My husband Danila and I saw a yellow crowned night heron about a month ago on Mill St. in Freeville as well. Unfortunately, I did not make an ebird report. It's impressive how the bird is not as easily spooked as our more regular herons are. Danila and I were the ones who spotted one in 2018 as we kayaked down Fall Creek. I remember being confused when the heron did not fly away. In fact, we were nearly hanging out together, having parked our canoe right by the low overhanging willow tree our new friend was perched on. Maybe these birds are sticking around, having developed a taste for our ever abundant crayfish. Next time I'll be sure to file an ebird report. Thanks everyone for sharing your findings and thoughts. Best, Lea
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:47 PM Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: > I celebrated Sandy Podulka’s find of a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron > at Taughannock Falls State Park that so many of us saw. I still do. > > I said one of the previous Tompkins sightings of the species was an adult > along Fall Creek in Freeville. That was in 2018. Today Tom Schulenberg > noticed something in eBird that I had overlooked (Thank-you, Tom!). There > was a second similar sighting of an adult along Fall Creek in Freeville, > this time specifically in Mill Dam Park, THIS YEAR, on May 31 by Gwen > Gallagher and a second person not named in the eBird report. Each of those > reports has a photo of a beautiful calm bird watching the person. So that’s > the newly corrected 2021 Cayuga Lake Basin First Record for the species. > This is also cool, because the earlier record was not a single fluke event. > Maybe it’s annual, or a pair, or breeding, or the source of the juvenile(s) > downstream at Cayuga Lake. > > Meanwhile, this evening Sandy relocated the juvenile Yellow-crowned > Night-Heron in Cass Park in a Willow along the lower reaches of Linderman > Creek near where it crosses NYS-89 opposite Cove Lane. Maybe there’s better > hunting there than in the soccer field floodles! > > - - Dave Nutter > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <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/ --
