Here's Ben Fambrough's original posting on 4 April 2001, which Matt Williams later makes reference to in a follow-up posting two days later on 6 April 2001, regarding the now annual "broken-billed Common Loon".
This loon has been sighted alive at Myers Point over the course of a total of 10 years, 9 months, and 7 days. This repetitive sighting data of an individual helps lend credence to belief that there is strong winter site fidelity in certain additional species/individuals on Cayuga Lake (and at other locales), such as "the" Eared Grebe in Aurora, or the Sheldrake Pacific Loon as Bob eluded to. Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Fambrough Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 1:46 PM To: Upstate NY Birding Subject: even more of the same Last night I indulged myself in an after-work birding stop at my Sandbank Rd spot for Woodcock. At least two were preenting in the moonlight. This morning I stopped by the Sweedler Preserve at Lick Brook and heard a Louisianna Waterthrush singing. A few large groups of Tree Swallows were moving north over the main pool at MNWR on Monday. I saw Matt Williams' winter plumaged Red-throated Loon from Cayuga Lake State Park. Many Common Loons grace the lake, as you know, but one of the Myer's point birds of today at a deformed or broken lower mandible. It seemed otherwise healthy. Ben Fambrough -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
