Hi all, I did a Mundy lunch walk and saw some nice assorted birds.
I saw two male flickers displaying to a female and it was quite a show of following her and flaring their tail feathers etc. Then I found a pair of Common Mergansers swimming near Bohm's overlook. A BLUE-HEADED VIREO was singing near the Plantations Building. In the Hemlock grove I found two beautiful male YELLOW_RUPED WARBLERS chasing the same insect. Later they sang too. Two different PINE WARBLERS, one on Plantations and Judd Falls junction and the second was in the pine behind DNR building parking lot. Here there was a nice comparison between warbler and two CHIPPING SPARROWS songs. It seemed PINE WARBLERS song was abrupt. I also found a Chickadee nesting hole on Plantations road, which is about 100 yards from the parking lot on that road near green houses. It is on a bad curve, but very low. So in the evening I went there with my camera, but the guys were not there. I think either they are still building or the hole is so deep that I could not see the incubating bird. >From here I headed to Airport via Arboretum. I was way too early for >woodcocks, but I was serenaded by an EASTERN MEADOWLARK singing his heart out >and another challenging him. Meadowlark sang till the woodcock started >calling, that is almost 45 minutes. There was also a BROWN THRASHER in the field singing, after some time I found a female just across my car, he also saw the bird and came across to where I was and sang for ten minutes! I got some recording. I could recognize only very few real birds in his song. There were Fritzbew, Peter peter and a catbird rest I need to listen to them again. He is not as accomplished as Mockingbird, who seem to master many more species. May be the Thrasher was singing some songs of southern birds. Finally at 8.13 PM the Woodcock started peenting. Soon two more joined. I spent next fifteen minutes to see their dance, but they did not! Later I stopped at the Lab of Parking lot. Except for spring peepers and robins, I did not hear anything else. 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/[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/ --
