[cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch Lifespan

Folks. I've read in both the book "Into the Nest (by Laura Erickson & Marie Read) and on the Lab's Birds of North America online that, on the average, male goldfinch live longer than females. Can anyone shed light on why this is so? I recently purchased a new niger tube feeder that is 3

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

*  New York*  Syracuse - May 29, 2017 *  NYSY  05.29.17 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird AlertDates(s):May 22, 2017 - May 29, 2017to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Goetchius Wetland Preserve and Roy H. Park Preserve, Mon 5/29

Thanks Mark for your inspiring and very enjoyable guidance on these walks. Looking forward to next year already. Tom Sent from my iPhone > On May 29, 2017, at 1:13 PM, Mark Chao wrote: > > With only moderate rain and no lightning at all, the conditions on Monday > morning

[cayugabirds-l] Goetchius Wetland Preserve and Roy H. Park Preserve, Mon 5/29

With only moderate rain and no lightning at all, the conditions on Monday morning allowed us to complete our scheduled Finger Lakes Land Trust Spring Bird Quest (SBQ) walks after all. It got pretty cold and wet, I admit, but maybe an optimist could consider it half-warm and half-dry. We did get

[cayugabirds-l] Empid nest etc, Danby State Forest

On Saturday, after the Spring Bird Quest at Lindsay-Parsons, I drove around and up Michigan Hollow Road in Danby State Forest, and found three nest-builders (Chestnut-Sided, Empidonax sp, and Yellow Warbler). I've posted some videos of the latter two on Facebook: Empid sp: