I had a productive walk this morning through some local spots in northeast Ithaca. Highlights were two cooperative MARSH WRENS in the cattails and other vegetation at the marshy northeast corner of the small pond just north of Liddell Lab (118 Freese Road). There also was an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER at the edge of the woods immediately east of Liddell (the main building), just south of the track.
Other birds about included Nashville, Yellow-rumped, and Palm warblers, the expected Common Yellowthroats, and a late Ovenbird (east side of the Equine Research Park woods), an immature White-crowned Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow (3 along the east side of the Equine Research Park woods, 4 more in the Freese Road community gardens), three Indigo Buntings, two Eastern Towhees, and other expected migrants. It's a nice day to be out. Pick a favorite patch, and give it a check. Good birding, tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@gmail.com -- 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/ --
