Hi all, Carpal-tunnel surgery has banned me from camera, steering wheel, and too much Photoshop for a while, so to keep from losing my mind I am now taking TWO Mt Pleasant walks a day! Fortunately I can type one-handed.
Anyway, my morning walk today turned up two delights. A flock of 40 or so Bobolinks swirling very briefly over the switch-grass field north of the road between the observatory and the sheep-farm house. Quickly they disappeared into the long grass and one would then never have known they were there! I've been following the season's progress of two pairs of Indigo Buntings between the farm house and the radio tower road. In recent days the males have been very agitated as a I walked past, chipping loudly and sometimes doing dramatic fluttering flight displays, presumably to distract me away from their nests (although I don't have a clue where the nests are!). This morning a female did the same display, landing on the road with fluttering wings. There must have been an active nest or fledglings in the goldenrod nearby. A very good look at this normally secretive little female. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com http://www.agpix.com/mari -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
