[cayugabirds-l] Monday Birds

I was driving to my job site this morning, and I saw a kettle of about thirty Turkey Vultures over the Ithaca High School. Then I was driving down Randolph Road in Cayuga Heights, and a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers were hopping around on a tree in someone's front yard. Bruce Packard Groton

[cayugabirds-l] Sunday birding - 1,760 Blue Jays!

Hi all, I spent Sunday morning birding again around Myer's Point (Salt Point to Portland Point), and again the highlight was the very large flight of BLUE JAYS that kept pouring over all morning. In about 2 hours of birding, I counted 1,760 Blue Jays, sometimes in streams of several hundred b

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods warblers

Late this afternoon I found a BLACKPOLL WARBLER and a CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER near the pond with the shelter on the East Trail at Sapsucker Woods, mixed in with some chickadees. Along the trail I also found four woodpecker species (Downy, Hairy, Red-bellied, and Pileated), a Red-breasted Nuthatc

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 05, 2009 * NYSY0510.09 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): September21, 2009 - October 05, 2009 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (M

[cayugabirds-l] Gas Drilling Effects on Local Birding Areas

Hi Folks, Below is a slightly-updated version of an article that I wrote for the Cayuga Bird Club newsletter this month (with excellent editing by Anne Marie Johnson). I’m posting it here for people who don’t get the newsletter, as I’ve been thinking about mentioning this topic on t