Returning at dark dusk from Central NY's BEST Friday night fish fry and tartar sauce (really! - Linda's Diner, North Lansing on Rt. 34 at corner of Locke Rd., ho hum salad, but fish is great, including if you ask for it broiled; good desserts, too), I decided to stop along Algerine Road down hill, west of Ludlow Rd. (Lansing, off NY Rt. 34B) by the water main access concrete pad and fire hydrant to listen for Woodcocks. I was not disappointed; I heard one AMERICAN WOODCOCK, mostly several flight twitters, and only one faint "peent". My first this year, a thrill! It was on the north side of the road.
At home today lots of birds visited my feeders and ground food, including a TREE SPARROW, 2 handsome, bright WHITE THROATED SPARROWS, along with the many male RED WINGED BLACKBIRDS, JUNCOS, the SONG SPARROW, the numerous A. GOLDFINCHES, 1 female BROWN HEADED COWBIRD, the 6-member A. CROW family, and the other usual feeder birds. Donna 535 Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY -- 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/ --
