---- Upstate NY Birding digest <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Sunday, December 30, 2012. > > 1. has anyone seen Red-shouldered hawk this season in winter? > 2. More Snow Geese depart > 3. Re: More Snow Geese depart > 4. Re: More Snow Geese depart > 5. RE: More Snow Geese depart > 6. CBC count > 7. OT...Salt and other trucks > 8. Re: has anyone seen Red-shouldered hawk this season in winter? > 9. Bird hawk heaven > 10. Snow shoveling pays > 11. Tundra Swans > 12. Re: Tundra Swans > 13. Re: Snow shoveling pays > 14. Re: Ithaca count week > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: has anyone seen Red-shouldered hawk this season in winter? > From: Meena Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:09:13 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > Hi all, > > I was curious to know if anyone has seen the wintering Red-shouldered hawk > this season. It usually arrives around in November. > > > > Cheers > > Meena > > > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: More Snow Geese depart > From: Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:40:59 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > More Snow Geese are passing south out of the basin on this morning's brisk > tail wind. I don't expect to see them circle back. There's relatively little > agricultural land south of here, and it's all buried in snow. > > -Geo Kloppel > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: More Snow Geese depart > From: <nutter.d...@me.com> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:00:36 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > Last night about 1015pm as I was shoveling my sidewalk one last time before > going to bed, I heard geese overhead. They were fairly low, and not > particularly going south. I don't know why they were wandering around in the > low clouds lit up by Ithaca's street lights. Mostly they were Canadas, but I > also heard a group of SNOW GEESE, so we now at least have that species for > count week in case they all depart before Tuesday. > --Dave Nutter > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 09:40 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > More Snow Geese are passing south out of the basin on this morning's brisk > tail wind. I don't expect to see them circle back. There's relatively little > agricultural land south of here, and it's all buried in snow. > > -Geo Kloppel > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) > cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html'>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/ > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: More Snow Geese depart > From: Mo Barger Rooster Hill Farm <m...@roosterhillfarm.com> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:17:40 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 4 > > Mixed flocks streamed over Candor all morning, hard to see sometimes > as they flew higher than the snow. > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > More Snow Geese are passing south out of the basin on this morning's brisk > > tail wind. I don't expect to see them circle back. There's relatively > > little agricultural land south of here, and it's all buried in snow. > > > > -Geo Kloppel > > -- > > > > 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/ > > > > -- > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: RE: More Snow Geese depart > From: Meena Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:19:12 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 5 > > Hi all, > > I too heard Canada Geese around 2.00 am at night. After reading Geo's post, I > looked out for geese from my house and did not find any at all. > > > > Day before yesterday (Friday) after Dave's post about Snow Geese downtown, I > went to look for them and not a single I could find. But I did find lots of > Canada on water, including all the birds Dave reported earlier. > > > > Then I went in search of some winter birds. On Lake Ridge road, I found > hundreds of DE Juncos, Tree sparrows and a Mockingbird feeding on the road. I > did not get chance to scan them for other species of sparrows as they were > skittish and flew into bushes as I cruised. At Atwater road, I turned on > left as I had never driven on this road and found it to be an interesting > road, I found two cardinals and a few Blue Jays. > > > > Then I continued on 34 B north and 90 east to Genoa and back on 34 south to > Ithaca. Nothing else much except somewhere past Locke I saw a Rough-legged > hawk dashing across the field. On the way I did see four Red-tailed Hawks, > three American Kestrels. > > > > One interesting thing I noticed was lots of trucks entering and leaving salt > company and all along the roads. I was wondering why I am seeing so many > trucks. Then I realized that this is the first time I have driven on these > roads on week-days and that may be the reason why I saw so many trucks. Is it > true? > > > > Cheers > > Meena > > > > > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > ________________________________ > From: bounce-72549091-3493...@list.cornell.edu > [bounce-72549091-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com > [nutter.d...@me.com] > Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 10:00 AM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] More Snow Geese depart > > Last night about 1015pm as I was shoveling my sidewalk one last time before > going to bed, I heard geese overhead. They were fairly low, and not > particularly going south. I don't know why they were wandering around in the > low clouds lit up by Ithaca's street lights. Mostly they were Canadas, but I > also heard a group of SNOW GEESE, so we now at least have that species for > count week in case they all depart before Tuesday. > > --Dave Nutter > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 09:40 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > More Snow Geese are passing south out of the basin on this morning's brisk > tail wind. I don't expect to see them circle back. There's relatively little > agricultural land south of here, and it's all buried in snow. > > -Geo Kloppel > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) > cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu<http://www.mail-archive.com/<a%20href=>/maillist.html'>http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu<mailto: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 List Info: > Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > Archives: > The Mail > Archive<http://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 eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: CBC count > From: Meena Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:25:59 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 6 > > Hi all, > > I am here in the basin for New Year's day. If anyone needs any area to be > covered and do not have someone to cover it let me know. > > E-mail me or call at 607-229-8710. > > > > Meena > > PS: My car does not have snow tires, so I prefer either walking distances or > clean roads to cover:-) > > > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: OT...Salt and other trucks > From: Donna Scott <d...@cornell.edu> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:44:46 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 7 > > Meena and others : > for a few months now, many salt trucks go in and out of the Cayuga/Cargill > salt mine In South Lansing. They take road salt from here to many other > places in New York and Pennsylvania and maybe beyond . > > also in this region, Rt 34B & probably 34, we have a lot of Large garbage > trucks, which no doubt go from downstate & New Jersey to Seneca Meadows > landfill & back. they go this way to avoid Thruway tolls. > It is a bone of contention with rural residents & town gov'ts. Who have to > Listen to the noise & repair roads. > Donna > Sent from my iPhone > Donna Scott > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Meena Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Snip > > Then I continued on 34 B north and 90 east to Genoa and back on 34 south . > > > > One interesting thing I noticed was lots of trucks entering and leaving > > salt company and all along the roads. I was wondering why I am seeing so > > many trucks. Then I realized that this is the first time I have driven on > > these roads on week-days and that may be the reason why I saw so many > > trucks. Is it true? Meena > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > > Welcome and Basics > > Rules and Information > > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > > Archives: > > The Mail Archive > > Surfbirds > > BirdingOnThe.Net > > Please submit your observations to eBird! > > -- > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > > Welcome and Basics > > Rules and Information > > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > > Archives: > > The Mail Archive > > Surfbirds > > BirdingOnThe.Net > > Please submit your observations to eBird! > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: has anyone seen Red-shouldered hawk this season in winter? > From: nutter.d...@me.com > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:48:33 +0000 (GMT) > X-Message-Number: 8 > > I think the Red-shouldered Hawk was not found at Sapsucker Woods last winter > (2011-12). There are eBird reports from winter 2010-2011, but nothing in 2011 > after an immature which Jay saw migrating in mid-November. In 2012 there are > only eBird reports for Red-shouldered Hawk from Sapsucker Woods between the > beginning of March (migrants) and August. I believe Red-shouldered Hawk was > not found on the 1 January 2012 Ithaca Christmas Bird Count, and the first > 2012 basin record of which I'm aware is January 29 in Caroline. > --Dave Nutter > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 09:09 AM, Meena Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > Hi all, > I was curious to know if anyone has seen the wintering Red-shouldered hawk > this season. It usually arrives around in November. > > Cheers > Meena > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Bird hawk heaven > From: "Nena J. Winand" <n...@cornell.edu> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:51:47 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 9 > > Yesterday we had a juvenile Coopers hawk hunting (unsuccessfully) at our > feeders. He had not honed his craft and positioned himself poorly (he/she, > that is). We have a mature sharpie that is much more polished (posted about > him before). Just a few minutes ago we had a kestrel strike, followed by a > war with several crows, who briefly ran off the perp. and tried to abscond > with the meal. The kestrel rallied and dove back in and airlifted his dinner > much to the dismay of the thugs! We are at 30 Torok Road in Groton. > > Nena > Dr. Nena Winand > Department of Molecular Medicine > C4-149 VMC > College of Veterinary Medicine > Cornell University > Ithaca, NY 14853-6401 USA > > Ph: 607-253-3608 > Fx: 607-253-3659 > Email: n...@cornell.edu<mailto:n...@cornell.edu> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Snow shoveling pays > From: John and Fritzie Blizzard <job121...@verizon.net> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:27:33 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 10 > > About 2 p.m. I went to fill a feeder but had to shovel to get to it. As I > stopped to rest I glanced up & saw an adult BALD EAGLE flying westward > towards the lake, almost overhead, slightly southward! Nice treat! > > Several HOUSE FINCHES, about 30 GOLD FINCHES, & 8 or 10 C. REDPOLLS have > been chowing down & fighting over sunflower & niger seeds at the feeders here > by the house. Backlighting keeps me from identifying all that are up at the > hill feeders & a lot are there. Lots of house sparrows, for sure. > > I heard several gunshots while I was outside. Haven't seen any geese today & > only a wee flock yesterday. > > Fritzie, in Union Springs, > > where it's very windy, 30 deg. & sorta' blizzard-like. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Tundra Swans > From: France <bird...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:57:59 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 11 > > There are large numbers of Tundra Swans currently migrating over Ithaca. I > counted well over 175 during a walk around downtown/fall creek. > > France > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Tundra Swans > From: Gary Kohlenberg <jg...@cornell.edu> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:21:26 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 12 > > Around 2:30 at East Hill Plaza I could hear flyover Tundras but couldn't see > them in the clouds. If they have been moving all this time that's quite a > good number. > Gary > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 5:00 PM, "France" > <bird...@gmail.com<mailto:bird...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > There are large numbers of Tundra Swans currently migrating over Ithaca. I > counted well over 175 during a walk around downtown/fall creek. > > France > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and > Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > Archives: > The Mail > Archive<http://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 eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Snow shoveling pays > From: M & K Mannella <mkmanne...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:02:00 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 13 > > Manure spreading pays too! Yesterday's load brought horned larks and snow > buntings by the dozens! > Michele > Ovid > > Sent from miPhone > @ The Hayward House B&B > www.thehaywardhouse.com > > > > > On Dec 30, 2012, at 3:27 PM, John and Fritzie Blizzard > <job121...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > About 2 p.m. I went to fill a feeder but had to shovel to get to it. As I > > stopped to rest I glanced up & saw an adult BALD EAGLE flying westward > > towards the lake, almost overhead, slightly southward! Nice treat! > > > > Several HOUSE FINCHES, about 30 GOLD FINCHES, & 8 or 10 C. REDPOLLS have > > been chowing down & fighting over sunflower & niger seeds at the feeders > > here by the house. Backlighting keeps me from identifying all that are up > > at the hill feeders & a lot are there. Lots of house sparrows, for sure. > > > > I heard several gunshots while I was outside. Haven't seen any geese today > > & only a wee flock yesterday. > > > > Fritzie, in Union Springs, > > > > where it's very windy, 30 deg. & sorta' blizzard-like. > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > > Welcome and Basics > > Rules and Information > > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > > Archives: > > The Mail Archive > > Surfbirds > > BirdingOnThe.Net > > Please submit your observations to eBird! > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Ithaca count week > From: <nutter.d...@me.com> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:14:05 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 14 > > This afternoon I returned and added several species for count week: > > SNOW GOOSE - single white adult alone in the middle of the lake. > TUNDRA SWAN - a pair of adults to the northwest > GADWALL - pairs and small groups scattered on lake, along shore and with > groups of other species > AMERICAN WIGEON - 3 males in Aythya flock > NORTHERN SHOVELER - an astounding thirty-eight (38), mostly in 2 tight groups > to the west near/with Aythyas, the males were in varying states of coming > into breeding plumage > NORTHERN PINTAIL - 1 male refound along shore with Mallards > CANVASBACK - 1 male, completing the sweep of all 5 Aythya species in the flock > COMMON GOLDENEYE - 3 males near 1 female north of red lighthouse > TURKEY VULTURE - 1 soaring over East Hill > LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL - adult on lake near ducks > I saw a total of 19 species of Anseriformes, plus American Coot, but no > loons, grebes, or cormorants today. > --Dave Nutter > > On Dec 29, 2012, at 05:04 PM, nutter.d...@me.com wrote: > > In case there are species of birds within the Ithaca Christmas Bird Count > which we miss on count day (1 January 2013), we can add them to our total if > we find them in the 3 days prior to or the 3 days subsequent to count day. > That started today. Please report any unusual birds starting today so that > birders can try to find them on count day, and if that doesn't work, they at > least can be count week birds. > > Yesterday - NOT count week - I saw 2 female Black Scoters and a male > White-winged Scoter off Stewart Park, in addition to other waterfowl. They > were east of the red lighthouse. > > At dawn this morning I went to the southwest corner of the lake wondering > what I could ID before the gunning started. With today's clouds and snowfall, > the answer is nothing. The first fusillade was at 7:09am. There were two > parties along the lakeshore at Treman and a guy out on the lake lying on a > very low flotation device, each with flocks of snow-covered decoys, and a > small boat with a couple guys near the docks further north than I was. I also > heard shots from the east and northeast. I stayed for an hour. Birding was > not easy. > > Birds I found today for count week included: > > Canada Goose > American Black Duck > Mallard > Redhead - 1 male, but this individual will not be available on count day > Ring-Necked Duck - 2 males > Greater Scaup - 1 male > Bufflehead - 1 female > Hooded Merganser - wounded bird may remain in the area > Common Merganser - wounded bird may remain in the area > Ruddy Duck - 1 male, several females > DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT - 1 swimming and diving to north. Yesterday I saw 4 > on & near the red lighthouse breakwater > American Coot > Ring-billed Gull > Herring Gull > Great Black-backed Gull > BELTED KINGFISHER > American Crow > Black-capped Chickadee > Carolina Wren > American Tree Sparrow > House Sparrow > > Next I went briefly to Stewart Park. I was glad to see more birds, but I > didn't add any species and the falling snow made visibility limited. > > --Dave Nutter > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST >
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