Re: [cayugabirds-l] Merlin over Emerson

[anneb . clark]

And I had a great Merlin-crow interaction near Hile School rd and Ed Hill
Rd intersection on Tuesday.  A youngish crow may have begun it because I first 
saw it harrying and giving low vocalizations toward the merlin, but the merlin, 
a male by back plumage, turned the tables and became the swooping diving 
aggressor. It left after several minutes then returned to go straight after a 
(the?) crow again. I have never seen such protracted interactions that were not 
around an active crow nest. Merlin would fly high above and dive then chase the 
crow down toward the ground until the crow would ramp up its flight effort to 
make it up among field edge tree branches.  

I wonder if merlins are scoping the nesting options for next 
spring—-“prospecting” as it is genetically called. 

Anne

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> On Aug 25, 2021, at 7:56 AM, Susan Stevens Suarez  wrote:
> 
>  For what it’s worth, the Merlin Sound ID on my iPhone picked up a Merlin 
> downhill from the factory 2.5 weeks ago.
> Susan Suarez
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Stanley Scharf  wrote:
>> 
>> For the past two plus weeks  what appears to be a  Merlin has been screaming 
>> its raucous call  in the area of the Emerson factory on South Hill in 
>> Ithaca. I don't know if it's a male or female.. I think I hear it calling 
>> now.
>> 
>> I once got a good view of its strong flight over Emerson..
>> S.
>> 
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[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [nysbirds-l] Swallow-tailed Kite continuing at location below, Yates Co., Penn Yan

[tess]

Haven't seen this on the list, in case anyone wants to head out to Penn 
Yan.  I have no info after this email about whether the bird still is 
being seen.


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Subject:[nysbirds-l] Swallow-tailed Kite continuing at location below, 
Yates Co., Penn Yan
Date:   Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:41:51 -0400
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To: NYSBIRDS-L 




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[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: Webinar: Remarkable Raptors [Sept 15]

[Peter Saracino]

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[cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Québécois gull

[Kenneth V. Rosenberg]

Thanks for the info, Dave – we saw that same gull on Monday as well.

KEN

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From: bounce-125854343-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
 on behalf of Dave Nutter 

Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 4:40 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Québécois gull
Last Saturday afternoon at Myers Point I noticed one Ring-billed Gull (among 
hundreds present) whose left leg had a blue band marked with “TEJ” in white. I 
reported this sighting to reportband.gov, and today I 
learned a little about the bird:

It’s a male who was banded as an adult in 2020 on June 26, which means it was 
hatched in 2017 or earlier.

The folks who banded it were from the Biological Sciences Department of the 
University of Quebec at Montreal.

The banders did not travel very far for this field work. The location was north 
latitude 45 degrees, 45 minutes and west longitude 73 degrees, 25 minutes, 
which is in the St Lawrence River a short distance downstream (northeast) of 
the City of Montreal.

According to Google maps this point is close to an uninhabited island called 
Île Beauregard. Islands and shoals can shift, so maybe it wasn’t worth getting 
more precise with the location. My guess is that Ring-billed Gulls breed on 
that island. Anyway, it’s interesting to me to see where some of “our” gulls 
spend at least some of the breeding season.

- - Dave Nutter
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Merlin over Emerson

[Susan Stevens Suarez]

For what it’s worth, the Merlin Sound ID on my iPhone picked up a Merlin 
downhill from the factory 2.5 weeks ago.
Susan Suarez

On Aug 25, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Stanley Scharf 
mailto:stanley.sch...@gmail.com>> wrote:

For the past two plus weeks  what appears to be a  Merlin has been screaming 
its raucous call  in the area of the Emerson factory on South Hill in Ithaca. I 
don't know if it's a male or female.. I think I hear it calling now.

I once got a good view of its strong flight over Emerson..
S.


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[cayugabirds-l] Merlin over Emerson

[Stanley Scharf]

 For the past two plus weeks  what appears to be a  Merlin has been
screaming its raucous call  in the area of the Emerson factory on South
Hill in Ithaca. I don't know if it's a male or female.. I think I hear it
calling now.

I once got a good view of its strong flight over Emerson..
S.

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