This morning, I birded the Hawthorn Orchard on East Hill in Ithaca, NY from about 8:15am until about 9:15am.
It was a very nice morning to be out and about, but it was relatively quiet bird-wise. The sunshine definitely brought out some song by some birds early on, but it got quiet as the time progressed. Here are the highlights: 1 Solitary Sandpiper (flyover, non-vocal) 1 Least Flycatcher ("che-BECK" NE corner) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (NW corner, near big oak tree) 1 Wood Thrush (still holding territory near NE corner) 1 Tennessee Warbler (loud singer early on, from near tops of maples in ravine near NE corner) 1 Northern Parula (singing a few songs toward end of visit, NE corner) 1 Yellow Warbler (distant singer) 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler (singing alternate type song at NW corner near big oak and down into ravine) 2-3 Magnolia Warblers (occasional singers along Northern section and down into ravine) (Missed Stuart Krasnoff's Black-throated Green Warbler) 1 Black-and-white Warbler (singing persistently from a perch, while preening, for a good five minutes; NW corner near big oak tree) 1-2 American Redstarts (down in ravine area to North of the Hawthorn Orchard) 2-3 Common Yellowthroats (territories) 2 Indigo Buntings (heard producing "chink" notes; observed foraging in top of Hawthorns at NE corner, then flew West, over Hawthorn Orchard) 2-3 Baltimore Orioles I suspect that tomorrow there will be a minor mix of new arrivals and another departure of existing birds, but it doesn't look like any kind of super "fall-out" conditions can be expected - I'll post if anything good shows up. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --