k them her rooster beat the crap out of it, and it
had been sitting on the chicken house staring down at the chickens for a week
or two before it died.
Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D.
Instructor
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Sounds about right. I'd have to check the BNA account tomorrow at work to
verify the numbers, but that seems in the ballpark.
For medium-sized songbirds, like robins and Red-winged Blackbirds, 70% of nests
fail to produce any fledglings, 92% of those fledglings die over the first
year, and hal
Red-breasted Nuthatches are periodically irruptive species out of the boreal
forest. They tend to go south months before other irruptives, usually first
showing up in August. It looks like this is going to be an irruption year.
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David,
Thanks for posting. Glad you got a decent photo of the Tundra Swan. On 5 June
2016, when I made the run for the Garganey, I saw a single swan in the marsh
that I identified at the time as Tundra. Its eyes were too prominent for
Trumpeter, in my opinion, but everyone else called it a Tru
It doesn't look like this ever got posted on this list. This morning, Saturday,
18 June 2016, Stacy Robinson was looking for the Garganey at Knox-Marsellus and
found a Black-necked Stilt instead!!! Although the Garganey remained elusive
and had not been seen by the time I left this afternoon, th
Interesting observation, Marie. I have a pair of orioles coming to my suet
right now, and I have never experienced that before.
Kevin
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Awesome! I wish I had that as a feeder bird. I expect that if it wants the suet
that badly that it will find a way to get it, provided it isn't scared away. I
don't think ravens are as gymnastically, physically astute as gray squirrels,
but if there's a will, there will be a way. If you want to
rican Wigeon, and a single sleeping
RED-NECKED GREBE.
Kevin
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Do you know about our oth
Also, vesper sparrow, Savannah sparrow, and SNIPES.
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On Apr 3, 2016, at 1:14 PM, "Kevin J. McGowan"
mailto:k...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
Dryden back road edges are covered in robins and pipits. Also savannah
sparrows, killdeer, and a few flickers.
Sent from my
Dryden back road edges are covered in robins and pipits. Also savannah
sparrows, killdeer, and a few flickers.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 3, 2016, at 12:55 PM, "David Nicosia"
mailto:daven102...@gmail.com>> wrote:
American Pipits in many locales down here in Broome co too. Many close up.
Mu
I was doing crow work today, which means nest finding (they started
incubating!! All nest site information and activity reports are most welcome.),
and had a few non-crow interesting observations to report.
I had FOX SPARROWS in three different locations today, so watch out for them.
All locat
Although the body shows some dark feather edging that resemble a Canada Goose,
the thick neck with deep ridges in the feathers indicate this bird has domestic
goose genes.
Kevin
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Apologies to the list.
Colleen,
Your email doesn't seem to be working. I was trying to RSVP for dinner, but it
bounced twice.
Kevin
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Nice photos. I see no progression of molt from when I photographed the bird on
27 Feb: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27850362. Does anyone else
see any changes?
Kevin
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looked so much alike one wonders if they are siblings traveling together.
We still have so much to learn about animal movements and associations!
Photos in the checklist at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27703623.
Kevin
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And an adult BALD EAGLE on the compost mounds at 2:00, then perched in the tree
line above the compost for the next two hours.
The number of Red-tailed Hawks in that tree got to 25 while I was there. I
spent too much time sitting still photographing two young hawks reluctantly
"sharing" a recen
A report just came in to the Lab of a WHITE PELICAN in the inner harbor in
Syracuse, present for the last two hours.
Kevin J. McGowan
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This morning at the Cornell compost facility on Stevenson Road, I had a
1st-year ICELAND GULL and a 3rd-year or more (but sub-adult) LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULL, along with several hundred Ring-billed Gulls, a couple
hundred Herring Gulls and a couple dozen Great Black-backed Gulls. The Iceland
wa
I've been gone a week, but went out to the Cornell compost today to census
crows and had a few noteworthy birds. In addition to the American and Fish
crows I was seeking, I saw a single adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and an
unexpected first-cycle ICELAND GULL. The Iceland was very pale and quite
I don't think I agree. The pale face doesn't track a facial crescent like that
of a Blue-winged Teal. If you look at the shape of it, the paleness is broadest
at the forehead and at the throat. In contrast, a Blue-winged Teal has the
broadest white behind the bill and almost nothing near the thr
From: Diana [mailto:whiti...@roadrunner.com]
" Surely with so many places on the refuge where you can get out of the car,
..."
Seriously? Where? You know the refuge. If you wanted to take a small group to
see some birds, where would you go? Where could you get anywhere near close
enough to any
Snip: "The refuge grants this privilege - this break from the norm - because
it considers it an educational opportunity/event for the visiting public - one
in which they can learn more about the refuge and the life it encourages. "
Every birder I know is more than happy to tell anyone who asks
I hope the trip goes well. I will be sad to see this garden leave this spot.
Let’s hope it goes somewhere else. It used to be on Bluegrass Lane before
Freese.
Pay special attention this weekend for a sparrow I observed very briefly
Wednesday morning. It looked like a very streaky White-throated
Chris,
Thanks for the heads-up. Remember, all the good birds are on the east side of
these storms, so we want it to pass to our west. If it stays to the east, all
we get are heavy rains. The forecast at
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?5-daynl#contents makes it look iffy
for us.
Bes
Thanks, Ken. Seriously, Meena? Where are you? We count on you for things like
this. Really! ;^)
I was just looking out my window and admiring the moon a little bit ago, before
the eclipse started. When Ken wrote I looked out and the moon was hidden behind
leaves and clouds. It just became visi
I captured some sweet bird behavior outside the Lab at lunchtime today. Check
out the series beginning with
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jZuZYNWQcFx4Nlwlh4jjINMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
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An adult is feeding a fledgling Yellow-throated Vireo there. Some of the
squeaks are begging calls.
Kevin
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I went to check on the bird a bit after four. As I drove there I wondered what
a heron was doing down in an apartment complex. But when I found building seven
I looked up and saw the big power lines and I knew what to expect.
Sure enough, when I drove up there was an adult heron lying panting on
I was watching an adult male Orchard Oriole singing along the circle at Myers
Point Park this morning, and I noticed something I hadn't before. When the male
sang, his black throat turned WHITE. When he sang some parts of his song the
throat feathers were spread, revealing their white bases. It
, I didn't seriously consider the idea until
I showed Jay the photos.
Any Sterna tern is unusual in the county this time of year, so I hope others
will go out and look for this bird.
Kevin
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sa
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Canada Warblers were present all along our walk, so I had the opportunity to
reflect that a mnemonic phrase is not just a device for retrievi
Fruit is probably better than concentrated sugars, but domesticated grapes and
oranges aren’t really “natural” foods, either. They have been selected to have
more sugar, more flesh, and fewer other compounds than natural fruits.
I wouldn’t give much credence to this article. It gives no authenti
Actually, I believe the term albino is more accurate for this bird. Albinism
refers to the lack of melanin pigments. True albinos can still contain
carotenoid-based pigments, such as the rosy wash on your bird.
Kevin
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Look who won the grand prize!! Congratulations, Melissa!
Kevin
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Wow! A beautiful male Common Redpoll in a late afternoon shaft of sunlight. The
deep rose on his throat opened up and faded across his chest, as if he had
spilled a bright red wine down his front. In the intense sunshine the red was
electric against the white cheeks and chest. I took a couple ph
Grape vine bark is probably the most common material used in the 3rd and final
stage of nest building, the soft inner cup. They'd probably appreciate some
horse hair.
Kevin
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Female Ring-necked Pheasant, or some patterned breed of domestic chicken.
Kevin
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd:
Although Northern Cardinals are known to have lived to be 15 years old, adults
have only a 60% chance of surviving from year to year. I suspect you have a new
bird on the block.
Kevin
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to the road as the other eagle, the crows, and I
watched.
Some photos at
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/IJF38ECio-P5fNuTnczDvtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink.
Kevin
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Project Manager
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker
Thanks, Dave, for the link. Certainly Cayuga Lake has more ice on the south end
than I’ve ever seen in my 27 years here. Could be a good few weeks to look at
the power plant outflow in Lansing.
One word of caution about the Great Lakes historical data, though. Note that
they extend only back a
from west of the pond
and headed off to the north.
Kevin
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Do you know about our other distance-le
was the 3rd year GLAUCOUS GULL, and the Herring X Great
Black-backed Gull hybrid, both of which have been seen recently. Perhaps more,
too. There were a lot of gulls.
My ebird checklist, with photos is here:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21564731.
Kevin
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Projec
Redhead females regularly have irregular white spots on the head. They can have
anything from a single small spot on one side of the nape to nearly the entire
head white. And the whitish on the face behind the bill varies, too. In any
given flock of more than a couple hundred Redheads, you can p
Impressive numbers of waterfowl off Stewart park and east shore. I am just
starting to sort through it, but I estimate 25,000 Redheads and 450 Common
Mergansers. Perhaps more of each than I have ever seen at once.
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> On Jan 17, 2015, at 11:57 AM, "Lee Ann van Leer" wrote:
>
Concern for animal welfare is always worth considering. However, it seems
climbing to nests is quite different than observing a bird. In some
circumstances, crows will abandon nests with chicks if someone climbs to the
nest.
Here is what the BNA account says:
Sensitivity To Disturbance At Nes
In contrast to yesterday, the last day of duck-hunting season when I had fewer
than a dozen individual waterfowl at Stewart Park and East Shore in the
morning, there were good numbers of interesting species of ducks at the south
end of Cayuga Lake today.
Most impressive was the flock of REDHEAD
A first-year ICELAND GULL was with about 400 Herring Gulls at the Cornell
compost piles along Stevenson Road this morning.
Kevin
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Ithaca, NY 14850
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pond here this morning.
Kevin
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Project Manager
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Do you know about our other distance-learning opportuni
Stewart Park was definitely not glorious when I visited at around 1:30 today!
Overcast, windy, and rain made viewing conditions hard, and the heat shimmer
made any far offshore identifications just about impossible. Close-in I had
nothing but Mallards and domestics, along with the three expecte
I think it's important, too, to think of birding as tennis, not volleyball: on
the line is IN, not out.
Kevin
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Both GRAY CATBIRD and EASTERN TOWHEE (heard only) were on the north side of the
road yesterday anyway.
Kevin
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Great bird! Where is that, relative to roads and intersections? What was the
habitat?
Kevin
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ed my arrival by perching on a light just outside the
west-most baggage claim while I was waiting for my luggage.
Kevin
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Ravens can be bigger than Red-tailed Hawks. See
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/YXdbztCICccQudIkBI868dMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink.
Best,
Kevin
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The purple sandpiper is still on the point at Meyers, with a killdeer. A
red-necked grebe is off north past the duck hunters.
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We found the gull on the water not far from shore. Once again it flew up high
but appeared to resettle on the water farther out.
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On Sep 13, 2014, at 6:47 PM, "Matthew Medler"
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Hi All,
I departed Stewart Park at 5:25 pm after last seeing the
Well, we know they come through here, so it's always possible.
Thanks for the clarification.
Best,
Kevin
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Are you saying it was singing? I don't think I've ever heard of a Connecticut
singing here in the fall before.
The thin call note isn't distinctive enough to me to be recognizable, although
perhaps with enough experience it might be (as opposed to no experience at all).
Best,
Kevin
-Or
It's worth noting that the bases of the red body feathers are blackish too.
Actually, they're about half black, so when a bird is in heavy body molt it can
appear blackish.
Kevin
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That's a juvenile Chipping Sparrow.
Kevin
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Young bird
We s
Of course birds let you get closer when you're in a car. That's as true at
Stewart Park and along any back road as it is in Montezuma. I do a ton of
observation and photography from my car, sometimes even in my own driveway.
That's great for one person, but it stinks for groups.
Having to rema
Sparrow family just to the north was feeding a fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird.
I saw 13 bird species on the Arts Quad, including a fly-over pair of calling
MERLINS.
Kevin
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Charlie Rouse just called me to say that he just saw a SWALLOW-TAILED KITE near
Intersection of Ontario County routes 4 and 6, near the Geneva Experiment
Station, going south/southeast.
Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D.
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It is a tough display to capture. I've been trying for years, and the best I
have done is a little sequence that was taken through the kitchen window.
I have one shot at
https://picasaweb.google.com/101683745969614096883/Fall2012Birds#6012597415846746018,
or
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/ph
A few new birds in the yard this morning, including a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO,
which was a surprise, both for the early date and the location. I believe it is
only my second in the yard ever.
Also, 3 male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks coming to the feeder at once.
Kevin
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No surprise they Ospreys stopped building at the new site along the road to
Myers. Did you see those terrifying inflatable easter rabbits and stuff? They
are enough to scare off anything in the natural world. ;^)
Kevin
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Good spotting, Donna! Although it's not mentioned in any field guides that I
have seen, a black crown occurs in about 20% of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in
our area (based on specimens in the Cornell collection).
Kevin
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to get brief looks of it, but I don't think anyone else found it. I haven't had
a chance to look today.
(bad) Photos can be seen on my eBird checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17944036.
Kevin
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slightly darker than rest
of face. Gray in greater secondary coverts, medians with brown. Bill light pink
with indistinct dark tip.
Photos can be found in my eBird checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17916589
Kevin
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I'd vote no. It's hard to tell from the angle, but bill doesn't look stubby
and triangular enough. Cackling Geese generally lack the kink in the neck when
they graze on the ground, and this bird shows it. Size and proportions are not
reliable from these three photos.
Best,
Kevin
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Actually, they're not molting. The pale tips are wearing off the feathers
showing the pretty bases below.
Kevin
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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014
I had a flock of Canada Geese on Dryden Lake this morning, sitting on a bare
patch of black ice that looked very much like open water. In with them were 10
Blue Snow Geese and a single CACKLING GOOSE. I don't often see that many Blue
Geese without any white Snows.
While I was there 3 Redheads
e out the following so that I can find it to copy and paste easily:
Your name:
Your email address:
Which session, 3 pm or 7 pm?
You can go to http://www.birds.cornell.edu/courses/home/webinars/ for more
information and check out the handouts.
Best,
Kevin
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Cedar waxwings
were the birds consuming snow as a way to dilut
For those who don't know, I have had a set of web pages about crows up for 15
years now, including http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/crowfaq.htm, which
answers a lot of questions like these.
Best,
Kevin
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ailto:acl...@binghamton.edu>); 607-222-0905.
Thanks.
Kevin
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Do you know about our ot
Nice post. The ruddy duck mimics are sleeping female Redheads. I noticed some
of them today, too. We saw no real ruddies in the millpond today. The wood duck
was in the outlet stream of the millpond that drains out under the entrance to
the business at the end of the deadend street north of the
I was doing mundane things on Saturday (censusing crows at the compost,
shopping for food and stuff, etc.), and happened on a couple of things of
possible interest to the local birding community.
First, although there were lots and lots of crows at the Cornell compost
facility on Stevenson Rd,
The starlings are thinking spring too. This morning the one on the wires at
the Lab was doing a Brown-headed Cowbird rattle-call imitation. I swear they
anticipate the next migrants to arrive in spring and start singing their songs.
Kevin
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Yeah, global warming is happening alright, you just have to look around.
According to the arctic weather web site
http://www.athropolis.com/temperature/coldreport2.php
due north of us in Nunavut is cold, but Barrow, Alaska has been consistently
warmer than Ithaca for weeks, and is currently ten
There are no leaders in bird flocks.
All the gulls are hungry and will head to the compost in the morning, around
the time that the truck brings in the food from the dorms. Each gull gets food
as it can, and if they are satisfied, they often head back to the lake to loaf
instead of hanging arou
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appear to be
true, as clearly contradicted by photos of Cornell specimens I put up on the
internet over a decade ago at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/snowy.htm.
Kevin
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[mailto:bounce-111924362-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin J
Why are people calling the Freeville bird an immature? To the best of my
knowledge, Snowy Owls, and especially females, cannot be aged by body plumage.
The Snowstorm website, http://www.projectsnowstorm.org/, is asking for photos
of flying birds so they can look at molt limits in the wings to
Last Friday I had two snowy owls on Indian Field Road, one 0.5 miles north of
rt 90 in Genoa, hunting pigeons at the first barns on the west side, and
another 4 miles north of there at the 4th pole north of Tile Kiln Rd, which is
still 3 miles south of Popular Ridge Rd.
There could easily be th
Attached is the official tally from the 1 January 2014 Ithaca Christmas Bird
Count. This version varies in a few details from the provisional numbers that
Dave Nutter posted earlier; there were a number of additions, corrections, and
adjustments for double-counting. We found 98 species during
No, the late duck hunting season has not always overlapped with our count.
It's only been a problem in the last 10 years or so. I remember being shocked
the first time the opening day was 1 January. I had never experienced any such
disruption in the previous decade of the count.
The duck sea
... Do they really stop firing when the ducks swing toward shore?
I would say yes. One of the first things you get taught in firearm safety
class (which is mandatory in New York for all first-time hunting licenses) is
to always be aware of where your muzzle is pointing. Always. Most peop
You're reading the wrong table. The seasons vary among the different DEC
regions of the state. We're in the Western region, and Duck season ran 26 Oct
- 8 Dec, then started up again for 28 Dec - 12 Jan.
See table at http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/2.html
Kevin
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Those look like clear Trumpeters to me. I believe the yellow tags come from
the Ontario introduction program.
Kevin
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[mailto:bounce-111360161-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Suan Yong
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 9:20 AM
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I had looked over the 73 swans I saw at Stewart Park pretty carefully this
week. I was pretty confident that at least 65 were Tundras, and I found no
candidates for Trumpeter. Of the 38 swans I watched at Stewart this afternoon,
I’m good with 35 being Tundra. In both cases the unknown birds w
We saw one Long-tailed Duck north of Myers Point, but we had 29 south of the
marina, south of the point. It was a target bird today, the first for Lee Ann
for the year. I had hopes of finding the species, but I didn't expect that
large a number!
Kevin
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Especially if you're shopping at Wegmans, the only grocery store that is also
an official birding hotspot!
I had several good looks at a large female Cooper's Hawk foraging along the
inlet area the other late afternoon. I noticed her first across from the
Depot, near Island Fitness, and then h
At this time of year, the allopreening duo of crows are more likely to be an
offspring and a parent. Starting about March the breeding pair allopreen at an
elevated rate. But, through the fall and winter, it's usually a kid and its
mom.
The bases of the body feathers of nearly all birds are n
Very cool. Google Maps' Distance Measurement Tool says 3386.87 km, or 2,104.5
miles. (Or 30,866 football fields; or 16,836 furlongs. Look under the Map Labs
link in the left column).
Kevin
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> I am seeing a first year Glaucous Gull on the compost piles.
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Actually, Snowy Owls are hard to harass. That's one of the problems for
airports trying to move them off the runways. We watched the Syracuse airport
people shooting shell-crackers at one of the owls perched right beside an
active runway, and it didn't even blink. It was only when the truck p
You have the URLs, how could we stop you? ;^)
Kevin
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[mailto:bounce-25218-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Orkin
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 3:55 PM
To: Laura Stenzler
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: Snowy o
, 2013 2:34 PM
To: Kevin J. McGowan
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl at the mall in Lansing
Cool pictures, both sets. Had the local owl caught something there?
Linda Orkin
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Kevin J. McGowan
mailto:k...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
I have posted a few photos of the Target Snowy Owl at
http://picasaweb.google.com/101683745969614096883/Winter20132014.
Note, the good photos at the top of that page are from the Syracuse airport two
weekends ago. The local bird is in the poor photos at the bottom.
Kevin
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