On my way home just now I saw an OSPREY in a dead snag in the pond along Rt. 38 south of Dryden just north of Crystal Drive.
The COMMON TEAL was still at George Road this morning. I will have to check again tomorrow when the bird might be closer, but it was my impression I could make out just the shadow of vertical white bar on the shoulder, indicating this bird might by an intergrade between the two subspecies, though it still shows characters of a Eurasian much more than of an American. If true, this would also indicate this is a different bird than the one I found on the 17th that was present until at least the 20th (but not the 22nd through the 25th), because I took careful note of that bird and it did not seem to show any such shoulder mark. I will look into this soon. Good birding, Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
