I spoke with the homeowner this morning and received permission to allow limited access to his backyard by invitation.
So here's the deal. The address is 12 Bacon Lane, Loudonville, NY. Bacon Lane is just north of Osborne Road. On the corner there's a Genoa Imports deli/grocery (I'm told they make a terrific sandwich). If you're interested in going there today (Friday) let me know and we can meet up this morning at 10 o'clock, and this afternoon at 2 o'clock and go in as a group. Tomorrow, Saturday, we can also meet up and go in again, So let's say 8 o'clock, 10 o'clock, and 2 o'clock. Same for Sunday. The goal here is to get as many people in as we can without disrupting these good people's lives and outwear our welcome. We can hope that the bird sticks around so that those who cannot make it this weekend can try at some later date. But by then, I would imagine that all that really want to will have "gotten" the bird by then. Incidentally, for the benefit of out of towners, the (somewhat) nearby Red-headed Woodpecker is still being seen daily, and the (less somewhat) nearby Townsend's Solitaire has been seen recently as well. -----> So if interested, please e-mail me with a day and time that you think you can be there, and we can make arrangements. Again targeting 10 this morning, 2 this afternoon; 10 Saturday, 2 Saturday afternoon; and the same for Sunday. After that it will have to be more tailored arrangements. Please bear with us. This whole effort is to maintain some level of decorum so we don't cause stress, inconvenience or annoyance to the good homeowners. And there's no guarantee just how this somewhat skittish bird will react to a bunch of binoculars aimed in his direction. We;ll just have to see. Thanks Rich Guthrie [email protected] ' -- Richard Guthrie -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
