Re:[cayugabirds-l] cayugabirds-l digest: March 01, 2012
About 12 Grossbeaks in distant treetop with Cayuga lake background visible elegantly early this sunny morning. WWWebb On 3/2/12 12:08 AM, "Upstate NY Birding digest" wrote: >CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Thursday, March 01, 2012. > >1. Woodcocks Are Flying > >-- > >Subject: Woodcocks Are Flying >From: bob mcguire >Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:18:27 -0500 >X-Message-Number: 1 > >We have one Woodcock peenting & sky-dancing outside right now. > >I'll check other nearby spots after dinner. > >Bob McGuire > > > > > >--- > >END OF DIGEST > -- 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] RED-HEADED WOODPECKER at my suet feeder and trees!
A casual early afternoon glance down at Cayuga Lake from my study just now was distracted by my suet feeder that is mounted above the west porch: It revealed a RED HEADED WOODPECKER for about 5 minutes of spectacular beauty! I hope it returns! This is my first in about 10 years high on Teeter Rd. This Red Head flew, after several minutes of busy feeding on the suit, into our nearby dense tree which serves a a resting place for our feeders. This has been especially true for species that i did not expect to see depleting our suit feeders, including red Wing Blackbirds, Blue Jays [with little success in their feeding], and other Blackbird species. I hope the Red Head returns, and maybe moves in After stopping last week on the way to Montesuma to look unsuccessfully for the reported Redheaded Woodpecker in the woods along next to highway this one was a delight. Today was especially rewarding from reflections on my childhood about 65 years ago in rural Missouri where visits to country farms frequently showed me the Red Heads in the tree-hedges along the country farm fields. -- Watt W. Webb Professor of Applied Physics S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering School of Applied & Engineering Physics 223 Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 -- 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] American Crows as "Woody Woodpeckers"!
Our metal grid screened woodpecker suit cakes are being invaded and consumed by the 2 resident Crows that have been visiting our feeder area for months and have finally learned from the various family Woodpeckers which they drive away for their own now-skillful feeding hangs from the suet frames feeding carnivorously on the suit! This invasion has driven the Red Bellied Woodpeckers off to the fine black seed screes which they do seem to enjoy. Watt Webb [on upper Teeter Rd]. -- Watt W. Webb Professor of Applied Physics S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering School of Applied & Engineering Physics 223 Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 Tel: 607-255-3331; Fax: 607-255-7658 Email: <mailto:w...@cornell.edu>w...@cornell.edu URL's: <http://www.drmed.cornell.edu>http://www.drmed.cornell.edu <http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146>http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146 -- 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] Rose-breasted grosbeak
Rose-Breasted grosbeak male has arrived at my Teeter Rd feeders just as last year. I hope that a mate turns up too and that they stay in the vicinity with occasional feeder visits until offspring appear and mature as several times in past years. watt webb. -- Watt W. Webb Professor of Applied Physics S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering School of Applied & Engineering Physics 223 Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 Tel: 607-255-3331; Fax: 607-255-7658 Email: <mailto:w...@cornell.edu>w...@cornell.edu URL's: <http://www.drmed.cornell.edu>http://www.drmed.cornell.edu <http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146>http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146 -- 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] Northern Mockingbirds singing
The Mockingbirds have begun their chanting songs in the treetops along Teeter Road in Lansing high above Cayuga Lake at about noon today. By their definition spring has come! WWWebb -- Watt W. Webb Professor of Applied Physics S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering School of Applied & Engineering Physics 223 Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 Tel: 607-255-3331; Fax: 607-255-7658 Email: <mailto:w...@cornell.edu>w...@cornell.edu URL's: <http://www.drmed.cornell.edu>http://www.drmed.cornell.edu <http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146>http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Turkey Vulture's breakfast
Saturday a.m.surprise: a flight of about 6 to 8 Vultures, mostly Turkey circled our hilly areaway above east side of Cayuga Lake for about an hour. Then I discovered 6 of them in our garden bushes and and trees consuming remains of several small 4 legged bodies out on theatgrass near the trees for an hour or 2. Later in the day and still today I noticed several Vultures continuing to scope the whole hillside from lake shore to hill tops. On a new note our first Robins have arrived yesterday evening and the Goldfinch crowd has began to show bright gold colors. The usual spring flow of Northern Mockingbirds with their distinctive, repetitive songs have not caught my attention yet, tho' the weather seems right. I will have to listen on the hills to watch their usual up-hill spring drift and expression of mating calls. Watt Webb in south Lansing -- Watt W. Webb Professor of Applied Physics S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering School of Applied & Engineering Physics 223 Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 Tel: 607-255-3331; Fax: 607-255-7658 Email: <mailto:w...@cornell.edu>w...@cornell.edu URL's: <http://www.drmed.cornell.edu>http://www.drmed.cornell.edu <http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146>http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] winter additions on Teeter rd.
A Northern Flicker, with bird feeder experience arrived at ours on upper Teeter Rd. this morning, joining the numerous Red Bellies, Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers. The first White Throat Sparrows arrived just last week and the usual Junco flock on the deck has begun to build up. Hmmm, I can't ignore some competition from the squirrels that compete for the spilled seed on the deck there seem to be more Goldfinches than in the summer but, not such gold gold now and lots of Purple Finches. Numerous squirrels compete for the feed that spills A few Crows seem to use our deck as a social center early in the morning too Watt Webb -- Watt W. Webb Professor of Applied Physics S.B. Eckert Professor in Engineering School of Applied & Engineering Physics 223 Clark Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853-2501 Tel: 607-255-3331; Fax: 607-255-7658 Email: <mailto:w...@cornell.edu>w...@cornell.edu URL's: <http://www.drmed.cornell.edu>http://www.drmed.cornell.edu <http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146>http://www.aep.cornell.edu/eng10_page.cfm?pg=4&peopleID=146 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
