At 3:00 on Thursday afternoon, my daughter Francesca Chu and her friend Madeline Turner and I saw two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS kiting above the west side of the intersection of Cherry and Warren Roads in Lansing, near the edge of the Ithaca airport. Two Syracuse birders found these birds as well. I had no magnifying optics, but one hawk's wings appeared as white as I've ever seen on this species. The other was darker, but still I'd call it a light-morph bird.
eBird records from the past few days show lots of Rough-legged Hawk sightings here and over on the Snyder Road side of the airport property, as well as a couple on Burdick Hill Road. Mark Chao --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- 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/ --
