Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Geo Kloppel
That's right, on the web you can find videos of Red-tailed Hawks hunting at dusk as vast clouds of bats emerge from their roosting cave. Here's one such: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e22_1344450135 The presence of multiple remains under the pole in the TCAT parking lot suggests that this

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Gallagher
Here's a link to a Naturalist's Notebook column by John Schmitt about observing a Peregrine Falcon catching bats. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=1107 Naturalist Notebook - Winter 2009 Living Bird Use our Bird Guide to identify birds, learn about the life history, listen to the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Kevin Loope
Thanks, everyone, for all the links! Great stuff! On Aug 11, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Tim Gallagher t...@cornell.edu wrote: Here's a link to a Naturalist's Notebook column by John Schmitt about observing a Peregrine Falcon catching bats. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=1107

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Lindsay Goodloe
From what I've read, the red-tailed hawk occurs in Central America but not in South America. When I was growing up in the 1950s, I was a big fan of Disney's True Life Adventure films, one of which was The Living Desert. Though it's been about 60 years since I've seen the film, I have a clear

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

2014-08-11 Thread Mike Pitzrick
Howdy, Birds of North America says that Red-tailed Hawk has been reported as far south as Venezuela and Colombia. -Mike On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Lindsay Goodloe l...@cornell.edu wrote: From what I’ve read, the red-tailed hawk occurs in Central America but not in South

[cayugabirds-l] likely Olive-sided Flycatcher north of Bluegrass Lane, on the edge of the natural area just s.w. of Equine Research Center

2014-08-11 Thread Wesley M. Hochachka
Hi everyone, I'm a bit slow in reporting this, because I saw the bird en route to Cornell campus from the Lab of O and only recently got back to my office and computer. The bird wasn't an in-your-face bird when I saw it, but I stopped at a location that I often do when biking to campus

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

2014-08-11 Thread Joseph Brin
RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse * August 11, 2014 *  NYSY  08. 11. 14   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): July 28, 2013 - August 11, 2014 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex