Hi everyone,
As promised, here are the photos from last weekend of Fall Creek-North, Cornell
Plantations. Highlights include a Black-throated Blue Warbler and a
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
Best,
Evan Barrientos
On Tuesday at about 8:05 AM, high drama played out before an audience of at
least seven breathless birders and photographers on the Wilson Trail in
Sapsucker Woods. Against a blue sky and thin clouds, an OSPREY circled
close over the tallest snag in the main pond and descended, talons flashing,
Over Memorial Day weekend, for the sixth consecutive year, I'll visit
several Finger Lakes Land Trust preserves with the goal of building
awareness and support for the Land Trust's efforts to preserve vital habitat
in our region. As part of this effort, called the Finger Lakes Land Trust
Spring
A brief lunchtime stroll on the Wilson Trail North produced many of the
birds that Mark reported this morning including:
-Yellow-throated Vireo (heard only, but singing from the same location that
Mark mentioned this morning - near the intersection of the Wilson and West
trails)
-Chestnut-sided
I relocated Laura and Roi's Blackburnian at the south end of the Podell
Boardwalk at 2:40PM, although it was far less cooperative for me than it was
for them. In typical fashion for the species, it was at
vertebrae-shattering height in a large oak blossoming with catkins, although
it was singing
I was just checking the weather forecast for tomorrow and noted the calm to gentle south winds overnight. So I checked the animated NEXRAD from Binghamton and as of 9:10pm it shows a lovely bloom of
Took another trip to Montezuma Today with Dan Watkins.
Once again we made a quick stop at Myer's before heading
up and we only had 1 ORCHARD ORIOLE
by the entrance today...an adult male. We got great looks
of this guy as he was singing erratically. We also had a singing
NORTHERN PARULA near the
Hi all,
I (re)found a nice website written by David LaPuma, an Ithaca College graduate
and former student of John Confer's, who is now doing a postdoc at the New
Jersey Audubon. He talks about and comments on the BIRD MIGRATION that is
happening now. Check it out at
Hi all,
Roi Dor and I walked the Wilson trail from 1:15 to 2 and saw a different set of
birds than Scott. We did see the Palm Warbler near the feeder on the north
edge of the pond. The most active site was just to the south of the Podell
Boardwalk where we heard and saw a Yellow-throated
