And the irony is the murders often form when (the crows fear that?) a crow is
threatened... They don't go after prey in flocks; they group in response to
THEIR predators, immediate or potential.
Anne
On Jun 1, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Marie P Read wrote:
Perhaps there is some logic behind it.
Re the milo seed--yes, there was an interesting publication based on a
feeder-food preference study set up through the Citizen Science program at CLO
to document what seeds were preferred. That was when the clear geographic
difference in use of milo was documented. Interesting--some of the
Answers and links! (I think this went just to me by mistake)
Begin forwarded message:
From: Anne Marie Johnson annemariejohn...@frontiernet.net
Date: January 3, 2013 5:37:11 PM EST
To: Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: seed preferences
The seed preference test Anne referred
!330 Sunday 11 Feb 13
Stevenson Road compost piles: Herring gull with a tan tag (at least on rt
wing) reading X28 in black letters, an orange left band reading Z3 and a second
2 letter/number combo farther around that I didn't get, and a USGS or silver
metal band on the right. Gull had full
Right--and come mid-April, some person might just pick up a partly eaten,
headless, tagged female crow under her nest and think...it was her first
nest--what a short life, only 5 years, her nestlings gone, too! She could have
had 6 more years at least, or more.
Boredom probably doesn't
:18 PM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote:
Right--and come mid-April, some person might just pick up a partly eaten,
headless, tagged female crow under her nest and think...it was her first
nest--what a short life, only 5 years, her nestlings gone, too! She could
have had 6 more
Having read the guides, males in a flock of American Tree Sparrows at the
Stevenson Road Compost Facility are singing--- in late winter before the
spring migration (All About Birds) . An unfamiliar song for me, but very
sweet. The flock was hanging in the low shrubbery at the two-track that
cool. Kevin and I have both spotted banded and tagged herring gulls in
Ithaca--they came from Newfoundland! I think I might be able to find the
source here..If those are the last two and first digits, then there will be no
problem figuring out who banded it.
Try googling ring billed gulls
Viewed from the bridge over Fall Creek at Forest Home this afternoon, small
clouds of mixed swallows were doing impossible-looking acrobatics in the nippy
air--certainly Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows, but probably others. I
couldn't see well in the light at the time and they kept zooming up
When I was filming robins and following nests back in Michigan many years ago,
grackles were major nest predators on eggs and nestlings...until the grackles
settled down with their own nests and incubatory responsibilities, after which
predation by grackles dropped off.
(Chipmunks and snakes
I COULD be mistaken as always--I don't trust my audio-identifications--
but am pretty sure it was two Prairie Warblers singing (loudly) on or
near Hunt Grove, the dead end just off Hunt Hill Rd off Ellis Hollow Rd.
Nice scales over and over. Doesn't seem like a prairie warbler
habitat,
Hummingbird reported down here in Castle Creek yesterday, on Broome listserv
On May 1, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote:
Hi all,
On Sunday, Braam Bezuidenhout had a hummingbird coming to his feeders, as
well as an Oriole. This is in the Ellis Highlands, east of Ithaca and off
Ellis
FYI--to confirm a trajectory: Broome Co folks, on Bluewing list, reported more
than 8 Semi-palmated Sandpipers (and more with time) as well as 6 Dunlin and 4
Semi-palmated Plovers at the Tri-Cities airport this morning.
anne
On May 24, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Jeff Gerbracht wrote:
After work. I
My late colleague Jack Christian documented barn and tree swallows taking the
low spread-wing posture, exposing their wings fully, on metal barn roofs on hot
summer days. I also saw a few instances. One possibility is that direct heat
helps drive out feather parasites and exposure to UV and
I wonder if anyone can comment on the usual description of oriole nesting as
only the female weaves the nest. I have a youngish adult male (slightly
graded color in his breast, a bit of edging on back feathers, but pretty
brilliant overall) at my house near Freeville. He has been defending
Dear Cayuga-listers,
Asking for your help in noting and giving me a call/email on any dead or sick
yard birds such as robins, cardinals, catbirds, grackles...or others.
As some of you may remember, last year brought another outbreak of West Nile
virus. This hit the Cayuga Heights area crows
I would agree on the first broods being out and fly-worthy by now, most likely.
And second or later broods are probably generally less successful, at least in
such birds as Red-winged Blackbirds that actually do NOT raise two broods
around here, although they may try-try-again as many as 4
very
late nestlings). But robins in the same Michigan property fed their nestlings
on mulberries.
Anne Clark
On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Paul wrote:
Spent about three hours watching the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May’s Point
this morning. Very active until about 10 am. Saw an interesting
, robins, and raptors may die or be seen
sick. The first positive bird this summer was a Wild Turkey in Michigan!
And it also means that we humans should avoid dusk and dawn mosquito
bites--long-sleeved shirts and pants when listening to evening or night
migrants!
Thanks so much,
Anne Clark
flocks of crows that include wing-tagged birds on fields in the general area
around Ithaca...or anywhere!
Thanks, Anne
On Aug 26, 2013, at 6:45 PM, dfsu...@verizon.net wrote:
Anne Clark requested reports of dead crows - if interested in reports from
Town of Springport, on Cayuga Lake, please
1330h 3 Black Vultures were preening and looking generally as sleek as a
vulture can on the N end of the wooden paddock fence, E of the Stevenson Rd
Compost mounds. One disappeared on me but the other 2 sat and rested after
preening in about the same spot for the next hour. I didn't count,
. Curious.
Anne Clark
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Color of monarchs triggered memory of a paper I just saw:
1.
Title: Forewing pigmentation predicts migration distance in wild-caught
migratory monarch butterflies
Author(s): Hanley, Daniel; Miller, Nathan G.; Flockhart, D. T. Tyler; et al.
Source: BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY Volume: 24 Issue: 5
I checked every Turkey Vulture of 45 or more that I saw in 1.5 hours on
Stevenson Road or at the Compost Facility and can report with fair confidence
that there were no Black Vultures seated or in the air. Hard to say how many
total, because the ebb and flow up there was constant.
Anne
On
and over. This seemed a stronger response than they
have given to the 2+ red-tailed hawks also visiting regularly.
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suggesting work on limiting airport area food sources--research done in Perth
Australia.
Source: Coghlan, M.L. et al. 2013. Metabarcoding avian diets at airports:
Implications for birdstrike hazard management planning. Investigative Genetics
doi: 10.1186/2041-2223-4-27.
To read a more general
1300h There were about 10 horned larks (all adults except one immature)
foraging in newly manured field, W of the driveway into the Compost Facility
and N of the Pheasant pens.
Just to be complete--also present in the Compost Facility area (mounds, manured
field, Dodge x Stevenson Rd) were
Follow up on Trumpeter Restoration Project mentioned by Kevin--all yellow wing
tags appear to come from Ontario banding. What isn't immediately clear is
their numbering system since 2008 (when lots of these were apparently put on).
http://honeyharbour.net/reporting-trumpeter-swan-sightings/
It sounds as if some of these folks might be illegally close to buildings,
although I suppose they argue that their guns are pointing down the lake. On
the other hand, in the park area, trails and inlets make a complex problem for
claiming that nothing could be in the line of fire when
Am I not reading tables correctly? Doesn't the table show just snow goose and
Canada goose hunting season now, with ducks having ended Dec 15? If so, why
are hunters all tucking in at the end of the Lake? And why is it so
concentrated right now, since Snow Geese have been legal since Oct 1?
...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Anne Clark
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 9:31 AM
To: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Duck Hunting Rules and
enforcement
Am I not reading tables correctly? Doesn't the table show just snow
the south end of the lake, say the
portion within the City of Ithaca, which does not allow firing guns, off
limits to hunting.
--Dave
Nutter
On Dec 29, 2013, at 08:47 PM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote:
It sounds as if some of these folks might be illegally close to buildings
on it.
They were distant and only sometimes landed where could be scoped, but I looked
enough and took sufficient pictures to satisfy myself that there were no larks
among them.
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Those thousands surely would be reassuring if I were a crow worried about
being The One to be eaten by The Owl tonight! Lottery chance converging on
zero.
Fortunately for Ithaca's attitude toward crows, the flights into Ithaca
roost(s) do not compare. :)
Anne
On Jan 29, 2014, at 9:43 PM,
these
were the alert locals).
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Hi Meena and List
FYI, red tags are our 2012 cohort. Might be 6V DBAR12, raised across Judd
Falls from the Herb Gardens. We are particularly on the lookout for 6V's
bands-only 13 year old dad, P2 DBAR00, who has only a pair of color bands
(light bluish and greenish--both faded) on right leg.
These groups are winter roosts, and they are nothing new in crow life.
Despite what urban residents sometimes think, crows didn't start gathering when
we set out cities for them to use. Roosting in groups at any time of year may
offer safety in numbers from night predators, such as Great
This may be of interest to the discussion. I cannot find it now, but there was
one other common berry (Serviceberry? I think not) connected with waxwing
suicides against glass. We have had regular deaths on (stupid) reflecting
glass (-my hawk shapes do help) when the birds ate off one tree
Not too early...Kevin found a crow on Yellow Barn road incubating this past
weekend and there are crows building all over Cayuga Heights. The family at the
end of Sapsucker Woods Rd and Hanshaw is probably nearing completion of their
nest. The peak of many years for starting incubation is
Today around 1300, a pair of tundra swans was walking around on the ice of the
pond at the Compost Facility. One had a strongly drooped left wing. But as i
sat, getting my camera out, they took off and they both flew well, south, then
turning west toward the Lake.
Not a match for the many
. But it was
fun to see it through my scope, as I was looking fruitlessly for crows in that
vicinity.
Anne Clark
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, but it was an adult bald
eagle. It very handily caught up, the osprey dropped the fish, the eagle
caught it, and beat its way west (essentially toward the Lake, I guess).
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Today about 1430, an immaculate white-eyed vireo foraged about 3 feet from me,
in the sunlit shrubs at the N-most path into Jessup Woods from the Frisbee Golf
course N of Alot.
Sounds camera-worthy? My camera was in the car...I was just checking for a
crow's nest. (Which is a-building in
Through the 1990s, ospreys used to appear occasionally out at the Cornell Pond
Unit 1 and forage in the lake area there. (Am betting they still do--I am not
there to see)
I remember standing in my waders, taking out my video camera with its fully
exposed 2 hrs of parental feeding at a
It is wild out there...flashing of several kinds, low and high in trees. Give
that it is hard to see birds right now, it is well worth a look outside for
this pre-4th display.
Vic Lamoureux put a similar alert out for Broome, on the Bluewing list.
Apparently this is THE night so far if you
Those maple leaves look quite fresh as if added recently, not during the
nestling period. Certainly the leaves are so big that they must be recent. So
we might hypothesize that squirrels moved in as the pileated young moved out?
anne
On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Suan Hsi Yong wrote:
Crows will try to catch, kill and eat small vertebrates that they come across.
Yes indeed, they are hunting all the time when they are foraging on the
ground,in the sense that they are searching for live food like beetles, larvae
(beetle or otherwise), earthworms and also, when they encounter
Border collies, coyote effigies, etc can indeed move them, but temporarily to
somewhere else local. This effort looks ready to replicate the eternal cycle
of geese in Binghamton that move/ are moved from Otsiningo Park to BCC to
Binghamton University playing fields and back. At least we
I see hundreds of tree swallows, mixed with barn swallows, over mown fields
during August.
On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Tobias Dean wrote:
Our barn swallows left yesterday, some may have left a few days earlier but
there was a core group that waited until sometime during the day to depart.
at about 8 AM, a beautiful female Harrier was working the field along Stevenson
Rd at Dodge Rd, working N and NE across the field E of the Compost Facility
driveway.
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Over field SE of my house, 147 Hile School Road, right over wood lot at Ed Hill
and Hile School. 1 is a juvenile, the other doesn't look fully adult (or is
molting). Juve following the more adult one, finally joining it in a large
dead tree overlooking the field.
Two ravens, regulars and
Loons, ducks, grebe, etc. all wonderful!
But about that crow: I suspect from your description that it has crow
droppings smeared down its primaries, acquired as it perched directly below
another crow in a communal roost. I get reports during the winter of tagged
crows, always seen with
eating apples, especially not frozen brown ones. Carbs a little limited at
this time of year?!
Anne Clark
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They may have returned to North Campus to roost at the end.
At 430-45 pm, there was a steady stream of crows coming E across the living
units on Jessup Road and filling the woods of the Cornell Golf Course between
Hasbrouck Community and Mockley House, as well as the trees on the S border of
Today (Jan 2, 1520h) for the first time in weeks, had a pair of Brown-headed
Cowbirds in our woodsy patch S of our house/feeders at 147 Hile School Road,
Freeville. Never saw them at the feeders earlier in the day.
Anne
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At 840 am, spectacularly beautiful light morph Rough-legged Hawk sailing
through snowflakes going WSW across Ferguson Road, just where it leaves Irish
Settlement road and continues E to Dryden.
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Hopefully this is not taking this outside the interest of many on the list but:
I am curious to know the evidence on reduced nesting success in goshawks, in
part because it is really important to know what such evidence would look like.
John, can you direct those of us who might want to follow
Given the Goshawk sightings and interest, I thought some might be interested in
this news writeup on a new article on how goshawks hunt their prey.
I have pasted it in and removed hot links, but am happy to send article to any
individuals who wish to see the full deal in the journal.
Anne
blowing around on the
surface. I was too far to see the items, but they were picking things up off
the surface and seemed to have to chase them a little in the morning wind. I
have never seen this behavior before.
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Hi Mona and all.
Thanks so much for the information. I will answer Mona at greater length
separately. But I do want to take this chance to reiterate our interest in
information like this about crow roosts around the state, in the context of a
major two year study.
Hopefully soon, but
To give a Wed 25th Feb update on Turkey Vulture whereabouts, about 15 were
either swirling around or sitting in the spruce trees behind the Varna
Community Center on 366 today at about 230. There may well have been more in
the spruces, hidden. They may be using these trees as a small local
5-4-15
Just now 0945, while an FOY gorgeous male Baltimore Oriole sang and a Yellow
Warbler zoomed off, an Osprey and a Broad-winged Hawk soared overhead,
drifting-flapping-drifting to the NW. I don't often see osprey over the yard,
but there are many smaller waterbodies about, of course.
One expectantly visiting my porch this morning--Hile School Rd, just out of
Basin. First I have seen. Also reported in Broome Co. this morning.
Anne
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Not a new FOY bird, but a new study out in Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences today shows--experimentally-- effects of birdfeeding on the
dominance of invasive species over native ones. This was done in New Zealand,
whose native birds have been, well, all too easily dominated?
At this time of year, there are many yearling (hatched in 2014) males who are
not yet in full color. Having orange epaulets is not unusual for this age
group. I know of one orange-epauleted male that actually bred with orange
epaulets, but there were complex reasons he got a chance.
There is
Maybe I just haven't been out and listening at the right moment, but this is
the first I have heard this spring/suddenly summer.
Not too far North of the middle of Hile School Road, Freeville.
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Hile School Rd, just out of Basin:
THree ruby throated hummingbirds are at war over the feeder starting yesterday,
when a male showed up. Two female-plumaged birds had been sharing' for a day,
even been drinking at the same time. The male is not welcome and one or both
females have displaced
4. For a variety of reasons, I don't have
an accurate list of other species on that day.
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and her mate appear to be nesting farther S in the circle, probably in
the spruces mid-circle. But I have not found it yet.
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Finally saw one of the yellow-billed cuckoos (pair) that have been
singing/calling in our Back Six acres on Hile School Rd, Freeville. And it had
a fledgling sitting near it, quietly looking like a very stubby yellow-billed
cuckoo.
I couldn't get pictures of the fledgling deep in the
Seeing Chris' report of one in Sapsucker woods, maybe this is of interest.
At 830 am today, there was one very vocal at the end of Sanctuary Dr, both in
the Salem Park woods at west dead end of Drive, and then moving over to the
woods to the SE, across the new private road that connects to
It had two pictures of a young merlin attached. I think that, since it had no
text in the body of the message, save the Cayuga list material, and two
attachments, some email programs reacted and stripped the attachments. That
seemed to be what Peter's did. Mine came through with clearly .jpg
Read and Anne Clark-- thought it
would be interesting to gather your observations of robin nesting and clarify
the patterns of reuse in our local robins, in order to understand when and why
robins might reuse nests or nest sites. So we have developed a survey about
the details of any robin
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