At 6:30 met recent SUNY ESF grad Kyle Bardwell -- who has secured employment in his chosen field of environmental engineering -- for some early morning birding at The Point. Having to leave just before 8, he is learning how work gets in the way of a beautiful morning in the field. Lots of birds around particularly on the low road to the wine cellars. Best was yellow breasted chat other warblers included pine, prairie, magnolia, black + white, redstart and likely others flitting around. Also several BG gnatcatcher, rt hummingbird, waxwings, RE vireo, UI flycatcher, a small movement of E kingbird, a large movement of Baltimore Orioles maybe 20 feeding by wine cellars, several osprey, at least 2 adult bald eagle, and one kestrel hovering on landfill. Then work interfered and we left.
To Kyle and all other recent grads, not to bum you out, but here's an anthem from The Boss: "Man rises from bed and puts on his clothes, man takes his lunch and walks out in the morning light; it's the working, the working, just the working life." Factory (Springsteen c. 1978) L. Trachtenberg Ossining Sent from my iPhone -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
