I have one more possible theory regarding singing. How about day length matching to day of the spring days? May be not it is still little too long.
Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -----Original Message----- From: Marie P Read Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 2:01 PM To: Marie P Read; Meena Haribal; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: Cardinal Singing - update on posting from last week - etc Hi all, Last week several of us (including me) reported cardinals singing non-stop and there was a thread about at what stage in the nesting cycle the cardinals might be to have stimulated this resurgence in song. Well, as we speak a pair of cardinals is at my feeder with the male feeding the female. Haven't seen any fledglings. So my local pair has most likely just started another clutch, hence the singing last week. Lots of young Rose-breasted Grosbeaks around, and a couple of days ago a Northern Flicker female on the lawn feeding her fledgling. On another note, there were a number of Bobolinks flying around giving their bink calls in the as-yet-unharvested grain fields at the eastern end of Mt Pleasant Rd this morning. Some were mixed in with a larger flock of Red-winged Blackbirds, others were in smaller single species flocks. Also a Common Raven calling from the radio tower. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Now on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 -- 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/ --
