[cayugabirds-l] Wonderful News on Queen Catharine Marsh
Here's the latest and it's all good for a change. We've all fought hard to get IBA, BCA and CEA protections over the last three decades and this piece has always been a problem. We now get it and others are paying for the ditching and water control we've always wanted in order to enhance the marsh and get this system working again as it should. Some great good has come from the natural gas controversy. john http://www.the-leader.com/news/x180683/Company-donates-140-acres-in-Queen-Catharine-Marsh#axzz2XJhumVkt -- 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] Scarlet tanager pair
at the Bee Lab (the one WEST of Freese Road): Male and female scarlet tanagers in trees, just as you leave the parking lot heading west on trail towards Equine Research Park, before you reach big fields Everyone may have them around but this was exciting for my kids! Best regards - Nita Irby -- 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] Osprey nestlings
For the last few days, I've been able to see the chicks in the nest at Salt Point during feedings, although I can't tell yet whether there are two or three. The oldest is about twelve days old and they are both/all covered in a rusty brown second down with a light stripe down the back. Their eyes are a dark orange and won't turn yellow until they are adults. Needless to say, they look cute! You need a scope or binoculars to see them, but they are finally visible. The chicks can thermoregulate now so the female does not have to brood them constantly. Today, in the heat, she spent most of the day fanning them or standing with her wings out to shade them. She's being a great mother so far. Good birding! Candace -- 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] meadowlark question
A meadowlark was singing on territory in neighbor's hayfield at least by April 28th this year. I heard him regularly, early in the day, for over a month and then my schedule changed so I do't really know if he still is singing there mornings or not. To my surprise, our neighbor just asked me if 'those birds of yours have finished with their nests' because he has been waiting to mow (!), but he says he can't wait much longer or his machinery will jam. A little research suggests that from first egg to fledging is under 30 days - so would it be safe to say that the meadowlarks should be finished nesting and it's OK to mow there now? BTW, I'm pretty sure there aren't any bobolinks are in that field - the only male we had this year seems to have left after the field across the road was mowed late last month. :-(The sad thing is that even just ten years ago we had scores of bobolinks and maybe a dozen male meadowlarks, as well as grasshopper more common grassland sparrows, and usually harriers, nesting on this one half mile stretch of road, but agricultural uses of the land have changed and now there is only this tiny remnant holding on ... So would really like to make sure this last meadowlark male his harem have had the chance to finish nesting, but not prolong it to the point where my neighbor doesn't want to do this in future years. Is it safe to tell him to go ahead and mow? -- 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/ --
