What a great story Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 6, 2018, at 3:39 PM, Kevin J. McGowan <k...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > I went to the game farm today to census crows and try to find some year birds > (like Black Vulture). I was looking in the active pheasant pen at the NW > corner of farm where the Black Vultures have been hanging out. I didn’t see > Black Vultures, but I noticed a RED-THROATED LOON sitting in the snow in the > field north of the farm! Ten feet into Dryden! > > Although the loon made a pitiful effort to “run” away from me, it was pretty > simple to wrap it up in a blanket and pick it up. Its wings and feet were > functioning well, and I didn’t see any blood, injuries, or abrasions on it, > so I decided to take it to Cayuga Lake and release it. > > It did not understand, of course, anything I was trying to do for it, but it > knew what the lake was. As I was carrying it down to the shore at East Shore > Park, it started lunging forward in my hands and making running motions with > its feet. It swam away quickly when I released it, dove, came up, flapped, > and started preening. > > Not the way I thought my day was going to start. > > I have a photo in my checklist at > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41675570. > > Kevin > > -- > 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/ --
