Mark: > Before meeting the group, I spent 45 minutes birding alone on the west side > of the preserve, near the West Danby fire station. The surpassing highlight > here was an active GREAT BLUE HERON nest above the pond, which the Land Trust > owns, next to the fire house.
After the walk a few of us drove over to check out this nest, and found a second GBH nest three trees to its left, within a foliaged tree. In the scope I could make out at least three chicks in that one. Some highlights of the walk with Bob after Mark left were: a cuckoo flying a circle around us (yellow-billed, we think); looks at a black-and-white warbler picking up nesting material and flying to a possible nest site; hooded warblers countersinging at Celia's cup, one seen by a few; and good looks at alder flycatcher and eastern wood-pewee, the latter which seemed to sing the "weeeee" part with its mouth closed (but throat vibrating). Thanks, Mark, for a great walk, and for pointing us to the GBH nest. Suan -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
