Concerning Donna's email about the chicken, I live near Conn Hill..lots of woods out here, and have seen that people will just dump chickens they don't want for some reason or other. If a chicken lover goes to get them, the abandoned chicken can avoid feeding foxes and coyotes etc..Laurie
On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Donna Lee Scott <d...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Yesterday my neighbor out in his boat saw one of 2 OSPREYS that is fishing > around here, catch a fish so large that the bird could not get it up out of > water, and had to drop the fish! > > Earlier I had seen one of them dive 2x without success; then that one flew > to the 2nd one perched in my tall dead White Oak on edge of lake cliff. > They both took off south towards Salt Pt. The perched Osprey had a small > fish held by only 1 foot as it flew. > > Today's surprise: a black CHICKEN strutting around by road a few houses to > north. Hope it stays out of road. Nobody on Lansing Station keeps domestic > fowl. Will inquire among uphill neighbors. > > Donna Scott > Sent from my iPhone > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- *"Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me."* ~ Sojourner Truth Healing Hands of Ithaca MassageIthaca.com 108 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca,NY -- 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/ --