[cayugabirds-l] Blue-Headed Vireo

[Suan Hsi Yong]

Just heard a blue-headed vireo singing quite loudly outside my window. New
yard bird for me, and I guess also office bird (lots of new office birds
for me this past month :-).

A couple days ago I had a pretty close encounter with a blue-headed vireo
while jogging the six-mile-creek/south-hill-recway area. Got a pretty good
eye-level naked-eye look at the bird, not a frequent occurrence for this
species. Some of my closest bird encounters seem to be while out jogging
and thus binocularless, like with a ruby-crowned kinglet yesterday almost
within touching distance. Or maybe I just tend to remember more of these
"wish I had my bins with me" moments.

My phone just sounded a reminder to lead a Stewart Park bird walk tomorrow,
a reminder I had added to my calendar back before the coviding. Sigh.

Suan

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[cayugabirds-l] Dryden Lake

[Lois E. Chaplin]

Still lots of Common Mergansers hanging out on the lake. On Wednesday there was 
a pair of Long Tailed Ducks in the mix. Was pleased to have found Song, Swamp 
and Field Sparrows. There is a pair of very busy and vocal Kingfishers in the 
vicinity as well.

Yesterday there were two Eagles at the nest. One flew off while I spied. It 
certainly looks to me as if there is feeding activity going on. The remaining 
adult was not sitting on the nest but rather, at the edge. There was head 
movement that I imagined was that of ripping up little pieces of fish and 
feeding the young. On my return walk from the Purvis Preserve section I could 
not see anything on the nest (or the lake) due to a white out of a snow storm.

Lois Chaplin
Beam Hill west

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