Hi all, I was working in the garden, when I heard call of a insistent mourning warbler several times in the morning from across the street in front of my house. My house is just 500 ft from Six Miles creek preserve and perfect habitat for Mourning warblers.
I also heard, redstart, Common yellowthroat and Yellow Warblers. Sneaky House Wrens are feeding their young, and they sneak into thickets and overgrown busy area to find something or the other and, I see them carrying juicy caterpillars. that means I will have fewer moths:-( . Talking about moths, yesterday night I had Polyphemus moth, Oak Beauty, Acronitum americanum etc. Not a whole lot though, about 25 species including smaller ones.. Some of the moths, Hickory Tussock Moth, Isabella Tiger and two geometrids have become morning breakfast for some of the birds in my yard. There are two pairs of catbirds using my yard as their borders. It is fun to watch them puff themselves up and sing. Occasionally they would be very close to each other and flexing their muscles. My main yard catbird, that is one who is nesting a multiflora rose I think, is not very tolerant of his neighboring House Wrens. House wren gets chased off by the catbird. but smart House wrens just dive into thickets and become invisible. Not many odes ion my yard yet. But hoping that will be soon remedied. Only butterflies I saw in the morning were a Silver Spotted Checkerspot, Cabbage White and a Hobmok Skipper. Cabbage white was looking to oviposit. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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/ --
