A BLACK VULTURE is currently sitting with many, many Turkey Vultures behind
the piles at the Cornell compost facility off Stevenson Road. A few
juvenile Turkeys around as well, so beware, but the Black stands out as
smaller and differently shapes, with longer legs, all dark head, and white
on
Now there are TWO Black Vultures here, sitting together on a board fence in
the island of bushes between the two silver canopies on the slope above the
piles. Conditions are a bit mucky in the piles, so looking from Stevenson
might be the way to go, they should be visible from there at the moment.
Becky I got to see the RHWP hawking insects at 4 p.m. on our way to get
lucious, ($35 for full bu.) just-picked peaches at Port Bay yesterday. Stopped
at Morgan Rd. on the way home. Saw over 30 Woodies on the little pond, to
Becky's delight. Also saw 2 kestrals there + many g. w. egrets gbhs.
A few minutes ago Ben Barkley reported a BLACK VULTURE headed north over
Beebe Lake on campus, so either we are having a Black Vulture invasion or
at least one of my birds from this morning is moving around. I last saw
them at 8:50 when they were still sitting on the fence above the piles, but
Hello All,
The Cayuga Bird Club is in the process of design planning for an
interpretive panel at Renwick Wildwood. This panel will detail the history
of these woods including the importance of several names familiar to all
such as Fuertes, Allen and Needham and will highlight early Cayuga Bird
I saw them sitting on the compost pile at 5:00. They weren't together but were
in a line of T.V.'s. Very cooperative and best seen from Stevenson Road. Best,
Ann Mitchell
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On Aug 28, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote:
A few minutes ago Ben Barkley
HI everyone,
Just wanted to clarify: We are NOT requesting photos to be reproduced in the
interpretive panels. We ARE ONLY requesting photos to be included in a
celebratory slide show that we will present at the September CBC meeting, in a
similar format to the one we hold in January. It's
Today I stopped by Maplewood Road off NYS-89 in Ulysses to confirm my impression on a recent drive-by: there were no Bald Eagles in the nest tree (which did not surprise me, since I thought the 2 young had likely fledged and moved on) but there was also NO NEST. It seems to have fallen down for
