This morning Livia and I walked around the Park Preserve South and the beginning of Hammond Hill Road in Dryden. Warblers were generally scarce. The only bird of note at Park was a juvenile MOURNING WARBLER where the trail rises to the left over the creek area. On the way up Irish Settlement towards Hammond, I pulled over at the marshy area just north of Park Preserve North to check out a suspicious silhouette. Sure enough, an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was preening at the top of a snag on the west side of the road. Shortly thereafter we were at the beaver dam swamp at the beginning of Hammond Hill Road and found another OLIVE-SIDED, or possibly the same one following us, in the snags on the left side as you come in from Irish Settlement. We eventually had a nice warbler flock at this spot as well, with Canada, Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Blue, and Black-throated Green.
Yesterday morning I also had a bright YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER briefly at the Sherwood Platform here at Sapsucker Woods. I was not able to find it later in the day. Jay -- 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/ --
