Our group had similar sightings to Bob's (sans grebes), plus: foraging mockingbird at Myers; from the bluffs approaching Aurora from Long Point, tree+barn+NRW swallows, a goldeneye couple, and a large nearly-all-white-looking Glaucous gull first found sleeping by Dave Nutter, later flushed into flight with the other gulls whence its whiteness and large size became apparent; at the visitor center Turkey vultures perched and sunning their wings momentarily; at Knox-Marcellus seven juvenile bald eagles in the sky at one point, and a great blue heron with a very large fish; fly-by wood ducks along Savannah Springs Road; and at Morgan Road in the twilight with Meena's group, bluebirds and kestrel and sandhill cranes but no short-eared owl.
I asked the student to guess what the white patches south of the potatoes building were before we pulled over to scope out the fine decoy display - looked like a photograph (there was no wind to activate the motion Kevin mentioned). We did end up checking out the great gully creek bald eagle nest from the pulloff with the "Indian mounds" and "Cayuga castle" historical markers I'd always thought I should check out some time but never had. Though far we could make out and adult eagle in the nest. Suan _____________________ http://suan-yong.com -- 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/ --
