Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawks at Game Farm Rd.
thanks all for the advice. I observed these hawks for a while to try to set the details in my mind. I thought they were red tails, as that is the type I see the most often, but wanted to make sure. Great spot for observing them in different positions. Toby On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi Toby, Red-tail Hawks. That area is locally famous for large numbers of these beauties. Other raptors will hunt this area also. I think the yellow tinge under the tail was caused by light through the red above. Cheers , Gary -- -- 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] short of Short-eared Owls?
Recently someone on the list mentioned that it was a great year for Short-eared Owls. I'd argue that it is one of the lightest in three decades and has been getting lighter each year. It wasn't all that far back when we had an ongoing Short-eared owl count in the region with fantatstic numbers each season. I believe Ned Brinkley was the last to coordinate that. When we arrived here in 1986, winter was wonderful with lots of snow , so much that a X-country ski center was active in Podunk, Rough-legged Hawks, Short-eared Owls and Northern Harriers in abundance and visitors like Snowy Owl and even Gyrfalcon more frequent and widespread. As the years have passed so have the raptors. I'm sure there are many overlapping reasons but I believe the basic one is lack of prey population due to massive changes in agricultural practices. When the farmer leaves nary a grain then we start losing from the bottom of the food chain thanks to gleaning efficiency and economy of mass farming. That was then and this is now a time when any concentration of these birds is to be quietly enjoyed and celebrated. My two cents. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat -- 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] new Bill and Melinda Gates building on Cornell campus
The acres of all-glass-plate facade are up on the south side this new building near the stadium. Does anyone know whether there are any bird collision mitigation strategies planned? Looks like a thousand heartbreaks waiting to happen. -- 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] Great Black-backed Gull at compost banded in Maine last year
I took some photos of a banded first cycle Great Black-backed Gull at the Stevenson Road compost on Saturday, 2 March 2013. Turns out it was banded on Appledore Island, on the Isles of Shoals, Maine, where Cornell has a biological station, on 9 July 2011. This is the first banded Great Black-backed Gull I have seen in Ithaca. I have a photo at https://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/Winter20122013#5851565656137461138. Kevin -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Great Black-backed Gull at compost banded in Maine last year
ah, but if it was banded in July 2011, can it still be a first-cycle?? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Mar 4, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Kevin J. McGowan k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu wrote: I took some photos of a banded first cycle Great Black-backed Gull at the Stevenson Road compost on Saturday, 2 March 2013. Turns out it was banded on Appledore Island, on the Isles of Shoals, Maine, where Cornell has a biological station, on 9 July 2011. This is the first banded Great Black-backed Gull I have seen in Ithaca. I have a photo athttps://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/Winter20122013#5851565656137461138. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * March 04, 2013 * NYSY 03. 04. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 25, 2013 - March 04, 2013 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:March 04 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #344 -Monday March 04, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of February 25 , 2013 Highlights: --- TUNDRA SWAN TUFTED DUCK SURF SCOTER BARROW’S GOLDENEYE NORTHERN GOSHAWK RED-SHOULDERED HAWK GOLDEN EAGLE PEREGRINE FALCON GLAUCOUS GULL SLATY-BACKED GULL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL SHORT-EARED OWL BOHEMIAN WAXWING TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE (Extralimital) HERMIT THRUSH Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 3/2: 6 SHORT-EARED OWLS were seen from Morgan Road in the northern part of the complex. 5 were seen the next day. Onondaga County 2/26: A PEREGRINE FALCON was seen on West Sorrell Hill Road south of Baldwinsville. 2/28: 32 TUNDRA SWANS and a GLAUCOUS GULL were among the birds seen at the mouth of Nine Mile Creek on Onondaga Lake. 3/1: A HERMIT THRUSH continuse to be seen at Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery near Elbridge. 3/2: 25 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen at Green Lakes State Park. Derby Hill Although the official opening of “The Hill” is 3/1 the best flights this week occured on 2/26 (61 hawks) and 2/28 (53 hawks). Highlights were season first GOLDEN EAGLES, a single RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and NORTHERN GOSHAWKS. 24 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on 2/28. Oswego County 2/28: A SLATY-BACKED GULL was found and ultimately positively identified at Oswego Harbor. Unfortunately it could not be relocated. The TUFTED DUCK and the SURF SCOTER were also seen and have continued through the week. 3/1: 50 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen on County Rt.14 where Ox Creek crosses south of Fulton. Madison County HOARY and GREATER REDPOLLS are still being reported at the feeder on Carpenter Road near Deruyter. A late report (2/24) of a pair of RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS was received also. 3/3: A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was seen watching feeders in Erieville. Cayuga County 3/2 A female or possible young male BARROW’ S GOLDENEYE was found at Fairhaven State Park. It was also relocated the next day. Extralimital 3/3: The TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE is still being seen at Sampson State Park on the west side of Seneca Lake off of Rt.96B in Seneca County. -- end report Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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/ --
