Melanie, if you don't have the excellent "Cayuga Bird Club Guide To Birding In The Cayuga Lake Basin", I highly recommend it. Tells all the great places with maps & how to get there, plus which birds might be there. You can get it at Wild Birds Unlimited store in the Lab of O bldg. the Science Center store may still have some too.
Also, a gentle note: birders of any experience who are in tune with Nature do not call ANY bird a 'trash' bird! Not even our common, numerous Starlings & House Sparrows, who are here in the western hemisphere only due to misguided importation by humans in the past. Good birding- Donna Scott Sent from my iPhone On May 24, 2017, at 1:09 AM, Melanie Uhlir <mela...@mwmu.com<mailto:mela...@mwmu.com>> wrote: Hello birders! As a musician who is often out late and also struggles with a sleep disorder I am not able to be an early riser very often. If I can manage to get out of the house of a morning, can you recommend some places where I might get the most birding bang for my precious morning buck? My favorite things are beautiful songs and breathtaking plumage. I love thrushes, warblers, and mimics especially. So much do I love a pretty song that Song Sparrows are actually one of my favorite species. I know some hardcore birders probably call them "trash birds" since they are so easy to find, but I find their song very beautiful and uplifting. And the first time I laid bins on a Blackburnian I wept. Now that you know what floats my birding boat, if you have a gem of a place or places that you can recommend I would be extremely grateful for your generosity! Thank you for your patience! Sincerely, Melanie -- 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/ -- -- 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/ --
