Re: [cayugabirds-l] Large Crow flight

About that time, I was walking toward the lakeshore at Treman to survey the waterfowl in the SW part of the lake. As I passed between the frozen marina and the woods of the Hog Hole swamp, I saw an estimated 450 crows commuting east overhead. It sounded like there were more on the way but not

RE:[cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

If the dead birds were siskins, redpolls, or goldfinches, my first reaction is that the birds died from salmonellosis, and potentially you might have observed these birds sitting motionless and incredibly puffed up near the bird feeder at some point before you found the dead bird on the ground.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

Over a month ago, I found one dead Siskin under my backyard feeders. 16 others seemed fine & later moved on to somewhere else. Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2021, at 9:56 AM, Wesley M. Hochachka mailto:w...@cornell.edu>> wrote: If the dead birds were siskins, redpolls, or

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

There have some been problems with pesticides in birdfeed in the past https://www.audubon.org/news/pesticides-bird-seed-scotts-miracle-gro-fined-125-million Cheers, -Mike :-) *Michael Ludgate* canaaninstitute.org 607.227.0090 (c) Quarantine photos; mostly from

[cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

Hello all, In the course of the past 10 days, we have discovered a dead bird under a feeder in three separate occasions, the latest this morning. No apparent injury. The thistle is fresh (it goes pretty quickly) and we keep the feeders clean and sanitized. We called the Cornell hospital but

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

If you do find dead birds like this (if they're fresh and not freeze-dried or damaged) you can store them in your freezer in plastic bag so they can be donated to the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (when they eventually are open for the public again). I'm not sure if

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse area RBA

RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse * February 22, 2021 *  NYSY  02. 22. 21   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): February 15 to February 22, 2021 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma

[cayugabirds-l] Sheldrake ducks, geese, pipit, buntings

Yesterday my daughter, Lisa, and I birded around the west side of Cayuga Lake. We found a nice concentration of ducks and geese at Sheldrake--many Canada Geese, Canvasbacks, and Mallards. Smaller numbers of Trumpeter Swans, Redhead, Common Mergansers, Ring-necked Ducks, Bufflehead, Common

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Question

There seems to be numerous reports of sapsuckers in CNY this winter. In my thirty plus years living here I don't recall ever seeing one in the winter. Here in McGraw I have one visiting my feeders for the past few weeks. How common is it for them to winter in our area? Thanks, Tom Fernandes

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Question

I saw a sapsucker in Freeville last Friday morning. From: bounce-125408654-10557...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Tom Fernandes Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:55 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Question There seems

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Question

Immature Sapsucker in my area of Lansing Station Rd. Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2021, at 5:33 PM, Tim Gallagher mailto:t...@cornell.edu>> wrote: I saw a sapsucker in Freeville last Friday morning. From:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Question

At our house in Enfield, a juvenile Sapsucker has been visiting our suet feeder regularly over the last week. Martha Fischer From: bounce-125409045-3494...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Alicia Plotkin Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 6:57 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Large Crow flight

Approximately 5:20 pm today I noticed a steady flight of Crows from my vantage just north of Hog Hole, heading approximately toward Cayuga Heights/Cornell Campus, moving in the approximately the opposite direction of the large morning flight of 2/17. I don’t know the extent of today’s flight,

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Question

A friend a mile away reports one is regular at his feeder this winter.  Don't remember reports of any over-wintering here on the west side of Ovid before this year, and there is only one report in eBird for Dec-Feb in the Seneca drainage of Ovid before 2021 (assuming Dave Kennedy was on the