This is rather off-topic (?), but I thought people would want to know that I
found evidence of recent bear activity near the blue trail in Lindsay-Parsons
preserve Saturday, June 22. Walking east of Celia's Cup, hoping a Worm Eating
Warbler might appear, I found a medium-sized tree scratched
To Cay. Bird list- another opinion: see below.
Well, this is cool! I always have Pileated WPs here in my Lansing woods I've
never seen that much shredding.
The tree I saw was shredded from the ground up to about 4'. On one side.
I was hot tired by then, so I didn't look around too much, so I
As it turned out, the rufous Screechie I reported in late April did not nest
this year, but did appear virtually every day in the box hole for about 10
days. Over the past week, I was out several clear nights with the telescope and
heard 1 or 2 different calling Screechies in the nearby area,
We birded Lindsay-Parsons this morning, and watched the Clay-colored
Sparrow for quite a while, which was singing cooperatively from an open
perch next to the blue trail at NE corner of field, as described by
others.
We met Gary K. as we were leaving, and he suggested that the bog area on
Bald
Nice !
A while after you guys left I was birding the brush just before the RR woods
and got a quick glimpse of what I first thought might be a Buteo, but the tail
was too long so I put it down as Accipiter sp. gliding toward the Pinnacles.
This would have been about the right time to coincide
