[cayugabirds-l] Raven courtship
Spring around our house includes Raven courtship. I heard and saw a pair of ravens flying from _south _of Rt 79 over Goetchius Preserve and up Hammond Hill and across to Robinson Hollow ( from a field you can see and hear them from a large distance away). The entire time they flew very close to each other with twists and turns, even occasionally seeming to bump into each other, giving croaks, and the bell-like sound, which I love, and other sounds that carry for more than a mile. I've seen this performance other times and interpret it as raven love. After watching them fly for well over a mile, I have no idea where their this pair might nest. The snow is melting, and the Great Lakes ice cover has receded from nearly 90% to 77%. I got to believe that spring is coming. Cheers, John *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com http://www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4299/9212 - Release Date: 03/02/15 -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- 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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
RE:[cayugabirds-l] Cardinal Song
Although Northern Cardinals are known to have lived to be 15 years old, adults have only a 60% chance of surviving from year to year. I suspect you have a new bird on the block. Kevin From: bounce-118890755-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-118890755-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Meena Madhav Haribal Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 7:26 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Cardinal Song Hi all, I have been hearing the cardinal sing, but to my ear the song seems different than the usual he used to sing in the past time this year at this time of the year. Instead of singing kiddo kiddo he seem to be singing a different tune. So I am wondering if this means something else. I know one female from my area presumably his mate was lost to a Cooper's Hawk as meal. So I am not sure if he is advertising for a female and territory or he is singing the usual song. I wanted to record the song but at that time my heater was blasting with full force. This year it is on most of the mornings due to really cold temperatures. May be tomorrow I will give it a try. Does anyone know of the different tunes cardinal use for different purposes? I know once some one gave a talk on cardinal songs but I believe he did not touch this subject. Also a note of interest for those music and nature song lovers about this special events https://westfield.org/conferences/environsmessiaen/schedule.html Check it out. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comhttp://www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4299/9212 - Release Date: 03/02/15 -- 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] RTHA nesting
On afternoon walk we saw a Red-tailed hawk carrying nest material to the light platform on campus, couldn't tell which hawk it was, and don't see it in web camera's view. C White -- 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] IYC Wednesday
Utterly chagrined that I missed the Tufted Duck at the yacht club yesterday, I stopped back this morning for a longer/closer look. Sure enough, it WAS feeding with the small aythya flock just off the swim dock. In addition, I had a close-in group of 7 Long-tailed Ducks and a distant group of 21 Red-necked Grebes plus four Horned Grebes. The most curious sighting was the upside-down carcass of what appeared to be a Red-breasted Merganser floating offshore. A first year Greater Black-backed Gull was sitting with it on the water, occasionally pecking at it, trying to find a way in. At one point it reached over, grabbed the duck by the bill, and gave it a shake. In the inner harbor was a pair of Common Goldeneye. The female swam behind the male with her neck outstretched and chin flat on the water. He led her in a couple of broad circles before quickly turning along side and mounting her. Copulation lasted a few seconds, and he was off. She rose up, shook herself, and swam off in the other direction. I assumed, anyway, that they were copulating. Though it does seem early in the season. Bob McGuire -- 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] waterfowl mortality in our area?
Hi all, Beth Bunting from the Cornell Vet School sent me this message today: *...we have been seeing a number of dead/starving ducks, grebes and raptors from around the Great lakes and now this week we are hearing about seaduck deaths in East Hampton. This is presumably from the extensive ice cover. We are trying to assist rehabilitators with moving ducks and grebes to open water. Do you have any info about duck populations on either Seneca or Cayuga Lake? Are the birds out there? Is anyone talking about unusual mortalities in the area?* *Elizabeth Bunting, VMD* *Wildlife Health Program* *Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine* *Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory* *Ithaca, NY 14850* *607 253 3900* *em...@cornell.edu em...@cornell.edu* I let her know that there were birds out there, and that I hadn't heard of any mortality events on Seneca or Cayuga this year...putting the word out in case anyone has heard or seen anything that might be of interest to her and her team Feel free to contact her directly. Thanks, Marc Devokaitis Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- 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] IYC Wednesday
Bob or Jay or anyone: what are the access rights to the Yacht Club? I don’t want to trespass and have never been there so don’t know the signage or access. For what it’s worth (and I think it is): I did stop at the Lansing Marina back in the Fall and personally asked the manager if it was OK to use the little parking area on the East side of the marina to scope the bay south of the marina and he said no problem as long as I wasn’t blocking traffic. I was always very uncomfortable driving right past the ’private property no trespassing’ sign when SFO leaders took us there so had not done it on my own until after I had this conversation. I am not offering this as a blanket permission to anyone reading the list; in our conversation i was only asking about myself: I think each person should make the effort on his/her own though of course it is unlikely anyone is there right now. The manager was pleasant (I think his name was John, but don’t hold me to that.) Too many nuts with guns and ‘rights’ to be cavalier about this issue. Read the NYS trespassing laws: the trespasser has essentially no rights and even signage laws are liberal favoring the owner: signs have to be maintained once a year but if they fall down, it’s still their property and you still have no right to trespass. Not busting on anyone! If this site is ‘open’, we should add it to the Birding in the Basin list. ChrisP On Mar 4, 2015, at 15:08 , bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com wrote: Utterly chagrined that I missed the Tufted Duck at the yacht club yesterday, I stopped back this morning for a longer/closer look. Sure enough, it WAS feeding with the small aythya flock just off the swim dock. In addition, I had a close-in group of 7 Long-tailed Ducks and a distant group of 21 Red-necked Grebes plus four Horned Grebes. The most curious sighting was the upside-down carcass of what appeared to be a Red-breasted Merganser floating offshore. A first year Greater Black-backed Gull was sitting with it on the water, occasionally pecking at it, trying to find a way in. At one point it reached over, grabbed the duck by the bill, and gave it a shake. In the inner harbor was a pair of Common Goldeneye. The female swam behind the male with her neck outstretched and chin flat on the water. He led her in a couple of broad circles before quickly turning along side and mounting her. Copulation lasted a few seconds, and he was off. She rose up, shook herself, and swam off in the other direction. I assumed, anyway, that they were copulating. Though it does seem early in the season. Bob McGuire -- 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 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] Northern Harrier
FOY for me Northern Harrier hunting in the fields south of my house being harried by two crows. -- Stephanie Greenwood U.S. Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 280 1050 England 73 Kynaston Road London N16 0EB 07946 341208 -- 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/ --
