[cayugabirds-l] Woodcock

2014-10-19 Thread bob mcguire
Matt Medler and I just heard a Woodcock taking off in a field on Triphammer 
Road, just past the Mall. ("skydance" sound - not peenting). I heard the same 
thing here on Whitted Road several evenings ago. I see from eBird that they 
have lingered in Tompkins County as late as the end of November.

Bob McGuire

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[cayugabirds-l] Day of Golden eagles and Red-shoulered Hawk

2014-10-19 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
Hi all,

Today I was out on a seed collecting trip with FLNPS  and when we were at the 
main pond (I think it is called Mud Pond) of the Mclean Bog, there was a strong 
north wind. So I was generally looking up at the sky often. There were some 
raptors migrating. Once when I looked up, I found four eagles circling fairly 
low and continued higher and higher reaching thermal. They were flying with a 
slight dihedral. They circled up in the air in the thermal till almost they 
became tiny birds and flew in southerly directions.

I also had another Golden Eagle from Cornell Cooperative extension parking lot 
which also was fairly low initially and as it circled it gained height and went 
behind some trees then I lost the sight of it.



Other raptors included a Kestrel, a Red-shouldered Hawk, a Red-tailed Hawk  and 
two Coopers Hawk at Mclean Bog.  Also I heard several Ruby-crowned Kinglets and 
a Brown Creeper among other common birds.

Plus, I learnt a lot of about how to distinguish "aster" species and Cornus 
species and about some of the other rare species which I do not want to mention.



Cheers

Meena

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[cayugabirds-l] Migration takeoff, Sun 10/19

2014-10-19 Thread Mark Chao
There are massive blooms of departing migrants on regional radar now (past
hour up to 7:13 PM).  I've never seen animated weather maps so dense with
apparent bird activity.  Maybe Red-winged Blackbirds?

 

Today at the Freese Road gardens I found eight sparrow species -- Song,
Savannah, Swamp, Chipping (10+ -- most of the season), Field, White-crowned,
White-throated, and House.

 

Mark Chao



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[cayugabirds-l] East Hill Bald Eagle

2014-10-19 Thread W. Larry Hymes
At around 5:30 I was amazed to see an adult BALD EAGLE soaring above the 
East Lawn Cemetery (just west of the East Hill Plaza).


Larry

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120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
(H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu



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[cayugabirds-l] Laughing Gull Canandaigua Pier

2014-10-19 Thread Michael Tetlow
Kurt Fox reports a first year laughing Gull at the Canandaigua  City Pier
now.   Mike Tetlow


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[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma

2014-10-19 Thread Jay McGowan
Highlights so far today: Eared Grebe and two Eurasian Wigeon on Main Pool.
Hudsonian Godwit at Puddlers. Lots of ducks.

Jay

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[cayugabirds-l] Mystery seed collector

2014-10-19 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
Hi all,

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I was trying to empty my recycle bin, 
which a meter tall and had mixed recycling materials like papers and bottles 
and plastic container. When I was transferring the recyclers to a paper bag to 
take it to recycling unit, I heard strange clunking noise so I stopped and 
found oak acorns. All acorns are shelled and seem to be of good quality.  I 
have more than 125 seeds.  But I am puzzled as to who collected these.  I leave 
most of the time my garage door closed, but may have left it open one of these 
days for four or five hours.

I am trying to find out who the collector is. It is possible that a field mouse 
collected it, but acorns are quite large and the container is tall and smooth. 
So I doubt it could have a direct access, but you never know how it reached the 
container. May be it jumped across a stack of tiles.

Then there is possibility of a squirrel or chipmunk, they should have done this 
job  in the four or five hours when I had left the garage door open.

Or a Blue Jays stashed them, but again the job should have to be accomplished 
in four or five hours.

Acorns are from a tree across the stream in my neighbor's property about 30 
feet away across my drive way.



The container was very close to the garage door.



Would field mouse collect so many seeds for winter?



I am curious to know if all these seeds are viable seeds



Any suggestions from anybody form this list?



Wish I could eat those seeds, they look so good! or I might donate it to the 
seed collection endeavor today!





Cheers

Meena

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