Three first of years on this afternoon walk at Sapsucker: I found a nice male WILSON'S WARBLER right down low in plain sight a few feet in front of me, just off the pond where Wilson's Trail turns up the small rise before the footbridge also around 1330 today, so maybe a different bird than Laura's.
Heard what was very likely a RED-EYED VIREO as the phrases were far more frequent than the recent Blue-headed Vireos seen here. PURPLE MARTIN flying over the pond, not in full breeding plumage (whitish belly with brown markings on underside and breast. Also heard SCARLET TANAGERS, one singing a lot, the other singing, then calling, but both in too thick a canopy to see. Laura got us on one on the Saturday bird walk at Park Preserve, so these were second and third of year! ______________________ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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/ --
