Hi everyone, Somehow Mark and I didn't run into each other in Sapsucker Woods today, so maybe we were visiting different areas? Anyway, I did find a few different migrants than Mark, with both BLACKPOLL WARBLER (Podell boardwalk) and BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (Woodleton boardwalk) singing, but definitely not continuously. I also heard a MAGNOLIA WARBLER in the neighbourhood to the west of Sapsucker Woods. More striking to me than the absence of migrants, was changes in predilection to vocalize by some of the breeders in Sapsucker Woods. EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE and VEERY are finally making themselves known throughout the areas that I would expect to hear them, whereas WOOD THRUSH have curtailed their singing, and WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH and BROWN CREEPER are more vocal than I've heard in the last 2 weeks or more.
Wesley Hochachka From: bounce-58971037-3494...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-58971037-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Chao Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2012 8:32 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sun 5/20 Evidence of migrant songbirds was extremely low in Sapsucker Woods on Sunday morning. I found only one bird that's not a likely breeding species - a male CANADA WARBLER along the road, offering some fine viewing north of the gates and across from the orange hydrant. A few years ago, a Canada Warbler stayed in this very location for a few weeks into at least early June, but today's bird seemed much more intent on foraging than defending a territory with song. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
