A male Snowy Owl, nearly all white, was visible from the Peterman Road curve looking toward the airport at around 3 PM on Sunday. It was sitting on the field about 100’ from the road. As we watched, a pair of ravens stopped by to harass the owl. One became very confrontational, drawing a line in the snow, hopping in place and repeatedly asking whether the owl wanted a piece of it, whilst the other called encouragement from a safe distance. After about ten minutes of this the owl flew east, accompanied by both ravens shouting abuse.
A goshawk was perched on 414 just south of the village and another (or conceivably the same one) on Hoster Rd at the quarry. The gyrfalcon was perched on a tall tree toward the middle of the quarry near the intersection of Hoster and Canoga. Both eagles were perched near their nest in Aurora. ********************************** Ed Gooding -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
