At 11 a.m. I was quite dismayed to see many, many, many dozens of cormorants in the trees, on the rocks & in the waters of Frontenac Island in Cayuga Lake here at Union Springs. :-(:-( The Bass tournament will take place here 23-24 June if the cormorants leave any fish! This is the first yr. I have ever seen them FILLING the trees on the island. Hopefully they will move on.
I'm presuming the scout who put the benches & cut out a path along the south side of Mill pond is the one who, a couple wks. ago, put up 3 duck boxes a few ft. from the path along the pond edge & not far from the benches. They are not adequately safe-guarded from predators. Another duck box has been put on a post along the south side of the path. I saw at least one bluebird box attached to a tree, with no predator shield. This was done by the scout seeking to get his Eagle Scout ranking & whose mother told me they knew nothing about birds. Give them credit for wanting to do a good deed & following through with structures that look good. We'll have to wait a yr. to see if anything other than starlings build in the boxes. Stay tuned! Several pairs of Buffleheads continue on Mill pond along with a Redhead & a Ring-necked pair. Why is it the feral & neighborhood cats (from 2 & 3 blocks away) don't ever seem to catch any of the several doz. house sparrows? Yesterday I destroyed 5 of the 6 sparrow eggs in one of 6 bird boxes. Fritzie Union Springs -- 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/ --
