Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Blackbirds

2013-02-27 Thread Claire Damaske
Here in Tyre, I have at least 150 in the trees and under the feeders after
the cracked corn this morning!

Claire Damaske

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote:

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 I birded around Stewart Park late yesterday afternoon and my heart was
 warmed by a flock of about 50 Red-winged Blackbirds. They flew in from the
 NW and headed over Renwick Woods. Dave Nutter was also checking the area
 and mentioned that he had a flock a little earlier. Spring is good ! 

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 Gary

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Mount Pleasant Golden Eagle

2013-02-27 Thread tigger64
Tuesday afternoon we had an adult Golden Eagle go by Derby Hill on 15 mph 
ESE-SE winds.  SE and ESE winds virtually guarantee that birds originating 
south of Lake Ontario will hit the lakeshore and make the turn north in the 
Derby Hill area, a unique situation that allows us to speculate whether it is 
the same bird.  It would need to have traveled about 80 miles in 4-ish hours 
and implies an average ground speed of ~20 mph, which seems reasonable for a 
bird spiraling on thermals and gliding out (over and over) and with a small 
tailwind.

Had the winds been SW the bird might have never made it to the Ontario 
lakeshore and made the northward turn somewhere off the east end of the Lake.

Dave Wheeler
N Syracuse, NY

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[cayugabirds-l] red winged blackbirds

2013-02-27 Thread Naomi Brewer
Hi All - Yesterday all the usual feeder birds were busy at my feeders. Of
course many more Goldfinch  Chickadees than when I needed them for the
GBYBC.

Then Yesterday afternoon 3 Red-winged Blackbirds came to the
suet cake and ate about half of it. They ignored the sunflower tube right
near.

My DE Junco's are no longer ground feeders only. They are at
the hanging suet cake as well as the large tube feeder. That has a small
ledge and is filled with cracked corn, sunflower seeds and nijer seeds. 

 

Naomi Brewer

Wyers Pt. Rd.

Sheldrake


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[cayugabirds-l] Yesterday

2013-02-27 Thread Susan Henne
2/26/13

Yesterday was a great day birding on Cayuga Lake.  Jill Vaughan and I were 
impressed by the hundreds of SNOW GEESE along the icy shore as we headed up the 
hill out of Aurora just past Great Gully Farm.  With the sun shining on a 
vibrant blue water, they almost looked tropical.  

We were treated to a GREEN-WINGED TEAL at the pond on Factory St. as well as 
RED HEADS dredging up and feasting on huge helpings of green plants.   HOODED 
MERGANSERS  were plentiful on Mill Pond.  At the Mud Locks there was a BALD 
EAGLE sitting at the top of a tree to the right of, and not far from, the 
original nest #1.  Hundreds of TRUMPETER SWANS congregated on the Lower Lake 
Rd. (west shore) with two MUTE SWANS seen among them.  We couldn't help but 
notice the contrast between the busy but soft voices of swans compared to the 
raucous vocalizations of CANADA GEESE.

Sue Henne

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