[cayugabirds-l] Loon, snow geese and waxwings
While waiting for the bus on 79 around 7.57 AM, a lone Loon flew overhead. My neighbor was worried that it is all alone. A couple of minutes ago, a flock of Cedar Waxwings flew in front of my office window. Right now a large flock snow geese just passed over my building. Starlings are also active. Gulls are heading to dump! Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdfhttp://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http:/www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp:/haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park--Adult Glaucous Gull, Long-tailed Duck
Stewart Park, Tompkins, US-NY Dec 15, 2010 4:15 PM - 4:40 PM Traveling 0.25 mile(s) Comments: I did not see the King Eider, although conditions were not great for looking far offshore 17 species Canada Goose 200 American Black Duck 25 Mallard 75 Redhead 400 Long-tailed Duck 1 female; just off ice edge in the middle of the park Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 20 Common Merganser 50 Bald Eagle 1 adult perched in tree on west side of the lake Ring-billed Gull 100 Herring Gull (American) 600 Glaucous Gull 1 adult; a lovely bird, swimming offshore but later joined other gulls on the red jetty. Very large, with pure white wingtips and a paler gray mantle than surrounding Herring Gulls. Great Black-backed Gull 40 Black-capped Chickadee 4 Carolina Wren 1 calling from swan pen area Northern Cardinal 1 House Sparrow 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org) -- Tim Lenz t...@cornell.edu Web Applications Developer Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows?
Large roosts of crows are famous. A few years ago, Auburn, NY, near the upper reaches of Cayuga Lake, had to resort to drastic (but non-violent) measures to rid the city of tens of thousands of them. Maybe Ithaca has a reputation for being more crow friendly. Here we have our own reverse pied piper in crow expert Kevin McGowan, who will likely add his educated perspective to my unscientific babbling. They are using the slopes of south hill which lead down into 6 Mile Creek and the neighborhoods bordering the creek area for the roost these days (or nights, actually). On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Roe andrew.walker@gmail.comwrote: This is only my second winter in Ithaca (I'm a grad student, here from the southeast) so I don't really know how normal this is- but there seem to be an ENORMOUS number of crows around downtown Ithaca and Cornell- swirling at dusk, covering roofs, nearly toppling trees, blotting out the sun, etc. Can someone in the know let me know what's going on? Are these all birds passing through, or is there some sort of monumental attack on the Lab of O in the works? Thanks, Andrew -- asher -Never play it the same way once. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
