A quick drive around Lansing this morning didn't produce any shrikes, we Livia and I did find four different light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS: One over the fields at the Lansing Center Trail; one in the fields east of Rt. 34B just north (well, east at that point in the road) of The Rink, perhaps visible from Waterwagon Road; one also hovering over fields east of Rt. 34B between the two spurs of Blackchin Blvd.; and one perched in a tree on the south side of Burdick Hill Road.
A little later in the morning, the compost piles had a dark-winged 2nd cycle Kumlien's ICELAND GULL and a slightly pale-backed, clean-headed adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL among the throng. I couldn't find much of interest there yesterday, but the day before, two 1st-cycle and one adult Lesser Black-backed and a nice adult Iceland were in attendance. And finally, student birders report an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL is roosting on the ice at Beebe Lake right now. Cheers, -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
