Having received word about this afternoon's Mississippi Kite (thanks to Toms Schulenberg and Johnson), I pulled in at Bluegrass Lane of Hanshaw Rd. around 3:30. Shortly after arriving, I spotted a BLACK VULTURE circling up from the vicinity of Cornell campus and drifting towards the east over the equine center woods (Tom S.) got it as a yard bird from his house. Other birds in the sky proved to be a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, COOPERS HAWK, sev. TURKEY VULTURES, and sev. RED-TAILED HAWKS. After being joined by Paul Anderson for awhile, we had a scare when a couple of distant Ring=billed Gulls flew below the horizon, showing gray and black pointed wings. Also in the field there was a singing SAVANAH SPARROW, BOBOLINK, displaying HORNED LARK, and flyover AMERICAN PIPIT.
While we watched, we heard that Tom J. re-spotted the KITE from Judd Falls Rd., again heading towards Ithaca along Fall Creek. The tall woods around Stewart Park seem a likely area for this bird to end up - hopefully for a reappearance. Earlier in the morning, I cleaned up on some of yesterday's arrivals, finding the CERULEAN WARBLER in Renwick Woods, BROWN THRASHER, sev. BLUE-WINGED WARBLERS, many YELLOWS, and a drumming RUFFED GROUSE behind the airport, at least 10 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS in the bird-feeding garden at the Lab of Ornithology (very impressive close views), and a singing NASHVILLE WARBLER in my yard. KEN ********************************************** Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca NY 14850 Phone: 607-254-2412 cell: 607-342-4594 [email protected] www.birds.cornell.edu -- 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 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
