An unexpected PINE SISKIN just showed up north of the Lab building.
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48588537. Purple Finches have been around.
Kevin
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We had two on Yellow Barn Rd yesterday, too. Both adults, which is sort of
surprising. It seems that hatch-year birds, with brown crowns, are more
frequently seen out of season than adults.
Kevin
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Sent: Friday, Novemb
Good call, Josh. That’s a first cycle Glaucous Gull, and you’ve described all
the right characteristics.
I had a first cycle at the Cornell compost on Stevenson Road last Saturday,
likely the same bird.
Best,
Kevin
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Michele,
Chances are it's an aberrant Black-capped Chickadee. See
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/brown-headed%20chickadee.htm for an example
of a bird we saw back in 2004.
The cap color is only one of several differences between Boreal and
Black-capped chickadees. Boreal has a gray, not wh
A few lunch-time observers at the Cornell Lab today saw hundreds of Red-winged
Blackbirds and Grackles migrating past, but the big deal was the number of
geese going over. For the almost hour I was out there on "Mt Sapsucker," the
hill by the parking lots, one of our enthusiasts counted 22,600 C
Good points, Dave. I too saw that Bald Eagle yesterday at Stewart Park and was
surprised at how Osprey-like it looked. I also took crappy photos of it, and
will try to get them in my eBird checklist soon.
Kevin
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, too. So they could have benefitted from
allopreening.
Kevin
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I don’t know how long it has been there, but it was there on 21 July, molting
all its primaries.
Kevin
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Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2019 1:50 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Snow goose
At VanDyne Spoor R
"Watch this space!"
Look for some fascinating, and depressing information about this topic in the
next couple of weeks!
Kevin
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eeding bird
population has been lost from the U.S. and Canada since 1970.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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From: Magnus Fiskesjo
Sen
1970 is used as the starting point because that was when the Breeding Bird
Survey started taking data. Data on bird populations simply didn't exist before
that, with the exception of the Christmas Bird Count. The BBS was started
partly in response to the perceived decline in birds already occurr
available on the Web or using other means of
broad dissemination; Repeated or long-term use
Regrettably, there is simply too much material in the presentation that falls
under this guideline; removing it would make the talk unintelligible.
Kevin
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found banded Great Black-backed Gulls here in previous years from the
same location.
Kevin
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There is an eagle sitting on a nest at the southeastern corner of the lake.
It's mate caught a very small fish right in front of me this morning.
Kevin
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Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 10:53 AM
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Su
Cool. That’s the old Fish Crow nest. Merlins sure do love Fish Crow nests!
They’re using them all over town.
Kevin
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To: Laura Stenzler
Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L
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nests.) I think they like Fish Crow nests also because it’s easier to bully the
smaller crow off a nest than the larger American Crow. But, that happens, too.
Kevin
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Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2020 5:20 PM
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I use an angled scope from my car all the time. You just have to rotate the
barrel so the eyepiece is pointing to the side. When scanning, you’re going to
have to rotate it to the opposite side at one point, and you might also have to
move the mount to another part of the window. You can even co
I've been seeing lots of new migrants in the yard this weekend like everyone
else. I need to get my hummingbird feeder up!
Today, my lunchtime walk about the property turned up a few new birds for the
year, a couple expected, a couple not:
Nashville Warbler - brief look checking out my very act
Wow. I wonder if I would have glanced up at them and blown them off as
cormorants!
Kevin
Ithaca
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Th
It’s in the enforcement. How would anyone know if you killed a bird for its
feathers or if you found them? Safest thing for birds is no possession of parts.
Kevin
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Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 12:40 PM
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Very cool experience!
But, Barn Swallows aren’t always that great at what they do. Long ago in a
place not-so-far-away, when I was in charge of the Cornell bird and mammal
collections, I used to have regular contributors who brought in salvaged birds.
One person brought in a surprising number o
The Cornell compost facility on Stevenson Road has been pretty dull since the
shutdown. It's always slow this time of year anyway, but the near absence of
students, and apparently changed processing of dorm food (take out not
composted?) has meant that it's been slim pickings for crows and gulls
“Record cold of this magnitude is not consistent with global warming. “
Why not? Global warming doesn’t mean warming happens all over the globe evenly.
I’ve been watching our area in the northeast for the last decade, thinking
mostly about Snowy Owl incursions, and I’ve noticed strange changes i
My best memory of feeder birds caching was a number of years ago on a warm
fall/winter day and I had my sliding door open so I could take pictures of the
birds coming to the feeders on my deck. I had my camera on a tripod just inside
the open door. I was doing something on the computer on the ki
#x27;m not going to do an obituary tonight. I just wanted to get the word out. I
know there are people on this list that knew Ned in the day, and will be
saddened to learn of his death.
Kevin
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A few years ago I was photographing an immature Bald Eagle perched in the big
tree on Dodge Rd just south of Stevenson. It started staring at the pheasant
pens and then took off in a power flight. I didn't see any feathers fly, and
when it came back to the same perch a moment later, it was carry
Ithaca still has a good number of vultures around. I saw at least 10 today at
the Cornell compost facility on Stevenson Road.
Kevin
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lways fun to see how birds bathe in things other than standing water,
such as snow, dirt, rain, dew, or wet leaves.
Kevin
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Yes, I was celebrating the final disappearance of snow from my driveway and
trails last Friday, but then I started to realize with the snow gone, it was
tick season. Last year I got two imbedded in me and gave two to my indoor cats.
:^(
Be careful out there.
Kevin
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I was in a Zoom meeting this morning in my "office" at my kitchen table, facing
out on a beautiful view of Yellow Barn State Forest and my bird feeders. A
blazingly white bird popped up at my feeders and instantly drew my attention. I
dug out my camera from the backpack on the chair next to wher
Crows would not tolerate an eagle unless it was very focused on eating
something else. Vulture sounds most likely.
Kevin
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Yes, that’s a yearling male, one hatched in 2020. They molt out of the
female-looking plumage in body feathers, but they keep their juvenal primaries,
which are more brown than black.
Best,
Kevin
Kevin McGowan
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I don’t think that’s true. Birds, nests, eggs, and their parts all come under
protection from the MBTA. If feathers are covered, nestlings are covered.
Kevin
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Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 5:55 PM
To: darlingtonbets ; Na
Barbara Clise just put in an eBird list with photographs of an immature GOLDEN
EAGLE seen today along the southern portion of Scofield Road, well within the
Ithaca Christmas Bird Count circle! https://ebird.org/checklist/S99771454
We had the very first Golden Eagle on the count in 2007, and then
Not much chatter this year about our Christmas Bird Count tomorrow.
As I read the regs (https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/2.html), we are not
faced with a brand new opening of a duck-hunting season as we have experienced
in the last few years. But, the season has been open all through December
That would be spectacular! Please provide more details.
Kevin
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Jennifer,
Such a sweet remembrance of your uncle. Thanks for sharing.
I have birded that spot for many years, and I have never gone beyond the road’s
end, nor seen anyone do anything except scope the view from the public road. I
know it happens, but most of the birding community is respectful o
Several years ago I started putting seed under the picnic table on my deck. I
don’t have a covered platform feeder because my plague of squirrels is too bad.
The protected space was very appreciated by lots of birds and squirrels. The
wooden table disintegrated and I had to let it go. But, I kep
Or, you can just go to https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S104578240. Not hard
Kevin
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Tundra Bean-Goose photos
Sorry to not have provid
We had a painted turtle out in one of the side ponds at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology trails this afternoon. The main pond is still icebound.
Kevin
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Still present at 4:30. Also breeding male plumage Wilson’s Phalarope.
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On May 12, 2022, at 4:21 PM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
wrote:
I have yet to see anything posted more broadly, but a brightly-colored Curlew
Sandpiper was seen and photographed from the Montezuma N
Donna,
Turkey Vultures usually lay 2 eggs. It takes 28-40 days to incubate, and they
don’t fledge until 60-80 days.
No, a month is not enough time.
Kevin
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Bird Academy
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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I have a few poor photos of the Prothonotary in my checklist
https://ebird.org/atlasny/checklist/S111069919.
Kevin
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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The Cornell Lab’s Merlin app covers Europe, and it can tell you what birds are
most likely to be encountered in Poland in September. It’s really handy when
traveling in a foreign country where you don’t know what is common and what
isn’t. We used it constantly on a trip to Spain a couple of year
PM
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] bird guide for Europe
Thanks so much, Kevin. Can you recommend a book, though? I wonder about
internet access in more remote parts of Poland.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 4:37 PM Kevin J. McGowan
mailto:k...@cornell.edu
It’s a male Northern Flicker. Note the black moustache and black bib. The bill
is too long for a Horned Lark, but I can see how one could come to that
identification.
Best,
Kevin McGowan
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 20
Grape vine bark is probably the most common material used in the 3rd and final
stage of nest building, the soft inner cup. They'd probably appreciate some
horse hair.
Kevin
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Wow! A beautiful male Common Redpoll in a late afternoon shaft of sunlight. The
deep rose on his throat opened up and faded across his chest, as if he had
spilled a bright red wine down his front. In the intense sunshine the red was
electric against the white cheeks and chest. I took a couple ph
Look who won the grand prize!! Congratulations, Melissa!
Kevin
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See the five winners and top 100 images.
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Actually, I believe the term albino is more accurate for this bird. Albinism
refers to the lack of melanin pigments. True albinos can still contain
carotenoid-based pigments, such as the rosy wash on your bird.
Kevin
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Fruit is probably better than concentrated sugars, but domesticated grapes and
oranges aren’t really “natural” foods, either. They have been selected to have
more sugar, more flesh, and fewer other compounds than natural fruits.
I wouldn’t give much credence to this article. It gives no authenti
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Canada Warblers were present all along our walk, so I had the opportunity to
reflect that a mnemonic phrase is not just a device for retrievi
, I didn't seriously consider the idea until
I showed Jay the photos.
Any Sterna tern is unusual in the county this time of year, so I hope others
will go out and look for this bird.
Kevin
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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I was watching an adult male Orchard Oriole singing along the circle at Myers
Point Park this morning, and I noticed something I hadn't before. When the male
sang, his black throat turned WHITE. When he sang some parts of his song the
throat feathers were spread, revealing their white bases. It
I went to check on the bird a bit after four. As I drove there I wondered what
a heron was doing down in an apartment complex. But when I found building seven
I looked up and saw the big power lines and I knew what to expect.
Sure enough, when I drove up there was an adult heron lying panting on
An adult is feeding a fledgling Yellow-throated Vireo there. Some of the
squeaks are begging calls.
Kevin
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I captured some sweet bird behavior outside the Lab at lunchtime today. Check
out the series beginning with
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jZuZYNWQcFx4Nlwlh4jjINMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
Kevin
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Thanks, Ken. Seriously, Meena? Where are you? We count on you for things like
this. Really! ;^)
I was just looking out my window and admiring the moon a little bit ago, before
the eclipse started. When Ken wrote I looked out and the moon was hidden behind
leaves and clouds. It just became visi
Chris,
Thanks for the heads-up. Remember, all the good birds are on the east side of
these storms, so we want it to pass to our west. If it stays to the east, all
we get are heavy rains. The forecast at
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?5-daynl#contents makes it look iffy
for us.
Bes
I hope the trip goes well. I will be sad to see this garden leave this spot.
Let’s hope it goes somewhere else. It used to be on Bluegrass Lane before
Freese.
Pay special attention this weekend for a sparrow I observed very briefly
Wednesday morning. It looked like a very streaky White-throated
Snip: "The refuge grants this privilege - this break from the norm - because
it considers it an educational opportunity/event for the visiting public - one
in which they can learn more about the refuge and the life it encourages. "
Every birder I know is more than happy to tell anyone who asks
From: Diana [mailto:whiti...@roadrunner.com]
" Surely with so many places on the refuge where you can get out of the car,
..."
Seriously? Where? You know the refuge. If you wanted to take a small group to
see some birds, where would you go? Where could you get anywhere near close
enough to any
I don't think I agree. The pale face doesn't track a facial crescent like that
of a Blue-winged Teal. If you look at the shape of it, the paleness is broadest
at the forehead and at the throat. In contrast, a Blue-winged Teal has the
broadest white behind the bill and almost nothing near the thr
I've been gone a week, but went out to the Cornell compost today to census
crows and had a few noteworthy birds. In addition to the American and Fish
crows I was seeking, I saw a single adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL and an
unexpected first-cycle ICELAND GULL. The Iceland was very pale and quite
This morning at the Cornell compost facility on Stevenson Road, I had a
1st-year ICELAND GULL and a 3rd-year or more (but sub-adult) LESSER
BLACK-BACKED GULL, along with several hundred Ring-billed Gulls, a couple
hundred Herring Gulls and a couple dozen Great Black-backed Gulls. The Iceland
wa
A report just came in to the Lab of a WHITE PELICAN in the inner harbor in
Syracuse, present for the last two hours.
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And an adult BALD EAGLE on the compost mounds at 2:00, then perched in the tree
line above the compost for the next two hours.
The number of Red-tailed Hawks in that tree got to 25 while I was there. I
spent too much time sitting still photographing two young hawks reluctantly
"sharing" a recen
looked so much alike one wonders if they are siblings traveling together.
We still have so much to learn about animal movements and associations!
Photos in the checklist at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27703623.
Kevin
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Instructor
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Nice photos. I see no progression of molt from when I photographed the bird on
27 Feb: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27850362. Does anyone else
see any changes?
Kevin
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Apologies to the list.
Colleen,
Your email doesn't seem to be working. I was trying to RSVP for dinner, but it
bounced twice.
Kevin
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Although the body shows some dark feather edging that resemble a Canada Goose,
the thick neck with deep ridges in the feathers indicate this bird has domestic
goose genes.
Kevin
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[mailto:bounce-120266252-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kenn
I was doing crow work today, which means nest finding (they started
incubating!! All nest site information and activity reports are most welcome.),
and had a few non-crow interesting observations to report.
I had FOX SPARROWS in three different locations today, so watch out for them.
All locat
Dryden back road edges are covered in robins and pipits. Also savannah
sparrows, killdeer, and a few flickers.
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On Apr 3, 2016, at 12:55 PM, "David Nicosia"
mailto:daven102...@gmail.com>> wrote:
American Pipits in many locales down here in Broome co too. Many close up.
Mu
Also, vesper sparrow, Savannah sparrow, and SNIPES.
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Dryden back road edges are covered in robins and pipits. Also savannah
sparrows, killdeer, and a few flickers.
Sent from my
rican Wigeon, and a single sleeping
RED-NECKED GREBE.
Kevin
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Awesome! I wish I had that as a feeder bird. I expect that if it wants the suet
that badly that it will find a way to get it, provided it isn't scared away. I
don't think ravens are as gymnastically, physically astute as gray squirrels,
but if there's a will, there will be a way. If you want to
Interesting observation, Marie. I have a pair of orioles coming to my suet
right now, and I have never experienced that before.
Kevin
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It doesn't look like this ever got posted on this list. This morning, Saturday,
18 June 2016, Stacy Robinson was looking for the Garganey at Knox-Marsellus and
found a Black-necked Stilt instead!!! Although the Garganey remained elusive
and had not been seen by the time I left this afternoon, th
David,
Thanks for posting. Glad you got a decent photo of the Tundra Swan. On 5 June
2016, when I made the run for the Garganey, I saw a single swan in the marsh
that I identified at the time as Tundra. Its eyes were too prominent for
Trumpeter, in my opinion, but everyone else called it a Tru
Red-breasted Nuthatches are periodically irruptive species out of the boreal
forest. They tend to go south months before other irruptives, usually first
showing up in August. It looks like this is going to be an irruption year.
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Sounds about right. I'd have to check the BNA account tomorrow at work to
verify the numbers, but that seems in the ballpark.
For medium-sized songbirds, like robins and Red-winged Blackbirds, 70% of nests
fail to produce any fledglings, 92% of those fledglings die over the first
year, and hal
k them her rooster beat the crap out of it, and it
had been sitting on the chicken house staring down at the chickens for a week
or two before it died.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
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Just got a call from Anne Clark at the scene. Apparently the bird is a mostly
white Red-tailed Hawk, although it has a red tail. Last seen south of Fall
Creek Rd, where the stream crosses the road.
Kevin
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Interesting report. American Crows are migrating right now, with lots of birds
coming through from Ontario and Quebec. They are daytime migrants. It can be
difficult to tell them from local roost movements, because migrants will stop
and forage a while in a field with locals before heading out a
There are currently two female Black Scoters swimming and sleeping on Dryden
Lake. Canada Geese and Hooded Mergansers are the only other things I see.
Kevin
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re it with photos of a similar bird we were seeing a
year of two ago, but it looked very similar.
Kevin
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I took some photos of a first cycle Herring Gull at the Cornell compost
facility on 10 December, 2016, and I just found out it was banded as a chick 28
June 2016 on the roof of the Portland Art Museum in downtown, Portland, Maine,
by Dr. Noah Perlut of the University of New England. It's always
Check the legs for jesses. They use a Gyrfalcon to keep gulls away from the
landfill over on Rt 414.
Kevin
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[mailto:bounce-121125912-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Caroline Manring
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017
I believe that is true.
Kevin
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From: John and Sue Gregoire [mailto:k...@empacc.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 2:45 PM
To: Kevin J. McGowan
Cc: Caroline Manring ; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon
What color phase is the
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Sent: Friday, January 6, 2017 7:23 AM
To: Asher Hockett
Cc: Kevin J. McGowan; k...@empacc.net; Caroline Manring; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon
Dorsal appearance plays in that call Asher, and I believe from Dave K's photo
that
this is a dark phase. All
I just heard secondhand that a falconer working at Seneca Meadows Landfill said
the Gyrfalcon seen yesterday at the Finger Lakes Regional Airport is not theirs.
Kevin
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I went to Seneca Falls today, as did a number of other birders, looking for
Snowy Owls and hoping for Gyrfalcon. So far as I know, no one has refound the
Gyrfalcon seen on Thursday.
I managed to find only one Snowy Owl today. It was a sparsely-marked individual
with deep blackish markings and p
00 SLR shots. I will post some when I
can coordinate my two computer systems.
Kevin
Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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I didn't see John's reported Red-shafted Flicker, and therefore cannot comment
definitively, but to my knowledge, there are no confirmed occurrences of the
Red-shafted form of Northern Flicker in New York, or of actual hybrids of
Red-shafted X Yellow-shafted birds or "intergrades."
But, there
A number of people had Northern Parula today, so consider that, too.
Kevin
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[mailto:bounce-121451829-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:52 AM
To: Karen Steffy ; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabi
63.
Best,
Kevin
Kevin J. McGowan
Project Manager
Distance Learning in Bird Biology
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
k...@cornell.edu
607-254-2452
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on behalf of W. Larry Hy
Chris Wood found three breeding-plumaged Red-necked Grebes on Dryden Lake
today, on a perfect "Dryden Lake day," with cold winds and rain in May. They
were still present at about 4:00 pm this afternoon. Also, Bank, Barn, and Tree
swallows circling low over the water in good numbers, also, totall
Right. These feathers will last until the next molt, but if the bird is getting
a better diet then, it will grow in more red ones. But, it's stuck with these
yellow ones until the next molt, probably the end of the summer.
Kevin
Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D.
Project Manager
Distance Learni
Finally, a warbler! I had a beautiful male HOODED WARBLER on the south end of
Yellow Barn Rd on my way home this evening. It was singing across the road from
the shooting range at the sportsman's club.
We just finished the 6th (of 7) week of warbler ID webinars last night, and I
still haven't s
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