?Today my catbird started singing at 3.16 am (or that is when I woke up and checked time) and he sang till 5.46 am. I am sorry for him, he has to spend so much energy singing. So he deserves some moths. I did scare away some of the beautiful ones such as female Polyphemus, Io, a couple of Prominents and a couple of geometrids. I left him lots of tiny totricids. I have not seen him come to the sheet. Either he has got poor memory or he is a new guy on the block and has not yet learn about moths. A Cardinal was clicking quite close by who also visits moth sheet, so may be he will be the one gets to pick juicy moths. They don't seem to eat lappet moths and Hickory Tussock moths, which are plentiful.
Also, a Raven croaked for quite sometime while I was photographing moths. So he must have nested close by somewhere. Cheers Meena PS: As I type this, I hear a Towhee calling "towhee" right now outside my window. 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/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/ --
