Had a nice CBC field trip this morning, starting with a willow flycatcher at the Wegmans parking lot. With Dave Gislason leading us through a variety of interesting trails at Connecticut Hill, the seven of us ended up with a good variety of species, though most were visually rather uncooperative. Highlights included hooded warbler (singing but seen briefly only by me), alder and least flycatchers, pine warbler, indigo bunting, eastern towhee, a female chestnut-sided warbler coming in really close to make sure we didn't disturb its little nest with four tiny chestnut-sided eggs:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cayugabirdclub/permalink/1024400910931057/ Also a fly-by broad-winged hawk, singing red-breasted nuthatch and Blackburnian warbler, calling hermit thrush, interesting plumage on fledgling juncos, and some bobolinks to end the morning. After the field trip, I drove west towards Cayuta Lake, and on the way down the hill I heard this song: http://suan-yong.com/sound/Ct-hill-4-2016-06-04.wav I was pretty excited, thinking I might have found a new breeding cerulean. The bird remained high but moved around quite a bit (well, the song did, as I never saw any movement), and eventually came down low to check me out, revealing itself to be "just" a black-throated blue warbler. Suan _____________________ http://suan-yong.com -- 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/ --
