Re: [cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant Buntings

2015-01-17 Thread Diane Morton
There are also flocks of Snow Buntings and Horned Larks today at Mahaney Rd, King Ferry (near Belltown Dairy). Flying around, but very difficult to spot when they land in the snowy corn stubble. Diane Morton On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote: I found

[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant Buntings

2015-01-17 Thread Gary Kohlenberg
I found one fast moving flock of ~60 Snow Buntings on Mt. Pleasant today. They were hard to track down and you might have to traipse around the fields at the top of the hill by the cell towers. I only heard one Horned Lark but the usual large Crow flock is in their spot in the woods. Gary

[cayugabirds-l] Mt Pleasant buntings

2011-01-14 Thread Candace Cornell
While out on a ride up Mt Pleasant at 12:30, my husband and I saw a flock of 500+ SNOW BUNTINGS two fields east of the observatory, across from a wooded area. There were a least three if not more LAPLAND LONGSPURS on its fringe, but no redpolls. The flock kept rolling over the field as it foraged