Tom Schulenberg and I birded up to Triangle Diner area this morning, and like others, found a single LAPLAND LONGSPUR with HORNED LARKS on Lake Ridge Road -- a dull streaky bird feeding very close to the barn on the west side of the road (not with most of the larks and SNOW BUNTINGS further south).
At Myer's Point, the highlights were an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL sleeping on the north gravel spit (my first one this year), a calling AMERICAN PIPIT, and a raft of over 180 NORTHERN PINTAIL to the south off the marina. We stopped by Cayuga Vista Rd. in Lansing and the NORTHERN SHRIKE was obligingly on the wire (11:30 AM). Back at home earlier in the morning, a flock of 25 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS flew over, and a lone male COMMON REDPOLL was looking a bit sick under my feeders. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@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/ --
