We've had a few Red-Winged Blackbirds all season, but today, there is a mixed flock of about 30 at our backyard feeders on Gravel Rd in Tyre.
Claire Damaske On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:52 PM Nigel Dyson-Hudson <caven...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dave, I reported to eBird on Sun 12/31 a Red-Winged Blackbird male at > ~10:45 am hanging around our bird feed. I also attached a photo to the > report. I haven't seen him since but he might have come when I wasn't > looking. Now if he had only waited until 1 Jan. We used to see RWB males > coming to our bird feeders about the 3rd week of March, now it seems that > they come back the 1st week of March. Now I wonder when the West Danby > Herrons will show up. > > Nigel, we are about 1 mile north of West Danby off NY Rt 34/96. Test Rd > off Rt > <https://maps.google.com/?q=96.+Test+Rd+off+Rt&entry=gmail&source=g> 13, > just south of Ithaca, the landmark is the self storage place, the pump > house with the red light on top, on the West side of Rt 13. > > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: > >> Yesterday morning (3 Jan) I was driving an empty taxi through the Town of >> Newfield on Elmira Road (NYS-13). South of Test Road is a marsh along the >> headwaters of the West Branch of Cayuga Inlet. The marsh is currently >> frozen, of course. Near there I saw 2 black birds fly east across the road >> toward some tall trees in a yard on the hillside. Their tails were too long >> for Starlings. I pulled over and, scanning with binoculars, found several >> birds in the treetops. With a hand-held scope through my partially open >> window I saw 2 male and 1 female RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS. The temperature was >> 8°F, and I was not expecting my first 2018 sighting of this species to be >> there. I bet the fence at that house hid some popular feeders. >> >> - - Dave Nutter >> > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/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/ --
