Last two days a Ruby-throated Hummingbird female has started visiting my garden. Yesterday I saw her on burdock flowers today I saw her cardinal flowers. She spent approximately five minutes at the cardinal flowers.
A young Robin has been calling fairly incessantly but I don't see any parents nearby. I think they have left the juvenile to fend itself while they are starting another family. A cute family of Chipping Sparrows have been spending time in the yard. Babies don't know where to go they seem so confused while the parent seem to be collecting grass seeds and feeding them. Also a chickadee family also spent a fair bit of time in the yard in the morning. Today morning at my moth sheet there were three large Catocala moths and all three were Oldwife Underwing, Catocala paleogamma. Each moth has a wingspan of about 70-80 cm with yellow hindwing with black border. Besides these there were at least 20 more species of moths including a Leopard moth and several individuals of Pale Panthea. Finally, my fat woodchuck was out and feeding. He did not suspect me opening the door. After a few seconds he realized I was standing there. We both stared at each other for a few seconds and then seeing no threat he continued feeding. He took offense to my calling him rascal and that is when he bolted. 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/ --
