At 07:41 PM 10/14/2009, Dave Nutter wrote:
>Today was a big day for Turkey Vulture migration. I think it was around >2:30-3pm as I drove from Ithaca College to the airport I saw about 100, >about 1/5 strung out over south hill to go up the Cayuga Inlet valley, 3/5 >in a big kettle over NYS 13 just east of Warren Road, the a few minutes >later the other 1/5 working their way south over the airport, Sapsucker >Woods and the Northeast neighborhood, plus others during the day. > May be I watched the same group of Vultures from the campus. I was walking from BTI to Day Hall and right near Dairy Bar I saw this huge congregation at 15 to 10 minutes before 3.00 pm. It reminded me of Veracruz hawk watch as they were gaining height. I also saw several Red-tailed Hawks, they were way above vultures and they were going simply non stop and were slightly bigger than dots. I must have seen at least 10 of them. Then another group of TV's was seen from Uris Library around 3.10 PM that were mainly flying over downtown Ithaca and I would think about 25 of them. I also saw a COOPER's HAWK from my office window heading south east. > Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 webpage: http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
