I would bet it's the same 2 Bald Eagles on Duboise Rd as have been at the south end of the lake. Several times I've seen them fly from the south end of the lake up the west side to a point midway to the Ithaca Yacht Club and seeming to favor a particular tall White Pine. I haven't seen them since the turn of the year, nor were they reported on the Count, but Kevin McGowan saw one at Stewart Park on 3 January putting it on Count Week and nabbing a coveted first report of the year for that species until someone else reports a Bald Eagle in the basin on the first or second. I strongly suspect the birds were around.
Speaking of raptors, I saw my second ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK of the year today, another light form, and again just outside the Town of Ithaca, but this time to the northwest of the intersection of Sheffield and Hayts Rds. It dropped from a tree with talons grasping into the snow, but I didn't see if it caught anything. A RED-TAILED HAWK was working the same field. On New Year's Day I saw a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on the Danby side of Sandbank Road. Probably if I had waited around instead of continuing with my work I could eventually added it to my Ithaca list. --Dave Nutter On Wednesday, January 06, 2010, at 12:15PM, "Nancy Cusumano" <[email protected]> wrote: > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
