Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead Cormorant in Tree at Jetty Woods

[Adriaan Michiel Dokter]

Hi Sandy,

I saw that bird two days ago, when it was still alive. It got stuck with its 
wing in one of the branches. Apparently it hasn't managed to free itself and 
this morning I saw it hanging dead too ...

Adriaan

On 15 Apr 2017, at 11:55, Sandy Wold 
> wrote:

Yesterday early evening at Jetty Woods, after I picked up a few handfuls of 
styrofoam cup aquatic debris deposited after recent flooding, I noticed the 
entire herd of cormorants were back, and one was dangling from a tree.  The 
others went about perching normally in the tree. Bald-headed Eagle?

This bird had what looked to me like breeding plumage (black tufts on top of 
head).  I could not see any orange and not sure if that was because of the 
angle.  Do birds lose their color after death?  If so, how long is it before 
the color starts to diminish?
Sandy
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[cayugabirds-l] Red flickers in New York

[Kevin J. McGowan]

I didn't see John's reported Red-shafted Flicker, and therefore cannot comment 
definitively, but to my knowledge, there are no confirmed occurrences of the 
Red-shafted form of Northern Flicker in New York, or of actual hybrids of 
Red-shafted X Yellow-shafted birds or "intergrades."


But, there are plenty of flickers with red in their flight feathers. They have 
nothing to do with the western form of flicker. Instead, they're an 
increasingly common result of the environmentally-caused changes in birds 
resulting from the spread of exotic honeysuckles. It's the same phenomenon that 
creates orange tail tips in Cedar Waxwings.


See the recently published article, based in part on specimens in the Cornell 
University Museum of Vertebrates that I helped prepare over the last 30 years:

 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1642/AUK-16-63.1
Hudon, et al. 2017
Diet explains red flight feathers in Yellow-shafted Flickers in eastern North 
America


IMHO, it's more interesting than a wayward migrant out of range!


Best,


Kevin



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 on behalf of John Confer 

Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 1:42 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Red-tail incubating


The red-tail is in a nest near the top of tall White Pine in East Lawn 
Cemetery, about 100 m north of the nearest edge of hawthorn orchard, and about 
40 m up main entrance into cemetery from MItchell Rd.


I walked through the area because of a Merlin nest two years ago, and hoping 
for another. Now that there is a nesting red-tail, I'm pretty sure that the 
red-tail would eat the Merlin, particularly a bird on the nest while 
incubating, and that there would never be a Merlin nest there.


Win some, loose some.


Good birding


PS. This morning I saw a Red-shafted Flicker in the City Cemetery (west of 
North Campus) near the center from east to west but on the southern edge. 
Probably a migrant, but it could stay around for a while. Incidentally, I 
didn't hear/see a Merlin although Andy Zepp has been hearing one in that 
location.

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[cayugabirds-l] Blue-headed Vireo

[Geo Kloppel]

We had sun for the Easter egg hunt at Taughannock Falls this morning, but at 
3:30, darkling sprinkles have arrived in West Danby, and that has set the birds 
outside my door to singing. Among the rest I can hear my first-of-spring 
Blue-headed Vireo.

-Geo


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[cayugabirds-l] Willow Creek TV shed?

[Geo Kloppel]

I spotted two Turkey Vultures this afternoon entering a low open shed in trees 
east of Willow Creek Road, perhaps 1,000' north of the Black Diamond Trail 
crossing. About here:
42.52957°N 76.59377°W

-Geo

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[cayugabirds-l] Red-tail incubating

[John Confer]

The red-tail is in a nest near the top of tall White Pine in East Lawn 
Cemetery, about 100 m north of the nearest edge of hawthorn orchard, and about 
40 m up main entrance into cemetery from MItchell Rd.


I walked through the area because of a Merlin nest two years ago, and hoping 
for another. Now that there is a nesting red-tail, I'm pretty sure that the 
red-tail would eat the Merlin, particularly a bird on the nest while 
incubating, and that there would never be a Merlin nest there.


Win some, loose some.


Good birding


PS. This morning I saw a Red-shafted Flicker in the City Cemetery (west of 
North Campus) near the center from east to west but on the southern edge. 
Probably a migrant, but it could stay around for a while. Incidentally, I 
didn't hear/see a Merlin although Andy Zepp has been hearing one in that 
location.

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[cayugabirds-l] Dead Cormorant in Tree at Jetty Woods

[Sandy Wold]

Yesterday early evening at Jetty Woods, after I picked up a few handfuls of
styrofoam cup aquatic debris deposited after recent flooding, I noticed the
entire herd of cormorants were back, and one was dangling from a tree.  The
others went about perching normally in the tree. Bald-headed Eagle?

This bird had what looked to me like breeding plumage (black tufts on top
of head).  I could not see any orange and not sure if that was because of
the angle.  Do birds lose their color after death?  If so, how long is it
before the color starts to diminish?
Sandy

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