Yesterday morning, Carol and I were birding at Jetty Woods, near the area
where Trees Up Tompkins has been removing invasives and planting natives (a
more open area, near where the gravel access road enters the woods). In
that area we heard a couple American Redstarts, a Black-and-white Warbler,
Carol and I had a brief but nice view of two male Orchard Orioles at Salt
Point this morning (ca. 7:45am). They were, for a moment, on the same
branch of a large cottonwood tree which faces out toward the field with
nest boxes (and the speed-bumped driveway beyond that). We'd probably
caught the
A few days ago, Carol and I took a walk on the south rim trail at
Taughannock S.P. Not too far from the parking lot off Jacksonville Road,
she spotted a Canada Goose, nesting in an unexpected location (to put it
mildly). Here, have a look:
https://youtu.be/g3dHEyC9qdA
So I'm wondering if
My partner and I witnessed a peep at Myers Point this afternoon which we
had difficulty ID'ing, and I wonder if anyone would be willing to help us
with this. I've posted a video here:
https://youtu.be/9cJehvqgjic
The peep was foraging on the large mud/gravel bar in Salmon Creek, not far
where
Carol Johnson and I were on the East Trail boardwalk at Sapsucker Woods on
Thursday morning, enjoying the sounds of several Northern Waterthrushes and a
Great Crested Flycatcher, when we both spied a peculiar bird snooping around
the base of a tree in the marsh not far from the boardwalk. We
Just to elaborate a bit on Linda's interesting post:
http://miracleofnature.org/blog/the-chipping-munk
Rick
At 05:57 PM 9/29/2014, Linda Orkin wrote:
I was walking in the woods up at
the overlook at Taughanock this afternoon when a large hawk flew through
the trees. As I was trying to get a
I ran into Pete Wiedmann at Sapsucker Woods this morning and we birded together
for a while. Thanks to Pete's sharp eyes we saw a BARRED OWL, which may have
been same one reported recently by Diane Ken (May 1), as well as by Mark Chao
(early this morning), and was, I think, in about the same
That's a good one, Meena--a cemetery with no body in it.
-Rick ;)
At 01:13 PM 5/12/2012, Meena Haribal wrote:
I did the same
thing too! And found Merlin singing away! I also went to Green hills
cemetery and except for the Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Chipping Sparrow and
Great Crested Flycatcher no
I discovered the aurora as I was leaving a dance rehearsal. Was awestruck, but
managed to grab the gear from the trunk and take a photo. Not great, and a bit
past the peak, but a nice memento.
http://lightbody.zenfolio.com/auroras/e347244cf
Then I drove up to Mount Pleasant observatory,
