[cayugabirds-l] King Eider

2010-12-03 Thread Matthew Medler
Hi All, Just a quick message to note that Shawn Billerman, Andy Johnson, Matt Young, and I saw the King Eider from the marina at Myers late on Friday afternoon (3 Dec 2010). We observed it for about 10 minutes around 3:45 pm, and then watched it fly south in the company of 4-5 female Common

[cayugabirds-l] Thanksgiving birding

2010-12-03 Thread jpackard
Hello everyone, I just got back from Wisconson for Thanksgiving, so I wanted to give people a brief description of birding highlights. In Ohio, we stayed at a hotel on Lake Erie. I got good looks at Ruddy Ducks and several Bonaparte's Gulls on the lake. As we drove past a nuclear pow

[cayugabirds-l] King Eider at Myers

2010-12-03 Thread mwitmer
King Eider still at Myers Point today. It was to the south, spotted and viewed from marina (with permission) from noon till at least 1:20 pm. --Mark - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- Cayug

[cayugabirds-l] OT-Christmas Bird Count. Long.

2010-12-03 Thread Linda Orkin
This year will be Audubon’s 111th Christmas Bird Count. The Cayuga Bird Club again will organize the Ithaca count on their traditional date of January 1. That is a Saturday this year, and should allow for many people to join in. All members of the public are encouraged to participate and we are hop

[cayugabirds-l] King Eider still present at Myers Pt., Friday 3 December

2010-12-03 Thread Tom Schulenberg
I just had a call from Mike Ackley (spelling?), reporting the male King Eider today at the same place as yesterday: south of the marina. Good birding, tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.bird