FYI.
-Mike
Michael Powers
Horseheads, NY
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Haven't seen anything forwarded yet, so just an FY
Hope to see you here!
> The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is proud to present MacArthur Genius
> Grant award winning scientist Dr. Rick Prum as a speaker in our Monay
> Night Seminar series. Please forward this announcement to your
> departments. Thanks!
>
> February 15, 2010
> 7:30-9:00
> Rick
RBA
* New York
* Syracuse
* February 15, 2010
* NYSY 1502.10
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
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covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex
Hi,
For over a decade there has been a white, but not albino, red tail
on the west side of the town of Lodi, hanging around near Shaw Road. I
have heard it is there year round but we don't drive by often enough in
daylight in winter to confirm that it overwinters there. We have,
however,
Since the Ithaca leucistic Red-tail apparently bred successfully last year
one has to wonder about any passing on of aberrant plumage genes. There was
another heavily, but not all-white, leucistic RT which was often sighted in
the vicinity of the King Rd/Rt 96B intersection, and its proximity to th
While birding for the GBBC this weekend, we found another completely white
leucitic
Red-tailed Hawk on Black Rd, Town of Hector. This makes the 4th completely white
red-tail this winter that we have found or know of. Others were an albino near
the
race track (Watkins Glen), one leucistic bird in
Nearly forgot-- but yesterday (Sunday) late morning we saw a
spectacular flock of maybe 1,000 snow geese swirling like a big cloud
over a field in Town of Varick, off 96A.
--
Nancy Dickinson
Mecklenburg
Make a little birdhouse in your soul.
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I noticed the Crows flying over my house, southwest corner of Cayuga
Lake, about 6:50 am, attracting my attention by the sound. I counted
a hundred in about 2 minutes. The river is still flowing 20 minutes
later. Seems to be a regular morning event, flying SE to NW, as in
other years.
Elai
