[cayugabirds-l] redpolls
We 'finally' joined the sighting list this morning with a flock of 15 Redpolls. Yay! -- Sara Jane and Larry Hymes East Ithaca on Vine St. -- 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] mockingbirds in winter
Mockingbird in a yew hedge at 971 E State/MLK Jr St at 8:15 this a.m. Michael Engle via iPod On Dec 25, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Donna Scott d...@cornell.edumailto:d...@cornell.edu wrote: There are Mockingbirds on both Sweazey and Algerine Roads, near here, just above the lake shore. This is definitely a slightly warmer micro-climate here above the lake. Often when it is raining here, it is snowing a mile up the hill on Rt. 34B. Donna Scott - Original Message - From: mailto:nutter.d...@me.com nutter.d...@me.commailto:nutter.d...@me.com To: mailto:cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu cayugabirds-L@cornell.edumailto:cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 10:16 AM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] mockingbirds in winter On Sunday there were 2 Northern Mockingbirds together in Staghorn Sumac and another small fruiting weed-tree I don't know by name along the edge of Cayuga Inlet in Cass Park. What surprised me was that there were 2 of them close together, and they seemed amicable during the moments I saw them. I've often found Northern Mockingbirds solo in fall winter inhabiting a thicket full of vines, bushes, and trees with fruit. I've seen them try to oust flocks of European Starlings eating their food supply, and I'm sure other birds provoke territorial defense as well, although mostly these quiet gray birds are pretty inconspicuous in winter. I've seen this mostly in Ithaca, where I spend most of my time, but also on the higher part of East Shore drive. I wonder if wintering Northern Mockingbirds around here are associated with low elevation and warmer microclimates, and I wonder if there are places with Northern Mockingbirds in summer where they are not found in winter. --Dave Nutter On Dec 25, 2012, at 01:10 AM, Tobias Dean tdea...@twcny.rr.commailto:tdea...@twcny.rr.com wrote: We had a mockingbird in our orchard on South Hill today. It was having a territorial dispute with a crow. I dont recall seeing them in wintertime. Toby Dean -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Reported Black Vulture in Lansing near Baker's Acres on Rt-34
This posting just in to the Cayuga Bird Club website. If anyone is in the area keep a lookout. Gary Julia Reichhttp://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.phpid=1108187583mid=7454df8G67709G967677aG96bcode=1.1356550346.AbkyKDgshSx70VHSn_m=jgk25%40cornell.edu 2:32pm Dec 26 I just spotted a black vulture in Lansing, driving on 34 near bakers acres. -- 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] Boxing day birding around Tompkins County
I did a little wandering birding today, from Dryden to Lansing, to Ithaca, and back again to Dryden. Highlights included 2 immature SNOW GEESE at Myers Point, grazing around the basketball court. Their messy white-with-bits-of-gray plumage made great camouflage in the broken snow of the lawn. Very cute together. Despite a full kellingsworth of Canada Geese on the lawn at Stewart Park, I couldn't find anything unusual in the flock. A pair of NORTHERN PINTAIL were close in shore with Mallards at Stewart Park. One male and one female RING-NECKED DUCK were under the docks at East Shore boat house and to the north (not together). At least one pair of LESSER SCAUP with a big, distant flock in the shimmer west of the marina at Myers Point. No other Aythya diving ducks seen. 2 PIED-BILLED GREBES and 1 HORNED GREBE north of East Shore Park. 1 young GREAT BLUE HERON on the Great Black-backed Gull snag off Stewart Park shore. Single TURKEY VULTURES soaring here and there; probably 6 seen total. No unusual gulls. A BELTED KINGFISHER at Myers. A single calling AMERICAN PIPIT at Myers Point, moving from the point to upstream. No warm-weather sparrows; just a few American Tree Sparrows here and there, but fewer than I'd hoped. I have no redpolls at my house on Yellow Barn Rd, but I did hear some at Myers Point. Kevin -- 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] Redpolls in Newfield, too.
Like Bill and Shirley, we, too, had 2 redpolls at our feeder today--feeding mostly on the ground-- with 6 junco; 2 house finch; 12 goldfinch; 2 tufted titmice; 2 nuthatches; about 6 chickadees and couple of blue jays. Therese downtown Newfield. -- 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--Quiet but unknown raptor
About 3 PM this afternoon we drove out to the Summer Hill area, first driving up Lick St to Hoag. Very quiet. Then taking Hoag towards Salt Road we saw an almost black bird about the size of a crow fly up from the side of the road--the ambient light was quite gray. Thinking it was a crow, we stopped and it flew into the woods. The back of the body and wings looked very dark almost black, but the underside of the wings looked almost white. It also had a single distinctive white band on its tail. We drove to where it had first been seen and saw a remnant of a deer carcass. We circled around and saw it again, but no more features. Except for the white belly and underwings and the white band on the tail we would have called it a crow. But it was not. Any help in a possible ID Richard and Cyndy Tkachuck -- 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 3:10 pm today I watched a flock of ~50 Snow Buntings foraging just west of the Mt Pleasant/ Mineah Roads junction. 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 ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 -- 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] N Saw Whet Owl northeast Ithaca
After whistling hopefully off an on in my yard since October, I finally got a response from a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL this evening around 11:45 PM. The snow had stopped and it was extremely quiet -- the distant reverberating toots were coming from the direction of Muriel St., possibly further to the west. I will try to make that my first bird of 2013, as I start the Ithaca Christmas Bird Count on Jan. 1. KEN (just returning from eastern Massachusetts, where I was lucky to see the long-lingering Northern Lapwing in Bridgewater) Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@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/ --
