I drove to Salt Point around 2pm, parked at the northernmost gravel loop and was surprised to see a N Shrike at the tip of a bush by the water's edge some 30 feet away. I should've driven away and parked elsewhere, instead, my egress from the car caused it to fly down to the next bush (meanwhile a mockingbird flew into another bush further down), and when I started walking down along the gravel road the shrike flew into the heart of the salt point woods. I never refound the bird while hiking around the point.
There were a couple of loons within binocular distance looking NW, and every now and then you could hear the howling of distant loons from beyond Myers Point. Suan -- 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/ --
