[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Snowy Owl Route 89/MNWR Wildlife Drive closed for hunting 12-1-14 through 12-16-14
Begin forwarded message: From: Bird observations from western New York geneseebird...@geneseo.edumailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Snowy Owl Route 89/MNWR Wildlife Drive closed for hunting 12-1-14 through 12-16-14 Date: December 2, 2014 at 1:16:01 AM EST To: geneseebird...@geneseo.edumailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu Reply-To: geneseebird...@geneseo.edumailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu I spotted a Snowy Owl Monday afternoon. It was perched on a utility pole on the east side of Rt. 89 just south of East Tyre Road. I would have missed it had it not been for the fact that the MNWR Wildlife Drive was closed for deer hunting forcing me to go back down to Rts. 5 20 to get to Rt. 89. This is a much darker and more heavily speckled Snowy than the one reported at the end of the Wildlife Drive by Jay McGowan on November 8th. Michael Gullo ___ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - geneseebird...@geneseo.edumailto:geneseebird...@geneseo.edu https://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418tel:607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740tel:607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132tel:607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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] Birding lake/Montezuma yesterday
How about about a bird viewing and photo blind somewhere strategically placed around the pond? It provides more access for viewing and still minimizes impact on the wildlife. It also creates a more attractive area for birders to visit and draws more people to town to benefit businesses. Sent from my iPad On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:48 PM, Judith W. Jones j...@cornell.edu wrote: We also saw the pipits (2) along Wildlife Drive at Montezuma. Believe the large white birds were Tundra swans, not snow geese (saw them fly, no black wing tips etc. Many mixed duck groups , including the Mill Pond in Union Springs, preponderance of Wigeons, and the notable and easily seen raft just south of east shore sailing with maybe 30 ruddy ducks. Very rewarding day. -- 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 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] Cackling Goose, Sapsucker Woods
A CACKLING GOOSE, first spotted by Jeff Gerbracht this morning, is still present in the Canada flock on the open water outside the visitor center at the Lab of Ornithology. It is mostly sleeping now but occasionally wakes up and moves around. -- 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] Compost gull hybrid
This morning at the Cornell compost on Stevenson Road I saw a gull that I believe I also saw up on the hill on Saturday but did not get a definitive look at. It looks to me to be a classic GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL X HERRING GULL hybrid, but I welcome comments from others. It has a mantle of perfectly intermediate darkness between Herring and Great Black-backed, pale pink legs (ruling against a bulky Lesser Black-backed). It also seems to lack the white subterminal spots of a Slaty-backed Gull, although the state of the wingtips makes it hard to be sure. One photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymcgowan/15746345457/in/photostream/ And eBird list with more photos: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20756612 -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Mill Pond ... Union Springs
I recommend that people check out the waterfowl on Mill Pond from the sidewalk area *before* venturing into the brushy woods along the south side, if you feel a need to go there at all, because going into those woods where the path and benches are proposed may scare off the waterfowl. About mid-day Sunday I parked on the east side of N. Cayuga St (NYS-90), and saw no reaction from waterfowl. When I crossed the street to the sidewalk and adjacent lawn to look scan the birds, those along the east shore moved away from the shore but otherwise continued their activities. I counted 135 Gadwall, 22 American Wigeon, 1 American Black Duck, 67 Mallard, 13 Green-winged Teal, 10 Redhead, and 19 Bufflehead. When I moved to the gazebo to continue viewing (the first time I've used it), birds in the southeast corner of the pond were more agitated and several flew as they moved to other parts of the pond. After putting my scope back in the car I walked around the south edge of the woods near the store, noting litter along that edge and a Pileated Woodpecker moving repeatedly west away from me within the woods. Then I returned to the sidewalk and walked quietly into the woods along a path which may be what the scout proposes to widen and promote. I was pleased to see that after a few yards there was no litter. However the waterfowl were alarmed even though there was plenty of brush between me and the south shore. At first there was a northward migration within the pond, but by the time I got as far west as about the midpoint of the pond the ducks began to flush. As soon as they began flying out I turned back, but more than half the waterfowl left the pond altogether. My next stops were Frontenac Park and the Factory Street pond but neither of these areas held the ducks that left Mill Pond. My apologies to those hoping to see those birds. I hope they returned. --Dave Nutter On Dec 01, 2014, at 02:25 PM, John and Fritzie Blizzard job121...@verizon.net wrote: Thanks to all who have written to me. I agree with Donna Scott about personal, paper letters. If necessary, I can print letters to present to the mayor. I would like to have copies of whatever is sent to the Mayor. Letters should be addressed to: Mayor Ed Trufant and Board of Trustees, Village of Union Springs Chapel St. on the Lake Union Springs, NY 13160 *** The path specs are: Path is to be about 90 meters long, 1.5 meters wide is to be 3 meters from the pond at the west end at the widest point will be10 meters from the pond. (At one of the narrowest points about 1/3 of the way down the pond, is where I have observed the wood ducks babies entering the pond. Whether their nest tree is still there, I can't say because I never walked along the pond since it was private property.) Dave Nutter has walked the perimeter has presented good observations. (His precise pond bird counts yesterday were great!) Weather is getting nastier but if anyone else can, cares to walk the proposed trail area state an opinion, please do so. Note that the cleared area to the north of Shurfine is private property so walk from Rte. 90 westward. (A LOT of the litter comes from people who buy eat their lunches at Shurfine the pizza shop throw their trash out the vehicle windows.) I have a copy of the lad's proposal. He quotes: There was an interest expressed in the public surveys of having a nature center and trails within the community. Pg. 46 The Village Comprehensive Plan Recommendations for Natural Resources section says: Promotion of nature trails or a nature center in the vicinity of these sensitive environmental area(s) (the North and South ponds) would also aid in the protection of the area. Pg. 37. (If I recall, this Village Plan was written in relation to the first meeting I attended 2 yrs. ago.) The lad said, I think building the trail would help to enhance the natural setting of the Mill Pond . would promote a deeper appreciation for the bird life that uses the pond by educating the people who use the (proposed) trail, through trail signs. It would offer a quiet place for people in our village to come and enjoy some of the most beautiful wetland areas in the region. It would enhance our village, by developing a natural resource that we have making it more accessible to our people. He proposes small signs (miniature bird box shapes) along the trail that identify some of the local bird species that trail-walkers might see nesting or resting as they travel along their migratory route. ... would like to make a sign that welcomes people serves as a location to share information about the history of the pond ... add 2 or 3 benches (along the path) to allow people to sit enjoy the natural setting of the pond as well as observe appreciate the natural wildlife that inhabits it. If the Board accepts my proposal, I understand I will need to offer up another
[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma area today. First large snow goose flocks, more tundra swans. Still 49 KM Sandhill Cranes. Closed wildlife drive.
As previously posted on Genesee birds the wildlife drive and the area around the observation tower and bathrooms are closed until December 16th for deer hunting. As I complained to the office they cited too many deer in that area. They will reevaluate after this trial. Weather permitting it will be opened after that. Scoping from the visitor center overlook we found at least 950 Tundra Swans and a surprisingly large group of Ring-necked ducks (2000+?) considering the date and how much of the pool was frozen. Coot seemed to have moved on but several groups of Gadwall remained. The first large flocks of Snow Geese that we have seen were flying southbound overhead and they continued for a couple hours until right before the snow started around 3:30. Probably 3000 total. On Knox-Marcellus from East Road there were another 53 tundra Swans and 49 Sandhill Cranes. On Van-dyne Spoor Road a Cooper's Hawk hunted the hedgerow which turned out to have 40 Tree and 1 Song Sparrows. 1 No. Harrier and 1 Rough-legged hawk had success hunting over the wetland to the south where they flushed up 2 Green-winged Teal. Then the snow came. Mike Tetlow and Dominic Sherony -- 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] Van Dyne Spoor
Hi, I spent about three hours on Van Dyne Spoor Rd. today trying to get a positive Id on what I believe to be a Northern Shrike. I saw it enough to be 95 % sure, but never got a photo. If it's the usual suspect returning to that spot, it has the same wariness that I've come to expect. There was a small flock of Tree Sparrows, a Great Blue Heron, two Blue Jays, two Goldfinch, one White-breasted Nuthatch, two Titmouse, and one mature Bald Eagle. There were about eighty plus Tundra Swans on the lake mixed in with some ducks where Route 89 meets the lake rd. It was too dark to see what kind of ducks, but I was able to make some out as mallards. Diana Whiting Diana Whiting Diana Whiting dianawhitingphotography.com On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Michael Tetlow mjtet...@frontiernet.net wrote: As previously posted on Genesee birds the wildlife drive and the area around the observation tower and bathrooms are closed until December 16th for deer hunting. As I complained to the office they cited too many deer in that area. They will reevaluate after this trial. Weather permitting it will be opened after that. Scoping from the visitor center overlook we found at least 950 Tundra Swans and a surprisingly large group of Ring-necked ducks (2000+?) considering the date and how much of the pool was frozen. Coot seemed to have moved on but several groups of Gadwall remained. The first large flocks of Snow Geese that we have seen were flying southbound overhead and they continued for a couple hours until right before the snow started around 3:30. Probably 3000 total. On Knox-Marcellus from East Road there were another 53 tundra Swans and 49 Sandhill Cranes. On Van-dyne Spoor Road a Cooper’s Hawk hunted the hedgerow which turned out to have 40 Tree and 1 Song Sparrows. 1 No. Harrier and 1 Rough-legged hawk had success hunting over the wetland to the south where they flushed up 2 Green-winged Teal. Then the snow came. Mike Tetlow and Dominic Sherony -- 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] snow geese over Interlaken
This morning, about 8am, I thought I faintly heard snow geese. I looked up and at first didn't see them, but then did see two very large flocks, quite high. I would estimate 3-400 geese heading south. Marty === Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell315-521-4315 === -- 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 over Interlaken
As I returned home after a long drive from Maryland this afternoon, I was also greeted by a small flock of SNOW GEESE over my house — just before the snow started to fall….. KEN Kenneth V. Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology Office: 607-254-2412 cell: 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Dec 2, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu wrote: This morning, about 8am, I thought I faintly heard snow geese. I looked up and at first didn’t see them, but then did see two very large flocks, quite high. I would estimate 3-400 geese heading south. Marty === Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell315-521-4315 === -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://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 Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] coots
The coots may have moved to the Sodus Bay Bridge Area. I saw about 400 of them there on Sunday 11/30/14. Also 9 Bonaparte’s Gulls and a nice variety of ducks and Tundra and Mute Swans. On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Michael Tetlow mjtet...@frontiernet.net wrote: As previously posted on Genesee birds the wildlife drive and the area around the observation tower and bathrooms are closed until December 16th for deer hunting. As I complained to the office they cited too many deer in that area. They will reevaluate after this trial. Weather permitting it will be opened after that. Scoping from the visitor center overlook we found at least 950 Tundra Swans and a surprisingly large group of Ring-necked ducks (2000+?) considering the date and how much of the pool was frozen. Coot seemed to have moved on but several groups of Gadwall remained. The first large flocks of Snow Geese that we have seen were flying southbound overhead and they continued for a couple hours until right before the snow started around 3:30. Probably 3000 total. On Knox-Marcellus from East Road there were another 53 tundra Swans and 49 Sandhill Cranes. On Van-dyne Spoor Road a Cooper’s Hawk hunted the hedgerow which turned out to have 40 Tree and 1 Song Sparrows. 1 No. Harrier and 1 Rough-legged hawk had success hunting over the wetland to the south where they flushed up 2 Green-winged Teal. Then the snow came. Mike Tetlow and Dominic Sherony -- 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] Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Snowy Owl Route 89/MNWR Wildlife Drive closed for hunting 12-1-14 through 12-16-14
Donna Carter saw a SNOWY OWL on Carncross Road near Savannah, Wayne County this Sunday as well: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20732695 On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes c...@cornell.edu wrote: Begin forwarded message: *From: *Bird observations from western New York geneseebird...@geneseo.edu *Subject: * *[GeneseeBirds-L] Snowy Owl Route 89/MNWR Wildlife Drive closed for hunting 12-1-14 through 12-16-14* *Date: *December 2, 2014 at 1:16:01 AM EST *To: *geneseebird...@geneseo.edu *Reply-To: * geneseebird...@geneseo.edu I spotted a Snowy Owl Monday afternoon. It was perched on a utility pole on the east side of Rt. 89 just south of East Tyre Road. I would have missed it had it not been for the fact that the MNWR Wildlife Drive was closed for deer hunting forcing me to go back down to Rts. 5 20 to get to Rt. 89. This is a much darker and more heavily speckled Snowy than the one reported at the end of the Wildlife Drive by Jay McGowan on November 8th. Michael Gullo ___ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - geneseebird...@geneseo.edu https://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- *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/!* -- -- 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/ --
