I did a quick birding run around Dryden this afternoon. Dryden Lake is
completely frozen, so nothing there. The only waterfowl I saw were 100 Canada
Geese and 6 Mallards in an unfrozen puddle on West Lake Road. Also about 20
SNOW BUNTINGS there. Cornell Lane had 30 Horned Larks along the roa
Very cool observations.
Donna quoted me pretty well. Wanna-be-predators is what crows are. They
definitely don’t have the tools to make it happen often.
Actually, eastern chipmunks are substantially larger than meadow voles. I
trapped hundreds of meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, for my
As Kevin McGowan recently wrote, Crows are wanna-be predators and don't quite
have all the equipment or know how to be a consistent bird of prey (I
paraphrased here; sorry if I got it a bit wrong).
--Donna Scott
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From: Susan Fast
To: 'CAYUGABIRDS-L'
Sent: We
I've spent much of this morning watching red squirrel interactions in our
yard; stuff I haven't seen before. Anyway, on to birds. We also have still
one CHIPMUNK which has daily been filling its cheeks with seeds (yesterday
it had a tail; today no tail, but that is a rodent-rodent interaction most
NYSDEC is no longer organizing the Midwinter Bald Eagle Surveys. It is now
being done by a federal biologist. If anyone is interested in setting up a
Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey Route please contact Michael Vissichelli as per the
conversation below.
Tom Salo
On 11/26/2013, Vissichelli, Michael
On Wednesday morning (10:00-10:50 AM), Tilden and I saw four BALD EAGLES at
the south end of Cayuga Lake. We had long scope views of a couple of these
eagles at rest. Better still, we witnessed a spectacular show from these
birds in the air all over Stewart Park and the Newman Golf Course. One
c
