Again this year my overgrown yard at the base of West Hill in the City of
Ithaca supports a show of fireflies. We first noticed them yesterday evening
and it's too soon to tell if numbers are down, but at least they are not
missing.
Bats are scarce, though. We saw one during an early warm
I did a breeding bird survey at Montezuma today. We had 27 Yellow Warblers on
Esker Brook. Just one example but other birds in good numbers including Gray
Catbirds, Willow Flycatcher. Goldfinch ,Cedar Waxwings. I have had Black-billed
Cuckoo on all three surveys I have done this spring. Janet
Throwing my two cents into this vicissitudinous thread...I just wrapped up
a correspondence with a woman in Maryland who was distraught several weeks
ago because her usual 50-hummingbird station was only getting two birds.
Yesterday she wrote to say she now had 40+, but the arrival of the bulk of
