Location: Hammond Hill SF (from parking lot up Yellow Trail 1 to Blue
Trail 1 out to road and back to parking lot)
Observation date: 5/30/10 (9:10am - 10:30am)
Notes: WEATHER: Calm, Sunny, 65. Extremely nice. Lots of warblers and
lots of bird activity in general. A great day to be out.
I spent all of Sunday morning looking for birds at the Lindsay-Parsons
Biodiversity Preserve in West Danby. I spent the first couple of hours with
Bob McGuire, Tom Hoebbel, and Sydney Penner, trying to find species and boost
my weekend total for the Finger Lakes Land Trust Spring Bird Quest
I had a good day solo birding, mostly to Montezuma. Below are the
highlights.
I started the day at 7am with a visit to Myers where there was a single
Common Tern fishing off the point. Every time he caught something the
local gulls bullied him to give it up, which was frustrating for him
After a very nice walk with Mark's large birding group at Lindsay Parsons I
decided to climb the ridge in Danby State Forest. Following in the footsteps of
Dave, Susan and Ann I had hopes of hearing or seeing Worm-eating Warblers. I
wasn't disappointed. Sitting, ( or more accurately bracing
Mary, a friend from Syracuse, and I met up at the Visitor Center and spent the
afternoon birding. Some highlights:
Wildlife Drive:
A male Killdeer displaying to a female
4 Barn Swallows sprawled in the dust in various odd postures, debugging, we
guessed.
Tschache:
The single
