[cayugabirds-l] crow roost - count
I counted 4549 crows coming to the roost located primarily west of Rt96B opposite the IC campus with some birds roosting on the east side of 96B near the circle apartments: Sunday, 1 March, 2014. I couldn't see if there were any birds coming from the south or west. On 1 March, the birds were roosting primarily on IC Natural Area land. The arrival began slowly, peaked about 5:20-5:30 and then declined abruptly. There were two major flight lines approaching the roost as follows The first approach line came from the north over the land that slopes steeply down to the valley. On 1 March, these birds were high in the sky. On 28 Feb. this approach had far greater density of crows during a few minutes of observation period than at the same time on 1 March and the birds came in to the roost just above tree top. The other approach line flew into the roost going in a westsouthwest direction. This approach line had many birds on 1 March, but did not have many birds during the previous evening. On both evenings, peak arrival was during the later part of the entire arrival time. The flight lines and elevation used varied between the two nights. THE ROOSTING BIRDS WERE VERY CLOSE TO RT 96B AND PROVIDED A PHOTOGENIC OPPORTUNITY, IF YOU LIKE BLACK AND WHITE. The crows even fed along the road shoulder with hundreds in tree tops directly behind the feeding birds. From 96B the site is crossed by utility lines, but from the drive that accesses Longview, the roosting bids can ge seen without lines in the way. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- attachment: confer.vcf
[cayugabirds-l] Ravens from BTI
I just saw two Ravens chased by crows Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Bald Eagles, Bath, NY.
Two mature Bald Eagles on the nesting tree. One on the nest, one nearby on a branch. Just prior to that, an immature Bald Eagle seen flying nearby. Michael -- www.foothillspublishing.com/poetguy www.foothillspublishing.com/48states www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Czarnecki/1575191103 Never Stop Asking for Poems -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mill Pond Union Springs
Along with regulars today: More Am. Wigeon than seen thus far this mo.. 1 male Green-winged teal 1 male Red-Breasted Merganser. Flew in just after I arrived at 1:15 p.m. 1 male female Merganser, a pr. ... slim trim but mist too thick with sun glare to ID 1 Horned Grebe ... other one may have been there but mist rising from water was too thick to see the back of the pond. Fritzie -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens
Early this morning we finally got two Carolina Wrens together at the suet feeder. All February only one would visit and we wondered what had happened, or whether they were just taking turns. We have had a pair of Carolina Wrens visit our feeders for many years in winter; in spring summer we hear the trilling and singing and see them skulking around our brush piles. We assumed they were a pair -- glad to know that is confirmed on the Lab of O page. Nari Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd. Subject: Re: Carolina wrens From: John Greenlyj...@cornell.edu Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 14:23:21 -0500 X-Message-Number: 3 Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first: says there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year. Funny I haven't noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring. Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too. Anyway, my two must be a pair. --John Subject: Carolina wrens From: John Greenlyj...@cornell.edu Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 12:58:20 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1 I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that the woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty. My impression was that the males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing- but these two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other. There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the feeding spot? Or is it possible that the second bird is a female? Do they stay around in the winter too? I've never seen two together in the winter before. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- ___ *Nari B. Mistry*, Ithaca, NY To see my paintings, visit http://www.ArtbyNari.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * February 24, 2014 * NYSY 02. 24. 14 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 17, 2013 - February 24, 2014 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled: February 24 AT 6:30 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #383 Monday February 24, 2014 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of February 17, 2014 Highlights: --- RED-THROATED LOON WOOD DUCK GREEN-WINGED TEAL HARLEQUIN DUCK SNOWY OWL SAW-WHET OWL SHORT-EARED OWL NORTHERN SHRIKE Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 3/2: 2 SHORT-EARED OWLS were spotted at the mucklands along Rt. 31. Onondaga County - 2/26: A SNOWY OWL was seen at Hancock airport. 3/1: 2 GREAT HORNED OWLS and 2 WOOD DUCKS were seen at Green Lakes State Park. 3/2: A SAW-WHET OWL and 2 RAVENS were found on the Bog Trail at Beaver Lake Nature Center. Oswego county 2/28: An adult male HARLEQUIN DUCK. was spotted in the Oswego River near Lock 6 off of Rt. 48 in Oswego. It was seen in the same place for the next two days but had moved down river today to the area near the Post Office. 3 TRUMPETER SWANS and a GREEN-WINGED TEAL were seen on Oneida Lake at Brewerton. 3/1: A RED-THROATED LOON was spotted in Oswego Harbor. 2 TRUMPETER SWANS were seen in the Oswego River in Fulton 3/2: 8 TUNDRA SWANS were seen on Oneida Lake at Brewerton. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen at Mallory. Oneida County 2/25: A SNOWY OWL was seen near the Thruway exit at Verona. 2/28: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen at the Harris Road intersection with Rt. 31. 3/2: A SNOWY OWL was seen at a farm in Oriskany. Madison County 3/1: A SNOWY OWL was spotted at the Sky High Sod Farm north of Chittenango. Jefferson County 3/1: A SNOWY OWL was seen on Rt. 11 north of Co. Rt. 26. -- end report -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Rough-legged Hawk Dark Phase
I've been looking for ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Burdick Hill Road ever since Mark Chao saw them there in mid-February and I occasionally see a light phase one flying over the field sitting in a tree on the south side of the road as he described. Today as I drove by at 2: 35 PM, I did a double take. The Rough-legged sitting in the tree today was definitely a dark-phase. Candace -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
