[cayugabirds-l] Bluebirds
I saw a pair of bluebirds this morning at about 10:00 on Dodge Road near Ellis Hollow Rd. They must be finding enough food! -- 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] Bird call question
Lately in the woods during the day I have been hearing a call/sound that is like a low clack/ cluck at uneven intervals. It could be described as horseshoes on pavement. Some older some softer. I can never seem to get near to the sound. Any ideas what it might be from so little information? Thanks, Sue Rakow 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird call question
Yes indeed! I am hearing chipmunks . Thanks once again to this list serve. I learn so much. Sent from my iPad On Sep 29, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Rick Lightbody r...@cornell.edu wrote: Just to elaborate a bit on Linda's interesting post: http://miracleofnature.org/blog/the-chipping-munk Rick At 05:57 PM 9/29/2014, Linda Orkin wrote: I was walking in the woods up at the overlook at Taughanock this afternoon when a large hawk flew through the trees. As I was trying to get a better view of his disappearing silhouette I noticed the immediate chorus of chipmunks all around. The typical clucking sound that they make to alert to an aerial predator. It doesn't sound like chatter. I found a youtube video here that has this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQO98CsaWZQ Linda On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: If you can't make chipmunks fit, you night consider Turkey moms and their half-grown poults. They're trading alarm clucks right now. -Geo Kloppel On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Sue Rakow sue.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I know chipmunk chatter quite well so am not sure of this. It is a loud sound and in the distance. Sounds like a group of something...? Sent from my iPad On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:51 PM, martin borko mbo...@stny.rr.com wrote: there is a lot of chipmunk chatter at this time of year marty On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Mary E. Winston wrote: It's a chipmunk -Original Message- From: bounce-118059948-12723...@list.cornell.edu [ mailto:bounce-118059948-12723...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sue Rakow Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 4:27 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Bird call question Lately in the woods during the day I have been hearing a call/sound that is like a low clack/ cluck at uneven intervals. It could be described as horseshoes on pavement. Some older some softer. I can never seem to get near to the sound. Any ideas what it might be from so little information? Thanks, Sue Rakow 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 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 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 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/ -- -- If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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-l] Crows on South Hill
I observed the murder of crows on Sunday evening. It was stunning. I would like to know more about why they gather in such large groups. Are they on the move or are they local? Can anyone help me understand? Thanks. Sue Rakow -- 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] Crows on South Hill
This is very helpful information! Thank you so much for the complete picture. I am learning so much from being on this list serve. I am very grateful! Sue Rakow On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: These groups are winter roosts, and they are nothing new in crow life. Despite what urban residents sometimes think, crows didn't start gathering when we set out cities for them to use. Roosting in groups at any time of year may offer safety in numbers from night predators, such as Great Horned Owls. In winter, birds living in northern areas that usually have constant snow cover for months do migrate south--Canada, areas of New England. Crows don't necessarily have a particular area they migrate TO. They may go as far as an area that is usually ok for foraging, perhaps one that they are familiar with from previous migrations. There they form flocks that are made up of migrants as well as wide-foraging locals. If it gets unusually snowy and cold, they may move further south. (We really don't know much of the repeat migratory routes of individual crows. We do know that birds tagged in Ithaca in winter are then seen on territories in Canada, VT, New Hampshire in summer, and that some birds RAISED in Ithaca have been observed or shot in winter, in such places as Maryland, West VA, and Pennsylvania, as well as in Cortland, Auburn, Geneva) In the winter flocks, birds are foraging in open fields and off familiar areas. During foraging, flocks offer some safety in numbers to detect predators in day (hawks, hunters, whatever). At night the flocks flock up still more in places that offer good roosting sites, which probably includes wind breaks, places from which owls can be detected at night. So they are probably gathering both for safety in numbers and also because they all agree on what makes a good site. Cities may offer fewer predators, but also the lights may allow them to see the predators. Finally roosting in flocks that include birds that have sampled food sources widely may allow birds to find new food sources, perhaps by following the most assured and directed birds leaving the roost. So--Upstate NY has its own crows and is ideally positioned for northern crows--so flocks become big. They like the agricultural fields interspersed with trees and lots of running water sources (which may be important in cold winters)...and we also offer lots of smaller cities, with large groups of lit trees in their downtowns or college campuses. These seem to be attractive. Mid-late March is the start of the breeding season and flocking crows will be returning to their breeding latitudes. Our Ithaca pairs are already calling on territory during daytimes. As I say, some of this story is surmised from the patterns, not pinned down with hard data on individuals! We know what our tagged birds do, when we can follow them. But we would love to have gps data coming in from our birds, such as the snowy owls and golden eagles give their researchers. Bring on the Tiny Tags! Anne On Mar 4, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Sue Rakow wrote: I observed the murder of crows on Sunday evening. It was stunning. I would like to know more about why they gather in such large groups. Are they on the move or are they local? Can anyone help me understand? Thanks. Sue Rakow -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- 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/ --
