It looks like temperatures are moderating now, but during these last cold days
some upland forest habitats around West Danby have actually seemed pretty
empty. I didn't even bother trying for Worm-eating Warblers until yesterday,
the signs just weren't there. And when I did go it was so cold up
To add to Laura and Judith's observation we have been watching Barn
Swallows desperately beating the brushy banks of ponds attempting to
rise insects and getting no more than a very few cluster flies. Tree
Swallows doing much of the same but finding a few Black Flies higher up
(and around observers
