Several people immediately offered help in retrieving the “raven” reported from
the Enfield area. We were organizing capture, but after I got back from
Binghamton around 630 pm, I called the homeowner, who went out to find that it
was now dead.
This morning Nancy Cusmano very kindly retrieved
Thanks again Dave, et.al. for sharing your time and expertise. Once again an
enjoyable outing with great company and birds.Pete Sar
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Original message From: David Nicosia
Date: 8/25/18 4:54 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Cayuga birds
, NY
Hi folks. My brother has a hummingbird feeding at his feeder who then flies
right up to his face and stares at him. Might it be a young bird of this year
who has yet to become afraid of people?Thanks!Pete Saracino
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All,
We had an awesome day, people were very nice, weather was perfect, habitat
excellent and there were good numbers and variety of shorebirds and other
birds too. We had great views of BAIRD'S, WHITE-RUMPED, SEMIPALMATED,
LEAST, PECTORAL and STILT SANDPIPERS. Also present were both species of
I have had what I think is a gold finch (pink bill and feet) sleeping or
resting all around my downtown back yard all day. The feathers are
fluffed out, lots of white down both sides of yellow breast. Minimal
response to noises, just resettles with head tucked into back. Is the
bird molting ,
There was a massive take off of swallows at sunrise this morning seen from
the Montezuma visitor's center. I just estimated 2 but I bet it was
more like 20+our radar detected a big take off ring this morning.
Birds reached up to 8000 feet 10 minutes or so after take off!!!
On Sat, Aug
Regarding the young, strangely behaving Double-crested Cormorant that was at
the doors of the Lab of Ornithology about a week ago, I stumbled on a news item
(http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cormorants-toronto-disease-1.4795873)
that describes very similar behaviour of cormorants in
