After I got off from the plane from my trip to South Carolina for a Dragonfly Society Meeting, I drove straight to take a walk from Wilson trail to Dryden side of the trail and back to the parking lot, (which used to be my lunch walk).
I did not find anything that was not reported I guess but they were all of interest to me. I found that oriole was stealing sap from the Sapsucker holes, so were several butterflies including migrant Red Admirals, that have been passing in hundreds today. At the same spot, I heard, Least flycatcher, Common Yellow-throat, Warbling Vireo and House wrens in their usual places. Yellow warbler, Am. Redstart and second pair of Orioles in their usual locations further down the trail. There were a few White-throated sparrows near the board walk and corral. A Scarlet Tanager, Northern Parula, Yellow rumped warblers and a Blue-headed Vireo on the east side of the Wilson trail. I also heard the Red-tailed Hawk calling. Then across in Dryden woods, I came across, Northern Water Thrush, A Pileated Woodpecker, an Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and other usual resident birds. Finally, as I was heading towards the parking the resident Am. Kestrel landed on the tall power pole calling excitedly. In SC woods, I had quite a few exotic species such as Prothonotary, Swainson's, Yellow-throated, Pine. Northern Parulas (in huge numbers with numerous song variations) and Louisiana Waterthrush among warblers. Woodpeckers included beautiful, Red-headed and Pileated, and just I was about to call it a day a male RED-COCKADED WOODPECKER landed for a few minutes on the a in front of me just to say excchange news. Later in the evening lots of Night Hawks were Peenting and Chuck-wills widows were dueting and mostly sounded like Widows-will-Widows-will! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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/ --
