Went for a nice walk around Lindsay-Parsons this morning. Not many birds that appeared to be migrating, but many recent arrivals were on territory, with Ovenbirds, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Prairie, Blue-winged and Black-and-white Warblers all numerous, along with a couple Hooded Warblers in the woods.
Noteworthy were two Lawrence-type warblers. One was building a nest and paired to a singing Blue-winged in the scrubby area just before trail goes into woods and then crosses the railroad tracks. The second was near the parking lot. Both birds were very similar -- they essentially looked like Blue-wingeds but with obvious dusky throat and eye/cheek patches. Both were studied in good light at close range, and the dusky patches were more fairly faint. Two wing bars present that appeared to be white. Lawrence-type birds have now been reported at LP for the past several years... -- Benjamin Freeman Ph.D. candidate Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA benjamingfreeman.com -- 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/ --
