Not only is it free, but you find out who's around without even having to look! Whenever I see folks walking or running this time of year with their earbuds in, I feel sad for them. The best things on Earth are indeed free.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Carol Keeler <carolk...@adelphia.net>wrote: > Isn't it a shame that people need to listen to their iPods for music when > the birds give us beautiful music for free. I can understand it once the > birds quiet down late summer, but not now. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 16, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Meena Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > It was awesome outside, but very hot. Highlight was many migrating Red > Admiral butterflies with couple of other species. > Among birds a pair of Red-tailed hawks were displaying and calling while > display was on over Mundy WG. I met the Tufted titmouse who sings “teacher > teach” very apt on the campus and we exchanged some conversations. > There was a Blue Jay sitting in front of me, but when he called, the sound > was coming from some 30 ft my right. It was amazing how well he did it. And > I was also proud of myself that I could clearly hear from which direction > the sound was coming. > Two species of wrens, A Carolina Wren was calling from a tree, beneath > him was a woman blissfully having lunch totally unaware of his presence, > listening to her own music. She had no clue probably that someone was > singing very loudly above her head. A little further ahead there was HOUSE > WREN calling. First when I heard him, I thought wow he sounds familiar and > then it dawned on me it is a House Wren! > Near the Fall creek water fall, a couple of Rough-winged swallows chirped > over my head. A pair of Phoebes were excited about nesting along the gorge > rocks. A fly went past one of the phoebes, you could see he saw it but was > not ready to chase, you could see his eyes following the fly, and then he > darted and missed. > All three trillers, PINE WARBLER, JUNCO and CHIPPING SPARROW were trilling > at the same time from different directions and locations. > Lastly there was a pair of COMMON MERGANSERS sitting quite close to each > other in the calm portion of the Fall Creek with their reflection in the > water. It made a very stunning image, but no camera with me, so now it > will be in my neuronal image library. > > Meena > PS: Is it not humans have evolved so stupidly, on such a lovely day want > to sit in front of computers? > > > -- > *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/> > !* > -- > > -- > *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/> > !* > -- > -- asher -Never play it the same way once. -- 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/ --
