Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpecker

2021-05-22 Thread Christopher Sperry
So cool!!! Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2021, at 10:27 AM, Laurie Rubin wrote:  This message originated from outside the Ithaca College email system. In our backyard in Lodi. First time ever. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpecker

2021-05-22 Thread Christopher Sperry
I haven’t heard of any sittings on the list Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2021, at 1:17 PM, Christopher Sperry wrote:  So cool!!! Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2021, at 10:27 AM, Laurie Rubin wrote:  This message originated from outside the Ithaca College email system. In our backyard

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bufflehead and Snowy Owl Videos

2021-12-20 Thread Christopher Sperry
Sunday Lake report: Lots of Gadwalls, American Wigeons, Bufflehead, some Redheads, Merganzers, and a Kingfisher at the pond on Rte. 90 in Union Springs. We counted 220 Sandhill Cranes in the field between Olmstead road and rte. 374 (Wiley rd?) just north of where 89 turns

[cayugabirds-l] Redheads, mergansers + Buffeheads off Hog Hole

2021-12-18 Thread Christopher Sperry
Friday afternoon off Hog Hole (S.E. corner Cayuga lake) counted 220 Redhead ducks, 20 Common Mergansers (mostly females), and a few Buffleheads. Chris Sperry -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Redheads

2021-12-13 Thread Christopher Sperry
I counted 260 mostly Redheads and some Scaup today - they have been there for at last a few days. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2021, at 3:03 PM, Carol Cedarholm wrote:  This message originated from outside the Ithaca College email system. 100 plus Redheads on the lake east side of Stewart

[cayugabirds-l] Red-tailed hawks sharing prey?

2022-03-22 Thread Christopher Sperry
Anyone have thoughts about want I just witnessed in my back yard in Ithaca: 2 Red-tailed hawks vocalizing loudly from different trees – one with a mouse or chipmunk, flying to different perches until the one with the prey offered it to the 2nd hawk (no opposition). Was this likely an example

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Reminder: Saturday (4/30) Dryden Rail Trail Bird Walk

2022-04-29 Thread Christopher Sperry
Please sign us up Chris Sperry Karin Suskin Many thanks From: bounce-126517624-89368...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Date: Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 9:45 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Reminder: Saturday (4/30) Dryden Rail Trail Bird Walk

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodpeckers wreaking havoc

2022-12-04 Thread Christopher Sperry
We do not see any indication of insects around or inside the trim where the Downies are digging lots of holes – some an inch wide and 2 inched deep. I have put up perhaps a hundred 6” reflective strips – but more holes keep appearing. Chris Sperry and Karin Suskin From:

[cayugabirds-l] Kinglets at Park Preserve in Dryden

2023-04-11 Thread Christopher Sperry
Monday at 4:30pm I saw and heard perhaps a dozen Golden Crowned Kinglets throughout the Roy H Park Preserve – Baldwin Tract off Irish Settlement Road south of Goodband Rd – starting at the parking lot all the way to the entrance down to the gorge outside the preserve - many showing their

[cayugabirds-l] Warblers at Park Preserve North

2023-05-09 Thread Christopher Sperry
This morning between 8-9:30am Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, Nashville, Yellow, Black-throated Green, Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided, Balckburnian, Common Yellowthroat, Ovenbird, -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Correction: Warblers at Park Preserve SOUTH

2023-05-09 Thread Christopher Sperry
Roy H. Park Preserve – my mistake it is the SOUTH section - Baldwin Tract of the Park Preserve, accessed from the south parking area (just north of the intersection of Irish Settlement Road and Midline Road), From: Christopher Sperry Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 3:01 PM To: Upstate NY

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Creeper in Ithaca

2024-03-02 Thread Christopher Sperry
Brown Creeper on a dead pine tree in City of Ithaca, Kline rd March 2 Chris Sperry -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm

[cayugabirds-l] BTG Warbler, Waterthrush, + at Park Oreserve

2024-04-23 Thread Christopher Sperry
Baldwin Tract of Park Preserve - Black Throated Green In the Hemlocks before trail down to the Gorge (6 Mile Creek) where Northern Waterthrush were playing. Brown Creeper in the spruces near the start. On Apr 23, 2024, at 10:39 AM, Tom Vawter wrote:  This message originated from outside the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Statement from the NYS Park Service about Taughannock

2024-04-15 Thread Christopher Sperry
Who are the appropriate people to thank? Chris Sperry From: bounce-128148658-89368...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Barbara Chase Date: Monday, April 15, 2024 at 5:06 PM To: Tim Gallagher Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Statement from the NYS Park Service about Taughannock

[cayugabirds-l] What a morning in Ithaca

2024-04-29 Thread Christopher Sperry
With the help of Merlin, 30 species in our yard on Kline road in the between 7 and 8:00am, including: FOY: Cedar Waxwings, Black-throated Blue, Yellow Warbler, White-crowned Sparrow, Northern Mockingbird, Redstart, Thrasher, Wood Thrush, Oriole, and a Green Heron, PLUS: Yellow-rumped,