My son Tilden Chao and I took a short walk on the Wilson Trail North on Tuesday morning. Here are some highlights.
* YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER along the north edge of the pond. This bird plainly showed its muted yellow belly, sharp black-and-white wings, bold eye rings, and very bright orange lower mandible. * At least four TENNESSEE WARBLERS along the Owens Platform in the Fuller Wetlands, showing a striking variety of plumages, from green-and-gray to almost completely yellow, but all with obvious white undertail coverts. * Two or three GREEN HERONS, including one that offered fine views from the Owens Platform. * At least six juvenile WOOD DUCKS, full-grown but still in their finely streaked juvenile plumage, in the Fuller Wetlands. I think we would have found more Wood Ducks from the Sherwood Platform, but we couldn’t get there because of some ambitious trailside maintenance going on. Our eBird checklist, including some photos of the Tennessee Warblers, is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31449541. 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/ --
