Very pleasant morning with nice views of good birds. Met up with Jay McGowan and we slowly worked our way around the Hawthorn Orchard; later, I made another quick pass through, adding some individuals. This may yet become another memorable year at the Hawthorn Orchard, depending upon what happens over the next couple of nights. Tuesday morning has the potential to get really interesting, if the weather forecast holds true (stationary front across central NY), or it could be a dud…gotta love weather and migration forecasting.
Best birds were the BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS and CAPE MAY WARBLERS, as well as a single silently foraging PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, US-NY May 10, 2015 7:55 AM - 9:54 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Mostly w/ Jay McGowan, then one more solo pass through. <br />Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.8 52 species (+1 other taxa) Osprey 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Merlin 2 Copulating (visible from NE corner, looking North to spruce-tops; they really like perching on the one spruce that has a dead branch extending out to the right) Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher) 1 SW corner, non-vocal. Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO 1 NE Corner. Non-vocal. Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 9 American Crow 3 Barn Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 7 European Starling 8 Cedar Waxwing 2 Blue-winged Warbler 1 NE Corner Tennessee Warbler 8 Throughout, singing loudly (7 ad male, 1 female) Common Yellowthroat 2 Cape May Warbler 5 SE part of Hawthorn Orchard for the most part (1 ad male, 4 female) Magnolia Warbler 4 Bay-breasted Warbler 6 NE and SE corners (5 ad male, 1 female) Blackburnian Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Blackpoll Warbler 2 South-Southeast region (2 ad males) Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 2 One in NE ravine area, one in SE area (2 ad males) Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 2 Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 2 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Baltimore Oriole 3 House Finch 1 Pine Siskin 1 American Goldfinch 9 House Sparrow 5 -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418<tel:607-254-2418> M: 607-351-5740<tel:607-351-5740> F: 607-254-1132<tel:607-254-1132> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
