[cayugabirds-l] Raven courtship

2015-03-04 Thread John Confer
Spring around our house includes Raven courtship. I heard and saw a pair of ravens flying from _south _of Rt 79 over Goetchius Preserve and up Hammond Hill and across to Robinson Hollow ( from a field you can see and hear them from a large distance away). The entire time they flew very close

RE:[cayugabirds-l] Cardinal Song

2015-03-04 Thread Kevin J. McGowan
Although Northern Cardinals are known to have lived to be 15 years old, adults have only a 60% chance of surviving from year to year. I suspect you have a new bird on the block. Kevin From: bounce-118890755-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118890755-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf

[cayugabirds-l] RTHA nesting

2015-03-04 Thread Christianne McMillan White
On afternoon walk we saw a Red-tailed hawk carrying nest material to the light platform on campus, couldn't tell which hawk it was, and don't see it in web camera's view. C White -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] IYC Wednesday

2015-03-04 Thread bob mcguire
Utterly chagrined that I missed the Tufted Duck at the yacht club yesterday, I stopped back this morning for a longer/closer look. Sure enough, it WAS feeding with the small aythya flock just off the swim dock. In addition, I had a close-in group of 7 Long-tailed Ducks and a distant group of 21

[cayugabirds-l] waterfowl mortality in our area?

2015-03-04 Thread Marc Devokaitis
Hi all, Beth Bunting from the Cornell Vet School sent me this message today: *...we have been seeing a number of dead/starving ducks, grebes and raptors from around the Great lakes and now this week we are hearing about seaduck deaths in East Hampton. This is presumably from the extensive ice

Re: [cayugabirds-l] IYC Wednesday

2015-03-04 Thread Chris R. Pelkie
Bob or Jay or anyone: what are the access rights to the Yacht Club? I don’t want to trespass and have never been there so don’t know the signage or access. For what it’s worth (and I think it is): I did stop at the Lansing Marina back in the Fall and personally asked the manager if it was OK to

[cayugabirds-l] Northern Harrier

2015-03-04 Thread Stephanie Greenwood
FOY for me Northern Harrier hunting in the fields south of my house being harried by two crows. -- Stephanie Greenwood U.S. Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 280 1050 England 73 Kynaston Road London N16 0EB 07946 341208 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: