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From: Bird observations from western New York <geneseebird...@geneseo.edu<mailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu>> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Say's Phoebe - Randolph Date: April 12, 2015 at 10:30:33 PM EDT To: Genesee Birds <geneseebird...@geneseo.edu<mailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu>> Reply-To: <geneseebird...@geneseo.edu<mailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu>> Just after noon today there was a Say's Phoebe on Swamp Rd. in the Town of Randolph, Cattaraugus County. The bird was initially seen along the roadside near the parking area toward the south end of the road (there are two parking areas on the road, each about a half mile from the north and south ends of the road, respectively) before moving to an area of dead snags in the flooded section on the east side of the road. It stayed in this spot for at least the next two hours, sallying out to catch insects and perching on the snags, without ever leaving about a 50 foot radius. Between 3:00-3:30pm it relocated about 100 yards to the north and was subsequently viewed from the dike that runs east from Swamp Rd. and splits the flooded section in half. Again, it followed the same pattern of catching insects and using several different perches in a fairly well defined area. Other birders continued to observe the bird after I left at 5:00pm though one person I talked to said that they arrived at around 6:00pm and failed to locate the phoebe. Say's Phoebe photo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jmitchell81/16940862548/ Swamp Rd. runs between Rte. 241 to the north and Rte. 394 to the south and is just northwest of the village of Randolph in southern Cattaraugus County. Anyone who might plan on looking for this bird tomorrow can feel free to call me (716-604-7701) if they want more information about where exactly the bird was being seen or contact me by email (josephcmitch...@gmail.com<mailto:josephcmitch...@gmail.com>) and I can send along a map with the specific locations marked. Joe Mitchell _______________________________________________ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - geneseebird...@geneseo.edu<mailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu> https://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418<tel:607-254-2418> M: 607-351-5740<tel:607-351-5740> F: 607-254-1132<tel:607-254-1132> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
