[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga village Snow Geese and Swans

[Gary Kohlenberg]

Hi all,
The large Snow Goose flocks have been frustrating this winter, either 
in the middle of the lake, flying over at dusk or in the corn stubble north of 
the lake. The best place I found today for scanning Snow Geese was the area 
between Beacon Feed Marina and Mud Lock at the north end of Cayuga Lake. From 
Towpath Machine, now closed, about 50,000 Snow Geese, many Canadas and Tundra / 
Trumpeter Swans spread out all along the ice free water. I was able to ID one 
Ross’s Goose and I think there were possibly more. The difficulty was the 
occasional Bald Eagle that caused everyone to pick up and circle around before 
settling back down in a bunch. After a little time to rest the Snow Goose flock 
would start to spread out and swim around greatly improving the viewing. Some 
of the Trumpeter Swans were actively courting making their presence known by 
trumpeting incessantly and generally showing off. 

Happy birding,

Gary
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[cayugabirds-l] Western Tanager at Day Hall Cornell

[Donna Lee Scott]

My posted message from 4 PM seems to have been lost in cyberspace...

Around 4 PM today (Sun.) I and others (Sandy, Bruce) got good looks at the 
WESTERN TANAGER in areas around the west side of Day Hall on the Cornell Campus.
The bird:
sat in a short tree by the SW door of Day Hall,
flew a few times into the spruce trees above the alcove entrance to the 
underground Cornell Store,
flew 2 times down into the Cornell Store entrance alcove and ate dried dark 
blue fruits off the pavement and off the vines on wall,
flew up to the wall over the entrance doors to the store, then hopped down onto 
the lawn behind that wall.

It chased away House Sparrows that were trying to get the food it was eating.

Donna

Donna L. Scott
Lansing Station Road
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] pintails

[Peter]

Hundreds of pintails at Knox Marcellus and around the potato barn this 
afternoon.

Beautiful birds

On 3/5/2016 10:25 PM, Leona Lauster wrote:

Van Dyne Spoor Rd. was very muddy with few birds late this afternoon until I 
spotted a falcon get a lot of ducks in the air to the north.  They were south 
of the railroad tracks so  I went out Wright Rd and found it full of Northern 
Pintails and Mallards in the corn stubble. There were also Black Ducks, 
American Wigeon and Horned Larks in the fields.  When we get the warmer weather 
that is coming they will probably show up in the muck lands along route 31.

Leona Lauster


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

[Kenneth V. Rosenberg]

The WESTERN TANAGER was very cooperative at mid-day today on the Cornell 
campus, making rounds between the hedge on the south side of Day Hall, the east 
entrance of the Campus Store, and various points along Wee Stinky Glen. Lots of 
people saw and photographed this bird. My photos can be found in my eBird 
checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S2757

this bird does seem to be in active molt, with adult-male plumage coming in 
especially on the face, wing coverts, and back.

KEN


Kenneth V. Rosenberg
Conservation Science Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Office: 607-254-2412
cell: 607-342-4594
k...@cornell.edu

On Mar 6, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Vanessa Ng 
> wrote:

Dave,

Here you go.  These were from Thursday afternoon when I stopped by for 40 
minutes or so.  First in a thicket of brush around Day Hall, then in the large 
clump of green bushes on the other side of the path by the rear entrance of the 
Store, where a woman was leaving seed for him.

https://pallas.smugmug.com/Western-Tanager-Ithaca/n-Xr9QrG/

There must be something about New York this winter that non-native birds are 
finding their way here. Off-topic: earlier this winter I also visited the 
famous Painted Bunting in Brooklyn a few times where an adult male bunting 
hasn't been seen since the 20s, garnering national media attention.  He was 
there from Thanksgiving weekend to early January (when it got real cold and 
snowy this week for the first time).  There were always at least a dozen 
birders/photographers/general public to up to 50 or more people in the early 
weeks when he was discovered.  For those interested, here are a few pictures 
from one of my visits.

https://pallas.smugmug.com/Painted-Bunting-in-Brooklyn/n-5bwb3J/

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Dave Nutter 
> wrote:
The WESTERN TANAGER is still being reported via eBird daily on Cornell 
University campus in the same area - the alcove at the east entrance to the 
underground Cornell Store (good for sunning and eating fruits of vines on the 
wall), the south and west sides of Day Hall (whose inhabitants put seed on the 
windowsills), the nearby stream known as Wee Stinky Glen and the fruiting trees 
over it, with forays to the south side of Sage Chapel.

Please keep reporting this bird. Also, any photographers or observers of 
detail, please let me know if you believe you are seeing progression of molt. 
I'd love to see the bird with more adult or breeding male characteristics such 
as red around the face or darker back feathers.

--Dave Nutter

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

[Vanessa Ng]

Dave,

Here you go.  These were from Thursday afternoon when I stopped by for 40
minutes or so.  First in a thicket of brush around Day Hall, then in the
large clump of green bushes on the other side of the path by the rear
entrance of the Store, where a woman was leaving seed for him.

https://pallas.smugmug.com/Western-Tanager-Ithaca/n-Xr9QrG/

There must be something about New York this winter that non-native birds
are finding their way here. Off-topic: earlier this winter I also visited
the famous Painted Bunting in Brooklyn a few times where an adult male
bunting hasn't been seen since the 20s, garnering national media
attention.  He was there from Thanksgiving weekend to early January (when
it got real cold and snowy this week for the first time).  There were
always at least a dozen birders/photographers/general public to up to 50 or
more people in the early weeks when he was discovered.  For those
interested, here are a few pictures from one of my visits.

https://pallas.smugmug.com/Painted-Bunting-in-Brooklyn/n-5bwb3J/

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:

> The WESTERN TANAGER is still being reported via eBird daily on Cornell
> University campus in the same area - the alcove at the east entrance to the
> underground Cornell Store (good for sunning and eating fruits of vines on
> the wall), the south and west sides of Day Hall (whose inhabitants put seed
> on the windowsills), the nearby stream known as Wee Stinky Glen and the
> fruiting trees over it, with forays to the south side of Sage Chapel.
>
> Please keep reporting this bird. Also, any photographers or observers of
> detail, please let me know if you believe you are seeing progression of
> molt. I'd love to see the bird with more adult or breeding male
> characteristics such as red around the face or darker back feathers.
>
> --Dave Nutter
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[cayugabirds-l] LP Red-Shouldered Hawk

[Suan Yong]

A red-shouldered hawk was calling at Lindsay-Parsons, from the woods just past 
Celia's Cup. It called several times from a seemingly close distance, but I 
could never get a visual.

Suan
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[cayugabirds-l] Golden Eagles again

[Annette Nadeau]

I was so excited about the Golden Eagles I forgot to say where they were.
They flew over my yard on Burns Road in Brooktondale.

Annette
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[cayugabirds-l] Golden Eagles

[Annette Nadeau]

Just added GOLDEN EAGLE to my yard list! Two soaring fairly low but gaining
altitude as they moved to the southeast. I could easily see bands on the
tail of one but not so well on the other. Perhaps an adult and an immature.
Very beautiful and very exciting!!

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[cayugabirds-l] Pine siskins

[Suan Yong]

Had at least six Pine Siskins this morning here at Commonland, singing with 
some regularity, along with a foy4me Red-Winged Blackbird, plus songs from 
Carolina Wren, cardinal, chickadee, titmouse, mourning dove (FOY cooing song 
for me).

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