Early yesterday morning I birded the fields south of Apple Avenue on the Wastewater properties, then the south side of the Maple River from State Game Area headquarters west to the "snipe field" (and then the field itself west to the woods).
Dickcissels, Upland Sandpipers and Grasshopper Sparrows were scattered around the WW fields south of Apple, these three using the same sprinkler rig west of Swanson Road.
Other birds of interest in the 31 species were Green Heron, Sandhill Crane, Common Raven (two flying north of Laketon west of Seba interacting in a playful dogfight), Field, Vesper, Savannah & Song Sparrows, and Indigo Bunting.
I also found 31 species at SGA including Black-billed Cuckoo, Great Crested Flycatcher, Veery, Wood Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, Chipping, Field, Song & Swamp Sparrows, Indigo Bunting, and this male Common Yellowthroat playing hide-and-seek.
I may have heard one distant Sedge Wren, but I didn't record any, unlike a week ago when they were on both sides of the two-track crossing this field.
No insects of concern at the Wastewater, but deer flies were evident all over the SGA with mosquitoes quite bothersome in the shaded, non-breezy areas.
- Ric
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