After seeing 5 INDIGO BUNTINGS AND A COMMON YELLOWTHROAT at our house
this morning, I suspected that there must have been an excellent
fallout. So for the first time this year I decided to take by binocs on
my exercise walk around Beebe/Mundy. Boy, am I ever glad I did! I
ended up spending a good half hour or more just standing on the trail
that goes down into Mundy on the south side. I was able to look into
the canopy of the hemlocks and see the birds at eye-level. I recorded
11 warbler species from there, with killer looks at most, including
CANADA, BLACKBURNIAN, PALM, MAGNOLIA, REDSTART, PINE, OVENBIRD,
YELLOW-RUMP, AND COMMON YELLOWTROAT. I also heard BLACK-THROATED GREEN
AND PARULA. What I found particularly interesting was finding the
YELLOWTHROATS foraging up in the trees. I always think of them being
found in shrubby habitat near the ground. Has anyone else ever observed
this?
The other highlight was seeing/hearing all 5 vireo species that we have
here - RED-EYED, BLUE-HEADED, YELLOW-THROATED, WARBLING, AND
PHILADELPHIA. I recorded a total of 48 species on my walk, and would
have missed many of them without my trusty binocs!! My list is reported
on E-Bird.
Larry
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W. Larry Hymes
120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
(H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu
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