[cayugabirds-l] Bohemian Waxwing
I sent this post at 11:35 this morning and, so far, it has not come through my in box. My apologies if it is repeated here. Coming up the driveway (Whitted/Snyder Hill Rds) a short while ago my attention was caught by a flock of some 70 waxwings perched at the edge of the woods. As I got closer they all took off and flew overhead. One of them was noticeably larger. They stopped again in a hedgerow of pines, and I was able to get a good look at the Bohemian Waxwing among them. Larger bird. Rufous under tail coverts. And a noticeably rufous forehead. I took a couple of diagnostic photos before the flock took off to the southeast. Bob McGuire -- 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] Tundra Swans at Taughannock Park
Friday around noon I saw and heard five TUNDRA SWANS flying north along the shore of Cayuga Lake. I saw them from Taughannock Park, on the west shore of the lake. I did not see where they landed. There were also quite a few REDHEAD and COMMON MERGANSER still present. -- 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] Red winged blackbird
One red winged blackbird at our feeders this morning! Michele Interlaken -- www.thehaywardhouse.com www.bodyshopwellness.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] Red-winged Blackbirds
With the rain this morning the FOS Red-winged Blackbirds showed up at our feeders in Caroline Center. A flock of 6. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- 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] Red-necked Grebes, Union Springs
Two very nearly alternate plumage RED-NECKED GREBES are on the Mill Pond in Union Springs right now. -- 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] Shrike food
There is a 40 acre hay field across from my house with an ash tree in the center surrounded by thick bushes. I noticed a bird flying out of the tree and down to the deep snow surface, picking up something, and returning to the tree. This was an adult N. SHRIKE. I saw it drop down several times, then it flew quickly to the bushes as an AMER. KESTREL came in and perched in the treetop. Kestrel stayed for about 15 minutes, the shrike lurking in the bushes. I decided to go out to see what the shrike was interested in, so donned high boots and postholed the 100 yds. out to the tree. (This naturalist stuff can be a burden sometimes.) Around the bushes, on the snow surface were some slim larvae, about 1/2 long, almost black, with a somewhat bulbous, smooth rear end. No idea what they are.Continuing across the field, I then came across scattered winter stonefly larvae--3/8 long, striped gray and white, with the characteristic two horns off the butt. Now I see what the bluebirds are getting off the snow. Steve FastBrooktondale -- 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/ --
