Hello all, I took a brief walk in Mundy wildflower garden. I came across 5+ thrushes in the large Spicebush shrub near the foot bridge on Mundy west side. As I approached few of them took off, but two remained in the bush and continued to feed. I could identify them as GREY-CHEEKED THRUSHES. Of the rest of the birds landed on another fruiting tree and stayed there sometime. One of them was another Grey-cheeked and rest I do not know, but I presume they were all probably same species.
And at the same location I heard a complaining by a wren, which popped up in front of me at about 10 ft distance and that was a WINTER WREN! I seem to be lucky with Winter Wrens in last two days! At the same bush there were a couple of robins and Flickers that were also feeding on spicebush fruits. So I got curious and decided to try the fruits myself. I ate one fruit and the taste is still in my mouth after about 20 minutes. It reminded me of green peppercorns taste. So I wonder how these birds are handling all those chemicals! Cheers Meena Dr. Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Ph: 607-3011167 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/[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/ --
