Had a silent but active and easy-to-track WILSON'S WARBLER at Hawthorn this morning, this after meeting two birders (sorry, don't know your names) who directed me towards canada and mourning they'd seen earlier. I found the CANADA WARBLER singing near the NE entrance, eventually got decent looks, but it was winding down its singing and soon stopped altogether. This timing seemed to coincide with the late arrival at 9am of Chris T-H, who said he saw very little in his walk through the woods, even though I'd seen and heard tons of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS (heaviest concentration I'd experienced this year), heard many singing TENNESSEE WARBLERS though they were less inclined to show themselves to me, and one very loud and cooperative NORTHERN PARULA who could be seen shaking its entire body while singing its primary song, before switching to its second song which it could belt out with considerably less body shake.
Another curiosity was a GRAY CATBIRD singing killdeer for long stretches at a time -- somewhat confusing when heard coming from a tangle in the woods. The KILLDEER was incubating comfortably surrounded by its new picket fence. Thanks, Melissa! Suan -- 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/ --
