I didn't get outside today until late afternoon (4 PM) but did an hour of skywatching from my back deck -- and caught the tail end of today's migration. Best bird was a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL among scattered HERRING and many RING-BILLED GULLS -- not sure if these were migrants or late afternoon commuters from the Stevenson Rd. area. A loose flock of 8-10 smallish passerines flying north over the neighborhood turned out to be HORNED LARKS. Several large flocks of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS with a few GRACKLES, and in a separate flock of GRACKLES I picked out 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS. 1 large flock of SNOW GEESE -- no small or dark individuals. No raptors.
KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) [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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
