I celebrated Sandy Podulka’s find of a juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Taughannock Falls State Park that so many of us saw. I still do.
I said one of the previous Tompkins sightings of the species was an adult along Fall Creek in Freeville. That was in 2018. Today Tom Schulenberg noticed something in eBird that I had overlooked (Thank-you, Tom!). There was a second similar sighting of an adult along Fall Creek in Freeville, this time specifically in Mill Dam Park, THIS YEAR, on May 31 by Gwen Gallagher and a second person not named in the eBird report. Each of those reports has a photo of a beautiful calm bird watching the person. So that’s the newly corrected 2021 Cayuga Lake Basin First Record for the species. This is also cool, because the earlier record was not a single fluke event. Maybe it’s annual, or a pair, or breeding, or the source of the juvenile(s) downstream at Cayuga Lake. Meanwhile, this evening Sandy relocated the juvenile Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in Cass Park in a Willow along the lower reaches of Linderman Creek near where it crosses NYS-89 opposite Cove Lane. Maybe there’s better hunting there than in the soccer field floodles! - - Dave Nutter -- 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/ --
