Walking along busy Meadow St by the Mobil (State St), I just saw two buteos
circling and moving slowly towards NE. Without binoculars one was too high to
ID but the other was low and showed the dark wrist of a rough legged, and was
soaring with a slight dihedral. Looked smaller than a redtail, n
Circles over again low, got this iPhone photo. Chris Wood ID’ed as redtail.
Suan
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> On Feb 24, 2020, at 12:18 PM, Suan Yong wrote:
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> Walking along busy Meadow St by the Mobil (State St), I just saw two buteos
> circling and moving slo
Is it possible they have a memory of when this land was theirs?
I've seen them in the corresponding areas in Watkins Glen: marshlands and
inlet, which in Ithaca now belongs to Walmart et al.
(It's how I imagine the -now extinct?- Clay-colored sparrow at Cornell's
Goldwin Smith hall: They came
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