[cayugabirds-l] snowy

[Linda Post Van Buskirk]

My several drive-bys this winter had not yielded an Indian Field Road snowy, 
but last evening, one (very light) was perched on a utility pole near the 
intersection of Indian Field and Kenyon Road.  How long will they stay in the 
area?
Linda



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[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: CRESLI 2014 Great South Channel whale and pelagic bird trips -

[Paul Anderson]

All:

This might be of interest to local birders. I went on one of these trips 
a couple of years ago and enjoyed it.

Paul


 Original Message 
Subject:CRESLI 2014 Great South Channel whale and pelagic bird trips -
Date:   Fri, 7 Mar 2014 18:30:27 -0500
From:   Arthur H. Kopelman, Ph.D. 
To: Arthur H. Kopelman, Ph.D. 



*2014 Great South Channel trip -- August 10-12, 2014.  Same price as 
last year. Reservations are required and can be made as of at 
http://www.cresli.org/cresli/reservations/offshore_res.html. *

The Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island is a 
non-profit research and education organization.  Our mission is:  "To 
promote and foster understanding and stewardship of coastal ecosystems 
through research and education ."  Part of our work is to observe and 
document the whale and sea bird populations of NY and New England and to 
take people to see these animals in the wild. Since 2002 we have been 
offering  incredible and successful multi-day offshore pelagic bird and 
whale observation trips.

Our trips have been 100% successful and we have encountered thousands of 
pelagic birds over the years . We've also encountered fin, minke, sei, 
and right whales; common, white-sided, dolphins, pilot whales

We are planning  one trip to the Great South Chanel in August 10-12, 
2014 (51 hours).   The vessel is the 140' Viking Starship that can sleep 
up to 65 passengers in navy style bunks. Excellent food will be 
available at reasonable prices. Passengers may bring their own food as 
well. The trips will be led by a seasoned marine mammal biologist and 
professor. Volunteers from CRESLI will assist in photo-identification 
spotting and data collection.

(1)Our August trip will leave at 6:30 PM on August 10, 2014 and head to 
Martha's Vineyard (MV) to pick up (and drop off) passengers.  We expect 
to arrive at Oak Bluffs in Martha's Vineyard at approximately 12:30 AM 
on 8/11; we leave MV at 1:00 AM and proceed to the GSC.  We should reach 
the whale grounds around day break, spend the next 24 hours amongst the 
whales and birds of the GSC.  The following morning, we will have the 
option of either remaining on the whale grounds, o, if the weather is 
poor, returning early to Martha's Vineyard for land-based birding, 
hiking, or other activities.  The vessel will ultimately depart Martha's 
Vineyard at 4:30 PM on 8/12 and return to Montauk at 10:30 PM on 
8/12/14.*//*

1.*/Cost = $275 for CRESLI members; $300 for non-members/*

2.*/Children 6 -- 12 are half price/*

3.*/Under 6 are free/*

We at CRESLI hope that you will join us on our trips.  Remember that 
members do get discounted fares. Go to 
http://www.cresli.org/cresli/GSC_offshore.html for info and reservation 
links. Reservations can be made  at 
http://www.cresli.org/cresli/reservations/offshore_res.html

Expectations:

·Cetaceans: Humpback, Fin, Minke, Right; Sei, and Pilot whales; Common, 
Bottlenose, Atlantic White Sided and Risso's Dolphins; Leatherback, 
Green and Loggerhead Turtles; Basking, Great White, Hammerhead, and Blue 
Sharks; Bluefin, Yellowfin, and Bigeye Tuna; White Marlin; Ocean 
Sunfish; Portuguese Man-of-War; and other marine life.

Birds: Cory's, Greater, Sooty, Manx, and Audubon's Shearwaters; Wilson's 
and Leach's Storm-Petrels; Northern Fulmar; Northern Gannet; Red-necked 
and Red Phalaropes; Pomarine, and Parasitic Jaegers; South Polar Skua; 
Greater Black-backed, Herring, Bonaparte's Gulls.

*Arthur H. Kopelman, Ph. D.
President,*

*Coastal Research and Education Society of Long Island
**presid...@cresli.org* *
**www.cresli.org
* *631-244-3352*

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[cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese on the move

[Anne Marie Johnson]

A flock of Snow Geese just flew over Brooktondale valley from south to north.

Anne Marie Johnson
Brooktondale

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[cayugabirds-l] 2 Golden, 1 Bald Eagle, 2 Red-shoulder, 3 Rough-le...

[6072292158]

2 Golden, 1 Bald Eagle, 2 Red-shoulder, 3 Rough-legged, 70 Snow Geese, 3 
Killdeer - Mt Pleasant last 1.5 hrs.
--Dave Nutter

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[cayugabirds-l] Campus migrant Bald Eagle

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

As I came out of the Teagle Hall, looked up to see an eagle which was being 
harassed by a hawk, and the eagle was dodging it. I could clearly see its white 
head and tail was not visible in the background of the sky. Wings were held 
flat. So I concluded it was a Bald Eagle. After several circling an dodging the 
eagle took off smoothly to the north.
As I was waiting for the bus stop at Kennedy Hall a robin was chuckchucking all 
the time I was there.
I am hoping for a Golden to pass by front of my office window!

Meena

Dr. Meena Haribal
Boyce Thompson Institute
Ithaca NY 14850
Ph: 607-3011167
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
http://haribal.org/




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[cayugabirds-l] Mill Pond Horned Grebes

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

With the bright sunshine today the grebes were extra beautiful. Along with 
several Canada geese (please don't call them Canadian geese) were mallards, 
wigeons, redheads, buffles, a canvasback, one coot & 2 female common mergs. 
Beavers have begun to thin trees along the north side of Mill pond  gr.

Yesterday afternoon about 25 swans flew over the field behind our house. Becky 
heard them long before they came into view flying SSW. Many gulls are now back 
in our area, mostly ring-bills.

This evening, when almost dark, as Becky & I came through Auburn we saw the 
most massive & fantastic numbers of crows we've ever seen coming into the city 
to roost, all seemingly from the SW, all seeming to be heading to the same area 
for the night. Normally they come from every direction & scatter as they get 
into different areas of the city.

Two bluebirds were on my clothesline this a.m. with another inside one of the 3 
boxes on the clothesline arms.

55 deg. here all day. Now 40. What will morning bring??? I saw crocus tips 
today.

Be safe .. Fritzie


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[cayugabirds-l] Duck die off

[M Miller]

Just an unofficial comment on the large number of waterfowl being found dead. 
It has been pointed out to me that with so much ice cover, so late in the 
season, the resources found in the few open water areas are probably being 
depleted rapidly. It isn’t so much low numbers of fish this year, but that the 
birds can’t reach them under so much ice. This is in evidence by the large 
numbers of waterfowl congregating in the few areas of open water. Many of 
these, such as Scaup, Goldeneye, Mergansers, etc. would normally be found out 
on Lake Ontario, but are forced inland to find open water. 


The death of the Harlequin Duck (which I fortunately got to see Sat., the day 
before it died) while tragic for birders, is the normal result of a severe 
winter. I am grateful it was retrieved and will be put to an educational use.


This is an example of why I support regulated hunting. Besides for the 
financial benefit from hunting licenses and fees, I would rather see more 
animals harvested each Fall, than left to starve during the Winter. That would 
not have changed things this year, a severe/extended winter season will still 
kill off large numbers of wildlife, but at least it isn’t as bad as if there 
was no hunting season. One other point to consider, by harvesting species that 
are more plentiful (Scaup, Mallards, etc.) it allows more resources for our 
rarer visitors such as the Harlequin & Barrow’s Goldeneye.


I realize there are many on this server that are opposed to hunting, I don’t 
mean to offend any of you, but I would hope that you would consider these facts 
and see the benefits, thank you.


Mark Miller




(FYI: I no longer hunt, except with a camera, but I still purchase licenses and 
Duck Stamps to support conservation efforts)


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[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [OneidaBirds] Dead Ducks

[Judith Thurber]

Boy, is this a happier ending!!!  Thank you Mary and young Mark! My heart is 
soaring and we will look forward to visiting Rice Creek and seeing "your" 
Harlequin!

Judy Thurber
Liverpool, NY

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rose DeNeve 
> Date: March 11, 2014 at 4:14:45 PM EDT
> To: "oneidabi...@yahoogroups.com" 
> Subject: Fwd: [OneidaBirds] Dead Ducks
> 
> Mary Magistro, who first discovered the Harlequin Duck in the Oswego River 
> and was also the one who found its body, has asked me to share her story  
> OneidaBirds. She will be reporting back once she has received the report on 
> the cause of the bird's death.
> 
> Rose DeNeve
> Liverpool, NY
> 
> 
> 
> Rose,
> I was at Rice Creek yesterday and spoke to a Professor Schummer about this 
> issue. He said that they were going to collect the dead ducks in conjunction 
> with another group for study. He did not say what group and I didn't ask. So 
> at least someone is going to look into this.
> 
> Now for the reason I was at Rice Creek in the first place. I was giving them 
> the Harlequin Duck that died in the Oswego River. I was there with Markie 
> when it died, I stood there with him watching that rare bird wash against the 
> rocks and I had to do something I just could not stand the thought of it 
> being devoured by that river! Not to mention when your child looks at you 
> with tearful eyes and says "Mom can't we do something" that urges me to react 
> immediately! And I knew it would be important to reach it as soon as possible 
> once it had expired.
>  So I noticed a young man fishing in the river close to were the duck was 
> against a small crop of large rocks. I went over to the lock, if he got down 
> there then I could get down there. As luck would have it the gate was open to 
> the lock. I crossed the foot bridge at the lock, I walked down the stairs on 
> the west side of the lock and I followed his path down to the rivers east 
> shore (not an easy one either) , but I still could not get to the duck 
> without waders.
>  I employed the help of the young man fishing ( he had waders on) and he 
> retrieved the duck for me. I had only been dead about and hour. I called a 
> few  people I know who have the proper knowledge of what should be done with 
> the bird.
> As I live only 2 blocks from the Post Office I took it home put it in the 
> freezer and called Cornell as spoke to them. Because it was Sunday they said 
> they would be closing in a hour. so I would not have time to make it there.
> I was all set to take the bird there on Tuesday morning,as that would be the 
> earliest I could take time off work to get it there. 
> Then I remembered that SUNY Oswego had just invested 5 million dollars in 
> Rice Creek Field Station for ecological and environmental studies. I called 
> them on Monday morning, they were ecstatic over being able to not only find 
> out why the bird died but to add it to their collection. They said they would 
> do a pathology on the bird to determine why it died, and then will let me 
> know the findings. Then they will have  it professionally mounted and 
> displayed at Rice Creek for everyone to see. That is what I thought was a 
> good outcome to a bad ending.
> And seeing as this bird came to Oswego I figured it should stay in Oswego. I 
> have nothing against Cornell but if most of the birds people find get donated 
>  to Cornells wonderful lab then what chance have other schools got to add to 
> their studies and collections.
>  I hope no one takes offense to what I did but seeing as I spotted the bird 
> to begin with I felt a kind of responsibility to make sure it didn't die in 
> vain. 
> Mary Magistro,
> Oswego NY
> 
> To: gws...@gmail.com
> CC: oneidabi...@yahoogroups.com
> From: rose.den...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:02:35 -0400
> Subject: Re: [OneidaBirds] Dead Ducks
> 
>  
> 
> The latest I have heard is that these birds might have died of starvation. I 
> am told that the botulism organism does not do well in cold water, so there 
> is a smaller chance of that toxin being the cause in this season. It is also 
> the possible that the duck enteritis that had been around a few years back 
> has returned. Or it could be a combination of factors resulting from this 
> long, hard winter--low food intake resulting in weakness, followed by the 
> advent of disease.
> 
> Onondaga Audubon is trying to get the DEC involved in investigating the 
> phenomenon and, if they are not looking into it, then perhaps the Rice Creek 
> Field Station will take it on.
> 
> Rose DeNeve
> Liverpool, NY
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:39 PM,  wrote:
>  
> When you see suspicious dead birds, you should report it to the DEC as I did 
> with the dead loons in the fall.  The DEC wants to investigate these 
> instances.
> 
> Glorira Sage
> Syracuse
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese on the move

[david nicosia]

I wonder when we are going to get the bulk of our snow geese migration?  E-bird 
data shows 
that most of the snow geese are still in southeast PA, NJ and the Delmarva 
Peninsula. 
Weather-wise I don't see any  prolonged mild southwest winds at least for 
another week...
possibly longer. I wonder if they will come in a couple large waves or just in 
dribs and drabs as we
do get occasional days of south winds in the next week but it won't be that 
mild. Not like today.  
This also goes for the thousands of canada geese that we usually get for a few 
days. We are
already pretty late. When this winter weather finally breaks, will there be a 
massive migration
that comes through really quick? It is been so long that we had a cold winter 
like this so I am not sure
what to expect.  Anyone remember the winter of 1993-94 which was comparable to 
this winter
as far as the Great Lakes ice and cold?   



On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:08 PM, Anne Marie Johnson 
 wrote:
 
A flock of Snow Geese just flew over Brooktondale valley from south to north.

Anne Marie Johnson
Brooktondale

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] 2 Golden, 1 Bald Eagle, 2 Red-shoulder, 3 Rough-le...

[Dave Nutter]

Ann Mitchell & I were at the west peak of Mount Pleasant by the observatory from quarter after 1 until quarter to 4. I sent the message below just after the eagles went over: Using binoculars I had found a speck over the south horizon, got my scope on it and told Ann it looked like a GOLDEN EAGLE - a dark bird with long parallel-edged wings in a slight dihedral. She aimed her scope and agreed. Then we each noticed a second bird move through the view from opposite directions and realized we had been watching two different Golden Eagles as they crossed paths. From then on I concentrated on the closer one, which eventually yielded plumage clues as well - golden crown, slightly paler basal portions of primaries and tail. It crossed paths again with another bird, this time an adult BALD EAGLE, and they circled and climbed together for awhile. Later we saw at least a 3rd RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (there were 2 additional possible Red-shouldereds), and an emphatically northbound male AMERICAN KESTREL. The SNOW GEESE (no Ross' and nearly all adult white type) were in a single flock aimed at the Cayuga Lake valley. Non-migrants (for the time being) included several RED-TAILED HAWKS, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, TURKEY VULTURES, COMMON RAVENS, AMERICAN CROWS, EUROPEAN STARLINGS, a small flock of HORNED LARKS, and a singing male EASTERN BLUEBIRD. The 3 separate audio-visual KILLDEER events all seemed possibly migratory as each ended to our north even though they were otherwise erratic. We saw no Icterids. The weather was calm and relatively warm (we had dressed heavily, just in case), and most of the snow was gone. Several people stopped by and kept us company for a pleasant afternoon.--Dave NutterOn Mar 11, 2014, at 02:53 PM, 6072292...@vtext.com wrote:2 Golden, 1 Bald Eagle, 2 Red-shoulder, 3 Rough-legged, 70 Snow Geese, 3 Killdeer - Mt Pleasant last 1.5 hrs. --Dave Nutter
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