Hi all,
I too heard Canada Geese around 2.00 am at night. After reading Geo's post, I
looked out for geese from my house and did not find any at all.
Day before yesterday (Friday) after Dave's post about Snow Geese downtown, I
went to look for them and not a single I could find. But I did find lots of
Canada on water, including all the birds Dave reported earlier.
Then I went in search of some winter birds. On Lake Ridge road, I found
hundreds of DE Juncos, Tree sparrows and a Mockingbird feeding on the road. I
did not get chance to scan them for other species of sparrows as they were
skittish and flew into bushes as I cruised. At Atwater road, I turned on left
as I had never driven on this road and found it to be an interesting road, I
found two cardinals and a few Blue Jays.
Then I continued on 34 B north and 90 east to Genoa and back on 34 south to
Ithaca. Nothing else much except somewhere past Locke I saw a Rough-legged hawk
dashing across the field. On the way I did see four Red-tailed Hawks, three
American Kestrels.
One interesting thing I noticed was lots of trucks entering and leaving salt
company and all along the roads. I was wondering why I am seeing so many
trucks. Then I realized that this is the first time I have driven on these
roads on week-days and that may be the reason why I saw so many trucks. Is it
true?
Cheers
Meena
Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] More Snow Geese depart
Last night about 1015pm as I was shoveling my sidewalk one last time before
going to bed, I heard geese overhead. They were fairly low, and not
particularly going south. I don't know why they were wandering around in the
low clouds lit up by Ithaca's street lights. Mostly they were Canadas, but I
also heard a group of SNOW GEESE, so we now at least have that species for
count week in case they all depart before Tuesday.
--Dave Nutter
On Dec 30, 2012, at 09:40 AM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote:
More Snow Geese are passing south out of the basin on this morning's brisk tail
wind. I don't expect to see them circle back. There's relatively little
agricultural land south of here, and it's all buried in snow.
-Geo Kloppel
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