Re:[cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Loon Watch update--Correction
Hi all, Nov 30th should read 12 (south), 33 (north). We actually subtracted from the total count that day! Ethan -- On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 9:07 PM EST Ethan Kistler wrote: Hi all, As you have probably guessed, the long delay in updates have been due to minimal loon movement. Here's a breakdown for the last week: Nov 25th - A frustrating day to say at least. Bill Evans joined today and we counted 219 (south), but for some reason the majority (159) returned north. After the count was over, we headed into town and while having coffee at the Ithaca Bakery, Bill glanced out the window and noticed 16 heading south. Walking back to his office yielded another 20 or so. I can't really say what was up that day. Also of note for the count, a single Bonaparte's Gull - the first one I had during the loon counts. Nov 26th - A little more satisfying with 208 (south) and 11 (north). Other birds of interest include singles of Red-throated Loon and Long-tailed Duck. Nov 27th - One loon and it was sitting on the water. Other birds of note include a flyover Common Redpoll and my first Horned Grebe for the count. Nov 28th - 149 (south) and 4 (north). Also five Snow Buntings heading north. Nov 29th - Another slow day with 5 (south) and an additional six on the water. Nov 30th - Bill and I expected a decent push today with the strong northerly winds so he joined me again this morning. To our surprise, we only had 23 (south) and 12 (north). Dec 1st - 6 (south). Also two Merlins and an American Pipit that came in and foraged nearby. Dec 2nd - 1 (south) Over the past few days waterfowl have started congregating northwest of Taughannock Point including a couple thousand Canada Geese, several hundred scaup and lesser numbers of American Wigeon, Ring-necked Ducks, Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, Common Hooded Mergansers, Mallards and American Black Ducks. The predicted NW winds on Wednesday could produce the next and possibly final push of Common Loons over Cayuga Lake. Friday is the last day of the count so if you haven't made it out yet, feel free to join us this week! Also, with the recent talk on Hooded Merganser numbers up at the north end of the lake, while walking out to the white lighthouse a few days ago, there were close to 100 in the inlet. Ethan -- 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] Union Springs: SNOW GEESE
8:30 a.m.: Many hundreds of SNOWS have just flown south less than 1/2 mi. east of our house. Fritzie -- 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] Beaver Lake
Spent the day with Jackie Bakker birding beaver lake. No saw whet today. Rather large flock of common mergansers on the lake with thousands of Canada Geese. One goose looked to have an almost white Mohawk very interesting looking CAGO. Also had hooded mergansers. Normal birds @ the feeders. WBNU RBNU BCCH AMGO DEJU Don't forget to look up, Joe DeVito -- 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] Tagged Snow Goose
I have a photo of a tagged snow goose with a yelllow neck collar number 55AY see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/8242992024/in/photostream Is this how they band snow geese or is this a special project? I would like to report it to whoever has tagged this bird. If anyone knows or has an idea, let me know. Thanks! Dave Nicosia -- 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] Sandhill Cranes
This afternoon, at Montezuma NWR’s Knox-Marcellus, there were: - 33 Sandhill Cranes - 2 Killdeer -100’s Snow Geese - Bob Grosek Binghamton, New York Every species you meet is a gold medal finalist in the evolutionary race of life -- 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] Tagged Snow Goose
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM, david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a photo of a tagged snow goose with a yelllow neck collar number 55AY http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/gon-gsg/ Looks like 55AY was banded April 2009 at Ile-aux-Oies (Quebec). Three years ago I reported two such yellow bands which I photographed at the mucklands, one banded there also, the other banded in Bylot Island way up in the north. Pretty neat to know where our snow geese come from. Suan -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * December 03, 2012 * NYSY 12. 03.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): November 26, 2012 - December 03, 2012 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:December 03 AT 6:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #331 -Monday December 03, 2012 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 26 , 2012 Highlights: --- BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON TRUMPETER SWAN TUNDRA SWAN BRANT EURASIAN WIGEON SANDHILL CRANE PURPLE SANDPIPER SAW-WHET OWL RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD NORTHERN SHRIKE AUDOBON’S (YELLOW-RUMPED) WARBLER WILSON’S WARBLER RED CROSSBILL WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL PINE SISKIN EVENING GROSBEAK COMMON REDPOLL HOARY REDPOLL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 12/2: Not exactly the complex but close enough; a single HOARY REDPOLL was seen at the Cayuga Lock at the north end of Cayuga Lake. 12/3: 33 SANDHILL CRANES were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Onondaga County 11/26: A lone BRANT was seen on Gatehouse Pond on Rt. 80 near Tully. 11/27: 2 SAW-WHET OWLS were seen on the Bog Trail at Beaver Lake Nature Center. One or two Saw-Whets have been seen off and on during the week. An AUDUBON’S YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER was found in with eastern Yellow-Rumps on the Onondaga Lake Creekwalk near Carousel Center. 8 EVENING GROSBEAKS were found on West Lake Road near Deruyter Resevoir. 11/29: The AUDUBON’S WARBLER on the Onondaga Creek Creekwalk was refound and photographed. A very late WILSON’S WARBLER, reported last week, was refound ald also photographed. 11/30: The WILSON’S WARBLER was again seen on the Creekwalk but the AUDUBON’S WARBLER was not relocated. 2 SAW-WHET OWLS were again seen at Beaver Lake Nature Center. The adult male RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD continues at a feeder on Pendergast Road in Phoenix. 12/1: An immature BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was found on the Onondaga Lake Creekwalk between Bear Street and Hiawatha Boulevard. 12/2: RED CROSSBILLS were heard flying over a residence in Pompey. Oswego County 11/27: Single COMMON REDPOLLS and PINE SISKINS were seen at a feeder in Williamstown. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen on Miner Road in Scriba. 11/29: COMMON REDPOLLS were seen in Mapleview. 12/3: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was found on Rt. 6 near Darrow Road. One TRUMPETER SWAN, perhaps injured, remains at the County Rt .6 wetlands in Volnay. Cayuga County 12/3: An EURASIAN WIGEON was seen in the pond at Fairhaven State Park. A PURPLE SANDPIPER was at the end of the east breakwall on the south side. Madison County 11/26: 2 adult and 2 young TUNDRA SWANS were seen on Tuscarora Lake north of Erieville. They were seen again the next day. -- end report Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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] Tagged Snow Goose
I checked and this bird was re-found at Middle Creek WMA in southeast PA this past spring. This is a cool. Thanks so much Suan. From: Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com To: david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com Cc: Cayugabirds- L Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 6:55 PM Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Tagged Snow Goose On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM, david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a photo of a tagged snow goose with a yelllow neck collar number 55AY http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/gon-gsg/ Looks like 55AY was banded April 2009 at Ile-aux-Oies (Quebec). Three years ago I reported two such yellow bands which I photographed at the mucklands, one banded there also, the other banded in Bylot Island way up in the north. Pretty neat to know where our snow geese come from. Suan -- 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/ --
