Hi everyone, I've been over at the Cornell Plantations Arboretum for the past couple of mornings, photographing Red-winged Blackbirds. but like all of us, I am hungry for some new migrants to show up, especially orioles! So after I packed my gear up. I took a walk around the arboretum and suddenly heard some high, clear whistled phrases repeated from a nearby tree. Oriole! NOPE! When I got on the singer, it was a male Purple Finch! He carried on pretending to be an oriole for a minute or so, then switched to his typical rollicking song.
Later on I found a Brown Thrasher singing. There has been what I presume is a Fish Crow there both mornings, giving its distinctive call. I saw it yesterday (yellow tag on right wing), but only heard it today. I guess at this time of year American Crow female begging calls can be mistaken for Fish Crow, but this guy is out and flying around. Although yesterday it did take some food into a conifer north of the sculpture garden. And plenty of the usual suspects... 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/ --
