[cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese off Lansing
1000s just flew off lake, flying inland, east. 2 more moderately large groups still resting on water, visible from Lansing Station Road area. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott -- 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] Fw: [bluewing-group] Banded ring-billed gull
Another page to check would be, sableislandgulls.wordpress.comhttp://sableislandgulls.wordpress.com for links to other gull banding studies. Gary On Mar 23, 2013, at 7:02 PM, david nicosia wrote: Anyone know of a ring-billed gull study? see below. - Forwarded Message - From: Glenn Wilson wil...@stny.rr.commailto:wil...@stny.rr.com To: Bluewing-group bluewing-gr...@googlegroups.commailto:bluewing-gr...@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 11:02 AM Subject: [bluewing-group] Banded ring-billed gull Barnes Noble parking lot. Right foot silver band says94-0 and. 22. Red/pink on left foot. Glenn Wilson www.WilsonsWarbler.comhttp://www.wilsonswarbler.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups bluewing-group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bluewing-group+unsubscr...@googlegroups.commailto:unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- 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] Red-winged Blackbird
Pleasant surprise this morning to find a male Red-winged Blackbird at my feeders here in Dryden. Carl Steckler -- For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know Unknown Marine Khe Sahn, Vietnam -- 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] Turkey Vultures, dead tagged deer
The half dozen or so Turkey Vultures patiently adorning the trees in my wooded backyard in Northeast Ithaca alerted me to a dead deer back there. The neighborhood deer have been seeming desperately hungry lately - often seen standing on tiptoes for a measly handful of hemlock needles, shamelessly begging whenever they see me take out the compost, and generally looking unhealthy and unsteady. There are also some hair-stuffed tubular excreta of some kind in the vicinity. They don't quite look like coyote scat to me, so my next guess is pellets from the vultures? Given the topic of this mailing list, I'll also say that I got fantastic views of these grim and gruesome, but interesting and ecologically valuable, birds. Anyways, the unlucky deer has numbered white ear tags, so I guess somebody went to the trouble of sterilizing it. I'm wondering if anybody is collecting information about these tagged animals. If anybody has any contact info I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Jesse Ross -- 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] Turkey Vultures, dead tagged deer
Hi folks, Thanks to the several people who have responded to this! The universal recommendation is that I contact Paul Curtis. In case anybody else needs this information, his email address is p...@cornell.edu and his website is http://dnr.cornell.edu/people/faculty.cfm?netId=pdc1 best, jesse On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Jesse Ross jesse.r...@gmail.com wrote: The half dozen or so Turkey Vultures patiently adorning the trees in my wooded backyard in Northeast Ithaca alerted me to a dead deer back there. The neighborhood deer have been seeming desperately hungry lately - often seen standing on tiptoes for a measly handful of hemlock needles, shamelessly begging whenever they see me take out the compost, and generally looking unhealthy and unsteady. There are also some hair-stuffed tubular excreta of some kind in the vicinity. They don't quite look like coyote scat to me, so my next guess is pellets from the vultures? Given the topic of this mailing list, I'll also say that I got fantastic views of these grim and gruesome, but interesting and ecologically valuable, birds. Anyways, the unlucky deer has numbered white ear tags, so I guess somebody went to the trouble of sterilizing it. I'm wondering if anybody is collecting information about these tagged animals. If anybody has any contact info I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Jesse Ross -- 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] pictures of a banded Ring-billed Gull Vestal, NY 11AM today
this is the link that workshttp://www.wilsonswarbler.com/banded-ring-billed-gull.html great close ups. From: Glenn Wilson wil...@stny.rr.com To: CAYUGABIRDS-L@Cornell.edu Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 9:18 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] pictures of a banded Ring-billed Gull Vestal, NY 11AM today Seen at Barnes Nobel parking lot 11AM this morning: http://www.wilsonswarbler.com/banded-ring-billed-gull.htm Glenn Wilson -- 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! -- -- 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] Sat and Sun SFO trip highlights
Hi all, This week-end I lead trips for two groups on Saturday and Sunday. Almost same places were visited and results were quite different for both days. Saturday was very windy and Sunday was as someone called slight stiff and breezy. Saturday highlights were a Northern Shrike in the same location where the bird club trip had seen a few weeks earlier, but this time shrike was little more co-operative than the previous sightings. Several of us got to see it through the scope and everyone saw it through binoculars till it disappeared into shrubberies. A very nice look at a female Kestrel on airport fence. same kestrel was seen today on a tree. Lake was very windy, even ducks wanted hide in the bay in sheltered areas. From Ladoga point the birds were very close and we got a good comparison between Greater and Lesser Scaups along with other usual ducks. Sunday was a quite different seen. We got to see the Rough-legged Hawk and two Meadowlarks at the airport, plus a few hundreds of blackbirds. Cayuga lake near Salt Point bay had no ducks as two fisher men were in a boat nearby and gulls were also fewer as some woman was dog walking. While we were at Salt Point we found all gulls rise and fly over our head. On looking back we found a large raptor, an eagle was being followed by the gulls. I could not see its head as it was heading north, tail had no white in it. Overall, bird looked dark with not much of white on the wings or tail and it was beating wings methodically and headed straight north. I followed it in the scope for quite some distance and finally I managed to get the view of the upper side of the wings a couple of times, which seemed more like that of Golden Eagle pattern and impression on the tail was that it was not long. At some point I got glimse of head and seemed it had paler head. Dave Nicosia's group also saw it may be he will post what they saw. There was a group of 7 Red-breasted Mergansers, that alighted at the point, but got disturbed by something and continued flying further north. In the Marina we saw lots of Hooded Mergansers and a couple of Red-heads. At Ladoga Point, ducks were further ahead than yesterday, but there was another Red-breasted Merganser hanging around with a pair of Hooded Mergansers. No loons were on the lake. We did see three migrating Blue Herons. We also saw several different Mocking birds and a couple of them singing. Over all we had 50 species for today. For the week-end I saw about 60 species of birds. Not bad for a cold week-end. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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] Snow geese
I just watched a large swarm of Snow Geese over my yard, amused by their rude barking calls, and noted that while they had distinctly black wing tips they were more gray than white-- I think they may be muddy! Nancy Dickinson Mecklenburg Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Entertaining American Woodcock Displays--Lansing
I arrived at the field adjacent to Mohawk Road near the intersection of Snyder Rd. at 7:30pm. The evening skies were cloudy. The first Peent was heard at 7:39pm. The well spaced peents were sounding more like Wheent.Wheent. Soon followed the Song Flight/ aerial displays. The chirping,and wing twittering was an auditory delight. The peenting was close and loud enough to be successfully recorded on my phone. I've witnessed the AMERICAN WOODCOCK aerial displays several times in the past, but this was the best show ever! I was able to clearly see each entire display over and over again as the male(s) ascended each time directly over my head. They are amazing to watch as their wings flutter and sputter as they complete their loops and zig-zags. I was treated to 10-12 sky dance performances. Near the end of the show suddenly two woodcocks zipped right over me very close together making a completely different sound. It was a vibrating Whomp-whomp-whomp-whomp-whomp. After reading Birds of North America Online http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna I think it was likely one male chasing another male but that is a guess. That was the first time I've seen that behavior. I'm glad I always stay to the end of any kind of performance. One never wants to leave early and miss the encore. The show ended at 8:09pm. I thank the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Spring Field Ornithology class http://birds.cornell.edu/sfo and Dr. Steve Kress for first introducing me to the woodcock flight display phenomena several years ago. Checking out this woodcock ritual has now become one of my favorite Springtime rituals. Lee Ann van Leer -- 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/ --
