After Jay's first alert a week ago, I was successful in spotting the Olive-sided sallying off the tall dead snags most visible from end of Sherwood Platform (50' from platform slightly to the right of a line drawn down the length of the boardwalk leading to the platform). He was silent the whole time, ignored my half-assed attempts to whistle 'whip-three-beers', and spent quite a while just catching good things to eat. There was a small mob of Cedar Waxwings around though they tended to work the bugs at a lower level. There have been a couple Eastern Kingbirds back in that area for the last month or longer, and Eastern Wood-Pewees calling from the woods (where else) but not visible to me.
Of course the next day, with camera in hand, he was not evident, though I sort of convinced myself on the basis of GISS alone, that I saw him on the top of a snag all the way down at the other end of the south east end of the pond, barely visible in 10x glasses and I suspect not visible from the other boardwalk, so I didn't make the effort. I'm hopeful he'll be evident again today, as I'm packing the optics! It would be great if he was working off the Heron Tree: much easier shot! ChrisP On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Lee Ann van Leer wrote: > Sorry, Ok my "hair trigger" device also sent that out before I intended. I > hate to retract but I'm not positive about the olive-sided now. If only it > would do a "quick three beers" for me. ;-) so I'm not going to officially > count it. > > I am positive of the bird in that tree still now though. The great blue > heron. Ha ha. Just a wee bit easier to identify. > > I guess one isn't a good/honest bird watcher if they don't have to retract > something once in awhile. > > Gotta go now to figure out which swallow this is I'm watching before phone > dies. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Lee Ann van Leer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sapsucker woods in larger great blue heron nest and vicinity although not >> sure if it is coming back as the juvenile GB heron that roosts back in nest >> tree every eve I've been here just came up right on schedule. >> >> This is on snag on main Sapsucker Woods pond. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> -- >> >> 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/ >> >> -- >> > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > ______________________ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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/ --
