[cayugabirds-l] NE Ithaca, Mon 2/20
For the first time in 11 lonely months, we see an EASTERN SCREECH-OWL in our nest box in northeast Ithaca. I can't prove anything, of course, but this individual bird's unfamiliar posture and demeanor give me the strong impression that it is a first-time visitor, or if a returnee, one who has undergone some profound life changes while away. Also, this owl has some red at the base of the bill, which I've never seen before. Maybe it ate something good last night. Here is a photo. https://picasaweb.google.com/114049026073343451957/EasternScreechOwl#5711254 552328273666 Echoes of triumphant welcoming fanfare still resound through our house. I'm going to enter this owl into eBird and the GBBC (http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/), then sweep up all the confetti. Mark Chao -- 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] Mild Winter and Fish Crows
This is the first winter which the Fish Crows remained in my vicinity and continued to come to my yard every day. There were two all winter, and this weekend I had a group of four. Suzanne northeast area Ithaca -- 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] quick look at a grebe
Spent a short(cold) time at East Shore Park around 1pm today. Saw Western Grebe just north of the pavilion near piers. It was near a small group of Common Mergansers. Later we walked the perimeter of the swan pen at Stewart Park. Gulls, mallards and two pairs of American Wigeons at the edge of the waterline. Heading towards Dryden later, we took Johnson Rd off 13N and saw a male Ring-necked Pheasant skulking along the ditch. Colleen Richards 57 Year Old Looks 27 Local Woman Reveals Wrinkle Secret That Has Doctors Angry. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4f42b9ea6fc3b17c88acst06duc -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * February 20, 2012 * NYSY 02.20.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 13, 2012 - February 20, 2012 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 20 AT 6:30 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #293 -Monday February 20, 2012 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of February 13 , 2012 Highlights: --- WESTERN GREBE (Extralimital) SNOW GOOSE GOLDEN EAGLE LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL SNOWY OWL NORTHERN SHRIKE WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) No reports this week. Extralimital One WESTERN GREBE continues to be seen at the south end of Cayuga Lake from the East Shore Park. It was reported today. Onondaga County 2/14: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was found at Green Lakes State Park on the Rolling Hills Trail. A (the) Shrike was seen again of 2/18. 2/18: An immature GOLDEN EAGLE was seen south of Lynden Corners in Manlius. 2/19: A kettle of 20 TURKEY VULTURES was seen in Fayetteville, possibly migrants and not the overwintering birds from Jamesville. 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen on an ice shelf near the outlet of Onondaga Lake. A single SNOWY OWL was reported from Hancock Airport on 2/14 and 2/18. Oswego County 2/17: 200 SNOW GEESE were seen flying in the vicinity of Sunset Bay Park in Scriba. 2/18: 5 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS were found on Bargy Road north of North Church Road in Boylston. 2/19: A NORTHERN SHRIKE and a BALD EAGLE were seen from County Route 39 south of Redfield. 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 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] Lab of Ornithology Rusty Blackbirds
Hi all, Sorry for the late report. Jay and I spotted a/the pair of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS singing quietly across the road from the middle parking lot at Sapsucker Woods this evening at around five. They were perched on top of an aspen and were in the same spot when we left. -- Brad Walker -- 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] snow geese movement
Owasco Lake 4:30 PM Monday: enormous flight of several thousand snow geese flying SW, low in the sky (heading where? to the fields before overnight stop on Cayuga Lake?); 8 PM : many, many more (by the sound of it) on central Owasco Lake. Eben McLane Scipio, NY -- 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 addition
In my last note I forgot to mention a BALD EAGLE I saw perched both yesterday and today across the creek from the boathouse, but farther back, approx where the white lighthouse jetty starts. Bill Baker - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- 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] Common Raven -- Lettie Cook Woods
Hi everyone, On our way back to Ithaca this morning, Jessie and I saw a Common Raven circling and soaring fairly low just north of Lettie Cook Woods (visible from the north side of the woods). I know Brad Walker saw one here in early February. Chris Wood eBird Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] snow geese movement
Same thing happening between Cayuga Seneca Lakes: at 5:00 PM today, tens of thousands of Snow Geese coming out of the north and flying SSE over Rock River Wycoff Roads in Ovid, in steady streams with hardly a break between flocks. I could only stay about 10 minutes, so have no idea how long the river of flocks continued. They were flying pretty much parallel to Cayuga Lake, hard to say just where they were headed. Alicia Plotkin Ovid On 2/20/2012 8:25 PM, Eben McLane wrote: Owasco Lake 4:30 PM Monday: enormous flight of several thousand snow geese flying SW, low in the sky (heading where? to the fields before overnight stop on Cayuga Lake?); 8 PM : many, many more (by the sound of it) on central Owasco Lake. Eben McLane Scipio, NY -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://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 eBird http://ebird.org/content/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] Reminder: Seminar tonight featuring Yula Kapetanakos
Hope to see you here! Monday, Feb 20 from 7:30-9:00PM The race to conserve Asia's vultures by Yula Kapetenakos The introduction of a veterinary drug used to treat cattle in Asia during the 1990's directly resulted in one of the most catastrophic bird population declines in modern history. With populations reduced to 1% of their former abundance, four species of Asian vulture may now be on the brink of extinction. Three of those species, Oriental white-rumped, slender-billed and red-headed vultures, persist in low numbers in Cambodia and conservation biologists have responded quickly to protect these southeast Asian populations. Yula's research focuses on the demography and genetics of these critically endangered Cambodian vultures. By employing genetic, mark-recapture methods, she has been able to acquire population information never before collected for these important populations. Speaker Info: Yula Kapetenakos, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell Universityhttp://bit.ly/YulaBio Read more about Yula's work in this 2008 article in Living Birdhttp://bit.ly/yulaMNS! Monday Night Seminars were originally conceived by Lab founder Dr. Arthur A. Allen as a venue for sharing the complex world of science in a format aimed at a public audience. Seminars typically begin at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.) in the Visitors’ Center Auditorium. As always, admission is free and open to all. ** Charles Eldermire Public Education Outreach Associate Manager, Sapsucker Woods Johnson Visitors' Center Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-1131 (607) 254-2111 [fax] birds.cornell.edu/visithttp://birds.cornell.edu/visit twitter.com/sapsuckerwoods facebook.com/sapsuckerwoods -- 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/ --
