Hi all,
I thought it was a walkable distance to go looking for Blue Grosbeak, so I did
the walk from Golf Course side via Forest Home Walkway. Unfortunately, I
missed the first turn, so I had to go around the woods. But that was good I got
to see lots of birds. There were three WINTER WRENS pottering around and I got
good looks at each of them. Like last time I mentioned I seem to be lucky with
Winter Wrens this year! There were lots of WHITE-TROATED SPARROWS all along the
hedgerow at the edge of the woods. I saw a few of them eating fruits of
Buckthorn and a small shrub, which looks like a Vaccinum sp, but had red pointy
fruits, I need to identify this plant. Several YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, one
group was at Golf Course, next two were in the Bluegrass lane woods. Also there
was a BROWN CREEPER along with a couple of WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCHES. A
NORTHEN FLICKER flick flicked for quite sometime. Quite a few RUBY CROWNED
KINGLETS also were present.
Finally, there were quite a few sparrows most of them dove into corn when
disturbed, but one sparrow came out of the corn and sat on a bare branch in the
hedgerow and gave me a good view! This was a FILED SPARROW.
I spent about 20 minutes looking for the Blue Grosbeak and trying to listen but
I did not succeed.
Cheers
Meena
Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
From: bounce-108719886-3493...@list.cornell.edu
[bounce-108719886-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Jay McGowan
[jw...@cornell.edu]
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:26 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane
I last saw the bird around 8:34 as it perched up again in the hedgerow west of
the north side of the horse complex (so along the south edge of the big field
on the west side of the north leg of Bluegrass Lane.) It was moving west along
the hedgerow but the habitat gets more forested near the SW corner of the
field, so it may have gone into the brushy area or doubled back into the corn.
We have continued to look for it without success. It did not call and was not
responsive to pishing.
Jay
On Oct 13, 2013 8:10 AM, Jay McGowan
jw...@cornell.edumailto:jw...@cornell.edu wrote:
I just had the female BLUE GROSBEAK near where Ken heard it last night. It
popped up out if the corn just north of where the road goes into the horse barn
area and sat for a moment up in the shrubs along that hedgerow, then dropped
down and I have not relocated it so far. It hasn't made a sound.
Jay
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