Today was a cold but nice morning to be at the Hawthorn Orchard. I was pleasantly surprised by the appearance of many neotropical migrants in at least a few different flocks.
Highlights include: 12 species of warblers, 21 Ruby-crowned Kinglets (everywhere), and at least 42 White-throated Sparrows (several large rolling flocks through different spots in the Hawthorn Orchard), a male and female Brown Thrasher at the SW corner, and at least 5 Scarlet Tanagers (two females and one male in one tree, plus other singers passing through). Many of the warblers were quietly probing the newly-formed leaf clusters in the Hawthorn Orchard for hopeful finds of Tortricid (leaf-roller) moth larvae. It’s a little early, but it should be a good year for the leaf-rollers, due to the relatively mild winter. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H Hawthorn Orchard May 9, 2016 06:29 Traveling 1.00 miles 119 Minutes All birds reported? Yes Comments: Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.2.0 Build 62 1 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 5 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 7 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 6 Black-capped Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 21 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 Wood Thrush 16 American Robin 9 Gray Catbird 2 Brown Thrasher 1 Northern Mockingbird 11 European Starling 2 Ovenbird 2 Blue-winged Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 8 Nashville Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 American Redstart 3 Northern Parula 6 Magnolia Warbler 3 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 7 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Chipping Sparrow 42 White-throated Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 6 Scarlet Tanager 7 Northern Cardinal 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 16 American Goldfinch Number of Taxa: 51 Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
