Imagine my surprise last night when I spotted a male Ring Neck Pheasant near
the feeders. It’s a new yard bird for me. I got a few pics before he left. I
never expected to see him again. Imagine my surprise this morning when I found
him sitting on a teak table on my front porch! I was
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Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2022 6:44 PM
To: Robyn Bailey
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] new yard bird - peacock in yard
Wow!
40 years ago, we lost a white peacock - it wandered away from our ‘farmette’ on
W. Niemi Rd., W. Dryden.
It took
Wow!
40 years ago, we lost a white peacock - it wandered away from our ‘farmette’ on
W. Niemi Rd., W. Dryden.
It took all this time for Blanche to get to your house! :-)
Donna Scott
Lansing
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On Mar 26, 2022, at 5:45 PM, Robyn Bailey wrote:
Much to my surprise, a new
Much to my surprise, a new yard bird appeared today...a white peacock! I live
in the woods near Myer's Park / Lansing School and if anyone is missing a
peacock in this area, please have them email me. I have never seen or heard a
peacock in the neighborhood.
It seems to have hunkered down for
Just sharing pleasure of new species seen from our yard, a goatsucker.
I have had the good fortune to hear a Whip-poor-will on our property. Last
night (Sat. 08/21) Gian Dodici thought he glimpsed a nighthawk passing by over
head. At first it disappeared, but came back for a nice view. Haven't
Yesterday afternoon while I was gardening I heard a strange, intermittent
squawking. I knew it was a bird I had never heard in my yard, but couldn’t
identify it. I walked around under my trees with my binoculars, until I saw
what appeared to be a heron perched in my maple tree, which abuts a
I didn’t think my backyard birding could get any better today, but it did. I
had this single “grackle” hanging around. Eventually I realized it was too
small for a grackle. I thought, Rusty Blackbird? So I looked it up in Sibley
and yes, that’s what I have. It’s a new life list and yard
I just had my first ever at home male Indigo Bunting! He was thinking about
going to the feeder. I hope he returns, but he’s probably just passing through.
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Just had a first in the yard---a Great Blue Heron. And we don't have a
pond. The biggest squall of the day just passed, having brought a pretty
dense snowfall. The GBH may have become disoriented and just picked a
landing spot with no trees or brush to cause a hazardous landing. This
morning a
We had our first Grackle of the year visit our feeders this afternoon!
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We had a cheerful and bright (almost neon orange) golden-crowned kinglet today
eating insects and singing in our old pine tree. A new yard bird for us.
Michele
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I added four new yard birds last week and another today: the white-throated
sparrow! It was perched on a tall wooden fence and then foraging in the soil
of my garden. I live downtown near the high school and was so surprised as I've
only seen them in more of an edge of a forest.
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I have been out 5 times since the end of February, scanning the southern skies
for migrants of some kind. So far nothing. But today I got a new Yard bird
when I watched a REDHEAD (as in the duck) circling the Firehall 4 times low.
Not sure it was migrating, but it probably thought the
While we have often seen SNOW BUNTINGS from the yard, this morning we had one
we could see from the kitchen window near the patio. It stuck around to pick
the droppings from under the feeders. This a first of year for us and a new
yard bird. Quite a pretty little bird.
Yesterday while looking
Besides being a new yard bird, it is a new computer-room-window bird. I saw
a big dark shape cruising just above the trees outside our window and looked
closer to ID it. It was a mature Bald Eagle. Wow! What a thrilling bird.
Earlier today, Shirley found our first Flicker of this winter on
I'm so excited! For the first time ever, I had a Scarlet Tanager under my
feeder. It didn't stay long. Who knows what else came with those nasty storms?
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We have two BROWN THRASHERS today, a new yard bird for us. I have not been
sitting and watching steadily today, bit getting some window time here and
there while doing some renovations. Who knows what is out there that we are
missing.
Michele
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A female WOOD DUCK perched in a couple of my trees near my little stream and
uttered several calls, then finally flew south.
I wish one of my dead trees had a large enough cavity for a nest.
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Trivia follows
After 65 years of extensive feeding of birds in my yard, (OK, including homes
of parents for Karen and John and our previous homes) and with dispersal of up
to ~100 lb/wk of bird seed when there has been frequent, fresh snow fall, and
after thousands of hours of observation;
Hi,
We had a Rose-breasted Nuthatch at the feeder this afternoon.
Diana Whiting
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I know there are some killer yards out there, and some magic ones, that report
wonderful birds and maybe if I stayed home more my yard total would increase,
but I had my first Blackpoll Warbler this morning. I was excited enough to
leave the coffee boiling too long.
At Ford Rd. yesterday while
Went out with the dog and took the binocs looking for snow geese (didn't see
them yet) or what else might be arriving.
Instead spotted several large lumps in the 70' basswood in the neighbors yard
which at first I thought were the crows that roost there often (I shot photos
of 17 at sunset a
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