Hi Folks,
At a minimum: the loon arrived two weeks ago and we tried to
capture it but instead we drove it down stream; it came back to the pol
just below the road culvert and was photographed by Melissa Groo; it
went away but on Sat morning (30 April), I saw it in the culvert outflow
close to the road; it soon went back down stream and has not been seen
since (to my knowledge). Clearly, it goes both ways through the second
culvert downstream from the road culvert. We can hope it finds enough
food in the creek and that its wing heals before fall freeze.
(Perhaps other thoughts and observations about the loon could go off the
busy listserve, always excepting unusually neat stuff, but I would enjoy
hearing them at con...@ithaca.edu)
At Goetchius:
(First, FYI the owners of the original parcel purchased for the Preserve
were the "Goetchius", pronounced somewhat like getchas.)
Steve Kress pointed out to me that there were Solitary Sandpipers
in the newest wetland restoration and I later counted at least 4 and
probably 5. I watched them successfully feeding frequently in the mud
only a few months after being churned over by bulldozers.
I hesitate to mention the next because I used playbacks of
Virginia Rail at the obvious, accessible sites near the road. You may
enjoy knowing the results. I've done this with other species of birds
whose nesting success I was monitoring and I think a few times with
playbacks doesn't discourage most species of birds from their nesting
activities. It is possible that dozens of people doing the same would
chase the birds away. So, the truth is this is sort of like don't do
what I did, or go find your own place to do it. I got responses from
four individual birds, including one pair that came in close together.
No Soras responded to a Sora playback, although the Virginia did respond
to the Sora playback.
So far, I've only heard one meadowlark at a time. It is nice to
hear that others have seen a few bobolinks back on the preserve.
John Confer
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