It's not supposed to be so easy. We arrived around 1130 and folks on the scene hadn't seen the bird in awhile. Sue and I took a short walk down a lane heading west and found the bird perched within about two minutes! As the day progressed the sightings became less frequent with the bird making a loop to the east across the Lower Lake Rd and then across the E to W intersecting road towards the housing to the north and back. As Chris wrote yesterday -patience and it helps to move around while looking. We also had a nice adult female Cooper's Hawk and a raft of smaller birds including several Red-breasted Nuthatches. John
PS. Dave and Anne -sorry we didn't recognize you, it's been too many years. Was good to catch up with Diana and folks from Rochester and Buffalo. -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- 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/ --
