No Screech Owl in sight at Sweazey Rd at 3:30 PM either. Still in basement?!
At 4:20 PM or so, ~six cars of owlers showed up at the intersection of Wycoff and Rock River Rds. in Ovid and drove up and down looking for the Snowy and the Short Eared Owls. It was darkly cloudy and blustery and as soon as many of us got out of cars to scan the fields with binocs, a pelting, freezing rain with a strong wind started. After getting wet and cold, many retreated to the warmth of autos and drove around a little, and most folks left as dusk set in. I stayed till after 5:20 and I/we never saw any owls. Such is birding. However, I believe that raft of aythas to which Suan refers - on Friday afternoon and around noon today - has flown up to the bay south of Milliken Station, circled around and then headed back south, as fast as they could fly, out of my sight around the bend, and probably back to where Suan saw them by Salt Point later this afternoon. Donna Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Suan Yong To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 3:20 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Sweazey screechless, but... Checked out the hole at Sweazey Road at 2pm, no screech owl, but when I first approached I thought I saw the corner of some being peek out the hole then disappear back into the depths. I waited around for a few minutes but it did not reemerge. So, to the question of where else the owl may be spending its days, may be just the basement. Salt point hosted an aythya raft, about 50/50 redheads and ringnecks, accompanied by a handful of gadwalls (and mallards and Canada geese). Morning walk around Sapsucker woods saw a song sparrow. Suan -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
