Dave we had a peregrine on Years day. Does that count? Sar On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 3:54 PM Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the fast feedback, folks! > > I have now added the missing Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers from the Ithaca > Christmas Bird Count, which I had inadvertently entered as Yellow-bellied > Flycatcher. > > I have updated the Peregrine Falcon report to 4 January found by Lisa > Podulka at A H Treman State Marine Park in Ithaca, a report I had not > found, although I’d heard rumors of a Peregrine during Count Week. > > I have added Brown-headed Cowbird from John & Sue Gregoire at Kestrel > Haven on Fitzgerald Rd in Hector on 1 January. Until today I only knew of > Cowbirds on Hile School Rd just outside the Basin. Interestingly, 2 other > reports of Cowbirds were also from that part of the basin. > > Regarding the Barred Owl during Count Week, the reports I’ve seen were > either before 2022 or outside the Basin, so the earliest 2022 Basin record > I have is from Cascadilla St in Ithaca on 13 January. Any more info is > welcome. > > I welcome all reports, questions, and corrections. The criteria are: The > bird must be wild, free, alive, and within the Cayuga Lake Basin*. I’m > looking for any independent observations of a species from the earliest > date in 2022. That means if there is a broad migration front and people > find a species several places at once, I’ll try to include them all. If a > species is rare according to eBird (even seasonally rare) I’d like to know > what field marks were observed that prompted the ID as opposed to a similar > but more likely species. > > *The Cayuga Lake Basin includes land which drains into Cayuga Lake. It > also included some land to the north which drains south away from Lake > Ontario but toward the Seneca River or Clyde River and associated canals, > and some land which drains north toward those rivers & canals. The > boundaries on the east and west in this area are from a map in the 1926 > book by Karl Wiegand & Arthur Eames, *The Flora of the Cayuga Lake Basin, > New York: Vascular Plants, * which was adopted by Ornithology professor > and Lab of O founder Arthur Allen as the basic birding territory for study. > Included are Howland Island on the east and Junius Ponds on the west and > all the Montezuma Wetlands Complex. Various streams are shown on that map > which allow the border to be drawn onto modern maps as well. > > - - Dave Nutter > > On Jan 14, 2022, at 9:22 AM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: > > The 2022 first records tables (chronological and taxonomic) are now > available on the Cayuga Bird Club website resources page: > > > www.cayugabirdclub.org/resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records-and-arrival-information > > Thank-you to Paul Anderson for making the tables and putting them on the > site, but he is not responsible for the information on the tables. I > gleaned the data mainly from eBird reports as well as the Ithaca Christmas > Bird Count, but postings on CayugaBirds-L also work well. Please contact me > with any questions, corrections, or submissions. > > I’ll send a more in-depth explanation later. > > - - Dave Nutter > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
