Today Susan, Gary, and I headed up the lake on a birding venture. Following
are the highlights. I did not list all the birds we saw. Most places we
stopped had the same ducks. Someone told us that the two WESTERN GREBES are
still at Harris Park.
Myers Point we saw 4 BONAPARTE'S GULLS. Two flew up
This afternoon there was a Great Egret in the wet area between the Malone Unit
and Crusoe Creek on Spring Lake Road in Savannah, NY.
This morning there were 11 Wilson’s Snipe at Muckrace Flats and one Greater
Yellowlegs.
And at the MAC there are now 7 Purple Martins including one juvenile or f
As I was driving along Ludlowville Rd along Salmon Creek just now, I came
upon a handsome Ruffed Grouse walking along the line in the middle of the road.
It stopped and watched me as I pulled up beside it. Fearing for its safety I
opened my door- I could have reached out and grabbed it- an
Just in case some of you have had difficulty getting bird e-mails this past wk.
or so & were just a slight bit aggravated, you weren't alone. Suddenly,
yesterday, I began to get e-mails, 43 in the 1st "batch" & the earliest was
from 8 April but as they came from outer space, the dates were all j
Still looking for a few more volunteers for Hog's Hole clean up on Sunday...
Hello birders,
Each year for Christmas Bird count, a bunch of us walk along the edge of the
lake and into Hog's Hole.
This year, the amount of trash that was out there floored me. I've called the
good folks at Treman St
Female Brown-headed Cowbirds do actually remove eggs. Cowbirds are less
likely to parasitize nests of hosts whose eggs are too big for the
cowbird to remove. Cowbirds show a statistically significant timing of
their egg deposit to correspond with the first few eggs of the clutch of
a host. If t
A few days ago I noticed a male brown-headed cowbird sitting on the wire fairly
close to an active house-finch nest. The finches were not making a fuss in his
presence. The next day, 2 eggs were smashed on the porch. The finches are
still hanging around the nest, however, and being busy and fus
I've been looking at the weather maps & charts. It's calm enough overnight for some migration, but Saturday will be the first day in many that we'll have south winds in the daytime. I'm betting on terns, scoters, swallows, and raptors to be moving through in big numbers. --Dave Nutter
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