I think my comment what appeared to be copulation gives too strong an
expression to my observation. If it were true then I would have to say there
are three birds, because I'm assuming that females don't sing, and I'm not
prepared to say that yet as much as I would like it to be. Let me restate
don't forget to look up,
Joe
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From: Joe DeVito joeb...@yahoo.com
To: oneidabird oneidabi...@yahoogroups.com; Cayuga Birds
cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:54 AM
Subject: Florida to NY
I just got back from helping a friend move to NY
A Yellow- bellied Flycatcher calling 'chu-wee' from the spruces in my backyard
at 1 pm. Also singing Blackburnian W. all morning. Still migrants moving
through.
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A beautiful female HUDSONIAN GODWIT is foraging out with Dunlin and
Black-bellied Plovers at Puddlers Marsh from Towpath Road. Also WILSON'S
PHALAROPE and 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS at Shorebird Flats on the Wildlife
Drive.
Jay McGowan
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Some more yard birds in my backyard in Northeast Ithaca so far today.
The male BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (still singing) was chasing another warbler,
which turned out to be a female BLACKPOLL WARBLER. A few raptors are apparently
migrating over -- a subadult BROAD-WINGED HAWK and a high circling
This evening I biked to Ulysses near the Glenwood Pines to check on the Bald Eagle nest. There were two large young, one of which had climbed onto a tree limb adjacent to the nest. I have not checked this nest very frequently this spring, and I was not there very long, but I doubt that a third
I spent the morning walking around Lindsay-Parsons. Like Geo, I did not find any Acadian Flycatcher off Station Rd. However I did find a Worm-eating Warbler low enough on the steep eastern slope of the preserve that a person with good hearing (better than mine) might hear it from the blue trail.
