European Starling

These are just few of a very large congregation of Starlings.

Fishers and the Auburn - Rochester RR

Took the Auburn Trail into Historic Fishers this morning. This where the RR started in 1840 and was later sold to the NY Central.


The pump house is interesting because the early trains couldn't go more that about 30 miles without taking on water, but had coal for long than that. So the pump house was very important
This one had an underchute water wheel to power the pump using the nearby creek as the water supply.

Hawk and Black-Cap

I've been told that this tree has appeared in many Kodak ads etc. That is before it was hit by lighting.

this Redtailed Hawk sits on the power line where he has a good view of the field.
The Black-cap was going from branch to branch to Cattail. He was funny spending most of his time hanging upside down.

Geocaching along the Flint

Once again we were out geocaching this morning since we are again passed over for the snow to the south. This is Flint creek.
My friends Steve and Deena pointed out this snowman. Pretty neat!

Birds find dinner

This hawk is having his breakfast
I made him nervous so he moved a little further away with meal
A Black Cap looks for food
A Blue bird. This is the best picture I got of him. My camera would not lock on focus so would not take a picture. This is a very annoying "feature" of the camera which prevents you from taking a bad, out of focus picture. When I reset the focus to close focus the bird was gone.

Fort Hill

This a view of Fort Hill taken from the hill to the east where the Indian village of Ganondagan was located. This is a trail we haven't walked on before so it was great to see a new vista. It was snow slightly so the visibility was reduced and will be interesting to see on a clear day.

Some birds are out

This Red Tail was looking over the field for mice etc for breakfast. On the otherside of the street was a murder of crows with what I think was a white crow in amongst them. I tried to get some shots of him but they are blurry and he was way on the otherside of the field. Oh well!
Mean while this Cardinal was breakfasting on the wild grapes still on the vine.