Hi all, I went to Myers to check out is something would show up on this bleak day. There were about 2 to 3 hundred swallows over the spit and the first bird I saw was a CLIFF SWALLOW, I think I looked it because it looked different from the tree swallows. There were BANK, ROUGH-WINGED and BARN swallows mixed in. There were a few Killdeer, five caspian terns, THREE hooded mergansers. As I was heading out a partially albino, mostly grayish looking Tree Swallow flew in front of my car.
Yesterday evening, a friend from NJ wanted to see blackbirds in the marsh. So we took a drive to MNWR, though we did not see any many birds as I had seen last week, but we did see a few hundreds and for her that was also exciting view. We stopped at East Road for a very short time in the hopes of Cranes, but did not get enough time to scan shorebirds. We only had a good look at the No. Harrier flying very close to us. While at North Spring Pool and East Road, we saw hundreds of BOBOLINKS flying overhead. I think at least must have seen more than 2000 birds. I also saw Common Night Hawk over May's Marsh. Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf<http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http:/www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp:/haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf> -- 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/ --
