RE: [cayugabirds-l] late flock of Snow Buntings in northeast Ithaca

2013-03-23 Thread Susan Fast
nell.edu [mailto:bounce-76451343-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Schulenberg Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 2:40 PM To: cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] late flock of Snow Buntings in northeast Ithaca This morning I had a surprisingly large number (for late March)

[cayugabirds-l] late flock of Snow Buntings in northeast Ithaca

2013-03-23 Thread Tom Schulenberg
This morning I had a surprisingly large number (for late March) of Snow Buntings: a flock of ca 28, feeding with ca 55 Horned Larks in fields west of Bluegrass Lane. These birds were in the bare field west of the grass stubble. Some of these birds still retain much buff in the plumage, but others l