I didn't read the aurora alert until 11:30, oh well! But at 6:15 this
morning the moon rolled up over the top of Thatcher's Pinnacle,
framed by dark tattered clouds that were moving south at quite a
clip. Before dawn the eastern sky turned to gold, and ducks were
already up in it, so I
I counted over 1000 loons in southbound flight from near Agway in downtown
Ithaca this morning. The flight was en masse (1000+ feet above ground level)
when I arrived at ~8AM and it appeared most had passed when I stopped
counting at 8:20AM. The groups were large, some formations stretching 100
From Snyder Hill Rd, Steve Fast and I watched a flight of some 15
COMMON LOONS, 6 TURKEY VULTURES, 50 BRANT, and one PEREGRINE FALCON
pass over, heading south. Between 8 and 10 this morning.
Bob McGuire
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