To be clear, for those who have never been there, I meant the Game Farm-area compost pile (not Game Farm Road). The Cornell composting facility and Cornell research fields are located north of Stevenson Road and east of Compost Road (which is shared with a short section the Town of Dryden Rail Trail).
On Feb 2, 2024, at 10:56 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <c...@cornell.edu<mailto:c...@cornell.edu>> wrote: This morning, on my way in to work, I stopped by the Game Farm Road compost pile area for a bit. There was a sizable flock of mostly Herring Gulls loafing in the large Cornell research field to the southwest of the compost piles, east side of the Town of Dryden Rail Trail (Compost Road). Among this flow as the continuing 1st-cycle GLAUCOUS GULL (easily spotted as the large white gull among the flock), and a single adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GUL loafing in the periphery of the flock. Brief visitation into the compost area resulted in a single male GREEN-WINGED TEAL on the second pond, as well as a closer view of the GLAUCOUS GULL. https://ebird.org/checklist/S160408963 Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes — Field Applications Engineer K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA Work: +1 607-254-2418 Mobile: +1 607-351-5740 FAX: +1 607-254-1132 https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu<https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu/> -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes — Field Applications Engineer K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA Work: +1 607-254-2418 Mobile: +1 607-351-5740 FAX: +1 607-254-1132 https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu<https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu/> -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
