Some birding highlights from Lansing on Friday afternoon:
* Extensive bands of ice on the edges and center of the lake both north and south of Myers Park, but mostly open water close to shore south of the lighthouse and private marina. Many diverse dabbling and diving birds, including dozens of TUNDRA SWANS, a few GADWALLS, and a RED-NECKED GREBE. * Three HORNED LARKS on the beach at Myers, maybe the first of this species I've ever seen here * An intrepid BELTED KINGFISHER on a wooden pile at the edge of the marina * One adult and one first-year BALD EAGLE over the cove between the marina and Portland Point Road * One light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the east end of Snyder Road by the Ithaca/Tompkins airport. The gray-morph EASTERN SCREECH-OWL has appeared approximately two of every three days throughout February, including today, in our nest box in northeast Ithaca. Mark Chao --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- 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/ --
