Hi all, On Sunday Stuart Krasnoff and I spent some time on Rail Road Marsh and other spots of MNWR. Highlights were several calling marsh birds. Moorhens were going nuts! We also heard (only through the telinga mic), both American and Least Bitterns, Sora (just called couple of times in an hour or so), and tons of Marsh Wrens, Swamp Sparrows, Yellow Warblers, Song Sparrows. I saw and heard a Sandhill Crane. We also watched 11+ BLACK TERNS migrating and were calling while migrating. Later we saw a few more from Van Dyne Spoor road. One Marsh Wren was very co-operative and sang in front of us while ducking back and forth into cattail and out of it.
At Marten's tract I heard a rattling buzz, that sounded like wren coming from the grassy patch on left of the viewing area. By the time I went to the car, got the mic out he shut up (as usual) and I did see a small wren like bird fly across. I came home and listened to Sedge Wren calls on the internet and at Xeno Canto and some of the rattling calls had some similarities. I wish I had recorded it. But it is heads up for those people who have time to go and check up. On Armitage road we heard a Cerulean, later saw one at the Visitor Center and saw a Tennessee, possibly there was another singing nearby. >From the Tschache viewing tower in the distance we watched a pair of terns >allo-feeding. After several looks through my scope and Stuart's scope and the >male's flight I think they were probably a pair of common terns. We also >watched one Osprey being harassed by five Bald Eagles. The Osprey nest near Lock 26 on Rt 89 at May's point seem to have been destroyed. I don't know if it was purposely removed or it fell off in one of the recent windy days. We also saw some other usual birds. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY http://haribal.org/ -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
