[cayugabirds-l] blue jays

[Deb Grantham]

Hello,

I've been asked by someone else to find out why they aren't seeing blue jays 
this year. I actually saw more around this winter than I've seen around here 
(Sheffield Road, Ithaca/Enfield town line) in a long time.

Any thoughts? Do they really follow the acorn crop? Avian flu?

Deb



Deborah G. Grantham
Director, Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center
Cornell Institute for Resource Information Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Cornell 
University

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Cornell University sits on the traditional homelands of the Cayuga 
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[cayugabirds-l] snow geese and black birds and more

[Deb Grantham]

Yesterday afternoon, I watched as clouds and clouds of snow geese descended 
across Route 79, going from north to south, and appeared to land in ag fields. 
I think there were thousands, but there was no way to count but the process 
went on for 10 minutes or more. I was watching from Sheffield Road, 
Ithaca/Enfield town line. I drove around but never could find the fields they 
may have landed in.

This morning, I watched a stream of black birds cross my property from the east 
and cross Sheffield Road to land across the street in the horse farm there. 
There were dozens in any cross section you might cut through the stream and it 
went on for over 5 minutes. I clearly saw a good proportion of grackles, could 
see their tails. I saw some smaller, compact birds that could have been 
cowbirds. But other than the grackle tails, I couldn't see anything well enough 
to identify species.

One interesting point was that a home fuel oil truck drove past and when it 
went under the stream of birds, they were clearly buffeted by the turbulence. 
They were about 15 or 20 feet above the truck.

And I saw 7 bluebirds in my yard today.

Deb



Deborah G. Grantham
Director, Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center
Cornell Institute for Resource Information Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Cornell 
University

The Northeastern IPM Center is based at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Cornell University sits on the traditional homelands of the Cayuga 
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[cayugabirds-l] Bald eagle came for tea!

[Liz Rowland]

We had a first today: a bald eagle landed in the tree right outside our
window! It stayed for a couple of minutes. We've seen him/her flying over
the nearby fields a couple of times, and over the Susquehanna River
recently. We're in Owego.

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