Isn't it a shame that people need to listen to their iPods for music when the birds give us beautiful music for free. I can understand it once the birds quiet down late summer, but not now.
Sent from my iPad On Apr 16, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Meena Haribal <[email protected]> wrote: > It was awesome outside, but very hot. Highlight was many migrating Red > Admiral butterflies with couple of other species. > Among birds a pair of Red-tailed hawks were displaying and calling while > display was on over Mundy WG. I met the Tufted titmouse who sings “teacher > teach” very apt on the campus and we exchanged some conversations. > There was a Blue Jay sitting in front of me, but when he called, the sound > was coming from some 30 ft my right. It was amazing how well he did it. And I > was also proud of myself that I could clearly hear from which direction the > sound was coming. > Two species of wrens, A Carolina Wren was calling from a tree, beneath him > was a woman blissfully having lunch totally unaware of his presence, > listening to her own music. She had no clue probably that someone was > singing very loudly above her head. A little further ahead there was HOUSE > WREN calling. First when I heard him, I thought wow he sounds familiar and > then it dawned on me it is a House Wren! > Near the Fall creek water fall, a couple of Rough-winged swallows chirped > over my head. A pair of Phoebes were excited about nesting along the gorge > rocks. A fly went past one of the phoebes, you could see he saw it but was > not ready to chase, you could see his eyes following the fly, and then he > darted and missed. > All three trillers, PINE WARBLER, JUNCO and CHIPPING SPARROW were trilling at > the same time from different directions and locations. > Lastly there was a pair of COMMON MERGANSERS sitting quite close to each > other in the calm portion of the Fall Creek with their reflection in the > water. It made a very stunning image, but no camera with me, so now it will > be in my neuronal image library. > > Meena > PS: Is it not humans have evolved so stupidly, on such a lovely day want to > sit in front of computers? > > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
