[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake Birding Van Tour - Friday, March 14

The Montezuma Birding Van Tour scheduled for Thursday will be pushed back one day due to the impending snowstorm. Weather conditions will be favorable on Friday, March 14 from 1 pm - 4 pm to experience the start of the waterfowl migration.  Hop in the Montezuma Audubon Center’s van for a tour

Re: [cayugabirds-l] American three-toed woodpecker

I am quite sure I saw a Black-backed Woodpecker here, Lansing Sta Rd in ~2007. I see them occasionally in Algonquin Prov Park Ontario, where I go every fall. this was before I joined CBC posted sightings. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Mar 9, 2014, at 10:31 PM, Alicia Plotkin

[cayugabirds-l] Winter wrenS @ Mulholland

Two winter wrens are countersinging at Mulholland/Six-Mile Creek, just past the first bend. Suan _ http://suan-yong.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] American three-toed woodpecker

Thank you all for your patience. This morning we had downys, hairys, and red-bellies at the suet, but not yet the bird we saw yesterday around noon.* We'll be checking at lunchtime (his and ours). Best, Marty *in other words, no yellow stripe on the head On Mar 10, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Donna

RE: [cayugabirds-l] American three-toed woodpecker

Hi Martin, I was fortunate to see an ATTW in 2006 ? , I need to verify with my notes, in Pharsalia WMA. The thing that struck me most about this bird was the feeding behavior. You wouldn't notice this on suet of course, but she would feed horizontally, peeling bark chunks

[cayugabirds-l] Ithaca Short-eared Owls

The greatest surprise on last evening's Owl Prowl (Cayuga Bird Club field trip led by John Confer) was a sighting of two foraging Short-eared Owls inside the fence at the north end of the TC airport. We had driven up that way to look for woodcocks before it got dark enough for owls. No

[cayugabirds-l] Abject apologies for my screw up with this weekend's Owl Prowl

So sorry I got these dates mixed up for all of you and for John who had generously offered to lead. He told me to go ahead and send out the invite and I just mixed it up. I had it as March 9 on the calendar but second guessed myself after sending John the incorrect date in a reminder. It was

[cayugabirds-l] Short-eared Owls - Ithaca Airport

Two Short-eared Owls flying inside chain link fence at about 7:20 Sunday evening. First spotted by Bob, eagle eye, McGuire who was still sitting inside a car after all the rest of us had gotten out of three different cars and did not notice anything. And the

[cayugabirds-l] Silk purse from sow's ear.

So, my calendar says I was leading a Cayuga Bird Club trip on Sunday, 9 March. Knowing my success with owls, this may have been doomed from the start. Apparently, the entire rest of the world thought I was leading an owl prowl on Saturday, 8 March. O dear. I'm sorry. Ann Mitchell was kind

[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