[cayugabirds-l] Female robin/singing bluebird

2019-03-09 Thread anneb . clark
Near von Engeln Preserve, the first decidedly female robin I have seen this year. There have been a few small groups of male robins on Hile school rd east and west of Ed hill rd and sometimes briefly in my yard but no females. Also a bluebird singing rather faintly near one of our nest boxes

[cayugabirds-l] Duck drama

2019-03-09 Thread Donna Lee Scott
All of a sudden the 400+ redheads and their aqua allies I was watching on the lake from my kitchen started zoom-swimming back-and-forth, with some of them flying up and landing nearby, only to swim rapidly back & forth. This rapid motion on the water continued & soon I saw an immature bald

Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: Salt Point meadow

2019-03-09 Thread Donna Lee Scott
Hi Dave It is being dredged supposedly to prevent flooding of Myers Park and nearby houses. I do not believe work like this actually works to prevent ice pile-up and subsequent flooding, but nobody listened to me (& the two others on the Friends of salt point committee that were against

Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: Salt Point meadow

2019-03-09 Thread Dave Nutter
Any word on why Salmon Creek is being dredged? Are there plans for boating in the creek? Are there houses at risk of flooding? I wonder how this will affect marsh and gravel bar habitat. - - Dave Nutter > On Mar 7, 2019, at 8:35 PM, Marie P. Read wrote: > > Hi again, > > I just received