[cayugabirds-l] Another count week species

[Dave Nutter]

January 4 was the last day of count week, and another species was found. 
- - Dave Nutter

> 
> Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) (1)
> - Reported Jan 04, 2018 10:12 by Mike Wasilco
> - Sapsucker Woods--Lab Building Area, Tompkins, New York
> - Map: 
> http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=42.4796874,-76.4509829&ll=42.4796874,-76.4509829
> - Checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S41619213
> - Comments: "Good sized blackbird with proportionally long tail."
> 

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[cayugabirds-l] Found!

[Dave Nutter]

> On Jan 4, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Marie P. Read  wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen or heard my backyard tough-guy Belted Kingfisher for several 
> days...
> 
> Marie

At 11:15 this morning I was driving an empty taxi through the intersection of 
Hanshaw & Niemi Roads when a male Belted Kingfisher flew southwest in front of 
me. It was below treetop level, so I assume it was on a local trip.  The nearby 
Cornell experimental ponds are frozen. There’s a larger more natural pond 
nearby (to the NW not SW) but could there be any open water there? And there 
are other wetlands in the area, but without higher land close by, how could 
they be spring-fed and open? And what would live in them that a kingfisher 
could catch this time of year?  The temperature was all of 1°F. 
I thought Marie’s kingfisher up by Mt Pleasant was odd in such cold weather 
even though there is a swamp near her place. Maybe this is the same bird 
roughly five miles away. Or maybe her bird went south on the Jan 1 or 2, and 
this bird is now going south from somewhere else. Anyway, it was a surprise to 
me.
- - Dave Nutter
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[cayugabirds-l] Weekend walks

[Linda Orkin]

Hey all, 

Weekend bird walks at Sapsucker Woods are cancelled this weekend due to extreme 
weather. 

Go to cayugabirdclub.org for updated information.

Thanks

Linda Orkin
Ithaca NY

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Newfield Red-winged Blackbirds

[Claire Damaske]

We've had a few Red-Winged Blackbirds all season, but today, there is a
mixed flock of about 30 at our backyard feeders on Gravel Rd in Tyre.

Claire Damaske

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 4:52 PM Nigel Dyson-Hudson 
wrote:

> Dave, I reported to eBird on Sun 12/31 a Red-Winged Blackbird male at
> ~10:45 am hanging around our bird feed. I also attached a photo to the
> report. I haven't seen him since but he might have come when I wasn't
> looking. Now if he had only waited until 1 Jan. We used to see RWB males
> coming to our bird feeders about the 3rd week of March, now it seems that
> they come back the 1st week of March. Now I wonder when the West Danby
> Herrons will show up.
>
> Nigel, we are about 1 mile north of West Danby off NY Rt 34/96. Test Rd
> off Rt
>  13,
> just south of Ithaca, the landmark is the self storage place, the pump
> house with the red light on top, on the West side of Rt 13.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Dave Nutter  wrote:
>
>> Yesterday morning (3 Jan) I was driving an empty taxi through the Town of
>> Newfield on Elmira Road (NYS-13). South of Test Road is a marsh along the
>> headwaters of the West Branch of Cayuga Inlet. The marsh is currently
>> frozen, of course. Near there I saw 2 black birds fly east across the road
>> toward some tall trees in a yard on the hillside. Their tails were too long
>> for Starlings. I pulled over and, scanning with binoculars, found several
>> birds in the treetops. With a hand-held scope through my partially open
>> window I saw 2 male and 1 female RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS. The temperature was
>> 8°F, and I was not expecting my first 2018 sighting of this species to be
>> there. I bet the fence at that house hid some popular feeders.
>>
>> - - Dave Nutter
>>
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