Hi all, Mundy Winter Wren seem to continue in Mundy. Yesterday he serenaded me with his lovely song for quite some 10 minutes or so. Hope he has found a partner and has been successful in raising a family. In my yard baby House Wrens are going nuts. They seem to follow their parents like crazy and parents scold me as soon as I get out of the house. Chimney swifts from the Human Resources building also have fledged young. I see them flying around twittering and parents feed them in flight from my office window.
Yesterday evening I went to Salmon Creek in the hopes of recording some birds. My hopes were squashed by the non-stop cars that passed the area and also a loud lawn mower heard for more than half a mile killed my appetite for recording. So I ended up just looking for birds. I found a pair of juvenile Sapsuckers feeding on a sap holes in a walnut tree, this is the first time I have seen them on walnuts. A couple of butterflies and a hummingbird also seem to be exploiting the sap holes. I found a nest of a Red-bellied Woodpecker, the hole was just below a large bracket mushroom which looked like made a nice roof for the nest like you see in cartoon movies. I wonder if the woodpeckers chose to make hole specifically under toads umbrella or it was just a coincidence. I think I heard a couple of calls of ACADIAN FLYCATCHER from the typical location along the small stream while I was rolling down the hill slowly in my car. When I stopped to listen specifically it never called again. There were Veery, Wood Thrushes, Scarlet Tanagers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Bunting, Pileated Woodpecker and a Peewee. Also Yellow Warbler and Chestnut-sided Warblers. But I missed the familiar Blue-winged warbler, Mourning Warbler, Redstarts, Cerulean and Cuckoos which used to be there in the past. Then I drove via French Hill Road and Holden road to Brown Hill Road, which used to have abundant Savannah Sparrows. I saw only one Savannah Sparrow on the road and no Grasshopper sparrows. On Gulf Road, I came across several Chestnut-sided and Am. Redstarts and Wood Thrushes. The area has changed a whole lot and traffic seemed to have increased a fair bit in these locations. But it was still nice to see some of the familiar friends along the road. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- 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/ --
