I too observed them feeding on some insects on Honness Lane where Sara Jane too saw yesterday and today. I looked through binoculars and did find many insects in the air, but could not for sure say what those insects are.
Meena At 07:58 PM 9/23/2009, Chris Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: >I believe that the flying ants were dispersing today. Perhaps that was the >Starlings' primary target food. > >Sincerely, >Chris > >Sara Jane Hymes wrote: >>We just looked out above our house (near Mitchell St) and noticed that >>there are probably about 100 starlings who are "catching flies"--or >>acting similar to flycatchers--about 200 feet up in the sky. I noticed >>this same phenomena earlier this morning off of East Hill Rec Way. > >-- >============================================= >Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes >TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer >Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology >159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 >Voice: 607-254-2418, FAX: 607-254-2460 >http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp mailto:[email protected] >============================================= > > >-- > >Cayugabirds-L List Info: >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > >Archives: >1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html >2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > >Please submit your observations to eBird: >http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > >-- Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 webpage: http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
