[cayugabirds-l] new automatic CayugeRBA text message alert

As some of you may be aware, for awhile there was a free automatic text message alert system which allowed us to communicate about rare birds in the Cayuga Lake Basin. Unfortunately it crashed sometime before the Western Grebe was discovered and was not up in time for the Black-legged Kittiwake

[cayugabirds-l] crow having fun

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/?ref=sciencehttp://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/?ref=science -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Brooktondale birds

I got out for a morning walk early, but saw almost nothing birdwise. Fresh coyote and bobcat tracks were a treat, however. Usuals at the feeders until 1100 when a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK sailed over the house. This is my first of this season. I raced to the front yard, but lost it in an

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Headed Cowbird

Currently I have a Brown Headed Cowbird on my porch eating seeds that I threw out. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Redpoll sp, Mud Lock Sunday (15 Jan.) morning

Hi everyone, Eduardo Inigo kindly invited my along for an around-the-lake trip with himself and Maikel Canizares (visiting PhD student, now at the Lab of Ornithology), and while filling out my eBird checklists from the trip I noticed that we seem to have found the first COMMON REDPOLL for

[cayugabirds-l] Mt Pleasant Snow Buntings

Around 3pm today, a flock of 60+ Snow Buntings was on Mt Pleasant Rd at the junction with the radio tower road, seen on the road surface at first then foraging in the field east of the radio tower road where the wind has exposed a wide swath of soil and low plants. Marie Marie Read Wildlife

[cayugabirds-l] Link to amazing display of corvid behavior

Seen in NY Times online. Marsha and Fred Kardon http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Brown Headed Cowbird

I had one BROWN HEADED COWBIRD male eating on the ledge of a hopper feeder today! Plus, 4 dozen AMER. GOLD FINCHES and the other usual suspects. - Original Message - From: Mary E. Winston To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Brown