Seems like someone must have reported one by now but I can't remember, so:
one TREE SWALLOW yesterday, over the pond on East Rd past May's point.
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I found a RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET dead on the ground outside the glassed stairway
of Rhodes Hall on campus yesterday evening. A sad end to migration for this
one. Look out for live ones!
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-down several times to fend them
off, but soon gave up and flew away fast. The crows chased after,
continuing to ignore the RED-TAIL and TV, who were still circling.
I am getting more suspicious that we have nesting RAVENS somewhere in
the Salmon Creek valley.
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rowed away.
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out a fat fish, and
flew away. The fishermen didn't even see it.
By the way, the Osprey made a big circle over Myers park and headed off in a
southward direction with its catch. I wonder where it was going.
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OOB- Seneca lake basin: This morning Lisa, Sandy and Bill Podulka and I heard
and then saw a single SANDHILL CRANE flying north over the Catherine creek
marsh S. of Watkins Glen.
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A first winter LITTLE GULL flew past Myers ( I think would have stopped there
but a dog flushed the gulls off the spit just as it approached) at about 8 am
this morning, heading south. Might be worth a look at the south end of the
lake.
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and thoroughly duck-shaped.
What had happened? I can still feel the strange sensation of holding up that
absolutely limp neck, and then suddenly felt it come to life.
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as they wheeled upward in a tight bunch. It looked as if they
had been roosting and were flushed out by something. They headed off in
a southwesterly direction.
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lots of Pipits blowing around down on the shore at Myers, and along the roads
nearby too.
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The Osprey, with its wriggling prey, flew off to the south. I'm sure
the Osprey knows that the rainbow trout are massing at the mouths of the
creeks right now, waiting for higher flow to make their spawning runs.
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SPARROW and FOX SPARROW, and a PIED-BILLED GREBE. A 57 sp. morning, thanks to
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was at the extreme
north on Salt Point, I could hear the two singing at once. Could the other
one from the park entrance have come over there- don't know, but it was in the
same place both before and after I saw/heard the two on Salt Point, so I doubt
it.
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was just there for the overall
musical effect- you want precision, ask somebody else... it was a
beautiful, soft, singing morning. Even with all those Catbirds.
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Rd just off 96, on the left on the way up to
the hospital. It is a retirement community, I don't know anything about
the situation for public access.
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a pin-tailed wydah. Cool bird.
On Thursday, September 8, 2011, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu wrote:
The dregs of this tropical storm appear to have brought us more than rain-
I was just shown a very clear cell-phone photo of a SCISSOR-TAILED
FLYCATCHER perched on a horizontal wire, said
A pair of very handsome winter-plumage HORNED GREBES off the point at Myers at
7:45 am. Otherwise, the usual suspects.
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. Their images and designs had
symbolic and religious meaning, they were not intended to be likenesses. The
hominid drawings were of spirits, not people. You can still see some related
forms today in Hopi, Zuni and Pueblo kachina masks. Thanks very much for
sharing these with us.
--John Greenly
at the ball and making it bounce and roll, clearly
something fascinating that is not within the repertoire of the sticks and
stones that normally serve as gull toys.
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was not nearby
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a confrontational situation unless we
really need to.
Many thanks,
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Ludlowville
On 11/9/2012 10:14 AM, Jay McGowan wrote:
Myers was pretty cold and dull this morning, with very few waterfowl
migrating. Lots of gulls were on the spit but nothing out of the
ordinary (although on Tuesday I had
before he could let go. Interesting flying, to say the
least. The female sat and watched the whole show, not noticeably impressed.
I assume this is must be the standard method of getting nice clean fresh
sticks, but I didn't know about it and was amazed.
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I woke this morning to the sound of our Oriole back in the yard. This is two
days later than last year, and for the last ten years one has arrived between
May 4 and 7.
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Ludlowville
On May 8, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Tom Vawter wrote:
Our annual Baltimore oriole is once again
? Do they stay around in the
winter too? I've never seen two together in the winter before.
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, my two must be a
pair.
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On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote:
I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his
living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that
the woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had
6 Greater Yellowlegs at 7 pm today at Myers, foraging around the gravel bar in
Salmon Creek 50 yd or so up from the lake.
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two singing
Yellow-throated Vireos- one seen near the RR bridge; fly-over Wood Duck,
heading for the creek upstream of the RR bridge.
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hours.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 10:12 AM, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu
mailto:j...@cornell.edu wrote:
Following up on Geo's YB Cuckoo post, I watched a pair of
Black-Billed Cuckoos in the Salmon Creek sanctuary
Yes, this is great news!! there have been none there for a number of
years. I've heard none up to now. Can you say exactly where your found
them?
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On 6/4/2014 3:41 PM, Gary Kohlenberg wrote:
Cerulean Warblers are very good ! It seems they have been absent for a
while.
Gary
, lost Zone-tailed be likely to be calling at all?
Interesting! But I'm definitely no expert.
--John Greenly
On Jun 16, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Gary Kohlenberg wrote:
Ray,
I think arguments could be made for a couple species / morphs based on the
backlit photos, and I have my opinion, but as you
.
I’m leaning pretty strongly toward zone-tailed hawk, but would love to hear
any further comments.
Ray
On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:32 AM, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu wrote:
I have watched Zone-tailed in the SW, and they really do fly like Turkey
Vultures. Everything I can see
have
found, and in my memory, much narrower than the first.
...but why did it call like a Red-tail...?
cheers,
John Greenly
On 6/16/2014 3:02 PM, Christopher Dalton wrote:
Hi Cayuga birders,
I have been following the discussion with interest and enjoying the back
and forth. I have to admit
Two SNOW BUNTINGS blowing around in the ferocious wind on the point at Myers,
2pm.
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I was surprised to see a Great Blue Heron at the edge of open water in the
private marina at Myers this afternoon. Unfortunately I surprised it, too- it
flew off eastward toward Ladoga as I was driving in the marina road.
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There was a single Greater Yellowlegs foraging at the mouth of Salmon Creek at
Myers, on the Salt Point side, this morning at about 10 am.
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yes, that Mockingbird is a virtuoso- when he's really geared up , so
many songs go by so fast that it is bewildering. And he doesn't only do
the showy songsters, his Willow Flycatcher imitation is just about
perfect! But Marie knows him well, and his Wood Thrush isn't his best
rendition.
me crossing their flight path or miscalculated how fast
I was going.
Wouldn't that be a spectacular way for a birder to go... skewered by a
heron! Much better than a falling coconut.
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they follow it or just go straight, which would
save hours of flight.
Cheers,
John Greenly
On Nov 14, 2015, at 6:42 PM, John Confer wrote:
> Hi Meena,
>
> Good to see you at Taughannoch.
>
> John and Sue Gregoire and I thought that some of the big, loose flocks of
> lo
from the lower part of the lake. Maybe that's what they are
using, to gain altitude.
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On Nov 15, 2015, at 8:20 AM, John and Sue Gregoire wrote:
> John, Meena,
> I was joking about following Rte 15 southbound! The majority of birds
> yesterday were
> indeed flyi
side- it may be roosting there.
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Our local Screech Owls were calling continuously last night as the eclipse
began, but they went silent as the moon dimmed into totality. Coincidence??
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On Sep 28, 2015, at 7:36 AM, M & K Mannella wrote:
> On both Saturday and Sunday morning we heard the whin
A quiet walk around Salt Point at Myers today found the resident flock of a
dozen or so E BLUEBIRDS at the north end of the meadow, along with a N FLICKER.
Along with the usual gulls and Mallards there was a small flock of C GOLDENEYE
off the north shore.
John Greenly
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A Black-Bellied Plover at Myers point 8:30 tonight, in mostly breeding
plumage. Ate 4 nice fat worms in 10 minutes…
could be too full to fly away tonight?
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came over and left heading north along the shore.
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heading north. Probably
more on the way, though!
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Today early afternoon about three miles north of Myers I came upon the largest
flock of Cormorants I can remember on the lake, about 120 birds sitting on the
water, all took off and flew north as I rowed by.
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