Hi all, Today at 0.45 am I was looking for moths when I heard a calling Yellow-billed cuckoo flyover. Today morning by 4.45 am my yard was very noisy or rather musical with 10 different species calling. Robin was the main singer. There were Carolina wren, male and female cardinals, House wrens (at least two), Catbirds, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, American Crow, House Sparrow, Red-eyed Vireo and distant Common Yellowthroat.
Overall, I had about 40 species of moths including beautiful peppered moth, rosy maple moth and Io moth. I tried to scare as many moths as possible from the birds. But Hickory Tussock moths got nabbed by the male cardinal. Catbird was too late no moths left for him. But his showed his annoyance by a fire cracker chatter and mewing. I had hid both Io and Rosy maple in the thistles, so I hope they are surviving. Birds (at least catbird and cardinal) do not touch the Pale Beauty. They fluoresce intense blue/yellow in UV. Cheers 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/ --
