The past couple of mornings, the Hawthorn Orchard has been devoid of migrants. It was unnervingly quiet today and yesterday. It certainly appears that most migrants in the area have moved on and have not been replaced by anything new coming in from the South. The Wood Thrush that was holding an apparent territory at the Northeast corner may have departed, since I've not heard that bird since Saturday morning.
Only bird as a possible migrant today was a single Least Flycatcher, and that was actually to the South of the horse-jumping pasture, South of the Hawthorn Orchard. Sunday morning, I did hear and partially see a single probable migrant warbler (Nashville/Tennessee-like) giving a few "seet" notes from some buckthorn just West of the South rugby field. I couldn't get a good-enough look at that bird, though. Presumably this lack of migration is all weather-related. It is mid-May, is it not? Good birding, at any rate! 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/ --
