At noon today I saw the YELLOW WARBLER by the southwest corner of the Wegmans parking lot. It flew up from tall thick weeds into some saplings along with a small flock of HOUSE SPARROWS, one of which chased it a bit. On the west side of the Wegmans building in saplings along the bank of the relief
Hi all,
Today, Ton and I went up the east side of Cayuga Lake to Montezuma, starting
at Stewart Park at 11 am and ending at the Potato building on route 31 at 4:30.
(By the way, as I was typing this just now, I saw the posting by Bob McGuire of
his and John Confer’s trip up the lake today. We m
John Confer and I drove the lake circuit today, looking for anything of
interest. And we did find a few things.
Center Road - 50 Snow Buntings, 6 Horned Larks
Lake Ridge Road - 2 rather late EASTERN MEADOWLARKS
Aurora Bay - at least 140 Common Loons, 10 Horned Grebes
Frontenac Park (Union Spri
37 Sandhills Cranes viewed from East Rd. , Montezuna NWR. 3:50 pm Saturday.
Laura
Laura Stenzler
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Around 11:30 this morning, I found a Rough-legged Hawk hovering over the fields
just east of the Mt Pleasant Observatory. I watched it for about 15 minutes,
hoping it would come back into photo range, but it slowly made its way south,
circling and hovering as it went, until it was out of sight.
The immature/female BLACK SCOTER was still present off the east end of
Stewart Park in Ithaca on Saturday morning. Seeing it among all the RUDDY
DUCKS and BUFFLEHEADS requires patience, discernment, and some luck,
especially because the scoter spends a lot of time under the surface. For
me, overa
Looked for the Audubon's a little before noon but we were unsuccessful. Did see
the
Yellow Warbler in the weeds at the far very south end of the parking lot, near
where
they keep the snow plow.
Sue
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John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
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