[cayugabirds-l] IS THIS BIRD A PAINTED BUNTING?

Cayuga Birders, The following message was posted to the State College PA Bird Club listserv. Click on the link and watch the whole thing. While these are not living birds, I think everyone will agree that the artistry and craftsmanship these "pistols" show is just incredible!! Don Timmons Newfi

[cayugabirds-l] Newman Arboretum, Mon 2/13

At midday on Monday, I decided to search for roosting owls in Cornell's Newman Arboretum. And I actually found one GREAT HORNED OWL - or I should say, a flock of highly peeved crows found it for me, high in a hemlock on the slope. This was the first owl I've ever found in many attempts at this si

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse *  February 13, 2012 *  NYSY 02.13.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 06, 2012 - February 13, 2012 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex

[cayugabirds-l] Bald Eagle on nest

Hi, This is out of basin. I’ve been watching the adult Bald Eagle pair in Corning and noticed over the last week I was no longer seeing the pair together. They frequently fish the Pressware Pool that is where the Chemung River comes along Rt 17 at the glass plant. I’ve only seen a single bi

[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club short-eared owl field trip Sunday afternoon

In spite of the miserably snowy, cold and windy weather , four others, John Confer, Alicia Plotkin, Anna Nowogrodzki and Ian McGullam joined Mary Jean Welser, Michele Mannella and me to look for short-eared owls in Ovid Sunday afternoon. We headed to the Wycoff Road and Rock River Road area