[cayugabirds-l] Lesser Black-backed Gulls at Stevenson Rd Compost
Apologies for not putting this out during the day, but there were two Lesser Black-backed gulls on the mounds at the Stevenson Road Composting Facility between 1120-130 today. They were with maybe 700 Ring-billed Gulls and 25 or so Herring Gulls. One was an adult, white head/neck, with very bright but not deep bill and big smudgy red spot (as well as yellowish legs and fairly dark back) and other with some head-neck streaking, a black-ish bill and less uniform grey back. Neither flew, and I am not proficient enough to guess at age of second bird. Anne -- 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] SSW grouse and eagle?
During this morning's beginner bird walk around Sapsucker Woods, we flushed a Ruffed Grouse from near "the" giant poison ivy vine. I think this is my first grouse at SSW. Later from Sherwood Platform we heard a couple yelps of a bald eagle coming from the west, though we did not see anything in tree or sky. I'm now wondering whether it might have been a Blue Jay mimic. Other interesting sightings include a female-type Scarlet Tanager singing stop a tree near the parking lot, a magnolia warbler in the same area and later near the footbridge, Eastern Wood Pewees singing beyond the stream past the footbridge, and at Fuller Wetland a fly-by Accipiter which disappeared into the woods not to be seen again, but whose appearance seemed to coincide with the many goldfinches switching to repeating short "meep"s -- which I'm guessing might be their alarm call. Suan -- 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] Take action
Hey all, I hope this can be considered appropriate use of the listserv and many may have already read this, but there’s an opportunity to express support for pending legislation in this article and I hope we can all do so. https://www.audubon.org/news/new-seabird-study-highlights-importance-healthy-forage-fish-populations-warming?emci=00b41d4d-d5db-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68=08477eda-71dc-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68=651366=policy-adv-email-ea-x-engagement_20190921_advisory_source=ea_medium=email_campaign=engagement_20190921_advisory Thanks much. Linda Orkin. Sent from my iPhone > "For the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun > and the light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into > the world to enjoy" Plutarch > > If you permit > this evil, what is the good > of the good of your life? > > -Stanley Kunitz... -- 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/ --
