As Laura Stenzler noted earlier, there's a plethora of warblers in Sapsucker Woods this morning, many offering excellent views. On a brief walk along the Wilson Trail North that was very difficult not to extend beyond the 25 minutes I allotted myself, I ran into Mark Chao and Miyoko Chu with Mark noting that this was perhaps the "best warbler day in SSW all spring." I knew things were looking good when the first birds that popped up as I entered the woods just beyond the Fuller Wetlands, were a male Cape May Warbler, a male Magnolia Warbler, and a Tennessee Warbler all in the same binocular view at the top of a small spruce. The Cape May was singing loudly, before the Tennessee eclipsed him in volume and chased him off, with the Magnolia simply observing the whole scebe.
Highlights in no particular order: *Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 (silent, moving through tree-tops near the start of the trail) Least Flycatcher - 2 Wood Thrush - 3 Veery - 2 Swainson's Thrush - 1 (just E of second footbridge) Cape May Warbler - 2 (1 male singing loudly just past Fuller Wetlands, one further down the trail in the large Norway Spruce just south of the second footbridge) Magnolia Warbler - 4 (3 males, 1 female throughout) Blue-winged Warbler - 1 singing from powerline cut north of Fuller Wetlands Tennessee Warbler - 4 (lots of song from this species echoing throughout the woods) Bay-breasted Warbler - 4 (stunning looks at 2 males and 1 female foraging at and below eye-level in the aforementioned Norway Spruce, absolutely feasting on small larvae...1 additional male singing at the fork of the "inland" and "pond-side" branches of the trail) Blackburnian Warbler - 3 (1 male singing and seen well with Mark and Miyoko just over the second footbridge where the trail splits, 2 other males singing at various points) Canada Warbler - 1 female seen at second footbridge Black-throated Blue Warbler - 1 female seen at second footbridge Wilson's Warbler - 2 (both singing...1 at start of trail, 1 near feeder along the shore of the pond) Nashville Warbler - 1 Yellow Warbler - 5 throughout Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 (powerline cut near Fuller Wetlands) American Redstart - 3 throughout Black-and-White Warbler - 1 male seen near small woodland pool on North side of the trail Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 (both females) near second footbridge Blackpoll Warbler - 5 throughout Northern Waterthrush - 2 Ovenbird - 3 Mourning Warbler - 1 singing loudly, but never seen, in dense thickets between feeders on north side of Lab and the Wilson trail Indigo Bunting - 1 male singing near parking lot Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 3 Baltimore Oriole - 5 * Get out there if you can today! -Scott -- *Scott A. Haber* *Content Manager - Merlin* Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. - #295A Ithaca, NY 14850 Office: (607) 254-1102 Email: sa...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
