[cayugabirds-l] 12/9 SS Woods: Rusty Blackbirds more
Sapsucker Woods Highlights: RUSTY BLACKBIRDS male PILEATED WOODPECKER Spotted the Rusty Blackbirds right away just by their silhouettes (SFO classes are paying off! :) ) upon my arrival just before 4pm. I went in to the visitor center and asked if anyone else had seen Rusties and yes Dave Nutter had reported them too. They hung around quite awhile eating berries near the parking lot circle. I was able to have my best views ever. Another treat was watching the male Pileated Woodpecker that seems to be hanging around the CLO suet feeders a lot lately. I've been told it started doing this in July? 3 Canada Goose 26 Mallard 3 Ring-billed Gull 35 Mourning Dove 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 12 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 European Starling 4 American Tree Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 3 Northern Cardinal 2 Rusty Blackbird -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club speaker dinner invitation
Karen Allaben-Confer is not just John's wife, she is an incredible artist who spent time in Arizona officially documenting the project.--Dave NutterOn Dec 09, 2010, at 08:56 PM, cl...@juno.com wrote: The Cayuga Bird Club is pleased to welcome John Confer as guest speaker at our monthly meeting on Monday, December 13 at 7:30 pm at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.John will be presenting Reintroducing the California Condor.The Club will be hosting John and his wife, Karen, for dinner at Aladdin's in Collegetown at 5:30 pm prior to the meeting. This is a great opportunity for members to meet John in a casual setting and socialize with other members while enjoying some great food. If you would like to join us for dinner, please rsvp tocl...@juno.com by Monday morning so that reservations can be made.Have a great weekend of birding in the Basin. See you Monday! Colleen Richards Refinance Rates at 2.7%$160,000 Mortgage $434/mo. No Hidden Fees- 3.04% APR! Get a Free QuoteMortgage.LendGo.com
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Short-eared Owls
Chuck Gibson reported 3 SEOW from the Wilgoose Grassland after Bob talked with him. Jane -Original Message- From: bounce-7515281-3493...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of bob mcguire Sent: Thu 12/9/2010 7:21 PM To: cayugabirdlist Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Short-eared Owls After lunch I continued to the northern Montezuma complex in search of raptors and owls. Van Dyne Spoor Road has been plowed to where the woods end and the fields open up. From there I walked east, watching for shrikes and owls. At 2:50 the first Short-eared Owl glided in from the NE and perched on top of one of the electric poles. A scan out across the field produced a second SHEAOW on one of the saplings. From there I drove down East Road, stopping briefly at the Knox- Marcellus overlook. Two Short-eared Owls were foraging over the field/ marsh. Next stop was on Rt 89 just south of Goose Haven. Jim Eckler, who I had run into on VD Spoor Rd, mentioned a recent sighting of several SHEAOW there. Chuck Gibson was manning a scope along the road and reported no owls yet (about 3:30). My last stop was the new Seneca Meadows Wetland Preserve north of Seneca Falls. Two Red-tailed Hawks were visible from the parking lot, and an American Kestrel flew over as I walked south. From the southern platform I watched two Short-eared Owls fly back and forth over the meadows and eventually perch in a large, lone oak (4:00). After awhile one of the Red-tails flew in and dislodged the owls who then continued foraging while emitting an occasional soft bark call. Bob McGuire -- 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 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] Mt Pleasant Snow Buntings
Driving home over Mt Pleasant Road about 1:30 I watched a flock of 21 Horned Larks and, a little farther down the road, a flock of 14 Snow Buntings. All were in the cornfield on the south side of Mt Pleasant Road just west of its junction with Mineah Road. A couple of days ago, 27 Wild Turkeys were foraging in the same field. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com http://www.agpix.com/mari -- 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 - buntings and geese
Hi, A flock of 35-40 snow buntings has been hanging around the intersection of Munson Rd Hall Rd (town of Ovid) this week; and a flock of ~200 snow geese was foraging through the stubble of a corn field just south of Interlaken, in the bend of Rte 96, at 11:30 this morning. Alicia -- 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] Rusty Blackbirds, more Snow Buntings, etc.
Today, I saw 2 RUSTY BLACKBIRDS at the bend of Sapsucker Woods Rd, near the Lab's bird feeding garden -- apparently they were seen yesterday as well. Also in that area was a flock of at least 50 HOUSE FINCHES (the largest flock I have seen in several years), and about 10 WAXWINGS -- all Cedars. Yesterday, a MERLIN perched briefly in a treetop on the north side of the Lab building, and then flew off towards the airport. A flock of about 100 SNOW BUNTINGS was near the intersection of Irish Settlement Rd and Rt. 13 yesterday around 1 PM. A FLICKER and a CAROLINA WREN visited the feeders at home this morning, but no interesting sparrows. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- 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] winter additions on Teeter rd.
A Northern Flicker, with bird feeder experience arrived at ours on upper Teeter Rd. this morning, joining the numerous Red Bellies, Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers. The first White Throat Sparrows arrived just last week and the usual Junco flock on the deck has begun to build up. Hmmm, I can't ignore some competition from the squirrels that compete for the spilled seed on the deck there seem to be more Goldfinches than in the summer but, not such gold gold now and lots of Purple Finches. Numerous squirrels compete for the feed that spills A few Crows seem to use our deck as a social center early in the morning too Watt Webb -- Watt W. Webb Professor of Applied Physics S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering School of Applied Engineering Physics 223 Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 Tel: 607-255-3331; Fax: 607-255-7658 Email: mailto:w...@cornell.eduw...@cornell.edu URL's: http://www.drmed.cornell.eduhttp://www.drmed.cornell.edu http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4peopleID=146http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4peopleID=146 -- 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/ --
