[cayugabirds-l] dead coot @ stewart park, etc.
In response to Mary W's question...Saturday morning at Stewart Park (8-9 AM) I did indeed see a dead coot near the entrance to the Swan Pen trail. It looked so fresh that I checked to see if was warm (it wasn't) but it was not stiff and I could not see any rips or tears. I had just seen an adult Bald Eagle strafe the waterfowl on the lake and there were maybe half dozen Great Black-backed Gulls scattered about in the water way offshore. I didn't any birds on the jetty. Besides many Mallards and Canada Geese I saw 4 Tundra swans, 3 adults and a juvenile. One of them was persistently producing a dove-like cooing vocalization accompanying the ducking of its head. The four swans took off up Fall Creek while I was checking out the coot. I also saw a mixed flock of 50 Aythya, 4 spp. present, mostly Redheads, with at least one male of each Scaup, and at least two CANVASBACK. 3 Hooded Mergansers took flight when the eagle made its pass, there were ca. 50 Bufflehead about, 5 Gadwall well offshore, a Kingfisher and Great Blue Heron in the Lagoon, and a Carolina Wren calling near the Swan Pen. I did not hear TIm's WInter Wren. Good birding...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Snows Screechie
Screechie was in the Factory St. box this a.m. 15 min. ago, at 1:30 p.m., a large flock of Snow Geese flew SE over our house. Beautiful!! Hope the Oswego trippers are having success. Fritzie -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Sunday--Horned Grebe, Towhee, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, etc.
Hello, I had one of my highest species totals of the fall this morning at Stewart Park. The landbirds here seem to be especially active on calm sunny days after long periods of cold north winds. Location: Stewart Park Observation date: 11/21/10 933-1023 Notes: Sunny, 45 deg, light southeast wind. Lake very calm with minimal haze. Number of species: 41 Canada Goose - Branta canadensis 300 Gadwall - Anas strepera 5 American Wigeon - Anas americana 2 American Black Duck - Anas rubripes 12 American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) - Anas rubripes x platyrhynchos 1 Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 250 Redhead - Aythya americana 25 Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris 1 Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis 8 Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola 20 Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus 6 Common Merganser - Mergus merganser 3 Common Loon - Gavia immer 3 Horned Grebe - Podiceps auritus 1 Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 1 Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus 1 Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis 1 American Coot - Fulica americana 40 Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 100 Herring Gull - Larus argentatus 125 Lesser Black-backed Gull - Larus fuscus 1 on red jetty Great Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus 40 Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus 1 Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 1 Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) - Colaptes auratus [auratus Group] 2 Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata 3 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 15 Fish Crow - Corvus ossifragus 2 Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus 5 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) - Sitta carolinensis carolinensis 1 Brown Creeper - Certhia americana 1 west end of swan pen Winter Wren (Eastern) - Troglodytes troglodytes hiemalis/pusillus 2 heard calling from jetty woods and swan pen simultaneously. The swan pen bird was right along the shore of the inlet allowing for great views. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula 1 **Late; west end of Swan Pen Northern Mockingbird - Mimus polyglottos 1 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 1 Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus 1 **Latest record for Tompkins County in eBird; calling from Jetty woods. White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis 1 calling from Jetty Woods Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 3 House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 2 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis 19 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 5 -- Tim Lenz t...@cornell.edu Web Applications Developer Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Long-Tailed Duck at Myer Pt. Sunday morning
sorry for the late post. I saw a female Long-tailed Duck at 0930 this morning at Myers. it was about 30 yards off the point. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Western Red-tailed Hawk -- Ovid
While returning from the Rochester area today Jessie Barry, Carolyn Sedgwick, Martjan Lammertink and I saw a dark rufous-morph juvenile Western Red-tailed Hawk (B. j. calurus). I've only seen three others in the Northeast. This bird was northwest of Sheldrake point on CR 138. The exact location is mapped with the photo on the link below. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinicola/5196452367/ Cheers, Chris Wood eBird Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
