Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify!magpie!grp From: grp@unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: A trip to the bog Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 90 16:40:04 GMT References: <3358@leah.Albany.Edu> Sender: news@Unify.Com (news admin) Reply-To: grp@unify.com Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, California Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: gmr044@leah.Albany.Edu's message of 17 Jul 90 16:39:03 GMT In article <3358@leah.Albany.Edu> gmr044@leah.Albany.Edu (Gregg Recer) writes: > > We also spent some time hiking around in the beech/hemlock forest > which is more typical of the Adirondacks. One species you can't miss > there is red-eyed vireo although you might be hard-pressed to see one. > You can walk down a trail and hear red-eye after red-eye as you pass > from one territory to the next. They are quite prolific! In addition > to those mentioned above, other woodland passerines notables included > veery and hermit thrush, winter wren and Am. redstart. > I have heard it said that the red-eyed vireo is the most abundant bird in the eastern US. Although I wonder about starlings, and that certainly does not include the storm-petrels. > > It was a very pleasant weekend all in all. In August we're off > to Jamaica Bay to start working on shorebirds. I can hardly wait! > I love birding Jamaica Bay. I got lots-o-lifers there in years past, includingLong-eared Owl, Baird's Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope, Black Tern, Hudsonian and Marbled Godwits... I even thought I had a stint there once, but it was flushed before I could identify it, and I never found it again. I also got to hold a D.C. Cormorant in my hands. It was hooked with a fishing line and caught in an area called "the raunt". We slogged thru the waist deep water and managed to get the bird. The hook was embedded deep in the birds pouch, but we were able to cut the line and set it free. He was not grateful. Have some fun for me too. > Gregg -- -Greg Pasquariello grp@unify.com