[cayugabirds-l] S wind = migrants. Today
S wind = migrants. Today seek Bonaparte's Gull, Caspian Tern, Barn NRW Swallow, new shorebirds, etc. Good luck! --Dave Nutter -- 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] South winds brought NSWO
Ok, that's mean. How many of you had that annoying feeling about those stupid BBL (O, there I go again, that's Bird Banding Lab) acronyms. Just kidding, a little tease. Anyway, last night from 7:30-9:00 with two nets last night and a digital caller, Karen and I were able to catch one, fat female (this is not a sexist comment, merely referring to the fact that the bird appeared to be in good shape despite just coming out of winter and in the middle of migration) Northern Saw-whet Owl. For what it is worth, our property is on the line of the Christmas Count circle (if you use a pencil with a very broad lead) and about a half mile outside the basin. We drain to the south. So. you might split hairs and argue that the bird is not a basin bird. There is a major saw-whet banding listserve which suggests using a digital caller with about 100 decibels of call output. I just can't stand it that loud, but the bird was in the net about a meter or so from the speaker with a very loud output. Reminds me that I have wondered if Snowy Owls at Logan airport are deafened by airplanes coming and going and then about this little saw-whet. How can they find mice by a squeak after sitting near jet engines. For some reason, two pair of Barred Owl were calling throughout the 1.5 hours I visited the nets. Looks like salamander migration tonight. Spring is so much fun. Cheers, John Confer -- 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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: Birds on Saturday?
I got this e-mail from a friend. Perhaps someone on the list knows what was going on. Thanks! Cathy -- Forwarded message -- From: Rosanne Murphy re...@cornell.edu Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:38 PM Subject: Birds on Saturday? To: Catherine Cooke ccooke...@gmail.com Hi Cathy, If you’re on the bird-sighting email list, can you find out what was going on in Dryden on Saturday. My friend Cindy sent me this yesterday: “I took 38 to Dryden and just before the high school there were several cars off the road and a bunch of people with spotting scopes looking out toward route 13 where the field is mostly under water. I have not idea what they saw, but it drew a crowd.” So I figured that whatever people saw would have been posted on the bird sighting email list. I’m not a member of that and thought you might be. I saw a Phoebe this morning trying to catch bugs in the heavy rain. It probably had just arrived recently and must have been hungry. Thanks, Rosanne -- 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] 68 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS at Stewart
68 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS at Stewart Park --Dave Nutter -- 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] Correction: 95 or more cormorants
Correction: 95 or more cormorants --Dave Nutter -- 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] Red Tail with Crow
We have a pair of Red-tailed Hawks that have been around for several years. I have seen one carrying a grouse, rabbit, mice, and even have a great picture of one of them snatching a wounded starling off the snow.but yesterday one few by with a crow in its talons with 20 plus crows in hot pursuit.I have heard of Red-tails going after young crows still in the nest and am wondering how this Red-tail came to get this crow? If it was not injured.would a Red-tail go after an adult crow sitting on eggs?...any other thoughts? Happy Birding! Kurt Julie Kurt Broken Road Farms Dundee, NY 14837 Email: k...@brokenroadfarms.com www.BrokenRoadFarms.com -- 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] Crow with Salamander
Lot of crow talk this morning so I thought I'd share an observation. While driving on Sandbank Rd. this morning, I saw a crow in the road pecking at something then fly off with what appeared to be a large dark salamander, presumably a Spotted. Bill E -- 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] MNWR
2pm this afternoon I saw 2 Barn Swallows flying out over the Main pool with a group of 12 Tree Swallows. While eating lunch near the new shorebird habitat a Caspian Tern flew over very low. There was 1DC Cormorant at Knox Marcellus. Janet Akin -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * April 4, 2011 * NYSY 0404.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): March 28, 2010 - April 4, 2011 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:April 4 AT 6:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #250 -Monday April 4, 2011 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of March 21 , 2010 Highlights: --- CACKLING GOOSE EURASIAN WIGEON COMMON (EURASIAN) TEAL PEREGRINE FALCON SANDHILL CRANE IGLAUCOUS GULL LESSER YELLOWLEGS LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL PURPLE MARTIN PINE WARBLER EVENING GROSBEAK HOARY REDPOLL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 3/29: The COMMON TEAL was seen at the Visitor’s Center Pool. It has remained through 4/3. No reports on it today yet. 2 SANDHILL CRANES were seen at the Visitor’s Center. 3/31: An adult plumage LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was spotted in Tschache Pool. 4/2: A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was seen at the Montezuma Audubon Center. It was relocated the next day also. Derby Hill This was a better week for hawks and 3,213 raptors were counted. No new species were seen. Except for rarities only Peregrine Falcon and Broad-winged Hawk have yet to be seen. Other highlights were 2 CACKLING GEESE on 3/30 and an immature GLAUCOUS GULL on 4/2. Madison County 3/30: A HOARY REDPOLL was seen at a feedr in Erieville. 4/2: At Ditchbank Road a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and a LESSER YELLOWLEGS were seen. At the Great Swamp Conservancy a PEREGRINE FALCON was spotted. 4/3: 15 EVENING GROSBEAKS were at a feeder in Erieville. Oswego County 4/3: A FOS PURPLE MARTIN was seen at the Golf Course on Toad Harbor Road. A PINE WARBLER, possibly an overwintering bird, was back at a feeder in Constantia. The first day of Bill Purcell’s Lakewatch at Phillip’s Point (Oneida Lake) yielded 7 species of waterfowl and 23 COMMON LOONS. Onondaga County 4/2: A HOARY REDPOLL continues with a large number of Commons at Beaver Lake Nature Center. 4/4: A drake EURASIAN WIGEON was found in the pond at the Eagle’s nest on 60 Road at Three Rivers WMA. New Arrivals 3/28: AMERICAN PIPIT 3/29 - PIED-BILLED GREBE - Onondaga Lake 4/2 - DUNLIN - Montezuma 4/3 - PURPLE MARTIN - West Monroe 4/4 - BARN SWALLOW - Montezuma --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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] Thanks
Hi, All, I want to thank all who replied to the e-mail that I had forwarded. Though there were no rare birds, it sounds like the SFO group saw some good birds! I did want to say that, that I have been hearing a Woodcock in the field opposite my North Wood apartment building. This is the first time I had heard one, since I moved here 2 years ago. Cathy -- 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/ --
Fwd: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: Birds on Saturday?
Spring Field Ornithology field trip most likely. I'm on Sun trips, and we stopped along Rt 13 to admire AMERICAN KESTRELs hovering effortlessly in one place over a mown field, while an EASTERN MEADOWLARK serenaded us from a wire over the same field. Lots of ducks/teals/ etc in the wet areas. Begin forwarded message: From: Catherine Cooke ccooke...@gmail.com Date: April 4, 2011 1:06:23 PM EDT To: CAYUGABIRDS-L cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: Birds on Saturday? Reply-To: Catherine Cooke ccooke...@gmail.com I got this e-mail from a friend. Perhaps someone on the list knows what was going on. Thanks! Cathy -- Forwarded message -- From: Rosanne Murphy re...@cornell.edu Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:38 PM Subject: Birds on Saturday? To: Catherine Cooke ccooke...@gmail.com Hi Cathy, If you’re on the bird-sighting email list, can you find out what was going on in Dryden on Saturday. My friend Cindy sent me this yesterday: “I took 38 to Dryden and just before the high school there were several cars off the road and a bunch of people with spotting scopes looking out toward route 13 where the field is mostly under water. I have not idea what they saw, but it drew a crowd.” So I figured that whatever people saw would have been posted on the bird sighting email list. I’m not a member of that and thought you might be. I saw a Phoebe this morning trying to catch bugs in the heavy rain. It probably had just arrived recently and must have been hungry. Thanks, Rosanne __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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] crow nesting
I just looked out in back and saw our pair of yard AMER. CROWS sitting side-by-side on a willow branch, each with its mouth stuffed with the shredded inner bark of a nearby dead willow. What a great missed photo op! They flew off to the west, so apparently are not using their old nest from last year, at the back of the yard. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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] Red Tail with Crow
Interesting observation. To crows Red-tailed Hawks are kind of like traffic: if you pay attention you'll almost never get hurt, but if you don't, it will kill you. I think a Red-tail might take an incubating female crow, but again, she would have to be not paying attention. Certainly Great Horned Owls take them. As a result, the survival of breeding female crows is significantly lower than that of breeding males. Kevin From: bounce-14032422-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-14032422-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kurt Falvey Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:32 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Red Tail with Crow We have a pair of Red-tailed Hawks that have been around for several years. I have seen one carrying a grouse, rabbit, mice, and even have a great picture of one of them snatching a wounded starling off the snow...but yesterday one few by with a crow in its talons with 20 plus crows in hot pursuit.I have heard of Red-tails going after young crows still in the nest and am wondering how this Red-tail came to get this crow? If it was not injured...would a Red-tail go after an adult crow sitting on eggs?...any other thoughts? Happy Birding! Kurt Julie Kurt Broken Road Farms Dundee, NY 14837 Email: k...@brokenroadfarms.com www.BrokenRoadFarms.com -- 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] Myers Osprey
As I drove up to the point at Myers at 7:40 this morning, an OSPREY was just rising from the water off the mouth of Salmon Creek with a nice fish in its talons. A couple of Ring-billed Gulls (wishful thinking) made brief attempts at larceny. A Black-backed might have had a chance. The Osprey, with its wriggling prey, flew off to the south. I'm sure the Osprey knows that the rainbow trout are massing at the mouths of the creeks right now, waiting for higher flow to make their spawning runs. John Greenly Ludlowville -- 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/ --
