Hi everyone-
A few days ago my daughter says she saw a very white bird near Six Mile Creek,
upstream from second dam. I don't know exactly where, but probably downhill
from Commanland.
She thought at first it was a gull due to its brightness, but quickly realized
that it wasn't a gull due to
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From: Richard Darlington r...@cornell.edu
Date: Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:03 PM
Subject: important article on bugs
To: Betsy Darlington darlingtonb...@gmail.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-
the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?src=me
My first-of-season ICELAND GULL, a pale 1st-cycle, was on the compost piles
off Stevenson Road in Dryden this morning around 11:00. It flew up when
most of the gulls did and did not return to the piles again while I was
there. I didn't seen any other gulls out of the ordinary. The various
Lesser
At 3:25 this afternoon while sitting at the kitchen table, a movement outside
caught my eye. It was a SHORT EARED OWL hunting in the pasture next to my house
(hall road) on the south side. We got great views of it hunting (tho a little
blurry thru my husbands bins since mine are on their way
4:50pm. The owl was back hunting flying between houses. Also a flock of 50 snow
geese heading north. Horny larks are here too. What a day!
Michele
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Cayugabirds-L List Info:
Mount Pleasant has its first Snow Buntings of the season…2 up there on the road
about 3:45 pm today. Also a Downy Woodpecker flitting to and fro foraging on
corn stalks (both standing stalks as well as fallen ones). Maybe looking for
wintering larvae?
Beastly windy up there today!
Marie
Sorry for the late post. You can thank time warner cable internet outages for
that!!!
anyway, we went up the west side of Cayuga Lake first to avoid the west winds.
There was not too many birds. All apparently were blown over to the east side
of the lake. Best bird was a LESSER BLACK BACKED
Late into a lazy morning I started my day's bird list by looking out the living room window and noticed, in addition to the numerous gulls in the air (many kettling possibly southbound Ring-billed Gulls, as Ken Rosenberg described), a COMMON LOON in direct southerly flight high against the clouds.
Before heading out of town at mid-day for the holidays, I noted the lingering
CHIPPING SPARROW under my feeders at home, and a lingering GRAY CATBIRD on the
trail east of Arrowwood Drive -- one of two I found last week feeding on the
plentiful poison ivy and other berries in the understory of
