This morning, I met up with Pete Marchetto, and together we slowly made one round through the Hawthorn Orchard. Briefly ran into Kevin Ripka (good to meet you!).With the winds and lack of sunlight early in the AM, the behavior of birds was very different than the previous days.
The diversity was low, but the numbers had changed - with drops in some species' numbers and significant rises in other species' numbers. Here's the basic run-down of highlights for us from about 5:45am to 8:00am: 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds 2 Least Flycatchers 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Warbling Vireos 2 PHILADELPHIA VIREOS (different plumage variations, one NE corner, one NW corner) ZERO Red-eyed Vireos 8-10 TENNESSEE WARBLERS (both vocal and non-vocal individuals throughout, but mostly concentrated in the NW corner) 1 NASHVILLE WARBLER (these birds seemed to disappear overnight, unless they appeared later in the morning, after we had departed) 10-12 Yellow Warblers 6-8+ CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLERS (clearly multiple individuals in the NW corner today) 6-8 Magnolia Warblers (concentrated in NW corner, but at least 2-3 in other locations) 1 BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER (female, NE corner) 1 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (male moved right through the NE corner and into the maples and gone to NE) ZERO Bay-breasted Warblers 1 BLACKPOLL WARBLER (NW corner) 1 Black-and-white Warbler (female mid-North side) 2-3 American Redstarts ZERO Ovenbirds 1 possible heard Mourning Warbler (along West-East hedgerow from NE corner) 10-12 Common Yellowthroats 1 Scarlet Tanager (mid-North) 3-4 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 1-2 Indigo Buntings (flyovers) 3-4 Baltimore Orioles 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/ --
