I visited a few spots in the Northern Montezuma area this afternoon, like Carncross Road and Van Dyne Spoor, hoping to see some Sandhill Cranes. On the shoulder of rte 89 a bit south of Savannah I came upon a dead owl. The head was rather damaged, but the densely feathered toes and the profusion of pale buffy markings on the wings and tail indicated Short-eared Owl to me.
There are lots of waterfowl in the marshes all around the area, but It wasn’t until I was driving east across the mucklands on rte 31 that I found the Cranes: a tight group of five flew right over me. Towards evening I headed south on 89, and somewhere between Canoga and Red Jacket a Short-eared Owl flew low over the road shoulder just in front of my car. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
