It was a greyish day, but still lots of good sightings. Total of 43 species
between 8 and 4. Started at Myers with a juvenile red-tailed hawk sitting on
one of the "campsites". A pair of ospreys on the lakeside of Salt Point
demonstrated how to collect sticks for nesting material as a pair of
Next Monday, April 10, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird
Club. Bruce Smith and Katherine [Kit] Muma, will give their presentation,
"Kiwis and Kokakos: Wildlife Conservation in New Zealand". Although they have
both been on faculty in the Biology Dept. at Ithaca College, Bruce
A few days ago a new Osprey platform was installed on a pole along the east
side of the Flood Control Channel on the north side of AJ Foreign Auto on
Cherry Street, about here: 42.438, -76.516. Some nearby trees were cut down,
and the platform was baited heartily with large bushy branches. I
A pair of SANDHILL CRANES was calling (10 am) from the marsh just south of
where Hile School Road crosses the marsh. Within Tompkins County - out of the
Basin.
Bob McGuire
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