This morning I walked around the Durland Preserve off Ellis Hollow Creek Road for a while. Not a huge amount of activity, but lots of birds were around, mostly probably local birds. Highlights were a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER foraging high in oaks at the edge of the woods as you head towards the Hirshfeld Platform, male WILSON'S WARBLER, LEAST FLYCATCHER, Magnolia Warblers,
I checked a few spots here at Sapsucker Woods a little later in the morning. For the most part it seemed pretty quiet, but a found a small flock on the Wilson Trail with one each CHESTNUT-SIDED and BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, and near the Sherwood Platform I saw a dull BAY-BREASTED WARBLER. A MERLIN was perched briefly in a snag on the back pond (lots of Merlins around right now! Or possibly the same bird following me around.) I forgot to mention in my post yesterday that a lakewatch at Myers Point yesterday morning was generally uneventful with the exception of a juvenile FORSTER'S TERN that flew by heading north up the lake. -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
