[cayugabirds-l] Eared Grebe -- Stewart Park

2010-10-17 Thread Christopher Wood
Benjamin Freeman saw an Eared Grebe yesterday at Stewart Park. It was ca. 30 feet away from shore, near the small dock in the middle of Stewart Park, swimming near three Redhead and bunches of Mallards. Chris Wood eBird Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New

[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma Sunday: Ross Goose +

2010-10-17 Thread Shawn Billerman
Hi all, This afternoon, Hope Batcheller and I took a quick trip up to Montezuma, with the primary goal to track down Kevin's Purple Gallinule, but also just to see what was around. We started at the MNWR Visitor Center pond, where there were hundreds of Canada Geese, DUNLIN, 2 WHITE-RUMPED

[cayugabirds-l] Aurora, Myers

2010-10-17 Thread John and Fritzie Blizzard
Sun. 10/17/10 Seen from Aurora boathouse: Many RB Gulls, 1 GBB Gull, 1 C Loon, many C. Geese. Lake was very rough. Worse yesterday. Myers Cove (North of the creek outlet, Salt Point maybe?? I don't know what it's called) 10 or 12 Mallards, 3 WW Scoters, 2 C Loons, 2 juv. B. Eagles, many RB

[cayugabirds-l] Clay-colored Sparrow at Freese Road, northeast Ithaca

2010-10-17 Thread Tom Schulenberg
Nate Senner just reported a Clay-colored Sparrow off of Freese Road, northeast Ithaca. It was along the west side of the more southern of the corn fields on Freese Road - the corn field by the pond at Liddell Labs. The bird was by itself, and moving south. Good birding, tss -- Thomas S.