Late last night, I decided to try for the dazzling super-vagrant reported in Montgomery, Orange County, today. This morning, while still at home, and again right after gassing up, and getting on the LIE, I made 5 calls to prospective trip mates, who to a man, couldn't, or in one instance, had seen the bird yesterday . It was a fairly long day, during which I put 323 miles on my wife's Prius, which at 46 mpg, at least made it easy on the pocket-book !
Before going on I would like to thank: 1) Curt McDermott for finding the Crested Caracara. 2) P.J. Singh for re-finding the bird. 3} Karen Miller for allowing me to follow her from spot #1 to spot #2, after arriving at the Rt. 17K location at ~ 1145, only to find that it had been seen on the other side of town, at the golf course o/o Rt 208. 4) Bob Proniewych for being "Top Gun" out of a group of ~ 15 of us, by calling out the Caracara in a maze ot trees, after we had been at spot #2 for some time, constantly checking out the sky, the trees, the dead possum, and anything that moved ! 5) The owner of the golf course for his hospitality. This bird, of course was a state bird for me, and as I went to enter it in my "Birding Bible", was a bit surprised to find the date of my first ever C/C (aka Audubon's Caracara) to be just a day off, on 4/12/97. Even though today's weather was delightful, I'm sure it was well below the earlier date, which occurred in Tambor, on the west coast of Costa Rica ! Cheers, Bob -- 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/ --
