The day before we got this last snow, I estimated a flock of 600 snow buntings in the field next to our house. The field was a new seeding to hay last season and many annual weeds came up with the hay and went to seed, giving the snow buntings lots to pick from. We’ve been seeing numerous flocks between Interlaken, Lodi and Hector. Usually some horned larks mixed in as well.
Marty =========================================== Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell 315-521-4315 =========================================== From: bounce-125360711-3494...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-125360711-3494...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Jared Dawson Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:48 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings I just got in from Seneca County and had several flocks of Horned Larks, 2 of which also had Snow Buntings. I saw no large flocks of buntings, but was happy to have excellent scope views of several of them along with the larks when they settled in the roadway. The mixed flocks were, first, on Thorpe Rd immediately west of the Finger Lakes airport, and later near dusk on Kings Corners Rd just north of McCulloch. In one field the larks were leaping up and snagging seeds from the head of plants, presumably assisted by the height of the snow cover. Jared Dawson Trumansburg On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:05 PM John Gregoire <johnandsuegrego...@gmail.com<mailto:johnandsuegrego...@gmail.com>> wrote: Anyone near the SW corner of the CLB may want to check around the intersection of Newtown and Fitzgerald Rds as we had a large mixed flock of buntings, larks and tree sparrows there before noon. These fields are immediately west and NW of our sanctuary on Fitzgerald. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/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/ --
