[cayugabirds-l] Finger Lakes Regional Airport

[Chris Lajewski]

Two Snowy Owls late this afternoon at the airport, one was being harassed by a 
Northern Harrier and a Short-eared Owl.
Chris LajewskiCenter DirectorMontezuma Audubon Center



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[cayugabirds-l] Field Trip This Saturday 8am Stewart Park

[Suan Hsi Yong]

Hi all,

Two days ago I was rollerblading in shorts and T-shirt. Today I'm jogging
through an inch of fresh snow. What will the birds make of all this? Let's
find out together on a Cayuga Bird Club field trip around the lake:

  Saturday, February 24, 2018
  8:00am - 4:00pm (end time is approximate)
  Meet at STEWART PARK
  Contact: Suan Yong (607-351-9334)

We'll meet at the east end parking lot of Stewart Park (turn right as you
enter the park) and carpool to drive to the north end of the lake and back.
Feel free to pack a lunch, but I do plan to stop along the way to get food
(most likely at the Nice and Easy). Forecast is looking decent (40s, light
wind, overcast with slight chance of rain later).

The itinerary is subject to change, but I'm leaning towards pushing to get
to the north end of the lake sooner to hopefully experience the large
flocks of Snow Geese that have started arriving the Mucklands. Will they be
there on Saturday? Are the Snowy Owls and Snow Buntings still around? What
about the Gyrfalcon or Slaty-Backed Gull? Let's find out together.

Suan

PS. If anyone else out and about on Saturday can send sighting updates to
me or this list, it would be much appreciated.

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[cayugabirds-l] Weekend walks!!

[Linda Orkin]

 Hey Everyone, spring is springing. Come out for some bird walks at
Sapsucker Woods(Cornell Lab of Ornithology) this weekend,February 24 and
25, Saturday and Sunday at 8:30. Meet at the Visitors Center. Redwing
blackbirds and Song Sparrows arrived Thursday AM, singing away. It may be
rainy so just put on the right clothes and come on out. This is really good
for beginners and all other birders. Go to Cayugabirdclub.org

for up to the minute info in case of some change.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions!

Linda Orkin
Ithaca, NY

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"For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun
and the light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born
into the world to enjoy" Plutarch

If you permit
this evil, what is the good
of the good of your life?

-Stanley Kunitz...

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[cayugabirds-l] grackles and red-wings

[Linda Callahan]

About 100 grackles and a few red-wings have landed in Newfield. Last 
year they hit on the 23rd, so they're right on time. There goes all the 
bird food.


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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Eurasian Wigeon at Stewart Park, Ithaca

[Dave Nutter]

Correction/update: Jeremy Collison texted “west end” at about 10:50am.

- - Dave Nutter

> On Feb 22, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Dave Nutter  wrote:
> 
> This morning Jay McGowan found a beautiful breeding plumage male EURASIAN 
> WIGEON at Stewart Park, which he reported to the text rare-bird-alert. 
> 
> As of 9:30am when I left the park, it was with American Wigeons along the 
> border between the lake water and the broad mud flat (previously under the 
> ice shelf) which parallels the shore, near the east end of the park where we 
> meet for field trips. When I arrived at the park an hour earlier it had been 
> in shallow lake water but farther west, opposite the area midway between the 
> tennis courts and the swan pond. 
> 
> I recommend a scope and means to keep all your optics dry. This includes 
> sheltering lenses, drying them periodically, directly your breath firmly away 
> from them rather than slowly exhaling so warm moist air drifts onto them, and 
> not biking there so hurriedly that you become enveloped in your own personal 
> cloud rising from your clothes when you arrive. 
> 
> It has just been reported again on the text RBA but without details of 
> location. 
> 
> - - Dave Nutter

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[cayugabirds-l] Eurasian Wigeon at Stewart Park, Ithaca

[Dave Nutter]

This morning Jay McGowan found a beautiful breeding plumage male EURASIAN 
WIGEON at Stewart Park, which he reported to the text rare-bird-alert. 

As of 9:30am when I left the park, it was with American Wigeons along the 
border between the lake water and the broad mud flat (previously under the ice 
shelf) which parallels the shore, near the east end of the park where we meet 
for field trips. When I arrived at the park an hour earlier it had been in 
shallow lake water but farther west, opposite the area midway between the 
tennis courts and the swan pond. 

I recommend a scope and means to keep all your optics dry. This includes 
sheltering lenses, drying them periodically, directly your breath firmly away 
from them rather than slowly exhaling so warm moist air drifts onto them, and 
not biking there so hurriedly that you become enveloped in your own personal 
cloud rising from your clothes when you arrive. 

It has just been reported again on the text RBA but without details of 
location. 

- - Dave Nutter
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[cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskin

[Ann Mitchell]

Make that 12+
Ann

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[cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskin

[Ann Mitchell]

There are at least a half dozen Pine Siskin at my feeders now!
Ann Mitchell

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