[cayugabirds-l] Yard Hawks

2013-05-13 Thread Bill Mcaneny
The best watching this a.m. is from our kitchen window. A Red-Tailed Hawk just flew thru the side yard pursued by a Male Cardinal (At least one pair nests next to the house.) The female cardinal sat complacently beneath the platform feeder with the song and chipping sparrows and a chipmunk.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yard Hawks

2013-05-13 Thread Chris Pelkie
Would you describe your oriole feeder in more detail please? I impaled a half orange on a screw through a piece of cedar attached to the top of one of our feeders in the yard, but haven't seen any visitors (or peck marks) in a few days, though one or two BAORs are actively singing and moving

[cayugabirds-l] Yard hawks, loon and swallow

2012-04-28 Thread Meena Haribal
While working on veggie garden fence, I saw a few interesting birds. Two OSPREYS, three BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, 1 COOPERS HAWK, three TURKEY VULTURES (two of them heavily molting) and one bird, first I could not decide what that could be as it looked an odd sized and shaped, way high, heading