There seems to be an inexaustible supply! My feeders now support about 50 and a
nippy disputatious bunch they are. Lots of pics of heads forward, low, bills
open until another moves.
Niger is one focus. The other is bits of suet on the ground from sloppy eaters.
Lots of really bright rosy
My two redpolls that have been here for a week apparently got outed and more
arrived today. Not 20 yet but 6-7 and feisty! Niger and those peanut suet
blocks. Took a close up video of one at suet 5 inches from sliding door.
Competition from red bellied woodpecker and Pileated is a little one
On Hile School Rd today 30 Jan 21 at ca 345pm, just west of Ed Hill
intersection. About 80 scudding back and forth across the road. All buntings.
First ones I have seen. None seen along Red Mill’s S-curve which is also a good
spot.
Anne
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some never fully lost yellow patches or black flecks.
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> On Jan 15, 2021, at 5:18 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:
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> On a recommendation I looked at Macaulay’s winter photos and saw plenty of
>
Please remember that at this time the DEC controls the dam and thus lake.
Writing the DEC and also being alert for a public comment period once they
decide on their choice of action (repair, replace or remove) will be the most
direct routes to influence.
You certainly should register support
A lovely pair of Pileated woodpeckers had a protracted morning tea on sumac
seed headsmaking the sumac look very spindly!
As always am working on ways to increase the sumac population. Beauty and
utility!
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An adult Bald Eagle, presumably one of Dryden Lake pair, has frequently been
perched in the dead trees of the little lake/heron colony south of the Nature
Conservancy larch stand along east Malloryville rd (across from the von engeln
preserve). Very picturesque.
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The crows would prefer they sit still hooting and not floating silently around
in the canopy of pine grove roosts.
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> We’ve been hearing one and two Great-horned owls from Muriel street sounding
> like they’re over
Ok. I am a terrible birder. But saw the report today and suddenly was able to
explain what I saw fairly late on Friday. A lone odd shaped duck far to s edge
of water in Wetland s of the road with a way too orange Bill. I couldn’t quite
make out any markings with my binocs and because the
9-1030am. Hanging out in SE back edge of Hile School rd Wetland with pair of
killdeer that has been there for about 2 weeks or more. Clearly visible to eye/
binocs as it preened and then probed but camera obscured by sedges and grasses.
Also great close looks at 2-3 Virginia rails. 2 seen along
A red-tailed hawk just sailed over my house very low surrounded on all sides by
shrieking and Tees-zweeting swallows, both tree and barn and perhaps 20 total.
Looked like some slower flying, shorter tailed juv barn swallows in the mix.
They were really really committed to seeing the hawk off.
Arrived in the ash tree over the garden this
morning. Was just wondering if our pair had succeeded.
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In case visitors to Hile School rd Wetland are interested in the kingbird pair
there, the female is pretty tight on a nest in a little crotch high in “tree”
that comes out of island made by the beaver lodge, N side of road. Can be seen
hugging the west side of of one of taller trunks. More
Thanks, Elaina!
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> This piece written in 2016 by birder J. Drew Lanham, Birding While Black,
> speaks to the hearts of birders anywhere, anytime, but is particularly
> relevant this week.
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>
Heard the low repeated harsh call and to make sure played the song and calls.
Wow! Got one swooping me and hanging up in trees , long lens inside of course.
Following second playback there were two, one flying closely after other. Not
sure what sort of scenario I introduced. But two of them are
Orioles, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. Catbirds and indigo bunting (1?) and finally
this am a hummer are turning my feeders into something a bit tropical looking.
More mild aggressive displays than I have ever seen. Catbirds doing a cute
little wide beak gape.
Fruit update: grosbeaks and maybe
I will just offer the observation made several times while studying nesting
redwinged blabkbirds at the Cornell ponds that no males arrived with bald heads
but quite a few
Showed missing patches during EARLy breeding season while disputes were common.
At least once a fully feathered banded male
Heading out on errands at 3pm today, saw an osprey on the largest dead tree
over north Wetland open water. Then when I returned at almost 5, it was still
there. Exact same spot. A lovely addition to a grey day on the Wetland.
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outside my window earlier! The mounting house wren tensions are audible. I
think another 2 males might be on site. Look like bees chasing.
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At 5:20 pm Hile School Wetlands in wet mists, there was a beautiful Blue-headed
Vireo among willows etc along road on se side. First hard to see way back in
greyness and then came out and turned and sat and turned. Gorgeous
Then at 7:11 pm an adult White-crowned Sparrow visited my feeder,
For those keeping track of kestrels, one was perched over the marshland east of
Hanshaw just s of the Neimi rd intersection. With a red- tailed hawk. But where
is there not a red- tailed hawk??
Speaking of which, yesterday April 25th, I watched and have pictures of a red-
tail pair above 302 E
Second time I have been sure this year. Late last week was first.
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Foraging but also contact fight? In air. No social distance. About 6-7 seen.
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The male phoebe ( or A male phoebe) just landed confidently on our deck railing
and surveyed the yard! We have had a pair nesting here for last three years
and they love foraging off the fence and grabbing insects from the green woven
wire. This bird looked like it was familiar with the
About 250 going west over Mallorybille.
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At feeder looking eager for its breakfast. Just one so far.
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This is pretty weird. If roosting near lights they do talk after dark like a
slumber party. Like downtown Auburn. But roosts in more natural settings are
quiet in dark. I could only locate them with a receiver and radio tagged
birds. But they don’t fly in the dark well and I would assume that
And I am living proof that eating young pokeweed is not deadly. We didn’t use 3
waters either, although drained it.
But I am NOT suggesting everyone try it. Young spinach causes less panic. Or
try lambs quarters.
Anne
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Yup everyone, I am fully aware of the toxicity of pokeweed and allow a nice big
plant to grow up where I can see it fruit every year without any problems.
There are many berries toxic to humans out there. And toxic plants. But they
feed birds and other wildlife. Pokeweed berries are especially
This morning I have a large number of robins all age/sexes foraging on my
productive pokeweed berries and scratching leaves AND chasing each other hard
and long. More athletic long chases than I am used to associating with robins.
They are not just chasing around the berries although I
About 3 pm Sunday 14 Oct. Small dark bird whipped low across road N-S about 5
meters onto the unfinished road going east from 38. It scurried immediately
into the dense weeds and bushes. I couldn’t relocate it after stopping car.
Thinking maybe Sora, I played some calls but it was not
Suddenly 4 Pine Siskins blew in this morning to my yard on Hile School rd just
out of Basin. Feeder focused. Males and females.
Unusual visitors here.
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At about 10 am an eastern kingbird was hawking insects (assumed) from tips of
white pine crowns in woods between Pleasant Grove road and the country club
proper, until chased off by a nesting crow which has a nest very near to its
activity.
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An FOY hummingbird carefully (urgently?) foraging along my gooseberry bushes an
hour ago so the FOY feeders are now out. Not sure if male or female. Distant
and watched without binocs.
Unexpected white-crowned sparrow under the feeders.
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2 osprey are circling back and forth between 38 and EdHill rd. Both high and
low. Not usually seen overhead.
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In the Hile School Rd wetland today.
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6 males 1 female Ringneck ducks on pond across Thornwood drive from Langmuir
Lab. Very Photogenic if I had a longer lens.
Anne.
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Active nest building by at least two families. (Salem area). All reports
appreciated!
Anne and the Crowers.
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Near von Engeln Preserve, the first decidedly female robin I have seen this
year. There have been a few small groups of male robins on Hile school rd east
and west of Ed hill rd and sometimes briefly in my yard but no females.
Also a bluebird singing rather faintly near one of our nest boxes
And deep snowy. They can deal with cold if they can reach the ground to
forage. Bet the thousands that have been foraging nearer Syracuse and Auburn
are finding it VERY challenging.
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> Crows (4 to 12 at a time, who knows if
One here on Hile School rd on Friday. Brown crown, alone and not associating
with other species incl white throats.
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> I’d had mostly the brown crown ones, but yesterday I had a beautiful white
> crown Sparrow. I
Under feeder. Just outside basin on Hile School Rd.
Along with several tree sparrows and the very usual feeder birds:
chickadees, cardinals, titmice, blue jays, juncos, redbellied woodpecker male,
downy woodpecker, cowbird female, purple finches, House finches, a few
starlings.
Just seen at 1 pm on fall creek rd just e of Freeville at cook rd. Big as life
but looked cold. Dropped wing showed the russet and the 30 mph zone let me have
a good look before pulling over. Dropped down in foraging move. Back up and
then I lost it. Pretty late I think.
Put in eBird.
Anne
As it was last weekend, 1 juvenile Iceland Gull is foraging among great black
backs, herring and 2 ringbilled gulls at the Stevenson Road Compost mounds.
Along with the essential crows.
Anne
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All 4 soaring together over Stevenson e of compost. High but very pretty in
sun.
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> At 10:45 the black vultures were in some trees just south of the bridge on
> Dodge Rd. They then flew
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