Yesterday while I was waiting for the bus in the morning, a COOPER'S HAWK was chased away by chickadees and downy from probably its temp roosting location in my neighbor's woods.
Today, I went to look for Snow buntings and Longspurs that I had seen on Jan 1 along Irish Settlement road. But there were none today. So I just zoomed around various locations. On West Dryden road just past Wood Road, a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK flew out of the pine woods. At Junction of Asbury and West Dryden there were about 15 or so REDPOLLS on the road. On Farrell Road, I saw one TURKEY VULTURE, which lazily flew in the wind with no particular destination. And no shrikes anywhere. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.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/ --
