I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his
living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that the
woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens coming
together on suet cleanup duty. My impression was that the
Hi John and all,
Perhaps the answer may be that it's no longer winter for them. The earliest New
York State egg date for Carolina Wren is something like April first.
-Geo
On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu wrote:
I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and
Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first: says there
they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year. Funny I haven't noticed in
the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring. Alicia
Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too.
Three hardy souls joined me on this cold breezy day for a CBC field trip.
The lab parking lot saw much activity from tree sparrows, juncos, and
goldfinches. Our first stop at East Shore Park found the ice too far out
for decent views of buffleheads, goldeneyes, and mergansers, but Myers Park
had
I had one here in Syracuse this AM
Don't forget to look up,
Joe DeVito
On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Ellen Haith elliehait...@gmail.com wrote:
I've had a Carolina in the yard all winter, singing a lovely variety of
songs. Last winter there was a pair, so I'm a bit concerned for this little
Nice post. The ruddy duck mimics are sleeping female Redheads. I noticed some
of them today, too. We saw no real ruddies in the millpond today. The wood duck
was in the outlet stream of the millpond that drains out under the entrance to
the business at the end of the deadend street north of the
I also enjoyed Carolina Wren, which has wintered here, singing in a.m. in
Liverpool on Shoreview. Also had Brown Creeper at suet.
Onondaga Lake Inner Harbor late afternoon: 7 Iceland Gulls, 1 adult Glaucous
with the many Herring, several Ring-billed, a few Great Black-backs.
Judy Thurber
Dave Nutter and I went up the lake starting around 12:15. Our stops were the
Ithaca Marina (or boat club), Taughannock Park (north side) and Sheldrake. We
saw all ducks, except for Northern Shoveler and any teal. No rarities. Dave
found White-winged Scoters at Taughannock and Sheldrake. A
