I birded Van Dyne Spoor Road this morning even though it was drizzling and then raining. My best find was a beautiful Swainson’s Thrush. It was near telephone pole number 310 on the south side of the road; the spicebush there had a lot of reddish fruits which thrushes like. I stopped there to look at two small Black Tupelo trees that I found in August; I wanted to see how they were showing their fall colors. They are turning red and are on the north side of the road. In August I noticed them because they have very shiny leaves.
Canada Goose 110 Pied-billed Grebe 7 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Bald Eagle 2 American Coot 16 Ring-billed Gull 18 Herring Gull 2 Mourning Dove 1 Northern Flicker 1 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Eastern Bluebird 2 Swainson's Thrush 1 Great look: I saw a buff eye-ring, an olive-brown solid back, buffy cheeks and breast with spots and light pinkish gray legs. I also heard a couple whit calls. Gray Catbird 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 80 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org/ny) Two Sandhill Cranes have been hanging out at Muckrace Flats. Leona Lauster Lyons, NY -- 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/ --
