Despite stiff NW winds yesterday afternoon (Tu 17 Mar), about 3:30pm I saw
several flocks of SNOW GEESE totalling about 270 birds powering north over
downtown Ithaca. Later I noticed a mixed flock of CANADA GEESE SNOW GEESE
northbound over my house.
Sandy Wold mentioned on Sunday afternoon on
Still more flocks of geese are entering the Cayuga Basin at West Danby this
morning. We have clear skies overhead, but a heavy band of lake effect snow is
passing on our eastern horizon, and its fringes are lit by the rising sun. The
distant flocks are highlighted against these bright clouds;
Enjoying my FOY lone male RED WINGED BLACKBIRD feeding on ground here in
Lansing. Very dark black with red yellow epaulets.
I listened around North Lansing in suitable habitats for Woodcocks last
evening, but none heard.
Donna Scott
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Cayugabirds-L List Info:
Report in Boston Globe...what do you make of this? C White, Ithaca
http://origin.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/03/17/basically-they-just-fell-out-sky-snow-geese-found-dead-idaho/XnKf8wwjrBHL6m3NzhthZJ/story.html
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Cayugabirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME
Not avian flu, cholera as it says in the article. Bacterial not viral.
Only the birds suffer.
Linda Orkin
Ithaca, NY
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Christianne McMillan White
cm...@cornell.edu wrote:
Report in Boston Globe…what do you make of this? C White, Ithaca
Enjoy your one. We are inundated with a huge mixed flock here in Tyre. I
don't know how to count them all for Feederwatch!
Claire Damaske
Sent from my iPad
On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Donna Lee Scott d...@cornell.edu wrote:
Enjoying my FOY lone male RED WINGED BLACKBIRD feeding on
The first song sparrow I've seen this year was huddled in the Japanese
Maple outside my kitchen door this morning. It wasn't singing, but that's
something to look forward to. Marsha Kardon, 2 Perry LN Ithaca
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Cayugabirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME
I saw a beautiful adult northern Goshawk perched in a tree above an old
barn foundation half way up the north side of Yellow Barn Road this evening
at around 6:45.
On another note, this past weekend I had pine siskins and common redpolls
join the regular Am. goldfinches at my feeder up near the
Hi All,
Yesterday, I came upon a pair of Red-tailed Hawks on Ledyard Road that were
locked in combat or that's what it appeared like. A man who saw it all start
said there had been a third hawk there when it began. When I first saw them,
the hawk on the bottom was barely moving. Then there
