Here are my previous emails on "albino RT" from as far back as 1997 (refering even further back to 1995) , about the white RT at this same or nearby location ! Please note the dates.
Nari Mistry ------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:49:18 -0500 To: Upstate NY Birding <[email protected]> From: "Nari B. Mistry" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: albino Red-tail Is it not intriguing that Albino Red-tails have been reported from the Great Gully Rd. area for at least the last 7 years? Can it be the same individual, or has it become a genetic trait (not supposed to be dominant!)? I first saw one in 1995 and reported it. Then I reported it again in 1997 (see below) and again a few times since then, all from the same general area, within a few miles. Nari Mistry Ithaca ====================================== Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 08:53:34 -0500 From: "Nari Mistry, Newman Lab., Cornell University" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Another White Hawk (town of Fleming) To: [email protected] I was very intrigued to hear of the white buteo in the Town of Fleming. A few years ago I saw (and reported to the Lab of O) an albino red-tail at that exact location, at the corner of Rte 34B and Black St (just a few yards from TownLine Rd.) in the Town of Fleming. I just referred to my notes and the mark on the map to confirm this. My notes are very clear--after the first excitement of thinking "Gyrfalcon!" on seeing it perched by the road on a fence, it flew some distance and the red tail & buteo wings were very clear It must be the same albino now, as the odds are otherwise too great against it being another at the same location. If so, it must be coming there every year and should be a regular feature of that area. Glad to know it's still alive and well. Nari Mistry Ithaca, NY ------------------------------------------- At 4:44 PM -0500 11/12/02, Mickey Scilingo wrote: Matt V just called me to say that he saw what he believes to be an albino Red-tailed Hawk along Great Gully Rd just a little while ago. He described the bird as all white, with a small tinge of red along the tail. There were at least 5 small black flecks on the birds head, and it has a yellow bill with a black tip. The bird was located on Great Gully Rd, 1.1 miles west of 34B, near a blue and gold historical placard that reads "Cayuga Townline Rd." The bird was sitting hunched in a tree along the edge of the field to the north of the historical marker. Mickey Scilingo Parish, NY ________________________________________ Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Leucistic Red-tail Yesterday, 3.10.11. John & I were driving southeast (sorta') on Ridge Rd. to where it joins 34B north of Scipioville when I spotted an odd white bird on the ground in the cornfield. As we stopped, it flew up & landed in a tree in the hedgerow. The tail fanned beautifully in the wind. No wonderment there. RED-TAIL. Body was mostly white with a bit of dark feathers on the top of the head & wing tips. We wondered if this was the same bird from a few yrs. ago .. oh, my ... it's been a good 10 yrs. ago .... so maybe an offspring. The one we had seen yrs. ago was farther north but who's to say how big the territory is??? Whatever, whoever, it was a beautiful sight & a real tret. Good birding, all. Fritzie -- 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/ --
