[cayugabirds-l] Loons, no. Cormorants, yes at Mud Lock
John & I went to Frontenac Park about 1 p.m. today. I counted 17 cormorants just south of the island & no fewer than 20 more /within sight/ south towards Carr's Cove. John had seen more fly that way as I counted the ones at the island & they no doubt were hidden behind the point. I came home deliberately to get my scope to be sure they were cormorants & not loons. The slight uplift of the bills, heads held well out of the water & the fact that they were so close together indicated to me that they were cormorants. With the scope & seeing the color of their bills I confirmed that they were not loons. Becky & I went north, leaving her place about 2:45 p.m., to check on & count osprey nests. An exceptionally large flock of cormorants, which she estimated to be at least 100, lifted from the lake in the area south of Harris Park in Cayuga & flew north. We didn't watch to see where they went. Last Fri., 17th, at the Lock, I saw one lone loon floating about 200 yards from the actual dam. It was the ONLY bird in the area that day except for an eagle on the nest. Fritzie Union Springs -- 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] No Loons at Mud Lock
I was at Montezuma so I checked for the raft of Loons reported at Mud Lock. There were no Loons when I arrived around 4pm. I also checked behind the village offices in Cayuga with no luck. I found 1 Horned Grebe and 1 Pied Bill Grebe and a single Redhead at Mud Lock. It was quiet around Montezuma today. I did have 5 Dunlin in the corn stubble on Carncross Rd. with 18 possibly more Greater Yellowlegs. Wood Ducks seemed to be everywhere. On the East Rd. I observed a pair of woodies fly out of a tree and join a Sandhill Crane feeding in the corn field. What a strange trio they made with the Woodies feeding under the Crane. VanDyne Spoor Rd. had good numbers of waterfowl with N. Pintail being the most prevalent.Good Birding, Janet Akin -- 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 pm Wilson's Snipe
Hi all, A chilly walk up Mt Pleasant Rd around 3:30 pm turned up a Wilson's Snipe foraging in a muddy puddle just into one of the fields at the east end of the road. First I've seen this year. And several Savannah Sparrows, which have been back a week or so. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake BasinAvailable here: http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/GNlCxX37uTzE/CBPFGij6nLfE -- 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] CBC Field Trip Saturday April 25 Meena Haribal leader
-- Hello All, Please feel free to participate regardless of membership status or level of ability Saturday April 25. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at 2 PM returning by 8 PM Meena Haribal will lead the group to places where birds have been reported. The late start is to allow for Woodcock and Snipe quests at the end of the day, at the airport or other locations. Please dress appropriately for whichever incarnation of the vortex we are experiencing at the time, although it does promise to be pleasant. Bring snacks and if you have one, a scope. Contact Meena for more information at m...@cornell.edu Hope you can make it. Best Linda Orkin Cayuga Bird Club Field Trip Coordinator -- Veganism is simply the acknowledgment that a replaceable and fleeting pleasure isn't more valuable than someone's life and liberty. ~ Unknown If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- Veganism is simply the acknowledgment that a replaceable and fleeting pleasure isn't more valuable than someone's life and liberty. ~ Unknown If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- 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] Raft of LOONS
Marianne Ludwigsen and Diane Mawbey just texted to me a report of a raft of about 150 LOONS at Mudlock. -- 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] Ovid shrike sp.
All, Yesterday morning a Northern Shrike was reported along Rt. 96 just east of Ovid. It is getting extremely late for Northern, so the possibility of Loggerhead is distinct. The observer, Brian Tuttle, reports that while he is sure it was a shrike, he would not have been able to rule out Loggerhead. Here is a link to the list, the location of which Brian says should be fairly accurate: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23005214 If anyone out that way is able to follow up on this report, I would be most curious to hear the results. 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] OT - David Kiehm at Handwork 1st May
Thought you all might be interested to know that there will be an opening reception for David Kiehm, BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013, from 5-8pm at Handwork 1st May (Gallery Night). Light refreshments served. Watercolor demonstrations. Handwork has been carrying and selling his artwork for a number of years now. -- Stephanie Greenwood U.S. Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 280 1050 England 73 Kynaston Road London N16 0EB 07946 341208 -- 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] Siskin
I have had 100-150 Pine Siskins at my feeders and in my yard that last two daysthey are cleaning my feeders out From: Ann Mitchell To: "cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu" Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 8:50 AM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Siskin I just had 30 or so Pine Siskins at my feeders. Also, Purple Finch is hanging around. Ann Sent from my iPhone -- 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 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] Siskin
I just had 30 or so Pine Siskins at my feeders. Also, Purple Finch is hanging around. Ann Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --