Mary Jean and I made a quick birding trip up the west side of Cayuga Lake late this afternoon. We saw a nice array of birds but perhaps the highlight was seeing that purple martins had returned to the martin houses at Sheldrake Point, in the bay just across from the winery. We have not yet seen an osprey at the Footes Corners Road nest. There are sticks on the platform, but I don't know if they are just the ones moved from the power pole to the platform when the platform was put up, or if nesting material has been added by ospreys this year.
Marty =========================================== Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell 315-521-4315 =========================================== -- 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/ --
