[cayugabirds-l] Crow roost 300 block Spencer
Crow roost 300 block Spencer Rd just south of traffic circle over both sides of road 510am --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) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls
Hello all, The redpoll flock is up to 60+ at the house in Scott including 1 FEMALE HOARY REDPOLL and 1 Greater Common Redpoll. Common Ravens have been heard in the last few days as well, and the Carolina Wren, White-throated Sparrow (rare for the house), Tree Sparrows (rare for the house) and more continue. cheers, Matt mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint -- 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) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] RED WING BLACKBIRD
Its now 3:34 p.m. and on the top of a tree on the left island in the CLO pond is a RED WING BLACKBIRD singing. Mary E. Winston Public Outreach Assistant Cornell Lab of Ornithology (607)-254-2473 Travel is fatal to prejuidice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime -Mark Twain- -- 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) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] spring birds
In the last couple days, my dad saw a ROBIN in Groton, and a BALD EAGLE over Cornell plantations. I got a nice look at a REDTAIL, hovering in midair over a field. Bruce Packard Groton -- 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) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] new birds (for me) this year
Around 7am, when the temp must have been about zero, and there was a lull in taxi business, I swung into Stewart Park to scan the lake, an amusing thing to try, as a low thick blanket of fog covered every bit of open water. But a single SWAN sat on the ice in the distance. I set up my telescope with its window-mount to determine whether it was Mute or Trumpeter or (predictably, yes) TUNDRA. The next surprise was a small bird zipping across my foreground view to the trunk of a tree along the nearby lakeshore: the firat BROWN CREEPER I've found this year, which is likely a measure of how little I've been looking at tree trunks rather than imminent springtime. Later I passed a male RING-NECKED PHEASANT strolling along the shoulder of Neimi Road, another first for my year. I assume I can count it since it is farther from the top of the fence at the game farm than they typically glide. My final new sighting today was a sign of spring, or at least of hopes of spring. In the snowless area below a tall spruce, an AMERICAN ROBIN stood watch, as if a worm or insect might move and catch its eye. It just stood there until it was joined by 3 EUROPEAN STARLINGS. They hustled about with bills constantly poking at the ground trying to pry open the thatch and sod, and evidently hitting a pretty solid surface. One Starling did pick up something sluglike. The Robin lunged at it, but the Starling quickly gulped it down. Time to go back to berries. I've been seeing Robins regularly near my house by Cass Park, sometimes in the woods, sometimes in a wet ditch among cattails and such, sometimes in a grove of berry-covered hawthorns, but this was the first time on a bit of lawn. --Dave Nutter
