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 diversity of warblers seemed to arrive up from the ravine/slope area to the North of the NE corner.
Highlights: 1 Great Crested Flycatcher NO Empidonax sp. flycatchers NO Vireos 2-3 House Wrens 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (non-vocal, NE corner) 2-3 Gray Catbirds 2 Tennessee Warblers (non-vocal, one SW and one NE corner) 5-6 Nashville Warblers (Generally quiet, but these were the most vocal singers of all warblers today; SW, SE, and NE corners) 1 Northern Parula (singing just North of NE corner) NO Yellow Warblers 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler (non-vocal, NE corner) 2 Magnolia Warblers (non-vocal, one NE, one SW) 2 Black-throated Green Warblers (mostly non-vocal, sang once, NE corner) 1 American Redstart (non-vocal, male, NE corner) 2 Common Yellowthroats (singing) 1 WILSON'S WARBLER (new arrival, singing actively and easily seen in NE corner, near top of slope) 3-4 White-throated Sparrows (NE corner, in hedgerow near Softball Field) 1 INDIGO BUNTING (flyover, buzzy ringing flight note) 2 Eastern Meadowlarks (in grass around retention "pond" on South side of the North soccer field; SW of Reis Tennis Center) 2 Baltimore Orioles (NE corner of Hawthorn Orchard) I am curious to know what this next weather system will bring in, despite the forecast rain overnight tonight. A Low Pressure System is approaching to the SW of our area and is forecast to be centered over Detroit, MI by 2AM tomorrow. This may create a slight SW to NE push for more migrants into our region. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 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/ --
