[cayugabirds-l] Black Vulture foursome at Compost Facility

[AB Clark]

At 1320h, my grad student Connor reported that all four cold Black Vultures 
were sitting in edge trees/hedges  just SW of the leachate ponds at the 
Stevenson Road Cornell Composting Facility. 

I am afraid all he had to offer was peanuts. 

Anne B Clark
147 Hile School Rd
Freeville, NY 13068
607-222-0905
anneb.cl...@gmail.com






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[cayugabirds-l] Re: Crows and Cooper’s Hawk

[Geo Kloppel]

I don’t know what would have happened eventually, if they’d been left 
undisturbed, but after 20 minutes of this unexpected tolerance, my apprentice 
arrived on the scene. As we walked slowly down to the workshop, the Crows 
flushed one by one (they know us, and watch for their regular handouts, but 
they don’t allow us to approach). The hawk was the last to leave, flying off 
through the trees, strong and agile.

Through the entire 20 minutes I never heard anything out of the Crows, though 
at one point one of them was visibly making some sort of quiet vocalization 
that did’t penetrate to my living room.

The Crows soon returned, and so have all the other feeder birds.

-Geo

> On Jan 30, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Geo Kloppel  wrote:
> 
> Three Crows, regulars at my feeding station, are resting quietly on their 
> usual perches in an ash tree. They’re about 30 feet up, and the scene looks 
> just like any other winter day, except that an adult Cooper’s Hawk is perched 
> about ten feet below them. Been there for 15 minutes!
> 
> The Crows are not making a fuss, and it almost looks like the Coop is 
> “pretending” to be one of them, using them as cover while waiting for small 
> birds to return to the sunflower hopper just below.
> 
> A fourth Crow has flown in, and one of the others dropped down toward the 
> ground feeding area, as if to grab a morsel, but thought better of it, I 
> guess.
> 
> -Geo
> 
> 

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[cayugabirds-l] Redwing Blackbirds at feeders

[Peter]

8 redwing blackbirds and a lone male cowbird at my feeders just now 
(11:35 a.m. Phelps, NY)


Pete Saracino


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[cayugabirds-l] Crows and Cooper’s Hawk

[Geo Kloppel]

Three Crows, regulars at my feeding station, are resting quietly on their usual 
perches in an ash tree. They’re about 30 feet up, and the scene looks just like 
any other winter day, except that an adult Cooper’s Hawk is perched about ten 
feet below them. Been there for 15 minutes!

The Crows are not making a fuss, and it almost looks like the Coop is 
“pretending” to be one of them, using them as cover while waiting for small 
birds to return to the sunflower hopper just below.

A fourth Crow has flown in, and one of the others dropped down toward the 
ground feeding area, as if to grab a morsel, but thought better of it, I guess.

-Geo



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