Last Thurs. in my Mulberry tree above the feeders sat a gorgeous_Cooper's hawk._
Yesterday in the rain a _Sharpie_ caught what appeared to be a blue jay (light was too poor to see for sure) & proceeded to eat it, tearing off long strips of flesh after slowly plucking off the downy feathers sticking to its beak. Sharpie would rub its beak on its own wing feathers from time to time to get the downy feathers off its beak! A couple hrs. afterward I went & looked for feathers & found not one!! A hr. ago the Sharpie was back atop a dead tree I have left for woodpeckers. I also hang a feeder there. Little birds had taken shelter in the nearby cedars & a stand of spruces. I was at Knox-Marcellus 3:30-ish Thurs. afternoon. The sandhill cranes took off & headed towards the muck. John Rodgers & his wife from Rochester were there & he got his camera set up just in time to get pix of the flight taking off. We also got to see several Trumpeter swans off Armitage Rd.. Here in Union Springs we're seeing massive flights of snow geese. Some fields over towards Owasco Lake (out of basin) are white with snows. Of course, thousands of Canadas are here, too. Between Mud Lock & the RR bridge in Cayuga against the west side are hundreds of swans. Thanks to Dave Nutter for the excellent letter he wrote to the mayor & trustees of Union Springs presenting his views about putting a path along the south side of Mill Pond. Hopefully others will soon do the same. Gas in the city of Aub. this past wk. was in the $2.85 - $2.89 range at Byrne Dairy, Red Apple (Qwik Fill) & Hess./Sunoco at the //east end of Seneca Falls/ on 5 & 20 was $2.81 on Fri.. /Sunoco on the west end of Aub. on 5 & 20/, near Bass Pro was still over $3. Fritzie Blizzard -- 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/ --
