> On Jan 4, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Marie P. Read <[email protected]> wrote: > > I haven't seen or heard my backyard tough-guy Belted Kingfisher for several > days... > > Marie
At 11:15 this morning I was driving an empty taxi through the intersection of Hanshaw & Niemi Roads when a male Belted Kingfisher flew southwest in front of me. It was below treetop level, so I assume it was on a local trip. The nearby Cornell experimental ponds are frozen. There’s a larger more natural pond nearby (to the NW not SW) but could there be any open water there? And there are other wetlands in the area, but without higher land close by, how could they be spring-fed and open? And what would live in them that a kingfisher could catch this time of year? The temperature was all of 1°F. I thought Marie’s kingfisher up by Mt Pleasant was odd in such cold weather even though there is a swamp near her place. Maybe this is the same bird roughly five miles away. Or maybe her bird went south on the Jan 1 or 2, and this bird is now going south from somewhere else. Anyway, it was a surprise to me. - - Dave Nutter -- 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/ --
