[cayugabirds-l] Cattle egret request
Hard to believe we've been birding here for 26 years or so and still haven't found a Cattle or Snowy in the Finger Lakes. I would very much appreciate a call if the Cattle is still at MNWR Sunday morning. We can't free up until after AM banding so our visit would be noon or later. Ditto for any future finds of either species. Many thanks in advance. We have landline only -607-546-2169. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] invasive species
I live more or less in the woods, so I expect woodland "critters" invading my house now and then. I have had lots of mice, chipmunks chewing in through the screened door, and woodpeckers and flying squirrels make holes in the siding. Today, though, I had a new home invader: a Red-breasted Nuthatch. I often leave open the sliding door that goes out onto my deck, so I can hear what birds are around and can quickly take photos of them on the feeders or in the trees nearby. Today I was in the kitchen scoping out what I needed to put on my grocery shopping list when I heard the soft, "um, ah, ahp" notes of a nuthatch very close by. I looked up and a male Red-breasted Nuthatch was clinging to the legs of the tripod I have standing 6 feet INSIDE my house, about 10 feet away from me. He had a sunflower seed in his bill and was looking around, apparently for some place to cache it. I froze, thinking "where is a camera?" None were within reach, and I didn't want to scare him, so I stayed frozen. He then flew over to an old green army haversack I had hanging from a kitchen chair, probed around in a couple of places, then hammered his seed into a small hole worn into the side of the bag. Apparently satisfied with that, he flew back out the door and off into the woods. I waited, camera in hand, for a while for him to come back inside to hide more seeds, but one seemed to be all he needed. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cattle egret request
I met the Cayuga Bird Club field trip at Montezuma NWR today (Saturday 15 September) and looked for the Cattle Egret around Benning's but without luck. I'd also like to know if it is refound. I overheard someone say they'd seen a Least Bittern today at Benning. At Larue's there was a cooperative AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER. Near the spillway a MERLIN was perched in a dead tree.Among the mud & debris islands in the new diggings along the straightaway by the Thruway there were several each of LEAST SANDPIPER and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and one SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, but we did not see any Western Sandpiper. Again, any refind of the Western would be of interest.There were plenty of immature BALD EAGLES around Tschache, and at one point we saw at least 7 of them kettling together. Later I saw a more typical group of 9 TURKEY VULTURES.At Knox-Marsellus there was a distant AMERICAN AVOCET and I thought I saw BAIRD'S and BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER in the distant shimmer. BLACK-BELLIED and AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVERS were there, too, I believe. We didn't see any Whimbrels nor Hudsonian Godwits there nor in Puddler. Shorebird numbers are lower, but when they flushed there were still scores of them in flight, mostly Yellowlegs. I did not see any Peregrines, but there was a NORTHERN HARRIER coursing in the area. We saw 1 SANDHILL CRANE at K-M and 3 at Puddler. I diverged from the field trip after Towpath Rd, so I don't know what else they found at Van Dyne Spoor Rd or other places.--Dave NutterOn Sep 15, 2012, at 02:40 PM, John and Sue Gregoire wrote:Hard to believe we've been birding here for 26 years or so and still haven't found a Cattle or Snowy in the Finger Lakes. I would very much appreciate a call if the Cattle is still at MNWR Sunday morning. We can't free up until after AM banding so our visit would be noon or later. Ditto for any future finds of either species. Many thanks in advance. We have landline only -607-546-2169. John -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html'>http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
