Hi all, I too made a journey to Seneca Falls to see the Snowy Owls. It is amazing, I think it is the fourth year the Snowy owls have showed up in the same vicinity.
I did see the Snowy Owl and Kevin McGown on Seybolt road. It was rather at some distance. SO I thought may be the one on martin Road would be closer. Actually I am not even sure if I saw one. At a very far distance among the cows, I thought I saw the owl. But did not see it move. So I am not hundred percent sure if it was an owl or not. On the way on Seybolt, near Martin road, I saw a bird atop a bush, I was excited and was hoping it would be a No. Shrike. But as I pulled my car closer to it, I found it had round head and breast I knew I was looking at a No. Mockingbird, which was mocking a shrike. Then at the corner near Canoga Rd, I saw a single turkey. I had seen it when I went towards Martin road earlier. As I saw it again in the same location I thought I will watch it. Initially, it hid behind the trees and occasionally tried to watch me like a peek a boo game. As I waited it became bold. I pulled my car on the wrong side of the road closer to the turkey. It looked like a young first year bird. The turkey walked up to me and said something in its own language and started looking at its reflection on my car. I did not want him to peck my car, so I put my hand out to shoo it away. It thought I am feeding it or something equivalent so it came closer to my window and raised it neck to see me from the window. It hung around my car and picking something off my car tires. It would not move away form the car but often went to the front of the car. So I had to get out of my car and scare it around the car to the back of the car, so I could drive away. But it was not afraid of me, but just walked ahead of me looking expectantly. I felt sorry for the lone turkey. Probably he wanted someone to do turkey talk. May be Gladys knows the history of this turkey, whether it was raised by hand on the farm. And at home around 10.00 am I heard a Raven croak above my house. It hung around for quite sometime in my neighborhood. I thought of stopping for the Pacific Loon, but as there was a screening of Downton Abbey in Cinemapolis, I decided to skip the stop. I enjoyed the first episode of the season 6. It Is very different to watch on a big screen versus 22 inches screen. Cheers Meena Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
