I headed to Aurora around 1:30 today. Met Dave Wheeler and Jin Tarolli there. Dave counted 5 HORNED GREBES and Jim found the one EARED GREBE. That was around 2:40. Good going!
At the north end of Cayuga Lake, I saw all 3 SWAN SPECIES. Lots of CANADA GEESE, but did not come up with a small goose. Next stop was Van Dyn Spore Road, a NORTHERN FLICKER was calling in the woods. A very cooperative NORTHER SHRIKE was half way out past the woods in the top of a tree looking very shrike-like. That was at 4:00. I stopped by the Potato Building but there was too much snow to easily pick out a Snowy Owl, but there was a light-phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the top of a telephone pole in front of the building. At the south end of Aurora, 2 GREAT BLUE HERONS flew in front of my car heading east. All in all, a great afternoon! Good Birding, Ann -- 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/ --
