This morning, I was at the Hawthorn Orchard, giving it a little more time, from 7:30am to 8:45am.
It was dreadfully quiet; however, a single singing adult male ORCHARD ORIOLE made up for that. This bird was frequenting the trees and bushes along the West side of the South Rugby Field (West of the Oxley Equestrian Center on Pine Tree Road). My thought is that the first hatching of the food resource (Tortricid sp. Leaf-roller larvae) may have become depleted early on this year, or perhaps were affected by the early warming followed by some hard freezes. Though, lots of spiders now. Other birds included: 1 high flying Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron (on nest, SW area of Hawthorn Orchard) 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird flyby 2 Warbling Vireos (near peeper pond, in vicinity of Orchard Oriole) 1 Red-eyed Vireo (singing in tall oak tree at NW corner of Hawthorn Orchard) 1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH (silently foraging up in hawthorns about middle-Northern portion of Hawthorn Orchard) ZERO Wood Thrush 1 TENNESSEE WARBLER (singing in immediate vicinity of Orchard Oriole) 2 Yellow Warblers (near stream that runs along South edge of the pasture, South of H.O.) 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (calling from top of tall oak tree along East edge of H.O.) 1 BLACKPOLL WARBLER (foraging and singing from treetops of little wooded knoll area just South of same stream where Yellow Warblers were) 1 American Redstart (adult male, singing near tall oak tree along East edge of H.O.) 1 HOODED WARBLER (heard producing repeated "chink" notes in SW area of H.O., evaded me and did not respond to pishing) 1 Scarlet Tanager (female, flyover) 1 White-throated Sparrow (single song, middle of H.O.) 1 Indigo Bunting (flight note, high flyover) 1 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 ORCHARD ORIOLE (see above notes) 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/ --
