I walked throughout most of Sapsucker Woods on Friday morning. Migrants are impressively abundant and diverse throughout the sanctuary. The densest warbler flock was in the area of mostly dead trees west of the Wilson Trail North, between the Sherwood Platform and Charley Harper's tribute bench.
My full eBird list is below. Highlights include: * 16 warbler species, including WILSON'S WARBLER (heard and tentatively identified with Matt Medler -- independently found and confirmed by sight by Laurie Ray), and notably abundant MAGNOLIA WARBLERS and NORTHERN PARULAS. I heard that Tom Schulenberg found 17 warbler species on his daily walk from Hanshaw Road to the Lab. Maybe he found American Redstart, which I was shocked to miss. * Two LINCOLN'S SPARROWS, one found by Matt among White-throated Sparrows by the green pool west of the trail north of the Sherwood Platform, and another among 11+ WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS right on the mulched trail under the power-line cut on the Dryden side. * One SWAINSON'S THRUSH along the East Trail between 91 Sapsucker Woods Road and the Lucente service building. I plainly saw a brown back and tail with no rufous tones, as well as buffy spectacles and lores. I know it's early, but I'm positive of the ID. * Two VEERIES, one HERMIT THRUSH, and an OVENBIRD (honorary thrush) all seen from one spot on the Hoyt-Pileated Trail, with a WOOD THRUSH singing close by. Mark Chao -----Original Message----- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Tompkins, US-NY May 4, 2012 9:10 AM - 11:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) 65 species Canada Goose 16 Wood Duck 2 Mallard 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Osprey 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 3 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 10 Eastern Kingbird 2 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 5 Tree Swallow 20 Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 4 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 4 House Wren 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Veery 4 Swainson's Thrush 1 Brown back and tail with no rufous tones; buffy spectacles and lores. Plainly seen at 10X, 20 feet Hermit Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 3 American Robin 12 Gray Catbird 6 Cedar Waxwing 2 Ovenbird 5 Northern Waterthrush 7 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 3 Northern Parula 7 Magnolia Warbler 8 Blackburnian Warbler 4 Yellow Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler 3 Palm Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 Black-throated Green Warbler 6 Wilson's Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 2 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 40 White-crowned Sparrow 25 Northern Cardinal 7 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5 Red-winged Blackbird 7 Common Grackle 9 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 6 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 22 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- 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/ --
