I think the Harrier was there again today. He soared over the field
that looks like a practice ground for the fire department and then
perched on the fire tower for quite some time, upsetting a crowd of
geese by the sounds of it.
This is my regular walking route at lunchtime, and I obviously need to
bring my binos so I can glass those fields better!
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Donna Scott wrote:
> After going on the Spring Field Ornithology class field trip this morning
> (in the snow & wind), Ann Mitchell and I decided to take a quick trip over
> to the Ithaca airport.
>
> It was "raptor day" over there! We drove along Snyder Road and saw an
> AMERICAN KESTREL, probably female, fly off the airport fence into the field
> to the south.
> Drove to Mohawk Rd. and didn't see anything until we returned down Snyder
> towards Cherry and Warren Rds.
> Over the grassy areas near the junk cars by the fence we saw a light phase
> ROUGH LEGGED HAWK soaring and hovering over the fields inside the airport
> fence. After admiring that bird, we came around the corner approaching
> Cherry Road and saw a beautiful male NORTHERN HARRIER soaring and hovering
> over the fields there.
>
> When we turned left off Cherry into Warren Rd., we again saw the ROUGH
> LEGGED HAWK and then possibly the same KESTREL over the field west of Warren
> Road and adjacent to the Borg Warner factory. Just down the road from that
> field, on the airport fence east of the road, was perched a RED TAILED HAWK,
> then as we drove south I saw another RED TAILED HAWK perched on a branch
> right over the road to the west!
>
> I drove Ann back to her car at the O Lab, and yet another RED TAILED HAWK
> sat in a tree on the south side of Rt. 13. As I returned down Warren Road
> heading north to go home, I spotted two TURKEY VULTURES soaring over the
> woods west of Warren Rd. near the airport entrance.
>
> Donna Scott
> Lansing Station Road
> Lansing, NY
> d...@cornell.edu
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