[cayugabirds-l] Pheasant
Enjoyed seeing a single ring-necked pheasant skulk around the perimeter of our backyard this weekend in Danby. Dave -- Dave McDermitt -- 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] Pheasant
There has been a small but regular population of pheasants inhabiting the brushy fields west of 96B (from Muzzy Rd to Miller Rd) for at least the past eight years. I found a roadkill on 96B last summer and see individuals a few times a year in this area. I’ve suspected that the owners of one or more of these fields release them for hunting. Bill E From: David McDermitt Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 9:30 AM To: cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Pheasant Enjoyed seeing a single ring-necked pheasant skulk around the perimeter of our backyard this weekend in Danby. Dave -- Dave McDermitt -- 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] Dryden Lake
I made a brief stop at Dryden Lake this morning. Lake still mostly ice covered, with an open area (pond) at the north end. A dozen HOODED MERGANSERS, a pair of GADWALL, some MALLARDS, BLACK DUCKS and CANADA GEESE were there. A male COMMON MERGANSER flew by, as did a KILLDEER and KINGFISHER. I was just packing up, when the sound of SNOW GEESE arrested me. A flock came in fairly low from the south with some barking, passed over the pond, and seemed headed on north when there was a very loud disturbance. The flock then wheeled and returned to the pond, landing on the ice. I could be wrong, but my guess is that the leader said (in goose), Anybody want to stop here? They did. Once down, I noted the resemblance between goose and human behavior at rest stops. I counted 92 geese. About a third went immediately to the ice edge and began drinking. A few lay down for a nap. Then about half jumped in and splashed about, bathing. These eventually climbed out to preen, as many of the non-bathing group had been doing. Finally, almost all of them tucked head under wing, and ,standing, prepared to nap. As with humans, there were a couple individuals who drank, washed, preened, barked, or wandered about in contrast to what the large segments were engaged in at any time. Also noted: about 20 CANADAS were on the ice edge when the SNOWS landed. There is apparently some antipathy between these 2 species, as the Canadas, with vociferous insults, swam to the other side of the pond and continued their complaints loudly, before gradually reducing them to grumblings. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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] Weekend SFO groups 1 5: rusty blackbird?
Like Meena I had a double-header weekend of SFO to kick off the season, though Saturday morning's cold dark drive to the lab on a snow-dusted road made one wonder how much spring there would be. But the enthusiasm of a mink bouncing about the small island across the open water of the lab brought cheer to the waiting students, and the birding turned out great on both days. Highlights for Saturday's Group 1 (the orioles) include two (possibly three) pileated woodpeckers dancing about near the Podell boardwalk, and later at Renwick Woods more pileateds calling and drumming and flying about and generally showing off, trying to grab our attention from the great-horned owl roost we were focusing on. Wood ducks also provided cooperative views at both locales. For Sunday's Group 5 (the tanagers), the wood ducks were less cooperative -- flushing and flying away rather than staying put -- but at Renwick we did witness a pair circle a number of times before one of them disappeared into a nest cavity high in a tree. The owl was absent on Sunday, making one wonder whether it had moved due to Saturday's paparazzi scrutiny, or due to other factors (like Sunday's more clement weather). By the Renwick park suspension bridge on Sunday a blackbird with a brown head flushed and landed across the creek; based on its thin bill and patterned face I called it a rusty blackbird, but it wasn't a great view, it didn't vocalize, and I failed to scrutinize it any further. Later, when I reviewed Sibley, I wondered if it wasn't a juvenile grackle. The redtail hanging out by the Stewart Park tennis courts was next to the tree with the nest Ann discovered earlier, making me suspect that it might be active (there is just no good angle for wingless beings to see what's going on). Both days saw good numbers of cooperative hooded mergansers and common mergansers, at least one bufflehead in the corner of fall creek, and a relatively close raft of ring-necked ducks (scrutiny limited on Saturday by the strong headwind). Both groups heard a (the?) brown creeper's sparkling song at the same stretch of Sapsucker woods, between the footbridge and Sherwood platform, though neither group saw the bird. Suan PS. A large flock of ring-necked ducks were again in the second-dam reservoir this morning. Also had a close eye-level look on Giles St of a redtail perched with a fresh bloody squirrel in its talons. -- 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] Greater white fronted
There is currently a Greater White Fronted goose on Van Dyne Spoor Rd south of Savannah Spring rd. it's 651 PM Joe DeVito 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * March 25, 2013 * NYSY 03. 25. 13 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): March 18, 2013 - March 25, 2013 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:March 25 AT 6:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #347 -Monday March 25, 2013 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of March 11 , 2013 Highlights: --- ROSS’S GOOSE GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE SANDHILL CRANE SHORT-EARED OWL NORTHERN SHRIKE BOHEMIAN WAXWING LAPLAND LONGSPUR YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD EVENING GROSBEAK Migrants this week RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET RUSTY BLACKBIRD EASTERN PHOEBE Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 3/19: 26 species including a FOS RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and SANDHILL CRANES were found on Howland Island. 3/25: A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was seen on VanDyne Spoor Road south of Savannah Spring Lake Road. Derby Hill Another slow week due to north winds and cold weather. 533 hawks were counted. GOLDEN EAGLE and NORTHERN GOSHAWK are still being seen. Other highlights were a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE on 3/22 and a ROSS’S GOOSE on 3/24. Oswego County 3/19: The PINK-FOOTED GOOSE found on 3/18 was relocated on County Rt.33 about a mile south of Rt.49. The bird has not been reported since. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen in Williamston. Oneida County 3/22: A YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD made another appearance at a feeder in Clinton but has not returned. 3/24: BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were found on Smithport Road in New Hartford. Onondaga County 3/25: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen in the higher clear area on Green Lakes State Park. Madison County 3/21: 27 EVENING GROSBEAKS were seen at a feeder on Carpenter Road near DeRuyter. 3/23 : A LAPLAND LONGSPUR and a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL were seen at the Madison County Landfill. -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt Pleasant Rough-legged Hawk
After being absent for most of the winter, there was a Rough-legged Hawk hovering over the fields at the eastern end of Mt Pleasant Road around 6:00 this evening when I drove by. I've had only one other sighting of this species up here this year. 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 ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 -- 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] Raptors near Ithaca Airport
I think the Harrier was there again today. He soared over the field that looks like a practice ground for the fire department and then perched on the fire tower for quite some time, upsetting a crowd of geese by the sounds of it. This is my regular walking route at lunchtime, and I obviously need to bring my binos so I can glass those fields better! On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Donna Scott d...@cornell.edu wrote: After going on the Spring Field Ornithology class field trip this morning (in the snow wind), Ann Mitchell and I decided to take a quick trip over to the Ithaca airport. It was raptor day over there! We drove along Snyder Road and saw an AMERICAN KESTREL, probably female, fly off the airport fence into the field to the south. Drove to Mohawk Rd. and didn't see anything until we returned down Snyder towards Cherry and Warren Rds. Over the grassy areas near the junk cars by the fence we saw a light phase ROUGH LEGGED HAWK soaring and hovering over the fields inside the airport fence. After admiring that bird, we came around the corner approaching Cherry Road and saw a beautiful male NORTHERN HARRIER soaring and hovering over the fields there. When we turned left off Cherry into Warren Rd., we again saw the ROUGH LEGGED HAWK and then possibly the same KESTREL over the field west of Warren Road and adjacent to the Borg Warner factory. Just down the road from that field, on the airport fence east of the road, was perched a RED TAILED HAWK, then as we drove south I saw another RED TAILED HAWK perched on a branch right over the road to the west! I drove Ann back to her car at the O Lab, and yet another RED TAILED HAWK sat in a tree on the south side of Rt. 13. As I returned down Warren Road heading north to go home, I spotted two TURKEY VULTURES soaring over the woods west of Warren Rd. near the airport entrance. Donna Scott Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY d...@cornell.edu -- 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] American Woodcock
Lee Ann van Leer's earlier post prompted me to visit the site near Snyder and Mohawk Rds. adjacent to the Tompkins County Airport this evening where I was not disappointed. I arrived at 7:20 p.m. and at approximately 7:35 p.m. I began to hear the distinct peent sounds coming from the thickets on the north side of Snyder Rd. and about 75 feet from Mohawk Rd. Within five minutes to ten minutes the bird flew up about 25-30 feet and crossed over Snyder and over the gravel yard and descended into the hedgerow to the left (east). That was my only sighting but it was well worth the effort. Good birding. Bill Roberts Aurora -- 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] American Woodcock
My son and I were out there this evening, too, and we heard lots of peents and saw several aerial displays (some in pairs and others single). Heading down Snyder Road towards Hanshaw Road afterwards we had a lovely long look at a Barred Owl perched right along the south side of the road (about 8pm). Also, a Cooper's hawk earlier in the evening on the airport fence along Warren. What a night! Kim Haines-Eitzen Brooktondale On Mar 25, 2013, at 9:56 PM, William Roberts bluehorsestu...@hotmail.commailto:bluehorsestu...@hotmail.com wrote: Lee Ann van Leer's earlier post prompted me to visit the site near Snyder and Mohawk Rds. adjacent to the Tompkins County Airport this evening where I was not disappointed. I arrived at 7:20 p.m. and at approximately 7:35 p.m. I began to hear the distinct peent sounds coming from the thickets on the north side of Snyder Rd. and about 75 feet from Mohawk Rd. Within five minutes to ten minutes the bird flew up about 25-30 feet and crossed over Snyder and over the gravel yard and descended into the hedgerow to the left (east). That was my only sighting but it was well worth the effort. Good birding. Bill Roberts Aurora -- 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/ --
