Merlin nesting in Tompkins County
Geo Kloppel and I conducted a survey of nesting Merlin inTompkins County. With
Geo’s extensive effort, our account of number fledged pernest was much more
complete this year than ever before. This county wide surveyhas depended on
multiple reports by a large n
Hi,
Yesterday at about 6pm we were standing at the entrance to the
grandstand at the Trumansburg fairgrounds and heard loud 'kee kee kee'
calls from at least two merlins. We looked up and saw two merlins
chasing a third bird that looked like it might be a third merlin but we
only caught a gl
With the extensive help of Geo, we are up to 8 known or highly likely areas for
nests. Plus, 6 general areas. Better than for other years at ths time.
Someone left a phone mesage about a nest. My recording is garbled. All I heard
was "Spring St" and I thought "Dryden". Could this person email me,
This evening at 5:30 I heard and saw a Merlin here at Commonland,
directly behind and above my unit. One bird was circling lazily with
occasional flutters, while I heard calling from I think a different
bird perched somewhere nearby unseen. When I walked to where I thought
that call was coming from
Help monitoring Merlin nesting in Tompkins County, please.
For a decade I have tried to find all Merlin nests in Tompkins County. I am
trying to write a paper on our population: where it nests and how many there
are. This is an impossible task without support from people who contribute to
Cayuga
I just saw an adult male Merlin a few minutes ago in Freeville, vocalizing
loudly and doing a flutter flight high above me.
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Also, while continuing on my way into work, I spun around after I spotted a
MERLIN tearing into a fresh bird kill atop a telephone pole next to the Cornell
research barn, just west of the intersection of Route 366 and Game Farm Road.
This individual looked to be either a female or 1st-year bird.
Merlin Nesting Tabulation for 2023 vs. 2022 for Tompkins County
In 2022 the total was 15 pair vs.15 this year Successful: 11 vs. 8 this
year (counting one nest with downy young before it fledges) Failed: 3 vs. 1
this year Known pair but no known nest: 1 vs. 6 this year
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Hi John,
There is a calling bird (pair?) at Myers Point Park in Lansing as well— I think
they were there last year.
The “Tareyton “ bird may be nesting again near the east end of Sycamore— a
female perched in a tree there giving some softer, dif
The Brandywine birds are where Simsbury drive ends at Brandywine.
I often see one perched in a deciduous tree back of a Y shaped, trimmed white
pine just east of Brandywine rd.
Donna Scott
Kendal at Ithaca-377
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On Apr 25, 2023, at 12:34 PM, Scott Haber wrote:
There has al
There has also been a calling pair off and on since the beginning of April
in the vicinity of Craft Road and Brook Way in the Village of Lansing. On a
few occasions in recent weeks they were frequenting a grove of Norway
Spruces on Brook Way as well as a dense stand of White Pines near the
dermatol
Hi John,
There is a calling bird (pair?) at Myers Point Park in Lansing as well— I think
they were there last year.
The “Tareyton “ bird may be nesting again near the east end of Sycamore— a
female perched in a tree there giving some softer, different calls.
Ken
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On Apr 25
Thanks to reports of many on this list serve, I have located 11 Merlin
territories this year for Tompkins County, but so far no known nests.
South Hill near Oak Manor, Fairmount Ave. near Elmwood, Gimme Coffee, Tareyton
Rd/Murial area, Dryden west of Agway, Freeville, just west of Yellow Barn Rd
Merlin identified vacalizing (but not outright braying) by one of my donkeys as
a Mallard!!!
Deb
On Apr 13, 2023 11:50 AM, Mary Jane Thomas wrote:
I would like to talk with someone off-list about Merlin. It has given me some
really weird results - birds not found in this area.
Thanks.
Mar
I would like to talk with someone off-list about Merlin. It has given me some
really weird results - birds not found in this area.
Thanks.
Mary Jane Thomas
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We had a Merlin at our house this afternoon (full credit to my kids who saw it
perched in a tree and knew it wasn't a bird they were familiar with). It
stayed around for about 15 minutes before heading East towards Yellow Barn Rd.
Fox sparrows have returned (3 yesterday) along with song sparro
FOS purple finch at my feeder today! And at Nichol's Lake in Spencer had
a group of 3rd graders out for a bird walk and we saw and heard a Merlin.
He stayed in the same treetop for a good 30 minutes so we had lots of time
to get a really good look. He showed up at just the perfect time as I was
t
SUMMARY
Merlin known nesting results for Tompkins County
In 2020 there were 7 known, incubated nests with 4 fledged broods, plus two
sets of fledglings with no known nest, plus 2 pair with no known nest, for a
total of 11 Merlin pairs.
In 2021 there were 6 known, incubated nests with 4 fledged
I was out in Arizona and without merlin I would have been lost….I did confirm
all sound ID with photos for life list birds or at least visually confirmed
them.
Again what an amazing app!! Fast and accurate.
Tony carapella
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> On May 25, 2022, at 6:47 PM, James Gaffney wro
About Life Lists, I’m sure organizations have rules, but unless you are trying
to make the list for the organization, it’s your life and your list, so you can
make your own criteria.
For myself, a new species which I encounter will necessarily be unfamiliar and
may be confusing, so I may be un
I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a lot of fun and a great way to find birds whose
songs I’m not familiar with. I was out in Arizona last week and the sound ID
helped me find birds I had never seen before.
Question to the group. If Merlin picks up a bird that is a life list bird and
you don’t eyeba
Many thanks, as always, for your edifying info! Love this little singer’s
melody, what that little phoebe says?!
Warmly,
Bar’bara’
> On May 25, 2022, at 12:42 PM, Jay McGowan wrote:
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> Hi Barbara,
> That's a Say's Phoebe. And yes, you can import videos into the app as well as
> audio from
Hi Barbara,
That's a Say's Phoebe. And yes, you can import videos into the app as well
as audio from other apps, although it's easiest to record straight onto
Merlin.
Since we're on the subject, I thought I would put out a quick public
service reminder regarding Merlin and reporting birds to eBird
Here’s the songbird in question; heard/seen in Boulder CO
https://share.icloud.com/photos/053Nl_RqRT3l4PlHfyzo0fiKg
Warm regards,
Bar’bara’
> On May 25, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Nita L. Irby wrote:
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> Sorry to clutter the list but I have to get this off my chest:
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> Merlin’s sound ID function i
On this beautiful note, any idea what this sweet singer is? (And... is there a
way to plug in a sound video like this for ID...or does one have to catch the
song/call ‘live’?)
Warm regards,
Bar’bara’
Warm regards,
Bar’bara’
> On May 25, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Nita L. Irby wrote:
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wonderful tool
available.
Kathy Kramer
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Sorry to clutter the list but I have to get this
Sorry to clutter the list but I have to get this off my chest:
Merlin’s sound ID function is the absolute bees knees! Thank you so very much
to its developers.
Merlin has engaged my friends and family in ways I have not seen before. My
husband, for example, “likes“ birds but won’t even pick up
Merlin help, please. I can't compete with Worm-eating Warbler or Curlew
Sandpiper, but,
In past years the census of Merlin nesting pairs in ToCobenefited immensely by
the work of grad. students studying crows. Thesestudents have finished their
field work. It is impossible for me to do asthorou
Hi
Lynn Leopold reported a pair of Merlin near 120 Oak Ave (Near Lutheran church)
about 10 days ago. They have been there on 4 of 4 visits by me and seen by
another. They were calling and mated today about 150 m uphill from 120 Oak Ave.
Birds acclimated to lots of human and car traffic. I can't
Male Merlin continues around boat ramp close to last year's Fish Crow nest.
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Thanks and help again,
I have tabulated the number of pairs and known nests by Merlin in Tompkins
County for 8 years and hope to continue this year. This time spans shortly
after the arrival of Merlin to the fairly well established population we now
have. I have been able to publish some of the
I saw what appeared to be a juvenile or female merlin late this afternoon
around 4:20 p.m. on East Hill Way, hunting in the open woods on the side of the
trail, east of the bridge that crosses Pine Tree Road. It perched right next
to the trail so I could see it without binoculars, and it didn't
We just had a handsome Blue Jack at the intersection of Fitzgerald Rd and
Newtown Rd which is a mile south of Rte 79W and just within the CLB. If
memory serves we had a wintering MERL here last year. The hunting
territory co-exists with that of a wintering Kestrel.
John and Sue.
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And I had a great Merlin-crow interaction near Hile School rd and Ed Hill
Rd intersection on Tuesday. A youngish crow may have begun it because I first
saw it harrying and giving low vocalizations toward the merlin, but the merlin,
a male by back plumage, turned the tables and became the swoopin
For what it’s worth, the Merlin Sound ID on my iPhone picked up a Merlin
downhill from the factory 2.5 weeks ago.
Susan Suarez
On Aug 25, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Stanley Scharf
mailto:stanley.sch...@gmail.com>> wrote:
For the past two plus weeks what appears to be a Merlin has been screaming
its r
For the past two plus weeks what appears to be a Merlin has been
screaming its raucous call in the area of the Emerson factory on South
Hill in Ithaca. I don't know if it's a male or female.. I think I hear it
calling now.
I once got a good view of its strong flight over Emerson..
S.
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2021 Provisional tabulation ofnesting Merlin
Information obtained by the birding community in TompkinsCounty provides a
unique opportunity to survey local bird populations. Reportson eBird and the
cayugabirds-L have enabled me to document the expandingpopulation of nesting
Merlin with a thoroug
The CLO had brought us from early recordings of birds, through autonomous
recording devices of overflying chips and peeps to owling while sleeping.
Truly it's a brave new world.
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 3:48 PM Gary Kohlenberg wrote:
> Some are finding the new Merlin sound ID app has some deficienc
I tried Merlin song outside this morning after I figured out what I had done
last night. When you wear Bluetooth hearing aids, you have to turn off the
Bluetooth. It was amazing! I recorded from my deck and all these bird names
popped up. I could hear the Robin and house wren, but it also hea
Some are finding the new Merlin sound ID app has some deficiencies with
difficult species, like the trillers. For myself, I have been blown away by the
fun and accuracy of such a new application. I wouldn’t base a heard only rare
bird report totally on this app yet, but it sure will be handy to
riday, July 9, 2021 3:28 PM
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Hi all,
I think the Library of Natural Sound used to ask, when archiving audio, whether
the bird was seen to make the call. Now, when people include audio with eBird
submissio
Very good point Dave. I was thinking the same. I am slightly competent with
bird vocalizing id but if I uploaded a recording I would not be comfortable
saying what it was unless I saw it, especially with these confusing and
overlapping ones. Two years ago there was a particular junco singing in
Hi all,
I think the Library of Natural Sound used to ask, when archiving audio, whether
the bird was seen to make the call. Now, when people include audio with eBird
submissions, that question is not asked, and sometimes people are clearly
guessing, even against the advice of apps intended to h
Thanks Jay and Alicia. I didn’t see first reply though I was looking for it.
Appreciate it.
I am going to try the uploading to eBird. I didn’t know you could do that
It’s interesting looking at the spectrogram and comparing between the trillers
too. Although obviously not foolproof it can help
Hi Linda,
Jay replied a couple days ago - forwarded below.
Best -
Alicia
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Subject:Re: [cayugabirds-l] Possible Worm-eating Warblers in Lansing NY
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 12:02:10 -0400
From: Jay McGowan
Reply-To: Jay McGowan
To: Linda O
So far when I use Merlin here, I get correct IDs for Chipping Sparrows & juncos
Donna Scott
Lansing
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On Jul 9, 2021, at 1:07 PM, Peter Saracino wrote:
I like all the additional "sounds" on Merlin too!
Sar
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 12:47 PM Linda Orkin
mailto:wingmagi...@gmail.
I like all the additional "sounds" on Merlin too!
Sar
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021, 12:47 PM Linda Orkin wrote:
> The worm eating warbler is a interesting weak link. For all the trillers I
> capture it has said worm eating except for one time ChIpping Sparrow
> corrector id’d and one time pine warbler wh
The worm eating warbler is a interesting weak link. For all the trillers I
capture it has said worm eating except for one time ChIpping Sparrow corrector
id’d and one time pine warbler which I thought was likely wrong although it
could have been right as it was at the top of the hill in the arbo
I played the song of a junco from IBird pro on one electronic device and
listened using Birdnet with another electronic device. The devices were
side by side.
Birdnet said it was a worm eating warbler. I did so after having been
fooled by juncos at Lindsay Parsons a number of times.
After birdnet f
I have been “testing” the Merlin bird sound ID here on Lans. station Rd. with
birds I know ( or think I know).
This morning it correctly ID’d an atypical, more squeaky call of E. Phoebe.
Later, it quickly ID’d a singing Brown Thrasher & a couple minutes later, the
mimic serenade of a Gray Catbir
Poor year for Tompkins CountyMerlins
In sum:
4known active nests
2 failed nests
4 pair unknown if/wherethey nested.
Any help appreciated
2021 in some detail
Burleigh Dr.
Nestactive with tiny nestlings
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Last spring, I was working from home so had ample time to walk around my
neig
FWIW, last weekend while driving up the lake, I spied a brownish falcon
hunting the field immediately south of the King Ferry winery. When I pulled
over to check it out it flew away to the east and I could never get a
binoculared look to ID it, but I think it was a merlin.
Suan
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Yesterday evening (Thursday 25 March) I heard (several times) and saw (once) a
Merlin calling and flying near my yard. It may have been in one or more of
several mature conifers near the very bottom of Cliff Street in Ithaca. When I
finally saw it, it was flying in a big clockwise arc around tho
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At least
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Interesting. They have more 2020 crow nests to rent in the Birchwood area than
near that sycamore. But it will be interesting to see if one pair is searching
the whole area. The nest used last year was either a recently depredated
American crow
Interesting. They have more 2020 crow nests to rent in the Birchwood area than
near that sycamore. But it will be interesting to see if one pair is searching
the whole area. The nest used last year was either a recently depredated
American crow nest or a takeover, the reason for the crow nest fa
Hi John
At least one Merlin has returned to the Northeast Ithaca neighborhood. I say
“at least” one because there is a male perching regularly on the large sycamore
at the north end of Muriel St. (and calling in that area) and one seen
regularly (by Brad) flying around and calling on Birchwood
I love Merlins and Merlin reports and people who send in Merlin reports. I
check them all out. . Thanks to such reports, I have observed an increasing
number of incubated nests in Tompkins County as follows: 2 (2014), 6 (2015), 6
(2016), 5 (2017), 3(2018), 6 (2019), 9 (2020). These include pair
On Inlet Island there’s a tall flat-topped metal pole for electric wires. I
have seen at least ten different species of birds choose to perch on top of
that pole. Twice in the past few days I have seen a Merlin there. The more
recent time the Merlin appeared to be urged off by a Rock Pigeon, pe
The local northeast area of Ithaca Merlin returned last week. I saw the Merlin
while looking for the crows. Initially heard then seen chasing whomever
possible near St. Catherine's Church on Siena X Blackstone. The Merlin has
been flying around the neighborhood since then.
This morning the Me
Hi Carol, we are also downtown (N Geneva). We will keep an eye and ear out!
What is your location? Thanks.
John and Kate
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 6:01 PM Carol Cedarholm wrote:
> Just had a Merlin in my black walnut tonight in downtown Ithaca. Anybody
> else seeing them?
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Just had a Merlin in my black walnut tonight in downtown Ithaca. Anybody
else seeing them?
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I have monitored nesting success of Merlin in Tompkins for the last six years.
Nest discovery has been almost entirely due to reports by other birders. I am
so grateful to so many. This year only 2 of 10 nests were discovered by myself.
I really depend on help, thanks. I am trying to write a pap
Merlin Update
Tompkins County is now regularly blessed with quite a few pair of Merlin
beginning with the first documented pair in 2005 (T. Gallagher), a part of the
explosive, southward advance in the last 30 years. I have been trying to
document nest success rates for 5 years. After the first
Hi John,and all
Yesterday we had a female merlin on our deer fence in the yard.
Later we saw and heard a pair in the spruces across the street
between Union and East Main. I saw one there on Wednesday
too. I hope they stay.
Best,
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Thanks to all who made this Merlin study possible.
I monitored the nest success for seven nests in spring 2019. The number of
discovered nests has remained nearly constant in the last four years. All nests
have been in urban/suburban locations. Most of these nests were discovered by
others and
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 7:20 AM John Confer wrote:
> Hi Suan,
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>Thanks for posting that.
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>Mammals are rarely captured by Merlin, but not never. Adults often
> remove the tail and head before they bring it to nestlings. That has been a
> frustration when I tried to identify prey, which
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Stopped by GIAC this evening, one merlin (couldn't
Stopped by GIAC this evening, one merlin (couldn't tell if parent or young)
was perched visibly until my attention caused it to hop behind some
branches. They can definitely tell who's paying attention and who isn't,
like the few dozen parents watching the ongoing basketball game.
Anyhow, last Fri
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THANKS!! This is my fifth year of monitoring Merlin nest success. THANKS!! to
the directions and assistance provided by many, I have been able to monitor
over 30 nests, including 7 this year. Most of the nests I have monitored were
originally discovered by others. I am so very grateful for so
Lots of drama over the past week. We have a colony of barnswallows that
live in one of our barns. Approx 25-45 individuals but they are hard to
count. Plus tree swallows in nest boxes. What I am pretty sure is a Merlin
has been coming around and driving them absolutely crazy. both Swallow
speci
Hi Folks,
I have monitored nesting success of Merlins for four previous years. This
year neat finding has been really slow. I know of a probable nest near
Freeville and a probable nest near the Ithaca swim club and a third in
Endicott. The adults are flying around the probably nest, but not
Merlin Nest Success 2018
In Brief.
During each of the preceding 3 years I monitored 7 Merlin nests
near Ithaca that collectively had about a 50% nest success. This is quite low
according to other surveys and probably would not produce enough young that
survive to breeding age to r
Information wanted, please.
During the last three years I have monitored Merlin nesting success near
Ithaca. Results show that Merlin have an unusual relationship with both Fish
Crow and American Crow in our region, and that nesting success is about 50%.
Many of these nests or areas where Mer
Merlin, the Lab of O’s smartphone app, recently got an Elf Owl’s sincerest form
of endorsement.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton might have called that July night in Big Bend as black as
the back of a Common Blackhawk (and verifiably, too, since a pair were nesting
in the particular campground). Driving
SYNOPSIS OF Merlin nesting success in 2017 in the Finger Lakes region and
nearby.
This summary of Merlin nesting success is only possible because of reports from
others who let me know of the location for nesting behavior they noted first,
and in one case continued to monitor the nest. Thanks
Perhaps you, too, had a major wind storm Sunday night. Two of the nests I have
been monitoring were in the tip top of tall conifer trees. I had the concern
that the severe wind could have destroyed a nest, particularly the two nests in
the tip top.
Shortly after I arrived at the nest between Sy
One persistent pair of Merlins!
One of the nests I am monitoring is likely by a pair that successfully raised 5
young last year in a nest about 400 m from the current nest. The current nest
is in the back yard of a family with three, young kids. Two days ago, I walked
up to check on the nest an
As many of you know, I have been following the nest success of local Merlins
for the last two years. Thanks in large part to reports from subscribers to
this list serve, I have been able monitor nesting success of 14 nests, which
had about 50% nesting success. Great fun, and good information. I
Just had a merlin sitting on a tree a few houses east of the CFCU on Meadow
and Esty, presently shooed by two crows to a spruce tree one block east. My
attention from the sidewalk may have contributed to the shooing :-D.
Suan
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small field, on single upright black trunk , left side of Y shape on tree.
Donna Scott
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I heard a merlin twittering on Christopher Circle/Christopher Lane yesterday
evening, although hadn’t seen activity on it. I have not scoped it recently.
> On Jun 16, 2016, at 6:26 PM, John Confer wrote:
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> Not good news, overall, for Merlin nests.
>
> The Titus Ave. nest, and the Dryden ne
Not good news, overall, for Merlin nests.
The Titus Ave. nest, and the Dryden nest, and the City Cemetery nest have all
failed. I saw red-tails in the vicinity of two of the nests. The sticks in two
of the nests were dis-assembled, allowing light to penetrate where it had been
opaque, suggesti
Hi Suan and All Merlin Watchers,
The Merlins on Christopher Circle have either gone completely silent or fledged
(too soon?) or they have moved. I saw no birds around or visible on the nest
by late last week. IS this related to the Highland Avenue pair? I have no
idea how far they might move
At 7:30 this evening as we were about to enter the First Congregational Church
on Highland Avenue in Cayuga Heights, we heard a Merlin calling from a pine
tree up the hill SE of the church. Soon we saw a Merlin circle around in a
display flight. I couldn't be sure, but it felt like the vocalizin
While biking home this evening around 8pm, I heard what I'm pretty sure was a
Merlin calling from a deciduous tree behind 210 Park Place. Without binoculars
I never sighted the bird. It was calling very continuously, with a few breaks
in between and some "chink" calls reminiscent of grosbeak. Th
It is a ittle premature to count my eggs before they hatch, but ... .
Last year at this time 2 of seven Merlin nests in our area had failed, probably
predation.
This year 5 of 5 are still going strong, including the easily accessed nest in
the top of a white Pine on South Titus St. behind Mea
John, where in Ithaca is the cemetery?
Thanks
Pete Saracino
On 4/30/2016 2:09 PM, John Confer wrote:
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> There is an incubating Merlin in the City Cemetery. From east to west,
> it is in about the middle. From north to south it is in the northern
> half. It is in the more northern of a pair of v
There is an incubating Merlin in the City Cemetery. From east to west, it is in
about the middle. From north to south it is in the northern half. It is in the
more northern of a pair of very tall White Pine. Neither the nest, nor the
frequently used plucking post in adjacent, tall spruce can be
I am again this year trying to monitor nest location, nesting success, and prey
brought to nests by Merlin. Last year thanks to the help of many on the
listserve, I, Mark Witmer, Madeline Ulinski, Ann Herzig, and Sam Ayers reported
on 7 regional nests in the article "NESTING MERLINS (Falco col
Yesterday morning (10 Feb) while waiting by the front door of the Super 8 Motel
(close to the Meadow Court Inn) I saw a female MERLIN approach from the
northeast, alight atop a tall tree along Six-mile Creek, look around a couple
minutes, bob her head as if judging the distance to prey, and fly
I drove around South Titus near the Meadow Court Motel for 10-15 minutes
yesterday. The White Pine and Eastern Hemlock that are close to each other and
just northeast of the motel had a Fish Crow nest last year. I was hoping to see
Merlin activity as an indication of potential nesting. AND THERE
Had a Merlin earlier today North of 318 on Gravel Road in Seneca Falls. Was not
there when I returned but worth looking for. I would call it an adult female.
Dr. John Van Niel
Professor of Environmental Conservation
Director, East Hill Campus
Finger Lakes Community College
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I saw a Merlin flyover Triphammer Road in Lansing today.
Meena
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