Hi all, I birded Mundy during lunch time. Birds were hard to come by. But I did see in one spread out group where I saw a single specimen of each a Magnolia, Red-eyed Vireo and a Philadelphia Vireo along with chickadees. Slightly apart from this group was a single young Tennessee Warbler. All near main entrance.
A second group was seen on the tiny trail on Plantations road and the birds may have been same as I had seen a few days earlier. Here I came across, a single Magnolia, a Chestnut-sided along with a young Flicker, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, lots of Robins with young that were still being fed, one WB Nuthatch and a flock of Cedar Waxwings and a single Song Sparrow. Many of these guys were feeding on the ground. I was wondering why there are not so many fall warblers in the Mundy in recent years. I remember a few years ago it used to be dripping or hopping with warblers. All we had to do was to listen to chickadees and follow to that location. Even folks from Sapsucker Woods were coming to Mundy see the birds. What has changed with Mundy in recent times, except trees have become mature or some Honeysuckles are gone. This years I have walked Mundy even without seeing a flock of chickadees during the walk. Or is it the birds that stopped at Mundy no longer exist. Meena Dr. Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Ph: 607-3011167 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ -- 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/ --
