[cayugabirds-l] Crows, WNV and another plea for information

[AB Clark]

HI Everyone,

I hope this isn’t overuse of the List to ask for help:our banded crow 
population in and around Ithaca is suffering from the WNV plague—again, and 
strongly.  We are losing tagged and untagged-but-known family members.  Since 
birds also travel to forage at this time of year, we are trying hard to 
document whether a bird ostensibly “seen looking sick” is really dead.We 
are collaborating with the Wildlife Health Unit and are able to get them tested 
to confirm whether they died of WNV.

So—we really appreciate any alerts to crows seen dead or looking sick or “odd” 
in and near Ithaca, especially around Cayuga Heights, the Cornell Campus,  
Forest Home area, the Pine Tree-Mitchell-Ellis Hollow areas,  Sapsucker Woods 
road across to Brown and the Airport areas.  I am only too happy to investigate 
a false alarm, rather than miss a sick crow that then “disappears”, cause 
unknown.  It was really helpful that several people alerted us to a dying crow 
at Boces last week, which I was able to find the next morning. 

Currently, we are missing purple-tagged (white letters) crows “PC” (just N of 
Boces) and “SZ” (Lexington-Burleigh area) and an untagged but banded crow in 
the vicinity of Hanshaw between Kay St and Orchard, within this past week.  Up 
to 5 unbanded crows have disappeared in the last few weeks, after other family 
members died—along Warren on both sides of 13. 

Thanks for any help—emails to Kevin or I (best my academic email  
acl...@binghamton.edu ) or texts/calls to my cell 
phone below are all fine.  Suzanne Broderick (smb4...@aol.com) will also take 
the info and make sure reports were investigated. 

Anne
 
Anne B Clark
147 Hile School Rd
Freeville, NY 13068
607-222-0905
anneb.cl...@gmail.com






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[cayugabirds-l] Flock of Flickers

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Hi all,


Yesterday I saw 8 Northern Flickers foraging together on the grass here on 
Hungerford Rd. in Ithaca.  Perhaps it's typical for Flickers to congregate like 
this as fall approaches, but this is the most I've ever seen at one time.  It's 
possible there were a few more in nearby trees.


Also, there was a small flock of warblers, including Magnolia and 
Chestnut-sided, on the East Trail in Sapsucker Woods today.


Kevin Cummings


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[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk kettle

[Joshua Snodgrass]

Just had a loose kettle of about 62 Broad-winged Hawks traveling SW at a
pretty good clip. Flew over my house here in Interlaken. Awesome sight to
see!
Best,
Josh

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