[cayugabirds-l] 50+ New Homes! BIRDS of a Feather, FLOCK Together!

[Stanley Scharf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM_KUFXQTJo

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[cayugabirds-l] Friday Aurora Snow Geese

[Suan Hsi Yong]

As I'd reported earlier, on Friday I could barely make out from Aurora a
distant raft of Snow Geese, which I considered "small" with a guesstimate
of 1000-2000 geese. Turns out I was off by an order of magnitude: there
were 10,298 geese. Probably still "small" compared to the "big" gathering.

How did I get so precise a count? See this:

  https://youtu.be/apmQ7iIOYtM

Suan

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[cayugabirds-l] great horned owls

[Deb Grantham]

They were calling about 2:30 am Sunday morning (Saturday night) around my house 
and then heading off to the west. Called for about 10 minutes. Sheffield Road, 
Ithaca/Enfield town line.

Continue to see several bluebirds here yesterday and flocks of blackbirds 
everywhere I go.

More snow geese and Canada geese overhead most of the day.

Deb



Deborah G. Grantham
Director, Northeastern Integrated Pest Management Center
Cornell Institute for Resource Information Sciences
Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Cornell 
University

The Northeastern IPM Center is based at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Cornell University sits on the traditional homelands of the Cayuga 
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[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club March meeting and speaker dinner

[Colleen Richards]

The March meeting  of the Cayuga Bird Club will be Monday, March 13, 2023, at 
7:30 pm at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology,Our speaker, Alli Smith, will be 
presenting "Behind the Scenes of Merlin Sound ID". The Merlin Bird ID app, 
created by the Cornell lab of Ornithology, is a global field guide and a 
powerful tool to help identify the birds around you. Sound ID, the newest 
feature added to Merlin in Spring 2021, helps you identify 1,000+ bird species 
by sound even when you cant see them - but how does it work? Well 
take a deep dive behind the scenes of Merlin to learn how Sound ID was 
developed, and how you can help us expand Merlin to cover more species 
worldwide. About the Speaker: Alli Smith is the Merlin Project Coordinator at 
the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where her work focuses on outreach and 
supporting birders. She graduated from SUNY-ESF with a BS in Wildlife Science 
in 2016 and has been bouncing around the bird conservation world since then, 
including working with seabirds and managing citizen science monitoring 
projects. Alli believes in the power of community to make a positive impact on 
bird conservation, and is thrilled to be able to support birders worldwide with 
the Merlin Bird ID app. There will be a speaker dinner before the meeting at 
5:30 at Sumo Restaurant (Cayuga Mall on Triphammer Rd.). Please rsvp to Colleen 
Richards, cl...@juno.com, by noon Mon., March 13.
 In-person meetings at the Lab of Ornithology start with cookies at 7 pm, the 
reading of the bird list* at 7:25 pm, and club business at 7:30 pm, followed by 
the speaker's presentation starting around 7:45 and ending by 9 pm. Colleen 
Richards
Cayuga Bird Club 
Corresponding Secretary
 * NOTE: For March, 2023, one of our standing agenda items -- the Reading of 
the List -- will take place at 7:25, prior to the regular business meeting, to 
safeguard the speakers' time while retaining a long standing tradition during 
the more "social" and interactive time ahead of the business meeting. Cayuga 
Bird Club meetings are held on the second Monday of each month, September 
through June, and are free and open to the public. 

  We will attempt to make presentations available virtually as a recording 
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[cayugabirds-l] Loyuisiana Waterthrush in Finger Lakes Land Trust Preserves

[Karen]

The Finger Lakes regionis named for the beautiful lakes formed in north-south 
valleys carved by glaciers.Subsequently, dozens of east-west streams have 
formed gorges as water flowedover steep declines and into these lakes. These 
head water streams are often surroundedby mature forests and can provide clear 
water to the finger lakes. Thesestreams are a prized feature of the preserves 
of the Finger Lakes Land Trustand they provide the very specialized habitat 
required by the LouisianaWaterthrush. 

The LouisianaWaterthrush nests exclusively along streams in mature forests. 
They feed onlarge, aquatic insect larvae that live in unpolluted streams with a 
fast flow. Thesespecialized requirements make this bird one of the rarest 
songbirds routinely nestingin the Finger Lakes region. The Finger Lakes Land 
Trust has established manypreserves that protect this ideal habitat. A survey 
of Louisiana Waterthrushbreeding in land trust preserves is likely to show a 
large number of these uncommonwarblers.

I would like to organizea survey of Louisiana Waterthrush nesting in the 
preserves of the Finger LakesLand Trust. If you are interested in helping this 
census, please contact JohnConfer confergoldw...@aol.com.


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[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse area RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA

 

*  New York

*  Syracuse

* March 06, 2023

* NYSY 03.06.23

 

Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert

Dates(s): February 27, 2022 to March 06, 2023

to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com

covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),

Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison & Cortland

compiled: March 06  AT 4:00 p.m. (EDT)

compiler: Joseph Brin

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#831: Monday March 06, 2023 

 

Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of 

February 27, 2022

 




Highlights






CACKLING GOOSE

SURF SCOTER

EURASIAN WIGEON

SANDHILL CRANE

GOLDEN EAGLE

BLACK VULTURE

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL

ICELAND GULL

NORTHERN SHRIKE

BOHEMIAN WAXWING

MARSH WREN

GRAY CATBIRD

EVENING GROSBEAK

LAPLAND LONGSPUR

PINE SISKIN

COMMON REDPOLL

RED CROSSBILL







Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma and Montezuma

Wetlands Complex

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      3/3: An EURASIAN WIGEON was seen at Howland Island. Another EURASIAN was 
seen from Carncross Road. A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen from Railroad Road.

      3/5: 15 SANDHILL CRANES were seen from the tower at the visitor’s Center.

     3/6: A MARSH WREN was found at VanDyne Spoor Road.







Oswego County






     3/2: Up to 120 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Tryon Rpad off of Rainbow 
Shores Road. Smaller groups were seen on the 3rd. and the 4th. at the same area.

     3/3: 5 COMMON REDPOLLS and a GOLDEN EAGLE were seef from Tryon Road.

     3/4: 330 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on Hinman Road north of Pulaski.

     3/5: 10 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen at the corner of Wart Road and North 
Church Road in the northern part of the County. 3 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen 
on Tryon Road. A PINE SISKIN and a NORTHERN SHRIKE were seen at Derby Hill.







Onondaga County






     3/1: A SURF SCOTER was seen on Onondaga Lake at the Liverpool Marina. 2 
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS were seen at the Onondaga Lake Visitor’s Center near 
the State Fair.

     3/2: A LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was seen at the Liverpool Marina.

     3/3: 

an ICELAND GULL was seen at the Liverpool Marina.

     3/5: A BLACK VULTURE was seen at Jamesville Beach County Paor.A GRAY 
CATBIRD was seen on Taft road north of Liverpool.A RED CROSSBIL was seen at the 
Morgan Hill State Forest.near Shakham Road.







Madison County






     2/28: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen from Rt. 12 east of Poolville.

     3/2: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen from Rt. 80 near Georgetown. A NORTHERN 
SHRIKE was seen near Hubbardsville.

     3/3: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen from Indian Lookout Road north of Cazenovia.

     3/5: A CACKLING GOOSE, a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a GLAUCOUS GULL were 
all seen from Hardwood Island Road north of Canastota.

     3/6: EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen on Hawes Road near the Eaton Reservoir 
and on Eden Hollow Road.







Oneida County






     3/2: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen on Jug Point Road. A RED CROSSBILL was 
seen on Pennystreet Road in Rome.

     3/3: A COMMON REDPOLL was seen in Waterville.

     3/4: A SHORT-EARED OWL was again found on Jugpoint Road.







Herkimer County






     3/4: A PINE SISKIN was at a feeder in Dolgeville. BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS and 
EVENING GROSBEAKS were near a residence in Salisbury north of Dolgeville. They 
both were seen again on 3/5.




     

   







     

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Region 5







Joseph Brin

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[cayugabirds-l] Union Springs, NY ... Thousands of snow geese

[job121830]

About 2:30 p.m. my daughter, Becky, heard a gunshot & almost immediately the 
frantic canon-like sound of thousands of snows immediately becoming airborne. 
They were in the fields around Spruce Haven farm  on White Rd. east of Union 
Springs just east of Ridge Rd..She called me & I was able from my house in 
Union Springs, to see the beginning flights of thousands of geese. The closer 
they came, the higher they flew towards the WNW   The first flights were going 
over the west side of Cayuga Lake before the end flights came from the east. 
They definitely made no move to land on Cayuga Lake & perhaps were heading 
towards Seneca Lake. 
So, YES, snows are still in the area but gunshots, whether by farmers or 
hunters or natural decisions seems to be keeping them on the move.

Fritzie B. 

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Preventing bird-window strikes

[Linda Orkin]

American Bird Conservancy has their bird tape back in stock. I’m be had it on my front picture window for around 5 years. I actually see birds veer away as they are flying towards it. Linda Orkin On Mar 6, 2023, at 9:56 AM, Jody Enck  wrote:Hi all,With bird migration ramping up, many folks may be interested in making their own homes safer for birds.  One of the things you can do to reduce bird mortality near your home is to help birds understand that your windows are a hard surface and not just more habitat to fly through.The American Bird Conservancy has a big section of their website devoted to reducing window strikes.  Here is a link to some useful and inexpensive solutions.  https://abcbirds.org/news/abc-birdtape-feather-friendly/Enjoy and happy birding!JodyJody W. Enck, PhDConservation Social Scientist, andFounder of the Sister Bird Club Network607-379-5940

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Preventing bird-window strikes

[Theresa Joseph]

I've used bird tape on my windows for a few years.  I now have zero bird
strikes.  Before that,  I had decals of hawks which didn't help at all.
Bird tape REALLY works well.
Theresa J

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 9:56 AM Jody Enck  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> With bird migration ramping up, many folks may be interested in making
> their own homes safer for birds.  One of the things you can do to reduce
> bird mortality near your home is to help birds understand that your windows
> are a hard surface and not just more habitat to fly through.
>
> The American Bird Conservancy has a big section of their website devoted
> to reducing window strikes.  Here is a link to some useful and inexpensive
> solutions.  https://abcbirds.org/news/abc-birdtape-feather-friendly/
>
> Enjoy and happy birding!
> Jody
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>
> Jody W. Enck, PhD
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> Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network
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[cayugabirds-l] Preventing bird-window strikes

[Jody Enck]

Hi all,

With bird migration ramping up, many folks may be interested in making
their own homes safer for birds.  One of the things you can do to reduce
bird mortality near your home is to help birds understand that your windows
are a hard surface and not just more habitat to fly through.

The American Bird Conservancy has a big section of their website devoted to
reducing window strikes.  Here is a link to some useful and inexpensive
solutions.  https://abcbirds.org/news/abc-birdtape-feather-friendly/

Enjoy and happy birding!
Jody


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Conservation Social Scientist, and
Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network
607-379-5940

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