I needed to find Mourning Warblers this week for the Danby Breeding Bird Survey, so at 5:30 this morning I went down to the West Danby Fire Station, walked up-slope to the town water tank, then south along the Pennsylvania & Sodus Bay RR grade into the Lindsay Parsons Preserve to visit a Mourning Warbler spot on the western wall of the valley. The target area was criss-crossed with dozer cuts (15 years ago, was it?), when it was logged quite heavily. The hillside cuts were soon grown-in with brambles, ferns, roses and red elder.
Arriving at the location, I immediately heard several Mourning Warblers singing, and easily got a visual. So, they're still here. In fact the area looks little changed. It will be a long time yet before this canopy closes. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
