On Sunday morning, I visited two of the sites where I’ll lead walks next
weekend for the Finger Lakes Land Trust Spring Bird Quest (SBQ). Here are
some highlights.
1. Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve (7:55-9:45 AM):
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37037806
* A subset of the
On Saturday, May 20th, I was joined by seven others for a fine outing (weather
and bird wise) of birding at the Dorothy McIlroy Preserve and Summerhill area.
Susan Soberoff, Jae Sullivan, Diane Traina, Judith Saul and I first stopped
at the pull off on Lake Como Rd. Here we saw two Cedar
A male yellow-billed cuckoo flew into the young trees near our veggie
garden yesterday. We watched for two solid minutes, just 15 feet away,
close enough to see it catch and eat two hairy caterpillars and then puff
out its throat while singing. When it flew to the other side of the garden,
we
Yesterday our SFO group had a pine warbler at Greensprings Cemetery (in
Newfield) singing from one of the scattered smallish pines (~20 feet tall) in
the mostly open fields. Great eye-level looks for this species, from a tree
that looked (to me) too small and isolated to be good habitat. And it
On yesterday's walk around Sapsucker Woods with SFO, we heard the trill of what
turned out to be a Pine Warbler singing near the south end of the Woodleton
Boardwalk. I had expected Dark-eyed Junco because I had scoped one nearby on a
walk earlier this year, and two of the largest White Pines
