Around 4pm Saturday I managed a rough count of the Bobolink flock on Mt
Pleasant Rd - 97! The birds were again in the switchgrass field just west of
the dirt road (called Pine Woods Rd on some old maps) to the farm between the
two hills at the eastern end of Mt Pleasant Rd. The Bobolinks are
As of about 9:30 am Sunday, there were a number of Bobolinks near the road just
at the junction of Mt Pleasant Rd and dirt road between the hills (PIne Woods
Road). They are preening and resting in the switchgrass, a few on the wires
overhead, and in the roadside shrubbery. Straggling groups
Enjoying this gorgeous day at my Cayuga L. beach, I twice saw a CASPIAN TERN,
which was followed by its squeaking youngster, catch a fish near my shore.
Then both flew out to deeper water there the juvenile landed in the water
parent flew to it gave it the small fish. Parent then wheeled
On Sunday at around 5:45 PM, I saw a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER flying across
Route 90 just south of MacKenzie-Childs in Aurora.
Mark Chao
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Sitting on my porch at around 8:15 this evening, I noticed a silhouetted
accipiter (female sharp-shinned or male cooper’s?) atop the utility pole in the
TCAT parking lot in Varna. It was pulling apart what I thought was a small
bird, but when it tossed it off and flew away I found the fresh
I think one of the BBC specials shows red-tailed hawks catching bats. Big
bats, in South America...I think.
David Diaz
Tburg, NY
On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Kevin Loope kj...@cornell.edu wrote:
Sitting on my porch at around 8:15 this evening, I noticed a silhouetted
accipiter (female
