4 snowy owls this afternoon at Syracuse airport 1 female (barring, second heaviest the 4 birds)- first on roof of trooper's building, then spent about an hour walking and hunting on the ground in the snow, eventually flying to a lightpost on the left side of of the "gas station" building 1 male (very white)-on very low box along the taxi runway south of observation circle 1 immature (greyest barring of the 4 birds) by "guard box", on ground, to left of entrance to employee parking on south side of airport, next to first freight building. This bird flew to the lightpost over the gate at the guard box. The guard let me get out of the car as long as I parked in the Delta freight building parking lot and stayed on the building side of the guard rail. Great looks of the bird. 1 female (VERY heavily barred, wide very dark brown bars and appears to be a first year female) on a light post at the private company C&S ( ? ) at deep dusk. Found by Bill, whose last name I did not get. No photo of this bird but Bill let me use his scope. At first I was reluctant to say at the time that this was definitely bird #4 for me. After uploading the photos from the earlier birds I can definitely say I saw 4 different snowy owls at the airport.
My age/sex guesses (and they are exactly that, guesses) are based on Sibley's drawings. Some people feel good on Black Friday finding the newest television, I feel great finding 4 snowy owls! Judy Read Homer -- 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/ --
