Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bald Blue Jay

2024-08-18 Thread Tom Vawter 
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 7:01 PM  wrote:

> It’s that head molt time of year!!
> Bad Feather Days abound. Crows look similarly ratty.
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> On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM Chris R. Pelkie 
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>> I would guess mites leading to mange.
>> Be careful handling the feeder so you don’t get the mites. There are some
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>> On Aug 18, 2024, at 16:22, Tom Vawter  wrote:
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>> This Jay has been at our feeders for the last week or so.  I can only
>> think he’s been picked on by other Jays.  Other ideas?
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[cayugabirds-l] Bald Blue Jay

2024-08-18 Thread Tom Vawter 
This Jay has been at our feeders for the last week or so.  I can only think
he’s been picked on by other Jays.  Other ideas?

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[cayugabirds-l] No Blue Grosbeak

2024-04-26 Thread Tom Vawter 
The Blue Grosbeak that was in our yard for three days earlier in the week
didn’t reappear yesterday and hasn’t been seen yet today.  I suspect the
cold overnight temperatures forced it back south.

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[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak Parking

2024-04-24 Thread Tom Vawter 
There is ample parking along the north (right) side of Ross Road.  Please
don’t block the driveway.

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak

2024-04-24 Thread Tom Vawter 
Folks are welclme to come visit to see the Blue Grosbeak, maybe 8:00 AM to
7:00 PM.

107 Ross Rd, Lansing.

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM Tom Vawter  wrote:

> The Blue Grosbeak is back again this morning.  Earlier it made a number of
> visits to the sunflower seed feeder at the front of the house, but it
> hasn’t been there recently.
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[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak

2024-04-24 Thread Tom Vawter 
The Blue Grosbeak is back again this morning.  Earlier it made a number of
visits to the sunflower seed feeder at the front of the house, but it
hasn’t been there recently.

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[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak in Lansing

2024-04-23 Thread Tom Vawter 
A distinctly blue finch-like bird has been visiting my feeders here on Ross
Road in Lansing (42°34′5″ N 76°35′1″ W).  It seems larger than I remember
for buntings.  Merlin turns up nothing, neither Indigo Bunting or Blue
Grosbeak, the only possibilities I could think of.  The rusty wing bars
suggest Blue Grosbeak.

Tom

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[cayugabirds-l] Osprey

2015-07-22 Thread Tom Vawter 
At ca. 19:25 this afternoon there were a pair of osprey on a power pole (no 
nest) on the E side of NYS 90, S of Aurora and a few hundred meters N of 
Ledyard Road.

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[cayugabirds-l] Baltimore Oriole

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Vawter 
Our annual Baltimore oriole is once again foraging and singing in the tops
of our backyard ashes.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Candor - Killdeer

2013-03-11 Thread Tom Vawter 
We saw a single killdeer in flight last Sat eve (3/9) just N of the
Triangle in King Ferry.

Tom Vawter

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about lower lake road

2013-03-11 Thread Tom Vawter 
Yes, marshes and agricultural land is important.  In addition to the rafts
of waterfowl on the lake near Lower Lake Road, there were large
congregations--mostly snows--on the mucklands around Savannah yesterday
(3/10).  The western shore of the lake is also in the more protected,
windward side.

Tom Vawter

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> I imagine a number of factors contribute to the attractive power of that
> area. Here's one: the lake is still broad there, but it's very shallow,
> mostly 5 - 6 ft.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Several thousand snow geese lower lake rd west side northern cayuga lake

2012-12-01 Thread Tom Vawter 
The huge raft of snow geese was quite a sight on the azure lake in the
bright sun on Thursday as I drove down "Pumpkin Hill" into Aurora.  Too far
to the west side of the lake to get any detail w/ my binoculars, but
unmistakeable.

Tom

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[cayugabirds-l] Frustrated Oriole

2012-06-10 Thread Tom Vawter 
My heart goes out to the male northern oriole who periodically attacks the
large under-gable window on the south side of the house.  It does, however,
give me good, close-up views of his impressive beauty and suggests that
there are orioles nesting nearby.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] pecking order

2010-02-08 Thread Tom Vawter 
This winter, unlike previous ones, we've been besieged by jays.  I've
counted, what I think is probably an extended family of 7 or so all fighting
for control of the one platform feeder and/or the two cylinders in which I
offer sunflower seeds.  The jays seem to be top dogs, and it irks me,
because I know they're just filling their crops and storing seeds somewhere
where they'll forget about later.  I have to fill the feeders that much more
often.  But I do love corvids, and they are fun to watch.

I've noticed that they're not at the very top of the dominance hierarchy,
however. They move aside quickly when the red-bellied lands on the feeder.
Looking at the comparative armament, I don't blame the jays.  We have fewer
hairies, and they interact less frequently with the jays.  The hairies and
the downies do seem to prefer the suet to the seeds, whereas the
red-bellieds take seeds from both the platform and the cylinders frequently.

Tom V

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> it's a photo I've strived for because it shows the difference between the
> two and points out how to tell them apart), but the Downies are definitely
> the more timid of the two.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ROBINS

2010-01-06 Thread Tom Vawter 
I noticed robins, not in large flocks but a few, around our place in
Lansing.  They hadn't been in evidence for most of the winter so far.  The
birds I saw were foraging in the few areas of open ground--mostly under
parked cars--free from the recent snow cover.  My guess was that the recent
snows had covered foraging areas they'd been using most of the mostly
snow-free winter, but that the snow and colder weather had forced them to
congregate in suitable areas.  Winter roosting aggregations is an
interesting question.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Linda P Van Buskirk wrote:

>  While walking the dogs over the years, it has seemed to me that the robins
> cluster in the deeper gullies woods during harsh weather.  The behavior may
> have something to do with wind speed and temperature.  Also, if they roost
> en masse, they will be warmer.  A response to the North Atlantic
> Oscillation??
>
>
> At 06:46 PM 1/5/2010, Eben McLane wrote:
>
> Here in Scipio at the edge of forest above Owasco Lake I also saw and heard
> an unusual number (maybe 50 or so)  of AMER. ROBINS at dusk in the trees and
> along the driveway; when they left they seemed to be headed north and into a
> snow squall. Never saw this behavior before in these conditions--wind
> strengthening from the NW. I'd like to hear more about this, too.
>
> Eben McLane
>
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Susan Fast wrote:
>
> At 1615 this afternoon, I was driving down Dixon Rd. (N. of King Ferry),
> then turned west on Rafferty.  I noticed a bunch of birds flying NORTH over
> the road, in the distance.  Coming up to them, I noted they were AMER.
> ROBINS, so I stopped to watch.  The sky was pretty much full of what turned
> out to be a long and wide straggling stream.  They continued overhead for at
> least 8 minutes.  The stream stopped, so I drove on to Rt. 90 and turned
> south. After a mile, the stream started again and continued till a couple
> miles south of the Triangle Diner, where I ran out of birds.  I didn’t
> actually count them, but my conservative estimate is 3000.  I thought they
> might be going to some preselected roost (following them was not an option
> today), but why so many this time of year?  Constructive ideas welcomed.
>
> Steve Fast
> Brooktondale
>
>  Linda Van Buskirk, Ph.D., Sr. Lecturer
> Department of Communication
> 336 Kennedy Hall
> Cornell University, Ithaca, New York   14853-4203
> (607) 255-2161; fax (607) 254-1322
>
>


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