Today, I birded the Hawthorn Orchard (East Hill of Ithaca) from about 8:45am to 11:45am. For most of the time there, I was birding along with Matt Medler and his girlfriend Diane. Due to the relatively cold temperatures, it was fairly quiet until it warmed up and the warblers began to arrive. It wasn't until the last hour of the morning that things picked up in a similar capacity to that of yesterday morning.
Here's a basic run-down of what highlights were there and in the vicinity: 2 Least Flycatchers 1 Warbling Vireo 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO (NE corner) 1 Blue Jay on a nest 3-4 House Wrens 1-2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets 8-10 Gray Catbirds 1 Brown Thrasher 1 BREWSTER'S WARBLER (Golden-winged X Blue-winged hybrid) singing a Golden-winged type song. 6-8+ TENNESSEE WARBLERS 6-8+ Nashville Warblers 2-3 Northern Parulas Zero Yellow Warblers - did I just totally miss them? 2 Chestnut-sided Warblers 3-4 Magnolia Warblers 5-6 Yellow-rumped Warblers (mostly flyovers) 8-10 Black-throated Green Warblers 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 American Redstarts 1 Ovenbird 2 Common Yellowthroats 4-6 White-throated Sparrows 6-8 Baltimore Orioles Most of the activity, once it picked up, was limited to the Northeast corner of the Hawthorn Orchard. Tennessee Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Nashville Warbler, and Northern Parulas were the most vociferous singers. Perhaps others can add to this list. Thanks and 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/ --
