[cayugabirds-l] Ruddy Turnstones

Here's a heads up from Venezuela. J Dear friends, During this year we will start a Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres morinella) marking in Venezuela (Los Roques Archipelago). The color assigned to Venezuela, to leg flags, is black. Thus, we will use black leg flags with two white characters

[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls, woodcock and a very intimidating visitor

After enjoying them all winter our redpoll flock of 200 or more has greatly reduced to but a few. It's high time for them to be starting north. We had a cock pheasant here for a week but it has moved on -probably not enough spillage left by the smaller redpoll numbers. While the redpolls here

Re: Arctic Sea Ice - Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks????

The cool spring weather so far really hasn't been that cool relative to normal. In Ithaca the average March temperature was only 1.9 degrees below the long term average. Compared to last year, it was very cold since last March was 12.8 degrees above average!!! How soon we forget that we live in

[cayugabirds-l] Bohemian waxwing Drake road now

Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone -- 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] Woodcocks????

Woodcock do not breed on my steep hillside overlooking West Danby, but I usually see a few displays in my fields from stopover migrants pumped up on hormones. This suggests that the first individuals to arrive and display in favorable locations might not necessarily be the ones that will be

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bohemian waxwing Drake road now

Located about one half mile south of Lansing Fire hall off Ridgeroad 34B, on right. big boulders by Road. birds in trees in back. coming to pudles Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Apr 6, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote: Sent from my Verizon Wireless

[cayugabirds-l] Tree Swallows 10 a.m. today

The thrill of thrills every spring is when the swallows return, swoop over my head go directly to the bird box on the arm of my clothesline or to the weathervane there sit atop the tail or head of the horse. I love to watch them as they watch me, making their little chittering noises as I am

[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls

After everyone was writing about their Redpolls, I thought I'd better watch to see if I still had them. I do! I spotted a pair and a few others, I think. The Grackles want to dominate the feeders and the smaller birds find it hard to compete. I spotted a new yard bird yesterday. It was the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bohemian waxwing Drake road now

The flock of ~80 Bohemian Waxwings on Drake road has moved back into the woods on private property. They may reappear along the road at some point but they're not visible now. Gary On Apr 6, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Donna Scott dls...@me.commailto:dls...@me.com wrote: Located about one half mile

[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma?

Hi, Have a friend who was thinking about going up the west side of Cayuga and checking out Montezuma tomorrow. Anyone go up today who could give us an idea of what is there this weekend? Alicia Plotkin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] CayugaRBA RED-HEADED WOODPECKER in Armitage Rd swa...

CayugaRBA RED-HEADED WOODPECKER in Armitage Rd swamp seen by some of my SFO group but not me. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] SFO Saturday: up the lake

Eleven people joined me today for an all-day trip up the lake. The primary focus was on waterfowl, and we managed to find all but two of the expected species (missed Wood Duck and Red-breasted Merganser). All together we totaled 61 species, the highlights being just seeing all those ducks,

amazing snow goose decoys in mucklands; was [cayugabirds-l] SFO Saturday: up the lake

I just thought it worth mentioning that someone has an amazing array of Snow Goose decoys deployed out in the mucklands, to the SE of the potatoes building. They are visible from East Road, too. These are just about the most awesome artificial birds I think I have ever seen. From what I

[cayugabirds-l] Lansing marina rules?

Bob or anyone else, what is the understanding (if any) with the owners of the Lansing Marina, the private part, not the public area? I know in past SFOs, the leaders merrily led us in there and it is normally a great spot to pick up a number of ducks, mergansers, and coots, but yesterday when I

Re: amazing snow goose decoys in mucklands; was [cayugabirds-l] SFO Saturday: up the lake

Oops. I need to subtract 250 Snow Geese from my East Rd eBird list from last weekend! Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Kevin James McGowan k...@cornell.edu wrote: I just thought it worth mentioning that someone has an amazing array of Snow Goose decoys deployed out in the

[cayugabirds-l] Sat birding. Barred Owls

Today I birdied along Updike Rd in Danby and was surprised to hear 2 BARRED OWLS calling back and forth spontaneously short after noon - they were in the hemlocks near the start of the seasonal portion off Coddington. Also a circling RED-SHOULDERED HAWK and 2 RAVENS along Updike. At home I

Re: amazing snow goose decoys in mucklands; was [cayugabirds-l] SFO Saturday: up the lake

Well . . . . there go many of our snow geese from today! Except for the dozen or so actively foraging birds on the near dike. Bob On Apr 6, 2013, at 7:30 PM, Kevin James McGowan wrote: I just thought it worth mentioning that someone has an amazing array of Snow Goose decoys deployed out in

[cayugabirds-l] Carncross Road shorebirds

Livia and I birded up the lake today. We saw many of the same birds as others. In the late afternoon we found a few PECTORAL SANDPIPERS in the flooded cornfield north of the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road where Wade and Melissa Rowley have reported them for a couple days. Meanwhile, Gary Kohlenberg

[cayugabirds-l] SFO Montezuma Day 1

Our group had similar sightings to Bob's (sans grebes), plus: foraging mockingbird at Myers; from the bluffs approaching Aurora from Long Point, tree+barn+NRW swallows, a goldeneye couple, and a large nearly-all-white-looking Glaucous gull first found sleeping by Dave Nutter, later flushed

[cayugabirds-l] Ithaca to Montezuma, first day of SFO overnight

Today my SFOgroup tallied 76 species as we worked our way up the east side of Cayuga Lake and around the Montezuma Wetlands Complex.Highlights included:Dozens of BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS on Drake Rd in Lansing, thanks to Meena, plus 1 or 2 CEDAR WAXWINGS in the same flock;20 species of waterfowl, 3

[cayugabirds-l] Overnight SFO firstday, Bohemian, Merlin, Sandhill Cranes, and Eastern Meadowlarks and more

Hi all, We too started at the lab at 7.00 am. We did not spend time at bird feeders so we did not get some of those birds, but we had an awesome day. WE headed from lab across to Brown Road hoping to see Bohemian waxwings, but we did not see any, so at whim I decided to drive around Cornell

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carncross Road shorebirds

At dusk a flock of 23 same sized Yellowlegss, presumably the Greaters, flew south together towards Morgan Rd.--Dave NutterOn Apr 06, 2013, at 09:30 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote:Livia and I birded up the lake today. We saw many of the same birds as others. In the late afternoon we found