After enjoying them all winter our redpoll flock of 200 or more has greatly reduced to but a few. It's high time for them to be starting north. We had a cock pheasant here for a week but it has moved on -probably not enough spillage left by the smaller redpoll numbers. While the redpolls here did consume some nyger, they greatly preferred black-oil sunflower. Michael, have you been feeding both seeds?
Our experience with woodcock up here parallels most reports. Over the last 27 years habitat loss has contributed to much lower numbers and locations. This to the point where some of the national woodcock survey routes in our area were dropped a few years ago. Enjoy them while we have them. The highlight yesterday afternoon was our FOY Northern Goshawk. As this was a young female, she was huge! She put on quite a display as she tried to beat Mourning doves out of their hasty cover. Poor bird acted very hungry. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- 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/ --
