This morning I spent an enchanted hour in our hawthorn grove (which is actually an old farm dump with hawthorns, sumac, grapevines, and young ash trees along a little creek) where I found a great mixed flock. I felt like a novice in that I puzzled over several warblers that looked like Yellow-rumps to me, but may have been "more interesting" . The only warblers I was sure of were 4 Common Yellow-throats. Good to see a Phoebe, a large flock of White-throated Sparrows (some singing a little), many Cedar Waxwings, Robins, Blue Jays, Catbirds, GC Kinglets, a couple of RC Kinglets, an assortment of woodpeckers and other usuals, a vireo which I think was Red-eyed (also singing) but might have been Philadelphia, 2 young Purple Finches, 3 fly-over Tree Swallows, and, best of all, a singing and crawling-around-mouselike WINTER WREN.
The Phoebe hung around near the house all afternoon, making me think it was one familiar with the nest in our barn. It vocalized a great deal, though never calling its name. Nancy Dickinson Mecklenburg -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
