Tonight after dinner in the main building here at Kendal (7:05), I walked to
the small hill to the south of "campus" that we call Mt. Kendal to see if I
could find the Woodcock that was reported by Nelly Farnum last night.
Finally, after it was almost dark (~7:40), I heard a relatively faint
The Northern Shrike was on Creamery Road about 100 yards south of the ridge
crest around 3:45 PM, sitting on one fence pole and another between stoops to
the grass.
Found it very easily. Beautiful specimen. Performed beautifully, too, coming
as close as 50 yards, and turning this way and
Saw two beautifully colored sandhill cranes walking through the dead
grasses of the marsh, close enough to get a picture with my phone. Saw
them again on our return trip back to the car. This time my dog saw them
too. She let out a bark and I got to hear their melodic alarm call loud
and
Thank you for the tip—we saw a peregrine falcon just where you described today.
It sat on the snag for several minutes, then pooped and flew off. The white on
the cliff below seems to indicate that is a favorite spot.
Barbara Sadovnic
> On Mar 17, 2023, at 9:33 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote:
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At about noon I was driving along Snyder Road north of the Ithaca International
Airport looking for possible N. Harriers.
I saw instead the usual Red-tailed Hawk, who, annoyed at me driving slowly by
it perched on the N-S eastern fence,
took off and acted like a Harrier, flying very low over
As I was heading north on East Shore Drive around 10 this morning, I saw a
bald eagle soaring over the shoreline. Beautiful!
Judy
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I saw a pair of Red-tailed Hawks at the corner of Agard Road and Willow Creek
Road at 12:30. One was carrying nest material (grape vines I think), and flew
south along the road several hundred yards before turning east toward the Black
Diamond Trail.
-Geo
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I just watched a pair of Northern mockingbirds go through their mating
dance/ritual including the aerial part and then end up on the ground where they
mated.
Quite a few bluebirds right around my house in the last week and finally robins
near my house, too. I've seen plenty of both in the last
For a couple of days there's been a Northern Shrike on Creamery Road in
Caroline. It's been foraging in fields on the right side of the road,
coming from 79. This morning it was perching up on an isolated bush in the
middle of the upper field, the one with an electric fence around it. The
