Pretty quiet in Dryden today. Dryden Lake still has large numbers of mergansers (including at least seven RED-BREASTED), and today a pair of Lesser Scaup, but not much else. Perhaps the best birds were two transitional-plumaged DUNLIN (first found by Stuart Krasnoff) at George Road, near the corner of George Road and Rt. 38. A SPOTTED SANDPIPER was with them as well. Not much else of note at George Road either, although yesterday (and for several days before) I saw a late ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK hanging around that area.
We still have FOX SPARROWS in the yard, joined by a few White-throated Sparrows today. Although we don't have any at the feeders, I saw a COMMON REDPOLL coming to a feeder near the base of Beam Hill (east) just now. Good birding, Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
