Looks like some confirmation that the bird "ring" on radar this morning is indeed starlings and late icterids..... Thanks Nancy.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Nancy Jane Kern <kerns...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have been too busy this week to get my bird reports in, but the > Valatie/Stuyvesant area had a dense murmuration of thousands of black birds > with many European Starlings, Common Grackles, Brown-headed Cowbirds, and a > few Red-winged Blackbirds in the past few days. These birds have been > feeding on cornfields and soybean fields and perching in woods along these > fields. > > There have been some flocks of a few hundred Canada Geese, but I doubt > these have been significant on radar. > > Nancy Kern > Austerlitz, Columbia Co., NY > > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:58:59 -0500 > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] [nysbirds-l] Interesting Bird?? Take Off on > Radar this morning > From: daven102...@gmail.com > To: bmvando...@gmail.com > CC: jwk...@fastmail.fm; cayugabird...@cornell.edu; nysbirds-l@cornell.edu > > > That's a good point Ben. Plus why right at sunrise for geese?? We see > this with swallows a lot which roost in marshes and take off in the morning > to feed. Geese roost in the fields? I thought they fed in the fields. > Interesting stuff nevertheless. > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Benjamin Van Doren <bmvando...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > Interesting. I could well be wrong, but I wouldn't typically think of > geese departing farm fields as doing so relatively uniformly on a broad > circular front. Some groundtruthing might be worthwhile... > > Benjamin > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:20 AM David Nicosia <daven102...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > thanks. I didn't think of geese. we often see swallows do this but it > makes sense. > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 8:25 AM, John Kent <jwk...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > That is geese you're seeing. Large numbers of them roost in farm fields > there at this time of year, and I have seen the same thing on radar in > December before. It's probably mostly Canadas, but sometimes there are also > lots of Snow Geese there. > > John Kent > Selkirk, NY > > On Dec 25, 2015, at 8:12 AM, David Nicosia <daven102...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All, > > I noticed on the Albany National Weather Service radar between 617 am and > 654 am Christmas morning a circular pattern on radar like swallow morning > take off patterns we see in the late summer. This pattern was seen > originating from Valtie, NY... 42.41N and 73.68W (roughly). Below are 5 > radar images that I grabbed which show this. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/albums/72157662199366610 > > The question is...are these radar echoes even birds or maybe insects?? > And, if so, what specie of bird (if they are birds)? I would say probably > starlings??? They couldn't be tree swallows since they should be long > gone. Anyway, I have never seen this in the winter before. 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