In case you missed it on the local FB bird club pages, Pete Saracino posted Laurie Drikx's excellent slideshow of said banding: http://www.lauriedirkx.com/AllCreaturesGreat/Banding-a-Snowy-w-Tom-McDonald/i-3Wq5XLv/A
Marc On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Ann Mitchell <annmitchel...@gmail.com> wrote: > This morning Diane Morton and I went to the Finger lakes Regional Airport > to see the reported Snowy Owls. We saw the two of them near the runway in > the grass. We went in the terminal to ask permission to get close enough to > photograph them. The man in charge and his family were there. He said an > Ornithologist from Rochester had been there earlier who caught, banded, and > weighed them. He also took blood samples to research their precise origin. > He said one of them was a 5 1/2 month old female which was well nourished. > I don't remember what he said about the other owl. > > After that, we drove down Seybolt Road. Just south of Canoga Road, there > was a Northern Shrike sitting on a wire. > > We then went to Cayuga State Park where we saw a huge raft of ducks north > of the boat launch which had all the likely Aythya species including Ruddy > Ducks and American Wigeon. In the middle of the lake we saw two Mute Swans > and 10 Tundra Swans. The weather was deteriorating > > Sent from my iPhone > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > -- 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/ --
