[cayugabirds-l] Not seen nor heard since the flood
I realize bird song normally decreases around this time of year, but the sudden and profound silence that descended upon my yard on Babbling Brook Drive, Newfield following the storms and flooding last weekend has led me to jot down a list of the birds that I have neither seen nor heard since then (I had been hearing/seeing them daily until then): Baltimore Oriole Northern Cardinal Eastern Phoebe Red-Bellied Woodpecker Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Great-Crested Flycatcher Gray Catbird Red-Eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Black-Capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Yellow Warbler Song Sparrow House Sparrow Common Grackle American Goldfinch No doubt there are species I have left out. Red-Winged Blackbird almost made the list but I heard one yesterday. Otherwise all I'm seeing right now are American Robins and European Starlings. I did find a trout in my yard. Don Timmons Newfield -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo fledgling--just out of Basin
Finally saw one of the yellow-billed cuckoos (pair) that have been singing/calling in our Back Six acres on Hile School Rd, Freeville. And it had a fledgling sitting near it, quietly looking like a very stubby yellow-billed cuckoo. I couldn't get pictures of the fledgling deep in the bushes, but the adult gave me quite a few by hopping around and looking watchful in the upper bush. A testimonial to cuckoos's rapid development--David saw a parent carrying nesting material only a few weeks ago. Now going to get the exact date. Anne -- 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/ --
