[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn orchards

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

I was planning on taking a walk on East Ithaca recreation way till Game Farm 
Road, but at the last moment decided, I will go to Hawthorn. So I entered from 
North-western side, where there was a PILEATED WOODPECKER banging on tree and 
making his presence known.

Then I came across a chickadee flock with one warbler in it that went too fast, 
just gave me some glimpses, but based on the glimpses I think it was a 
Chestnut-sided Warbler.



Then somewhere in the middle of the orchard, I came across a bunch of birds, 
mostly lots of Robins feeding on some fruits, but in that group there were some 
other birds. One I think was Nashville  and the other Black-throated Green 
warbler and two American Redstarts, two female type Scarlet Tanagers, who 
seemed to be nervous of my presence, one Empindonax, two Hairy Woodpeckers and 
a Red-bellied Woodpecker.



 I searched for more birds in the flock, so followed birds round and round to 
come up with same birds that went around me and then I got lost as to where I 
was. Hawthorn Orchard in this season is very different with lots of overgrown 
stuff and deer paths are not visible or do not exist anymore.  So I spent next 
15 minutes to figure out where I was as I could hear the Cornell female Foot 
Ball match was going on in the ball field.  Finally I landed where I had 
entered in to the woods and the birds were still there!



Then I did some grocery shopping at P and C and walked back via tennis court 
and ball field. On the way back out I found a PALM WARBLER bobbing its tail 
very vigorously. It seemed to have taken bath in the puddle nearby, was drying 
its wings and bobbing.



Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/


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[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchards Ithaca GC flycatcher

[Lee Ann van Leer]

So far the only new year birds for me here are the Great-crested flycatcher in 
the woods and a Savannah Sparrow across the street. 

21 spp so far. Still here. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchards: Public Meeting on UNA Designation

[Sandy Podulka]

Hawthorn Orchards (and Salt Road Fen) to be 
designated Unique Natural Areas. This announces a 
public meeting. I don't know much about it, but 
looks like this is an info session for the public 
rather than one at which the public speaks. 
Perhaps someone can add more details?

Sandy Podulka


Use this link to see the same info with better formatting:
http://www.tompkins-co.org/emc/docs/10_16_2012_UNA_Poster.pdf

>If you are concerned about land preservation, please show your support.
>Tompkins 
>County Environmental Management Council
>
>You're Invited!
>To a Public Meeting on Unique Natural Areas (UNAs)
>Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM
>In the Borg Warner Room of the Tompkins County Public Library
>(101 East Green Street, Ithaca)

> The Tompkins County Environmental Management 
>Council invites the public to a special presentation
>about two new proposed UNAs. This presentation 
>will explain the Unique Natural Areas Inventory,
>and provide details on the two newly-identified 
>additions. For more information go to:
>http://www.tompkins-co.org/emc

> Unique Naturals Areas feature outstanding 
>environmental qualities that deserve special attention
>for preservation in their natural state, and 
>have locally rare plants, animals, or interesting assemblages
>of plants and animals that are locally uncommon. 
>They may also include a designated preserve;
>a state-designated wetland; historical, 
>cultural, botanical, zoological or geological importance;
>recreational value; scenic vista; wilderness; 
>archeological or paleontological site; and/or urban
>greenspace.

> The UNA inventory promotes the conservation 
>and/or preservation of UNAs for the benefit of future
>generations, and is an information tool to help 
>people make the wisest choices possible in protecting
>the rural character and natural beauty of Tompkins County.

> The UNA inventory was started in 1973. It 
>was greatly expanded and updated in 1990, and was
>revised in 2000. Currently, within Tompkins 
>County there are 192 UNAs encompassing over 15,000
>acres. These sites were included in the 
>inventory based on the work of ecologists, botanists, animal
>scientists, geologists, and wetland specialists 
>who, when permission was granted, surveyed many of
>these sites on foot. Other parcels that were not 
>field-visited were surveyed from the road or adjacent
>parcels, or by using topographic maps and aerial photography.

> The EMC has identified Hawthorn Orchards and 
>Salt Road Fen as meeting the criteria to be
>included in the UNA Inventory.

> Hawthorn Orchard is south of Mitchell Street 
>and west of Pine Tree Road, near the Cornell tennis
>and equestrian centers. It consists of 50 acres 
>in the Town and City of Ithaca, and
>includes Cornell property. It has outstanding 
>birding during spring migration, some public
>access, and is an important teaching site.

> Salt Road Fen encompasses 74 acres in the 
>Town of Groton. There are rare or scarce plant
>communities and species and it is an important 
>rich fen habitat with known population of Trollius
>laxus, the globally rare globeflower.

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[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchards, 5/4

[Jonathan Skinner]

first WARBLERS of the season spotted (admittedly, a bit late to the  
game on my part) April 29th: yellow-rumps in Six Mile Gorge.


this morning, May 4th, WARBLER HEAVEN in the Hawthorn Orchards on East  
Hill (roughly 10 am - 12:30 pm), with an amazing fallout from  
yesterday's thunderstorms (similar to the fallout from a prior storm  
two days before, that I missed). the hawthorns literally dripping with  
warbler poop . . .


Bay-breasted (highly probable), Chestnut-sided, Yellow, Ovenbird  
(heard), Black-and-white, Tennessee, Yellow-rumped, American Redstart,  
Common Yellowthroat, Northern Parula, Magnolia, Blackburnian, Black- 
throated blue (heard), Black-throated green.


It was a treat to have so many different species of warblers hanging  
out in proximity to one another, so you could really observe and  
compare them.


Plus Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, and  
Baltimore Oriole, amongst others (35 species in 2 hours).


Jonathan Skinner 


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