We watched the hawk migration from Krull County Park in Olcott today with only modest success with the raptors :
93 Turkey Vultures 1 Cooper's Hawk 7 Red-shouldered hawks 12 Red-tailed Hawks 1 American Kestrel Other birds of note: 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Snow Goose (blue morph) 2 Northern Flickers (normally a number around during winter but not many at all this year - these likely just arrived) 1 Northern Shrike - my first since last spring 3 E. Meadowlarks - our first this year After finishing with the hawk watch, I went up to the lake to check the geese, only to see a couple thousand lifting off the water as I pulled up - the coast guard boat had flushed them. I looked them over as best I could and found one blue-morph SNOW GOOSE. Afterwards, at home, I checked the lake in front of the house and had one CACKLING GOOSE among the 2000 or so Canada Geese there. A flock of 60 COMMON REDPOLLS showed up at our feeders. With them was a possible female HOARY REDPOLL that eluded my feeble attempts to photograph it. It was quite pale with limited thin streaking below, it was much paler above than the other redpolls, it had mostly unstreaked undertail coverts, a mostly unstreaked rump, and a bill that may not have been any smaller than on the Commons. Thus, my reticence to call it. There was also a male PURPLE FINCH here, which arrived on Tuesday. Good birding! Willie ------------------ Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY dannapotterATroadrunner.com http://www.betsypottersart.com <http://www.betsypottersart.com/> 2013 Big Year: http://www.betsypottersart.com/willie-s-photos/2013-big-year/ Big Year List: http://www.happtech.com/BigYearDanna/CurrentList/ShowCurrentListTable.aspx Odenates: http://www.betsypottersart.com/willie-s-photos/dragonflies -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
