Hi!
I am no expert but if a junco, it should be possible to spot? I've stalked
quite a few, to try and see if I can notice a difference between them and
Chipping sparrows. And in my experience at least, both species tend to sit at
the outer end of a branch when singing, often "2 o'clock", less
Thanks for this intriguing report.
It reminds me of a bald eagle nest I saw in the middle of Hamilton, NY, a town
about 1 1/2 hrs east of Ithaca.
This July 3, I saw three grown bald eagle chicks getting ready to fly, sitting
on branches around the nest, one even tried a short round flying arou
Wonderful.
I wonder if orioles are around but wandering more widely, after their chicks
are out, and we don't see them because they're not staying put singing any more
but ranging widely wherever there is food? I recently saw several orchard
orioles flying around Hog Hole, and several more of
What a lucky occasion!
Such flocks seem rare. I have not seen any of these birds migrating this fall,
no warblers, despite a number of excursions. I think I have seen just one
Yellow-rumped warbler. In Lindsay Parsons the other day, the only migrants were
2-3 warbling vireos (also, a couple
Migrants
From: Kevin J. McGowan
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 9:26 PM
To: Laura Stenzler; CAYUGABIRDS-L; Magnus Fiskesjo
"Watch this space!"
Look for some fascinating, and depressing information about this topic in the
next couple of weeks!
Kevin
Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D.
Projec
As an anthropologist I'd advise to be careful, in public campaigns at least,
with arguments about overpopulation.
It can easily backfire, because let's face it, most people on the planet care
more about people than birds or animals or nature. And this is probably one big
reason why populists
Looking up a picture of American pokeweed, I am surprised to see on Wikipedia
it is the same as poke sallet, a k a poke salad, which is a food, that has even
been described as a "Long-Standing Staple" food for humans, esp. in the US
South, https://www.saveur.com/poke-sallet
... and Tony Joe Whi
I can go, too. Is it where you put the Protonothary boxes??
--
Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or: n...@cornell.edu
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I've seen other articles on US government agency-organized mass killing all
sorts of wildlife as disturbances to farming, etc., but don't know the long and
short of it.
--Some examples found just now:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/02/160212-Wildlife-Services-predator-control-
Hi,
It's confusing, but try this:
In ebird.org, go to Explore, then click Species Maps, enter the name of
species, then under Date, alter the search parameter to Current Year, and
specify Dec-Feb, while leaving the Location blank, and you get:
https://ebird.org/map/rewbla?neg=true&env.minX=-9
There's a large mass of ducks on the SW of Cayuga lake.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S62465727
I don't think I have never seen such a massive group, and can't count it. Is it
more than five thousand Redheads?
It's visible by scope and bins, from the "Overlook, Rte. 89 N of Hog Hole"
along ho
In my country (Sweden) the name for Black-headed gull is 'laughing gull', a
name I understand has been used here in the US as the colloquial for yet
another species instead (Leucophaeus atricilla)--even though the Latin name of
the 'Black-headed gull' does say it's the laughing one: Chroicoceph
A few weeks ago I saw one member of a White-Throated Sparrow flock in Central
Park, NYC, sing quite persistently.
--
Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or: n...
Yesterday saw a live and very skillful skateboarding dog.
But, I have never seen a snowboarding crow before:
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1231579693129723906
--The video explanation says it's actually years old ... but still fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kEpxDe6dxo
"A re
Is it possible they have a memory of when this land was theirs?
I've seen them in the corresponding areas in Watkins Glen: marshlands and
inlet, which in Ithaca now belongs to Walmart et al.
(It's how I imagine the -now extinct?- Clay-colored sparrow at Cornell's
Goldwin Smith hall: They came
This afternoon, Thursday 19 March 2020, traveling along Snyder Rd. at Ithaca
Tompkins Airport to listen for meadowlarks singing.
We did hear two different singing birds, and saw one singing from the airport
fence.
Then, the airport police caught up with us and wanted to know what we were
d
: Marie P. Read
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:39 PM
To: Magnus Fiskesjo; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: RE: Ithaca airport Meadowlarks / with a warning
WH! Things are getting seriously weird.
Marie
Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Freeville NY 13068 USA
e-mail m...
PM
To: Magnus Fiskesjo; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: RE: Ithaca airport Meadowlarks / with a warning
What is their phone number?
I go to the airport a lot and have never been accosted in this way.
But then, we old white-haired (& white) women can get away with more than the
rest of you!
When I was ove
I sent the cat collar advert to a professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History
(Eleanor Robson, @Eleanor_Robson) who posted pictures of her cat on the hunt,
but was dismissed as mansplaining. Hmm. It may be a tough sell for some
cat-owners.
https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/124136583
It's here: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L140301
--
Magnus Fiskesjö
n...@cornell.edu
From: bounce-124486653-84019...@list.cornell.edu
[bounce-124486653-84019...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Lanie Wilmarth
[lwilmarth...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 23, 20
I too saw one of these eagles at Dryden lake on April 5, it came in late and
settled (for the night perhaps), on the manmade wooden perch in the water. It
might have been the "she".
--Magnus Fiskesjö
n...@cornell.edu
From: bounce-124532542-84019...@li
This morning, a male cowbird singing, at Salt Point. Never heard that before. A
very low volume series of thin crispy notes. No clucking, as in some recordings
of its song.
The bird sat very close, on top of the little pine/fur tree at the lakeside
fork of the path to the Bluebird Path.
It re
he nest (as
revenge).
--yrs.,
Magnus Fiskesjö
n...@cornell.edu
From: AB Clark [anneb.cl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 9:30 AM
To: Magnus Fiskesjo
Cc: Michael H. Goldstein; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cowbirds
I wonder if there has been some mis-intepretation eith
nstitute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS),
http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/people/steering-committee
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From: John Confer [con...@ithaca.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 7:47 PM
To: Magnus Fiskesjo; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabi
edu, or: n...@cornell.edu
From: AB Clark [anneb.cl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2020 10:14 AM
To: Magnus Fiskesjo
Cc: John Confer; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: "Juvenile cowbirds sneak out at night" - RE: [cayugabirds-l]
Cowbirds
At the risk
One sang in my yard in Forest Home, Ithaca -- but after singing for 2 days, it
stopped and was gone. Migrating, just passing through perhaps?
--
Magnus Fiskesjö
n...@cornell.edu
From: bounce-124541908-84019...@list.cornell.edu
[bounce-124541908-84019.
Nice poem!
One of your dog men at least said sorry. At Hog hole the other day, ignoring
all the signs that say dogs-on-leash-only, a man unleashed his oversized filthy
dog, and it rushed at and jumped at my wife, who was quite scared, as she tried
to defend herself and fend it off. The man d
Congratulations on the birds, and the access to that place. Not sure how to get
there safely? I went once to Michigan hollow (or was it Spencer lake), but the
locals hounded me out of there, menacing me with their hunting crossbows
wielded from their ATV. So, due to safety concerns, I never go
Applause! 👏👏
Well said!
I too would love to see those “camera trap” photos and would support their
inclusion in eBird.
Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or:
Howland Island once had farms, and there is an old network of dirt roads, now
crisscrossing between recently created dams.
So, mostly one can just walk along those dirt roads, starting from either of
the 2 access points, which is as far that one's car can go, and see the woods,
the fields, a
ps. Today saw for the first time, other than orioles, a Gray catbird also
nibbling on an orange.
--
Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or: n...@cornell.edu
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52779727
--
Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or: n...@cornell.edu
Affiliations at Cornell University, WWW:
Anthropo
Connecting to the recent discussion here, about arrogant dog-owners, this case
in Central Park, NYC is relevant.
The sister of the birdwatcher in the incident sent around his original film,
which is going viral and reaching millions now:
https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/126496525286
stitute for Public Affairs (CIPA),
cipa.cornell.edu/academics/fieldfaculty.cfm
Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS),
http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/people/steering-committee
From: Robin Cisne [rfci...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday
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