Is it possible I saw a Yellow-throated Vireo this morning about 10AM? The Merlin ID app says they are uncommon. I live on the "flyway between Fuertes Bird Sanctuary and Cayuga Heights/Ithaca Falls (Jay and Cayuga streets).
I heard a lot of protesting coming from the crabapple tree in my next door neighbor's yard and figured cats were bothering them; so I took a peak to see and did see a cat. As I peaked around the fence and looked up, I saw a yellow bird looking back at me: yellow head and throat, two bold wing bars, smaller than a robin and bigger than a sparrow. It was curious about me and did not get spooked, maybe because it's young? or it could only see my face. Merlin says it is a Yellow-throated Vireo. I played the call and have never heard it in my neighborhood before; so I assume it is passing through. Boy, it's so great to work from home and get to see so much. Exciting! New life bird!!! This tree has been so great for attracting birds, that I have planted a second one! * * * * * * * * * *"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come ALIVE, for what the world needs is people who have come ALIVE." - Dr. Howard Thurman, American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist (1900-1981) * Sandra (Sandy) Wold Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map, Author/Originator/Designer/Publisher, www.sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ <https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/> Sustainability Educator/Artist, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-sandy-wold/a7/114/877 EcoHome Retreat, www.airbnb.com/rooms/446114 -- 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/ --
