It was a great two days of birding for SFO overnight group 1, seeing many of the highlights already described. Sighting I don't remember seeing already mentioned are a male purple martin at the MAC today at noon, and Saturday morning's first stop at the marina with a female goldeneye reasonably close and in the distance to the WSW a row of ~10 black scoters swimming slowly north in a nice neat row.
The highlight of the trip was eating lunch at Mud Lock, when the lone adult that had been perched for much of the time suddenly flew south towards the causeway and returned with a healthy catch (must've been a foot and a half long), struggling to fly with the heavy load against the headwind. Returning to the nest, it patiently picked bite-sized morsels to feed the two young in turn. Other shows on the trip included crow-redtail mobbings, with the crow making contact; a male kestrel hover-hunting at the MAC; and a sizeable flock (~100?) of A. Wigeons at Carncross flushed by kayakers and flying about about in a disorganized cloud in pairs like parrots. FYI, a stop at the Empire Farm Days lot in mid-morning found no upland sandpipers, just meadowlark and kestrel and savannah sparrow. Suan -- 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/ --
