Greeting Cayugabirders,
I have posted a photo I took of the Clay-colored Sparrow today online here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5516908667373644210
I also have a few other photos relevant to recent Basin birding earlier in
the same album, including
Ruff:
http://picasaweb.goog
A friend just sent this link to a video taken from a camera mounted
on a falcon and a Goshawk. It's pretty amazing especially the Goshawk
flying through the woods.
Diana Whiting http://wimp.com/hawkssee
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I just got a call from Gerard Phillips, who stopped at Montezuma on his way
back home to Canada. He was the one who relocated the Ruff during the
Montezuma Muckrace on Saturday evening.well, he's done it again! The RUFF is
present again in the same general area as seen from the East Road overlook
i
Sydney Penner and I made a morning foray to Montezuma NWR on Tuesday morning.
Sydney found two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS in the new shorebird habitat past the
photo blind on the Wildlife Drive. These birds were mostly pretty difficult to
see at the far edge, often walking behind hummocks. It w
I had a few nice birds in the yard this morning — a wing-flipping GRAY-CHEEKED
THRUSH just above my head, a yard-first and rare at this elevation BLUE-GRAY
GNATCHER, and a more common but very cooperative NASHVILLE WARBLER.
Kevin
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Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D.
Instructor
Home Study Course in Bird B
In addition to the usual sparrows, buntings, goldfinches, and yellowthroats
in the Freese Road garden plots, I just got a quick look at a probable
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER before it flew across several plots and disappeared.
This was in the northeast section.
Jay McGowan
On Sep 14, 2010 9:15 AM, "J
While doing my usual two hour survey at Myers this morning I had a single
flyover DICKCISSEL that was flying to the east. This was my first diurnal
flyover Dickcissel that I have heard/seen in the Cayuga Lake Basin. There
wasn't too much else of note other than a juvenile SEMIPALMATED PLOVER on
the
I just saw a basic-plumage CLAY-COLORED SPARROW in the CRC field near Monkey
Run north, in the goldenrod north of the CRC buildings and south of Hanshaw
Road (much closer to the buildings). It was with a small flock of Song
Sparrows, but they all dispersed quickly into the underbrush and I have bee