[cayugabirds-l] White-winged Crossbills, Summerhill
Large flock of White-winged Crossbills flying over Hoag Street, Summerhill. Jay -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Northern Shrike, Ellis Hollow Creek Road
Hi! I found a Northern Shrike on Ellis Hollow Creek Road this morning at about 10am, just east of the junction with Turkey Hill Road. There is a field there with horses and a few barns. To the right of the barns are some bushes that follow the line of a small stream. The bird was in those bushes. Previously I had stopped on Mt Pleasant hoping to find Pipits. No luck there, but I did find a pair of Horned Larks. -Paul -- Paul Anderson, VP of Engineering, GrammaTech, Inc. 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x118; http://www.grammatech.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] OT: Video of starling murmuration
Below are links to a taped encounter with a murmuration (massive flock) of starlings swarming along Ireland's River Shannon ..wafts of tens of thousands of birds dancing in flight. * *http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=31278 * http://animaltracks.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/09/8719854-amazing-video-of-murmuration-in-ireland * * * Enjoy! Candace Cornell * Submit your bird * * sightings to e http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ *Bird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/! *[image: Picture]* ** ** * * ** * * * * -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --attachment: silo mockingbird.jpg
[cayugabirds-l] Summerhill crossbills etc; Dryden; Ellis Hollow shrike
Hi all, I journeyed up to Summerhill this morning. I spent the first hour and a half (7:00-8:30) walking up and down Salt Road and occasionally down Hoag Street with very little to show for it. Several COMMON RAVENS were around, as well as RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, and the other usual spruce birds. The best birds during this time were 5-10 flyover PINE SISKINS and 3-5 flyover PURPLE FINCHES. Finally, as I was considering giving up, I decided to walk down Hoag Street one more time. My luck changed abruptly as I was walking along the swampy area a few hundred meters west of Salt Road. I had found a large flock of PINE SISKINS (20-40 birds) here earlier, and as I was looking for them again, I heard two or three calls from a WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. I waited a while, then heard more and closer crossbills. I saw a decent sized flock (~25 birds) lift off from a hemlock on the north edge of the marshy area and land in a deciduous tree. This flock quickly disappeared, but a few birds split off from it and flew south over the road in front of me, at least three WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS that gave me good looks and a few pictures in flight. And I waited at this spot, I heard a single flyover RED CROSSBILL (could have been in the flock with the White-wingeds or a lone bird flying over, I couldn't tell) and more White-winged Crossbills, which turned out to be mixed in with an even larger siskin flock. I watched one flock of siskins (no crossbills with them at that point) foraging on hemlock cones, exhibiting behavior much like crossbills. When the big siskin/crossbill flock flew over again, I was unfortunately unable to assess the species ratio, and I suspect the original flock of ~25 that I had taken to be all crossbills was actually a mix, so I don't know how many were actually there, somewhere between 5 and 20. While I was waiting for them to return again, an adult NORTHERN SHRIKE popped up in the tall spruces on the east edge of the swamp, then flew into that area, not to be seen again. Two FOX SPARROWS were also present with juncos in the underbrush. After that, I checked a few Dryden spots, including Dryden Lake (2 Bufflehead, 2 Hooded Mergansers, 2 Common Mergansers, 50 Ring-billed Gulls) and George Road (16 AMERICAN COOTS, lots of geese, not much else). After that I looked for Paul's NORTHERN SHRIKE and quickly found it in one of the hedgerows on the north side of Ellis Hollow Creek Road near the horse barns at the west end. I watched it for a long time, then came back an hour later and watched it some more. It was one of the most cooperative shrikes I have seen in a while. It switched perches quite often but was in view nearly all the time, a beautiful adult. I never saw it chase any other birds (although there were bluebirds, a mockingbird, and lots of House Sparrows and starlings around), but it dropped down into the field many times would came up with something, big arthropods of some kind. On my way home I stopped briefly at the Freese Road garden plots, which are now a plowed dirt field with 13 AMERICAN PIPITS foraging in it. Also, last night I had a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL give one squeal in response to whistling at Hammond Hill. Good birding, -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Union Springs Mill Pond
Failed to post that I saw my first Buffles: 4 females on Mill Pond on Wed., 9 Nov. 2011. I have been seeing the long, thick rivers of mixed black birds going over our house the last 5 days, either out to feed or back to their evening roosts. Gas in Union Springs or at Byrne Dairy Hess in Auburn has been 15 to 18 cents cheaper per gallon than in Ithaca. Haven't looked today but earlier in the wk. the price was $3.99.9 here at Byrne, also at Seneca Falls Lakeside Trading on 89. Fritzie -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Gas prices are up
Thanks Carol! Carol Keeler just updated my info. Prices are $3.44.9. now in Aub. at Byrne Qwik Fill so I'm sure other places are following suit. I had seen that price elsewhere on Thurs. but still, that's better than Ithaca, Dryden other places. You know the holidays are coming!! Fritzie -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant: crows and hawk
I had just parked at the east end of Mt. Pleasant Rd. at 0715 this morning and noted about 50 AMER. CROWS feeding in the just-harvested corn field there. Another 40 or so crows were flying in a slow, loose stream toward the trees to the south where another 20 crows were already perched. I noted an oddity, then saw a RED-TAILED HAWK (juv.) flying at the edge of the stream. I heard no long calls from the crows in the air or on the ground, and saw no aggressive moves by any of the crows the hawk was flying next to. When this segment of the stream reached the trees, both hawk and crows alighted there (same tree), although the hawk was on the edge of the group of perched crows. I am still pondering this. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
