[cayugabirds-l] Kestrel Haven end of season Northern Saw-whet Owl report

2015-12-01 Thread John and Sue Gregoire 
The Fat Lady Hooted at Kestrel Haven!

We brought in nets on the 30th to end a so-so season and leave us longing for
another 2012!( when we banded well over 200 saw-whets) We banded 50 new birds, 
had 3
repeats and, for the very first time, had zero foreigns and none of our birds
visiting other stations. We made a stab at LEOWs without success.

Our 50 breakdown to 1 AHY, 8 ASY, 6 SY and 35 HY, a very normal distribution. 
It was
much the same with sex ratio as we had 84% female, 7 Unknowns and 1 definite 
male.

We banded from 01 October through 29 November on 39 nights logging 622 net hours
which works out to one bird every 12 net hours.

Our best night was 12 on 22 October. First bird banded was 14 October and last 
was
29 November.

Although the season started very slowly with birds being caught to our west, 
east
and south, it all came out as pretty normal. It did give us an opportunity to 
add to
our knowledge/assumptions of migration dynamics here. We believe "our" birds fly
south directly over Lake Ontario as well as some that skirt the lake's western 
edge.
This of course is strongly dependent on wind speed and direction. Those birds
skirting the eastern edge of the lake tend to then follow a path down the 
eastern
shore of Cayuga Lake and miss us by a good 40 miles. In previous years owls 
banded
here showed a strong tendency to fly south by southwest based on visits to other
stations. This year That's what makes it fun as we keep learning.

John and Sue

 To decode our bander lingo. These are all Northern Saw-whet Owls (NSWO). LEOW 
is
Long-eared Owl which we tried due to a tremendous fallout of same in Ontario 
this
fall. AHY is after hatching year but we can't determine the age closer than
"adult", ASY is a bird at least 3 years old, SY is a second year bird, HY is a 
bird
hatched this year . For the most part molt intricacies are such that we can't 
age
NSWOs beyond ASY. TY, third year, and ATY (after third year) calls are iffy at 
best
as we have huge variations in molt patterns within this species.
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John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory
5373 Fitzgerald Road
Burdett,NY 14818-9626
N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492'
 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/
"Conserve and Create Habitat"




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[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma wildlife drive

2015-12-01 Thread Michael Tetlow 
Yesterday Dominic Sherony and I were told the wildlife drive would be closed
today through at least the end of deer season(12/13) but calling
today(12/1), as Mike Gullo stated, the drive will be open through at least
this upcoming weekend(12/7). After that, call the refuge at 1-315-568-5987
for updates.  Mike Tetlow mjtet...@frontiernet.net
  


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[cayugabirds-l] late report from Monday

2015-12-01 Thread Bill Mcaneny 
Sorry for the delay, but yesterday (Mon) there was a male PURPLE FINCH on
the feeder outside our kitchen window. It is the first male we have seen
here in a long time, probably over two years. Neat bird.

 

Bill and Shirley McAneny, TBurg


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[cayugabirds-l] Fw: White winged Turkey Vulture

2015-12-01 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal 
I sent this on Sunday but it did not make it to the list. So I am resending 
this.


Meena


Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
42.429007,-76.47111
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From: Meena Madhav Haribal
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 7:26 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: White winged Turkey Vulture


Hi all,

Today I was in Lansing area. When I was near Asbury Cemetery, I saw an eagle. 
so pulled into Asbury Rd and watched the bird. It was another Golden Eagle. 
This year so far I have seen three of them in the Fall. As I was watching it 
there were lots of Turkey Vultures also in the sky and some of them were 
mulling around.  I got my camera out to take picture of the eagle, but by the 
time I was ready with my camera, the bird had become a tiny speck in  the  sky. 
But I could take some video of Turkey Vultures. While I was looking at them, I 
saw this  white -winged Turkey Vulture circle a couple of times. Later I could 
get it in the video for a short 3 sec.


Here is the link to the video and the vulture with white wing is seen between 
41 sec to 44 sec of the video. You can see the white wing if you see it as full 
screen video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jmrn-QtLc

[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/85jmrn-QtLc/hqdefault.jpg]

Turkey Vultures with white winged Turkey Vulture
On 11/29/15 I saw about 50 plus Turkey Vultures along with one of the partially 
albino winged Turkey vulture. This could be seen in the video btween 41 to 44...
Watch now...


Cheers

Meena




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