Things are looking up. Mr. Cardinal just fed Mrs. Cardinal in a tree near my
feeders.
Think Spring!
Marie
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Yet another reason to love birds: after a certain point in late winter,
they say, To hell with the temperature, I'm getting on with it!
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Marie P. Read m...@cornell.edu wrote:
Things are looking up. Mr. Cardinal just fed Mrs. Cardinal in a tree near
my feeders.
There's a flock of a couple hundred cheeping American Robins in the trees
outside my house right now. Onward toward spring!
Harold
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There were several male Common Mergansers looking very confused while swimming
just above the falls at the dam on Fall Creek by the Forest Home bridge this
morning. One looked like he was about to go over the edge! Are these guys
migrating in, or just natively confused?
-Pete
I assume it's hours of daylight rather than temperature that triggers behaviors.
From: bounce-112921516-3493...@list.cornell.edu
[mailto:bounce-112921516-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Robin Cisne
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 9:33 AM
To: Marie P. Read
Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re:
I just located this 2012 review paper on the topic: Photoperiodic Control
of Seasonality in Birds http://jbr.sagepub.com/content/16/4/365.abstract.
In case you can't see that link from where you are, here's a brief excerpt
from the abstract.
This review examines how birds use the annual cycle in
We've had Fox Sparrow singing around our feeder since 1 March, and this
morning (5 March ) a Winter Wren chimed in with its incredibly long
song. Spring is absolutely marvelous. Just pay attention to the
photoperiod and forget about the temperature.
John Confer
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Last night I recorded SEVEN SHORT-EARED OWLS, two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, and one
RED-TAILED HAWK on Veteran Hill Rd in Veteran (Chemung county). The owls were
out by 5:30 and were seen flying over hay fields and a shrubby area, about a
1.5 miles north of Danns Blvd (right by where Google Maps
I saw three Grackles at the corner of Sky vue and Eastern heights roads a few
minutes ago.
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Subscribers to the list may be interested in the letter Karen and I sent
to Suzanne Edwards of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Use as
you may wish.
John Confer
To: Susanne Edwards,
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
cc to above email addresses.
I am a strong
Great letter, John.
Would you mind if people use some of your wording when adding comments to the
http://www.protectamherstisland.ca/save-amherst-island-letter/ website? Mostly
from the final paragraph.
Thanks for sharing.
Laura
Laura Stenzler
l...@cornell.edu
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Talk about confused Mergs...I found one in N. Syracuse walking down the middle
of South Bay Rd near Taft Rd. in the snow Sunday afternoon. John Moore lived
on the side street the Merganser ran to trying to escape my rescue effort, and
we were able to get him to rehabilitator Jean Soprano for
On Monday 3 March Chris Wood discovered what appears to be the first reported AMERICAN WOODCOCK for the Cayuga Lake Basin - and all upstate NY - according to eBird. It was along the old railroad grade by Monkey Run South in the Town of Dryden in a tamarack swamp which remained wet despite the
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