Hi everyone, I check out the fields at the eastern end of Mt Pleasant Rd twice today. Once by car: I stopped to look and listen for Horned Larks. Nothing. Usually by now, if they're there, I would have noticed their display flights high in the sky over the fields. But I DID notice an Eastern Meadowlark singing from, the ground. Three American Kestrels on the wires and perched on poles over the fields. Back near home around 11:30 am a Red-shouldered a hawk was calling loudly as it circled high above. Last I saw it was headed toward Laura's place 😁 A first-year male Purple Finch at my feeder.
Then this afternoon, Mt Pleasant Road on foot. Still no Horned Larks. But an Eastern Meadowlark singing from high in a tree by the observatory. A female kestrel suddenly flying from (out of...I think) a nest box, either already nesting in there or checking it out. As others have noted there's been a sudden influx of Dark-eyed Juncos...now many trilling away in concert with the spring peepers. Delightful! Marie Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> -- 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/ --