After I watched the Snow geese for a while at Dean’s Cove, then by the road in Varick, I drove north on Rt. 89 to the Knox Marcellus marsh to look at the sandhill cranes ( & swans & ducks).
I think there were 3-400 cranes & many of them were calling & flying out of the marsh , across East Road, & several seemed to land in a corn field just over the hill to the west. Just as I was about to leave, a guy in an olive-ish-green Subaru Forester pulled up to chat, and we talked about the snow geese which he thinks flew out of the main pool of Montezuma visitors center in the morning & over to the lake. As he was about to leave, he said, “and don’t forget about the Redheaded woodpecker over at Cayuga Lake State Park!” I said that I didn’t know about that bird and he said it was across from one of the offices & a parking lot of the state park people, and on the lake side of the road. I did not have time to go look for it & the sun was setting, so I thought chances were slim that I could find it, anyway. Donna Scott Kendal at Ithaca-377 Sent from my iPhone -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
