Thanks to Bill for stimulating me to get out of the shop and check the west
side of Cayuga Lake. Beautiful day! No wind; crisp air; I could see all the
way across the lake. No heat shimmer till noon. Sporadic ice until just south
of Taughannock; then open. No ice along the shore on the
Today my friends wrote what we all suspected:
Rick went back late this afternoon (to Scofield/Buck Rds.) and saw the owl
again and he feels embarrassed to say, it was a short eared, not a snowy.
Sorry for the confusion. Hope this did not cause a problem.
I told them it was not a problem,
Ay, that's a tough one! Even on the USGS topo I can't tell (see BBA block
3577A).
On Kevin's tennis principle (the line is IN), I'd call this inside the basin,
unless the owner declares his/her yard is definitely out.
-Geo
On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:
An immature (perhaps second year) GOLDEN EAGLE was photographed sitting in
a tree and then flying at Mays Point, Montezuma NWR yesterday afternoon.
Keep an eye out! I think I still have never seen a perched Golden Eagle in
the Basin.
Jay
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Jay McGowan
Macaulay Library
Cornell Lab of
I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this
morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at
least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse
and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice
extended
