I was there about then, missed the loon, but I did help pull that Ford SUV out
of the ditch on Stevenson by the farm. Your mitzvah makes a better story and
the Loon probably didn't have AAA to help him!
Phillip McNeil
607.342.5031
On Saturday, January 6, 2018, 5:01:19 PM EST, Jgaffne2 <[email protected]>
wrote:
What a great story
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 6, 2018, at 3:39 PM, Kevin J. McGowan <[email protected]> wrote:
I went to the game farm today to census crows and try to find some year birds
(like Black Vulture). I was looking in the active pheasant pen at the NW corner
of farm where the Black Vultures have been hanging out. I didn’t see Black
Vultures, but I noticed a RED-THROATED LOON sitting in the snow in the field
north of the farm! Ten feet into Dryden!
Although the loon made a pitiful effort to “run” away from me, it was pretty
simple to wrap it up in a blanket and pick it up. Its wings and feet were
functioning well, and I didn’t see any blood, injuries, or abrasions on it, so
I decided to take it to Cayuga Lake and release it.
It did not understand, of course, anything I was trying to do for it, but it
knew what the lake was. As I was carrying it down to the shore at East Shore
Park, it started lunging forward in my hands and making running motions with
its feet. It swam away quickly when I released it, dove, came up, flapped, and
started preening.
Not the way I thought my day was going to start.
I have a photo in my checklist at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41675570.
Kevin
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