[cayugabirds-l] great horned owls in Etna

This evening around 6:30 after hearing at least one Great Horned owl hooting nearby, my husband continued calling back until 3 adult owls flew in to surround our backyard, while a 4th continued to call from a nearby yard. This is the first time we have sighted more than two at a time here.

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

RBA * New York * Syracuse * March 07, 2011 * NYSY 0703.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 27, 2010 - March 07, 2011 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)

[cayugabirds-l] Campus Peregrine

Around 5.35 PM, I was waiting at Statler bus stop chatting to Panamanian co-bus rider. When I looked up I saw a raptor heading over Statler. Initially, I thought a Coopers, but as it came closer it was an adult male PEREGRINE FALCON. It was making a strange screechy squeaky sound as it flew ove

[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: Monday Night Seminar: The Legend of Pale Male

Just a heads-up that tonight's seminar is still happening--hope to see you here! charles. ** Charles Eldermire Public Education Outreach Associate Manager, Sapsucker Woods & Johnson Visitors' Center Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca,

[cayugabirds-l] American Woodcock

I was just surveying my back pasture and discovered an American Woodcock sunning at the edge of the seasonal stream (quite boggy where it is open-otherwise we are under feet of snow here on Torok Rd. in Groton). -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http:

[cayugabirds-l] Northern Pintails

There's a nice bunch of Northern Pintails (maybe 10, there's a tree branch obscuring some at the moment) swimming just off the ice edge about halfway between the west shore and red lighthouse. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBir

[cayugabirds-l] Tundra Swans

20 Tundra Swans are swimming together off the ice edge, SW corner of Cayuga Lake. A few of the Northern Shovelers were sleeping on the slushy ice with some Canada Geese at dawn, but I don't see them now. Elaina -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME ht

[cayugabirds-l] snow geese and bluebirds

Drowning out the sounds of the snow shovel this morning was the barking/honking of hundreds of SNOW GEESE passing low overhead, with a few soft BLUEBIRD songs to fill in the spaces. Note on the bluebirds: We had 7 of them all winter. They roost in the eaves of our house, tucked in out of the w