Just back from a walk up Mt Pleasant Road, during which the big surprise was a Barred Owl heard calling from the woods north of the ex-sheep barns between the two hills. First time I've ever heard one up here (although they surely have been present in the past). As I continued, I was musing that I hadn't yet heard a Ruffed Grouse drumming here this spring, and as if on cue one started drumming from the woods on the south side of the road!
Another heard-bird was my first Baltimore Oriole in the Cornell Arboretum earlier this morning. Another birder I met mentioned that he'd also heard one near the Mundy Wildflower Garden. SPRING! Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.marieread.com Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography-104356136271727/ -- 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/ --
