A flock of 14 BLACK SCOTERS (mostly males with at least one female trailing)
just flew south low over the lake past Myers Point. A little earlier I had a
group of 23 GREATER YELLOWLEGS and 125 BRANT.
Jay McGowan
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Here at our house, yesterday, 10/26/11 in Union Springs.
Isn't it a bit late for a black white warbler?
Nasty a.m. to pick swiss chard for the freezer.
Should let nature freeze it for me. Snowsa' comin'!!
Fritzie
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I had a great morning at Myers Point, though I was disappointed that no one
else showed up to enjoy the spectacle with me. The highlight was an
incredible 2865 BRANT moving south in flocks of anywhere from 15 to over
600, starting a few minutes after I got there at 7:50 and continuing
(although
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Jay McGowan wrote:
The highlight was an incredible 2865 BRANT
Wow! I wonder if they just kept going? The cloud ceiling in West
Danby has hovered just a couple hundred feet obove the valley floor
all morning, but there doesn't seem to be any fallout...
I spotted what was presumably one of the Brant flocks that Jay observed
passing Myers, heading South over Ithaca around 8:45am. There were about 175
birds in that flock. I was headed North down Route 96B, past Ithaca College,
and observed this flock off to the West (my left) just West of the West
HI Folks,
There is a list-serve for saw-whet owl banders. According to
dozens of reports on this list-serve, for much of NY and PA and more,
the fall migration of saw-whets has been an incredible bust. We are well
past the peak time with very few birds. For my small banding effort, I
Sorry. Becky looked at the frozen corpse more closely
when we had more time. It is a tailess female downy,
not a BW warbler. Haste makes for stupid mistakes!!
Fritzie
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