At 7:35 tonight I pulled up to the field just east of the airport on Snyder Rd. The minute I got out of my car I started to hear the “peents" of at least one American Woodcock coming from the less snowy areas of the field. During the twenty minutes I hung around I heard repeated peenting and the “sky song” twice, but was unable to get my binoculars on the bird. As I was leaving, headed west on Snyder, I saw a Great Horned Owl perched at the top of a tree beautifully silhouetted by the fading light. It flew at the sound of my tires stopping on the gravel shoulder but fortunately relanded just a few hundred yards to the west just before the curve on Snyder.
Bodes well for the SFO Woodcock and Owl watch... -- 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/ --
