Decided to bike Michigan Hollow today. Where the FLT crosses the road, I heard a red-shouldered hawk (which I'd filed in my mind as sounding like a repeating sapsucker), and looked up to see... an osprey? Puzzled, I kept looking and soon two red-shouldered hawks swooped by to harass the osprey. The two were heard and seen again later circling high.
Further down the road I heard the Acadian Flycatcher exactly where Geo said it was - thanks. Was not able to get a visual, alas. Two lifers for me, and Luddite ones to boot :-) Also of note were four different singing hooded warblers in various spots in the state forest, a yellow-throated vireo, and a noisy sapsucker nesthole. Finally, I heard what sounded like a Nashville warbler, and found the singer to be a redstart. Last week at Esker Brook we found a redstart singing yellow warbler. Earlier at the SFO Arnot trip we had a redstart singing black-and-white. Are redstarts known to be mimics? Given that the esker brook one was next to yellow habitat, and the Arnot one was close to a black-and-white, I'm inclined to think they're deliberate mimics. The Arnot one was quite interesting, in fact. I suspected right away that it was a redstart, but wasn't entirely sure why I thought so. Then we got an opportunity to hear both the redstart and black-and-white in succession, and to my lo-fi human ears they had the same pitch and timbre. The only difference was emphasis - the redstart seemed to be shouting while the b&w sang more calmly. Suan _____________________ http://suan-yong.com -- 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/ --
