[cayugabirds-l] Birding Savannah to FL Airport

[Johnson, Alyssa]

I took a drive today around the Northern Montezuma WMA and down along Cayuga 
Lake to the Airport in Seneca Falls. It was a quick trip, just the long way 
home so I didn’t linger long at each place.

>From N to S: Directly across route 89 from the Montezuma Audubon Center is an 
>ATT cell tower. The pair of local Bald Eagles were hanging out up there today. 
>There’s remnants of an old Osprey nest up there, maybe they’ll attempt to nest 
>there. It’s about that time for them!

 Carncross Rd is not plowed beyond the only house. I was there around 2:30, too 
early for Short-eared Owls, but I’ve seen them there recently. You can watch 
from the point where plowing ends and have great views of them hunting.

VanDyne Spoor Rd is plowed until just beyond the last house on the road, where 
the pavement ends. A few of the parking areas for the different marshes off VDS 
Rd are plowed out, including Guy’s Marsh. That’s about 1.5 miles to walk the 
berm around the wetland and would be great for snowshoes and xcountry.

East Rd is plowed end to end, just slippy on the middle section that is 
unplowed. The entire Knox Marsellus Marsh is frozen, there’s a lot of water in 
there and is going to be awesome for waterfowl migration. I heard a Northern 
Cardinal from this spot singing his spring song.

Next stop was along Cayuga Lake on route 89. The entire north end of the lake 
is iced over, from just about the state park and northward. I’d be interested 
to know where the ice stops?Tons of swans and geese hanging out around a pocket 
of water just on the north side of the railroad tracks that cross the lake. 
Also noticed a steady stream of American Crows coming in  from west to east, 
crossed over 89, and across the lake towards Auburn to roost. This was at 
4:45ish. Saw no other waterfowl the entire drive along Lower Lake Rd because it 
was all frozen. I pulled into the boat launch at Cayuga Lake SP and there was 
nothing to see, all ice. Then suddenly I saw 3 ducks flying north to south, out 
over the ice, and two more flew at me towards the boat launch but one was 
actually a falcon chasing a Mallard! The duck somehow evaded capture and 
disappeared behind a dock. The falcon flew right in front of us standing there 
and landed in a nearby tree where we got good looks through the scope. I first 
ID’d it as peregrine, a “duck hawk” chasing a duck obviously. But it was very 
light in color and very spotty. After mulling it over, I believe I actually saw 
a (the?) local Gyrfalcon! The Seneca Stone quarry is only 4-5 miles away. This 
happened around 4:45 pm. I have a short video and a few pics on my iPhone. I 
posted them in the CBC FB group of anyone wants to see: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cayugabirdclub/permalink/3700652486639206/

If it’s a Gyrfalcon, that is a life bird for me and one that I’ve missed 3 
other times! A peregrine is still awesome, especially with  the drama of the 
duck hunt!

We also heard another singing Northern Cardinal and a flock of 25 American 
Robins flew over.

Last stop was by the Finger Lakes Regional Airport. Lots of snow, and very tall 
snow banks. I didn’t see any Snowy or Short-eared owls, but I didn’t spend a 
ton of time looking. I did a quick drive around the “block” but didn’t see 
anyone else but a small flock of Snow Buntings.

That’s all! It was a really quick birding trip but I think really rewarding! 
Crossing my fingers for the Gyrfalcon.


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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings

[Marty Schlabach]

The day before we got this last snow, I estimated a flock of 600 snow buntings 
in the field next to our house.  The field was a new seeding to hay last season 
and many annual weeds came up with the hay and went to seed, giving the snow 
buntings lots to pick from.  We’ve been seeing numerous flocks between 
Interlaken, Lodi and Hector.  Usually some horned larks mixed in as well.

Marty
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From: bounce-125360711-3494...@list.cornell.edu 
 On Behalf Of Jared Dawson
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 6:48 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings

I just got in from Seneca County and had several flocks of Horned Larks, 2 of 
which also had Snow Buntings. I saw no large flocks of buntings, but was happy 
to have excellent scope views of several of them along with the larks when they 
settled in the roadway. The mixed flocks were, first, on Thorpe Rd immediately 
west of the Finger Lakes airport, and later near dusk on Kings Corners Rd just 
north of McCulloch. In one field the larks were leaping up and snagging seeds 
from the head of plants, presumably assisted by the height of the snow cover.
Jared Dawson
Trumansburg

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:05 PM John Gregoire 
mailto:johnandsuegrego...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Anyone near the SW corner of the CLB may want to check around the intersection 
of Newtown and Fitzgerald Rds as we had a large mixed flock of buntings, larks 
and tree sparrows there before noon. These fields are immediately west and NW 
of our sanctuary on Fitzgerald.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings

[Jared Dawson]

I just got in from Seneca County and had several flocks of Horned Larks, 2
of which also had Snow Buntings. I saw no large flocks of buntings, but was
happy to have excellent scope views of several of them along with the larks
when they settled in the roadway. The mixed flocks were, first, on Thorpe
Rd immediately west of the Finger Lakes airport, and later near dusk on
Kings Corners Rd just north of McCulloch. In one field the larks were
leaping up and snagging seeds from the head of plants, presumably assisted
by the height of the snow cover.
Jared Dawson
Trumansburg

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:05 PM John Gregoire 
wrote:

> Anyone near the SW corner of the CLB may want to check around the
> intersection of Newtown and Fitzgerald Rds as we had a large mixed flock of
> buntings, larks and tree sparrows there before noon. These fields are
> immediately west and NW of our sanctuary on Fitzgerald.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] question about white-throated sparrows

[Marilyn Ray]

We live on the edge of Brooktonville.

On 2/3/2021 3:41 PM, Carol Cedarholm wrote:
> I'm wondering where you all live? In the country? I have had one only 
> rarely and live in town in Ithaca.  But the last few weeks I have had 
> one almost every day.
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 3:07 PM Marilyn Ray  > wrote:
>
> About seven or eight winters ago, we had a pair of white throats
> all winter and have had them ever since until last year when we
> had our usual pair plus maybe two more and nor we've had about six
> or seven all this winter.  The first winter the pair only ate from
> fallen seeds beneath the feeders, but the last few winters they
> hav gradually learned to use he feeders and use them most of the
> time.
>
> On 2/2/2021 3:27 PM, Gary Kohlenberg wrote:
>> I usually have 2-6 at my feeders all winter. They breed in the
>> woods around my house east of Ithaca.
>> Gary
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2021, at 2:23 PM, Linda Post Van Buskirk
>>   wrote:
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>> 
>> How common is it for them to winter here?  I have one or possibly
>> a pair at my feeders this week.
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[cayugabirds-l] Snow Buntings

[John Gregoire]

Anyone near the SW corner of the CLB may want to check around the
intersection of Newtown and Fitzgerald Rds as we had a large mixed flock of
buntings, larks and tree sparrows there before noon. These fields are
immediately west and NW of our sanctuary on Fitzgerald.

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[cayugabirds-l] lakeshore birds

[Linda Post Van Buskirk]

>From Rt 90, just north of Aurora

A good flock of mostly redheads; I was very pleased to see quite a few 
canvasbacks, some scaup, and some little ones that were obscured by the trees.  
An adult eagle few over.  Several minutes later, my collie alerted me to two 
immature eagles perched on the lakeshore trees.  The flock soon flew north.  
I'm assuming that the immatures were progeny of the pair that nests at Paine's 
Creek.

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