[cayugabirds-l] Mystery seed collector
Hi all, I was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I was trying to empty my recycle bin, which a meter tall and had mixed recycling materials like papers and bottles and plastic container. When I was transferring the recyclers to a paper bag to take it to recycling unit, I heard strange clunking noise so I stopped and found oak acorns. All acorns are shelled and seem to be of good quality. I have more than 125 seeds. But I am puzzled as to who collected these. I leave most of the time my garage door closed, but may have left it open one of these days for four or five hours. I am trying to find out who the collector is. It is possible that a field mouse collected it, but acorns are quite large and the container is tall and smooth. So I doubt it could have a direct access, but you never know how it reached the container. May be it jumped across a stack of tiles. Then there is possibility of a squirrel or chipmunk, they should have done this job in the four or five hours when I had left the garage door open. Or a Blue Jays stashed them, but again the job should have to be accomplished in four or five hours. Acorns are from a tree across the stream in my neighbor's property about 30 feet away across my drive way. The container was very close to the garage door. Would field mouse collect so many seeds for winter? I am curious to know if all these seeds are viable seeds Any suggestions from anybody form this list? Wish I could eat those seeds, they look so good! or I might donate it to the seed collection endeavor today! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- 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] Montezuma
Highlights so far today: Eared Grebe and two Eurasian Wigeon on Main Pool. Hudsonian Godwit at Puddlers. Lots of ducks. Jay -- 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] Laughing Gull Canandaigua Pier
Kurt Fox reports a first year laughing Gull at the Canandaigua City Pier now. 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] East Hill Bald Eagle
At around 5:30 I was amazed to see an adult BALD EAGLE soaring above the East Lawn Cemetery (just west of the East Hill Plaza). Larry -- W. Larry Hymes 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (H) 607-277-0759, w...@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] Migration takeoff, Sun 10/19
There are massive blooms of departing migrants on regional radar now (past hour up to 7:13 PM). I've never seen animated weather maps so dense with apparent bird activity. Maybe Red-winged Blackbirds? Today at the Freese Road gardens I found eight sparrow species -- Song, Savannah, Swamp, Chipping (10+ -- most of the season), Field, White-crowned, White-throated, and House. Mark Chao --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -- 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] Day of Golden eagles and Red-shoulered Hawk
Hi all, Today I was out on a seed collecting trip with FLNPS and when we were at the main pond (I think it is called Mud Pond) of the Mclean Bog, there was a strong north wind. So I was generally looking up at the sky often. There were some raptors migrating. Once when I looked up, I found four eagles circling fairly low and continued higher and higher reaching thermal. They were flying with a slight dihedral. They circled up in the air in the thermal till almost they became tiny birds and flew in southerly directions. I also had another Golden Eagle from Cornell Cooperative extension parking lot which also was fairly low initially and as it circled it gained height and went behind some trees then I lost the sight of it. Other raptors included a Kestrel, a Red-shouldered Hawk, a Red-tailed Hawk and two Coopers Hawk at Mclean Bog. Also I heard several Ruby-crowned Kinglets and a Brown Creeper among other common birds. Plus, I learnt a lot of about how to distinguish aster species and Cornus species and about some of the other rare species which I do not want to mention. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- 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] Woodcock
Matt Medler and I just heard a Woodcock taking off in a field on Triphammer Road, just past the Mall. (skydance sound - not peenting). I heard the same thing here on Whitted Road several evenings ago. I see from eBird that they have lingered in Tompkins County as late as the end of November. Bob McGuire -- 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/ --
