This afternoon John & I were slowly driving along a section of Waldron Rd. east of Union Springs when we scared 5 horned larks from the center of the graveled road.
The field alongside had been sprayed with slurry last wk. & then plowed so the larks had "good pickins'"! An adjacent field is planted to alfalfa. From both fields at least 30 more larks flew up & over the road & back to the fields. Beautiful sight. I've not noticed tree swallows for a couple wks. until Mon. evening. Today I saw more along with a few extra chimney swifts. I enjoyed watching the female hummingbird "hawking" insects from the spruce trees next to our garden. Occasionally I see just one bat. Here at home on Sun. I watched a mature bald eagle soaring overhead. Not far behind was a red-tail hawk & suddenly, came one of the adult ospreys from across the field where 2 juveniles are on the platform. The protective osprey began swooping first at the hawk & then the eagle until they left. It then cruised back to the platform. Earlier I had seen an adult carrying a fish back to the nest. Thought sure the young would be on their own by now. I looked for loons at Aurora today. No luck. Water was very rough. We had 106 degrees in the shade here last Thursday. Too hot! Fritzie -- 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/ --
