Incidentally, there were no disemboweled toads on the dike earlier this morning, but at this moment I'm sitting at the breakfast table looking down toward the pond, and I can see three Crows hopping around in the grass down there, so I imagine they are starting the feast.
-Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Newly arrived in my West Danby yard this morning were Gray Catbird, > Chestnut-sided Warbler, > Nashville Warbler and Ovenbird. > > I usually wind up flushing the early morning ducks off my little pond before > I can get close, but this morning I got lucky with a pair of Wood Ducks, and > achieved a one-duck wide binocular field. > > After flushing them, I walked along the dike, counting the toads in the > water. I spotted 136 of them, many in flagrante amplecto. They'd had a big > night: this morning there are lots of egg strings, where yesterday were none! > > -Geo > -- 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/ --
