The Le Conte's Sparrow was NOT re-found this morning near the pond or in adjacent grassy and weedy fields on Freese Road, although several birders quietly searched and waited for it to show up throughout the morning. Given its secretive nature it is possible that the bird is still around, and that there were just too many people for it to feel comfortable coming out into the open, but it seemed not to be there. To add to the disturbance, at mid-morning tractors arrived to mow most of the community garden and much of the weedy area to the south, and to mow the already-cut corn stubble field immediately west and north of the pond. I assume by the lack of information on eBird, the CayugaRBA, and Cayugabirds-L that the bird was not re-found in the afternoon either.
--Dave Nutter
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