Hi all, I spent some time at Connecticut Hill to look for late odonates, Saw and photographed several darner spices one might be a Variable Darner, if it turns out to be that then it is a great record. I need to compare it with a few more specimens.
But I did find small number of birds. I came across a small mixed hunting flock with the usual birds there were several Red-eyed Vireos and at least a couple Warbling Vireos on Cayutaville road. But nearby a Raven croaked leisurely giving out various vocalizations, I wished I had my recorder. Then at Cayuta lake outlet I got stuck in a ditch. Thanks to a passerby, a camp owner in the nearby location, who stopped to help me as the cell phone did not work at that moment. He got another friend Brad, who is probably Fred Sibley's neighbor, who pulled my car out with his huge GMC truck. Sometimes those trucks are very useful! Then I headed to the fishing pond in Connecticut Hill, where I saw a Cuckoo, I think it was a Black-billed Cuckoo based on giss, fly into the trees. Again here, there were several Red-eyed Vireos and lots of Cedar Waxwings that kept flying across the pond several times. Just a month ago the place was filled with birds and their songs. So where are they now? Already left the location for the south? If so why don't we see them leaving? Do they fly as family groups or individually? When they form groups? So many migration mysteries! Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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/ --
