[cayugabirds-l] golden eagle

[John Eliot Parks]

Pete Lotz from Niagara Falls is the person who lost a trained 7 year old female 
golden eagle recently, apparently a couple of weeks ago in the Buffalo area.  
He indicated the bird was last seen heading east wearing only anklets, no 
straps, bells, etc.   His email address is 
majhunt...@aol.com and his cell phone number is 
716-523-7239.


Dr. John E. Parks, Professor
Department of Animal Science
Director, Cornell Raptor Program
Office phone 607-255-2965
Cell phone 607-229-3573
FAX 607-255-9829


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[cayugabirds-l] Ecuador Conservation Blog

[Evan Barrientos]

Dear Cayugabirders,

Greetings from Ecuador!
Please pardon this post not directly related to birds. Some of you may remember 
the blog I kept last summer on taking children birding in Mexico 
(www.ebarrientos.blogspot.com). Since there were many of you who told me how 
much you enjoyed receiving updates from my blog, I wanted to let you all know 
that I'll be keeping another blog this summer while I research a shade coffee 
initiative in the mountains of Ecuador. We all know that shade coffee is quite 
an interesting topic for bird conservation, and while my study and blog will 
include this aspect, it will also deal with topics such as poverty reduction, 
sustainable agriculture, and the coexistence of humans and nature. The link to 
the first post is below, as well as the link to the blog. If you would like to 
receive updates, please send me an email, as I will not be sending emails to 
the listserve this time. Thank you for reading, and I hope you will join me on 
this adventure. 

Introductory post: http://wp.me/p3nu8V-2
Blog main: http://evanbarrientos.wordpress.com/

Wishing you the best of spring migrations,
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Intag, Ecuador 
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park pied starling

[nutter.dave]

Yesterday at Stewart Park I saw a European Starling which I recognized from last year. It has small patches of white feathers distributed fairly evenly over its body, and a large patch of white feathers on the right breast. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this bird.--Dave Nutter
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FW: [cayugabirds-l] Observations of American Robin and Virginia Rail at Lab of O

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
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From: Meena Madhav Haribal
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:57 PM
To: Laurie Roe
Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Observations of American Robin and Virginia Rail 
at Lab of O


Thanks Laurie!

Wow, I did hear those feet pattering too but forgot to mention!

 Wow nice video! Thanks for the link. I was on the ground and my angle was not 
as good as this one.



Here is the link Laurie sent to me. I think others on the list would love to 
see too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqgPmnW8yCU



Cheers

Meena



Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
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[cayugabirds-l] Park Preserve

[Ann Mitchell]

I also wanted to mention that she found SE owl pellets that had part of a white 
plastic bag rapped around some pellets. Poor bird.

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[cayugabirds-l] Park Preserve

[Ann Mitchell]

Linda and I walked there this afternoon and it was quiet. We did hear Brown 
Thrasher, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Pine Warbler, and the regulars. No Towhee for 
us. Best,

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Observations of American Robin and Virginia Rail at Lab of O

[Anne Clark]

When I was filming robins and following nests back in Michigan many years ago, 
grackles were major nest predators on eggs and nestlings...until the grackles 
settled down with their own nests and incubatory responsibilities, after which 
predation by grackles dropped off. 

 (Chipmunks and snakes and other things took over at that point.)

anne


On Apr 25, 2013, at 9:32 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote:

> Hi all,
> After a hectic day in the lab I had to go and pick up my car from the Auto 
> works. As it looked a beautiful day, I headed to lab of because I wanted to 
> photograph Kip's barn pond with Kip's barn reflection. Unfortunately, the 
> vision I and several artists had seen a few years ago is no more to be seen. 
> It is over crowded by the invasive European alder around the pond! sad :-(
>  
> I was reflecting about the loss of beautiful site when I saw a female robin 
> her mouth full of some garbage, no not actually but some stuff she had picked 
> up from the rocks on the pond and land in a fork of the tree. Then she 
> arranged the load in the nest and with her feet she pressed it down and 
> rearranged a bit and flew off to get more of the same.  Every time she got 
> back she placed the material and pushed it with her feet more making a "more 
> than foot deep" depression in the cup.
>  
> While doing so she was harassed several time by the pesky Grackles. They 
> actually came very close to the nest. Most of the time the male chased them 
> away. Once she herself gave a chase to two of them and seemed very annoyed 
> with them. I am not sure what the grackles were after, whether the nesting 
> material or the spot itself as they also next in a similar location.
> Male watched them from a long distance and would run after the grackles if 
> they headed towards the nest. I was glad at lest he did this. Female was very 
> determined, in spite of several attacks she continued to fly to locations 
> where she would collect good material needed for the nest.  She raised the 
> nest by an inch or so in half an hour. In between she would weave the long 
> strands of plant material along the edge. I also took the video. Hopefully 
> sometimes I will put it together
>  
> It was amazing how well she worked weave the cup! I have seen many nests 
> contain long pieces of plastic material. Some time as long as strips that are 
> 8 to 10 inches long and two four inches wide. I was hoping to check some 
> nests for the plastics to see how they incorporate them  But alas not much 
> time available I guess now.
>  
> While watching the nest building, also heard fairly continuously Virginia 
> rail doing its tik tik tik call and twice I heard it kidick kidick call.
>  
> That was great relaxing session in the evening1
>  
> Cheers
> meena
>  
>  
>  
> Meena Haribal
> Ithaca NY 14850
> http://haribal.org/
> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
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[cayugabirds-l] Observations of American Robin and Virginia Rail at Lab of O

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

After a hectic day in the lab I had to go and pick up my car from the Auto 
works. As it looked a beautiful day, I headed to lab of because I wanted to 
photograph Kip's barn pond with Kip's barn reflection. Unfortunately, the 
vision I and several artists had seen a few years ago is no more to be seen. It 
is over crowded by the invasive European alder around the pond! sad :-(



I was reflecting about the loss of beautiful site when I saw a female robin her 
mouth full of some garbage, no not actually but some stuff she had picked up 
from the rocks on the pond and land in a fork of the tree. Then she arranged 
the load in the nest and with her feet she pressed it down and rearranged a bit 
and flew off to get more of the same.  Every time she got back she placed the 
material and pushed it with her feet more making a "more than foot deep" 
depression in the cup.



While doing so she was harassed several time by the pesky Grackles. They 
actually came very close to the nest. Most of the time the male chased them 
away. Once she herself gave a chase to two of them and seemed very annoyed with 
them. I am not sure what the grackles were after, whether the nesting material 
or the spot itself as they also next in a similar location.

Male watched them from a long distance and would run after the grackles if they 
headed towards the nest. I was glad at lest he did this. Female was very 
determined, in spite of several attacks she continued to fly to locations where 
she would collect good material needed for the nest.  She raised the nest by an 
inch or so in half an hour. In between she would weave the long strands of 
plant material along the edge. I also took the video. Hopefully sometimes I 
will put it together



It was amazing how well she worked weave the cup! I have seen many nests 
contain long pieces of plastic material. Some time as long as strips that are 8 
to 10 inches long and two four inches wide. I was hoping to check some nests 
for the plastics to see how they incorporate them  But alas not much time 
available I guess now.



While watching the nest building, also heard fairly continuously Virginia rail 
doing its tik tik tik call and twice I heard it kidick kidick call.



That was great relaxing session in the evening1



Cheers

meena







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Ithaca NY 14850
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[cayugabirds-l] ruby crowned kinglet

[Michele Mannella]

There was one RUBY CROWNED KINGLET in the hemlocks at the azalea garden
behind ADWhite House at around 1:15. He came in very close, and provided
very good views of his red crest when I played audio (just once :-)) from
iBird.

Michele

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[cayugabirds-l] airport Meadowlarks/yard Towhee

[Donna Scott]

At around 3 PM Wed. 4/24, I drove along Cherry and Snyder Roads back of the 
airport.

I saw or heard 5 - 6 E. MEADOWLARKS along the way to Mohawk Rd.

 3 of the Meadowlarks were singing in the grass, unseen, near Cherry Road, in 
front of the Analytical Tox bldg.  
Then all of a sudden they all flew up and around and towards my car (I was 
inside w/ windows open). 
One flew over the car to the other side of road, and one flew back toward the 
grass by the big airport fence and the 3rd one landed right by the car in grass 
and sat there making some other neat sounds from a constantly open mouth, for a 
while.
I was impressed with how camouflaged it was sitting in the grass with only a 
little yellow showing. Even though I was looking right at it, sometimes my eye 
would lose sight of it.

Also saw a male KESTREL on the fence running perpendicular to Snyder Rd. 
towards the red brick aviation bldg. (not the terminal), plus many other 
expected birds, including a RED TAILED HAWK.

Stopped in at Salt Pt. at 5:15 pm for a look at the 2 OSPREYS on and then near 
the new nest pole. One attempted to catch a fish but did not succeed. 
I hope the barrier to cars driving out to the point is finished soon, since 
there are a lot of "hot rodders" tearing around the driveways there and it 
seemed like it disturbed the birds, possibly.

This morning about 7:30 AM, I saw a male E. TOWHEE feeding on the ground in my 
front yard; FOY!

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Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY 14882
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park & Jetty Woods

[Jay McGowan]

Lots of activity at the south end of the lake this morning. The swan pen
was good as always, with Yellow, Palm (two apparent Yellow birds), and
Myrtle and Audubon's Yellow-rumped warblers. A WARBLING VIREO was singing
from the start of the trail into Jetty Woods, and a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO
was singing from Renwick. Probably a lot more around but we didn't have
time to explore more.

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Macaulay Library
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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[cayugabirds-l] House Wren

[Lisa Wood]

In full song this morning at the bottom of Culver Road, town of Ithaca.

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[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods Migrants

[Brad Walker]

Hi all,

There wasn't too much action on the Wilson Trail North today, but the
Sherwood Platform did have a singing/calling BROWN THRASHER and a
cooperative BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER foraging in the willows at eye level.

Slightly further west on the path was a group of three handsome
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.

The/A large group of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS was also present again just south of
the building, but they seem to be moving around a bit.


- Brad

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