Sorry for the late post, but I most likely saw an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
this past Friday in Mundy Wildflower Garden. It was with a mixed flock
a short distance before the deer fencing on the east side of the
garden. It was all gray with lemon-yellow undertail coverts. I didn't
have binocs, so with my old eyes, at a distance of about 20 feet, I
thought I was seeing something like an eye line. It was there just for
a short time, before disappearing.
Last night around 7:00 on the East Hill Rec. Way (Mitchell to Honness
Lane) just south of the trail that goes toward the polo barns I heard a
slow tapping. As I looked in the direction of the sound I was
pleasantly surprised to see a PILEATED WOODPECKER about 50' east of the
Rec. Way. I was able to watch it for several minutes, before it decided
it had exhausted that particular food supply and flew off. Just as I
started on my way back toward Mitchell I was again pleasantly surprised
to find 3 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS. They too were only about 50' off the
trail. They were bothered by my stopping to watch and quickly moved
farther into the woods.
This afternoon I spotted a GREEN HERON in the narrow boggy area just
south of the Beebe Lake trail on the south side of the lake. As I moved
closer to get a better look (no binocs again!), my approach was too much
for the bird to take, and it promptly flew away toward the lake.
Larry
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W. Larry Hymes
120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
(H) 607-277-0759, [email protected]
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