Re: [cayugabirds-l] Merlins galore - thanks

2015-07-29 Thread Carol Keeler
I sure wish you could export some of those Merlins to me up in Auburn. I have tons of House Sparrows for them to eat. Sent from my iPad On Jul 28, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote: Nestlings may have fledged, but Merlins still have to eat and hunt. Yesterday

[cayugabirds-l] Merlins galore - thanks

2015-07-28 Thread John Confer
*Thanks to assistance from participants in the cayugabirds-l,* Mark Witmer, Maddie Ulinski, and I were able to monitor 7 Merlin nests this spring-summer. The Briarwood Lane nest fledged the third of three nestlings this morning (28 July). Five nests were in Ithaca, one in Dryden and one of

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Merlins galore - thanks

2015-07-28 Thread Dave Nutter
Nestlings may have fledged, but Merlins still have to eat and hunt. Yesterday (Monday 27 July) at 9:32am I was on Meadow Street waiting to turn left onto Buffalo Street by the FastRack gas station when I heard a short succession of unidentified agitated call notes to my left. Immediately afterward