[cayugabirds-l] Savannah Mucklands - Saturday PM
Two hours at the Mucklands and the roost flight appeared to be into the mucks rather than away from them. Many gulls (1000), most very distant, and mostly Herring with some Ring-bills mixed in. Good numbers of distant ducks but I could only find 3 species. Snow goose numbers building from 1 to 1200 during the roost flight, but coincided with frontal passage and strong wind and rain. May have missed one of the unusual geese. Best part of the fly-in was really unbirdable except from the car. David Wheeler N Syracuse, NY Savannah Mucklands (Seneca Co), Seneca, US-NY Jan 28, 2012 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.5 mile(s) Comments: Wind building to 20kt SW made observing very difficult from 4:30 pm on 10 species Snow Goose 1200 estimated; all but 1 came in on the roost flight Canada Goose 600 Tundra Swan 3 American Black Duck 70 or more Mallard 500 or more Northern Pintail 20 or more Bald Eagle2 Northern Harrier 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Ring-billed Gull X many Herring Gull 500 or more -- 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] Northern Shrike
2 pm today: NORTHERN SHRIKE north of airport on Snyder Rd near tan fenced-in Cornell building -- 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] Summerhill; Dryden Shrike; South End: 29Jan2012
Hi all, Kevin and I went to Summerhill today, where we, like many others, had a nice WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL experience on Lick Street just south of Hoag. We saw probably 45 crossbills in several large flocks that moved around constantly, mostly feeding in the white spruces but briefly in norway spruces and in some nearby tamaracks. I heard a couple Pine Siskins, but did not see any redpolls as Laura reported. We checked the Hovel Chalet feeders where a redpoll was seen yesterday but saw nothing there. On the way up there (around 8:15), I asked Kevin to find me a shrike, and 15 seconds later he did, a beautiful gray immature NORTHERN SHRIKE in the top of a tree on the east side of Johnson Road in Dryden, about half a mile north of Rt. 13. In the early afternoon I went down to the lake, first to Hogs Hole and then to Stewart Park. From Hogs Hole I saw many of the same birds others have been seeing down there (although I don't think anyone has posted in a while), including a large flock of Redhead (perhaps 700-800, a couple thousand fewer than in past days) with over a hundred of each scaup, Ring-necked Ducks, half a dozen Canvasback, four RUDDY DUCKS, several AMERICAN WIGEON, 16 Hooded Mergansers, lots of Common Mergansers, a single Double-crested Cormorant, four GREAT BLUE HERONS on the shoreline. I saw only three COMMON LOONS from Hogs Hole, but from Stewart Park Ken Rosenberg and I saw two RED-THROATED LOONS. I also had a HORNED GREBE with the goldeneye flock of Stewart Park. The only goose of note we found in the thousands of Canada Geese was the presumed CANADA x SNOW GOOSE hybrid that I have been told has been around since the first of the year. I did not see the male WOOD DUCK today, but it was seen at Hogs Hole in the morning and was around the boat house at Stewart Park last night. I checked for the female GREEN-WINGED TEAL found by Jeff Gerbracht yesterday afternoon in the channel by the old Verizon store (across from Lowe's) downtown, but did not see it. Good birding, -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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] Downtown Green-winged Teal; south Monkey Run both Kinglets
Ann Mitchell I did some local birding this morning, starting with tracking down the female Green-winged Teal which Jeff Gerbracht reported yesterday and Ken Rosenberg reported on New Year's Day behind Wegmans. Could this be the same bird year after year? Please someone check how far back there has been a female Green-winged Teal hanging out with the downtown Ithaca Mallards. Anyway Ann I tracked it down on the lawn behind Titus Tower resting among scores of Mallards just north of the stream with the footbridge. On our way north through town to Stewart Park we saw an adult SHARP-SHINNED HAWK fly west over BJM Elementary School, then we found a couple of FISH CROWS among several AMERICAN CROWS near a dumpster in the parking lot near the corner of 4th and Morris. One of these smaller crows had white wing tags with G5 in black. I also heard 2 Fish Crow calls. On the subject of marked birds, on January 9 I saw two Fish Crows, one with yellow wing tags marked O6, with several American Crows a block away near the corner of 3rd and Morris.At Stewart Park we saw much of what Jay described including the striking SNOW x CANADA GOOSE, which has dark brown back, wings, sides breast, white undertail, and mostly white head and neck with gray/black flecks on the crown, hindneck and lower sides of the neck. Its bill is black.Our last stop of the morning was the south side of Monkey Run. We'd been to the north side yesterday and got the impression that all the birds were across the creek in an area with lots of fruit - nannyberries and rosehips. Today we re-found a flock of I'm guessing 40 or more AMERICAN ROBINS, but we did not re-find yesterday's flock of 13 Cedar Waxwings. Other treats today included hearing RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES (I always like them), seeing a BROWN CREEPER (first of the year for both of us), and near the abandoned bridge girders seeing 1 each of GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET.--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] Cackling Goose at Sheldrake on Saturday
Sorry for the late post. There were a lot geese (1000's) in the Sheldrake area yesterday. At the park I saw two possible Cackling Geese. #1 looks a bit less likely than #2 to me. Videos for vetting are posted: Goose #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-wKF8wwV1o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwFbpxRSaw Goose #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6G1OA2ajTM Sheldrake also hosted 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye and Mallard. Judy Abrams reported seeing a Brown-headed Cowbird at 9045 Seneca St. in T'burg. Best...Stuart -- 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] Summer hill ww xbills
Ton and I are watching a nice group of W W Crossbills (30ish) feeding on cones along Lick St in Summerhill Forest. They are often in trees right along the road. Also present is a large flock of Robins, a few Redpolls and one Siskin. 11 am - 11:45. Where? Well, there is a stream passing under the road at this spot and there is a sign with the number 165 on it about 200 yards to the south. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- 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] Sandhill Cranes
While birding at the north end of Cayuga Lake/Montezuma we saw 4 SANDHILL CRANES foraging in a corn field north of 864 Gravel Road. Suzanne Broderick -- 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] Red-Winged Blackbirds Seneca Falls
There was a flock of approximately 1000 Starlings, 300 Red-winged Blackbirds and 8 Brown-headed Cowbirds along Lay road just east of Gravel Road in Seneca Falls around noon today. At least 500 Crows were in adjacent fields. Mike Tetlow -- 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/ --
