[cayugabirds-l] Buntings and Horned Larks

[Sandy]

On Friday, February 1st
8am, on Wycoff in Lodi: three flocks of Snow Buntings. Each flock had over
100 and maybe as many as 200+ Snow Buntings. All three flocks were on the
same road in different fields. It was so cold I couldn't stay out long to
look for other species when they landed, but I did note one of the flocks
had mostly Horned Larks in them. They were feeding or resting and sunning
themselves.

*S.L. Wold, author/originator/publisher of the Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map*
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[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls on Tucker Rd. in Enfield

[Barbara Bauer Sadovnic]

I went in search of the redpolls again today - I hadn’t seen them since the 
snowfall January 19.  First I turned up 5 American Robins in the spot on Tucker 
Road where Rachel Lodder and I have seen the redpolls before, and was going to 
be happy with that, but when I returned maybe a half hour later there were at 
least 18 redpolls perched in the scrubby little apple tree near the south end 
of Tucker (east side).  They were feeding on the weeds under the tree, and 
twittering, when a falcon burst through the tree without catching anybody, and 
then perched in the top of a tall spruce on the other side of Tucker.  The 
redpolls froze, and were silent and still.  I could only make out the wing 
shape of the falcon - no color.  Fifteen minutes later, as I walked down Aiken, 
I heard the redpolls again, and saw the flock dive into more spruces, followed 
by the falcon again.  This time I did see the tail was clearly striped.  The 
falcon was again unsuccessful, and perched in the top of one of the spruces.  I 
think it was a merlin, but could be talked out of it.  Very very bad photos are 
here 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rne7i981ieudsjv/AABx23nZZVx-Hd6z4btqtA0Ka?dl=0

which clearly show there is something in the top of that tree!
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[cayugabirds-l] a solitary Common Redpoll--Stevenson Rd Compost drive

[AB Clark]

At 210 pm today, coming in on driveway from Stevenson Compost mounds, just N of 
the gateway to the pheasant pens, a single Common Redpoll sat in the sun as 
high as one can get in the small trees there.  After giving me good looks and 
some distant pics, it flew S toward where a bunch of (technical term) House 
Sparrows were sitting, similarly in the sun.  Saw no others going in or out 
about 330pm.

Anne Clark
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[cayugabirds-l] Screech owl at Dandy Mart today

[Anne Marie Johnson]

I saw the Eastern Screech-Owl in the opening of its hole at the Dandy Mart 
at noon today. The cavity is about half way up a tree at the back edge of 
the parking lot on the left side of the Dandy Mart on Rt. 79 in the village 
of Slaterville Springs (in the town of Caroline). If you don’t see a dark 
cavity, then the owl is probably in the opening, well camouflaged. The 
cavity faces the parking lot and can be seen from the parking spaces on the 
left side of the building.


Anne Marie Johnson

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ducky Day

[Candace Cornell]

We had a raft of a similar mix off our house on Eastlake Rd. most of the
afternoon.
Candace

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 9:08 PM Maureen Cowen  wrote:

> I also saw these numerous ducks walking the railroad track along Lansing
> Station Rd this morning between 11-12noon.
> Donna, Thanks for the naming and enumerating.
> Maureen
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 2, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
>
> Today I watched offshore here an undulating raft of Redheads (~500)
> accompanied by 26 Ring Necked Ducks, 2 Buffleheads, 1 Golden Eye, 4 Lesser
> Scaup, 1 Greater Scaup, 1 Canvasback, 18 mallards, 16 Black Ducks, and
> nearby were 8 Red Breasted Mergansers.
>
> 5-600 Canada Geese were in attendance, along with a Herring Gull.
>
>
>
> Pretty easy birding: I just stood on the cliff next to a large tree (for
> camouflage) and enjoyed and counted, then trotted down the RR track as the
> ducks moved away and other ducks joined them.
>
>
>
> Feeder birds included 23 MO Do, and the single Starling who was here
> through the really cold days, has now shown up with 30 of his best friends.
>
>
>
> A Lesser Black Backed Gull flew over and an hour ago I was lucky to spot
> from the kitchen a mature BALD EAGLE sitting in my dying White Oak tree on
> the cliff overlooking the lake!
>
> Maybe that is why the returning raft of Redheads, et al., left again in a
> big hurry.
>
>
>
> Neighbors have reported several sightings of both a mature B Eagle lately,
> and an immature one.
>
>
>
>
>
> Donna L. Scott
>
> 535 Lansing Station Road
>
> Lansing, NY 14882
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