[cayugabirds-l] Call for papers for NYSOA Annual Meeting

2015-08-04 Thread Bill Ostrander
Just a reminder that the deadline to submit abstracts for the Scientific Paper Session at the NYS Birders Conference and 2015 NYSOA Annual meeting is August 15. The meeting is hosted by the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club and will be held at the Holiday Inn Wolf Road in Albany, NY October 2-4. The paper

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake bird sightings while kayaking

2014-07-26 Thread Bill Ostrander
Dennis, We had a similar sized group of Common Mergansers on the Chemung River in Elmira several years ago. When I first saw them in early summer, the young all appeared to be the same very small size. At the end of summer, when the young were nearly full grown, the count was the same. The

[cayugabirds-l] Adirondack Boreal Bird Workshop and Field Trip

2012-06-03 Thread Bill Ostrander
State Ornithological Association can be found at the NYSOA website, nybirds.org. Bill Ostrander Elmira, NY __._,_.___ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Adirondack Boreal Bird Workshop and Field Trip

2012-06-03 Thread Bill Ostrander
Hi, everyone. Here's an exciting opportunity from NYSOA: NYSOA Boreal Bird Workshop and Whiteface Mountain Field Trip July 7-8, 2012 The New York State Ornithological Association is offering a boreal bird workshop and field trip in Wilmington, New York on the weekend of July 7-8, 2012.

[cayugabirds-l] Adirondack Boreal Bird Workshop and Field Trip

2012-06-03 Thread Bill Ostrander
Hi, everyone. Here's an exciting opportunity from NYSOA: NYSOA Boreal Bird Workshop and Whiteface Mountain Field Trip July 7-8, 2012 The New York State Ornithological Association is offering a boreal bird workshop and field trip in Wilmington, New York on the weekend of July 7-8, 2012.

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Merlin food

2011-12-08 Thread Bill Ostrander
I sent this previously to Bob McGuire, but thought that it might be of interest to others: The one bird that I've seen Merlin catch was a House Sparrow. The Merlin that our Audubon group saw last Saturday was hunting pigeons. It split a flock in two and then cut an individual out of the flock and

[cayugabirds-l] SFO Local Trip to Park Station

2011-05-15 Thread Bill Ostrander
of the place. Unfortunately we did not have enough time to explore it more. -- Bill Ostrander -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] SFO Sunday Local Trip

2011-04-10 Thread Bill Ostrander
. -- Bill Ostrander -- 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) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese and others

2011-03-12 Thread Bill Ostrander
away. We saw Jay, Tim, and Hope at Sheldrake. I did forget to tell Jay one other unusual bird we saw was a Red-shouldered Hawk perched in one of the bushy trees far across the marsh due west of the visitors' center at the Refuge. -- Bill Ostrander _ From: bounce-9181465-3518