[cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings

I just saw about 15 Snow Buntings fly across from east to west by my office window! Meena Dr. Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Ph: 607-3011167 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] new yard bird

Trivia follows After 65 years of extensive feeding of birds in my yard, (OK, including homes of parents for Karen and John and our previous homes) and with dispersal of up to ~100 lb/wk of bird seed when there has been frequent, fresh snow fall, and after thousands of hours of observation;

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings

I would not be surprised to find many field birds (buntings, larks, longspurs) dispersing farther South in search of available food resources in more open fields (or even seed feeders in the middle of the forest – John). In the recent sleet-covered and heavy snowfall-covered areas, many

[cayugabirds-l] Monday Night Seminar--The Warbler Guide: The Overlooked ID Points that Make Identifying Warblers Easy

Hello Cayuga Birders Please join us at *7:30 on March 17* for the next Monday Night Seminar at the Lab of Ornithology http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1573. As always, these seminars are free and open to the public. The doors open at 7:00. This coming Monday, we will be streaming

[cayugabirds-l] Icterid invasion, owl observation

At least 14 COMMON GRACKLES and 2 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS (one adult male, one immature male) has just invaded my neighbors' yard, taking over their feeders and drinking from a seep at the bottom of the hill. Earlier I heard and saw a NORTHERN FLICKER which looked a bit sad. Maybe it didn't visit

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Icterid invasion, owl observation

The blackbirds just as suddenly left, and the horde of House Sparrows once again reigns. Correction: they have returned. The grackle group is overwhelmingly male - they crowd into a semi-enclosed feeder then overfill the space by giving their body-plumage-burp displays - but there are also at

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Icterid invasion, owl observation

Last night while all arctic hell was breaking loose, a brave mourning dove was cooing outside my window. This irrepressible bird, like the rest of us, must be yearning for Spring or was he mourning our eternal winter? On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote: At

[cayugabirds-l] Mucks Cayuga Lake north end - Tuesday

I statused the Savannah Mucklands and north end of Cayuga Lake on Tuesday afternoon before the return to winter. Mucks (east end) - still frozen Mucks (west end) - dabblers and Canada Geese but poor numbers and little diversity for the date. More Pintails than on previous visit but otherwise

[cayugabirds-l] White against the blue

How beautiful to see 2 flocks of pure white swans flying overhead about 4 p.m with the brilliant blue sky above them. Becky could hear them discussing their plans for their evening rest on the lake, or maybe they were talking about not enough grass poking up through the snow where they had

[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk

Today when I got back home from work, I entered from the backyard. From among the shrubbery of lilacs and some other plants flew out a Copper's Hawk, which seemed to have been having a quiet meal and got disturbed by my arrival, landed on a Maple branch quite in open just a few feet from me. I