[cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese today?
Can anyone tell me if there are still Snow Geese on the west side on Lake Cayuga? Our out-of-town sons want to go see them if they're still there. Thanks, Elizabeth King -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] another Ithaca Screech Owl
in the woods between the south ends of Remington Road and North Sunset Drive, around 8:00 last evening. It called quietly for several minutes. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] MNWR
I'm interested in the current debate about MNWR. Here's another opinion: I have always assumed that the MNWR existed not only to provide a safe refuge for birds but also to provide a place for all people (not just photographers and experts) to actually observe and study the birds and, one hopes, as a result, to become supporters of the refuge. Our Ithaca bird group goes regularly to MNWR, always in the morning on a weekday (Tuesday). We are often the only people on the wildlife drive. Sometimes we have as many as three cars in our group with four people in each car. The only way for our (sometimes old) eyes to see birds and point them out to some of the newer birders in the group is to get quietly out of our cars and sometimes set up a scope. People in the right side of the car mostly can't see anything out of the left side windows if they have to stay in the car. I'm sure some water birds and shore birds leave but patience usually brings them back. The really good photographers are usually travelling alone and do just fine staying in their car/blind. So the rules need to be a bit flexible to be helpful to all of us. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bats!
Thanks John for identifying our bat. I'm sorry it's gone. A few years ago we took a birding trip in the UK. The co-leader was Patty Briggs who is a bat expert in England and she instilled in us a real appreciation of bats. She told us how some bats hibernate in some of the huge ancient cathedrals in the UK and they are definitely tolerated there. They just cover up the very old carved wood surfaces to protect them from the bat poop and let the bats stay. Elizabeth King At 09:11 AM 12/6/2013, John Confer wrote: I spent a summer banding bats in Indiana as part of an undergrad project from Earlham College. It was supervised by Jim Cope, father of Ed Cope of our Ithaca community. We banded 10,000in one summer mainly from large breeding colonies. My first science paper was on the results of that bat study. Probably the red bat was the Red Bat Lasiurus borealis. As Alyssia said, some bats hybernate at our latitude. The temperature needs to be not too cold, or they will use up all of their energy trying to keep warm before spring returns, but not too warm, or their temperature will drop to the ambient and metabolism will not slow down enough to make the body fuel last until spring. The chance that the bats have rabies, which they do carry, is very small. They do poop and pee during the winter, which can leave stains and smells. Otherwise, they are harmless and interesting. John Confer On 12/5/2013 5:34 PM, mailto:alyssajohns...@aol.comalyssajohns...@aol.com wrote: Betsy, I'd love to see your picture. Also, there are both tree and cave bats it NY. Typically the tree bats are here in summer and migrate. Cave bats are the ones we find in our attics this time of year. Attics make great pseudo caves! There are multiple species of each. I recently wrote a blog entry on them, if interested! http://blog.timesunion.com/nywildlife/readers-write-in-bats-of-ny/1762/http://blog.timesunion.com/nywildlife/readers-write-in-bats-of-ny/1762/ - Reply message - From: Elizabeth B. King mailto:ebk...@twcny.rr.comebk...@twcny.rr.com To: Betsy Darlington mailto:darlingtonb...@gmail.comdarlingtonb...@gmail.com, mailto:cayugabirds-l@cornell.educayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Bats! Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 5:24 PM I'd be interested in the answers you get. We have had bats hibernating in our garage for years. We've sealed up every possible entry space but they still get in. They live in our bat house in the summer but they prefer the warm garage in the winter. We had a beautiful orange (!) bat on a deck railing last month. I can send a picture if anyone can identify it for me. Thanks, Elizabeth King At 05:00 PM 12/5/2013, Betsy Darlington wrote: Does anyone know of a bat expert in Ithaca - perhaps at Cornell or IC? We had two bats show up in our house last night, a little after midnight! We have no idea how they got in, and we were unable to catch them in our bat net and release them, so they no doubt will show up again. They didn't fly around much, unlike the ones that get in during the summer. Does anyone know if they hibernate in people's attics in Ithaca or should they be off in a cave somewhere? Thanks! Betsy -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOMEWelcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULESRules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htmSubscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.htmlThe Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/CayugabirdsSurfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.htmlBirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to http://ebird.org/content/ebird/eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOMEWelcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULESRules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htmSubscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.htmlThe Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/CayugabirdsSurfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.htmlBirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to http://ebird.org/content/ebird/eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOMEWelcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULESRules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htmSubscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.htmlThe Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/CayugabirdsSurfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.htmlBirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to http://ebird.org/content/ebird/eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bats!
I'd be interested in the answers you get. We have had bats hibernating in our garage for years. We've sealed up every possible entry space but they still get in. They live in our bat house in the summer but they prefer the warm garage in the winter. We had a beautiful orange (!) bat on a deck railing last month. I can send a picture if anyone can identify it for me. Thanks, Elizabeth King At 05:00 PM 12/5/2013, Betsy Darlington wrote: Does anyone know of a bat expert in Ithaca - perhaps at Cornell or IC? We had two bats show up in our house last night, a little after midnight! We have no idea how they got in, and we were unable to catch them in our bat net and release them, so they no doubt will show up again. They didn't fly around much, unlike the ones that get in during the summer. Does anyone know if they hibernate in people's attics in Ithaca or should they be off in a cave somewhere? Thanks! Betsy -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOMEWelcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULESRules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htmSubscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.htmlThe Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/CayugabirdsSurfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.htmlBirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to http://ebird.org/content/ebird/eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] possible Summer Tanagers
I was told about possible Summer Tanagers (2) in Lansing. It was supposed to have been posted on ebird but I don't know how to find it there. Can anyone tell me how to get more information about them on ebird? -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Wood-Pewee
Our Wood-Pewee came back this morning. Also in the yard: many Baltimore Orioles, Scarlet Tanagers and our resident red fox. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] crow having fun
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/?ref=sciencehttp://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/?ref=science -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Another Sandhill Crane family, 6/23/10
Hi Steve Fast -- Mary Van Buren and I found the Sandhill Cranes this morning - just where you said they were south of Rt. 90 and E. Venice Rd. We parked on E. Venice Rd. and walked down for a good view from Rt. 90. A farmer stopped to talk and said the cranes have been in those fields eating mice and frogs for at least 9 years. Apparently they spend part of the winters around a couple of ponds just north of there. I'm glad you found them for us. Thanks - Elizabeth King At 03:16 PM 6/23/2010, you wrote: I spent 3 hours this morning viewing the SANDHILL CRANE familyfirst from Carncross Rd., then from Morgan Rd. About 1100, I witnessed some really cool aggressive behavior from presumably the male, in defense of his family from a perceived human threat (not me). Anyway, Chuck Gibson dropped by to watch them for a bit, and he mentioned that Frank Morlock, the DEC Wildlife Tech. there had seen another Sandhill Crane family. So in I went to talk to Frank. He showed me where he had recently seen them and said that a friend of his had first spotted them last month. The location was pretty much on my way home. I found 2 ADULT and 2 COLT SANDHILL CRANES in an alfalfa field, Town of Genoa, Cayuga County. They were easily visible to the south from State Route 90 and the south end of E. Venice Rd. Rt. 90 is a busy road, and the shoulders are narrow. I did not attempt to contact the property owner. The 2 colts appear the same size as the Montezuma pair, and are a russet color. The 2 adults, however, still look mostly gray, unlike their Montezuma counterparts. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] New York City birder needs help
I can't take Jeff birding on Sunday or next week but maybe someone else can. I'm sure he would appreciate any help he can get from an Ithaca birder. Thanks, Elizabeth King Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:25:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Nulle jnu...@yahoo.com Subject: birding To: ebk...@twcny.rr.com I'm a New York City birder and I saw your name and an accompanying smiley face in the ABA Membership Directory and wondered--if you are going birding next Sunday (or sometime in the three days after)--would you be willing to take me along? I grew up on Hanshaw Rd. a few blocks from where you are now, but that was long ago and I don't know the local hotspots anymore. I'd be particularly interested in seeing (and, of course, hearing) an Alder Flycatcher. My name is Geoffrey Nulle (Jeff, oddly enough, for my nickname--hence mailto:jnu...@yahoo.comjnu...@yahoo.com) and my number is 212-864-4703. Best, Jeff -- 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://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: eBird Report - Finger Lakes National Forest , 5/25/10
X-MSK: CML=0.501000 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-RR-Connecting-IP: 132.236.56.29 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=wets2stJPXJP90av4f9gthMPq4AU/dfOBtj2SFaADyw= c=1 sm=0 a=gy49NRMdG7EA:10 a=hO-oPbc3tlwA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=Uo2c1m0RIggKdob/LS9efA==:17 a=K1kvRqVw:8 a=H35fwJwzwyJcm6q4ieUA:9 a=qj0l8bH8jbTkIVziIZtQUp2PKTMA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=Uo2c1m0RIggKdob/LS9efA==:117 Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 16:20:29 -0400 (EDT) From: do-not-re...@ebird.org To: ebk...@twcny.rr.com Subject: eBird Report - Finger Lakes National Forest , 5/25/10 Location: Finger Lakes National Forest Observation date: 5/25/10 Notes: Charlie Smith took our Campus Club Bird Group to 5 beautiful and varied locations in the Finger Lakes National Forest this morning. Thanks Charlie! Number of species: 54 Canada Goose X Red-tailed Hawk X Killdeer X Mourning Dove X Yellow-billed Cuckoo X Red-bellied Woodpecker X Yellow-bellied Sapsucker X Hairy Woodpecker X Northern Flicker X Eastern Wood-Pewee X Alder Flycatcher X Least Flycatcher X Eastern Phoebe X Great Crested Flycatcher X Eastern Kingbird X Blue-headed Vireo X Red-eyed Vireo X Blue Jay X American Crow X Tree Swallow X Barn Swallow X Black-capped Chickadee X Eastern Bluebird X Veery X Hermit Thrush X Wood Thrush X American Robin X Gray Catbird X Northern Mockingbird X Brown Thrasher X European Starling X Blue-winged Warbler X Yellow Warbler X Chestnut-sided Warbler X Black-throated Green Warbler X Blackpoll Warbler X American Redstart X Ovenbird X Common Yellowthroat X Scarlet Tanager X Chipping Sparrow X Field Sparrow X Savannah Sparrow X Fox Sparrow (Red) X Song Sparrow X Swamp Sparrow X Dark-eyed Junco X Northern Cardinal X Rose-breasted Grosbeak X Bobolink X Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark X Baltimore Oriole X American Goldfinch X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- 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://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
