At around 3 PM Wed. 4/24, I drove along Cherry and Snyder Roads back of the airport.
I saw or heard 5 - 6 E. MEADOWLARKS along the way to Mohawk Rd. 3 of the Meadowlarks were singing in the grass, unseen, near Cherry Road, in front of the Analytical Tox bldg. Then all of a sudden they all flew up and around and towards my car (I was inside w/ windows open). One flew over the car to the other side of road, and one flew back toward the grass by the big airport fence and the 3rd one landed right by the car in grass and sat there making some other neat sounds from a constantly open mouth, for a while. I was impressed with how camouflaged it was sitting in the grass with only a little yellow showing. Even though I was looking right at it, sometimes my eye would lose sight of it. Also saw a male KESTREL on the fence running perpendicular to Snyder Rd. towards the red brick aviation bldg. (not the terminal), plus many other expected birds, including a RED TAILED HAWK. Stopped in at Salt Pt. at 5:15 pm for a look at the 2 OSPREYS on and then near the new nest pole. One attempted to catch a fish but did not succeed. I hope the barrier to cars driving out to the point is finished soon, since there are a lot of "hot rodders" tearing around the driveways there and it seemed like it disturbed the birds, possibly. This morning about 7:30 AM, I saw a male E. TOWHEE feeding on the ground in my front yard; FOY! Donna L. Scott Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY 14882 [email protected] -- 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/ --
