[cayugabirds-l] Southhill Rec Bald Eagle

Heard and then saw an adult Bald Eagle perched in a tall White Pine on the northwest shore of the Ithaca reservoir. Flew south back towards Burns Rd but I could not relocate. Ken Smith Hills of Groton -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] NE Ithaca, Sat 1/7

On Saturday morning, we saw two AMERICAN CROWS copulating for about eight seconds in a yard between Winthrop and Simsbury Drives in northeast Ithaca. The female continued to quiver, prone and with half-spread wings, for a few more seconds after the male dismounted. These two crows had no wing

[cayugabirds-l] Crow seasonality

At the Ithaca Christmas Bird Count compilation on New Year's Day Kevin McGowan mentioned that there didn't appear to be a single big crow roost in Ithaca so far this winter. Now at the end of the first week of January Mark Chao reports a pair copulating (3 months early?). However not all crow

[cayugabirds-l] Whiteness of muck

Thousands of Snows, wave afte wave, were heading towards the mucklands as we sat along 89 at Mays about 4:10 p.m. today. They might have gone to Knox-Marcellus but we went on to Armitage Rd. to look for eagles. One eagle was soaring over the trees where the nest is a much smaller hawk was not

[cayugabirds-l] Eared grebe= Aurora

Susie I saw the/an EARED GREBE from the Wells College boathouse in Aurora earlier today. We assume Bob Co. already saw it as it was in fairly close. We saw no horned grebes, however. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME