To follow up on Dave Nutter's recent mailing, I was unable to re-find the Le Conte's Sparrow in my survey of the area from 3:30 PM to 4:15 PM this afternoon. No other birders were present while I was in the area, although I cannot speak for coverage earlier in the afternoon.
Good luck to everyone, Reid Rumelt [email protected] College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cornell University 2016 Ithaca, NY On Nov 20, 2012, at 8:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > 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/ --
