Nice observations Mike and Joanne! I was thinking of swinging in in the afternoon on the way back form Sterling Nature Center.
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 ________________________________ From: bounce-119394628-3493...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-119394628-3493...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Michael Tetlow <mjtet...@frontiernet.net> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 9:16 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma babies or future babies This afternoon a trip through the refuge brought nothing rare but higher water on the main pool diluted the smell of rotting carp and last week's congregation of 20+ eagles had moved on. Here are some family highlights of the day; - The winner of the cutest babies contest was a family of 3 tiny baby Spotted Sandpipers with parent on the main pool edge opposite Benning Marsh. They were very difficult to find as their peeping sounded like it was 30 feet away from where they were. - The family of Wood Ducks continues at Larue lagoon and a small family with only 3 young was at the last pool at the very end of the wildlife drive. - 4 teenage Hooded Mergansers were on a log in the same pond. - Common Gallinules had 3 brand new babies at the south end of Eaton Marsh and a dense clump at the north end held a Gallinule on the nest. - Pied-billed Grebes had a teenager at Eaton Marsh and one on a nest near the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road. - Trumpeter Swans with young were on Tschasche pool with 1 Common Tern feeding around them. - We had no luck with the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May's Point and although, hopefully wrong, Starlings were all around the previously contested nest hole. - Sandhill Cranes with their colt were still reported at Knox-Marcellus marsh but not seen by us. - A Horned Lark took a mouthful of insects into the grass along East Road and fed a tailless barely feathered fledgling. - 2 Black-crowned Night Herons were seen at Van Dyne Spoor Road with one carrying a long stick out to about the middle of the marsh. -Black Terns were represented at every cattail marsh with one carrying food at both the main pool and Van Dyne Spoor Road. Mike and Joann Tetlow -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
