Around 2 pm today I was walking back through the golf course toward the
footbridge to Stewart Park. I flushed a bird from the east side of the
little pond (which is otherwise completely frozen but has one, small muddy
area where the bird had been) that is close to the bridge. The Wilson's
snipe
Hi, all!
Deborah just stopped by the Front Desk to say it was the WEST side of the
little pond, not the East Side.
Thanks!
holly
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CayugaRBA WILSON'S SNIPE between Fall Cr, golf course, end of Pier Rd found
by Deb Lynn, refound by Bob McGuire
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Susie I traveled up to Syracuse this morning to see the male HARLEQUIN
DUCK that's been all the rage in that area for a while now. I'm just
mentioning this as I'm not aware of any notices about this bird posted on
this listserv. We watched it for maybe 15 minutes until our eyeballs glazed
over
Perri and I took a brief drive around Dryden Lake in vicinity this
afternoon. Best birds were a light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on West Lake
Road not far off Rt. 38, a flock of 600 SNOW BUNTINGS and 80 HORNED LARKS on
Cornell Lane in Harford, and a Cooper's Hawk and another Rough-legged Hawk
in the
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* January 17, 2011
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I watched this guy for a while late this afternoon with Dave. It was
fun to see him, but it made me feel even colder watching him huddle in the icy
pond. Eventually he started pumping his body up and down and probing in what
looked like ice to me, but must have been mud. I stayed well
Stu Krasnoff and I drove up to Aurora this morning to take advantage
of the first sun in days and the frigid temperature. The lake was
moderately calm, but swirling mist obscured mush of the bay much of
the time. We were able to pick out three Horned Grebes but no Eared
Grebe. Several
