[cayugabirds-l] REMINDER: November Cayuga Bird Club Meeting - Mon., Nov. 14

2016-11-14 Thread Laura Stenzler 


The November Cayuga Bird Club meeting is tonight, Monday, November 14 at 7:30 
pm at the Ornithology Lab. Cookies & conversation begins at 7:15.

  Our speaker,  Vanya Rohwer, curator of the Bird and Mammal collection at the 
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, will give his presentation - "Of 
Mansions and Shacks: Understanding Divergent Nest Building Behaviors Between 
Two Populations of Yellow Warblers".

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Yellow Warblers have one of the widest breeding distributions of all North 
American wood warblers, ranging from the equator to Alaska. Different breeding 
sites pose different challenges to successfully raising young, and one way for 
Yellow Warblers to overcome these challenges is by building nests that are well 
suited to local environments. Vanya Rohwer will discuss why Yellow Warblers 
breeding between two different locations in Canada a temperate and subarctic 
site build such dramatically different nests, and will highlight some of the 
process of discovery associated with this research.
For his work on Yellow Warbler nest morphologies, Vanya traveled to Churchill, 
Manitoba where Polar Bears loomed in willow thickets, Beluga Whales breached in 
Hudson Bay, mosquitoes buzzed insistently, and the dusk twilight of northern 
latitudes lingered till 2am.


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[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA addendum

2016-11-14 Thread Joseph Brin 
Sorry, only 12 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on Beaver Lake.
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[cayugabirds-l] Cattle Egrets

2016-11-14 Thread John and Sue Gregoire 
Ran into a few confused people looking for egrets at MNWR this morning. To 
hopefully
clear that we found the 8 egrets with a few horse buddies at the farm on East 
Tyre
Road. Coming from the south on 89 beyond 5/20 look for E.Tyre which branches off
left in a NNW direction just before the large Goose Haven decoy. A short way 
down E.
Tyre you will find the farm on your right and the egrets following the horses 
around
the field beyond the house and paddocks. Coming from the North, take a right on 
Lay
Rd (this is a road to Esker Brook(trails closed due hunting)) and then a left on
East Tyre. Part of the confusion is a place on E.Tyre with a sign reading Goose
Haven as does the sign on 89.

We also saw a number of Sandhill Cranes at Knox-Marcellus and counted 46 at a
distance without a scope. They were closer to Mud Lock Rd than to the parking 
area.

The main pool is loaded with waterfowl with Redhead, Coot and Baldpate (Am. 
Wigeon)
predominating. Large numbers of Ruddy Ducks and lesser numbers of Mallard, 
Gadwall,
N. Shoveler, a single Canvasback, Ring-necked, scaup spp, Common Merganser and 
PB
Grebe are also in residence.

The new superhighway through the refuge is newly graveled and rough with the 
north
end of the drive almost devoid of waterfowl although we did see two G. 
Yellowlegs.

John and Sue


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John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory
5373 Fitzgerald Road
Burdett,NY 14818-9626
N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492'
 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/
"Conserve and Create Habitat"




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[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

2016-11-14 Thread Joseph Brin 
*  New York*  Syracuse   
   - November 14, 2016
*  NYSY  11.14.16 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird AlertDates(s):November 07, 2016 - 
November 14, 2016to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate 
NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands 
Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, 
Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison & Cortlandcompiled: November 14  AT 12 p.m. 
(EST)compiler: Joseph BrinOnondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org  
Greetings: This is the Syracuse Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 07, 
2015.
Highlights--
RED-THROATED LOONAMERICAN WHITE PELICANCATTLE EGRETBLACK-CROWNED 
NIGHT-HERONCACKLING GOOSEBRANTGREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSEEURASIAN 
WIGEONSANDHILL CRANEHUDSONIAN GODWITICELAND GULLBLACK-LEGGED KITTYWAKEPALM 
WARBLEREVENING GROSBEAK

Montezuma National Wildlife Complex (MNWC) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex 
(MWC)
     11/12: A late PALM WARBLER was seen at Mays Point. 66 SANDHILL CRANES and 
a CACKLING GOOSE were seen from East Road. 7 CATTLE EGRETS were seen at Goose 
Haven on Rt. 89. A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Lock 25 on Rt. 89.     
11/13: An EURASIAN WIGEON continues along the Wildlife Drive. 69 SANDHILL 
CRANES were seen from East Road. The CATTLE EGRETS continue to be seen at Goose 
Haven on Rt.89.

Cayuga County
     11/10: A RED-THROATED LOON was spotted at Fair Haven State Park.     
11/12: An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN was spotted on the pond at Fair Haven State 
Park. After being put up by a boat it was spotted flying from West Barrier 
Beach to the west but has not been reported since. 

Onondaga County
     11/7: A RED-NECKED GREBE was seen on Onondaga Lake at Willow Bay.     
11/8: An astounding 123 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE were seen on Beaver Lake 
west of Baldwinsville. They have been seen each day since through yesterday. A 
HUDSONIAN GODWIT was found on Oxbow Road near the Gerber Topsoil Farm in the 
Town of Cicero. It was seen through 11/10 but has not been reported since. An 
EVENING GROSBEAK was seen at the confluence of the Oneida and Seneca Rivers 
south of Phoenix.     11/9: 55 BRANT were seen at the confluence of the Seneca 
and Oneida Rivers.

Oswego County
     11/11: A BLACK-LEGGED KITTYWAKE was seen from the bluff at Derby Hill on 
Lake Ontario.2 BRANT and an ICELAND GULL were seen at Oswego Harbor.

Madison County
     11/12: A CACKLING GOOSE was seen on Woodman Pond north of Hamilton.

Herkimer County
     11/10: 2 EVENING GROSBEAKS were at a feeder north of Dolgeville.
        
     --end report 
    
Joseph BrinRegion 5Baldwinsville, NY 13027  U.S.A.  
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