[cayugabirds-l] flocks of crows and of vultures not migrating
I've been seeing some crow flocks as well but thought they were local. On Wednesday evening about 6pm as I was walking along Spencer Road in Ithaca, along the base of South Hill I saw 30 AMERCIAN CROWS flying northeast over/along the hill. Perhaps they were going to a winter roost. This morning I saw 5 TURKEY VULTURES going south over the Flood Control Channel along the base of West Hill in Ithaca, but they seemed kind of lazy. Two stopped off in a dead tree and one veered southeast over downtown, so I'm guessing maybe they were local, at least for now. --Dave Nutter Meena wrote: >Today morning while walking to work, I saw several hundred crows in groups and >they looked like migrants. One group was larger than 100 birds, they kept >coming. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant & Cornell Arboretum
Sorry for the late post, but Mt Pleasant yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon hosted several Horned Larks as well as a largish flock of American Pipits (great views of them foraging on the ground in the field opposite the observatory). Also a Common Raven was heard calling. And this morning I was in the Cornell Arboretum photographing fall color when I noticed that many Blue Jays were doing their acorn caching thing! I watched them flying to and fro from the several very large oak trees by the pond, carrying acorns in their bills. On the ground, they would push the acorn into soil or into the grass, then pick up a leaf (sometimes more than one) and cover the hidden acorn with it. I also watched Blue Jays doing this with sunflower seeds from a friend's feeder over the weekend. A veritable frenzy of food storage activity, and very entertaining to watch! Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com http://www.agpix.com/mari -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] MEADOW LARK
Meena mentioned a meadow lark in her 8:58 p.m. post. Reminded me that mid-Mon. afternoon on my way to to get Kathy S. to go to the lab meeting (birding on the way) that a MEADOW LARK flew across the road right in front of the car. The hay field behind our place & along the road had just been mowed. Gulls were busy looking for rodents all across the field so seeing the meadow lark was quite a delightful surprise. Fritzie -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Catbird and other musings
Today evening after I got back from work, I was doing some work in the yard and I heard a familiar "meow" , I was not sure if I really heard it. As I was putting my ladder again the wall, the Catbird flushed from the thickets flew away telling me that he annoyed! Last few days I have been seeing regularly Am. Robin on the perch where my regular resident Robins spends his evening. He also gave a few bars of song a couple of days ago. So now I am not sure if these (both catbird and robin) are my yard residents, but had just quit to greener pasture after their babies fledged and occasionally come and claim their territory or they are visitors and happen to occupy the same perches because it is one of the best perch. Today morning while walking to work, I saw several hundred crows in groups and they looked like migrants. One group was larger than 100 birds, they kept coming. On my to work, on East Ithaca Recreation way, there is resident mocking bird that hangs around on a hawthorn bush along the path. He or she is so tame when I pass less than four or five feet from her/him, he/she just blinks and looks away. In the evening walk from Pine Tree Rd where bus drops me off, on Honness Lane, everyday, I enjoy watching bunch of Starlings sitting and vocalizing. I have heard them mimic like Meadowlarks, just nobody, cheerful somebody, redwing black birds and common grackles. When I heard grackles for the first time I tried to locate them among the starlings, but then I realized there were none. I think they are most cheerful birds with lots of time to kill on their hand. I dont know when they feed. Most of the time they are sitting on a wire or a tree and gurgling or mimicking. Wonder what they feed on and how often they feed. I would love to have a their life! Weather outside is so balmy. right now. I left the moth light on and I found five species of moths at the light. A beautiful Amphyrinae, Eupithecea, Dart, Swallow and a totricid. Hope I will find a few more as the night progresses. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 webpage: http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Dryden OSPREY .. still there
OUR THANKS to Jay for posting about the "swamp" OSPREY yesterday thanks to his
& Perri's sharp birds' eyes.
As we came by there tonight, in fairly heavy traffic, about 6 o'clock, I
spotted THE BIRD in a snag near the shore along 38. I turned around & went back
so John & I could have better looks. The bird flew to a dead tree out in the
pond giving me good underside views.
Jay, do you consider this a young bird? It seemed a bit small ('til it
flew) . with the little band of color on the breast & a lot of white on the
head.
By the way our CO daughter called this a.m.. She had close to 2 feet of
SNOW at her house near Canon City at Westcliffe. She expected to spend parts of
the day plowing her steep driveway. She lives a mile from the highway.
Fritzie Blizzard
Union Springs
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From: Jay McGowan
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:33 PM
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Osprey, Dryden
Perri and I saw a late OSPREY sitting in a snag in the swamp along Rt. 38 south
of Dryden and north of Beam Hill Road this evening.
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[cayugabirds-l] Brown Creepers
Today a late walk around 2.00 pm in Mundy, produced a Brown Creeper (or possibly two, only heard) near the top of Judd Falls striaways. Meena Meena Haribal Cornell Lab Of Ornithology 159, Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 Phone: 607-254-2148, 607-254-4958 Fax: 607-254-2415, 607-254-2104 webpage: http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] frog barn & Freese Road quiet
Late this morning I followed up on Tom Schulenberg's Orange-crowned Warbler, but did not find it (nor much else) in the brushy area at the west end of the pond near the "Frog Barn" on Sapsucker Woods Road. I then went to the Freese Road community gardens, whose owners have been slowly dismantling the fences/traps and taking down the posts/perches. Bird numbers were much lower than last time. SONG SPARROWS are still most numerous, but there were several each of WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS (mostly young, but at least 1 adult) in the southern garden half, WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS along the south and southeast hedgerow and in the southeastern part of the gardens, and DARK-EYED JUNCO along the eastern edge of the north half, plus a single CHIPPING SPARROW which flew into the southern hedgerow, a/the single VESPER SPARROW in the center of the north half of the garden, a female BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD just north of the parking area, a single HOUSE FINCH in the treetops across Freese Road, and a NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD singing to the southwest. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] [Fwd: Orange-crowned Warbler in Sapsucker Woods]
FYI... Original Message Subject:Orange-crowned Warbler in Sapsucker Woods Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:25:24 -0400 From: Tom Schulenberg Reply-To: Tom Schulenberg To: clo-bird...@cornell.edu I saw one this morning on my walk in to work, in the shrubs at the west end of the small pond by the Frog Barn. There was a Blue-headed Vireo at the same site. tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@gmail.com -- = Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 Voice: 607-254-2418, FAX: 607-254-2460 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp mailto:c...@cornell.edu = -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
