Meena all,
To clarify, I hope:
The summary I wrote *is* of the Ithaca Christmas Bird Count (Count). The vast
majority of information in that email refers to the Count. The Count is a
census of numbers of individuals of as many species of birds as can be found
during 24 hours within a 15-mile
Dave:
The discrepancy between your count (96) and mine (97) appears to be
because my spreadsheet has the hybrid Great Black-backed/Herring Gull as
the single entry in the Gull sp. category. I believe that this would
NOT count against our official species count, so your total is correct,
Dave,
You seem to have unofficially expanded Ithaca CBC to CLB. Dave Nicosia' s most
of birds don't count in Ithaca CBC circle. So it is not summary of ICBC.
Cheers
PS:Good to be back home!
Meena
Ithaca
Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote:
These are preliminary records. Some may be
Bob,
I have always understood that the divide between the Susquehanna and
St. Lawrence basins (The Cayuga Lake Basin is part of the St.
Lawrence drainage) was somewhere between Belle School Rd and Ridgeway Road.
So, you have forced me to actually look at the maps. Check out this
link:
Congratulations to Bill Podulka friends for finding Catbird, Towhee, and
Field Sparrow on (?) Belle School Rd for the Christmas count. Dave Nutter
raised the question of whether they are in or out of the Cayuga Lake basin (for
the few of us who really care!) Looking at the aerial photo on
A RED-TAILED HAWK is sitting on a post at the corner of our garden,
about 15' from our kitchen window. I'm guessing its looking to take one
of our many squirrels. I recently put up a metal squirrel decoration on
our dead tree out front (a Xmas present from our daughter). Maybe the
bird took
Question: does the Barred Owl sighting fall within Area VIII (west of
Sapsucker Wood Road) or Area II (east)?
Never mind. I just found out it was seen on the East side.
-Paul
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531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850
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Today (Jan 2, 1520h) for the first time in weeks, had a pair of Brown-headed
Cowbirds in our woodsy patch S of our house/feeders at 147 Hile School Road,
Freeville. Never saw them at the feeders earlier in the day.
Anne
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