Not much that wasn't reported by others, but.... On Saturday morning I did part of the Cortland Christmas Bird Count (Summerhill - Lick Street to Groton area) and although there was not much of interest in the woods (except seeing the same Evening Grosbeak flock at Hovel Chalet), our best bird was a female YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER in the cemetery above Groton.
Mid-day on Saturday, I was at Stewart Park seeing the KING EIDER near the red lighthouse jetty -- also saw the female LONG-TAILED DUCK, immature GLAUCOUS GULL ( odd plumage, not cream-colored like a first-cycle or white like a second cycle, but with whitish wingtips and pink bill with black tip – I wonder if it is a Nelson's gull?), adult LESSER-BLACK-BACKED GULL, and adult ICELAND GULL with slaty wing-tip spots. I counted 600 HERRING GULLS and saw the large REDHEAD flock in the Hog's Hole area with SCAUP, 1 CANVASBACK, and 3 male BUFFLEHEAD mixed in. Early this morning a single COMMON REDPOLL flew over my yard in Northeast Ithaca. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) [email protected] -- 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/ --
