[cayugabirds-l] Are the snow geese in high numbers off Rt 89 yet?

2020-02-17 Thread Barbara B. Eden
We are planning a road trip up to Lake Road this weekend to see the snow geese and perhaps tundra swans Does anyone know if they have started congregating there yet? Thanks, Barbara -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse area RBA

2020-02-17 Thread Joseph Brin
RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse * February 17, 2020 *  NYSY  02. 17. 20   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 10 2020 to February 17, 2020 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and

[cayugabirds-l] CBC Conowingo Field Trip

2020-02-17 Thread Carl Steckler
Once again I am cancelling the CBC field  trip to Conowingo Dam. Not because of weather this time but due to lack of Bald Eagles. According to eBird the highest count this month was four. Most days only one or two. Not sure where they all went but not enough to warrant a trip there. Maybe

[cayugabirds-l] Great Black-backed Gull from Maine in Ithaca

2020-02-17 Thread Kevin J. McGowan
I photographed a banded young Great Black-backed Gull at the Cornell compost facility on 1 Feb (https://ebird.org/checklist/S64009795). I got word that this bird was banded in July 2018 when it was too young to fly, in York County, Maine. That is almost exactly 300 miles ENE of here. I have

[cayugabirds-l] GIAC merlins are back

2020-02-17 Thread Suan Hsi Yong
This morning around 9:45, two merlins were calling and interacting in the GIAC field. When I arrived, bird A was calling from the nest tree. Then bird B called from a tree north of the parking lot, and flew to the nest tree where it displaced bird A who flew to an adjacent leafless tree. Not long

[cayugabirds-l] Black-headed Gull, Stewart Park

2020-02-17 Thread Jay McGowan
After a weeklong absence, the adult Black-headed Gull was seen again at Stewart park by Ken Rosenberg yesterday morning, but then not relocated the rest of the day. I just re found it on the ice edge off the east end of Stewart Park, and it just flew off with the other gulls to land alone out on