Dave Kyle Gage and I saw a black and white while birding at Shadagin
Hollow yesterday (Thursday).
Pete Saracino
On 6/20/2017 9:49 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:
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 spell this spring, and
we worried it might not have aerial plankton to sustain it. Then we saw none
for weeks. Recently we've seen one on a few evenings but not every evening. In
past years there were commonly 2 or 3 pretty reliably. It's possible that this
year we are not out looking as diligently though.
To redeem this as a birding post, I will add that this morning in an unusual
occurrence a male Black-and-white Warbler visited our yard, singing
persistently while foraging in a maple tree (okay, it was our neighbor's tree,
but I'm still counting it!). Eventually his songs moved farther off to another
yard down the street. I guess he was cruising rather than defending a territory.
--Dave Nutter
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