I visited Sapsucker Woods on Friday morning, entering via the Winston Court apartments and the West Trail. South of the Sherwood Platform, I met Sahas Barve, who has just come here from Bombay to pursue a Ph.D. in biology (bird population studies). Then, for the next 20 minutes, Sahas and I could hardly keep up with the frenetic bird activity, triggered by direct sunlight incident on the edge of the cold shadowy woods. We saw BAY-BREASTED, MAGNOLIA, BLACK-THROATED BLUE (1 M, 1 F), BLACK-THROATED GREEN (1 M, 1 F or subadult), and WILSON'S WARBLER, plus a couple of PHILADELPHIA VIREOS and a lot of Red-eyed Vireos and Eastern Wood-Pewees. I feel that we probably missed many other birds in this flock.
I also visited the east side of the sanctuary alone. There I heard a few scattered birds that I think were warblers, but I saw only one AMERICAN REDSTART. On my way back out again, I saw a migrating COOPER'S HAWK and the morning's biggest surprise, a flock of at least 9 WILD TURKEYS crossing the road. Mark Chao -- 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/ --
