[cayugabirds-l] song sparrow

[Susan Fast]

On a morning walk, I heard my first SONG SPARROW singing, along Burns Rd.
The tone was brave, but a little doubtful.

 

Steve Fast

Brooktondale


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[cayugabirds-l] Hoary Redpole - Beaver Lake Nature Center - Onandaga County

[Jerry Lazarczyk]

Gerry Rising and I visited the many feeders at the center by late morning 
Thursday. A good variety and numbers of feeder birds plus we saw additional 
birds walking in from the parking lot ($3/car). The Redpoles were late arriving 
but most species showed within 30 minutes of sitting down in the comfortable 
rocking chairs. It was difficult finding the Hoary but it stayed around long 
enough for good looks. Not much happening that we could see on the west side 
.side of Sodus Bay. Jerry LazarczykGrand Island NY

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[cayugabirds-l] Crows have come home to roost! MY HOME

[Lee Ann van Leer]

2700+ American Crows have come home to roost...literally!  I got home around
9:45pm and as soon as I got out of my car I heard a quick burst of 
Caw-Caw-Ca-ca Caw then silence.  

I looked up and sure enough the crow roost was taking up nearly every tree in 
my back, side, and front yard. Then there were many trees across the street 
from me as well as at the neighbors house filled with 110-200 crows per tree.

My question is what should I cook them for breakfast? Eggs? I'm fresh out of 
shelled peanuts. :-) I don't think I have enough supplies for that many mouths. 
Do crows read this list serve  know I fancy them? Did they see my crow vs. 
mallard photo essay? ha ha.

The last few days in late afternoon I was witnessing the crows by hundreds fly 
over my house heading north east to their roost. I told my bird watching 
neighbor yesterday about it and he said, cool let me know about it next time 
so I can see it.

He was astonished to get the phone call tonight but came out to watch  count 
crows.  He actually walked down the street right by 5 trees of crows and didn't 
realize it because they were so quiet. I had to point up for him to realize 
they were there.

I find this all delightfully humorous because starting with Jan 1st I'd taken 
it upon myself to try to find the crow roost.  Two different nights I had 
driven to several spots in the downtown Ithaca area where I had seen them last 
year, to no avail. 2 weeks ago, as you know, I was finally out and about at the 
right time of day to see them converging upon Emerson/Morse Chain.

I'm going out again later to watch them. Who cares if it is minus 6 degrees. 
After all, how often do the Crows come home to roost? =)

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