Perri and I drove up to Syracuse this morning to see the YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER on Thurber Street. It took about an hour of waiting before it arrived, but once it did it was very cooperative, flitting between the suet feeder, peanut feeder, sunflower seed feeder, ground feeder, and surrounding trees.
After that we headed over to the Montezuma area. It was pretty quiet and snow-covered. We saw three ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Van Dyne Spoor Road, We found nothing unexpected in Union Springs. A huge group of swans was visible in the shimmery distance along the edge of the ice. The Eastern Screech-Owl was basking in the Factory Street Pond. We found a large (~6000) flock of Redheads on the lake at Mackenzie Childs, with very few other birds mixed in (a handful of both scaup and Canvasbacks.) Two HORNED GREBES were visible from the post office in Aurora, not much from the boathouse, and from the bluffs overlooking the bay, a group of five Horned Grebes and, not associating with this group, a beautiful (to my long-starved eyes, at least) winter EARED GREBE. Along Lake Road north of Long Point we stopped to look for Yellow-rumped Warblers. No luck there, but we did have an excitable RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, two RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, a calling EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, and a Northern Flicker. Myers Point was generally quiet, with six TUNDRA SWANS off the marina. At Stewart Park around 4:00, we saw the two LONG-TAILED DUCKS with the Canada Geese on the ice edge near the east end. Later I saw two RUDDY DUCKS flying around with the thousands of Redheads. Cheers, Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
