?Hi all, Yesterday I walked EIRW and the highlights of my walk are below here.
Sparrows included White-throated Sparrows, Song Sparrows and Tree Sparrows near the feeder at house on EIRW near the junction of Hawthorn/foot ball field south entrance, where they usually hang around with local species like Nuthatches, Cardinals and Chickadees. At the entrance of the path off of Mitchell street where there is another feeder, I heard only a couple of times the ' Zeeert' of a Pine Siskin along with noisy House Finches and House Sparrows. On the north entrance of the Maple Wood Road there was the Northern Mockingbird in his usual location. When I passed under him he just looked at me and did not bother to fly away. Further down on the wire there was a lovely male Kestrel, which on my approach flew further down towards Pine tree Road. At the Game Farm Road end in the pines I saw a Brown Creeper and the usual local residents including a Hairy, Downy and Red-bellied. I looked for a shrike along the path near horse pasture but did not see any. Otherwise it was a quiet walk. Finally at home, when I was trashing my compost, I saw the Carolina Wren trying to hide among the brushes, while "churring". Today morning just a few minutes ago a Cardinal was singing in my backyard! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- 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/ --
