Took a long trip to Chimney Bluffs State Park with my wife to see the Western
Grebe. The Western Grebe was seen for quite some time and fairly easily found.
Great views. Great bird. Life Bird. Many other birders were there to see this
extralimital bird. Even if we didn't see the western grebe, t
I went with birding with my parents all day today
(Saturday). We drove up the lake. Near King Ferry, we saw a flock
of about a hundred Snow Geese flying around, Blues mixed in.
At Montezuma, there were tons of ducks, and many Tundra Swans.
Highlights included a close up Ruddy Duck , and Green
Unlike previous years, John & I found no sign of any geese, snows or Canadas,
anywhere around the Sherwood Rd. farm pond. We stopped to talk to the Cox's
just beyond the pond & to their dismay & ours, apparently hunters had been
allowed in the area for the first time ever. Mrs. Cox said soon as
A group of us (Laura Kammermeier, Mike Powers, Tina Phillips, Lang Elliott and
me) headed down to Stewart Park to watch, and mostly photograph, birds this
morning. After focussing much of our attention on the Common Mergansers, we
headed into the woods to try to see the Great Horned Owl nest. Ev
(Meant to post this yesterday but life got in the way).
A large black bird laboring under the weight of something pale that it was
carrying in its bill caught my eye as I headed home from my Mt Pleasant walk
Friday afternoon. As I continued up the hill, a second one took off from the
road—they
Hi all,
Over Hunt Hill Rd. (east of Ithaca) this beautiful Saturday afternoon (1:30)
were two very cooperative, low flying, slowly circling GOLDEN EAGLES, flying
over within 10 minutes of each other. Also seen between 12 and 1:30 were 3
TURKEY VULTURES, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 2 KILLDEER, 1 RAVEN
With pipits as our target species, Susie & I headed out to walk about Mt.
Pleasant this morning. Uncharacteristically, we actually found some; a
flock of 21 AMER. PIPITS landed in a field close to the road with some AMER
ROBINS. They did not stay long. Also, we came upon a SINGING FOX SPARROW,
h
Sorry for the lateness of this. Yesterday at around noon Dave Loparco
found and a number of others re-found a male Eurasian Widgeon at
Tsache (sp) pool at MNWR.
Bard
Bard Prentiss
P O Box 283
Dryden, NY 13053
607-844-4691
prenti...@frontiernet.net
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Still at chimney bluffs state park as of 1030am Sat 3/20
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