Lots of welcome arrivals, including Great Crested Flycatcher today, but I’m still feeding nyjer seed to a couple of Pine Siskins.
The Ravens at Taughannock Falls have four nestlings. They are quite late compared to the big and noisy youngsters in my spruce plantation, seeming to support the presumption that their parents are the same pair that attempted to construct a nest farther up the gorge in late February but couldn’t make the sticks stay put upon the tiny, outward sloping ledge they had chosen. I wonder if they made actual use of the stolen eggs they had cached up that-a-way, or if that business in which they cooperated was a kind of invented courtship activity? -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
