[cayugabirds-l] Union Springs: Loaded cherry trees, no birds
We have several huge cherry trees, volunteers from the academy orchard. loaded with cherries. Also have a mulberry tree with lots of ripe berries. Just realized I've not seen one starling in several wks. & only one blackbird. Usually when the cherries are ripe we have countless nos. of raiders with evidence on the cars & house siding. We have many large farms in the county. I've read that farmers are allowed to put out lethal bait for damaging birds. This lack of starlings makes me wonder why ... lethal bait or something else. I noticed a molting skinny-necked sparrow & flicker yesterday. Hundreds of ring-billed gulls have once again returned from their nesting areas to the north. They usually come back just after the 4th of July. People & children at Frontenac Park will have to beware of where they walk & play. Fritzie B. -- 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] Jetty Woods Cormorants (was Re: Frontenac Island in Cayuga Lake)
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 6:38 PM bob mcguire wrote: > > Come stand sometime under the cormorant colony at Jetty Woods - in the > spring. (Wear a hat with a broad brim!) Listen to the croaks of the adults > and the barks of the young. You might grimace. It makes me smile!! Only the colony isn't there this year! They were there at the start of the season in May: during one of the CAC's earlier projects at Jetty Woods, there were plenty of occupied nests and double-crests and courtship displays etc. A couple weeks later from Stewart Park, all but two of the nests seemed abandoned. Shortly after that, none of the nests were occupied. Has anyone been observing regularly or keeping tabs, and therefore have any idea of what might have happened? 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] Downy or Hairy?
Look at these photos from a nest found in Genoa (in a low-coverage priority block): https://www.facebook.com/groups/cayugabirdclub/permalink/5287965897907849/ The bill says (to me) Hairy, yet the outer tail feather has spots, and the red at the back of the head is not split. I know the latter two field marks are "usually"s, but I thought this was interesting. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Downy or Hairy?
Sibley says some Hairy’s can have spots on outer tail feathers (oh, brother) — so Hairy is fine — and bill is large! Judy Thurber Liverpool Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 12, 2022, at 5:44 PM, Suan Hsi Yong wrote: > > Look at these photos from a nest found in Genoa (in a low-coverage > priority block): > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/cayugabirdclub/permalink/5287965897907849/ > > The bill says (to me) Hairy, yet the outer tail feather has spots, and > the red at the back of the head is not split. I know the latter two > field marks are "usually"s, but I thought this was interesting. > > 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 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/ --
