[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant Common Redpolls...

2020-11-27 Thread Marie P. Read
Around 3pm I and several others saw a/the redpoll flock flying overhead a couple of times, at one point landing to feed on weeds in the very field where they spent several weeks two years ago. This is the overgrown field just before the crest of the first hill as you travel west up Mt Pleasant

[cayugabirds-l] FOY snow geese over Union Springs

2020-11-27 Thread John and Fritzie Blizzard
Daughter, Becky Sewell & I saw several large flocks of snow geese this morning flying east to west towards Cayuga Lake. A very few Canadas flew much lower, maybe 50 compared to a couple thousand snows. We saw Snows much earlier in Nov. last yr., perhaps because it was colder, & we also had

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Redpolls on Mt. Pleasant

2020-11-27 Thread Gary Kohlenberg
I spent time at the Mt. Pleasant East fields this morning most of the time with Sandy Podulka looking at Redpolls. There were several flocks flying around and disappearing in the grass to feed. As Gladys noted they could disappear and you had to have a good angle and elevation to see them. We

[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma

2020-11-27 Thread Yvette De Boer
Hi all!  I am wondering whether what birds might still be migrating through Montezuma right now. Sand hill cranes?  Bald eagles?  Snow geese? Other migrating ducks?  Please email off list unless others are interested. Thanks! ~ Yvette  Sent from AOL Mobile Mail Get the new AOL app:

[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls on Mt. Pleasant

2020-11-27 Thread Gladys J Birdsall
Sorry-late post.  I walked the dogs a short ways down the tower road yesterday 11/26.  (Hunting in the woods at the end of that road) As we were walking back towards Mt. Pleasant a flock of birds swirled up from the east side of Tower Rd.  I suspected Red Polls and returned just after 10 am