Hi everyone, Eduardo Inigo kindly invited my along for an around-the-lake trip with himself and Maikel Canizares (visiting PhD student, now at the Lab of Ornithology), and while filling out my eBird checklists from the trip I noticed that we seem to have found the first COMMON REDPOLL for the basin this year. We heard (and saw as a dot in the sky) a fly-over redpoll at the Mud Lock boat launch area on the north end of Cayuga Lake, and given the relative abundance of the two redpoll species I am presuming that it was a Common Redpoll. As I noted, this was a lone, fly-over bird that did not appear to land anywhere near where we were standing, so who knows whether it is still in the area, or the Basin for that matter. Be that as it may, it appears that there are redpolls for the counting somewhere in the Basin in the 2012 part of this winter.
I think that the only other birds of note were a small flock of HORNED LARK with a lone LAPLAND LONGSPUR just east of the Ovid Airport, in fields to the south of Parish Rd. Wesley Hochachka -- 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/ --
