This morning (13 Jan) I was on Blackchin Blvd, a sidestreet off East Shore Drive above the Bolton Point water intake, when I saw an adult Bald Eagle flying over with what at first looked like a really long, ragged, wedge-shaped tail, which momentarily raised my Adrenalin level. Binoculars revealed that it in its feet which were against the base of its tail, it was carrying a big sheaf of grass, which I assume is destined to be the lining of a nest. I’ve never seen this before, so that was pretty neat.
The eagle was flying more-or-less south when I saw it go overhead, and I don’t know how far it continued that direction, which would quickly bring it to the shore of Cayuga Lake still in the Town of Lansing. Does anyone know of any Eagle nest around there? If the eagle had turned west, maybe after continuing south more to overcome the south wind when crossing the lake, it would have arrived at the existing nest in the gorge along Maplewood Rd in the Town of Ulysses. - - Dave Nutter -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
