RE: [cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse

[Eveline V. Ferretti]

I'll go ahead and report a fairly astonishing (to me at least!) occurrence that 
came with the eclipse as witnessed on the shores of Lake Ontario (Southwick 
Beach State Park), where the clouds graciously opened just in time and just in 
time to show the sun at totality at 3:21 p.m. Some seconds past totality - 
around 45 - 60 seconds or so (though I have to admit being a bit fuzzy on that 
timing), came a roar, and I do mean roar, of sea gulls as they up and flew 
above us, coming from the SW.  It was pretty amazing.

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Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 3:22 PM
To: Geo Kloppel 
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse

Early in the darkening before the eclipse proper, I saw a changing of roosting 
duties by the Mourning Dove pair nesting in a hanging flower pot on my back 
porch. I'm pretty sure it was mom who demanded the reluctant dad to leave his 
nap so she could take over. She regurgitated some food for the chicks and then 
settled down for her nap. Unfortunately I didn't see if they changed again when 
the world became brighter again.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 2:44 PM Geo Kloppel 
mailto:geoklop...@gmail.com>> wrote:

> Ithaca, New York (where the skies are very rarely clear during celestial 
> events.)

The evening _before_ the eclipse the skies were quite clear. I went up to the 
top of my hill in West Danby with a couple of my neighbors, and we enjoyed 
viewing Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks through binoculars and spotting scope for the 
better part of an hour.

Of course the day of the eclipse was cloudy. My daughter in Ithaca got a nice 
photo of the partly eclipsed sun through a brief hole in the cloud cover. No 
such luck in West Danby. At the darkest point, my feeder birds briefly 
disappeared. But the Raven female across the road began begging very loudly and 
insistently. I saw her partner head off toward the valley in the gloom, 
presumably to find something for her. My chickens did not bother going to roost.

-Geo
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse

[sarah fern]

Early in the darkening before the eclipse proper, I saw a changing of
roosting duties by the Mourning Dove pair nesting in a hanging flower pot
on my back porch. I'm pretty sure it was mom who demanded the reluctant dad
to leave his nap so she could take over. She regurgitated some food for the
chicks and then settled down for her nap. Unfortunately I didn't see if
they changed again when the world became brighter again.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 2:44 PM Geo Kloppel  wrote:

>
> > Ithaca, New York (where the skies are very rarely clear during celestial
> events.)
>
> The evening _before_ the eclipse the skies were quite clear. I went up to
> the top of my hill in West Danby with a couple of my neighbors, and we
> enjoyed viewing Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks through binoculars and spotting scope
> for the better part of an hour.
>
> Of course the day of the eclipse was cloudy. My daughter in Ithaca got a
> nice photo of the partly eclipsed sun through a brief hole in the cloud
> cover. No such luck in West Danby. At the darkest point, my feeder birds
> briefly disappeared. But the Raven female across the road began begging
> very loudly and insistently. I saw her partner head off toward the valley
> in the gloom, presumably to find something for her. My chickens did not
> bother going to roost.
>
> -Geo
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse

[Geo Kloppel]

> Ithaca, New York (where the skies are very rarely clear during celestial 
> events.)

The evening _before_ the eclipse the skies were quite clear. I went up to the 
top of my hill in West Danby with a couple of my neighbors, and we enjoyed 
viewing Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks through binoculars and spotting scope for the 
better part of an hour.

Of course the day of the eclipse was cloudy. My daughter in Ithaca got a nice 
photo of the partly eclipsed sun through a brief hole in the cloud cover. No 
such luck in West Danby. At the darkest point, my feeder birds briefly 
disappeared. But the Raven female across the road began begging very loudly and 
insistently. I saw her partner head off toward the valley in the gloom, 
presumably to find something for her. My chickens did not bother going to roost.

-Geo
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse

[Linda Orkin]

It was neat at the arboretum. Birds silenced themselves and peepers started a lively chorus. Then peepers were silent mostly and birds slowly started up again,  but kind of like they didn’t quite trust that the day was resuming regular programming. Linda OrkinIthaca, New York (where the skies are very rarely clear during celestial events.)On Apr 9, 2024, at 12:56 PM, Chris R. Pelkie  wrote:

















First Eclipse Finding

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Preliminary Finding
What did birds do during today's eclipse?


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[cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse

[Chris R. Pelkie]

First Eclipse 
Finding
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Preliminary Finding
What did birds do during today's eclipse?

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