earlier, I also had two SCARLET TANAGERS, one flying overhead and one
swooping
Birded Hawthorn from 8:30 to 10:30 today. Still low numbers of most
species with the exception of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER and WHITE-THROATED
SPARROW. There were many of both. With such large numbers of
Yellow-Rumps, can better numbers of other warblers, etc. be far
behind?? As for the
I think this is the first time I have been to the Hawthorn Orchard in
spring and not heard a single Wood Thrush. A multitude of
Yellow-rumped Warblers and one Red-eyed Vireo sang persistently,
though. Most activity today was in the Northwest corner. Other birds
found between 8:00 and 9:00
I haven't heard any reports from Hawthorn Orchards yet this spring...I plan
to go there tomorrow morning since we had a warm day and expect south winds
over night. It would be great to meet folks there if there is interest.
Tom
Time is the friend of the wonderful company,
the enemy of the
On Thursday afternoon, I had a free hour in the East Hill area. I spent this
time on the East Ithaca Recreation Way (Honness Lane to Mitchell Street) and in
the Hawthorn Orchard. I found two House Wrens, a Cooper's Hawk terrorizing a
flock of starlings, and numerous members of more common
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