It was awesome outside, but very hot. Highlight was many migrating Red Admiral butterflies with couple of other species. Among birds a pair of Red-tailed hawks were displaying and calling while display was on over Mundy WG. I met the Tufted titmouse who sings "teacher teach" very apt on the campus and we exchanged some conversations. There was a Blue Jay sitting in front of me, but when he called, the sound was coming from some 30 ft my right. It was amazing how well he did it. And I was also proud of myself that I could clearly hear from which direction the sound was coming. Two species of wrens, A Carolina Wren was calling from a tree, beneath him was a woman blissfully having lunch totally unaware of his presence, listening to her own music. She had no clue probably that someone was singing very loudly above her head. A little further ahead there was HOUSE WREN calling. First when I heard him, I thought wow he sounds familiar and then it dawned on me it is a House Wren! Near the Fall creek water fall, a couple of Rough-winged swallows chirped over my head. A pair of Phoebes were excited about nesting along the gorge rocks. A fly went past one of the phoebes, you could see he saw it but was not ready to chase, you could see his eyes following the fly, and then he darted and missed. All three trillers, PINE WARBLER, JUNCO and CHIPPING SPARROW were trilling at the same time from different directions and locations. Lastly there was a pair of COMMON MERGANSERS sitting quite close to each other in the calm portion of the Fall Creek with their reflection in the water. It made a very stunning image, but no camera with me, so now it will be in my neuronal image library.
Meena PS: Is it not humans have evolved so stupidly, on such a lovely day want to sit in front of computers? -- 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/ --
