I’d never had the good fortune of watching common mergansers (a male-female
pair) shooting rapids before—until a morning walk along Fall Creek on the
Monkey Run Trail yesterday (Sunday; just a little ways upstream from the iron
pilings of that never-finished bridge). Can’t say I didn’t rather
On Monday I was asked by the family of a Cornell grad student, who was off
taking an exam, to give them a taxi tour of Ithaca Falls, Stewart Park, and
other beautiful places around Ithaca. I took them past the base of Cascadilla
Gorge mentioning the beatiful stone walkway they could climb, and
Via canoe this afternoon, we had great fun watching three belted kingfishers as
they flew back and forth over the still water of Fall Creek. After sighting two
great blue herons, a green heron flushed out of the reeds and stood preening
just 20 feet away for over 10 minutes [note to self: 2
Hi all,
Today I spent a couple of hours on Fall Creek trying to get American Rubyspot,
a beautiful damselfly found only on Fall Creek in Central New York.
But during that period, I heard and saw many species of birds, especially there
was a small mixed hunting flock consisting of BC
I stopped by the Stewart Avenue bridge over Fall Creek gorge this afternoon and was not surprised to see the Red-tailed Hawk nest empty and no obvious adults or juveniles in the vicinity, though I did not make a long or thorough search. When did they fledge, or alternatively when were they last
Just now, while on a run along Fall Creek I came across a flock
(approximately 10) of Northern Rough-Winged Swallows swooping and
soaring close th the water under-through the foot bridge by Flat Rock.
It was a great vantage point from which to enjoy their grace. Must
have been some kind of
