I have been photographing the developing cone crop on Balsam Fir and White Pine trees - we will have a lot of food this coming winter! There has been some extreme weather - it hit Sabattis Circle Road very hard with lots of trees down - so I was able to take close up photos of the cones on the top of the downed trees.
May 5, 2017 Long Lake (Hamilton Co.) The alpha male Wild Turkey came down to our house and gobbled outside our back door to let me know he needed more cracked corn this afternoon! I got a telephone call as I was about to feed him, and a long time later I found him in the same place still waiting for the corn! It has been really cold (with occasional snowflakes) and inclement here over the past week - I'm still feeding birds for now. Black Bears are also visiting, so the feeders come in at night. The huge male Black Bear showed up at 5 p.m. today. May 4, 2017 Long Lake, Tupper Lake (Franklin Co.), and Bloomingdale areas (Essex and Franklin Counties) (* for first-of-the-season birds) Sandhill Crane - 1 in Tupper Lake (I can see where they are nesting this year!) Black-backed Woodpecker - 1 at Bloomingdale Bog Gray Jay - 4 (2 along Route 30 and 2 at Sabattis Bog in Long Lake) *Northern Waterthrush - singing along Moose Pond Lane in Bloomingdale Palm Warbler - Bloomingdale Bog & Sabattis Bog *Rose-breasted Grosbeak - male at our feeders in Long Lake May 2, 2017 Long Lake *Least Flycatcher - 1 singing outside our home Gray Jay - 6 (2 along Route 30 and 4 at Sabattis Bog) *Ovenbird - outside our home and along Sabattis Circle Road *American Redstart - several along Sabattis Circle Road Also, 2 different Black Bears at our home and a Porcupine crossing Route 30 in Long Lake. May 1, 2017 Long Lake Gray Jay - 4 (2 along Route 30 and 2 at Sabattis Bog) *Black-and-white Warbler *Nashville Warbler *Yellow Warbler *Black-throated Blue Warbler *Black-throated Green Warbler And one Black Bear outside our home! Migration seems slow this year. Joan Collins President, NYS Ornithological Association Editor, New York Birders Long Lake, NY (315) 244-7127 cell (518) 624-5528 home http://www.adirondackavianexpeditions.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AdirondackAvian -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
