Hi all, I stopped by the compost facility on Stevenson Road just now. Gull numbers were not amazing, but two LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS, one ugly 2nd or 3rd cycle with pinkish legs and one large, big-headed adult, were in the field along Stevenson, as well as a tan 1st cycle ICELAND GULL. While I was watching the gulls, I heard a distinctive grating call and looked up to see a WILSON'S SNIPE flying over heading south towards some nice muddy looking fields.
This morning before dawn I had a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL give a single yelp from the spruces on Dodge Road, and two AMERICAN WOODCOCK were peenting and displaying in the nearby open fields. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
