[cayugabirds-l] Subject: N Saw Whet Owl in yard
Ken, It's reasonable to assume that at least a few of the thousands of saw-whets that came through the Finger Lakes in the fall would decide to winter here. This is particularly true for the males who would then be closer to breeding territory come spring and presumably accrue an advantage. We were lucky to find one here for the Schuyler CBC in late December but do not hear them. Nothing unusual there as it is that behavior that had many pronouncing that saw-whets didn't come through our area in any numbers. We were fortunate to handle 251 owls last fall, 243 of those were newly banded saw-whets. Overall the saw-whet migration was astounding with record numbers banded throughout Canada and the US, some traveling as far south as Alabama and Georgia. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat -- 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
They're back! With the snow melt and warm temperatures, I've only had a small numbers of my regular birds. I've also continued to have a few Redpolls. Today, I had a large flock of maybe 30. The mixed flock of birds would scare every little while, but a few of the Redpolls would keep feeding while the others spooked. I wonder if they might be the ones that have been here daily. There's no way to tell, however. Another behavior I would like to mention is that of my local juvenile Cooper's Hawk. It had been here two days in a row. The first time it came, it just sat in the weeping pine out front and watched for birds. Not so the next day. That day it landed at the top of the pine, but it kept hopping from branch to branch through out the tree looking for a hidden bird. It was very cool to watch it actively hunting. It went from there to a nearby beech tree and soon left. It didn't catch anything. Carol Keeler Sent from my iPad -- 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] Flock of small finches
I just saw a flock of pale colored small finches head across my window along Tower Road towards Day Hall. Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ -- 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/ --
