Upstate NY Birding digest 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
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> Subject: has anyone seen Red-shouldered hawk this season in winter?
> From: Meena Haribal
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:09:13 +
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> Hi all,
>
> I was curious to know if anyone has seen the wintering Red-shouldered hawk
> this season. It usually arrives around in November.
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>
> Cheers
>
> Meena
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>
>
> Meena Haribal
> Ithaca NY 14850
> http://haribal.org/
> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
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> Subject: More Snow Geese depart
> From: Geo Kloppel
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:40:59 -0500
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> 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
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> Subject: Re: More Snow Geese depart
> From:
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:00:36 +
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> 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 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
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> Subject: Re: More Snow Geese depart
> From: Mo Barger Rooster Hill Farm
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:17:40 -0500
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>
> 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 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
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> Subject: RE: More Snow Geese depart
> From: Meena Haribal
> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:19:12 +
> 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.
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>
> 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.
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>
> 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 a
