Yesterday, I thought the surge of finches had disappered with the melting of
the snow cover. The niger went virtually untouched. Today, more than 75
redpolls are out to prove me wrong. It is like an anthill out there. There
may be well over 75 but it is difficult to count those in the nearby
Mon. 14 Jan. 2013: Kathy Strickland I spotted the adult bald eagle sitting on
the edge of the new nest in the tree on the south point at Mud Lock. I have
previously seen both adults in the tree. The old nest on the power platform
looks quite weather beaten.
The muck along Rte. 31 had the
No luck on the Gyrfalcon. Our mid-winter thaw has loaded the mucklands with
gulls and ducks (mostly Mallards). Numbers are only a guess.
Dave Wheeler
N Syracuse
Savannah Mucklands (Seneca Co), Seneca, US-NY
Jan 14, 2013 10:25 AM - 12:25 PM
Protocol: Traveling
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Comments:
Hi All,
I went to Summer Hill in hopes of seeing Evening Grosbeaks, but no luck. I
turned onto Dresser Road from Salt Road. (Dave Nutter and I saw a deer
carcass there a week ago.) When I drove by it, the deer looked pretty well
picked clean. There were no birds around. Hmmm. I drove down the
At about 9:00, I heard some soft spontaneous whistled barking from an owl
coming from the spruces in my Northeast Ithaca backyard. It didn't sound
immediately familiar and I whistled a few imitations. It answered a couple of
times, and then broke into a fast tooting trill, almost as fast as a
