Loons, ducks, grebe, etc. all wonderful! But about that crow: I suspect from your description that it has crow droppings smeared down its primaries, acquired as it perched directly below another crow in a communal roost. I get reports during the winter of "tagged" crows, always seen with white tags. When there are pictures, it is always a smear of feces.
Kids, don't walk under a roost at home. On Nov 13, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Donna Scott wrote: > Approximately 150 COMMON LOONS up & down, offshore, in Cayuga Lake off > Lansing Station Rd in Lansing, many nearer west shore. Accompanied by several > gulls trying to steal food. > > Also 10 BLACK DUCKS, 5 MALLARDS & 1 HORNED GREBE that was close to my beach > for a good look. > > At least 1 FOX SPARROW still in front yard under spruce tree along with 8 > Juncos, 4 BLUE JAYS & 4 A. CROWS. > One Crow had white areas on rear part of folded wings, rather as if its > feathers had been scraped down to structures underneath the black parts. > > Donna > > Sent from my iPhone > Donna Scott > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
