Most Warblers seem not to have made it to shore and upland areas near Cayuga Lake, I guess; I birded all around Lansing Station Rd. and Edwards Lake Cliff Preserve (both Lansing, near the lake, some parts with old orchard trees in bloom) in the last 2 days and saw only Yellow Rumped, Yellow, and Black and White Warblers, and not too many of those. Have seen lots of B. Orioles, Cardinals, G. Catbirds, E. Towhees, White Throated and Field Sparrows, a Brown Thrasher and Swallows and the usual feeder birds. Heard many Wood Thrushes in woods on Lansing Station Rd.
But, I digress. For the last two days I saw lying right next to the rail of the RR track by my yard a small Eastern Milk Snake, seemingly sunning itself. This morning, thinking it might be injured and/or that its location right by the track where people and dogs walk was not the safest, I took a towel down to the RR to use to pick up the snake and move it to a safer spot. I heard what sounded like a Fish Crow scolding and looked up to see a Red Tailed Hawk flying off, closely chased by a small crow into the tree tops. Soon, the hawk wheeled around and came back over the RR track dangling something long and skinny in its talons. The crow was still in pursuit. "My" Milk Snake was no longer in its spot by the rail. :-( Donna Donna L. Scott 535 Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY 14882 d...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
