On Tuesday morning, I had three expected but still very uplifting raptor sightings around northeast Ithaca and south Lansing:
-- a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK foraging over the field at the southwest corner of Warren and Cherry Roads (thanks to Alberto Lopez for finding this fine bird); -- an adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWK perched on a low branch between Kip's Barn and Route 13, along Sapsucker Woods Road; and -- a gray-morph EASTERN SCREECH-OWL at the hole of the nest box in our yard on Simsbury Drive (daily dawn and dusk appearances almost without exception since mid-October, with occasional brief perching sessions at other times). I also drove behind the airport in search of shrikes. I found none, but did see a PILEATED WOODPECKER at rest (surprisingly, in the slim outer branches of a small tree) at the intersection of Mohawk and Neimi Roads. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
