Hi everyone, Here are my e-bird lists from some birding Friday morning. Highlights included a Northern Mockingbird singing at East Hill Plaza, two GREAT HORNED OWLS in Renwick Woods, a pair of American Kestrels copulating at the north end of the Jim Schug Trail, and six Bonaparte's Gulls and two HORNED GREBES on George Rd. Pond. Also we saw some very interesting Mallard behavior at Stewart Park in which one male attempted to mount a female in the water while another male attacked him several times. In the end, the female broke away, and the THE TWO MALES ASSUMED A COPULATION POSITION. Overall a very productive morning. Evan Barrientos www.ebarrientos.smugmug.com
Location: Renwick Woods Observation date: 4/15/11 Notes: Two male Mallards fighting to copulate with a female, then mounted each other? Number of species: 18 Canada Goose X Wood Duck 7 Mallard 9 Common Merganser 10 Bald Eagle 0 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Mourning Dove 1 Great Horned Owl 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 Black-capped Chickadee 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 1 American Robin X European Starling X Song Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 1 Location: Mount Pleasant Observation date: 4/15/11 Number of species: 6 Horned Lark 12 Tree Swallow 1 Vesper Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 12 Song Sparrow 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Location: Jim Schug Trail Observation date: 4/15/11 Notes: 2 American Kestrels seen copulating<br>Spring peepers calling<br>2 green frogs seen<br>2 masses of spotted salamander eggs along side of trail Number of species: 10 Wood Duck 3 American Kestrel 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 American Crow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Song Sparrow 5 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1 American Goldfinch 1 Location: Dryden Lake Observation date: 4/15/11 Notes: ~40 eastern painted turtles along bank<br>Spring peepers, wood frogs, and pickerel frogs heard Number of species: 9 Osprey 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 2 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 Song Sparrow 1 Location: George Road Pond Observation date: 4/15/11 Number of species: 12 Canada Goose X Green-winged Teal 9 Ring-necked Duck 12 Bufflehead 2 Common Merganser 1 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Horned Grebe 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Bonaparte's Gull 6 Ring-billed Gull 6 Tree Swallow 5 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
