[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods Big Birding Year Leaderboards updated...

2011-03-08 Thread charles eldermire
Hello Cayugabirders! I just updated the leaderboards for this year's Sapsucker Woods Big Birding year, which runs from 10/01/10 to 9/30/11 (http://birds.cornell.edu/bigbirdingyear). So far, 44 species have been spotted by the highest non-Cornell Lab staff participant, and the checklists

[cayugabirds-l] (Red)Squirrel-proofing feeders

2011-03-08 Thread Nari Mistry
Title: (Red)Squirrel-proofing feeders We have two of our six feeders enclosed in wire cages (from Agway) --- one has a seed tube inside, the other has a suet cage. i have written before how a persistent red squirrel sits INSIDE the cage all day, eating everything and keeping birds away. I don't

[cayugabirds-l] OT: Oldest known U.S. wild bird (Laysan albatross) has chick

2011-03-08 Thread Candace Cornell
SHE FLIES ON ... AND ON...: Oldest known wild bird in U.S. returns to Midway to raise chick This release can be found in the USGS Newsroom at: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2722. MIDWAY ATOLL — The oldest known U.S. wild bird – a coyly conservative 60 -- is a new mother. The