Hi Meena, Good to see you at Taughannoch.
John and Sue Gregoire and I thought that some of the big, loose flocks of loons that were well north of the point we stood on at Taughannoch was far more likely to take them over the southern tip of Seneca Lake than to the southern tip of Cayuga Lake. As I look at Google Earth, that seems a much more likely location that they fly over over than the southern tip of Cayuga. Measured in Google, it looks to me that the southern tip of Cayuga Lake is more than 10 miles east of due south from the tip of Taughannock. Cheers, John ________________________________________ From: bounce-119895794-25065...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-119895794-25065...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Meena Madhav Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 4:00 PM To: k...@empacc.net Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Loon watch and foy here John, I am not sure if they are following Susquehanna or they are just taking a direct route. If you look up on the map, it seems they can fly directly to Chesapeake Bay in direct line, they don't need to follow Route 15 as we do. Route 15 is at least 20 miles left to their target destination in our area. Also, as I mentioned earlier the Cayuga Lake southern tip bends to east substantially by about 4 or 5 miles to the east from Taughannock State park if draw straight line south. They know what they are doing! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf ________________________________________ From: John and Sue Gregoire <k...@empacc.net> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:03 PM To: Meena Madhav Haribal Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: Loon watch and foy here Meena pls pass to Wes and Diane. Sue and I continued on to Seneca Lake where we found no loons. In thinking about those high Southwestward flyers we believe they had plenty of altitude to spot the Susquehanna and thus took a bit more direct route down Rte 15! (runs alongside the river from Corning south). At home we also had Fox Sparrow and our FOY American Tree Sparrow. Terrific morning with good company! John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" On Sat, November 14, 2015 10:37, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote: > Hi all, > > Today morning Loon Watch trip somebody seem to have lost the eye piece cap > for Nikon -- 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/ --
