[cayugabirds-l] BH Cowbirds & others

Union Springs 4790 Ridge Rd. Sun. 1.15.12 30 to 40    BH  Cowbirds  .. here all wk. cleaning out the feeders here & at the neighbors. Not at all intimidated by banging on the window or the porch railing.     1 each : Juvenile female RW Blackbird  & White-Throated Sparrow 1 to severa

[cayugabirds-l] Mute Swan

I forgot to mention – on today's trip around the lake we also had three Mute Swans, either at Parker Road or Bonnie Banks Rd. Bob McGuire -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding

[cayugabirds-l] Lake Today

In spite of the cold, Susan Danskin, Tim Lenz, and I birded around the lake today. I'm having a hard time getting my fingers to hit the keys, so will post here only a few highlights. Stewart Park, on the ice edge at 7:30: juvenile ICELAND GULL Sweazy Road, at last house on the right before t

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Brown Headed Cowbird

I had one BROWN HEADED COWBIRD male eating on the ledge of a hopper feeder today! Plus, 4 dozen AMER. GOLD FINCHES and the other usual suspects. - Original Message - From: Mary E. Winston To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:23 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Brown H

[cayugabirds-l] Link to amazing display of corvid behavior

Seen in NY Times online. Marsha and Fred Kardon http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBi

[cayugabirds-l] Mockingbird

Had our resident Mockingbird check out the rose hips out back, but the sun wasn't on them yet so it quickly flew to a tree branch in the sun. I'm finally getting a good number of birds at the feeders. I had 18 Mourning Doves all sitting in the Beech Tree out front. My regulars include Chickad

[cayugabirds-l] Mt Pleasant Snow Buntings

Around 3pm today, a flock of 60+ Snow Buntings was on Mt Pleasant Rd at the junction with the radio tower road, seen on the road surface at first then foraging in the field east of the radio tower road where the wind has exposed a wide swath of soil and low plants. Marie Marie Read Wildlife P

[cayugabirds-l] Common Redpoll response

For those interested, there was a Common Redpoll hunched on our feeder on South Hill, weathering out a snowstorm, as early as December 17. The bird has not been seen again. It seems few other people have been seeing these? -Geoff Twardokus -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.c

[cayugabirds-l] Redpoll sp, Mud Lock Sunday (15 Jan.) morning

Hi everyone, Eduardo Inigo kindly invited my along for an around-the-lake trip with himself and Maikel Canizares (visiting PhD student, now at the Lab of Ornithology), and while filling out my eBird checklists from the trip I noticed that we seem to have found the first COMMON REDPOLL for th

[cayugabirds-l] Long-tailed & GBB Gulls at Geneva, Sodus Point birds

Stopped by the Geneva Chamber of Commerce (north end Seneca Lake) at 2 PM Sunday. Counted about 50 Greater Black-backed Gulls along with about 100 Ring-billed Gulls. Also had Mallards, Black Ducks, Am. Goldeneye, Lesser Scaup, and a hen Long-tailed Duck. Was up to Sodus Point about 9 AM for a b

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Headed Cowbird

Currently I have a Brown Headed Cowbird on my porch eating seeds that I threw out. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES:

[cayugabirds-l] jay takes live junco

at my mother's house in skaneateles-- a bird just hit the window by the feeder, which they rarely do since it's so close to the feeder, so we hurried to look for an accipiter but instead saw a blue jay fly into a nearby flowering hawthorn with a still living junco (presumably the one that hit the w

[cayugabirds-l] Brooktondale birds

I got out for a morning walk early, but saw almost nothing birdwise. Fresh coyote and bobcat tracks were a treat, however. Usuals at the feeders until 1100 when a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK sailed over the house. This is my first of this season. I raced to the front yard, but lost it in an ice

[cayugabirds-l] crow having fun

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/a-crow-appears-to-find-a-source-of-winter-sport/?ref=science -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http:

[cayugabirds-l] new automatic CayugeRBA text message alert

As some of you may be aware, for awhile there was a free automatic text message alert system which allowed us to communicate about rare birds in the Cayuga Lake Basin. Unfortunately it crashed sometime before the Western Grebe was discovered and was not up in time for the Black-legged Kittiwake yes