Meena,
You're strict! We've always used any bird that can be seen from the yard. I
believe
that same type guideline is used for point counts, big sits, big squats and
other
competitions. I guess you had best allow for hearing also. ;-)
J.
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John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
Kestrel
I did a lunchtime turn around Hoyt-Pileated inner loop back to Wilson yesterday.
I took and would highly recommend you take trekking poles: it is seriously
treacherous out there with the frozen snow/ice/footprint holes.
It was cold and crisp but not snowing (yesterday), so good exercise but few
Along 96A in the town of Fayette, between Kime Rd and Post Rd, I have seen
“her” 3 times. Monday at 7 AM and again at 11 PM, and this morning (Wed.) about
7 AM. She is fairly heavily barred, but there has also been a much lighter owl
(male?) seen in the same area over the last month.
Sent
Chris,
I came across a product in LL Bean and Amazon called stabilicers which are
inexpensive and work so much better than yak-trax. They come in two variants
and the
light is plenty for icy sidewalks, roads and groomed trail. In the mountains
I'd
recommend the more expensive version, short of
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/chicken-eye-weird-state-of-matter_n_4854897.html
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Chris Pelkie
Research Analyst
Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
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Cayugabirds-L List Info:
Just looking through the digests for the last few days and saw no mention of
robins. We saw about a dozen robins on Sunday afternoon. They were browsing
in a patch of bare grass on swamp college rd in Jacksonville.
Rhea Garen
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Cayugabirds-L List Info:
Lots of robins about…I just haven't posted about it! Scores of them feeding on
the still-fruit-laden the crabapples in the Cornell Plantations, lots of them
singing. Scores also on bare grass patches in a backyard along Mt Pleasant Road
(around Baker Hill area).
Would people agree there's been
Dennis Hlynsky has produced some fascinating videos showing the paths birds make. They proceed at normal speed, but the previous hundred or so frames are superimposed, creating moving lines. Recommended: starlings coming going from wires, crows at a roost, gulls over a boardwalk, plus non-avian
