On Tuesday morning, I hitched along with Gladys Birdsall and a very large group of birders from Campus Club at Cornell on the Wilson Trail North in Sapsucker Woods. We found a modest scattering of warblers, including one each of BAY-BREASTED, BLACKBURNIAN, BLACK-THROATED BLUE, BLACK-AND-WHITE, and probable TENNESSEE, as well as COMMON YELLOWTHROAT and an OVENBIRD that Gladys scoped but I missed. Regrettably, these birds weren’t very cooperative for many in the group. Then a small subset and I proceeded over to the road and the east side of the sanctuary, but we found no warblers at all.
Since last week, a few eBird users have reported seeing BOBOLINKS in the Cornell Community Gardens along Freese Road. Last week I went looking among the plots and found only one, but today, Kevin McGowan tipped me off that many more Bobolinks are in the uncultivated expanse south of the parking area. I found at least 33 of them here today, mostly staying undercover under the waving foxtail grasses, but sometimes taking flight, perching up on grass heads or weeds. By walking north very slowly in the shallow trench that bisects this field, from the southern hedgerow back to the parking lot, I managed to see many birds at pretty close range, sometimes many at once in one field of view. Great birds! Thanks for the tip, Kevin! Mark Chao -- 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/ --
