Yesterday, when we were on 89 somewhere north of Union Springs, I saw one Cormorant and another one was on main drive, but did not have enough time to alert to others as they were busy looking at something else.
Our group also encountered a singing Brown Creeper and a few Golden Crowned Kinglets. South wind were killers in the morning. If I had let loose myself to fly, I think I could have flown easily. I had to consciously keep my feet to ground. No doubt birds were also doing the same. Today, watching Great Horned owl on the nest reminded me of two childhood stories- one of Mahabharata and second Birbal-Akbar stories. As Suan mentioned in his post all of us watched the Great Horned Owl adult through the scope as we were looking "for" the adult until I saw through the scope fourth time and found the fuzzy white ball of a baby. One story was about if teacher asks to focus on a subject how sharp students can focus on one subject alone and ignore the surroundings and the second was about trust in teachers. I know now why these kinds of stories are told to kids! Same was true for noticing or not noticing American Goldfinches and House Sparrows during the trip, which were ubiquitous at some locations. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: bounce-79964342-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-79964342-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com [nutter.d...@me.com] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 5:44 PM To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Long Point Lakewatch Driving south on NYS-89 this afternoon, coming home from the SFO Montezuma overnight, we saw a single CORMORANT, SP in the water close to shore north of Ernsberger Road, but we did not stop to ID it, which was probably dumb. If anyone wants to track it down, it may still be there and there may be time to double check it before sunset. --Dave Nutter On Apr 07, 2013, at 04:16 PM, "Kenneth V. Rosenberg" <k...@cornell.edu> wrote: Given the weather and the winds I decided to do a Lakewatch from Long Point State Par, arriving around 8 am. It was almost too windy to stand and look through a scope but I was able to huddle on the lee side of the small lighthouse on the point. the most tantalizing sighting though was distant flock of 5 Cormorants flying fairly high up the middle of the lake. All were adults but the lead bird was 30% larger than the rest- both in bulk and in wingspan. I had the In my scope for about 20 seconds. It it was pretty bouncy and I could not make out any white or other field marks. It's hard to see how that wouldn't be a Great Cormorant, though. -- 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/>! -- -- 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/ --
