When the rain stopped this morning I pulled on my rubber boots and drove
to the Jetty Woods. (I parked across from the firefighter training sight
because the parking area between the new Cayuga Trail and Fall Creek was
partially blocked off with a sign saying road closed. When I returned
there were several cars parked in the lot with people fishing so maybe
you can get away with parking in the lot if it isn't being worked on.)
The boots were absolutely necessary. There are good sized ponds on the
golf course, the swamp on the east end comes close to the golf course,
the east-west trail just inside the southern edge of the woods is
partially underwater, and the road out to the jetty is covered in a
couple of spots.
As I walked across the golf course from my car to the woods, a killdeer
led the way, perhaps taking me away from a nest that I did not see. As I
approached the woods a large pond on the golf course contained 9 LEAST
SANDPIPERs that were unconcerned as I approached to within 10 feet.
There was also a solitary SOLITARY SANDPIPER looking big-eyed with its
eye-ring that flew across in front of me when I got within 20 feet
giving me a great look at its striking black and white barred tail.
The woods contained many AMERICAN REDSTARTs, yellow warblers and gray
catbirds, plus a couple of LEAST FLYCATCHERs and warbling vireos that
made the first fifty yards of the road quite noisy. I saw one
rose-breasted Grosbeak and a downy woodpecker that kept harassing a
starling which appeared to be pecking at something near the top of a
tree-trunk, perhaps a nest hole? The starling was not particularly
bothered by the little woodpecker but eventually flew off with the downy
in pursuit.
Bob
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