I birded the Freese Road gardens this morning with a number of other birders looking for the Dickcissel and enjoying the sparrow show. I uploaded lousy pictures of the Dickcissel, Lincoln's Sparrows, and others here: http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa220/slybirdsly/Birding/Freese%20Road%202011/
The Dickcissel was moving around a bit in different portions of the garden. Gary K found it first (after an hour or more of all of us searching) in the southern section of gardens near the corn plot. I refound it twice later in the north section in a dense grassy area. It seemed to be foraging mostly on the ground out of sight, and was hard to find initially and then hard to relocate. My eBird checklist is below. Cheers, Nick Freese Road, Tompkins, US-NY Sep 25, 2011 8:12 AM - 10:22 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: with many CBC birders looking for the Dickcissel 29 species Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 16 Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) 1 Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 1 Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) 1 High flyover coming from Monkey Run Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) (Colaptes auratus [auratus Group]) 1 Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) 1 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 5 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 6 Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 4 White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 2 House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 1 Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) 5 European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 7 Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 200 Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 2 Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 1 Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla) 2 Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) 4 Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 41 Lincoln's Sparrow (Melospiza lincolnii) 2 Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) 2 Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 1 Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) 1 Dickcissel (Spiza americana) 1 Seen well by many observers and photographed. Other observers saw it sing briefly. Foraging in the garden plots, mostly on the ground and hard to find and relocate. House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) 1 American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 11 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) 8 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org) -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
