[cayugabirds-l] new automatic CayugeRBA text message alert
As some of you may be aware, for awhile there was a free automatic text message alert system which allowed us to communicate about rare birds in the Cayuga Lake Basin. Unfortunately it crashed sometime before the Western Grebe was discovered and was not up in time for the Black-legged Kittiwake yesterday either. I'm trying to get it working again, but in a few minutes Cayugabirds-L will be down for the rest of the morning, preventing more communication this way. If you are interested in being on this alert system please email menutter.d...@me.comand tell me the phone number to which you want to have text messages sent in case another alert comes up before the system in running. I will communicate via email instructions on how to sign up as I figure it out. Also tell me if you were on the old CayugaRBA alert system as it may make a difference.Thanks--Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
[cayugabirds-l] crow having fun
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/?ref=sciencehttp://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/?ref=science -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brooktondale birds
I got out for a morning walk early, but saw almost nothing birdwise. Fresh coyote and bobcat tracks were a treat, however. Usuals at the feeders until 1100 when a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK sailed over the house. This is my first of this season. I raced to the front yard, but lost it in an ice crystal cloud. Looking up, there was a window to the stratosphere and flying stately through it were 5 TUNDRA SWANS (1 adult and 4 juveniles). These may be new yard birds, as E. Brooktondale is not on the regular local migratory path for these birds.(So far as I know) The big news is the arrival of JUNCOS. Up until 2 days ago, 6 juncos were the most we have seen at the feeders so far this winter. Today, we have 30; 4 of those females. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brown Headed Cowbird
Currently I have a Brown Headed Cowbird on my porch eating seeds that I threw out. -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Redpoll sp, Mud Lock Sunday (15 Jan.) morning
Hi everyone, Eduardo Inigo kindly invited my along for an around-the-lake trip with himself and Maikel Canizares (visiting PhD student, now at the Lab of Ornithology), and while filling out my eBird checklists from the trip I noticed that we seem to have found the first COMMON REDPOLL for the basin this year. We heard (and saw as a dot in the sky) a fly-over redpoll at the Mud Lock boat launch area on the north end of Cayuga Lake, and given the relative abundance of the two redpoll species I am presuming that it was a Common Redpoll. As I noted, this was a lone, fly-over bird that did not appear to land anywhere near where we were standing, so who knows whether it is still in the area, or the Basin for that matter. Be that as it may, it appears that there are redpolls for the counting somewhere in the Basin in the 2012 part of this winter. I think that the only other birds of note were a small flock of HORNED LARK with a lone LAPLAND LONGSPUR just east of the Ovid Airport, in fields to the south of Parish Rd. Wesley Hochachka -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt Pleasant Snow Buntings
Around 3pm today, a flock of 60+ Snow Buntings was on Mt Pleasant Rd at the junction with the radio tower road, seen on the road surface at first then foraging in the field east of the radio tower road where the wind has exposed a wide swath of soil and low plants. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Now on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Link to amazing display of corvid behavior
Seen in NY Times online. Marsha and Fred Kardon http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/ -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Brown Headed Cowbird
I had one BROWN HEADED COWBIRD male eating on the ledge of a hopper feeder today! Plus, 4 dozen AMER. GOLD FINCHES and the other usual suspects. - Original Message - From: Mary E. Winston To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Brown Headed Cowbird Currently I have a Brown Headed Cowbird on my porch eating seeds that I threw out. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to 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/ --
