Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hoary or not?
John wrote: By the way, even if some newer studies can find a nuclear difference, we still have to make a subjective decision about how much of a difference is sufficient for us to accept them as one or two species. Our decisions may turn out better (we may reverse ourselves less often) if we can relax our desire for bright lines enough to acknowledge that speciation events can only be recognized retrospectively: there will be cases in which it is simply too soon to tell whether a permanent parting of ways has occurred. A few tens-of-thousands of generations might give us the answer, but at present there may be no fact of the matter. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Patriotic Yard Bird
While finishing my morning coffee in the comfort of my warm kitchen facing Cayuga Lake, I was treated to a majestic landing of a mature BALD EAGLE on a large branch of the big Cottonwood tree on my beach! After sitting a few minutes, it dropped down to the beach and apparently caught a rodent or some other dark-colored prey and swooped up again to land in the dead White Oak tree nearby. It ate the critter, then cleaned its beak on the tree limb and later soared around over the lake a few times and came back to the Cottonwood, where it is still perched, looking out at the lake! I hope it comes back for the Great Backyard Bird Count. Donna Scott Donna L. Scott 535 Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY 14882 d...@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] Juvenile Cooper's Hawk
It was here again this morning. It's very interesting to watch its behavior. I first spotted it this morning sitting on a birdhouse below my bedroom window. I got my camera and took lots of pictures. It sat for maybe 15 minutes constantly scanning the bushes. When I noticed that it was gone, I hurried to the front of the house where the feeders are located. It was there sitting on the weeping pine. It quickly flew to the other side of the sidewalk and sat on the big, green protector for some plants. Then it dove into the evergreen bushes. After a short while it came out at the far end of the shrubs. It is correct that many birds do hide in those bushes whenever they flush. From there it went to a leafless shrub and then flew back to the weeping pine. It soon flew off. It didn't catch anything. It has been successful out from. I have what look like Junco feathers on my front porch. A while later I spotted it again out back in another garden. It again dove into some evergreens. I saw it come out again and lost it after that. Later on, I spotted it near the back tree line as it landed in a tree. It's been very interesting watching it hunt. Oh, I just spotted it flying out back again, but couldn't find where it went. I still have a small flock of Redpolls that come daily to the feeders. With Cooper's presence in the yard, it's a dangerous place to be. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Patriotic Yard Bird
How exciting! That's one bird I'll never get. What fun to get to watch it. Could you get any pictures? Sent from my iPad On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Donna Scott d...@cornell.edu wrote: While finishing my morning coffee in the comfort of my warm kitchen facing Cayuga Lake, I was treated to a majestic landing of a mature BALD EAGLE on a large branch of the big Cottonwood tree on my beach! After sitting a few minutes, it dropped down to the beach and apparently caught a rodent or some other dark-colored prey and swooped up again to land in the dead White Oak tree nearby. It ate the critter, then cleaned its beak on the tree limb and later soared around over the lake a few times and came back to the Cottonwood, where it is still perched, looking out at the lake! I hope it comes back for the Great Backyard Bird Count. Donna Scott Donna L. Scott 535 Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY 14882 d...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls - Sibley Scores
I may just have been inattentive, but I don't recall actually seeing Sibley Scores posted here for any local Hoary Redpolls, so I'm curious to know if anyone is using this 3-character index (described at the link below), or for that matter using any other standardized method of separating Hoary from Common Redpolls in the field? http://www.sibleyguides.com/2008/01/a-character-index-for-redpoll-identification/ -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * January 28, 2013 * NYSY 01. 28. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): January 21, 2013 - January 28, 2013 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:January 28 AT 6:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #339 -Monday January 28, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of January 21 , 2013 Highlights: --- BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON NORTHERN GOSHAWK RED-TAILED HAWK - Dark Form ICELAND GULL GLAUCOUS GULL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL GREAT-GRAY OWL (Extralimital) NORTHERN SHRIKE TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE (Extralimital) EASTERN TOWHEE LAPLAND LONGSPUR EVENING GROSBEAK HOARY REDPOLL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) No reports this week. Madison County 1/22: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was hunting at a feeder in Erieville. 1/23: The following birds were observed at a feeder on Carpenter Road near DeRuyter although not all on this day. 3 HOARY REDPOLLS, 80 EVENING GROSBEAKS, 1 EASTERN TOWHEE, PINE SISKINS and RED-HEADED WOODPECKER. 1/25: A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was in the Carpenter Road feeder area. 17 EVENING GROSBEAKS and a HOARY REDPOLL were at a feeder on Dr. Coon Lane near the DeRuyter Reservoir. Onondaga County 1/23: 2 AMERICAN PIPITS, 100+ HORNED LARKS and at least 10 LAPLAND LONGSPURS were seen on a manure spread on Conners Road between Canton Street and East Sorrell Hill Road south of Baldwinsville. A lone SNOW BUNTING was seen with the group in 1/24. The HORNED LARKS and LAPLAND LONGSPURS continued through Saturday but the PIPITS and SNOW BUNTING could not be relocated. A YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER was seen in Marcellus. 1/25: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was at a feeder in Phoenix. 3 GLAUCOUS GULLS, 1 ICELAND GULL and 1 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL were seen at the Inner Harbor. 1/27: The 4 BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS continue to be seen along the Creekwalk between Bear Street and Hiawatha Boulevard near Carousel Center. 1/28: 15 BALD EAGLES were seen from the end of the Creekwalk at Carousel Center. Oswego County 1/23: Only 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen at a feeder on North Church Road in Boylston where many more have been seen in past weeks. Extralimital: The Sampson State Park TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE was seen on 1/24 and 1/27 this week. The park is off of Rt. 96B south of Geneva on Seneca Lake. 1/27: A GREAT GRAY OWL was reported from Massena in Robert Moses State Park ( not the one on Long Island). It was seen on the campground Road. The bird was not relocated today but the park was closed. -- end report Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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/ --
