I saw what appeared to be a juvenile or female merlin late this afternoon
around 4:20 p.m. on East Hill Way, hunting in the open woods on the side of the
trail, east of the bridge that crosses Pine Tree Road. It perched right next
to the trail so I could see it without binoculars, and it didn't
Bill Evans made similar observations on Facebook yesterday:
11/23, 8:43am:
Huge flotilla of 800+ loons aborted southbound flight due to lake
effect snow and are headed back toward Cayuga Lake over 96b valley in
Danby.
11/23 10:07am:
Follow up: As the dense lake effect band moved south of Danby an
Albatrosses feeling the pressure of warmer waters….
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/24/climate-crisis-pushes-albatross-divorce-rates-higher-study
Regi
“If we surrendered to the earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like
trees.” Rainer Maria Rilke
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Cayu
No loons to be seen over West Danby yesterday morning, because of the
persistently falling snow. A brief but particularly heavy squall swept through
between 8:00 and 8:30. Right in the thick of it, riding a tail wind out of the
north, came a flight of Tundra Swans. I was indoors, but ran outside
