I’ve walked to Cornell’s Equine Research Park three times over the past two weekends from Freese Road. On my first two visits, I found several cooperative EASTERN BLUEBIRDS around the horse corrals, but surprisingly, I saw none today. Maybe it was too late in the day. Also on two visits, I’ve found a female RING-NECKED PHEASANT at the interface of the Liddell Lab pond vegetation and one of the open fields. And today at around 3:15 PM, a GREAT HORNED OWL was hooting from towering conifers south of the southeasternmost horse corral.
eBird (on my phone via the new Android app) didn’t question the owl or the pheasant, but did give me the coveted “confirm” prompt for my count of 23 TURKEY VULTURES. All these birds were drifting south at around 3:40 PM. The last one had a white outer left wing. Mark Chao -- 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/ --
