[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2023-03-03 Thread bob mcguire
I was thrilled to find one of the Peregrines looking up at me from about 40 feet away - perched on a snag on the north rim of Taughannock gorge just below the visitor’s center (8:30 am). It sat preening and looking around, aware of my presence but not seeming to be distracted by it. It called

Re: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON

2022-03-25 Thread Diane Morton
How wonderful to see a Peregrine so close! Yes, Peregrine Falcons returned to the Taughannock Falls area in the past couple of years. You may be interested in an upcoming presentation, *The Peregrines of Taughannock Gorge,* that Tim Gallagher, former editor-in-chief of Living Bird magazine, will

[cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON

2022-03-25 Thread Annette Nadeau
I'm astounded that I just had a male PEREGRINE FALCON perched in a small tree directly across the road from me! I watched it for several minutes as it sat quietly. I was able to see it perfectly through my living room window. I've seen many of these birds up close as I used to help feed them when

Re: [cayugabirds-l] peregrine falcon

2019-01-02 Thread Asher Hockett
That makes it a count week bird! On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:19 AM Jody Enck wrote: > A peregrine falcon swooped by low and fast between Caldwell Hall and > Martha van Rennselaer Hall on the Cornell campus at about 8:10 this > morning. It was chasing another bird unsuccessfully as it was

[cayugabirds-l] peregrine falcon

2019-01-02 Thread Jody Enck
A peregrine falcon swooped by low and fast between Caldwell Hall and Martha van Rennselaer Hall on the Cornell campus at about 8:10 this morning. It was chasing another bird unsuccessfully as it was navigating a slalom course among the construction equipment. Jody Jody W. Enck, PhD

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2017-08-03 Thread Ann Mitchell
I just saw one as I was driving down Seneca Street by Titus Avenue at 4:25. Ann Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine falcon

2017-01-14 Thread Carol Cedarholm
Has anyone spotted the peregrine falcon in bradfield recently? -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon I photographed has a band on it.

2016-02-06 Thread David Nicosia
I can't quite make it out... https://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/24235531523/in/album-72157662046643414/ It looks like S ?? 6 Can't see the middle letter/number... -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon, Stewart Park

2016-01-12 Thread Jay McGowan
An adult PEREGRINE FALCON is currently sitting on a goose carcass in the middle of the ice shelf off Stewart Park. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon, Stewart Park

2016-01-12 Thread Dave Nutter
For what it’s worth, there was a dead Canada Goose in the middle of the Stewart Park ice shelf on Sunday afternoon. I don’t know what killed it, but a Peregrine today on that or another goose carcass does not necessarily mean that the Peregrine killed it. Maybe the goose carcass is simply an

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2016-01-08 Thread Ann Mitchell
On the northwest side of Bradfield Hall on a ledge about two-thirds the way up. Seen at 4:45. Ann Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2014-03-26 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
Hi all, Just now an adult Peregrine passed my window up very close, may be something like 20 feet and circled and headed west. No, but actually it has turned back and headed towards Vet School and beyond. BTW, the Tower Road is perfect east-west road. I think on a equinox sun should rise from

RE: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge...

2014-02-26 Thread John and Sue Gregoire
...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of 6072292...@vtext.com 6072292...@vtext.com Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:14 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge... PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge 1/2-way up. Yard bird! --Dave Nutter

[cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge...

2014-02-25 Thread 6072292158
PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge 1/2-way up. Yard bird! --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

RE: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge...

2014-02-25 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
/ From: bounce-112743360-3493...@list.cornell.edu bounce-112743360-3493...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of 6072292...@vtext.com 6072292...@vtext.com Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:14 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge... PEREGRINE

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2014-02-25 Thread Marty Schlabach
PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L; 6072292...@vtext.com Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on Bradfield Hall SW corner ledge... Dave, I think yard bird is the one which flies over or alights within your yard boundary. This would another category! Birds seen from the yard! Meena Haribal Ithaca NY

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon on Ithaca Gun smokestack

2013-03-22 Thread Russell A. Charif
Last seen at 8:55 this morning. I have actually seen the bird there many mornings in recent weeks, when I drive by the Gun Hill apartments on Lake St. (between 8:35 and 8:40 most weekday morning), but have not been in a position to stop and get bins on it to identify until today.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon on Ithaca Gun smokestack

2013-03-22 Thread nutter.dave
Usually I see a Red-tailed Hawk there.--Dave NutterOn Mar 22, 2013, at 09:14 AM, "Russell A. Charif" r.cha...@cornell.edu wrote:Last seen at 8:55 this morning.I have actually seen the bird there many mornings in recent weeks, when I drive by the Gun Hill apartments on Lake St. (between 8:35 and

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2013-03-15 Thread Ann Mitchell
Coming home from work around 5:25 today, I was stopped at a traffic light on Buffalo and Meadow Streets. There were 25 or so Rock Pigeons flying about. I noticed a PEREGRINE FALCON flying among them. Luckily my binoculars were on the front seat which confirmed the ID. Good Birding, Ann --

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2013-03-15 Thread Donna Scott
How long did you hold up traffic watching the falcon?! :- ) Ha ha! Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Mar 15, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Ann Mitchell annmitchel...@gmail.com wrote: Coming home from work around 5:25 today, I was stopped at a traffic light on Buffalo and Meadow Streets. There were 25

Re: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on snag by swan pond, Stewart Par...

2013-02-14 Thread nutter.dave
I still hope Melissa has a chance to write her story and show any photos (of any quality) soon. She described to me what I interpreted as TWO Peregrine Falcons cooperatively and successfully hunting a gull and then sharing the meal, includingcalling, begging, and allo-feeding. Maybe the Peregrines

Re: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on snag by swan pond, Stewart Par...

2013-02-14 Thread Paul Anderson
A single Peregrine Falcon was in a tree in Jetty Woods across from the Swan Pond again this morning. -Paul On 2/14/2013 6:47 AM, nutter.d...@me.com wrote: I still hope Melissa has a chance to write her story and show any photos (of any quality) soon. She described to me what I interpreted

Re: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on snag by swan pond, Stewart Par...

2013-02-14 Thread bob mcguire
Another single PEREGRINE FALCON was perched on a snag at the end of Salt Point around 10 this morning. On Feb 14, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Paul Anderson wrote: A single Peregrine Falcon was in a tree in Jetty Woods across from the Swan Pond again this morning. -Paul On 2/14/2013 6:47 AM,

[cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on snag by swan pond, Stewart Par...

2013-02-13 Thread 6072292158
PEREGRINE FALCON on snag by swan pond, Stewart Park. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

Re: [cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON on snag by swan pond, Stewart Par...

2013-02-13 Thread nutter.dave
About 11:30am I got a phone call from Melissa Groo, who had gone to Stewart Park in search of the Peregrine. If she doesn't post to the list by tomorrow morning what she told me she saw and photographed, I will do so. For the moment I will just say that Stewart Park is pretty special.--Dave

[cayugabirds-l] PEREGRINE FALCON eating gull, ice edge NE of red l...

2013-01-27 Thread 6072292158
PEREGRINE FALCON eating gull, ice edge NE of red lighthouse. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2012-11-03 Thread Meena Haribal
Hi all, I went to my front yard to pick up my moth light for winter storage when a dark looking large falcon came into view coming low along Six Mile Creek not very far from the house. It continued flying along Rt 79 quite some distance in Southeast direction. I also found a small group of

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon, Iceland Gull

2011-12-14 Thread Dave Nutter
On Tuesday afternoon I biked over to Treman State Marine Park hoping for a better look at the Iceland Gull I'd scoped on the red lighthouse breakwater Monday afternoon from Stewart Park during a brief taxi break. When I stopped at the marina, noting the 2 continuing juvenile BRANT, I was surprised

[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon

2011-02-09 Thread Russell A Charif
At 5:11 this evening, there was a Peregrine Falcon circling over the Cornell Law School, much to the dismay of a flock of panicked starlings below. __ Russ Charif Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bioacoustics Research Program 159

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Peregrine Falcon, downtown Ithaca

2010-12-11 Thread Dave Nutter
Yard bird!! Actually, I was able to scope it through trees from my dining room window, and my non-birder wife and son saw it too. About 4:05 pm it flew, though. Thanks, Bill! This was a much better view than Bradfield Hall would've been. Everyone else, keep your eyes peeled for a Peregrine Falcon

[cayugabirds-l] peregrine falcon at Cornell

2010-10-28 Thread Jody W Enck
Hi folks, I watched a silhouette of a peregrine first fly by, then land, on Bradfield Hall on the Cornell campus around 7:30 this morning. The local pigeons should be scared...very scared. Also, right after sunset last evening I heard a Carolina Wren