I found the redpolls this afternoon (Wednesday) around 4:15. There are a number of birches in this area, but the redpolls are focussing their attention on the few that have catkins remaining. As Stuart mentioned to me, this food source may not last much longer.
The large Snow Bunting flock on Mt Pleasant is mostly staying way in the back of the fields and has been much harder to locate in the past couple of days. So folks wanting to see them need to either hang out a while and watch for them, or be lucky! Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com ________________________________________ From: bounce-7619105-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-7619105-5851...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart Krasnoff [s...@cornell.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 8:53 AM To: CayugaBirds Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Triphammer Terrace Redpoll flock now >100 I checked for the Redpolls again this morning and am giving myself another chance to try to type 'flock' . At ca. 0800 h I counted 105 Redpolls in two adjacent birches. Yesterday a Red-tailed Hawk cruised over and the flock briefly evacuated the triangular patch of birches. Today, a Red-tailed was sitting in a birch when I drove up, but the Redpolls were going about their business about 100 yards away...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
