Sorry for the delay, I was out all day. My pics are up at https://picasaweb.google.com/ruby612/JaegerSept92011. Please forgive the bad quality, the bird was far away and there wasn't much light. But hopefully there will be enough information there to i.d. the bird successfully. Melissa Groo
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 14:59:46 -0500 > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Jaeger > From: ke...@nepabirdproject.org > To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu > > So everyone knows, I wondered about that too, as I got a different > impression this morning, but, being a realist, I thought it was more > likely I was mistaken in the morning fog than I was lucky enough to get 2 > jaegers at the same spot on the same day! I usually have the worst birding > luck so this would make me play the lotto. It is to my understanding that > most Jaegers on the lake are 10 minute birds and we did just have some > hurricanes and tropical storms, so we'll never know. For my own list I'm > leaving it at just the one since that makes me feel a little more > comfortable (I'm fine with thinking I was wrong more than incredibly > lucky). > > The first bird did continue south but it could have always hooked into > that creek and came back up at some point. I lost it to the treetops. This > was at about 7:40am. > > I had the pm bird in scope for like a half hour waiting for people to show > up before I had to head back to the lab. I found it first sitting in the > water, then it chased some gulls, sat in the water some more, chased some > gulls... you get the picture. > > I can't wait to see the pics! > > > yours, > Kevin > > > I would think it could be a different bird? The jaeger you saw this > > morning > > looked like it was headed straight over Ithaca right? Also I was birding > > Stewart Park from 8:20-10:00 and didn't see any Jaegers. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:25 PM, ke...@nepabirdproject.org < > > ke...@nepabirdproject.org> wrote: > > > >> And this better look I think it's long tailed. My bad. Thought I saw > >> neck > >> band in morning mist look. > >> > >> Yours, > >> Kevin Ripka > >> www.tekbirdr.com > >> leaflittercritters.blogspot.com > >> > >> Dallas, Pa > >> Luzerne Co. > >> > >> Ithaca, NY > >> Tompkins Co. > >> -- > >> > >> 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/ > >> > >> -- > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Tim Lenz > > t...@cornell.edu > > Web Applications Developer > > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- -- 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/ --
