Chris and Jessie's Sedge Wren was still in the same area on Hile School Road this morning but very uncooperative. I only heard a few chips and one half song. Lots of Alder Flycatchers were in this area, as well as Blue-winged Warbler and Nashville Warbler. I heard some very odd loud vocalizations coming from the woodlot to the east along the road that at one point culminated in an extremely Red-headed Woodpecker-like call, but I am still unclear on what was making these calls.
George Road was pretty quiet, with 1 Least Sandpiper, 1 Semipalmated Plover, 2 Killdeer, 2 Spotted Sandpipers, and a female Wood Duck with four tiny chicks (as well as the usual 60+ Bank Swallows.) I heard Blackpoll Warblers in at least four locations in Dryden, and both Alder and Willow flycatchers were vocalizing near Dryden Lake. So far Alder Flycatchers seem more abundant than they were last year. Also, I forgot to mention, after birding the Hawthorn Orchard with Hope Batcheller on Saturday morning (where we could add Blackburnian Warbler and Red-breasted Nuthatch to Chris's list), we tried for Grasshopper Sparrows on West King and Sandbank Roads on South Hill. We were unsuccessful with this, but the number of Bobolinks in those fields was truly impressive, probably over 40 birds along that stretch. Saturday morning in my yard I had a singing Wilson's Warbler (great bird for the neighborhoods) and two Northern Parulas. Today just a singing Blackpoll Warbler. Finally, walking into the Lab this morning I had three American Crows and a Fish Crow circling around over the parking lots, being mobbed by various blackbirds. Jay McGowan Ithaca, NY On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: > This evening on the CayugaRBA text message service Chris Wood & Jessie > Barry reported a SEDGE WREN at the stream crossing on Hile School Rd This > very neat area is just east of NYS-38 northwest of Freeville in the Town of > Dryden, and I believe it is a bit outside the Cayuga Lake Basin with the > stream flowing north there to Owasco Lake out of a wetland in a saddle on > the Cayuga Lake Basin's border. > --Dave Nutter > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail > Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > !* > -- > -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
