70 SNOW GEESE flew north over downtown Ithaca at 5am lit by full moon.
--Dave Nutter
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I was pleased to get up to songs of Am. Robin in my yard and Cardinal who seem
to have moved to neighbors house across the road, but can hear him.
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Meena
Meena Haribal
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I looked out the window at my feeders at about 2:15 to find a Sharp-shinned
Hawk sitting on one of our platform feeders about 6 feet from the window.
It sat for almost 30 seconds then noticed my movement and flew up into the
nearby cedar when I tried to move to a different window. Very cool view!
I forgot to mention yesterday that Tilden and I also saw a CACKLING GOOSE in
one of the small flocks that flew out of Knox-Marsellus Marsh last night.
T and I have done some back-of-the-envelope calculations regarding the
blackbirds we saw from the Tschache Pool tower last night. Our
Tonight I attended the first hour of the SFO lecture series (We field trippers
were invited to the part about eBird which was well presented by Chris Wood),
then I headed in the dusky light over to the other side of the Ithaca airport
to look listen for Woodcocks.
When I got there, my friend
Despite the steady wet snowfall and the late hour, our local woodcock here
behind the Northwood Apts. off Warren Road has been persistently peenting
and doing his display flight as of 11PM.
-Scott
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