[cayugabirds-l] large accipiter

[Asher Hockett]

Late this afternoon I had a flyover large accipiter over the Old
Taughannock Blvd/West Buffalo St intersection. Long tail, flapping its
wings and the size of a Red-tail, but not as stocky. The light was fading
so I can't be sure of the color - it  looked gray. I know we had a  No.
Goshawk at the Farmer's Market on the bird count, so maybe this is the same
bird still around.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ducky Day

[Maureen Cowen]

I also saw these numerous ducks walking the railroad track along Lansing 
Station Rd this morning between 11-12noon.
Donna, Thanks for the naming and enumerating.
Maureen

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 2, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Donna Lee Scott 
mailto:d...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

Today I watched offshore here an undulating raft of Redheads (~500) accompanied 
by 26 Ring Necked Ducks, 2 Buffleheads, 1 Golden Eye, 4 Lesser Scaup, 1 Greater 
Scaup, 1 Canvasback, 18 mallards, 16 Black Ducks, and nearby were 8 Red 
Breasted Mergansers.
5-600 Canada Geese were in attendance, along with a Herring Gull.

Pretty easy birding: I just stood on the cliff next to a large tree (for 
camouflage) and enjoyed and counted, then trotted down the RR track as the 
ducks moved away and other ducks joined them.

Feeder birds included 23 MO Do, and the single Starling who was here through 
the really cold days, has now shown up with 30 of his best friends.

A Lesser Black Backed Gull flew over and an hour ago I was lucky to spot from 
the kitchen a mature BALD EAGLE sitting in my dying White Oak tree on the cliff 
overlooking the lake!
Maybe that is why the returning raft of Redheads, et al., left again in a big 
hurry.

Neighbors have reported several sightings of both a mature B Eagle lately, and 
an immature one.


Donna L. Scott
535 Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY 14882

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[cayugabirds-l] Rough-legged hawk W and E of Warren at Cherry la today 2 Feb 19

[AB Clark]

At approximately 1430, a rough-legged hawk was hunting the field that makes up 
the SW quadrat of Cherry La x Warren Rd. It sat watching from trees on N side 
of Cherry la, then (disturbed by my stopping car) it moved a bit W along 
Cherry, then East to sit on airport fencing along Warren’s E edge, S of Cherry 
La intersection.  

Sitting or in flight, there seemed to be lots of white patches.  Mostly though 
salt frosted windows, I managed to get some REALLY bad pictures that confirmed 
a bright light patch on brow and possibly around throat. Quite a distinctive 
head.

Anne
  
Anne B. Clark
Freeville NY 13068



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[cayugabirds-l] Ducky Day

[Donna Lee Scott]

Today I watched offshore here an undulating raft of Redheads (~500) accompanied 
by 26 Ring Necked Ducks, 2 Buffleheads, 1 Golden Eye, 4 Lesser Scaup, 1 Greater 
Scaup, 1 Canvasback, 18 mallards, 16 Black Ducks, and nearby were 8 Red 
Breasted Mergansers.
5-600 Canada Geese were in attendance, along with a Herring Gull.

Pretty easy birding: I just stood on the cliff next to a large tree (for 
camouflage) and enjoyed and counted, then trotted down the RR track as the 
ducks moved away and other ducks joined them.

Feeder birds included 23 MO Do, and the single Starling who was here through 
the really cold days, has now shown up with 30 of his best friends.

A Lesser Black Backed Gull flew over and an hour ago I was lucky to spot from 
the kitchen a mature BALD EAGLE sitting in my dying White Oak tree on the cliff 
overlooking the lake!
Maybe that is why the returning raft of Redheads, et al., left again in a big 
hurry.

Neighbors have reported several sightings of both a mature B Eagle lately, and 
an immature one.


Donna L. Scott
535 Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY 14882


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Purple finches today

[Therese O'Connor]

We also have 3 purple finches 2 males, 1 female at feeders Meadowlark Rd--
NE Ithaca.

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 10:05 AM Asher Hockett  Finally we have a pair of Purple Finches at our feeders this morning.
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[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls

[Andrew David Miller]

We had a nice group of 9 common redpolls at our feeders  today.  They stayed 
for about 20 minutes before taking off to the south just a little while ago, 
perhaps to visit Marie's feeders.   There was also a single dark morph legged 
hawk hunting over Mt. Pleasant early this morning.


Cheers-

A.D. Miller

Ringwood Rd., Freeville

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[cayugabirds-l] Christmas bird count final spreadsheet

[Paul Anderson]

I finally finished the count spreadsheet. For those that are interested, 
it can be found here: 
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19G1vyet0UhwZi4mjdNIN5s_X237NgI-r. 
(Note that Google Sheets doesn't render things perfectly; some of the 
conditional formatting is not the same as when you look at it with Excel.)


On examination, the Bald Eagle numbers didn't hold up, so we ended up 
with 11, tying the record high count from last year.


On the other hand, the Turkey Vulture total was wrong and after 
correction upwards to 63, this breaks the previous high count of 59 from 
2016.


Enjoy!

-Paul

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[cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings

[khmo]

While out for a hike this morning we had a huge flock of Snow Buntings
overfly us on Fitzgerald Rd from North to South. They covered about 50
yards wide by a good minute plus in coming over in a densely packed
formation. Five hundred at least, perhaps closer to a thousand. A lovely
sight and they were last seen milling about the fields behind Bergen
Farms on Bergen Rd. It has been a long time since we have seen so many,
especially in the Mecklenburg area.
J

PS. Posted a few photos of an adult Sharpie/junco encounter from
yeaterday on our FB page.

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Field Ornithologists
Kestrel Haven Migration Observatory
5373 Fitzgerald Rd
Burdett, NY 14818
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"Create and Conserve Habitat"
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[cayugabirds-l] Purple finches today

[Asher Hockett]

Finally we have a pair of Purple Finches at our feeders this morning.

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