Re: [cayugabirds-l] Myers, Sat 10/24

2009-10-24 Thread Christopher Wood
The flock of scoters drifted south past Portland point. At one time the flock spread out and Jessie and I were able to get a good view of all birds and there were 192 Black Scoter and 12 Surf Scoter. We did not see any White-winged so they must have left this flock. The Red- throated Loon

[cayugabirds-l] Laughing Gull, red lighthouse jetty, Sat 10/24 11 AM

2009-10-24 Thread Mark Chao
Bob McGuire and company have found a non-breeding adult LAUGHING GULL on the red lighthouse jetty at the south end of Cayuga Lake in Ithaca (probably best viewed from Allan Treman State Marine Park or Stewart Park). Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] 22 brant grazing union fields

2009-10-24 Thread 6072292158
22 brant grazing union fields cass pk w/r-b gulls -dave nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2)

[cayugabirds-l] laughing gull

2009-10-24 Thread Ryan Douglas
the laughing gull is swimming just nw of red lighthouse at 1.45pm. ryan -- Ryan Douglas r...@cornell.edu Dept. of Plant Biology 142 Emerson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park/East Shore

2009-10-24 Thread Ryan Douglas
The LAUGHING GULL was back on the Red Lighthouse Jetty (on the Stewart Park side) when I left around 2pm. There was also a GREATER YELLOWLEGS flying/calling around the Swan Pen. From East Shore Park Paul Hurtado and I watched a medium-sized group of BRANT and an even more distant flock of all

[cayugabirds-l] Orange-cr Warbler +Laughing Gull Stewart Park

2009-10-24 Thread Ken Rosenberg
Hi all, I arrived at Stewart Park around noon, having just found out about the Laughing Gull. Unfortunately it had started to rain hard, so I went to the center pavillion so I could stand in shelter. Visibility was too poor at first,so I pished up a few sparrows from the rank weeds and marsh

[cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpecker

2009-10-24 Thread Christopher Wood
I just saw a juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker at Monkey Run South. It was along the red trail east of monkey run rd. There is a Ruffed Grouse drumming in the same area as well as an Eastern Phoebe calling. This is just past where the trail and river turns to the north. According to iPhone

[cayugabirds-l] Groton birds

2009-10-24 Thread jpackard
I birded the woods behind my house today. The highlight was a brief glimpse of a HERMIT THRUSH. I saw a REDTAIL fly down a field, calling as he flew. I flushed out a single COMMON MERGANSER on the Groton Gun Club pond. There were also a couple large robin flocks. Bruce Packard Groton

[cayugabirds-l] MNWR = plovers, cranes

2009-10-24 Thread Susan Fast
Susie I went up to Lake Ontario today. We stopped this morning at the Mucklands, corner of Rts. 31 and 89 to scan for cranes. We saw none then but found 3 AMER. GOLDEN PLOVERS in the open field there. On our return thru MNWR late this afternoon, we found 7 adult SANDHILL CRANES in a partially

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Scoter flock grows

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Nutter
At 4pm I saw a maximum of 8 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS when the flock took flight on a couple of occasions. Best viewing for me was from the west shoulder of East Shore Drive just as it starts climbing from lake level, about 30' higher to get out of heat shimmer, with the tripod straddling and me

[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Scissor-tailed flycatcher in Van Dyne Spoor Savannah?

2009-10-24 Thread Meena Haribal
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: Re: [GeneseeBirds-L] Scissor-tailed flycatcher

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Nutter
I got a copy of the Doug Racine's photo of today's (Sat 24 Oct 2009) Van Dyne Spoor Rd (southeast of Savannah) SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER in flight taking off from a wire overhead. Although the tail appears not to be full length, the pink side and wing lining are apparent. If anyone sees

[cayugabirds-l] canid decoy on golf course

2009-10-24 Thread Dave Nutter
The golf course appears to use a variety of decoys and similar scary objects in rotation in order to deter the geese from grazing and defecating on their lawns. Since this program started, numbers of geese on the golf course seems to have been greatly reduced. I don't know if they use any