[cayugabirds-l] House Sparrow advice
I can't remember who it was that posted about dealing with House Sparrows. I have a question/concern: A pair of these murderous little creeps seem to be trying to move in to a nestbox nailed to our house to cover one of the numerous carpenter bee/woodpecker/squirrel holes. My husband plugged the hole to prevent them from entering. My concern/question is: Will preventing their access to that nestbox be more likely to cause them to attack the nearby House Wrens? I don't think the House Wrens are nesting yet, but I hear little Mr. House Wren(s?) singing quite a bit and at least one box is packed with sticks. I have another box out back that has a LOT of various nesting material in it (feathers, grass, something fluffy, a few sticks). Once, when I was trying to figure out what was in there a small, brown bird was flushed, but that's all I got a chance to see. Many thanks for guidance. Melanie -- 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] House Sparrow advice - hire Merlin
Wouldn't that be grand? Is there a way I might attract Merlin? Melanie On 5/10/2015 5:44 PM, John Confer wrote: Hire a Merlin. So far all the prey I have identified, i.e., a small sample of 3, have been House Sparrows. John __ From: bounce-119150749-25065...@list.cornell.edu bounce-119150749-25065...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Melanie Uhlir mela...@mwmu.com Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 5:07 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] House Sparrow advice I can't remember who it was that posted about dealing with House Sparrows. I have a question/concern: A pair of these murderous little creeps seem to be trying to move in to a nestbox nailed to our house to cover one of the numerous carpenter bee/woodpecker/squirrel holes. My husband plugged the hole to prevent them from entering. My concern/question is: Will preventing their access to that nestbox be more likely to cause them to attack the nearby House Wrens? I don't think the House Wrens are nesting yet, but I hear little Mr. House Wren(s?) singing quite a bit and at least one box is packed with sticks. I have another box out back that has a LOT of various nesting material in it (feathers, grass, something fluffy, a few sticks). Once, when I was trying to figure out what was in there a small, brown bird was flushed, but that's all I got a chance to see. Many thanks for guidance. Melanie -- 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 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] Basin Big Day Saturday
Livia and I had a fun day yesterday. We had a few setbacks: slow migrant birding in Ithaca; missing some know stakeouts like Upland Sandpiper, Rusty Blackbird, and Palm Warbler; almost no raptors whatsoever, despite favorable winds and sun; and generally hot and windy conditions all day. Even so, we had a good morning for breeders and got most of our targets at Montezuma in the afternoon, so we were able to end the day with 175 species. Highlights: --Challenging but decent night migration at home in Northeast Ithaca, including an early GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH, SWAINSON'S THRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and VIRGINIA RAIL. --Good night birding, with over 10 AMERICAN WOODCOCK, EASTERN SCREECH-OWL, BARRED OWL, and GREAT HORNED OWL. --Productive morning at Park Preserve and Hammond Hill, with 15 species of warblers and most of the essential forest birds like Ruffed Grouse and Winter Wren, as well as Pine Siskin. --Slow going at Sapsucker Woods but a nice singing WILSON'S WARBLER on the Wilson Trail. --Continuing CLAY-COLORED SPARROW on campus, not singing but quickly found. --Lindsay-Parsons added WORM-EATING, BLACK-AND-WHITE, and HOODED WARBLERS but little else, making it rather a time sink in the overall day. --Hot and windy at Stewart and Myers, but managed to pick out a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL on the jetty and several ORCHARD ORIOLES singing around Myers. --Despite challengingly shimmery lake conditions, we were able to find BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a few lingering RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS off the Aurora bluffs, as well as 14 COMMON and a single FORSTER'S TERN on the marina breakwall in Union Springs. --An adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER on Lake Road just a few houses north of Long Point State Park that flew across the road in front of us. An awesome bird, if overall unhelpful for the day considering the cooperative one at Mays Point (saving us all of about 30 seconds). --Continuing SNOW GOOSE at the Visitor Center. --Extensive mudflats on the Main Pool hosting almost 100 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 400+ LEAST SANDPIPERS, DUNLIN, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. --EURASIAN WIGEON, LESSER SCAUP, CANVASBACK, REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCK, BUFFLEHEAD, and all the expected dabblers at Montezuma. A male COMMON GOLDENEYE is also apparently around, but we missed it. --Two GREAT EGRETS flying around Knox-Marsellus from East Road, as well as BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS from Towpath at dusk. --Continuing PROTHONOTARY WARBLER on Armitage Road, singing as we drove up. --Singing ORCHARD ORIOLES on Lake Road south of Aurora and Van Dyne Spoor Road. One was also reported on the Wildlife Drive. --Two BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and lots of the same shorebirds in the fields on Carncross Road. Our biggest misses were all Accipiters, Broad-winged and Red-shouldered hawk, Rusty Blackbird, Palm Warbler, Upland Sandpiper, American and Least bittern, many migrants that seemingly just showed up today (Bay-breasted, Cape May, Blackpoll, Philadelphia Vireo, Alder Flycatcher, cuckoos, and frustratingly White-crowned Sparrow), and worst of all, Carolina Wren! With so much time spent in upland spots in the morning, we didn't realize this was going to be a challenge until it was too late. This morning I saw at least six species we missed yesterday. Oh well. No sign of Friday's Glossy Ibis nor the Little Blue Heron. Good birding, Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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] SFO Local Trip Sunday
Bill Ostrander and I led a small group (9) of SFO students on today’s “local” trip. After exhausting all of the possibilities on the pond from inside the Lab, including great looks at a pair of bobbing Spotted Sandpipers right before our eyes, we headed down south to the Lindsay-Parson’s Preserve. Since part of the reason for the field trips is to showcase local birding hot spots, we started out on the west section, by the pond and then up the hill from the fire station. Five Great Blue Herons appear to be nesting in the rookery (all with only tops of heads showing - must be on eggs), and there were the expected birds: Tree Swallows, Red-wings, and Grackles. No Green Heron until a couple of folks spotted it on the way out. Yellow Warblers and Common Yellowthroats along the road. Even though the steep climb up the hillside to the water tower has been eased by a new gravel road, it took us over an hour to reach the top. We spent time observing American Redstarts, Ovenbirds, a really close Hooded Warbler, as well as a Veery, multiple Wood Thrushes (heard but not seen), and then close-in Warbling and Red-eyed Vireos. The most spectacular sighting was a trio of Tanagers - two males chasing a female. The contrast of the bright scarlet on the males against the yellow-green of the unfolding leaves was breathtaking. On the way up we watched a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers, one of which flew back and forth across the road until a second emerged from a dead tree (nest cavity?) and they both flew off. From there we took the short hop down to the main preserve parking lot. As we got out of our cars we were greeted by singing Prairie Warblers and a House Wren. Then, before we could even get across the small bridge at the bottom of the ravine, we ran across a singing Blue-winged Warbler, joined shortly thereafter by a Chestnut-sided Warbler. I know this all sounds rather prosaic to folks who are out birding a lot. But these “common” birds brought smiles to the faces of everyone I watched. We didn’t get any farther along the trail than the first open meadow. There were a couple of bouncing ball” sparrows, a distant Bobolink, and then great looks at a couple of Indigo Buntings. I’ve left out a whole bunch of birds, like the tree-top Blackburnian Warbler, the fly-over Sharp-shinned Hawk, and all the Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, but it’s time to close. Altogether we saw/heard a total of 63 species. I think we had a good morning. 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Bay-breasted Warbler
A male BAY-BREASTED WARBLER is singing from a leafing oak on Warren Road near Crest Lane. 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Bay-breasted Warbler
And now 4+ Bay-breasted in the Hawthorn Orchard. I guess it's the day for them! On May 10, 2015 8:03 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: A male BAY-BREASTED WARBLER is singing from a leafing oak on Warren Road near Crest Lane. 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] Cerulean warbler
Robin Schwenke and I heard a Cerulean Warbler singing on the path to the Mourning Warbler spot in Hammond Hill this morning. Great morning to be out birding! Nancy -- ** Nancy Chen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 227 Biotechnology Building Ithaca, NY 14853-2701 Email: nc...@cornell.edu www.eeb.cornell.edu/chen -- 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] Now
Red-Breasted Mergansers again, 3M and 2F. Also a couple - or three? - loons who are driving me crazy by calling back and forth...but haven't been located as yet! -- 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] Hawthorn happening
So far blackpoll, magnolia, parula, chestnut-sided, nashville, many many tennessees, bay-breasted. Others have seen blackburnian, and others I forget. Much better than yesterday's SFO visit (where we did at least see hooded and bw). Suan _ http://suan-yong.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Swallow-tailed Kite report near airport
I saw this bird as well at noon yesterday. I watched it for two minutes as it soared over the airport and was able to get a very good look at the long tapered wings, the white underside, and the distinctive swallow tail. ___ Rachel Dickinson Freelance Writer Sent from my iPhone On May 10, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: Kevin McGuire wrote to me yesterday to say the following: Jay, I'm writing largely because I saw a Swallow-tailed Kite today, just shortly after noon, from Hwy 13 near the Ithaca Airport immediately after leaving the Lab of O at Sapsucker Woods. That's all the information I have right now, but I have asked him for a description and which direction it was heading. Keep an eye out! -- 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] Hawthorn Orchard: 10 May 2015
Very pleasant morning with nice views of good birds. Met up with Jay McGowan and we slowly worked our way around the Hawthorn Orchard; later, I made another quick pass through, adding some individuals. This may yet become another memorable year at the Hawthorn Orchard, depending upon what happens over the next couple of nights. Tuesday morning has the potential to get really interesting, if the weather forecast holds true (stationary front across central NY), or it could be a dud…gotta love weather and migration forecasting. Best birds were the BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS and CAPE MAY WARBLERS, as well as a single silently foraging PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, US-NY May 10, 2015 7:55 AM - 9:54 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Mostly w/ Jay McGowan, then one more solo pass through. br /Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.8 52 species (+1 other taxa) Osprey 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Merlin 2 Copulating (visible from NE corner, looking North to spruce-tops; they really like perching on the one spruce that has a dead branch extending out to the right) Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher) 1 SW corner, non-vocal. Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 PHILADELPHIA VIREO 1 NE Corner. Non-vocal. Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 9 American Crow 3 Barn Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 7 European Starling 8 Cedar Waxwing 2 Blue-winged Warbler 1 NE Corner Tennessee Warbler 8 Throughout, singing loudly (7 ad male, 1 female) Common Yellowthroat 2 Cape May Warbler 5 SE part of Hawthorn Orchard for the most part (1 ad male, 4 female) Magnolia Warbler 4 Bay-breasted Warbler 6 NE and SE corners (5 ad male, 1 female) Blackburnian Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Blackpoll Warbler 2 South-Southeast region (2 ad males) Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 2 One in NE ravine area, one in SE area (2 ad males) Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 2 Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting 2 Bobolink 2 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Baltimore Oriole 3 House Finch 1 Pine Siskin 1 American Goldfinch 9 House Sparrow 5 -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418tel:607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740tel:607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132tel:607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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] Swallow-tailed Kite report near airport
Kevin McGuire wrote to me yesterday to say the following: Jay, I'm writing largely because I saw a Swallow-tailed Kite today, just shortly after noon, from Hwy 13 near the Ithaca Airport immediately after leaving the Lab of O at Sapsucker Woods. That's all the information I have right now, but I have asked him for a description and which direction it was heading. Keep an eye out! -- 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] The world is finally awake again!
FINALLY our favorite compatriots are returning. It has been a slow resurgence here on West Hill, but today brought RED-EYED VIREO, SCARLET TANAGER, and INDIGO BUNTING back into our yard-lives. Makes tackling the gardens almost bearable. The big treat today though is a very vociferous TENNESSEE WARBLER singing from the low, heavy-blossomed apple tree branches. Caroline Manring West Hill, Ithaca -- 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] Lindsay-Parsons 10May
Hi all, Scott Haber and I went to the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve this morning for some recording and birding. There were many breeding birds (and ticks!) but the highlights included a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO that was calling on and off for an hour and an ALDER FLYCATCHER that we managed to get a recording of. The ticks seemed to be worst on the other side of the railroad tracks. The entire list can be seen here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23353222 - Brad -- 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] Blackpoll, N Parula, Blackburnian +++ Hawthorn Orchard -- May 10, 2015
3 of us were very surprised to clearly see a male Blackpoll warbler. Lots of Bay-breasted including females. Male and female Blackburnian and more(see list) The rest is on list but I think Chris T-H mentioned a Cape May that we missed. We started at path by softball field where you step over a fallen wire fence. The first 150 yards were crawling with birds. We didn't go very far as my mother had a tight Mom's day schedule so there is likely much more to see. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: May 10, 2015 Hawthorn Orchard Traveling 0.3 miles 126 Minutes Observers: 4 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.8 1 Merlin 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Warbling Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 2 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 5 European Starling 2 Tennessee Warbler 2 Nashville Warbler 2 Northern Parula 4 Yellow Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Blackburnian Warbler -- Female 1 m 5 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler -- Yes 3 of us had good looks 1 American Redstart 3 Common Yellowthroat 4 Northern Cardinal 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 6 American Goldfinch 3 House Sparrow Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Swallow-tailed kite
I tried to post this earlier but it didn't go through. I saw this bird as well at noon yesterday. I watched it for two minutes as it soared over the airport and was able to get a very good look at the long tapered wings, the white underside, and the distinctive swallow tail. It was heading east. Rachel Dickinson ~ Freelance Writer 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/ --
