After walking around the main field at Bluegrass Lane North for a while without too much success, I checked the corner where Tom originally found the bird (southwest corner of large corn field off Hanshaw, or last corn on your left as you travel south on Blugrass from Hanshaw, just before the chainlink fence begins). It popped out and flew away in response to pishing (or probably just my presence). I watched it in flight as it headed SW, eventually landing right above my car, up on a cornstalk at the edge of the cornfield that is on the west side of the road (so the northeast corner of the patch of corn that runs along the southern half of the large field on the west side of the northern section of Bluegrass Lane south of Hanshaw...some Cardinalid directions for you there!) It sat up in the tops of the corn for a couple of minutes giving its pink call repeatedly, then dropped back and finally down into the corn and out of sight. Gary was just walking back up the road at that point and only got to hear it, but he just texted that it popped back up into view briefly as I left.
Anyway, in summary, it seems to be frequently the same stretch, so working that area tomorrow seems pretty likely to be productive, although you probably won't get a very long look. It does have some blue in the wings and tail, but not a lot, it's mostly pale rufous/beige overall. I will post some of my rather distant photos in a few minutes. -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
