Today's SFO trip to Derby Hill was far more rewarding and less brutal than yesterday's, but it was still a challenge. The temperature remained in the 40s, the wind remained brisk, but the rain was only in the afternoon and only intermittent. We even saw some blue sky eventually. A big difference
Some highlights from a fine morning with the SFO local trip. From Monkey run
south, where we found no new migrants but listened to songs of residents and
watched the sun come out, we proceeded to Mount Pleasant, where we found cold
WSW wind and no raptor movement at ~ 8:30 am. The only passing
Hi all,
After sleeping in today Bob and Ann picked me up for a trip up the lake to see
what was new. It was a funny day with the weather. Although we had some new
birds for the year, numbers were low, and we had to work to get them. At Mud
Lock the female Bald Eagle was vocalizing almost constan
Chipping Sparrows are at my feeders as of yesterday too -- Pleasant Valley
and Sharpsteen Roads about 5 mi. SW of Groton village. They're holding onto
the feeders for dear life in the wind gusts!
Marla
Groton, NY
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Carl Steckler wrote:
> A welcome return of Chipp
Hi everyone,
Here are my e-bird lists from some birding Friday morning. Highlights included
a Northern Mockingbird singing at East Hill Plaza, two GREAT HORNED OWLS in
Renwick Woods, a pair of American Kestrels copulating at the north end of the
Jim Schug Trail, and six Bonaparte's Gulls and two
I figured it was a female on a nest. Approx. location of begging calls: to
the NW of the large parking lot at the top of Hammond Hill Rd. There is a
private driveway which you encounter, on the left, as you come up Hammond
Hill Rd. The driveway is about 30 yds. before you come to the parking lo
Steve, what is the loop you walk?
Just to clarify, crow begging right now indicates a breeding female on a nest,
not fledged young. A couple of our nests should have hatched this weekend, but
they were early and most of the 60+ nests we're following are on a later
schedule, with fledging in lat
Pretty quiet in Dryden today. Dryden Lake still has large numbers of
mergansers (including at least seven RED-BREASTED), and today a pair of
Lesser Scaup, but not much else. Perhaps the best birds were two
transitional-plumaged DUNLIN (first found by Stuart Krasnoff) at George
Road, near the corn
I took my usual loop walk around Star Stanton and Hammond Hills early this
morning. High winds and occasional snow flurries. Very few birds. But a
couple highlights: a male PURPLE FINCH sang from the top of a spruce. It
sang a continuous odd jumble of notes and short phrases, quite unlike the
At 7:40AM this morning there were 14 CASPIAN TERNS foraging at Jennings Pond
off Bald Hill Rd. in the Town of Danby. They weren't there yesterday late
afternoon and they likely got caught in transit up from the mid-Atlantic by the
wind shift last night -- I suspect there are such temporary visit
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