[cayugabirds-l] short-eared owls in Ovid

[Marty Schlabach]

Mary Jean and I saw two short-eared owls along Wycoff Rd in Ovid this evening 
between 6:15 and 6:45pm.  We didn't see any near Center Rd. and Co Rd. 129.

Marty
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Leucistic Red-tail

[Nariman Burjor Mistry]

Here are my previous emails on "albino RT" from as far back as 1997 (refering 
even further back to 1995) , about the white RT at this same or nearby location 
! Please note the dates.

Nari Mistry
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:49:18 -0500
To: Upstate NY Birding  
From: "Nari B. Mistry" 
Subject: Re: albino Red-tail

Is it not intriguing that Albino Red-tails have been reported from the Great 
Gully Rd. area for at least the last 7 years? 
Can it be the same individual, or has it become a genetic trait (not supposed 
to be dominant!)?
I first saw one in 1995 and reported it. Then I reported it again in 1997 (see 
below) and again a few times since then, all from the same general area, within 
a few miles.

Nari Mistry
Ithaca
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 08:53:34 -0500
From: "Nari Mistry, Newman Lab., Cornell University" 

Subject: RE: Another White Hawk (town of Fleming)
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L@cornell.edu

I was very intrigued to hear of the white buteo in the Town of Fleming.
A few  years ago I saw (and reported to the Lab of O) an
albino red-tail at that  exact location, at the corner of Rte 34B and Black St
(just a few yards from TownLine Rd.) in the Town of Fleming. I just referred to
my notes and the mark on the map to confirm this. My notes are very clear--after
the first excitement of thinking "Gyrfalcon!" on seeing it perched by the road
on a fence, it flew some distance and the red tail & buteo wings were very clear
It must be the same albino now, as the odds are otherwise too great
against it being another at the same location. If so, it must be coming there
every year and should be a regular feature of that area.
Glad to know it's still alive and well.
Nari Mistry
Ithaca, NY
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At 4:44 PM -0500 11/12/02, Mickey Scilingo wrote:
Matt V just called me to say that he saw what he believes to be an albino 
Red-tailed Hawk along Great Gully Rd just a little while ago.  He described the 
bird as all white, with a small tinge of red along the tail.  There were at 
least 5 small black flecks on the birds head, and it has a yellow bill with a 
black tip.
 
The bird was located on Great Gully Rd, 1.1 miles west of 34B, near a blue and 
gold historical placard that reads "Cayuga Townline Rd."  The bird was sitting 
hunched in a tree along the edge of the field to the north of the historical 
marker.
 
Mickey Scilingo
Parish, NY


Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Leucistic Red-tail

Yesterday, 3.10.11. John & I were driving southeast (sorta') on Ridge Rd. to 
where it joins 34B north of Scipioville when I spotted an odd white bird on the 
ground in the cornfield. As we stopped, it flew up &  landed in a tree in the 
hedgerow. The tail fanned beautifully in the wind. No wonderment there. 
RED-TAIL. Body was mostly white with a bit of dark feathers on the top of the 
head & wing tips.
We wondered if this was the same bird from a few yrs. ago .. oh, my ... it's 
been a good 10 yrs. ago  so maybe an offspring. The one we had seen yrs. 
ago was farther north but who's to say how big the territory is??? Whatever, 
whoever, it was a beautiful sight & a real tret.
Good birding, all.
Fritzie












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[cayugabirds-l] Leucistic Red-tail

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

Yesterday, 3.10.11. John & I were driving southeast (sorta') on Ridge Rd. to 
where it joins 34B north of Scipioville when I spotted an odd white bird on the 
ground in the cornfield. As we stopped, it flew up &  landed in a tree in the 
hedgerow. The tail fanned beautifully in the wind. No wonderment there. 
RED-TAIL. Body was mostly white with a bit of dark feathers on the top of the 
head & wing tips. 

We wondered if this was the same bird from a few yrs. ago .. oh, my ... it's 
been a good 10 yrs. ago  so maybe an offspring. The one we had seen yrs. 
ago was farther north but who's to say how big the territory is??? Whatever, 
whoever, it was a beautiful sight & a real tret.

Daughter Becky lives on Ridge Rd.. She called to say the corn field behind her 
place had a humongous flock of SNOW Geese that were putting on a show, up & 
down & around before heading off towards the lake, "yelping" as they went. 

Mon. afternoon she & I did a bit of cruising to Aurora & back. Saw a SCREECH 
OWL in a tree hollow where a rotted limb had broken off as well as the Factory 
St. one. The 15 TUNDRA SWANS & 2 MUTE SWANS & thousands of ducks & geese off 
the slush ice edge here in Union Springs section of the lake were mostly gone 
yesterday, probably because the wind was from the SSW. The MUTES are adults but 
a juvenile Tundra was with them yesterday. Saw no other swans but I suspect 
they might be in the Mud Lock area. The ice was all gone on Mon., except for 
slush along the shore.  

John & I started out Sherwood Rd. to look for Snows on the farm pond but when 
we saw the first pond was still frozen we didn't go the rest of the way. 
Hunters will scare them away. We found them on Owasco Lake 2 yrs. ago where the 
hunters couldn't get to them in the daytime.I assume they could go back to the 
cornfields in the evening.

Becky reported seeing a Chickadee with its foot caught in some bark of a tree. 
It was frantically trying to get loose when a TITMOUSE attacked it repeatedly. 
She threw a snowball & the titmouse left. DD finally got loose & flew to the 
hedgerow bushes where the titmouse again tried to attack it but didn't pursue 
it as it flew farther away.

BTW  on the south side & next to the Be Happy Cafe in Union Springs is a 
new bakery called "The Sweetery ...". I haven't been in it so don't know the 
rest of the name but John already has stopped about 5 times & his sweet tooth 
is leading him to a flat wallet! Careful Susie, you might not get Steve out of 
there if you come this far north!

Good birding, all. 

Fritzie











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[cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese

[Meena Haribal]

I was at Lowes about an hour ago and I could hear several flocks of snow geese 
flying overhead, but could not see.
Hopefully there would hundreds of them tomorrow for us to watch!

Meena


Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
http://haribal.org/
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[cayugabirds-l] northbound Snow Geese this evening

[Dave Nutter]

I just got home from an evening walk in Cass Park, during which I heard a couple flocks of Snow Geese barking overhead as they flew north.  Although I could not see them, they sounded pretty low and may have been headed for Cayuga Lake. --Dave Nutter

[cayugabirds-l] red-tail hawk behavior

[Marty Schlabach]

While walking across the Ag Quad on the Cornell campus this afternoon, I heard 
the screaming of a red-tail and looked up to see 3 flying overhead, just at the 
height of the buildings.  All seemed to be chasing a pigeon, but only one 
continued to pursue it as the pigeon attempted to escape by flying down lower 
through the trees on the quad.  I don't remember seeing a red-tail try to catch 
something in the air before, but maybe they do. Nor did I remember seeing 
several pursuing the same prey.   In any case I was skeptical about the 
red-tail's chances on this bird.  But, the escape path the pigeon chose led him 
to bump into a window.  Probably only stunned at that point, but it dropped and 
the red-tail followed it and made the catch.  Unfortunately for the red-tail, 
the pigeon had fallen into a window-well, probably about 8' deep, which is 
where the red-tail found itself as well.  The first attempt of the red-tail to 
fly out of the window well, with its prey in the talons of its right foot, was 
unsuccessful.  The window well ran the length of that part of the building, so 
when the red-tail flew the length, it was able to gain enough height to make it 
to the edge.  By that time, I was inside looking out and it was right outside 
of the window.  I got a close look of its rather fierce stance, hovering over 
its soon to be lunch, it's head feathers standing upright, which I took to be 
sign that it wouldn't take kindly to anything that might also be interested in 
lunch.  The other two red-tail were no longer around at this point, and I 
didn't stay around either, since I already had my lunch.

Marty

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[cayugabirds-l] Mt Pleasant Today

[bob mcguire]

I spent a couple of hours around noon by the observatory on Mt  
Pleasant today. My hope was that, with the moderate SW wind, there  
would be a significant raptor flight. Unfortunately, that didn't  
happen. Still there were some interesting sights:


2 local Rough-legged Hawks, one light, one dark
5 Common Ravens, two pairs local and one fly-over
somewhere around 600 blackbirds flying north, mostly Red-winged, some  
Common Grackles

one flight of 200 Snow Geese, all white, no blue morphs, and no Ross's
2 Killdeer
6 local Red-tailed Hawks.
1 local Turkey Vulture
several rather disorganized flocks of Canada Geese heading north

Bob McGuire



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[cayugabirds-l] Waterfowl at N. Montezuma

[bob mcguire]

I received this today from Frank Morlock, DEC office on Morgan Road:

On another note, we've got some great waterfowl counts up here at  
Northern Montezuma the last couple days.  Our ice broke gave way  
before the Refuge's this year.  Snow goose hunters will prob. shag a  
lot of that away tomorrow, but hopefully they'll settle back in next  
week.  Good viewing from Morgan Rd., but the Best from Carncross.   
High counts from the last 3 days:

NOPI - 5,000
MALL - 7000
ABDU - 300
CAGO - 10,000
NSHO - 10
RNDU - 25
AMWI - 61
TUSW/TRSW - over 400 (right now, and I'm heading that way to find out  
what type and to do another count, but I'm guessing the maj. are TUSW)
SNGO - some really large flocks passing overhead, but only a couple  
hundred have landed here in the fields.

A lot of birds are starting to gather at the 31 muck this morning, and  
I'm guessing it's pretty great there right now.

Frank


Frank Morlock
NYSDEC Northern Montezuma WMA
1385 Morgan Rd. Savannah, NY 13146
315-365-2134 or 315-729-7273
fmmor...@gw.dec.state.ny.us

Bob McGuire



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[cayugabirds-l] Dryden waterfowl

[Jay McGowan]

I took a few minutes this afternoon to check some of the local wetlands in
the Dryden area.  Although a lot is still frozen, the flooding has created
some interesting waterfowl/shorebird habitat.  If any of it lingers a week
or two we could get some good concentrations.  As of now, the birds were
fairly sparse.

Dryden Lake is still almost completely frozen (and replete with
ice-fisherman getting in a few last hours of sitting around on the ice), but
the north bay is open as usual (without birds, though I was told a Tundra
Swan stopped there earlier today), as is a strip on the south end, where a
few Common Mergansers and Canada Geese were swimming.

The George Road pond has only a small shoreline thawed, but it should open
up significantly this week, and some of the surrounding wet areas had a bit
of water, but I saw nothing but Canada Geese and Mallards.  The low field at
George Junior (on the same side of 38 as George Road pond but farther
towards Freeville) had a lot more geese and Mallards as well as two American
Black Ducks and a big white domestic goose.

The water level at the wet areas on Herman Road (straight at the sharp left
turn on Rt. 38 just outside Freeville) is quite impressive, and what is
usually a creek with some damp fields is currently a huge, shallow,
rectangular lake, on both sides of the road.  The water is only a foot or
two from the road, so any more rain could see that road flooded.  The bird
numbers weren't spectacular here, but that could change quickly.  I did find
a pair of Richardson's CACKLING GEESE in with the several hundred Canada
Geese.  Mallards and American Black Ducks were the only ducks, and a few
dozen Ring-billed Gulls were also present.  Several hundred Ring-billed
Gulls and a handful of Herring were loafing in the field across the road,
and more were up Ed Hill Road in another field.  The best waterfowl I found
were in the flooded area along Fall Creek west of Herman/Ed Hill Road and
just east of Freeville.  Besides Canada Geese, Mallards, and American Black
Duck there were 4 NORTHERN PINTAIL, 2 AMERICAN WIGEON, and 2 RING-NECKED
DUCKS.


Good birding,
Jay McGowan
Dryden, NY

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: NNYBirds: OT-Amazing peregrine hunting video

[Linda Orkin]

Yes. I concur.  It is good to see the wonder in all creatures. Thanks fir 
sending Diane. I posted this on Facebook. It is a beautiful nature meditation. 

Linda 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:00 AM, Asher Hockett  wrote:

> Sometimes I wonder why someone thought to introduce starlings to North 
> America. This jaw-dropping video makes it easier to understand. 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:26 PM, joe & Diana  wrote:
>  It's amazing to watch the fight patterns and the way it must confuse the 
> falcon.
> 
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>> video
>> 
>> How does a peregrine falcon take out one starling out of 50,000?
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tEFRAI9WSE&tracker=False&NR=1
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: NNYBirds: OT-Amazing peregrine hunting video

[Asher Hockett]

Sometimes I wonder why someone thought to introduce starlings to North
America. This jaw-dropping video makes it easier to understand.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:26 PM, joe & Diana wrote:

>  It's amazing to watch the fight patterns and the way it must confuse the
> falcon.
>
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> Hello All,
>
> Sorry - not our neck-of-the-woods(Netherlands I think) but an amazing
> video
>
> How does a peregrine falcon take out one starling out of 50,000?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tEFRAI9WSE&tracker=False&NR=1
>
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