HI Meena, Re <Yesterday evening I went to Salmon Creek in the hopes of recording some birds. >
this area is very noisy in the summer. (Lang Elliott and I have sometimes been at Salt Pt/Lansing Pk video/sound-recording during this spring/summer. Best is very early on a Sunday morning! Don't go out to Lansing today...their fireworks are tonight and the place is a zoo already. <I found a pair of juvenile Sapsuckers feeding on a sap holes in a walnut tree, this is the first time I have seen them on walnuts. A couple of butterflies and a hummingbird also seem to be exploiting the sap holes. < I found a nest of a Red-bellied Woodpecker, the hole was just below a large bracket mushroom which looked like made a nice roof for the nest > WOuld you share the locations of the sapsucker and RBWoodpecker? Lang and/or I would be interested in these. Thanks very much Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin Available here: http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/G0000NlCxX37uTzE/C0000BPFGij6nLfE ________________________________________ From: bounce-119425094-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-119425094-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Meena Madhav Haribal [m...@cornell.edu] Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 8:24 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Winter Wren and Mundy and Salmon Creek Road Hi all, Mundy Winter Wren seem to continue in Mundy. Yesterday he serenaded me with his lovely song for quite some 10 minutes or so. Hope he has found a partner and has been successful in raising a family. In my yard baby House Wrens are going nuts. They seem to follow their parents like crazy and parents scold me as soon as I get out of the house. Chimney swifts from the Human Resources building also have fledged young. I see them flying around twittering and parents feed them in flight from my office window. Yesterday evening I went to Salmon Creek in the hopes of recording some birds. My hopes were squashed by the non-stop cars that passed the area and also a loud lawn mower heard for more than half a mile killed my appetite for recording. So I ended up just looking for birds. I found a pair of juvenile Sapsuckers feeding on a sap holes in a walnut tree, this is the first time I have seen them on walnuts. A couple of butterflies and a hummingbird also seem to be exploiting the sap holes. I found a nest of a Red-bellied Woodpecker, the hole was just below a large bracket mushroom which looked like made a nice roof for the nest like you see in cartoon movies. I wonder if the woodpeckers chose to make hole specifically under toads umbrella or it was just a coincidence. I think I heard a couple of calls of ACADIAN FLYCATCHER from the typical location along the small stream while I was rolling down the hill slowly in my car. When I stopped to listen specifically it never called again. There were Veery, Wood Thrushes, Scarlet Tanagers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Bunting, Pileated Woodpecker and a Peewee. Also Yellow Warbler and Chestnut-sided Warblers. But I missed the familiar Blue-winged warbler, Mourning Warbler, Redstarts, Cerulean and Cuckoos which used to be there in the past. Then I drove via French Hill Road and Holden road to Brown Hill Road, which used to have abundant Savannah Sparrows. I saw only one Savannah Sparrow on the road and no Grasshopper sparrows. On Gulf Road, I came across several Chestnut-sided and Am. Redstarts and Wood Thrushes. The area has changed a whole lot and traffic seemed to have increased a fair bit in these locations. But it was still nice to see some of the familiar friends along the road. 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