Hi all, As I continued working during lunch hours I decided to take a break of 20 minutes and head to Mundy. I heard the Winter wren singing, so I decided to track him down to have a good look. I found in company of two families of six Northern Flickers and six Blue Jays and other birds all picking up something form the ground. May be ants or moths I did not see anything.
As good luck held for me, I had lovely loooong good look at him for about 15 minutes and that extended my walk to 35 minutes! He merrily looked for insects along variety of surfaces and locations at one point he was just 6 feet away from me poking along the water's edge. Then he stood on top of a log and sang. By the time my brain worked and I fished out my cell phone to record him, I just could snatch a little bit of his song then he stopped but continued feeding. This is the first time ever I have looked at a Winter Wren so close without binoculars so long! As I walked away from him he started singing again and continued till I left Mundy! I did not see his family so probably he is single but has been on and off advertising. Hopefully next year he will find a mate and make Mundy as his home! I also had lots of dragonflies in one of the retention ponds mostly skimmers chasing each other and some were mated. Cheers Meena Dr. Meena Haribal 409, Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) Ithaca NY 14853 USA Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4 Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/140817samplebook.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/ --
