[cayugabirds-l] Western Grebe at Chimney Bluffs, 4PM Wends.

With beautiful calm, sunny weather I was able to find the Western Grebe this afternoon, Wednesday, at 4 PM. It was straight out from the parking area, swimming, snoozing and preening. Over about an hour it swam leisurely west until it was behind the bluff. I was able to pick it up again by scann

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Double-crested Cormorant on red lighthouse

During the time it took me to type out the text message, something scared up most of what was on the red lighthouse breakwater, and the Double-crested Cormorant, which had been a shimmery silhouette, had disappeared. Awhile later from the east end of Stewart Park I had another view of a/the Dou

Re: [cayugabirds-l] No Purple Martins

Before recording a first record for the year for the basin, I try to remember to check eBird in case someone has quietly submitted a record earlier. When I saw that there were no other NY records yet, nor PA, nor CN, nor MA, nor OH, nor MD, nor VA, and the nearest Purple Martin record was from

[cayugabirds-l] No Purple Martins

Hi, Today is St Patrick's Day, not April Fool's. Day! The two Purple Martins we reported seeing at MAC today were decoys. (Thanks, Chuck Gibson for letting us know about the decoys on the Martin House). Joe & Carol Slattery -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugab

[cayugabirds-l] Wednesday morning birds

The easternmost cornfields on Mt Pleasant hosted a flock of 100+ Snow Geese (including 2 blues) around 8:30 Wednesday morning, and they were still there when a friend went by later in the morning. Stewart Park had two groups of courting Common Mergansers, one group of 8 in the pond at the woods

[cayugabirds-l] FW: eBird Report - Montezuma Audubon Center , 3/17/10

Location: Montezuma Audubon Center Observation date: 3/17/10 Number of species: 6 Canada Goose X American Wigeon X Ring-necked Duck X Purple Martin 2 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle 1 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org

[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park

There were 11 ring-billed gulls and 19 Canada geese at Stewart Park today, 3/17 Bob G -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2)

[cayugabirds-l] Double-crested Cormorant on red lighthouse

Double-crested Cormorant on red lighthouse breakwater 4pm 17 March -dave nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) htt

[cayugabirds-l] early Chipping Sparrow - Sapsucker Woods

Cayugabirders, I forgot to post about an early Chipping Sparrow that was hanging around the front feeders and parking lot yesterday at the Lab of O, Sapsucker Woods. Mary Winston mentioned it to me in the afternoon, and I heard and saw it around 6:30 pm. Notably, this is around 2 weeks early for

[cayugabirds-l] pine siskin-brooktondale

I saw a single Pine Siskin foraging with goldfinches at our place on Burns Rd in Brooktondale this afternoon. Tom "Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre." Warren Buffett ~ Thomas Hoebbel Photography www.TH-Photo.com 6