On Saturday and Sunday, I’ll be leading field trips for the Cayuga Bird Club at the Cornell Community Garden Plots and vicinity. Each walk will begin at 8 AM at the parking lot for the garden plots on the east side of Freese Road between the Dyce Lab and the Liddell Lab.
The gardens are perennially an excellent spot for diversity and numbers of migrating sparrows in the first half of October. Today I found eight sparrow species there (Song, Savannah, Swamp, Field, White-crowned, White-throated, Dark-eyed Junco, and Eastern Towhee), plus a Palm Warbler. I also flushed up a Wilson’s Snipe (probably my first ever on this side of Freese Road) and saw an American Mink in another. We will be walking through a lot of tall, wet weeds in chilly weather. I recommend waterproof clothing and footwear. I look forward to seeing many of you this weekend! Mark Chao -- 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/ --
