A week ago Sunday, that is 23 September, I was at the Freese Road Community Gardens early in the morning and a flock of Icterids I estimated at 1500 birds commuted overhead from the valley of Fall Creek north-northwest and landed just across from the bee lab in the field on Freese Road. They stayed there awhile, presumably eating corn, then commuted back overhead the way they came. This is very close to where Laura's large flock was today. Whenever I looked carefully at the birds in my flock I only found Common Grackles, but because they were molting their tails, there was a lot of variety. Some had short tails like European Starlings; some had medium length tails like Red-winged or Rusty Blackbirds but with bigger head, neck, & bill and a blue hood; some had just the normal long central tail feathers and the rest short, something like a mot-mot. I think Bob McGuire saw this same flock the next day. I wonder if this is the same flock. I also saw a small party of Red-winged Blackbirds which seemed not to be with that big flock. Anyway, there are interesting-looking birds around this time of year.
--Dave Nutter
On Oct 02, 2012, at 05:12 PM, Laura Stenzler <l...@cornell.edu> wrote:
5:10 pm, a large flock of blackbirds in the corn along Hanshaw Rd just west of Sapsucker Woods Rd. I'm watching for yellow headed blackbird. I think it's mostly grackles and some rusty blackbirds.
Laura
Laura Stenzler
l...@cornell.edu
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