Dear Cayuga Birders:
OK. So there are male Red-winged Blackbirds at Montezuma in mid January.
That means we should be seeing phoebes by February, and a big wave of
warbler migration by late March, right? Should be a an interesting year...
And what better way to bear witness to the the wild
3rd time the charm: last Sat I spent 1.5 hrs looking at the 4000 Redheads/ 1000
Scaup raft off Hog Hole and never seeing the blasted Tufted Duck, even though
another birder told me it was there (he was already packed and leaving, so gave
me general directions, for which I was grateful).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/73284351@N03/
has 3 shots from today of the Tufted Duck for your reference.
Also, a recent visit to our owl box by a different EASO than the one in 2013
(also in this photo stream)
ChrisP
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I had better luck this evening at Long Point Winery than several nights ago at
Scofield Road. I parked at the crest of the hill just west of the winery
building, and at 17:42 a Short-eared Owl flew up from the lower vineyard and
passed me pretty low and close. It crossed in front of my car and
The male TUFTED DUCK is sleeping in a small scaup flock just offshore from
Hog Hole now.
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Just had a RAVEN on the hawk perch in our field next to Rte 89. Had never
seen one there before. However yesterday, I was walking up Cayuga View and
heard and found a Raven sitting in a tree near the private air strip. It
vocalized for a while and a second Raven joined it in the tree. Both then
