October 11, 2009: Buffalo Ornithological Society Fall Bird Count - Alden, New York

Today I took some picture while counting birds around Alden, NY for the Buffalo Ornithological Society annual October count

Fall scenes around Joe Panza Nature Trail

Grey Catbird

White Throated Sparrow

Winter Wren

Billo Road in Alden:

Field Sparrow

Horned Grebes

Great Egret

Brown-Headed Cowbird

October 10, 2009: Apple Picking and Touring Ithaca and Central NY

Today we started visiting the apple farm Little Orchards in Newfield, NY, just south of Ithaca

Lilies in the water

Yellow flowers

Some photos from the apple picking, and of fall colors

Now, some photos from Taughannock Falls State Park (Upper Falls)

This Turkey Vulture flew by

Now the Montezuma NWR area:

(The "Main Pool")

Pectoral Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Northern Shoveler

From the Savannah Mucklands:

Greater Black Backed Gull

Snow Geese flying

Bald Eagle

Sandhill Crane

Horned Lark

Swamp Sparrow

Song Sparrow