I don't know why they have chosen our sanctuary. Perhaps because we are surrounded by thousands of acres of agribusiness monoculture. For the last several days our spruce and pine plantations have been host to a remarkable dawn and dusk flight of robins and red-wings. They come in to roost at dusk and fly off at dawn. Beyond counting, the numbers are in the thousands.It's a beautiful sight and a wonderful reward for a vision of creating habitat that came some 28 years ago. john -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat"
On Thu, March 27, 2014 08:55, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote: > Hi all, > In about 2 min I saw 48 robins fly from Mundy Wildflower garden direction > over my > building. Actually 48 one returned back to Mundy. I think they were heading > towards > buckthorn trees at the junction of Judd Falls and Campus Road vicinity. > > Cheers > Meena > > Dr. Meena Haribal > Boyce Thompson Institute > Ithaca NY 14850 > Ph: 607-3011167 > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > http://haribal.org/ > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- -- 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/ --
