Yesterday, when we were on 89 somewhere north of Union Springs, I saw one
Cormorant and another one was on main drive, but did not have enough time to
alert to others as they were busy looking at something else.
Our group also encountered a singing Brown Creeper and a few Golden Crowned
Kinglets.
South wind were killers in the morning. If I had let loose myself to fly, I
think I could have flown easily. I had to consciously keep my feet to ground.
No doubt birds were also doing the same.
Today, watching Great Horned owl on the nest reminded me of two childhood
stories- one of Mahabharata and second Birbal-Akbar stories.
As Suan mentioned in his post all of us watched the Great Horned Owl adult
through the scope as we were looking for the adult until I saw through the
scope fourth time and found the fuzzy white ball of a baby.
One story was about if teacher asks to focus on a subject how sharp students
can focus on one subject alone and ignore the surroundings and the second was
about trust in teachers. I know now why these kinds of stories are told to
kids! Same was true for noticing or not noticing American Goldfinches and House
Sparrows during the trip, which were ubiquitous at some locations.
Cheers
Meena
Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
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Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 5:44 PM
To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Long Point Lakewatch
Driving south on NYS-89 this afternoon, coming home from the SFO Montezuma
overnight, we saw a single CORMORANT, SP in the water close to shore north of
Ernsberger Road, but we did not stop to ID it, which was probably dumb. If
anyone wants to track it down, it may still be there and there may be time to
double check it before sunset.
--Dave Nutter
On Apr 07, 2013, at 04:16 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu wrote:
Given the weather and the winds I decided to do a Lakewatch from Long Point
State Par, arriving around 8 am. It was almost too windy to stand and look
through a scope but I was able to huddle on the lee side of the small
lighthouse on the point.
the most tantalizing sighting though was distant flock of 5 Cormorants flying
fairly high up the middle of the lake. All were adults but the lead bird was
30% larger than the rest- both in bulk and in wingspan. I had the
In my scope for about 20 seconds. It it was pretty bouncy and I could not make
out any white or other field marks. It's hard to see how that wouldn't be a
Great Cormorant, though.
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