Two days ago, I went to the CLO Observatory on lunch break and watched a lone American Crow, moving around on the pond ice (30’ away so easy to watch with binocs), selecting morsels of ice (small balls it appeared) and ingesting them. Later it moved over to an area where there were black bits, maybe seeds or something blown over from the feeding area and picked at those as well. But the first sequence was definitely ice, not ‘stuff’. I wondered why it didn’t move to the small area of open water though the ice edge might have been too fragile for it and it knew that.
______________________ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 On Jan 29, 2014, at 20:03, Linda Orkin <wingmagi...@gmail.com<mailto:wingmagi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Nice sequence. Note his final comment about heat loss. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:55 PM, "Christine C. Bogdanowicz" <c...@cornell.edu<mailto:c...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Thought this would be an appropriate read ;-) http://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2014/01/26/frost-eating-white-crowned-sparrow/ Christine C. Bogdanowicz<mailto:c...@cornell.edu> Assistant Director for Academic Programs Shoals Marine Laboratory<http://www.sml.cornell.edu/> 106A Kennedy Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3851: office (607) 379-3341: mobile/cell (607) 255-0742: fax On Jan 29, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Marie P. Read <m...@cornell.edu<mailto:m...@cornell.edu>> wrote: Regarding winter bird hydration: I've seen several species of bird "eat" snow (e.g. Northern Cardinal, Common Redpoll). I've also seen chickadees hovering to sip from melting icicles. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu<mailto:m...@cornell.edu> http://www.marieread.com<http://www.marieread.com/> ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 ________________________________________ From: bounce-112260081-5851...@list.cornell.edu<mailto:bounce-112260081-5851...@list.cornell.edu> [bounce-112260081-5851...@list.cornell.edu<mailto:bounce-112260081-5851...@list.cornell.edu>] on behalf of Eben McLane [etmcl...@gmail.com<mailto:etmcl...@gmail.com>] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 7:11 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] bird hydration I’m sure someone knows how birds in the wild stay hydrated in a prolonged cold snap, such as we’re experiencing. I know that sunflower seeds in feeders provide some moisture, but I can’t see any main water sources around my house that aren’t frozen solid. (I live just above Owasco Lake, and even the entire lake is frozen over this year, as are the waterfall tributaries.) Do birds “drink” snow in some way? I’d be grateful for information about this. 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