[cayugabirds-l] airport/Kendal

[Donna Lee Scott]

At about noon I was driving along Snyder Road north of the Ithaca International 
Airport  looking for possible N. Harriers.

I saw instead the usual Red-tailed Hawk, who, annoyed at me driving slowly by 
it perched on the N-S eastern fence,
took off and acted like a Harrier, flying very low over the ground to a more 
distant place to perch on another fence.

Besides the Red-tail, I saw some A. Crows and I think I heard an Eastern 
Meadowlark; it sang only part of its usual song.
I did not see it.

Meanwhile, here at the old folks home, Nelly Farnum is sure she heard a 
Woodcock peenting over on Mount Kendal !
We are going out tomorrow at dusk to try to hear/see it. I may go tonight after 
dinner.

I had a pretty Song Sparrow in my “back yard” for a while yesterday.
Finally, our Kendal Screech Owl has not been seen in its perfect tree hole for 
over a week ☹.

Donna L Scott

377 Savage Farm Dr
Ithaca, NY 14850


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[cayugabirds-l] Airport owls

[Peter Saracino]

3 snowy owls on runway (2 side by side) easily seem from parking area on
airport road in SFNY.
Sar

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[cayugabirds-l] Airport and Lott farm Snowies up to 4.

[metetlow]

Yesterday around 330 Dominic Sherony and I had one snow owl at the lot farm 
rotating between the grass as previously described and up on the Porta potty's 
and three more snowy owls at the airport, one prominently on the west side of 
the runway and the other 2 hunkered down behind tiny snowbanks and tiny grass 
mounds also on the west side. Please minimize disturbance because I know 
attempts  are going to be made to band the two that have not been banded.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Airport Hermit Thrushes

[Jgerbracht]

I was surprised be 3 Hermits in our driveway this afternoon

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> On Apr 3, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Marie P. Read  wrote:
> 
> I drove the backroads around the Tompkins Co. Airport this morning, to see 
> what birds were around in the snow. Many birds were foraging along the 
> roadsides. Among the many Am Robins, DE Juncos, N Cardinals, and others, I 
> found two Hermit Thrushes.
> 
> Marie
> 
> Marie Read Wildlife Photography
> 452 Ringwood Road
> Freeville NY  13068 USA
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[cayugabirds-l] Airport Hermit Thrushes

[Marie P. Read]

I drove the backroads around the Tompkins Co. Airport this morning, to see what 
birds were around in the snow. Many birds were foraging along the roadsides. 
Among the many Am Robins, DE Juncos, N Cardinals, and others, I found two 
Hermit Thrushes.

Marie

Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Freeville NY  13068 USA

Phone  607-539-6608
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[cayugabirds-l] airport woodcocks

[Carol Schmitt]

  Woodcocks weredisplaying last night at the airport as darkness fell  --- 
about 7:30pm, in their usualfield on Mohawk Rd, south of the intersection with 
Snyder Rd.
   We lookforward to this spring ritual every year, ever since our first 
woodcock huntwith Betsy Darlington many years ago!
Carol Schmitt

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[cayugabirds-l] Airport and West Dryden (no owls), Sun 12/8

[Mark Chao]

Tilden and I went looking for owls and other birds on Sunday morning.  We
found no unusual birds at all on two passes along Snyder and Neimi Road
behind the Ithaca airport, nor at the intersection of Scofield and Buck
Roads near the Dryden/Groton town line, nor anywhere in between.  

 

The highlight of our outing was a fine conversation with Mr. Griffin, the
owner of the Christmas tree farm on Buck Road, where Short-eared Owls have
roosted in past winters.  Mr. Griffin says that he hasn't seen any owls
there this year, while also noting how conspicuous the owls have been when
present.  He observes in general how the abundance of insects and birds
seems to have declined steeply since his youth, when kids needed to look out
for grasshoppers lest one collide painfully with an eye.  Mr. Griffin also
regaled us about how he and his friend David Allen (son of Lab founder
Arthur) made a trip through Aurora many years ago.   They saw a Gyrfalcon
stooping on a flock of crows!

 

Mark Chao

   



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[cayugabirds-l] airport Meadowlarks/yard Towhee

[Donna Scott]

At around 3 PM Wed. 4/24, I drove along Cherry and Snyder Roads back of the 
airport.

I saw or heard 5 - 6 E. MEADOWLARKS along the way to Mohawk Rd.

 3 of the Meadowlarks were singing in the grass, unseen, near Cherry Road, in 
front of the Analytical Tox bldg.  
Then all of a sudden they all flew up and around and towards my car (I was 
inside w/ windows open). 
One flew over the car to the other side of road, and one flew back toward the 
grass by the big airport fence and the 3rd one landed right by the car in grass 
and sat there making some other neat sounds from a constantly open mouth, for a 
while.
I was impressed with how camouflaged it was sitting in the grass with only a 
little yellow showing. Even though I was looking right at it, sometimes my eye 
would lose sight of it.

Also saw a male KESTREL on the fence running perpendicular to Snyder Rd. 
towards the red brick aviation bldg. (not the terminal), plus many other 
expected birds, including a RED TAILED HAWK.

Stopped in at Salt Pt. at 5:15 pm for a look at the 2 OSPREYS on and then near 
the new nest pole. One attempted to catch a fish but did not succeed. 
I hope the barrier to cars driving out to the point is finished soon, since 
there are a lot of hot rodders tearing around the driveways there and it 
seemed like it disturbed the birds, possibly.

This morning about 7:30 AM, I saw a male E. TOWHEE feeding on the ground in my 
front yard; FOY!

Donna L. Scott
Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY 14882
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[cayugabirds-l] Airport Shrike, Rough-legged Hawks

[Kenneth Victor Rosenberg]

This afternoon, I drove around some open-country areas near Ithaca and Dryden, 
hoping to pick up some field birds. I was rewarded right away by a NORTHERN 
SHRIKE behind the Ithaca Airport -- the bird (a crisp and frosty adult) was on 
top of a thin tree on Snyder Rd. directly across from the wrecked cars inside 
the airport fence. It flew off to the north. A nice light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED 
HAWK  was hunting over the airport fields.

I then headed over to Purvis Rd. and Cornell Lane south of Dryden. On Cornell 
Lane, a large manure spread was visible and a flock of 200± HORNED LARKS was 
feeding far out from the road. In the horizontal snow squall I could not pick 
out any longspurs (should have headed up to Triangle Diner instead :( ). 
Another light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was hunting over these fields. On my way 
back, I drove down Lake Rd. and a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK flew over the 
road. 

I then checked fields around George Rd. and Scoffield Rd. for Short-eared Owls 
between 5 and 5:30, without success.

Earlier in the day, I scanned the gulls on the ice at Stewart Park, and as with 
every other visit this winter, failed to find anything other than the usual 3 
species.

KEN


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Conservation Science Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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[cayugabirds-l] airport grass lands mowed

[Donna Scott]

Much of the Tompkins County Airport grass lands on the north side of the 
airport area was mowed this week (7/19/12), but the little meadow along Mohawk 
Rd. between Snyder Rd. and Etna Rd. is unmowed. It is bordered by shrubby 
bushes and some trees on two sides. 
Besides the birds reported here ( to Ebird), I saw a Coyote with an injured 
front leg, but it was getting around OK.

I was also in the area on Snyder Rd. near Warren and Cherry Rds. on Wednesday, 
7/18/12, before most of the mowing was done; then I saw a few E. MEADOWLARKS, 
including one carrying mouthfulls of food into a long grass area, where I 
assumed there might be a nest. Unfortunately, by today (7/20) that part was all 
mowed.


Mohawk Rd btw Etna  Snyder  Rds, Tompkins, US-NY
Jul 20, 2012 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:11 species (+1 other taxa)

Green Heron  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Barn Swallow  1
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  2
Cedar Waxwing  5
Eastern Towhee  1
Song Sparrow  1
sparrow sp.  2 
Bobolink  10
Eastern Meadowlark  1
American Goldfinch  4

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Later on 7/20,  I drove slowly down the part of Snyder Rd. opposite the airport 
terminal and saw:
American Kestrel  4 (2 pr)
Eastern Kingbird  1
American Crow  3
Barn Swallow  16
European Starling  500 Estimated. A huge flock flew up out of the airport 
grass area near Warren Rd. when  large airplane landed!
Eastern Towhee  1 not in grass area by airport, but in bushes on north side 
of Snyder Rd.
American Goldfinch  1

Donna Scott
Lansing NY
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[cayugabirds-l] Airport

[Ryan Douglas]

I took advantage of yesterday's calm winds and sunny skies to take my bike
out for the first time in 2010. I opted for my usual birding route behind
the Ithaca airport and over to the Neimi Rd. ponds. I am happy to report
that I saw two AMERICAN KESTRELS along Warren Road. I saw a few RING-NECKED
DUCKS both on the pond immediately east of the runway and on the larger pond
behind the series of ponds on Neimi Rd. However, other than 5+ RED-TAILED
HAWKS and a lot of AMERICAN CROWS there weren't too many notable birds
yesterday.

As Dave mentioned in an earlier post, I'll soon be leaving Ithaca. I'm
hoping to make one last half-day trip up the lake on either Saturday April
10 or Sunday April 11 (weather and packing permitting). If anyone might be
interested in joining me, please contact me off list.

Good birding,
Ryan

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[cayugabirds-l] Airport Saw-whet

[Ryan Douglas]

After many minutes of whistling, a distant NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL replied on
Neimi Rd. near the southern end of the pond that's visible through the trees
just north of the intersection of Snyder/Mohawk/Neimi around 10pm tonight.

Good owling,
Ryan

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