I'll echo Dave's observations. My impressions of this distant Scoter were long,
low, heavy bodied bird. The head shape not as upright and rounded and the white
wing patch more of a horizontal stripe than vertical. Kevin's good photos will
keep me on higher alert this week, if she lasts that
Hello all,
There are several of us in the local birding community who are working on
issues like this -- interactions between birders and hunters. Indeed, several
of us have been involved at various scales (local, state, national) for many
years. These are complicated issues, and good
I agree with John Confer and others. I think his arguments should be more clearly and succinctly stated in order to be clear to others and effective to those who make decisions. I'm not volunteering or attempting to do so here, just adding some observations.The number and variety of waterfowl
Went x-country skiing tofay at Hickories Park in Owego and spotted a Great
Blue Heron on a branch over a creek as well as 2 chattering Belted
Kingfishers. Also many UFDs (unidentified flying ducks).
Where did the sun go?
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Some friends and I had a great day of birding yesterday. Our itinerary included Stewart Park, East Shore Park, a shrike search, Ladoga and Myers point, a quest for winter field birds, the Wells College boathouse and the bluffs to the south, the ponds and Frontenac Park in Union Springs, and
A couple of additions to Dave's list of Saturday birding:
LAPLAND LONGSPUR (seen by a few - not all - of us) in a flock of some
200 Snow Buntings/ Horned Larks at the corner of Davis Jerry Smith
Rds, lansing.
SNOW BUNTING several flocks. one along Lansingville Rd just south of
Davis Rd.
Hi all,
This discussion threatens to escalate quickly and I hesitate to weigh in
but here are a few comments for everyone to consider:
1. One of John Confer's main points is that making the direct connection
between hunting pressure on Cayuga Lake and overall waterfowl populations is
A very out-of-season Killdeer was flying around and calling above the parking
lot at the Equine Research Park on Bluegrass Lane this afternoon.
Also: our dog flushed a flock of five Snow Buntings along the path just east of
the parking area where they then sat calmly on the fence bordering one
I made tables to be filled in with birders' yearly species totals for the Town ( City) of Ithaca, the Town of Dryden, and the Town of Lansing. As Kevin McGowan noted, he could not find these for 2012, which was because I hadn't created the tables. Now I have, and while I was at it, I started
It should be noted that a hunt club in the King Ferry area gets released
pheasants. Several yrs. ago I found one with a cheepie leg band that had been
hit killed by a car. I took it to a conservation office in Cortland was
told Cornell provided the birds for the club.
Fritzie
From: bob
A few minutes ago hundreds of crows flew over east hill heading from the
direction of the compost piles to find roosts. It looked as though some
headed towards downtown and others headed more towards campus. Kevin,
are crows faithful to a roost, or do they decide on the spur of the
moment
With this list, and the CBC, threatening to turn into a anti-hunting
forum I'd thought I would mention a few bird sightings instead.
I went looking for close up Longspurs today in Groton as the one we
found yesterday was very unsatisfying. Salt Road has some nice fresh manure /
2 1st year Iceland Gulls were flying and feeding directly off Stewart Park
a=
round 4 this afternoon
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
607-254-2117
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Larry,
North Campus is hosting many crows, what looks to be 1000+ . Most of
them are in the trees by Robert Purcell Community Center, Appel Commons and the
Observatory. I was surprised by them on the Christmas Bird Count as I hadn't
been up there at dusk.
Gary
On Jan 6, 2013, at
The site for the David Cup now starts witha table for the Cayuga Lake Basin for 2013, below which is the CLB table for 2012, and below that there arenow tables for counties for 2012:http://cayugabirds.pbworks.com/w/page/6630177/FrontPageSeveral of these tables should be sorted onto different pages
On Sunday afternoon along the Lansing Center Trail, six curious snowmobilers
and I witnessed a spectacular show by a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK. For
more than 45 minutes, we watched this bird kiting, hovering, and
occasionally perching with improbable equipoise on tiny treetop twigs. A
couple
Jacob Drucker and I checked areas along the southeast corner of the lake
today, from Stewart Park up to Myers, in late morning and early afternoon.
Viewing conditions were great (little to wind, no waves), but Aythya were
amazingly scarce, and we saw no scaup at all. Among the birds of interest
Yesterday about 5 pm I heard two Great Horned Owls dueting close by
while the dogs and I were out stretching our legs. After several
minutes the duet changed to a single 'hoot' that was repeated over 30
times evenly on one pitch, then a short pause, then another set of 37
hoots, then back to
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