[cayugabirds-l] Magnolia Cuckoos @ Park South

Somehow I hadn't visited Park Preserve this spring, so I went this morning around 8am, not as early as I'd hoped. I was halfway surprised that the parking lot was empty, but figured everyone probably stayed up late for fireworks or whatever. Magnolia Warblers seemed to be singing from all directio

Re:[cayugabirds-l] ( Red-headed Woodpecker) RHWO at Long Point

Long ago, in the early 1990's when our daughter studied at Wells College, on one of my many trips there, I wandered back into the woods behind the Wells dorms.   There I saw my first RHWO. There was no eBird then, and I may have noted it down with my informal tick-off in my field guide. It was

[cayugabirds-l] Fireworks and birds

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199162/?referringSource=articleShare Geez, you mean it’s not all about us? Regi Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.Nor

[cayugabirds-l] Merlins at Buffalo and Schuyler Pl

Yesterday evening around 7, while biking up Buffalo St, I heard some strange vocalizations that eventually included some more familiar merlin calls as one bird flew over to a tree at the corner with Schuyler Place. No binoculars so did not see the noisemakers, but the unusualness could be a fled