Re: [cayugabirds-l] Very strange spring!

2018-04-20 Thread Geo Kloppel 
Speaking of unusual feeding, I saw something new just now: the Wood Ducks who 
visit my pond each day, typically to dabble in the shallows or wade in the 
spillway, climbed up the bank and onto a large ant hill (about eight feet wide 
by ten feet long), where they seem to have begun poking around in the soft 
dirt, probing for...?

-Geo


> On Apr 20, 2018, at 3:43 PM, Linda Orkin  wrote:
> 
> I think everyone is struggling to find any kind of food in this spring that 
> is mostly devoid of insects.  Leaf litter would be a logical place to look.
> 
> Linda Orkin
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:40 PM, W. Larry Hymes  wrote:
>> While walking through Mundy Wildflower Garden today, I came across both 
>> RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS foraging together.  That in itself 
>> is not so unusual.  What was really strange, however, was they were foraging 
>> among the leaf litter on the ground!!  That's a first for me!
>> 
>> We are still having FOX SPARROWS --- 9 days in a row, and counting!  I tried 
>> to trade a Fox Sparrow for Ann Mitchell's Towhee, but she hasn't seen it for 
>> awhile.  How about you, Asher.  Got anything good to swap for one of "my" 
>> Fox Sparrows?
>> 
>> Larry
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>> W. Larry Hymes
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>> (H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Very strange spring!

2018-04-20 Thread Asher Hockett 
No Fox Sparrows, but I plan to observe and listen very carefully tomorrow
morning. Heard a drumming sapsucker this morning and another lone Barred
Owl last evening when I was taking down the feeders. Also a lot of Flickers
flushing from roadside areas and yards when driving.

You can have some of my siskins any ol' time. How about 6 siskins for one
Fox Sparrow? They're territoriality is likely chasing away some something
I'm hankering to see. My plans for the morning include kinglets, Fox
Sparrows, and Pine Warblers. Here that, you boids??

I am going to be in Albuquerque and eastern NM next week and LA the week
after, so hope to expand my list then. Never seen a Scissor-tailed
Flycatcher yet.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:40 PM, W. Larry Hymes  wrote:

> While walking through Mundy Wildflower Garden today, I came across both
> RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS foraging together.  That in itself
> is not so unusual.  What was really strange, however, was they were
> foraging among the leaf litter *on the ground*!!  That's a first for me!
>
> We are still having FOX SPARROWS --- 9 days in a row, and counting!  I
> tried to trade a Fox Sparrow for Ann Mitchell's Towhee, but she hasn't seen
> it for awhile.  How about you, Asher.  Got anything good to swap for one of
> "my" Fox Sparrows?
>
> Larry
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Very strange spring!

2018-04-20 Thread Linda Orkin 
I think everyone is struggling to find any kind of food in this spring that
is mostly devoid of insects.  Leaf litter would be a logical place to look.

Linda Orkin

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:40 PM, W. Larry Hymes  wrote:

> While walking through Mundy Wildflower Garden today, I came across both
> RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS foraging together.  That in itself
> is not so unusual.  What was really strange, however, was they were
> foraging among the leaf litter *on the ground*!!  That's a first for me!
>
> We are still having FOX SPARROWS --- 9 days in a row, and counting!  I
> tried to trade a Fox Sparrow for Ann Mitchell's Towhee, but she hasn't seen
> it for awhile.  How about you, Asher.  Got anything good to swap for one of
> "my" Fox Sparrows?
>
> Larry
>
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> (H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu
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