?Hi all, Today's lunchtime walk I saw a quite nice bunch of birds.
As I was just arriving at the back of the USDA building I heard a Winter Wren. My first response was to look for my phone in my pocket as I have Winter Wren as my one of the ringtones. Then realized that I have not brought the phone and what I was hearing was a real WINTER WREN. I looked for this little bugger in vain, but he sang for quite sometime. Then in the Mundy near the plantations building there was a beautiful BALTIMORE ORIOLE doing 'feet feet your feet' and was being answered by another one from across the Fall Creek. In its usual place was the singing WARBLING VIREO. Then there was another BALTIMORE ORIOLE in the center of Mundy in its usual location, who sang while I passed him underneath. He peered my way when I passed him but continued singing. A couple of YELLOW-RUMPED Warblers were heard and a YELLOW WARBLER seen in its usual location. I heard only "Chinks" of ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK from sycamores but did not see the bird. Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds were hunting along the Fall Creek for dragonfly nymphs and tenerals I guess. Then there were other usual non-migrants too. Also, saw a green tagged American Crow, but could not see its number. Then there were Bloodroot, Trout Lily, Virginia Bluebells and Red Trillium in bloom and also saw several Cabbage Whites. 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/ --
