[cayugabirds-l] Yard Hawks
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. Earlier this a.m. a Cooper's hawk flashed thru the yard in pursuit of a Red-Bellied Woodpecker. The woodpecker escaped, although its heart rate must have soared just shy of a seizure. The Cooper's then sat in the big tree in the back yard, waggled its tail for a minute or so and then was escorted off the property by 2 male Redwings (brave birds to chase a hungry accipiter). Shirley put out fresh pieces of orange for the Orioles, plus fresh jelly (today they get blueberry). Also fresh sugar water for the Hummer. A crow sat beneath the suet feeder for a while gleaning the scraps left by the usual 3 species of woodpecker. No little migrants today but maybe the hawks have kept them in hiding. Bill McAneny, TBurg -- 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] Yard Hawks
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 around the trees. Maybe they want expensive blood oranges? (:-) Thanks. ChrisP On 20130513, at 13:05 , Bill Mcaneny wrote: 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. Earlier this a.m. a Cooper's hawk flashed thru the yard in pursuit of a Red-Bellied Woodpecker. The woodpecker escaped, although its heart rate must have soared just shy of a seizure. The Cooper's then sat in the big tree in the back yard, waggled its tail for a minute or so and then was escorted off the property by 2 male Redwings (brave birds to chase a hungry accipiter). Shirley put out fresh pieces of orange for the Orioles, plus fresh jelly (today they get blueberry). Also fresh sugar water for the Hummer. A crow sat beneath the suet feeder for a while gleaning the scraps left by the usual 3 species of woodpecker. No little migrants today but maybe the hawks have kept them in hiding. Bill McAneny, TBurg -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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] Yard hawks, loon and swallow
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 towards lake, with binoculars it turned out to be a COMMON LOON. Also it looked like I saw a migrating Barn Swallow as it headed inn the same directions as the hawks went. All hawks came as individuals. I am hoping head out now to something more. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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/ --
