Hi all,
To take advantage of beautiful weather, I decided to head to Derby Hill to see
the raptors. On the way I stopped at an Indian grocery store in Syracuse. So by
the time I reached Derby Hill it was almost 2.00 PM. As I was pulling in Gray K
was just heading out. I heard from him about wha
The wonderful thing about birding in early January is that almost every bird is
a New Year Bird. Susan Danskin and I spent the day yesterday looking for old
friends and anyone new. And we ended the day with 74 and 75 birds for the year,
respectively. (Susan missed Long-eared Owl and I missed Bar
I went up to Montezuma today with a friend. We didn't find anything new,
but lots of nice birds as always. Both the GLOSSY and the WHITE-FACED IBIS
are still around, this morning foraging in the grassy back part of the
Visitor Center pond. They were hard to see and afforded much poorer views
than w
Jacob Drucker and I checked areas along the southeast corner of the lake
today, from Stewart Park up to Myers, in late morning and early afternoon.
Viewing conditions were great (little to wind, no waves), but Aythya were
amazingly scarce, and we saw no scaup at all. Among the birds of interest
w
I finally got out to do some Basin birding on this summery March day -- a few
highlights below:
Started very early (0610) on Salt Rd. in Summerhill State Forest, where I heard
2 GREAT HORNED and 2 BARRED OWLS but no Saw-whet or Long-eared -- it was warm
and dead calm. PINE SISKINS were everywhe
Hi,
I thought I'd post some more details about our trip up the lake on Sunday.
Besides the SNOWY OWL in the evening, other highlights that Brad Walker
and I observed were a close female LONG-TAILED DUCK at Stewart Park, 8
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS and a YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER at the bottom of
Lak
Hi all,
I apologize for the late post, and thank Tom Schulenberg for posting my
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER from near the Ithaca Airport. It's about time for me to
figure out how to post to the list from my phone, and to receive rare-bird
alert text messages such as White-faced Ibis, which I drove
I see that others are reporting their lake finds, so I better put mine in,
such as they were. I went up in the afternoon to the farmland northwest of
Locke to check on sandhill cranes. I was inspired by the GBBC data showing
the phalanx of crane migration from Florida up to Indiana, and into sout
Hi,
Not quite knowing how to bird today because of the cold, windy, snowy day,
Gary and I decided to make a trip up the lake where it was colder, windier,
and more snowy. Makes sense, right?
Highlights were:
Union Springs Frontenac Park
12 COMMON TERNS on a pier
Cayuga Tow Path Machine
Hi all,
I had an unsuccessful breakfast trip to get Belgian Waffles in Commons
(closed for Sabbath :-() in downtown with my out of town visitors, where I
heard my first House Sparrows of the year. It seems strange that it is
almost end of January and I had not heard or seen a house sparrow.
A
Shannon and I made a few stops late this AM into very early afternoon.
Birds of note were as follows:
Myers Point and surrounding area (11AM-11:45) 7 HORNED GREBES close to the
western side of the lake straight out from the point. (Probably the same
Bob saw later this afternoon), 1 COMMON LOON j
Needing to stay local this morning while others headed north for
Scissor-tails and fantasy rails, I thoroughly covered Myer's Point,
Stewart Park, Hogs Hole, and Mt. Pleasant -- for all that effort the
most interesting birds of the day were 2 HERMIT THRUSHES in my front
yard at first light, giv
Hi all,
I spent Sunday morning birding again around Myer's Point (Salt Point
to Portland Point), and again the highlight was the very large flight
of BLUE JAYS that kept pouring over all morning. In about 2 hours of
birding, I counted 1,760 Blue Jays, sometimes in streams of several
hundred b
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