I realize bird song normally decreases around this time of year, but the sudden and profound silence that descended upon my yard on Babbling Brook Drive, Newfield following the storms and flooding last weekend has led me to jot down a list of the birds that I have neither seen nor heard since then (I had been hearing/seeing them daily until then):
Baltimore Oriole Northern Cardinal Eastern Phoebe Red-Bellied Woodpecker Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Great-Crested Flycatcher Gray Catbird Red-Eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Black-Capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Yellow Warbler Song Sparrow House Sparrow Common Grackle American Goldfinch No doubt there are species I have left out. Red-Winged Blackbird almost made the list but I heard one yesterday. Otherwise all I'm seeing right now are American Robins and European Starlings. I did find a trout in my yard. Don Timmons Newfield -- 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/ --
