Thank you for letting us all know. Pink-footed Goose comes to mind when I
remember last seeing Jerry...or was it a Chat. Suddenly, he was just where
the bird was! For me, the serendipity of seeing friends when on the birding
trail more than doubles the joy.
Judy Thurber
Liverpool
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Thanks for the report Matt. nesting Least and American Bitterns are two of the
specialties at Queen Catharine Marsh with at least 4 pair of the former and
three of
the latter breeding. They've been there since the IBA was granted many years
back.
The lack of waterbirds is somewhat surprising
I think a Sharp-shinned Hawk would be not just naive but really stupid to go after prey as large as a Gray Squirrel. So I looked closely at your photos. They have fine (not coarse) brown streaking below, and even though the tail of the perched bird appears square, you can see all the ends of the
With sadness I have to report the Great Shearwater did not survive. I think
plans are for it to go to the American Museum of Natural History.
Dave W.
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We were just coming up Giles St, and at the intersection with State/MLK (2
houses south) was a family of turkeys! Since they were gathered underneath a
tree, I at first thought they were statues, so I had Larry back up. Sure
enough 2 adults and 7 young: (is that considered a 'flock'?), but
At 2:30 today I was just finishing up an hour crow watch at the Cornell compost
facility on Stevenson Road when I noticed that an incoming vulture was a BLACK
VULTURE: short tail, flat and broad wings, and white patches in the primaries.
It then landed in the big lone snag, with 8 Turkey
