Hi all, Today's lunch walk seemed like the usual late spring walk with lots of birds singing. Most residents are back with a few migrants. Regular breeders were AM. Redstart, Chestnut Sided, Common Yellowthroat, Eastern Wood Peewee, Great Crested, Warbling Vireo (2 pairs), Red-eyed Vireo (2 males), Pileated Woodpecker, Red-bellied, Hairy, Tree and Rough-winged Swallows, Three orioles and Grey Catbirds. Among migrant there was a Magnolia warbler singing and a singing Swainson's Thrush. There was a flycatcher of sorts which I could never get a good look at.
Rough-winged swallows are nesting in gap of an embankment along Fall Creek. Female was collecting grasses from the garden and taking it to the nest hole, while the male chirped outside. There is a strange multiplex apartment complex near the Ken Post green house in a dead stump. On topmost floor there are two holes facing north and east and I have seen chickadees entering both holes almost at same time. I am not sure if they are connected. About four inches below there is another hole, no owners I have seen yet. Below that is the third hole occupied by a pair of Downies. I saw the female peering out of the nesting hole today. Last week I saw them mating in front of their house. Chimney Swifts are nesting in the ex-toxic chemical building (now Ag School HR building) in a chimney and often they circle in front of my window and over Mundy too. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and Pearl Crescent were also seen. Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ -- 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/ --
