Re:[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl Rt 96a near Geneva

2018-02-27 Thread Antonia Saxon
Now on telephone pole on Woodworth Rd north of 96A.  -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net

[cayugabirds-l] Mystery bird revealed elsewhere, too

2017-04-29 Thread Antonia Saxon
of backyard birds over and over again, so Occam's razor suggested it must be a bird we knew. It took us an embarrassingly long time to think to try titmouse. (Thank you, All About Birds!). One thing we got hung up on was the volume of the sound. High decibel-to-gram ratio, there. Antonia Saxon

[cayugabirds-l] Tame redpoll? Lethargic?

2015-03-12 Thread Antonia Saxon
A single female redpoll has been hanging around our feeders (Trumansburg, right in the village). She's comfortable on the ground/snow. Doesn't flee until I get very close, and then doesn't fly very far. I can't tell if she's sassy and unafraid, or if she's ill. Been around for a week or two.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Harrier

2014-03-15 Thread Antonia Saxon
Don't know where you are, but there's at least one male Northern Harrier in Trumansburg. Saw it sitting on a limb over Trumansburg Creek one afternoon in February, right across from Gimme Coffee (where it drew a small crowd), then spotted it again two days ago cruising low over a field along