[cayugabirds-l] NE Ithaca and Lansing raptors, Tues 1/5

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Chao 
On Tuesday morning, I had three expected but still very uplifting raptor 
sightings around northeast Ithaca and south Lansing:

-- a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK foraging over the field at the southwest 
corner of Warren and Cherry Roads (thanks to Alberto Lopez for finding this 
fine bird);

-- an adult RED-SHOULDERED HAWK perched on a low branch between Kip's Barn and 
Route 13, along Sapsucker Woods Road; and 

-- a gray-morph EASTERN SCREECH-OWL at the hole of the nest box in our yard on 
Simsbury Drive (daily dawn and dusk appearances almost without exception since 
mid-October, with occasional brief perching sessions at other times).

I also drove behind the airport in search of shrikes.  I found none, but did 
see a PILEATED WOODPECKER at rest (surprisingly, in the slim outer branches of 
a small tree) at the intersection of Mohawk and Neimi Roads.

Mark Chao



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ROBINS

2010-01-05 Thread Eben McLane 
Here in Scipio at the edge of forest above Owasco Lake I also saw and  
heard an unusual number (maybe 50 or so)  of AMER. ROBINS at dusk in  
the trees and along the driveway; when they left they seemed to be  
headed north and into a snow squall. Never saw this behavior before in  
these conditions--wind strengthening from the NW. I'd like to hear  
more about this, too.

Eben McLane

On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Susan Fast wrote:

At 1615 this afternoon, I was driving down Dixon Rd. (N. of King  
Ferry), then turned west on Rafferty.  I noticed a bunch of birds  
flying NORTH over the road, in the distance.  Coming up to them, I  
noted they were AMER. ROBINS, so I stopped to watch.  The sky was  
pretty much full of what turned out to be a long and wide straggling  
stream.  They continued overhead for at least 8 minutes.  The stream  
stopped, so I drove on to Rt. 90 and turned south. After a mile, the  
stream started again and continued till a couple miles south of the  
Triangle Diner, where I ran out of birds.  I didn’t actually count  
them, but my conservative estimate is 3000.  I thought they might be  
going to some preselected roost (following them was not an option  
today), but why so many this time of year?  Constructive ideas welcomed.

Steve Fast
Brooktondale


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