Ahah, a wydah?? cool indeed, but I think we can therefore safely rule out a scissor-tailed there too!!
Hmmm, so, the provenance of the photo I was shown.... My friend said his wife took it and emailed it to him, but I bet she saw the bird, tried to identify it and came up with the scissor-tailed photo on some website and sent it to him, and he misunderstood where it came from. I'll see him again tomorrow and we'll find out for sure. --John On Sep 8, 2011, at 5:42 PM, Tim Lenz wrote: > Didn't find a scissor tailed here but there is a wydah coming to the feeders, > I think a pin-tailed wydah. Cool bird. > > On Thursday, September 8, 2011, John Greenly <j...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > The dregs of this tropical storm appear to have brought us more than rain- > > I was just shown a very clear cell-phone photo of a SCISSOR-TAILED > > FLYCATCHER perched on a horizontal wire, said to have been taken just a few > > minutes ago on the grounds at Sterling House of Ithaca, which is on Bundy > > Rd just off 96, on the left on the way up to the hospital. It is a > > retirement community, I don't know anything about the situation for public > > access. > > > > --John Greenly > > > > -- > > > > 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/ > > > > -- > > > > -- > Tim Lenz > t...@cornell.edu > Web Applications Developer > Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- 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/ --
