Hi all, Yesterday afternoon after the rain stopped, I took a long walk up Hunt Hill Rd. and down Hurd Rd. (town of Dryden, east of Ithaca). There were a surprising number of groups of birds around. The first group, along Hunt Hill Rd., consisted of a number of ruby-crowned kinglets, yellow-rumped warblers, one black-throated green warbler, two Swainson's thrushes, a phoebe, goldfinches, a sapsucker, two flickers, one hairy woodpecker, one downy and many white-throated sparrows. The sparrows were in a wild grape tangle, busily eating the ripe purple grapes. Earlier in the morning, white-throated sparrows were eating grey-dogwood fruits in our yard. I never realized fruits were a food source for these sparrows!
Later in the walk, along Hurd Rd., I came across a second group consisting of a black-throated green warbler in among yellow-rumped warblers, chickadees, titmice, and goldfinches. This morning (Sunday), our yard has a phoebe, ruby-crowned kinglet, robins, chipping sparrows and white-throated sparrows, in addition to the voracious goldfinches and blue jays. Happy frost! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
