This morning, while checking a couple of areas for possible sparrows of
interest, I came upon a female DICKCISSEL in one of the grassy lanes to the
Northwest of the Cornell Recreation Center, located South of Hanshaw Road in
the Town of Dryden.
The bird was seen a couple of times and
As of Sunday at Allan H Treman State Park all of the weedy fields of goldenrod
etc enclosed by the grass paths had been mown, including the burdock thicket.
The locust-like small trees along the lakeshore had not been cut. The field
west of the dog farm had also been mostly mown, but leaving