I went looking for birds on Friday morning at the Salmon Creek Bird Sanctuary, a Finger Lakes Land Trust preserve in Lansing (6:10-7:00 AM). This 33-acre preserve used to host as many as 48 breeding pairs of Cerulean Warblers as recently as 1998, but today as in other recent years, the species seemed absent. I did find plenty of other birds on the preserve and neighboring land along the road, including an adult BALD EAGLE flying up the creek; at least four singing BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS; three YELLOW-THROATED VIREOS; several BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS; and lots of ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS, WOOD THRUSHES, and BALTIMORE ORIOLES.
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