Well I suppose it could have been a Broad-winged…I will never know… <A buteo was circling overhead against a white/grey sky, giving few ID cues, but it DID have a bold white subterminal band on the underside of its tail, plus in my mind's eye I saw darkish underwings, so I'm going to call it a Red-shouldered Hawk. >
Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin Available here: http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/G0000NlCxX37uTzE ________________________________________ From: bounce-115044047-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-115044047-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Marie P. Read [m...@cornell.edu] Sent: Friday, May 2, 2014 12:56 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Goetchius Preserve Solitary Sandpiper & great Snipe display I spent a little over an hour at the FLLT Goetchius Preserve this morning, and saw/heard a number of nice birds: -- 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/ --
