I think the Harrier was there again today. He soared over the field that looks like a practice ground for the fire department and then perched on the fire tower for quite some time, upsetting a crowd of geese by the sounds of it. This is my regular walking route at lunchtime, and I obviously need to bring my binos so I can glass those fields better!
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Donna Scott <d...@cornell.edu> wrote: > After going on the Spring Field Ornithology class field trip this morning > (in the snow & wind), Ann Mitchell and I decided to take a quick trip over > to the Ithaca airport. > > It was "raptor day" over there! We drove along Snyder Road and saw an > AMERICAN KESTREL, probably female, fly off the airport fence into the field > to the south. > Drove to Mohawk Rd. and didn't see anything until we returned down Snyder > towards Cherry and Warren Rds. > Over the grassy areas near the junk cars by the fence we saw a light phase > ROUGH LEGGED HAWK soaring and hovering over the fields inside the airport > fence. After admiring that bird, we came around the corner approaching > Cherry Road and saw a beautiful male NORTHERN HARRIER soaring and hovering > over the fields there. > > When we turned left off Cherry into Warren Rd., we again saw the ROUGH > LEGGED HAWK and then possibly the same KESTREL over the field west of Warren > Road and adjacent to the Borg Warner factory. Just down the road from that > field, on the airport fence east of the road, was perched a RED TAILED HAWK, > then as we drove south I saw another RED TAILED HAWK perched on a branch > right over the road to the west! > > I drove Ann back to her car at the O Lab, and yet another RED TAILED HAWK > sat in a tree on the south side of Rt. 13. As I returned down Warren Road > heading north to go home, I spotted two TURKEY VULTURES soaring over the > woods west of Warren Rd. near the airport entrance. > > Donna Scott > Lansing Station Road > Lansing, NY > d...@cornell.edu > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
