Below are my eBird reports for Myers Point and Hog Hole - nothing too surprising in either location.
However, at Myers in a tree by the creek a Kingfisher had gotten trapped in fishing line with predictable and tragic results. Don't look if you are easily upset... https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VB5Pmc14LEr9HVGdHnGVhdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink -Paul Myers Point, Tompkins, US-NY Aug 19, 2012 8:30 AM - 9:18 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.1 mile(s) Comments: Submitted from BirdLog for Android v1.6 22 species Canada Goose 1 Mallard 21 Common Merganser 2 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Osprey 1 Ring-billed Gull 190 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Red-eyed Vireo 1 American Crow X Tree Swallow X Bank Swallow X Barn Swallow X Carolina Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling X Cedar Waxwing X Yellow Warbler 1 Song Sparrow 2 Common Grackle 1 Hog Hole Ithaca, Tompkins, US-NY Aug 19, 2012 9:49 AM - 10:18 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.5 mile(s) Comments: Submitted from BirdLog for Android v1.6 16 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 3 Mallard 29 Double-crested Cormorant 39 Green Heron 1 Osprey 2 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Ring-billed Gull 26 Herring Gull (American) 8 Great Black-backed Gull 4 Caspian Tern 5 Hairy Woodpecker 1 American Crow X swallow sp. X Gray Catbird 1 Song Sparrow 12 American Goldfinch X This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- Paul Anderson, VP of Engineering, GrammaTech, Inc. 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x118; http://www.grammatech.com -- 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/ --
