[cayugabirds-l] Cowbird

2020-02-20 Thread Annette Nadeau
A male Brown-headed Cowbird visited one of my feeders here on Rumsey Road in T'burg. Annette -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Breeding Bird Atlas Workshop at CLO - Feb 25

2020-02-20 Thread Diane Morton
*NY Breeding Bird Atlas Workshop with David Nicosia* Tuesday, February, 25⋅7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Cornell Lab Visitor Center 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY New York's third Breeding Bird Atlas (NYS BBA III) has begun and will continue for the next 5 years. Cayuga Bird Club is bringing Dave

Re: [cayugabirds-l] There male redwings, Mon West Danby area also

2020-02-20 Thread khmo
The mean date for Red-wings here based on a 34 year norm is fairly constant with little deviation is 2/25, for Grackle 2/28 and Cowbird 2/10. Adult males usually travel first followed closely by SY birds for Red-wings. Females later. The latest RWBL arr date we have recorded is 3/13. Most

[cayugabirds-l] singing House Finches

2020-02-20 Thread AB Clark
Not very organized song but trying out the old syringeal muscles after some down time. anne Anne B Clark 147 Hile School Rd Freeville, NY 13068 607-222-0905 anneb.cl...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] There male redwings, Mon West Danby area also

2020-02-20 Thread AB Clark
As someone studying redwing nesting and nestlings in the 89-2000 region, I can say they were incredibly variable 3 decades ago. They could easily show up in February when the winter was warm. We had actual females back in a marsh near Binghamton/Endicott as early as February. Usually females

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-headed Blackbird continues

2020-02-20 Thread Dave K
Using feeders at 229 Armitage (rt89) at 1pm Get Outlook for Android -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

RE: [cayugabirds-l] singing House Finches

2020-02-20 Thread Magnus Fiskesjo
A few weeks ago I saw one member of a White-Throated Sparrow flock in Central Park, NYC, sing quite persistently. -- Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] There male redwings, Mon West Danby area also

2020-02-20 Thread AB Clark
The early F-types I was referring to were very clearly female, being observed by my grad student who was working on them for his disseration. They had begun twittering, cattail to cattail by March. Their marsh was all unfrozen. We were starting to wonder if they would actually build nests in

[cayugabirds-l] Saturday Field Trip

2020-02-20 Thread bob mcguire
Finally some decent weather for a winter trip! Feb. 22 8:00 am - 12:30 pm - Suan Yong - Winter Birds Join Suan for a half day trip to look for winter birds. This will include waterfowl on the lake as well as field birds such as Horned Larks and Snow Buntings. Meet at the east end of Stewart

Re: [cayugabirds-l] singing House Finches

2020-02-20 Thread Linda Orkin
Not trying compete but House Finches on Muriel street and downtown Ithaca heard singing very sweetly and complete. Also heard what I believe was Purple Finch singing around my house the other day. Linda Orkin Ithaca NY Sent from my iPhone > "For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we

Re: [cayugabirds-l] There male redwings, Mon West Danby area also

2020-02-20 Thread Suan Hsi Yong
Anne Clark wrote: > We had actual females back in a marsh near Binghamton/Endicott as early as > February. Usually females did not show up until late march. I don’t mean > nest, just be seen in flocks and maybe visit the marsh. > Will all second-year males have "turned" by February, or could