RE:[cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch conjunctivitis?
I believe Wes is correct and I should add that this bacterium can be spread by contact. The implication here is that we should be cleaning our feeders often and then treating them with a 10% bleach solution. Let that air dry and do not rinse. Over the last 25 years we saw a rise and then fall in House Finch infection with some indication of individuals recovering from stage three which is total involvement bilaterally. During the peak we documented infection on three other species including American Goldfinch. Such presentations were exceedingly uncommon in comparison to the HOFI numbers. The whole thing is most probably due to, or exacerbated by the almost straight line genetics of the east coast HOFI population. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy
Livia and I checked Stewart Park at lunch today. Although it was raining steadily, the lake was very calm and ducks were easy to see around the weed mats towards the east end of the park. We didn't find anything that hasn't been around for a while, but did see the continuing male GREATER SCAUP, 2 female RING-NECKED DUCKS, female RUDDY DUCK, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON, Hooded Merganser, AMERICAN COOT, at least 5 Pied-billed Grebes, multiple American Black Ducks, and tons of Mallards. A MERLIN was perched on the dead tree on the swan pen island, an adult BALD EAGLE was in a small dead snag along the shore of the swan pen, and an immature BALD EAGLE flew by out of jetty woods. The most notable sighting, however, was the fact that the famous large snag across the channel from the boat house (the cormorant/osprey/eagle/Merlin/Peregrine tree) is GONE. I haven't been to Stewart Park for a few days, so I don't know when this happened, and I also couldn't tell WHAT exactly happened. It looks like it might be broken at the base, so perhaps it finally fell over from natural causes and was cleared away to keep the channel open. I would be interested to know if anyone has more information about this. In any case, I consider this a huge loss to the birding community. It will be missed. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Secret Life of the Burrowing Owl
A video on one of my favorite species, the borrowing owl: * http://hw.libsyn.com/p/6/8/2/682f63d2377dff4f/burrowingowl-021811.mp4?sid=d38054770132d53c3e3afc731062f61al_sid=18801l_eid=l_mid=2461540 * Enjoy! *Candace E. Cornell * ***1456* *Hanshaw Rd.* *Ithaca, New York * *[image: Picture]* ** ** * * ** * * * * -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] rough-legged hawk
Seen about 3pm on the east side of Cayuga View Rd about 100 yds from Rte 89 near Trumansburg. Flew up to a nearby tree branch as my car approached, so I got a good look (no binox) at its dark back and tail and the striking white slash across the base of the primaries. When it flew further away, it launched downward from the tree branch, giving a good look at its underwings. Here the clear white was more extensive and it was the most obvious feature. I did not notice the belly or wrist patches before the bird tipped up again in haste to depart. It was large, about the size of a red-tail. Bill McAneny, TBurg -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy
That's terrible. I can remember going with Jill to Stewart Park, which wasn't far from where we lived at the time on Lake St., and counting the Cormorants in that tree. Many times there were over 50 Cormorants in that tree. The only things close to it I've ever seen were a tree on the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 2005 that had over a dozen Bald Eagles perched in it and a tree in western Minnesota that was in the breeding block I was helping to survey this past sping. This tree had several Cormorants in it, including some pairs that were building nests. We watched one pair try to play handoff with some stills, but the recipient of the sticks fumbled them. I also did see once a Red-tailed Hawk perched in the middle of a tree and surrounding him were MANY Great-tailed Grackles. This was in a tree across the street from Mitchell Lake in San Antonio, Texas. Richard Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:00:32 -0400 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy From: jw...@cornell.edu To: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Livia and I checked Stewart Park at lunch today. Although it was raining steadily, the lake was very calm and ducks were easy to see around the weed mats towards the east end of the park. We didn't find anything that hasn't been around for a while, but did see the continuing male GREATER SCAUP, 2 female RING-NECKED DUCKS, female RUDDY DUCK, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON, Hooded Merganser, AMERICAN COOT, at least 5 Pied-billed Grebes, multiple American Black Ducks, and tons of Mallards. A MERLIN was perched on the dead tree on the swan pen island, an adult BALD EAGLE was in a small dead snag along the shore of the swan pen, and an immature BALD EAGLE flew by out of jetty woods. The most notable sighting, however, was the fact that the famous large snag across the channel from the boat house (the cormorant/osprey/eagle/Merlin/Peregrine tree) is GONE. I haven't been to Stewart Park for a few days, so I don't know when this happened, and I also couldn't tell WHAT exactly happened. It looks like it might be broken at the base, so perhaps it finally fell over from natural causes and was cleared away to keep the channel open. I would be interested to know if anyone has more information about this. In any case, I consider this a huge loss to the birding community. It will be missed. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy
So maybe we need to consider constructing, w/DEC et al permission, an artificial snag. We build Osprey platforms, why not a perching snag? Surely a potential CLO/Citizen Science project. On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM, RICHARD JILL WOOD rwood...@msn.com wrote: That's terrible. I can remember going with Jill to Stewart Park, which wasn't far from where we lived at the time on Lake St., and counting the Cormorants in that tree. Many times there were over 50 Cormorants in that tree. The only things close to it I've ever seen were a tree on the Great Salt Lake in Utah in 2005 that had over a dozen Bald Eagles perched in it and a tree in western Minnesota that was in the breeding block I was helping to survey this past sping. This tree had several Cormorants in it, including some pairs that were building nests. We watched one pair try to play handoff with some stills, but the recipient of the sticks fumbled them. I also did see once a Red-tailed Hawk perched in the middle of a tree and surrounding him were MANY Great-tailed Grackles. This was in a tree across the street from Mitchell Lake in San Antonio, Texas. Richard -- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:00:32 -0400 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy From: jw...@cornell.edu To: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Livia and I checked Stewart Park at lunch today. Although it was raining steadily, the lake was very calm and ducks were easy to see around the weed mats towards the east end of the park. We didn't find anything that hasn't been around for a while, but did see the continuing male GREATER SCAUP, 2 female RING-NECKED DUCKS, female RUDDY DUCK, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON, Hooded Merganser, AMERICAN COOT, at least 5 Pied-billed Grebes, multiple American Black Ducks, and tons of Mallards. A MERLIN was perched on the dead tree on the swan pen island, an adult BALD EAGLE was in a small dead snag along the shore of the swan pen, and an immature BALD EAGLE flew by out of jetty woods. The most notable sighting, however, was the fact that the famous large snag across the channel from the boat house (the cormorant/osprey/eagle/Merlin/Peregrine tree) is GONE. I haven't been to Stewart Park for a few days, so I don't know when this happened, and I also couldn't tell WHAT exactly happened. It looks like it might be broken at the base, so perhaps it finally fell over from natural causes and was cleared away to keep the channel open. I would be interested to know if anyone has more information about this. In any case, I consider this a huge loss to the birding community. It will be missed. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l%40cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- http://www.freshfeature.com/wp/ie.php?plg=iead2=0subs=hotmailelm=sign -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- asher -Never play it the same way once. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy
I did not notice its absence last Saturday; I distinctly remember it being still there two weekends ago, when a/the adult bald eagle was hanging out in a neighboring tree -- which seemed odd to me since I thought that snag was its favored perch. The cormorants, likewise, have eschewed this snag the entire season, congregating instead on a tree on the other side of Jetty Woods facing the Treman Marina. I wonder if the snag had noticeable wobbliness enough to keep the eagle and cormorants away. Suan On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: Livia and I checked Stewart Park at lunch today. Although it was raining steadily, the lake was very calm and ducks were easy to see around the weed mats towards the east end of the park. We didn't find anything that hasn't been around for a while, but did see the continuing male GREATER SCAUP, 2 female RING-NECKED DUCKS, female RUDDY DUCK, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON, Hooded Merganser, AMERICAN COOT, at least 5 Pied-billed Grebes, multiple American Black Ducks, and tons of Mallards. A MERLIN was perched on the dead tree on the swan pen island, an adult BALD EAGLE was in a small dead snag along the shore of the swan pen, and an immature BALD EAGLE flew by out of jetty woods. The most notable sighting, however, was the fact that the famous large snag across the channel from the boat house (the cormorant/osprey/eagle/Merlin/Peregrine tree) is GONE. I haven't been to Stewart Park for a few days, so I don't know when this happened, and I also couldn't tell WHAT exactly happened. It looks like it might be broken at the base, so perhaps it finally fell over from natural causes and was cleared away to keep the channel open. I would be interested to know if anyone has more information about this. In any case, I consider this a huge loss to the birding community. It will be missed. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods migrants
I ran into several large mixed flocks before and after work in Sapsucker Woods today. This morning, the first flock was south of the pond on Wilson Trail. Most of the 10+ warblers were two far and obscured in the canopy, but I picked out one Blackburnian. Near the intersection of Wilson and Severinghaus trails there was a cluster of 4+ Catharus thrushes, but I only identified 2 as Swainson's before they moved off into the forest away from me. I found a much bigger mixed flock along the north end of Wilson Trail in the flooded forest between the trail and the building. Highlights from this flock: Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Nashville Warbler - 1 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 1 Blackpoll Warbler - 5 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 From 5 to 5:30pm, there was a very active mixed flock at the north end of the Podell Boardwalk. Highlights: Eastern Phoebe - 1 Blue-headed Vireo - 2 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Swainson's Thrush - 1 Northern Parula - 1 Magnolia Warbler - 3 Bay-breasted Warbler - 1 Blackburnian Warbler - 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Blackpoll Warbler - 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Black-throated Green Warbler - 6 Good birding, Nick -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Knox-Marsellus, Puddler, May's Point Pools 29 Sept
Late this afternoon (29 Sept) I went just to the Knox Marsellus, Puddler, and May's Point Pools of Montezuma NWR. From the Knox Marsellus overlook on East Road I counted 220 SNOW GEESE, including 1 each juvenile and adult dark "Blue" Geese. There were lots of CANADA GEESE, and GREEN-WINGED TEAL, several NORTHERN PINTAIL, at least 1 AMERICAN WIGEON, some GREAT BLUE HERONS, 16 GREAT EGRETS, 2 SANDHILL CRANES, and a juvenile NORTHERN HARRIER. There was probably lots more, but I was short on time and basically checking out Puddler, where the mud was more covered from recent rain. I drove Towpath Road anyway, and in Puddler I found my target species: 1 juvenile SANDERLING in a flock with 1 winter DUNLIN and 10 peeps which were mostly if not all SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS. There were also 6 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, lots of DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, some RING-BILLED GULLS, a small flock of NORTHERN SHOVELERS, lots of CANADA GEESE and several GREAT BLUE HERONS. There was also 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS in the small pond in the yard at the intersection of North May's Point Rd and East Rd.May's Point Pool had lots of CANADA GEESE, a few GREAT BLUE HERONS and 19 GREAT EGRETS. I saw zero shorebirds in a single scope sweep.--Dave NutterOn Sep 27, 2011, at 04:03 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote:From Larue's and Jackie's survey this morning:Puddler Marsh: Continuing AMERICAN AVOCET, 3 Black-bellied Plovers, and a SANDERLING.Main Pool: 1 Snow Goose, increased numbers of dabbling ducks, and 5 Sandhill Cranes. May's Point: low numbers of shorebirds, including Greater Yellowlegs, Wilson's Snipe, Solitary Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper.On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: From Larue's and Jackie's survey this morning:Puddler Marsh: Continuing AMERICAN AVOCET, 4 Black-bellied Plovers, a handful of other common shorebirds. Knox-Marsellus: 7 Snow GeeseMays Point: Lots of shorebirds, including Black-bellied Plover, Killdeer, both yellowlegs, Least and Semipalmated sandpipers, White-rumped Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, and Wilson's Snipe. -- Jay McGowanMacaulay LibraryCornell Lab of Ornithologyjw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
