I just had a parasitic jaeger fly soith down the lake theb over me at Stewart park and south towards Ithaca. Blew my mind.
Yours, Kevin Ripka www.tekbirdr.com leaflittercritters.blogspot.com Dallas, Pa Luzerne Co. Ithaca, NY Tompkins Co. On Sep 9, 2011, at 12:21 AM, Matthew Medler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > There was a lot of bird activity at the south end of Cayuga Lake tonight, as > viewed by various observers from Hog Hole, Stewart Park, and East Shore Park. > I only saw a subset of the birds, but thought I would post the collective > highlights, since others have not done so yet. > > LAUGHING GULL--seen out on an "island" of flotsam shortly before dark by Tim > Lenz (and others, I believe) > BLACK TERN--Jay McGowan, Livia Santana, Nick Sly and I saw up to five > individuals from Hog Hole; these birds were very distant, even with scopes; > two birds later seen a bit closer from East Shore; Tim might have had more > individuals (7?) > RUDDY TURNSTONE(S?)--on the flotsam island out on the lake > COMMON NIGHTHAWKS--a group of nine individuals seen over the south end of the > lake around 6:30 or so; at least 2-3 other individuals at other places/times > > There's probably more that I'm forgetting, but I thought I'd share these more > notable birds. > > Good birding, > Matt Medler > Ithaca > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
