[cayugabirds-l] Behavior
Hi All, I had a friend email me quite the story yesterday. He was in a box store in the garden center. While he was in line, he noticed a house sparrow fly into the store when the door was open. He watched the bird, wondering how it would get out. The bird then flew to the door, hovered by the sensor and flew out when the door opened. It might sound like a lucky moment, except the clerk said that it goes on all day. I think it is pretty interesting behavior for a house sparrow. Diana dianawhitingphotography.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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] weird chickadee today
I was in a Zoom meeting this morning in my "office" at my kitchen table, facing out on a beautiful view of Yellow Barn State Forest and my bird feeders. A blazingly white bird popped up at my feeders and instantly drew my attention. I dug out my camera from the backpack on the chair next to where I sit all day (every day) and tried to get some photos. Fortunately, I make a living thinking about, teaching about, and photographing birds, so my meeting mates didn't think I was doing anything particularly weird, albeit unexpected. (Two different meetings interrupted by me grabbing my camera and diving off screen.) It turned out to be a Black-capped Chickadee with major pigment problems. Not quite a real albino, but nearly completely white with light brown cap and bib. It had some melanin and dark eyes, so not a "real" albino, but close enough for government work. (This is a very complex issue, and there are many physiological ways to reach the same appearance, so I'm not going to try to call this definitively albino, leucistic, diluted plumage, progressive graying, or other attempts at claiming the underlying causes.) The first photos were horrible, but it eventually came back and I got some passable one, included in my eBird checklist: https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S85659031 Cool bird. I wonder how long it will stick around. Kevin -- 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] Kingfishers at Fall Creek
Walking a dog on the Monkey Run trail along Fall Creek (below the SPCA; at a bend in the creek where there are bluffs on the other side), I saw at least 4 kingfishers doing their thing—flitting, nattering, perching. While I’ve seen an occasional kingfisher along Fall Creek before, I’d never before seen that many in one place. A nice moment in the rain on a gray spring afternoon. Eveline Ferretti Public Programs and Communication Administrator Albert R. Mann Library Cornell University Library Ithaca, NY 14853 e...@cornell.edu Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York State, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters. -- 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] Cornell Lab Webinar: Spring Migration
[cayugabirds-l] FOS
Just got two male Purple Finches. FOS for me. 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] brown thrasher
Brown Thrasher poking around under a feeder in a forsythia bush this a.m. FOY yard bird here. Bill McAneny, Trumansburg -- 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] cayugabirds-l digest: April 16, 2021
Yes. I saw them too , perched on oak tree branches above the tracks. Bert On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:00 AM Upstate NY Birding digest < cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Friday, April 16, 2021. > > 1. Many TVs > > -- > > Subject: Many TVs > From: Donna Lee Scott > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 23:17:00 + > X-Message-Number: 1 > > My neighbor at 623 Lansing Station Rd just reported 10 or more Turkey > Vultures congregating in his yard - moving around from trees, to lawn & > to & from the beach. A couple are perched on the railing above his stairs > to beach & on the RR track! > > We haven’t smelled any dead thing, so this is curious. > > Donna Scott > Lansing > Sent from my iPhone > > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > > -- Bert -- 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/ --
