[cayugabirds-l] Great Horned Owl(s)
I've been woken up at 3am the past two nights by the hooting of Great Horned Owls. It sounds like two of them calling and answering. Stephanie -- Stephanie Greenwood Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 273 1179 607 280 1050 cell -- 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] GREAT HORNED OWL
A Great Horned Owl was hooting at 1:30 a.m. in my woods not far from the Hillcrest - North Triphammer Road intersection. No answering call heard. Jill Vaughan -- 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] fox tests turkeys
About 40 Turkeys were in my yard this morning, the boldest picking through fallen sunflower shells under the feeders. The snow pack was sufficiently hard-crusted that they were able to walk on top, and so was the rather large red fox that came by. The fox stayed low for several minutes, watching, and then approached the nearest Turkeys. Several flew up into the trees; others ran off followed by the fox, but after a few dozen paces she turned back, and approached still more Turkeys. They also ran off, and she pursued several more small groups, until she had tested them all in turn. When no weaklings or disabled birds were revealed, she finally trotted off into the woods. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Northern Cardinal singing!
From high in a snow-covered tree early this morning came the song of a male Northern Cardinal. What a delight! 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 -- 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] Surf Scoter
The Surf Scoter was still visible just north of Sheldrake Point at around noon today. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Cardinal singing!
Me, too! A downtown Cardinal song, the first I've noticed this year, this very morning. It seems they all marked their calendars. Caroline Manring Ithaca On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote: Hey, I too heard one when I was waiting for the bus at 6.58 AM. I was just thinking at that moment that Cardinals should start singing soon and there he goes! May be he had telepathic communication from me. Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -Original Message- From: bounce-8044351-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto: bounce-8044351-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Marie P Read Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:48 PM To: 'CayugaBirds' [cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu] Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Cardinal singing! From high in a snow-covered tree early this morning came the song of a male Northern Cardinal. What a delight! 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 -- 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 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] Merlin
On the corner of Pleasant Grove and Handshaw Roads, while in traffic around 7:25 a.m., a Merlin swerved in front of a car ahead of me, and continued to the Cayuga Hgts Community Ctr shopping area. It was flying low and powerful. It certainly got my attention! It was a great way to start the day. Best, Ann -- 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] Dryden birding
I spent a couple hours early this afternoon birding in the Dryden (NY) area. While driving down Cornell Lane (Harford), I was accompanied by a RED-TAILD HAWK coasting about 30' over a white, featureless field with its legs down like an airliner approaching a runway. It never landed, but flew off. This is supposed to be a courtship display, although I saw no other hawk; but then they have better eyes than I do. Manure spreads along this same road had 100+ SNOW BUNTINGS mixed with 30+ HORNED LARKS. I saw 1 LAPLAND LONGSPUR immediately, but could find no others, or even refind this one, in 45 minutes. Viewing is brutal: some of the flock flew often, landing behind a hill, far away, in amongst deep tractor ruts. While waiting for the flock to present itself, I was able to watch a variety of other birdlife incl. AMER. CROWS, PIGEONS, STARLINGS, CANADA GEESE, and MALLARDS. I walked a segment of the Dryden Lake Trail (north of Willow Crossing) and came upon a flock of 12 AMERICAN ROBINS and another of 4 E. BLUEBIRDS. The bluebirds were in sumac bushes, but I could not determine what the robins were about. Maybe just hangin' out. Also there was one wild WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. Dryden Lake held 6 MALLARDS (3 pair), and an extremely compact GREAT BLUE HERON. I flushed 12 SNOW BUNTINGS from a ditch on Ferguson Rd. Finally, I drove up Tehan and Signal Tower. It's a different world up there. About an inch of recent snow covered every branch. It was as if I was driving through the inside of a spider web. At the end of the road, ice had just been deposited on the tamaracks, and all was silent but for the ghostly creaking in the wind. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * February 7, 2011 * NYSY 0702.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): January 31, 2010 - February 07, 2011 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:February 07 AT 7:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #242 -Monday February 07, 2011 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of January 31 , 2010 Highlights: --- TURKEY VULTURE ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK ICELAND GULL GLAUCOUS GULL BARRED OWL YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER COMMON REDPOLL HOARY REDPOLL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) No reports this week. Onondaga County 2/2: 2 HOARY REDPOLLS were seen and photographed with the large group of Common Redpolls at Beaver Lake Nature Center west of Baldwinsville. 2/3: A BARRED OWL was found being harassed by a Flicker at Green Lakes State Park. 2/7: 6 BALD EAGLES were seen below the dam at the Seneca River in Baldwinsville. A YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER continues on Connors Road at the intersection with Rt.31 west of Baldwinsville. A TURKEY VULTURE was seen in a tree on Foreward Road near Rt.174 north of Marcellus. Oswego County 2/4: 4 GLAUCOUS GULLS including one adult and 1 ICELAND GULL were found in Oswego Harbor. Oneida County 2/3: A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was seen and photographed on Town Line Road in the Town of Floyd near Rome. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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/ --
