Hi all, It was a terrific morning on Mount Pleasant today with a constant stream of birds. Kevin McGowan joined me not too far into the flight. I was hoping for a Golden Eagle and ended up with two, one immature and one adult. I saw the youngster before Kevin showed up, but he found the adult about 1 1/2 hours later along with a beautiful dark phase Rough-legged Hawk.
The steady steam of Snow/Canada Geese stole the show for me. We didn't see any Ross's Goose candidates, but I was so enamored of the numbers, and beauty, I forgot to look most of the time. I hope the mucklands are loaded with Geese tomorrow. I bet it was fantastic today up there. Location: Mount Pleasant Observation date: 3/12/11 Notes: 36 deg. gentle/mod.-breeze SW. P.C. to overcast. Golden Eagle 1 A, 1 Imm. Rough-legged Hawk 1 dark, 1 light phase. N. Harrier F.<br>More Goose sp. individuals certainly missed due to distance. Number of species: 17 Snow Goose 11815 Canada Goose 6306 Turkey Vulture 6 Northern Harrier 1 Red-tailed Hawk 8 Rough-legged Hawk 2 Golden Eagle 2 Killdeer 2 gull sp. 3 Rock Pigeon 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 American Crow 81 Horned Lark 4 American Robin 1 European Starling 7 Red-winged Blackbird 1129 Common Grackle 186 blackbird sp. 161 buteo sp. 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org<http://ebird.org/>) -- 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/ --
