A friend sent me a photo of the chick in the nest time stamped 10:45 am today. is it possible John’s group was looking at a different nest? I know Gary K said he spent a bunch of time looking at the wrong nest a couple of weeks ago. Susan
> On Apr 19, 2015, at 7:02 PM, Paul Schmitt <pschmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, I have photos of both chicks and adult from Saturday morning. This > report does not match. > > Paul Schmitt > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Apr 19, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Marie P. Read <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: >> >> Correction: I was at the GH Owl nest THURSDAY morning, around 9:00 am. One >> adult and one large nestling were visible in the nest. >> < I was there myself on Friday morning when the owls were definitely in >> residence.> >> >> Marie >> >> >> >> >> Marie Read Wildlife Photography >> 452 Ringwood Road >> Freeville NY 13068 USA >> >> Phone 607-539-6608 >> e-mail m...@cornell.edu >> >> http://www.marieread.com >> >> Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin Available here: >> >> http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/G0000NlCxX37uTzE/C0000BPFGij6nLfE >> ________________________________________ >> From: bounce-119069866-5851...@list.cornell.edu >> [bounce-119069866-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Marie P. Read >> [m...@cornell.edu] >> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 6:08 PM >> To: John Confer; CAYUGABIRDS-L >> Subject: RE:[cayugabirds-l] SFO learns alchemy - GH Owl nest >> >> John Confer wrote: >> >> < We drove over to the golf course and first stopped to see the Great Horned >> Owl nest. To our total surprise, , although there was no owl in sight, there >> was a Red-tailed Hawk flat on the nest as if incubating. I know some species >> reuse the nest of other species, but two raptor species in the same season? >> If the red-tail is incubating, it must have started laying almost >> immediately after the GHOW left, because it was there just two weeks ago. >> >> Well that is totally bizarre, because some friends of mine said they saw the >> GH Owls on that nest Saturday afternoon (I think) and I was there myself on >> Friday morning when the owls were definitely in residence. >> >> What happened? >> >> Marie >> >> >> Marie Read Wildlife Photography >> 452 Ringwood Road >> Freeville NY 13068 USA >> >> Phone 607-539-6608 >> e-mail m...@cornell.edu >> >> http://www.marieread.com >> >> Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin Available here: >> >> http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/G0000NlCxX37uTzE/C0000BPFGij6nLfE >> ________________________________________ >> From: bounce-119069750-5851...@list.cornell.edu >> [bounce-119069750-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of John Confer >> [con...@ithaca.edu] >> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 4:56 PM >> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L; John Confer >> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] SFO learns alchemy >> >> The warbler team had a moderately good day. We did not find many migrants: >> one White-throated Sparrow as we were leaving the Lab and then a >> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker calling as we got into the cars. The swan pen at >> Stewart Park had few birds and the waterfront produced the more common >> waterfowl. An ornithology class from Binghamton did find a Ruddy Duck, which >> we missed. We heard and saw Fish Crow, at least 5 around the picnic tables >> near the band shelter. We did hear the wheesey call and see glimpses of two >> Blue-gray Gnatcatchers along the west band of Fall Creek. >> >> >> We drove over to the golf course and first stopped to see the Great Horned >> Owl nest. To our total surprise, , although there was no owl in sight, there >> was a Red-tailed Hawk flat on the nest as if incubating. I know some species >> reuse the nest of other species, but two raptor species in the same season? >> If the red-tail is incubating, it must have started laying almost >> immediately after the GHOW left, because it was there just two weeks ago. >> >> >> Jetty Woods had ~30 cormorants distributed among two trees with a lot of >> guano beneath them, suggesting several days stay. We had a fine view of a >> flicker singing, if you call it that, and then later the same bird on the >> ground, apparently eating ants. >> >> >> Perhaps most enjoyably, we found a White-breasted Nuthatch pair carrying >> material into a cavity in the end of a large, broken branch along the south >> end of Jetty Woods. 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