Hi all, I took my Mundy lunch walk. As I was just getting down from behind Nematode Green houses, I saw large bird land into a basswood. After some time I could locate it and could it was a cuckoo. After it moved to couple of hiding places, I could finally make out that it was a Black-billed cuckoo. Then it flew to a tree behind USDA green houses, when I could see it tail pattern. Other than that a Common Merganser was in its usual location.
All the chipmunks and squirrels in Mindy were giving alarm call for ground predator, first I thought it was due to my presence, then I saw a Coyote walk across the fenced part of the Mundy, I felt good that I am inside the cage. I was getting a little worried to walk the path. I kept watch for the coyote as climbed the hill. Other than that I counted 28 sulphur butterflies (Colias sp. mostly clouded yellows) in one small patch, four Monarch butterflies, several Cabbage whites and a Shadow Darner (Aeshna umbrosa). Nice beautiful day! Yesterday when I was on Towpath road, here also I saw a quick glimpse of a cuckoo when it flew along the channel, but could not get any details. Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf<http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http:/www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp:/haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf> -- 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/ --
