[cayugabirds-l] Delaware County Winter Golden Eagle Count

2015-01-04 Thread Thomas Salo
As part of our efforts to investigate wintering Golden Eagles in NYS, 
Delaware-Otsego Audubon will be conducting a one day raptor count on 
February 7, 2015 in Delaware County. Golden Eagle is the target species 
but all species of raptor will be counted. Surveyors of all skill levels 
are welcome, however, each team must be led by someone with the ability 
to identify flying eagles _by silhouette at a distance._ If you have 
those skills and would like to participate, please contact me. If you 
are unknown to me, please describe your experience. Providing contact 
information for a reference would be helpful. You can bring as many 
people as you want as part of your team. For others who want to 
participate, I will team you with a skilled leader if possible.

Territories are being created to be surveyed in 4-5 hours starting no 
earlier than 9 am. Each team should finish its territory by 3 pm. How 
much of the county we cover will depend on the number of teams.

If this count is successful we may make it an annual event and expand it 
to include other areas known to harbor wintering Golden Eagles.

In the event of snow or poor visibility, the count will be held the 
following day, Sunday, February 8.

Contact Tom Salo at salotho...@gmail.com mailto:salotho...@gmail.com 
or 607-965-8232 for more information and a copy of the count protocol.





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[cayugabirds-l] Merlin sitting in tree on corner

2015-01-04 Thread Sandy
west jay and Cayuga behind house on west jay. It just ate a chickadee and might 
be there for a while. It is 10:15. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Merlin details

2015-01-04 Thread Sandy
Merlin can be best viewed from sidewalk at 1008 Cayuga at looking westward. 
Tree is behind house and in lower branches. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl Martin Rd Seneca Falls

2015-01-04 Thread Dave K
~50 yards East of the airport runway ~8AM today
 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/105424358@N06/16009994547 
  
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[cayugabirds-l] Ocwa still present

2015-01-04 Thread Tom Schulenberg
I just relocated Paul Anderson's orange- crowned warbler, but north of
where he first found it. Along the tracks heading south from Cherry Street,
but * north *  of the bridge at the small dam, and next to a large (the
largest?) camp in the Jungle.

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl Martin Rd Seneca Falls

2015-01-04 Thread Marty Schlabach
Still in the same place at 1:30pm today.
Best seen approaching from the east.
--Marty  Mary Jean

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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl Martin Rd Seneca Falls

~50 yards East of the airport runway ~8AM today

https://www.flickr.com/photos/105424358@N06/16009994547

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl Martin Rd Seneca Falls

2015-01-04 Thread Ann Mitchell
Still there at 3:30. Ann Mitchell

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 On Jan 4, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu wrote:
 
 Still in the same place at 1:30pm today.
 Best seen approaching from the east.
 --Marty  Mary Jean
  
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 ~50 yards East of the airport runway ~8AM today
  
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bird ID Help Needed

2015-01-04 Thread Sandra Wold
Today after the storm clouds parted around 3pm, the sun came out and Cayuga
Lake at Stewart Park was glorious, and may still be!  Can anyone verify the
following birds at Stewart Park?  They were in the far eastern corner and
then some of them moved westward.
1 Red-throated Loon in winter plumage? gorgeous, elegant, stunning and
looked more like a Western Grebe, which I know is highly unlikely if
impossible.
2 Red-necked Grebes?  but the heads were dark black and bird looked more
like a Double-crested Cormorant but Mallard-size, swimming with 6
domestic(?) Snow Geese (orange beaks, no black feathers).
2 Common Mergansers?  but looked the coot-size!
and there was a Great Blue Heron napping in the muck near the RR tracks!

Thanks in advance for any help!
Sandy

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bird ID Help Needed

2015-01-04 Thread Kevin J. McGowan
Stewart Park was definitely not glorious when I visited at around 1:30 today! 
Overcast, windy, and rain made viewing conditions hard, and the heat shimmer 
made any far offshore identifications just about impossible.  Close-in I had 
nothing but Mallards and domestics, along with the three expected gulls. I did 
have two juvenile Great Blue Herons jousting over the minnows to be speared in 
the lagoon off the creek, along with a Belted Kingfisher, but that was the 
extent of interesting birds for me. A scan from East Shore Park added only a 
pair of Northern Pintails very far off north into the shimmer.

The small flock of domestic ducks hanging out at the east end of the Stewart 
Park includes some all-white “Pekin” domestic Mallards, some all-dark, glossy 
“Cayuga ducks”, a couple of Indian runner Mallard domestics (they look like 
bowling pins when they walk), and a few mixed others, including a broken-wing 
clean Mallard make that might be a hunting injury looking to hang out with the 
ducks that don’t fly off all the time. As a rule, anything odd with them is 
just an odd domestic mutant individual.

No loons, no grebes, no scoters, no Cackling Geese for me today.

Kevin

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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bird ID Help Needed

Today after the storm clouds parted around 3pm, the sun came out and Cayuga 
Lake at Stewart Park was glorious, and may still be!  Can anyone verify the 
following birds at Stewart Park?  They were in the far eastern corner and then 
some of them moved westward.
1 Red-throated Loon in winter plumage? gorgeous, elegant, stunning and looked 
more like a Western Grebe, which I know is highly unlikely if impossible.
2 Red-necked Grebes?  but the heads were dark black and bird looked more like a 
Double-crested Cormorant but Mallard-size, swimming with 6 domestic(?) Snow 
Geese (orange beaks, no black feathers).
2 Common Mergansers?  but looked the coot-size!
and there was a Great Blue Heron napping in the muck near the RR tracks!

Thanks in advance for any help!
Sandy
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[cayugabirds-l] Hog Hole raft and possible human protector

2015-01-04 Thread marsha kardon
I was at Hog Hole at about 10:45 am, and in the midst of a small raft of
Canvasbacks and Scaup perhaps 400 ft off shore there was what appeared to
be an open kayak with a person lying in it occasionally taking smart phone
photos of the ducks.  I only saw the back of this person's head and one end
of the kayak.  Near the shore there were two men in camouflage, apparently
hunters, standing in the water with their aluminum motor boat in front of
them, looking at the raft and presumably the person in the midst of it.
I'm guessing that this person was protecting the raft from the hunters,
(and if so, thanks!) but I'm not sure.  Does anyone know about this? Marsha
Kardon

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[cayugabirds-l] Faux flycatchers @ Jetty Woods

2015-01-04 Thread Suan Yong
My evening walk to Jetty Woods from the suspension bridges was greeted by one 
bout of pewee song, two bouts of phoebe, and one killdeer. I assume all were 
starlings who were quite talkative in the pleasant lull between winds. Didn't 
check out the lakeshore from Stewart Park, alas.

Suan
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[cayugabirds-l] Around the Lake Today

2015-01-04 Thread bob mcguire
Susan, Ann, Diane, Ken, Dave, and I spend the entire day driving up and around 
the lake, looking for new birds to add to our 2015 year lists (silly game!!) 
I'm tired from all the driving and don't feel up to a full report. However, 
there were some real highlights, and I'd like to get them out there.

Because the waterfowl hunters had pretty well cleared out the lake off Stewart 
 East Shore Parks, we didn't really get started until Portland Point Rd. with 
two Mockingbirds and a Carolina Wren. There was a Belted Kingfisher in the 
marina at Myers and a Horned Grebe off the spit (or was that grebe at Long 
Point?) . 

On Center Road we ran into a flock of some 100 Horned Larks, very well hidden 
in the low grass. 

We had four more Horned Grebes off the boathouse in Aurora.

The rain hit us just before Union Springs but we were able to scan the ponds 
from the car and pull in a few new ducks for the year: Redhead, Gadwall, 
American Wigeon.

A large flock of Robins flew over as we drove up Rt 90 towards Montezuma. Then, 
at the east end of the Mucklands, we picked out Northern Pintail and a juvenile 
Glaucous Gull in the mixed flock of several thousand Canada Geese, Tundra 
Swans, Mallards, and gulls. While we were there, a Peregrine Falcon made one 
pass, but none of the birds on the ground paid it any attention.

We easily found the Snowy Owl that had been reported east of the airport on 
Martin Road. 

Dean's Cove was nearly devoid of birds: a small flock of Red-Breasted 
Mergansers and a couple of Great Black-backed Gulls plus Carolina Wren and 
Red-bellied Woodpecker calling in the background - until the resident Lesser 
Black-backed Gull dropped from the sky.

Finally, we spent an hour driving the roads around Rock River  Wycoff Rds 
searching unsuccessfully for Short-eared Owls, but were rewarded with a 
cooperative Ring-necked Pheasant just off the road and an American Kestrel.

As I re-read this, I realize how scattered it sounds! Perhaps one of the others 
will have the energy to post a full report. It was, in fact, a great day to be 
out and a wonderful start to the new year.

Bob McGuire
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[cayugabirds-l] Myers withput binoculars

2015-01-04 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
?Hi all,

I was going grocery shopping as the weather cleared I decided to head to Myers. 
Then realized I don't have my cell phone, scope and not even binoculars.  But 
still decided to continue.

At the point there were a few gulls, a few Ring-billed, a couple of Great 
Black-backed and a few Herring gulls were visible. Far away on the water I saw 
some smaller and some larger ducks, may be because some  were closer to the 
spot I was watching from and the others were further away.

As  Suan noted starlings were happy in Myers too as they sang various tones. 
Then on the way back I decided to drive via Cayuga Vista road to check if there 
was any No. shrike, but there was no shrike. But I did see a couple of No. 
Mockingbirds that were being kind of harassed by a large flock of starlings.  
Then there was a Hairy Woodpecker that was pecking away at a dead branch.

On the whole I have 6 species on my list for the new year.  I did not even hear 
a chickadee since the last two days I have been here!


Cheers

Meena

PS: I found quite a few poplars have been cut down at Myers, no idea why?  And 
also there are some new gaming places with some kind of board. I am not sure 
what game is that but surely a local game. Somebody seem to be improving the 
park.




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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Myers withput (= without) binoculars

2015-01-04 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
?

Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
42.429007,-76.47111
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From: bounce-118671310-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
bounce-118671310-3493...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Meena Madhav Haribal 
m...@cornell.edu
Sent: Sunday, January 4, 2015 8:02 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Myers withput binoculars


?Hi all,

I was going grocery shopping as the weather cleared I decided to head to Myers. 
Then realized I don't have my cell phone, scope and not even binoculars.  But 
still decided to continue.

At the point there were a few gulls, a few Ring-billed, a couple of Great 
Black-backed and a few Herring gulls were visible. Far away on the water I saw 
some smaller and some larger ducks, may be because some  were closer to the 
spot I was watching from and the others were further away.

As  Suan noted starlings were happy in Myers too as they sang various tones. 
Then on the way back I decided to drive via Cayuga Vista road to check if there 
was any No. shrike, but there was no shrike. But I did see a couple of No. 
Mockingbirds that were being kind of harassed by a large flock of starlings.  
Then there was a Hairy Woodpecker that was pecking away at a dead branch.

On the whole I have 6 species on my list for the new year.  I did not even hear 
a chickadee since the last two days I have been here!


Cheers

Meena

PS: I found quite a few poplars have been cut down at Myers, no idea why?  And 
also there are some new gaming places with some kind of board. I am not sure 
what game is that but surely a local game. Somebody seem to be improving the 
park.




Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
42.429007,-76.47111
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[cayugabirds-l] Sodus Bay Snowy Owls, Pultneyville Glaucous Gull

2015-01-04 Thread Michael Tetlow
This evening we had 2 Snowy Owls on the west side of Sodus bay along
route 14. One was on the docks at Arney's Marina and the other on the docks
at Sodus marina visible from Kaitlyn's Marine. Both were intermediate/darker
plumage. Neither were the same plumage as the other 2  we have seen there
earlier this season.

On the way back there was a first year Glaucous gull right near the
roadside shoreline at Pultneyville.

 2 adult Bald Eagles circled over the fields SE of Ginna.   Mike and
Joann Tetlow 


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Myers withput binoculars

2015-01-04 Thread Dave Nutter
In winter Northern Mockingbird individuals (or pairs or families?) defend a 
territory such as a shrubby thickets with a supply of fruit for them to eat. 
The Mockingbird will try to chase off other birds from eating its winter food 
supply. European Starlings have a different strategy, traveling in a flock and 
eating a lot of fruit wherever they stop, perhaps stripping it all. The arrival 
of a Starling flock can be a real bummer situation for a Mockingbird, but I 
have seen a Mockingbird drive off a small flock of about 20 Starlings.

--Dave Nutter


On Jan 04, 2015, at 08:03 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:

 ​... Cayuga Vista road ... a couple of No. Mockingbirds that were being kind 
 of harassed by a large flock of starlings.  

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