Re:[cayugabirds-l] cayugabirds-l digest: March 06, 2022

March 6, 3:30-5pm: Snyder Hill Road at Besemer Hill Road: Cedar wax wings taking the berries on our hawthorn tree. Negotiating with a messsmall group of Robins. Bluebirds checking out accommodations in a nearby birdhouse. Marty Hatch m...@cornell.edu Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 6, 2022, at 12

Re:[cayugabirds-l] cayugabirds-l digest: January 30, 2021

1/20/2021, 9:30am: a group of 8 robins perching on and flitting about the upper branches of a pine tree opposite the corner of Snyder Hill Road and Besemer Hill Road. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES h

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Suet Question

On Dec 18, 2018, at 8:58 PM, John Lute mailto:johnlut...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Marty, Are there any specific toxins that have you are concerned? From a food microbiology viewpoint, commercial beef suet for birds should be no cause for alarm in regards to toxins. I guess if the temperature gets

[cayugabirds-l] Suet question

Hi, I’ve been wondering if the beef suet I get at the market for my suet feeder cage has accumulated toxins strong enough to harm birds. Marty Hatch Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRU

Re: [cayugabirds-l] American three-toed woodpecker

pre-dates eBird and apparently never was entered but a few other semi-local sitings have been. So while these woodpeckers are very rare in this area they certainly are not unheard of. Best - Alicia On 3/9/2014 3:35 PM, Martin Fellows Hatch wrote: Dave, Hairys come to our suet feeder often. I

Re: [cayugabirds-l] American three-toed woodpecker

o has a yellow head patch, is slightly larger than an Amer. Three Toed and the Hairy. Both the Black- Backed and Amer. Three-toed Woodpeckers would be rare here, but w this severe winter weather it seems like anything is possible. Thanks for more description of the bird. Donna Scott Lansing Sent f

[cayugabirds-l] American three-toed woodpecker

Hope that this report is not "too casual" for you all, but we have had an American three-toed woodpecker at our suet feeder and on a maple tree nearby today. The feeder is out the window, within 10 feet of our dining-room table, so we can see it clearly. What we see is the following. Slightly la

[cayugabirds-l] bald female northern cardinal

Identified, thanks to Sandy Podulka. Almost certainly a bald female northern cardinal (though much slimmer than the one pictured in the Cornell site). http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/BaldBirds.htm Marty Hatch -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cay

[cayugabirds-l] parakeets in Ithaca?

I'll keep this going just a small bit because Dave has said he has an interest in it and Meena suggested that it might be a Monk Parakeet. And it was a "bird in the wild". It wasn't a Monk--didn't look like any of the ones on the sites that Meena pointed me to. And there are several things that

[cayugabirds-l] parrots in Ithaca?

I'm enjoying this list immensely. Thank you. I hope you will not take this as a "crank" submission. It is for real. Last evening we having dinner at friend's house on Willow Ave., near Yates Street. To their bird feeder came a really unusual bird. About 11 inches long. A slim body with a tail abo