Spent about 5 hours on Monday, Feb 13, searching for the Great Gray Owl that's been seen in the area of Robert Moses State Park in Massena. Finally found it as I was heading out. Had plenty of good looks at it as it was perched in a tree snag along side of the road, at one point flying to another snag, then flying back and forth across the road. I found it on the exit road just before the turnoff to the northern observation lookout to the canal and the canal underpass. It was in an area of fairly open field with sparcely spaced deciduous trees and tree snags. The owl seemed to like tree snags about 15 feet in height.
In addition to the owl there were about 30 Common Goldeneye and twice that many Common Mergansers in the open water at the Power Authority Visitor Center. Several other birders told me that there was a Northern Shrike seen several places along Robinson Bay Road and two Peregrine Falcons on the bridge on Barnhart Island Road. I missed the shrike and peregrines but couldn't miss the several hundred American Robins and European Starlings feeding along the road. George --------------------------------- George Steele Website: www.georgesteele.webs.com Blog: www.schoolyardnaturalist.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
