Late this morning I followed up on Tom Schulenberg's Orange-crowned Warbler, but did not find it (nor much else) in the brushy area at the west end of the pond near the "Frog Barn" on Sapsucker Woods Road.
I then went to the Freese Road community gardens, whose owners have been slowly dismantling the fences/traps and taking down the posts/perches. Bird numbers were much lower than last time. SONG SPARROWS are still most numerous, but there were several each of WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS (mostly young, but at least 1 adult) in the southern garden half, WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS along the south and southeast hedgerow and in the southeastern part of the gardens, and DARK-EYED JUNCO along the eastern edge of the north half, plus a single CHIPPING SPARROW which flew into the southern hedgerow, a/the single VESPER SPARROW in the center of the north half of the garden, a female BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD just north of the parking area, a single HOUSE FINCH in the treetops across Freese Road, and a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD singing to the southwest. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
