Hello everyone, I spent some quality time with the DICKISSELs at Seneca Meadows yesterday, mostly watching the nest-building pair near the large oak tree, and only occasionally hearing the second male that Jay McGowan wrote about yesterday. I finally saw a second male to the southwest of the large oak tree, and had some distant looks through my spotting scope. Both of the males that I had seen had full black “V” on its chest, just like the male that I believe most people have been regularly seeing. It only occurred to me late last night that Lee Ann’s post from Sunday (below) described a male with only a small black patch on its throat and not a full “V”. The location of Lee Ann’s second singer also is rather different than where I saw the second male that I located, I think being further east by well over 100m. Does this suggest that there might be at least 3 male Dickcissels at Seneca Meadows?
Wesley Hochachka From: bounce-62176967-3494...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-62176967-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Ann van Leer Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 4:05 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Dickcissels still visible @ Seneca meadows GPS PIN Dicks 1876–1976 Black Brook Rd<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=42.936303,-76.819774%20%28Dicks%201876%E2%80%931976%20Black%20Brook%20Rd%29> Between 2-3pm we heard them singing along Oak Pass trail between the Main Loop and the large oak tree. One sang for a long time on and off but we could not get a visual on it there. We backtracked and took right on Main loop towards two other large trees. Half way between the intersection of Main Loop&Oak Pass and the 2 trees we heard two DICKCISSELS and finally got a visual of one singing on top of a light colored post with orange vertical stripes on post. Bird had yellow breast, only a little black patch on lower throat (not full V) Gray on tail & uppertail coverts, rufous patches on wings. Very good looks with scope. Photos to follow later. GPS PIN is where we saw it. Oak Tree would be better spot to hear it. -Lee Ann w/ Kevin McGowan [cid:image001.png@01CD5A91.1CDB3C20] Sent from my iPhone Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
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