My kids and I visited Myers Park on Monday afternoon (1:45-2:45). One AMERICAN PIPIT was foraging in the piles of debris on the beach. From the private marina, I saw what I took to be a leucistic female Mallard, which had a subtly pale head and strikingly cream-orange wings and body.
Miyoko and the kids and I hiked the Flat Rock loop in Cornell Plantations on Sunday morning, with a short detour first to Tower Road. We had several entertaining bird sightings. * The pair of Red-tailed Hawks building their nest on the Dodson Field light tower, as Marty reported earlier. We watched both birds carrying long sticks to the nest, arriving and departing together. * an American Crow holding a twitching vole (Caldwell Road) * five Mallards facing the current in Fall Creek, paddling vigorously in place as if on a treadmill, and dipping their heads to feed on something beneath the surface * 1+ Golden-crowned Kinglet and a Pileated Woodpecker along the trail Through Sunday, the Eastern Screech-Owl has continued to appear daily in our yard in northeast Ithaca. Mark Chao -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
