Highlight (and last bird seen before coming back in from a quick lunch walk):
NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH (close long observation, 30' from gate to back door of Lab, foraging at pond edge) yellowish-white breast, heavy streaking on breast and sides; distinct white eyebrow, characteristic slight but constant tail-bobbing, silent, foraging, 10-20' from me and tolerant as I stood still or moved forward slowly; legs did not seem as long as the first one I saw some years ago which at the time I thought was a small mutant Robin with freakishly long legs! YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERs (numerous, foraging and landing on sticks in back pond, landed on shrubs and sang at end of platform about 8' from me) RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDs COMMON GRACKLE YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERs (2 fighting aerial grapple, others flying to perches along the path) MALLARD pair CANADA GOOSEs PIED-BILLED GREBEs (2 on pond near each other) COMMON MERGANSER M flyover AMERICAN ROBINs EUROPEAN STARLINGs NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWs (several over pond from platform) TREE SWALLOWs (hunting with RWSW) BELTED KINGFISHER F (landed quite close to me, so great observation, crest erected, rattling) WHITE-THROATED SPARROWs (numerous) AMERICAN TREE SPARROW (one foraging in ground weeds) NORTHERN CARDINAL GREAT BLUE HERON (on big snag) BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE HOUSE FINCH RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER NORTHERN FLICKER TUFTED TITMOUSE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD AMERICAN CROW No Kinglets today at platform, many yesterday. Another birder (coming from South Wilson) reported a single Hermit Thrush and Veery, Yellow Warbler and more Yellow-rumped but I didn't have time to take the 'long' road back. In which case I would not have got the Waterthrush! ______________________ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
