Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-throated Loon in field near Game Farm
I was there about then, missed the loon, but I did help pull that Ford SUV out of the ditch on Stevenson by the farm. Your mitzvah makes a better story and the Loon probably didn't have AAA to help him! Phillip McNeil 607.342.5031 On Saturday, January 6, 2018, 5:01:19 PM EST, Jgaffne2 wrote: What a great story Sent from my iPhone On Jan 6, 2018, at 3:39 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: I went to the game farm today to census crows and try to find some year birds (like Black Vulture). I was looking in the active pheasant pen at the NW corner of farm where the Black Vultures have been hanging out. I didn’t see Black Vultures, but I noticed a RED-THROATED LOON sitting in the snow in the field north of the farm! Ten feet into Dryden! Although the loon made a pitiful effort to “run” away from me, it was pretty simple to wrap it up in a blanket and pick it up. Its wings and feet were functioning well, and I didn’t see any blood, injuries, or abrasions on it, so I decided to take it to Cayuga Lake and release it. It did not understand, of course, anything I was trying to do for it, but it knew what the lake was. As I was carrying it down to the shore at East Shore Park, it started lunging forward in my hands and making running motions with its feet. It swam away quickly when I released it, dove, came up, flapped, and started preening. Not the way I thought my day was going to start. I have a photo in my checklist at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41675570. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-throated Loon in field near Game Farm
What a great story Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 6, 2018, at 3:39 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: > > I went to the game farm today to census crows and try to find some year birds > (like Black Vulture). I was looking in the active pheasant pen at the NW > corner of farm where the Black Vultures have been hanging out. I didn’t see > Black Vultures, but I noticed a RED-THROATED LOON sitting in the snow in the > field north of the farm! Ten feet into Dryden! > > Although the loon made a pitiful effort to “run” away from me, it was pretty > simple to wrap it up in a blanket and pick it up. Its wings and feet were > functioning well, and I didn’t see any blood, injuries, or abrasions on it, > so I decided to take it to Cayuga Lake and release it. > > It did not understand, of course, anything I was trying to do for it, but it > knew what the lake was. As I was carrying it down to the shore at East Shore > Park, it started lunging forward in my hands and making running motions with > its feet. It swam away quickly when I released it, dove, came up, flapped, > and started preening. > > Not the way I thought my day was going to start. > > I have a photo in my checklist at > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41675570. > > Kevin > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Red-throated Loon in field near Game Farm
I went to the game farm today to census crows and try to find some year birds (like Black Vulture). I was looking in the active pheasant pen at the NW corner of farm where the Black Vultures have been hanging out. I didn't see Black Vultures, but I noticed a RED-THROATED LOON sitting in the snow in the field north of the farm! Ten feet into Dryden! Although the loon made a pitiful effort to "run" away from me, it was pretty simple to wrap it up in a blanket and pick it up. Its wings and feet were functioning well, and I didn't see any blood, injuries, or abrasions on it, so I decided to take it to Cayuga Lake and release it. It did not understand, of course, anything I was trying to do for it, but it knew what the lake was. As I was carrying it down to the shore at East Shore Park, it started lunging forward in my hands and making running motions with its feet. It swam away quickly when I released it, dove, came up, flapped, and started preening. Not the way I thought my day was going to start. I have a photo in my checklist at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41675570. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
