[cayugabirds-l] No Blue Grosbeak
The Blue Grosbeak that was in our yard for three days earlier in the week didn’t reappear yesterday and hasn’t been seen yet today. I suspect the cold overnight temperatures forced it back south. --- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak Parking
There is ample parking along the north (right) side of Ross Road. Please don’t block the driveway. Tom -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak
Folks are welclme to come visit to see the Blue Grosbeak, maybe 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM. 107 Ross Rd, Lansing. --- A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D. Prof. of Biology & Environmental Science, Emeritus Wells College PO Box 1063 307 South Shore Acres Road Old Forge, NY 13420 (607) 279-9924 a tvaw...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM Tom Vawter wrote: > The Blue Grosbeak is back again this morning. Earlier it made a number of > visits to the sunflower seed feeder at the front of the house, but it > hasn’t been there recently. > > > > -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak
The Blue Grosbeak is back again this morning. Earlier it made a number of visits to the sunflower seed feeder at the front of the house, but it hasn’t been there recently. -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak in Lansing
A distinctly blue finch-like bird has been visiting my feeders here on Ross Road in Lansing (42°34′5″ N 76°35′1″ W). It seems larger than I remember for buntings. Merlin turns up nothing, neither Indigo Bunting or Blue Grosbeak, the only possibilities I could think of. The rusty wing bars suggest Blue Grosbeak. Tom -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Osprey
At ca. 19:25 this afternoon there were a pair of osprey on a power pole (no nest) on the E side of NYS 90, S of Aurora and a few hundred meters N of Ledyard Road. Sent from my iPad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Baltimore Oriole
Our annual Baltimore oriole is once again foraging and singing in the tops of our backyard ashes. Tom Vawter -- * * -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about lower lake road
Yes, marshes and agricultural land is important. In addition to the rafts of waterfowl on the lake near Lower Lake Road, there were large congregations--mostly snows--on the mucklands around Savannah yesterday (3/10). The western shore of the lake is also in the more protected, windward side. Tom Vawter On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: I imagine a number of factors contribute to the attractive power of that area. Here's one: the lake is still broad there, but it's very shallow, mostly 5 - 6 ft. -Geo On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Barbara B. Eden b...@cornell.edu wrote: I am curious why that is the place where the snow geese and tundra swans congregate Thanks, Barbara -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- *A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D.* Assoc. Scientist, EcoLogic, LLC 5 Ledyard Ave. Cazenovia, NY 13035 Visiting Professor and Fellow Ecology Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 a...@cornell.edu tvaw...@wells.edu Professor of Biology, Emeritus Wells College Aurora, NY 14882 tvaw...@wells.edu 607.279.9924 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Candor - Killdeer
We saw a single killdeer in flight last Sat eve (3/9) just N of the Triangle in King Ferry. Tom Vawter On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Mo Barger Rooster Hill Farm m...@roosterhillfarm.com wrote: I could have sworn I heard one yesterday but shook it off as wishful thinking. Sure enough, when I turned the corner off of our driveway and drove by a large field, there they were! I also have recorded their arrival on this day in 2010 and 2006. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- *A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D.* Assoc. Scientist, EcoLogic, LLC 5 Ledyard Ave. Cazenovia, NY 13035 Visiting Professor and Fellow Ecology Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 a...@cornell.edu tvaw...@wells.edu Professor of Biology, Emeritus Wells College Aurora, NY 14882 tvaw...@wells.edu 607.279.9924 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Several thousand snow geese lower lake rd west side northern cayuga lake
The huge raft of snow geese was quite a sight on the azure lake in the bright sun on Thursday as I drove down Pumpkin Hill into Aurora. Too far to the west side of the lake to get any detail w/ my binoculars, but unmistakeable. Tom On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:33 PM, david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com wrote: Now. Dave Nicosia Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- *A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D.* Assoc. Scientist, EcoLogic, LLC 5 Ledyard Ave. Cazenovia, NY 13035 Visiting Professor and Fellow Ecology Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 a...@cornell.edu tvaw...@wells.edu Professor of Biology, Emeritus Wells College Aurora, NY 14882 tvaw...@wells.edu 607.279.9924 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] pecking order
This winter, unlike previous ones, we've been besieged by jays. I've counted, what I think is probably an extended family of 7 or so all fighting for control of the one platform feeder and/or the two cylinders in which I offer sunflower seeds. The jays seem to be top dogs, and it irks me, because I know they're just filling their crops and storing seeds somewhere where they'll forget about later. I have to fill the feeders that much more often. But I do love corvids, and they are fun to watch. I've noticed that they're not at the very top of the dominance hierarchy, however. They move aside quickly when the red-bellied lands on the feeder. Looking at the comparative armament, I don't blame the jays. We have fewer hairies, and they interact less frequently with the jays. The hairies and the downies do seem to prefer the suet to the seeds, whereas the red-bellieds take seeds from both the platform and the cylinders frequently. Tom V On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Marie P Read m...@cornell.edu wrote: Contrary to many bucolic paintings, I have never seen two species feeding together. Suet is survival. I have seen (and photographed) Downy and Hairy feeding together (in fact it's a photo I've strived for because it shows the difference between the two and points out how to tell them apart), but the Downies are definitely the more timid of the two. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com http://www.agpix.com/mari -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D. Prof. of Biology Environmental Science Chair, Biological and Chemical Sciences Herbert E. Ives Professor of Science Wells College Aurora, NY 13026 315.364.3269 tvaw...@wells.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] ROBINS
I noticed robins, not in large flocks but a few, around our place in Lansing. They hadn't been in evidence for most of the winter so far. The birds I saw were foraging in the few areas of open ground--mostly under parked cars--free from the recent snow cover. My guess was that the recent snows had covered foraging areas they'd been using most of the mostly snow-free winter, but that the snow and colder weather had forced them to congregate in suitable areas. Winter roosting aggregations is an interesting question. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Linda P Van Buskirk l...@cornell.eduwrote: While walking the dogs over the years, it has seemed to me that the robins cluster in the deeper gullies woods during harsh weather. The behavior may have something to do with wind speed and temperature. Also, if they roost en masse, they will be warmer. A response to the North Atlantic Oscillation?? At 06:46 PM 1/5/2010, Eben McLane wrote: 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 Linda Van Buskirk, Ph.D., Sr. Lecturer Department of Communication 336 Kennedy Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-4203 (607) 255-2161; fax (607) 254-1322 -- A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D. Prof. of Biology Environmental Science Chair, Biological and Chemical Sciences Herbert E. Ives Professor of Science Wells College Aurora, NY 13026 315.364.3269 tvaw...@wells.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
