>From about 8:00 on, snow geese from a huge raft opposite the northern Aurora
>village line have been taking off. They seem to like the corn fields along
>34B, so if you are looking for snow geese, you should try there. This is the
>biggest raft of geese I have seen in years; it stretched for
I have a good colony of chimney swifts in my old house just north of Aurora.
I've been taking them rather for granted for years--and maybe I should
celebrate them as well as enjoy them. I will attempt to do a count--
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>From Rt 90, just north of Aurora
A good flock of mostly redheads; I was very pleased to see quite a few
canvasbacks, some scaup, and some little ones that were obscured by the trees.
An adult eagle few over. Several minutes later, my collie alerted me to two
immature eagles perched on the
How common is it for them to winter here? I have one or possibly a pair at my
feeders this week.
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Nice flock of about 15 swans, including several young ones, just off my
lakeshore, just north of the Aurora village line.
People looking for larks should try the Springport/Aurelius Townline road, and
Benham road, which tees off the Townline road. I see flocks of larks there
every day, and on
A single Rusty Blackbird showed up at my feeder today, much to my surprise.
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Having watched the excellent video, I believe that I may have seen a gyrfalcon
north of Aurora at Great Gully Cove. It took off just as I drove by. It was
not a situation in which I could make a positive identification, but it sure
looked like the bird in the video. Just about a mile further
I spoke with family in Harding County NM (remote NE of state). They started
seeing bird deaths in August--disoriented birds flying into their porch area
and outbuildings. Not good news.
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Consider the snapping turtle as a possibility. They have been known to attack
mature ducks as well as to take ducklings, which is more common.
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Morning dog walk yielded an orchard oriole and a solitary vireo seeming to
dispute over ownership of a particular branch on a cottonwood tree. Field
sparrows and towhees are abundant this year, as usual.
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I am fortunate to have some fruiting mulberry trees that bear particularly
delicious fruit. Indigo buntings are among the birds that savor the berries,
and as I stand under the tree eating berries, I see buntings only 10 to 15 feet
from me. What a treat!
Also, towhees have been particularly
Just south of Long Point Orchard on Rt. 90, about 5:30 pm. West side of road.
It's the first I've seen there this spring.
Linda Van Buskirk
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While cleaning up the yard yesterday, I found a dead cooper's hawk under our
forsythia bushes (my grandson had reported a big bird hunting sparrows a while
back). Heavily horizontally streaked breast, rounded tail. One would have
thought that the English sparrow population would have kept it
The owl: this evening at 5:45, just south of Long Point Orchard, Rt 90,
Ledyard.
Geese eagerly eating newly exposed grass along the roadside in Aurora.
Linda Van Buskirk
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About 7:25 am, a mature bald eagle, flying low, direction nw, crossed Rt 90 at
the Aurora south village limit. Glorious sight for a morning commute. In
past years, an eagle has patrolled the east shore of the lake near Aurora, but
usually later in the day.
Linda Van Buskirk
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My several drive-bys this winter had not yielded an Indian Field Road snowy,
but last evening, one (very light) was perched on a utility pole near the
intersection of Indian Field and Kenyon Road. How long will they stay in the
area?
Linda
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Red-breasted merganser was still there today, along with a stunning pair of
canvasbacks, some widgeons, red-heads, buffleheads, a scaup, and some geese. I
didn't look long, but did not find the grebes. Everybody seemed to be feeding
happily.
Linda
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That large ice flow could be the chunk that broke off from the north end of the
lake. It floated past Aurora the other morning. When the winter is cold
enough so that good ice forms to the north (according to my fishing depth
guide, where the lake is less than 100 feet deep), late winter and
I assume it's hours of daylight rather than temperature that triggers behaviors.
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As of noon today, Cayuga was pretty much frozen from Chris's hill north.
Chris's hill is the big rise north of Levanna, if one doesn't know local names.
South of that, the lake was a combination of frozen patches and open patches.
This is the most ice I've seen since 1994, and then it didn't
I wonder for how long. The lake can skim over with a sharp dip in temp, and
then winds break up the ice. When we went down to the lakeshore Saturday
morning (we're just north of the village of Aurora), the shore was covered with
shards of ice, clear as glass-and then the water was indeed
I just had a call from a friend on Indian Field Road. Their snowy owl has
been sitting on a pole just south (I believe) of the intersection of Indian
Field Road and Poplar Ridge Road (Cayuga County; I'm not sure whether that's in
Venice or Genoa; Indian Field is between 34 and 34B).
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Old info, but possibly relevant.
From: George Fearon [mailto:gfea...@rochester.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 11:24 AM
To: Linda Post Van Buskirk
Subject: Swan A21
Linda,
I posted the text below on Swan A21. I did have a picture with that tag number
on it that I overlooked.
I now
When I saw them, I reported them as tundra, but my first thought had been
trumpeter. The heads were stained yellowish, and I second-guessed myself –
George Fearon photographed K33 clearly and reported it as a trumpeter.
Linda Van Buskirk
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This evening, at dusk, I saw six tundra swans, one clearly a first year bird,
just off the east shore of Cayuga Lake at (little) Gully Road. After having
seen the trumpeters closely so recently in Union Springs, these were obviously
tundras.
Associated ducks, but it was getting too dark for
A pair of tundra swans on the mill pond in Union Springs this morning about
10:45. Both had yellow tags on the wings; I could read only one: A21.
Quite a few widgeons, a bufflehead, lots of Canadas.
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About 7:30 a.m. a great egret flew over route 90 just north of the DEC
checkpoint (between King Ferry and Aurora). It was headed west.
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Killdeers, a pair, appeared on Benham Road in Aurelius (Cayuga County) on
February 28.
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Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 11:32 AM
To: Mo Barger Rooster Hill Farm
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On a casual evening dog walk up (little) Gully Road north of Aurora, I saw the
usual clusters of robins and bluebirds, and a cluster of kingbirds - probably 5
to 7 or more - chipping sparrows aplenty, a house finch or two, a flicker,
drumming and calling. The birds were concentrated about a
Anglo-Saxon poetry, often and not surprisingly about war, death, and mayhem,
associates ravens with battlefields. While a raven is not a crow, the
association of death (murder) with black carrion eaters is not too far-fetched.
Linda
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While reading this email, I realized that I was hearing a GHorned owl - so I
went outdoors with my laptop and played its song; though I couldn't pick it out
in the foliage, it must have flown over my house to locate the call, since it
definitely shifted position. It's calling all around the
Horseback riding in Aurelius on trails through wet fields/woods, the farm owner
and I scared up a family of woodcocks: four flew, one went into the grasses by
the trail. An exciting first for both of us.
Linda
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To clarify: Auburn is at the head of Owasco Lake, the small Finger Lake that
lies between Cayuga Lake and Skaneateles Lake.
Linda P. Van Buskirk, Ph.D.
Sr. Lecturer in Communication
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
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