The barn is between Freeville & McLean, more specifically along the SE side of Fall Creek Rd between Red Mill Rd & Malloryville Rd. Google maps shows a building complex associated with a closed farm stand. Below is the eBird rare bird report which I saved. The record doesn’t show up in the eBird database if you search Black Vulture, but I am still able to access it from this link, so it hasn’t been deleted, revised, or hidden, I guess just not confirmed.
> > Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) (2) > - Reported Feb 16, 2024 11:34 by Paul Rodewald > - 340–350 Fall Creek Rd, Freeville US-NY (42.5289,-76.3158), Tompkins, New > York > - Map: > http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=42.528927,-76.315839&ll=42.528927,-76.315839 > - Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S162563609 > - Comments: "Two BLVUs flying from barn at this location. Seems early for > northern limit of breeding range, but appeared to be inspecting a potential > or prior nest location." > - - Dave Nutter > On Mar 5, 2024, at 10:53 PM, anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: > > Seems to me unlikely that many black vultures are nesting north of us. We > should see more incl juveniles in fall. Maybe I haven’t been on top of the > observations, but doesn’t match my memory. So migrating through???? > > Where’s this barn? Near McLean or Lime Hollow? > > I will say that I haven’t seen them overhead here just outside of Freeville > but I am completely capable of missing birds, even big black ones I should be > noticing. 😬 > > Anne > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 5, 2024, at 12:14 AM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Paul Rodewald said a pair of Black Vultures seemed to be prospecting a barn >> recently between Freeville & Cortland. >> >> Last year the number of sightings over downtown Ithaca & lower S Hill, & >> near Titus Flats/ Wegmans/ the Elmira Rd strip seemed like some affinity - >> maybe nesting nearby? Or is it just that there are lots of potential >> observers, and they are conspicuous so they get reported more here even >> though they travel widely? Anyway it seems to be continuing. Is there a food >> source for them in the neighborhood? Or did they nest here? >> >> I wonder how many pairs we are dealing with, how many birds are local, and >> how many of the birds seen recently have been migrating through. >> >> - - Dave Nutter >> >>> On Mar 4, 2024, at 5:07 PM, anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Let’s try to figure out where they nest this year!! >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Mar 4, 2024, at 12:04 PM, Laura Stenzler <l...@cornell.edu> wrote: >>>> >>>> A new yard bird this morning over Hunt Hill Road. Two black vultures >>>> circling each other just flew over. >>>> Laura >>>> >>>> Laura Stenzler >>>> l...@cornell.edu >>>> -- >>>> >>>> (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") >>>> >>>> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >>>> NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm >>>> NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm >>>> NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm >>>> >>>> ARCHIVES: >>>> 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html >>>> 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds >>>> 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ >>>> >>>> Please submit your observations to eBird: >>>> ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ >>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> -- >>> >>> (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") >>> >>> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >>> NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm >>> NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm >>> NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm >>> >>> ARCHIVES: >>> 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html >>> 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds >>> 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ >>> >>> Please submit your observations to eBird: >>> ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ >>> >>> -- >> >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> ABA >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
