Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcock Peenting

[Eben McLane]

OOB: woodcock also in Owasco basin. Very Early.

On Feb 25, 2018 6:41 PM, "Ken Haas"  wrote:

> Yesterday, Dave Nutter was riding with me as we participated in Suan’s CBC
> field trip around the lake. Great trip, by the way many thanks to Suan and
> others. Dave suggested that I start listening for woodcock by the field
> next to where I live - just West of Mecklenberg on Rt. 79. So, 6:25PM this
> evening, I walked down the road to the field and PRESTO! There he was and I
> could hear him peenting clearly. Thanks Dave. Looks like Spring is trying
> to poke through Winter’s shroud.
>
> Ken Haas
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[cayugabirds-l] radar/migration

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I don’t have a sophisticated knowledge of Dopler radar images/patterns, but it 
seems to me from poking around NOAA radar just now that there are familiar 
signatures of bird migration in the midwest and the south. Are more experienced 
people on this list picking up signs of migration? Seems a bit early for these 
radar signatures (?) For all I know, I could be mistaking migration for 
particularly heavy mist.


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Free Audubon Guide (not the app)

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This is an interesting site, Peter. 
I suggest consulting it in conjunction with a site like  
https://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/atlas/  , which has 
more information connected to modeled shifts in habitat types. Habitat change 
will come on us more slowly than climate/temperature variables, I’m thinking. 
The site specifies for trees and birds (not all species of either). The site 
also is not as “friendly" as the Audubon one: strong map-reading skills, with 
at least some knowledge of research modeling techniques, will be helpful. 
Anyway, I think these two sites complement each other interestingly. 
Eben

 On Mar 21, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Peter  wrote:




Folksgo to this site and check out the free audubon guide. As I 
explored the listing on Magnolia warblers I noticed that as part of the Guide 
they have a piece on "How climate change could affect this bird's 
range.seem to have one for each species...great resource AND free...
Pete Saracino
The Audubon online Guide to North American Birds 

 is a great resource for all of your bird curiosities.

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[cayugabirds-l] correction

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Monthly LTD benefit from Wells’ insurer is $2,835.10 — I was reading the wrong 
line on the form they sent….
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[cayugabirds-l] OOB Owasco Bald Eagle hunting

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There is a broad, shallow cove on Owasco Lake’s west side (Rte. 38) south of 
Auburn, a bit north of Stone School Road, formed by Buck Point and curvature of 
the shore to the south. Adult Bald Eagles (I also saw a first-year bird a few 
weeks ago) tend to watch the lake waters from tall trees along Buck Point, and 
they fish actively as long as the lake is clear of ice. Today, I stopped my car 
and pulled over to the very narrow shoulder to watch an adult eagle swooping, 
diving, kiting — pretty much the whole display of having found something it 
wanted badly in the water. I saw nothing on the water, just a bit of submarine 
commotion and thought: a fish. I noticed several gulls trying timidly to harass 
the eagle, but the big bird was very focussed. After swooping and kiting for a 
while, the eagle settled into the water and stayed there, almost like a goose; 
after a minute or so, it lifted off with a dead or dying  Ring-billed Gull gull 
in its grip and flew to one of the Buck Point trees to feast.

I think I must have missed the early part of the story, where the eagle attacks 
and hurts the gull in the air, and the gull drops into the lake. The whole 
drama would have been interesting to witness.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] 15 Tundra Swans at Taughannock SP this afternoon

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Owasco Lake has frozen over, essentially. Owasco has had the largest number of 
Tundra Swans (hundreds) I’ve ever seen along the west lake shore, but now most 
are gone — most likely flown over to Cayuga Lake. There are still small pockets 
of open water along Owasco’s west shore, north of the Rte. 38/Wycoff Rd. 
junction where a dwindling population of ducks and geese manage to keep the ice 
at bay; in a nearby tree, late this afternoon, I saw two adult Bald Eagles 
perched and watching the water fowl. I have seen these adult eagles, along with 
at least one immature eagle, for a month or more.They have been mostly fishing, 
but I think they have to be contemplating moving to different waters now, 
especially with the coming cold and the disappearance of fish below and birds 
above the ice.


On Feb 11, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Joshua Snodgrass cedarsh...@gmail.com wrote:

Groups of 4 and 5 visible simultaneously from North Point, another group of 6 
at south cove, and a Kingfisher near the marina. Loads of Canada geese and 
mallards, and some mergansers further out. Also watched a hawk eating a duck 
for a while. Pretty sure it was a red-tailed hawk, but it was a funny angle and 
it seemed to have a pale crescent behind its ear and white rump. Possible 
harrier? The location seems weird for that though.
Good birding,
Josh
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[cayugabirds-l] OOB - Owasco

[Eben McLane]

Just wanted to let folks know that there are an unusual number of Tundra Swans 
on Owasco Lake, generally above mid-lake and along the western shore. They’re 
quite spread out and mixing with Canada geese. Yesterday, I guess there were 
200-300 (maybe more). Is the same true on Cayuga Lake?
Also, I’ve seen an adult Bald Eagle several days in succession eyeing ducks 
from lakefront trees and catching a fish. (This is as I drive by, slowly, since 
there isn’t much room to pull over and park.) The location is on Rt. 38, just 
north or south of Stone School Rd., but I suspect that location will change, as 
the eagle locates new hunting grounds farther up or down the shore. Anyway, 
three successive days of just driving by and seeing an eagle in action is a 
treat.
Eben McLane
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Com Nighthawks over Sapsucker Woods

[Eben McLane]

2 Common Nighthawks this evening here OOB just above Owasco Lake. Beautiful 
sounds.

On Aug 19, 2014, at 8:54 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu wrote:

In addition to the very large number Chris Wood just reported, I had another 
single COMMON NIGHTHAWK fly over my house about 7:30 this evening — only the 
second one ever from my yard.

KEN


Kenneth V. Rosenberg
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Office: 607-254-2412
cell: 607-342-4594
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On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote:

 21 nighthawks just flew over Monkey Run!!
 
 Holy!!!
 
 CLW
 
 
 On Tuesday, August 19, 2014, Kenneth V. Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu wrote:
 Three NIGHTHAWKS flew south over the Cornell Lab of Ornithology parking lots 
 at about 6:20 PM — I see that others are reporting nighthawks this evening as 
 well on eBird.
 
 KEN
 
 
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 Conservation Science Program
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[cayugabirds-l] orange-eaters

[Eben McLane]

I’ve noted recently that orange-halves on the porch railing for orioles were 
disappearing — not just pushed off the railing into the grass below. I assumed 
crows. But this afternoon I came across one of the oranges impaled on a 
hawthorn spike near the forrest edge, and I later saw a female Rose-breasted 
Grosbeak feeding on the orange. A few hours later, pausing while mowing the 
lawn, I saw a male B. Oriole knock an orange off the porch railing onto the 
ground, dislodging some hungry black ants in the process; then the oriole 
proceeded, with some comic difficulty, to convey the orange half into the 
hawthorn/buckthorn grove, and then to secure the orange onto a stout thorn. 
Very soon after, a female oriole arrived and had an orange meal — courtesy of 
Wegman’s.

I’ve not seen this behavior before, but I like it. From now on, I’m going to 
spike my oranges on hawthorns.

Eben
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[cayugabirds-l] question re: feeders and migration

[Eben McLane]

I am curious if anyone knows about migrating birds that appear regularly at 
feeders (home, CLO, anywhere bird feeders are maintained) and then disappear 
after a week or so. Do they use the feeders as a staging area, so to speak, for 
dispersal locally, or as a roadside tavern for a longer journey north? I 
suspect maybe a combination of these two, plus other possibilities that I can’t 
think of, which is why I throw the question out to you.

I understand that the White-crowned Sparrows at my feeders for the last three 
weeks are headed farther north, and probably soon. But I don’t understand why 
White-throated Sparrows (in abundance, and now singing lustily) also disappear 
around the same time. Maybe they’re North Ontario birds and migrating with the 
White-crowned? This goes on year after year, by my observation. Indigo Buntings 
also spend a week or so at the feeders, then simply disappear. In summer, I see 
the latter two species in habitats not much different from the land right 
around my house. So, I’m a little confused.

Any thoughts?

Eben McLane
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sandhill Cranes

[Eben McLane]

The description of where you saw these cranes is consistent with sightings over 
the years. If these birds are returning to an old, familiar nesting site, I may 
be able to pinpoint the location for all who are interested and don’t want to 
drive all the way up to the Montezuma complex to see these beautiful birds: E. 
Venice Rd., the next road east of the Genoa cemetery and Stewarts Corners Rd., 
intersects Rte 90, with a large cornfield on the south side of 90. In the past, 
the adults and their young have stayed mostly in the SW corner of the field, 
away from any traffic on 90. I’m not familiar with the crop rotation scheme on 
this field, but when it’s planted for corn there usually aren’t cranes around, 
as far as I can tell. Not sure why.
Eben McLane

On Mar 29, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Charles Randolph randolph.ros...@gmail.com wrote:

About 2:45 today, two SANDHILL CRANES walking through the large corn field to 
the south of Rte. 90 between Genoa and Locke, more specifically shortly west of 
the farm with mailbox marked no. 10630, between Rte. 34 and the curve on Rte. 
90.  The two birds walked along the edge of the field and down out of sight 
behind a rise with brush on it.  (Credit here goes to my visiting brother Don, 
who first spotted them and is familiar with these birds, which I am not.)

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[cayugabirds-l] bird hydration

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I’m sure someone knows how birds in the wild stay hydrated in a prolonged cold 
snap, such as we’re experiencing. I know that sunflower seeds in feeders 
provide some moisture, but I can’t see any main water sources around my house 
that aren’t frozen solid. (I live just above Owasco Lake, and even the entire 
lake is frozen over this year, as are the waterfall tributaries.) Do birds 
“drink” snow in some way? 

I’d be grateful for information about this.

Eben McLane
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cardinal song?

[Eben McLane]

Is the song you're describing anything like LNS #107306 at Macaulay Library?
Eben McLane

On May 17, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com wrote:

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Asher Hockett veery...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yesterday I heard a song, a thrice repeated ascending arpeggio, roughly a
 musical perfect 4th between each: g c f, g c f, g c f (just to give an
 idea).

This may be the Cardinal song I've nicknamed the bugle call, though
I think that is closer to GCE GCE GCE.
IIRC I too have had trouble finding it among the song samples in the
various iPhone apps.

Suan

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Baltimore Oriole

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Must be the rain? A number of returning migrants (Balt. and Orchard O., Wood 
Thrush and Veery, and some warblers) arrived at my house last week, sang 
briefly then fell silent until this morning. Now they're all singing' in the 
rain.
Eben McLane

On May 8, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.net wrote:

Mine, too.  I saw him at the jelly feeder two days ago, but today he's 
vocalizing .

Sent from my iPad

On May 8, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Tom Vawter tvaw...@wells.edu wrote:

 Our annual Baltimore oriole is once again foraging and singing in the tops of 
 our backyard ashes.
 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] 100+ Redpolls-for a minute

[Eben McLane]

This is from the BNA article on Carolina Chickadees, supporting Geo's 
observation:
Winter flocks move horizontally at an average rate of 6 m/min, with a daily 
pattern of rapid movement in early morning (07:00–10:00: 8 m/min) and in late 
afternoon until roosting (15:00–19:00: 7 m/min), with slower movement during 
midday (10:00–15:00: 5 m/min; Wallace 1970). As flock size increases, so does 
rate of movement (Morse 1970).

Eben McLane

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Hi Laura,

When gathered in large flocks they actually strike me as being _more_ skittish; 
perhaps it's a compounding effect. Makes sense in a way. There may be no 
predator around at the moment,  but they know that by concentrating at a rich 
food source in a landscape of scarcity they create a magnet for any predators 
in the area.

-Geo

 On Jan 9, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu wrote:
 
 Hi,
 This morning there was a flock of at least 100 Redpolls in the trees near 
 our feeders. A few were at the feeders, but after sticking around for a few 
 minutes they alldisappeared.  Here’s a question – why would they leave a 
 rich food source?  Our feeders are full, there are 7 to choose from, and 
 they clearly are happy when they decide to land. I’ve seen this happen 
 before, when there is no obvious evidence (to me) of predators in the area. 
 Other birds keep happily visiting the feeders – chickadees, woodpeckers, 
 nuthatches, etc.  There are other feeders at neighbors’ houses, close by. 
  
 Any thoughts?
 L
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[cayugabirds-l] Owasco Snow Geese

[Eben McLane]

Guess someone from Owasco Lake should chime in: there are two separate and 
relatively small rafts of Snow Geese on the water now, one at the far north 
end, another a mile or so to the south. Total count might be 300 - 400.
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[cayugabirds-l] Robin vocalization in the heat

[Eben McLane]

The other day I listened for quite some time to a Robin making a thin, Cedar 
Waxing-like noise while sitting on its nest in the midday heat. Does anyone 
know if this sound is like a complaint about the heat or serves some 
heat-dispersal function? The noise was persistent all afternoon and was 
accompanied by significant heaving of the bird's body.
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[cayugabirds-l] Waxwings Tulip trees

[Eben McLane]

I've been aware of flocks of Cedar Waxwings apparently feeding on tulip tree 
flowers. Never noticed this before and didn't know that the nectar was 
particularly sweet (bees don't seem very interested, anyway.) Perhaps a silly 
question, but is this common CW feeding this time of year?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] witnessed bird drama

[Eben McLane]

Wallace Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird seems 
appropriate to this discussion, especially the following stanzas (out of XIII, 
of course):

IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling 
Or just after.
….
VIII
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

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[cayugabirds-l] more Snow Geese

[Eben McLane]

In case people are still wanting Snow Geese, at 5PM Sat. 6000-7000 flew high 
over my house on Owasco Lake, flying NW toward Cayuga/MNWR. Earlier in the day 
there were two separate acre-sized flotillas on Owasco (I don't think the 
flying geese I saw could be from the same flocks, as they were so high in the 
sky, as if coming from a distance.)

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] WOODCOCK dancing

[Eben McLane]

I also heard a woodcock in the wind tonight, both wing-flight and ground call. 
This is a month earlier than my personal notes show over the last 13 years for 
where I live.
Eben McLane
Scipio, NY


On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Nancy W Dickinson wrote:

Hooray!!! I've just been out in this tumultuous weather listening to repeated 
skydance music from a woodcock in the field north of our house. The wind is so 
strong (and cold) I could hear it do the twittering ascent to circle overhead, 
and then the chirping descent, for 7 cycles, but couldn't hear it peent on 
the ground, nor did it do it for long before rising again.  I'm frozen-- how 
can the bird do it?

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Mecklenburg
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[cayugabirds-l] snow geese movement

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Owasco Lake 4:30 PM Monday: enormous flight of several thousand snow geese 
flying SW, low in the sky (heading where? to the fields before overnight stop 
on Cayuga Lake?); 8 PM : many, many more (by the sound of it) on central Owasco 
Lake.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Robin!

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I'm used to sporadic winter visits from flocks of robins both in the woods and 
congregating at bare spots on the lawn, but this winter they've been around a 
lot more than usual and in greater numbers -- bluebirds, too. It's got to be 
the warmer temperatures and the lack of consistent snow cover, right?
Eben McLane
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On Feb 15, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Carol Keeler wrote:

I've had flocks of robins almost daily this winter.  On rainy days they are on 
the ground, like in spring.  Usually they stay in the trees.
Carol Keeler 

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On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:35 AM, M  K Mannella mkmanne...@gmail.com wrote:

 We have our first robin this morning. Can spring be very far away?
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[cayugabirds-l] Horned Larks in Fleming (Cay. Co.)

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South of Auburn on Silver Street Rd. near the Fleming/Scipio Townline Rd.: two 
apparently separate flocks of Horned Larks (roughly 10 in each) were scavenging 
whatever is available at the roadside scraped up by recent plows; also an 
unidentified sparrow among them (small, like a Savannah Sparrow??) -- the light 
was fading fast. Incidentally, this stretch of road, with open farmland on both 
sides, is a good place to see larks and buntings in winter, as well as N. 
Harriers most of the year.

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[cayugabirds-l] feeder sparrows

[Eben McLane]

The quick snow drop in Cayuga County this morning (6 at my house) has brought 
sparrows to the feeders from all over: 5 Am. Tree; 4 White-throated; 2 Song, so 
far.
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[cayugabirds-l] broken-winged grackle

[Eben McLane]

I've been studying a partly crippled Common Grackle at my feeders over the past 
few days. One of its wings trails along the ground as it moves, but it can fly 
short distances to perch on a branch. It arrived along with a large mixed flock 
of starlings and cowbirds but stayed on after they flew away. It's doing well 
enough for now with all the seed I put out, but I'm wondering what its chances 
are over the coming weeks, even months. Any insights?
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[cayugabirds-l] Am. Robin behavior question

[Eben McLane]

I just spent a half hour watching a flock of Robins mob a pair of Pileateds in 
the woods here above Owasco Lake, hounding them from tree to tree, chasing them 
up above the canopy and down into the understory. Why? Is it because they Can 
in such large numbers? And what threat would the woodpeckers be to them at this 
time of year?

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[cayugabirds-l] swallowing insects

[Eben McLane]

Watched hundreds of assorted swallows feeding for a couple of hours  
this afternoon over nearby fields and lawns here in Scipio Center.  
They paused occasionally to rest on overhead wires before resuming the  
feeding frenzy. Some tiny winged insects were swarming; I didn't get a  
good look at them, but I assume ants. Migrating flycatchers also  
showed a good deal of interest at the woods edge (pee wees, phoebes, 2  
Great Cresteds and 1 Olive-sided). After two hours all the swallows  
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[cayugabirds-l] Can we see migrating birds on weather radar?

[Eben McLane]

Can we see migrating birds on weather radar? I see lots of CNY clutter  
that isn't fog -- I always suspect birds during migration periods.
I'm sure some one of you out there has a quick lesson in the use of  
weather radar to track migration. A short lesson for us all, please?  
Thanks.


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[cayugabirds-l] odd Wood Thrush song

[Eben McLane]

Yesterday on one of the woods trails at Esker Brook (MNWR) my wife and  
I both heard and saw a Wood Thrush with (at least for us) an unusual  
variation in its song. I wish I'd had recording equipment, because  
it's difficult to describe; we both thought it sounded like a musical  
two or three note cough between standard versions of the song. At  
first we thought it was a separate, unknown bird, but with binoculars  
we could watch the vocalizations. I listened to at least an hour of  
MaCaulay Library recordings last night and heard nothing like it.
If anyone more knowledgeable than I am happens by Esker Brook, please  
listen for it and tell me what you think.

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[cayugabirds-l] Owasco bald eagle

[Eben Mclane]

This AM saw an adult Bald Eagle lift a rabbit carcass off Owasco's west lake
drive and fly off south. Any reports of nearby nests?

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[cayugabirds-l] Merlin stories

[Eben McLane]

Do any of you out there have observations or brief stories about urban  
or suburban Merlins nesting and/or hunting in the Finger Lakes region?

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] White throated sparrow campus

[Eben McLane]

White-throated sparrows arrive every spring at this time around my  
house in Scipio. They scratch the leaf-litter, explore the ground  
beneath the feeders, and they practice singing in the bushes for  
several days--haltingly, thinly at first, then increasingly full- 
throated--then they just move on, rehearsal donemy annual  
frustration.

Eben McLane

On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:03 PM, M  K Mannella wrote:

White throated sparrow two days in a row in the upper part of the  
azalea garden


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[cayugabirds-l] House sparrow @ nesting box

[Eben McLane]

I'm curious as to how some of you handle House Sparrows at Bluebird  
and Tree Swallow nesting boxes. I don't get many HS where I live, but  
I have on occasion seen Bluebirds and Tree Swallows killed in the  
boxes (not a pretty sight). The few times I've dealt with this problem  
in the past, I simply removed the boxes until the HS went away, then  
replaced the boxes and found Bluebirds and swallows coming back to  
them later on.

Any new insights?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Am. Robin w/white head

[Eben McLane]

For about five years, I had a completely white-headed junco around  
my house. It disappeared a couple of years back--died, presumably.  
Does anyone know literature on song bird color variations, especially  
on color variations and reproduction?
Eben McLane

On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Mark Walls wrote:

My son, Dave, and I saw a robin with a white head this AM on West  
Hill, Spencer.  I remember seeing another piebald robin a number of  
years ago near Love Fieldhouse, Cornell campus.  That bird, however,  
had many more white patches.

-- 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] NE Ithaca, Tues 3/16

[Eben McLane]

Same high-flying flock (I assume) passed overhead here in Scipio  
around 3:30.
Eben McLane

On Mar 16, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Mark Chao wrote:

Despite steady north winds at ground level, thousands of Snow Geese,  
of which about three percent are blue-morph, have been migrating high  
over northeast Ithaca between 2:00 and 3:00 PM.

Mark Chao


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[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga County roadside birds

[Eben McLane]

In southern Cayuga County (my experiences in Fleming, Scipio, Genoa,  
Venice), if you drive away from the main roads and on secondary, even  
tertiary (?), roads along empty farm fields you'll no doubt encounter  
flocks of Horned Larks, Snow Buntings, and assorted sparrows pecking  
in the plow-scarred grasses at roadside. Flights from an approaching  
car are spectacular, especially the mixed lark and bunting flocks.  
This phenomenon is not news to birders, but it can turn a routine 20  
minute drive into an hour and a half excursion!
I have a feeling that day-to-day life is going to get a lot harder for  
these birds as soon as this new snow storm hits.


Eben McLane



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ROBINS

[Eben McLane]

Here in Scipio at the edge of forest above Owasco Lake I also saw and  
heard an unusual number (maybe 50 or so)  of AMER. ROBINS at dusk in  
the trees and along the driveway; when they left they seemed to be  
headed north and into a snow squall. Never saw this behavior before in  
these conditions--wind strengthening from the NW. I'd like to hear  
more about this, too.

Eben McLane

On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Susan Fast wrote:

At 1615 this afternoon, I was driving down Dixon Rd. (N. of King  
Ferry), then turned west on Rafferty.  I noticed a bunch of birds  
flying NORTH over the road, in the distance.  Coming up to them, I  
noted they were AMER. ROBINS, so I stopped to watch.  The sky was  
pretty much full of what turned out to be a long and wide straggling  
stream.  They continued overhead for at least 8 minutes.  The stream  
stopped, so I drove on to Rt. 90 and turned south. After a mile, the  
stream started again and continued till a couple miles south of the  
Triangle Diner, where I ran out of birds.  I didn’t actually count  
them, but my conservative estimate is 3000.  I thought they might be  
going to some preselected roost (following them was not an option  
today), but why so many this time of year?  Constructive ideas welcomed.

Steve Fast
Brooktondale


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