This repeated sighting of a single grebe vs. two grebes together makes me think there are/were three birds on the lake. But I must also say this, past Saturday I was sitting at Myers and watching bird movements, some seemed very random, but I watched lots of Common Mergansers head to south-end of the lake and they were flying quite high and sometimes not visible without binoculars, but they seemed to be heading further south than stopping at Myers. I saw several groups with total of more than 150 birds. My thought was the that the north end was getting frozen, so birds moved to south end of the lake. It would take them an hour plus if they flew 30 to 40 miles an hour. So the grebes probably can also do this. Yesterday afternoon I was home for an errand and I too heard a Bluebird singing in the yard from top of a Norway maple! Today at the bus stop near East Hill Plaza, I heard robin's chuck chucking, but could not see any robins and then I realized a pair of starlings were engaged in romantic moments and one of the starling was making that sound. That was very cool!
Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf<http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http:/www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp:/haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Walker Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:02 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Western Grebe at East Shore Park Hi all, Tim Lenz, Scott Haber and I just spotted the Western Grebe swimming around off East Shore park. Brad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
