Roadrunners are eminently chase-able!
> On Jul 12, 2019, at 12:01 AM, Lynn Bergmeyer wrote:
>
> Curious what determines a chaseable bird. Never heard of this before.
> Thanks for sharing
>
> Lynn Bergmeyer, Greece NY 585-576-0422
>
>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 10:36 PM Pat Martin wrote:
>> The summer birding doldrums came to a spectacular end today with the finding
>> of two large and showy rarities. A Cattle Egret was found by Candy Giles at
>> LaSalle's Landing Park feeding on the lawn. This was not entirely a surprise
>> as there had been a report of one a week or two ago seen on the roof of a
>> car(!) in the airport parking lot. Not exactly a chaseable bird, although at
>> today's sighting there were stories of people who had tried. Then Mike
>> Tetlow, who had spent this SW-windy afternoon at the Braddock Bay hawkwatch
>> counting Bald Eagles, young Broadwings and young Redtails,spied a
>> black-and-white shorebird on the breakwall and drove to the East Spit to
>> check it out. Sure enough, it was an American Avocet. Score another good
>> bird for the new breakwall across the mouth of Braddock Bay.
>>
>> The Cattle Egret was still being seen through early evening. The Avocet was
>> not visible but had not flown, having tucked itself in behind a barrier. It
>> had been flushed once by a young eagle but had returned so might still be
>> present tomorrow morning.
>>
>> ebird hotspot names are LaSalle's Landing Park and Braddock Bay--East Spit.
>>
>> Pat Martin
>>
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