This morning (Thursday 25 August) at 6:42am I watched the 2 Great Egrets fly over the Equine Drug Testing Lab (opposite the east end of Cherry Rd, north of the airport) and toward the Cornell experimental ponds which were hidden from my view by fences and vegetation. Again, anyone with access to
Tuesday 23 August I stood by the North Triphammer Road bridge over NYS 13 as a
gorgeous sunrise spread across the clouds to the west. At 6:24am the 2 Great
Egrets appeared over the horizon to the southwest. Although they crossed North
Triphammer to the south of me, their course carried them
This evening (Monday 22 August) the egrets are, like last night, sleeping
separately. I walked through the dusk to have a brief look (8:35-8:40pm). Yet
this morning as I scoped from East Shore Park they appeared nearly
simultaneously out from behind Jetty Woods at 6:18am and immediately flew,
...Route 13 and disappeared to the east over the trees and out of the lake
valley.
(Sorry again about the hair-trigger send feature on this device I'm using.)
--Dave Nutter
Ithaca, NY
On Aug 22, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:
This evening (Monday 22 August) the egrets
From 8:20-8:30pm this evening (21 Aug) I was by the mouth of Treman Marina
gazing across Cayuga Inlet at our 2 local roosting Great Egrets. The sedentary
one was on it's usual perch. The active one moved among 5 different perches
during the darkening 10 minutes I watched. When I left it was on
Back at dawn today, Saturday 20 August, I found the 2 Great Egrets perched near
each other in the same tree as I left them. At 6:20am the first took flight,
and judging by perch choice it was the same one that flew first yesterday
without me seeing it. It flew north, then turned sharply east
At 7pm this evening (Saturday 20 August) Laurie and I settled in on a bench
north of the mouth of Treman Marina to await the arrival of our egrets. Judging
by how long they took to disappear from view after taking off in the morning I
figured I might have 6 minutes of lead time to see where
Sorry about that - the message got sent before it was finished. Consider this
interval while I finish writing to be like waiting for the egrets...
At 7:31pm I spotted the first Great Egret, but perhaps because I was only armed
with binoculars, it was only a minute away from landing. I first
Today (Friday 19 August) I checked out the Ithaca egret roost in the morning and in the evening. During a dawn lull in work I stopped by Treman Marina and saw the 2 GREAT EGRETS in their separate trees a few minutes after 6am as I had left them Thursday night. Unfortunately I got distracted and
This evening (Thursday 18 August) the two Great Egrets were clearly identifiable with binoculars at 8:30pm in the same two trees as before.--Dave NutterOn Aug 13, 2011, at 07:48 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:This evening (13 August) I took a walk along Cayuga Inlet by Cass Park to
Two GREAT EGRETS were roosting in the same spot on the edge of Jetty Woods next to Cayuga Inlet this evening, 6 August. Also seen on this evening's canoe-paddle all the way around the red lighthouse: 3 GREAT BLUE HERONS, 2 BELTED KINGFISHERS, 2 PURPLE MARTINS, 3 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, 32 CASPIAN
The Great Egret is roosting in the same place this evening, 2 August.
--Dave Nutter
Ithaca, NY
On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:
On this evening's (1 Aug) canoe-paddle on Cayuga Inlet Laurie and I saw a
Great Egret atop a small tree on the edge of Jetty
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