[cayugabirds-l] Sandpiper Smackdown

2011-05-21 Thread Caroline Manring
Hello all, Today at the Lab, at about 10:30am, there were two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS having an altercation-- stiff wings spread wide, up on their tip-toes, batting and weaving and going at it with their bills, right on the gravel beach of the pond. After one of the sandpipers had been chased into

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sandpiper Smackdown

2011-05-21 Thread Kenneth Victor Rosenberg
Hi Caroline, First, Orchard Oriole is a good bird at Sapsucker Woods, although there have been other sightings in recent years -- was this a pair of birds that you encountered? Both Alder and Willow Flycatchers breed in the shrubby areas behind the Ithaca airport, and up towards Lansing and