?Initially when I saw RBA message from Bob, I thought I don't want to chase the birds. But when Ben reported 11 Lapland Longspurs, I thought I have not seen them in a long time, so I might as well go and look for them.
I followed Dave's directions, but I think better road is Fenner ( a road south of Lansing Genoa Townline rd) as it is well ploughed. All the birds were close to the dairy farm and were very skittish on Mahaney. They kept flying all the time and occasionally landed on the wall of the building on the south west side of the road. Often Horned larks sat separately from the snow buntings. I spent almost half an hour waiting for them to land. Finally a few snow buntings landed on the snow and among them was one Lapland Longspur. By then I think workers were leaving the dairy farm so there was so much of traffic, I deiced to leave. In the afternoon, there was a No. Mockingbird in the yard and eating multiflora rose fruits. It chased away a Cardinal which landed on the bush nearby. He ate for quite sometime! Cheers Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dave Nutter <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2015 2:50 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] many Longspurs, Tompkins/Cayuga Co border, 1 mi east of NYS-34B Benjamin Van Dorn just reported a very high count of at least eleven LAPLAND LONGSPURS among over a thousand SNOW BUNTINGS & HORNED LARKS around the dairy farm at the intersection of Lansing-Genoa Townline Rd and Davis & Mahaney Rds. >From Ithaca take East Shore Drive north to the end. Go left onto NYS-34B >(Ridge Rd) to the county line and take the right turn onto L-G Townline Rd. >The dairy is at the first crossroad, which is Mahaney Rd on the left/north in >Cayuga County, and Davis Rd on the right/south in Tompkins County. Although there was no indication in BVD's text, the field birds are typically in the fields NE of the intersection. For those keeping a Tompkins County list it can be a challenge. --Dave Nutter -- 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/ --
