@ The Mothership

Special post of a recent BirdingPI.com “guest roving correspondent” visit to Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY! Beautiful building, interesting facilities/exhibits/art, + plenty of birds in the surrounding Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary.

On approach
Directions
Entrance I
Entrance II
View of “bird feeder cam” area behind fence
Stairs to 2nd floor
Bird wall
Observation tower
Adelson Library
Inner workings
Bird art (example)

Out in the Sanctuary:

Black-capped Chickadee
With cattails
Owens observation platform
View of Lab from trail
Northern Cardinal
GBH
Lab (rear view) from across Sapsucker Woods Pond
Hairy Woodpecker
Canada Goose
Trail map (partial view)
White-breasted Nuthatch
Woods/swamp walkway
Song Sparrow

Recommend a visit when in the Ithaca, NY area!


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