My son Tilden and I walked around the East Trail in Sapsucker Woods on Sunday morning. We found a lot of birds, but didn't try too long to identify the uncooperative ones. I did manage to confirm one BLACKPOLL WARBLER (alone in dark woods at my eye level), one BAY-BREASTED WARBLER (40 feet overhead, showing a lot of red), a MAGNOLIA WARBLER, several GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS (together in pines above the shelter), and a ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK (heard only, but I'm pretty certain). I didn't see any thrushes.
Mark Chao PS. Birding was but one of our goals for this walk. Another was counting steps with a pedometer (2,587, says Tilden). Above all, we continued a season-long project shared also with my daughter, building a photo gallery of the astonishingly beautiful and diverse fungi of Sapsucker Woods. Please follow the link below if you're interested; assistance with ID is most welcome. https://picasaweb.google.com/114049026073343451957/FungiOfSapsuckerWoodsFall 2011 -- 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/ --
