Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Goshawk-- Bald Hill Rd.

2013-06-23 Thread Gary Kohlenberg
Nice ! A while after you guys left I was birding the brush just before the RR woods and got a quick glimpse of what I first thought might be a Buteo, but the tail was too long so I put it down as Accipiter sp. gliding toward the Pinnacles. This would have been about the right time to coincide wi

[cayugabirds-l] Northern Goshawk-- Bald Hill Rd.

2013-06-23 Thread Diane Morton
We birded Lindsay-Parsons this morning, and watched the Clay-colored Sparrow for quite a while, which was singing cooperatively from an open perch next to the blue trail at NE corner of field, as described by others. We met Gary K. as we were leaving, and he suggested that the bog area on Bald Hil

[cayugabirds-l] Backyard/woods observations

2013-06-23 Thread Chris R. Pelkie
As it turned out, the rufous Screechie I reported in late April did not nest this year, but did appear virtually every day in the box hole for about 10 days. Over the past week, I was out several clear nights with the telescope and heard 1 or 2 different calling Screechies in the nearby area, on

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bear evidence Lindsay-P

2013-06-23 Thread Donna Scott
To Cay. Bird list- another opinion: see below. Well, this is cool! I always have Pileated WPs here in my Lansing woods & I've never seen that much shredding. The tree I saw was shredded from the ground up to about 4'. On one side. I was hot & tired by then, so I didn't look around too much, so

[cayugabirds-l] Bear evidence Lindsay-P

2013-06-23 Thread Donna Scott
This is rather off-topic (?), but I thought people would want to know that I found evidence of recent bear activity near the blue trail in Lindsay-Parsons preserve Saturday, June 22. Walking east of Celia's Cup, hoping a Worm Eating Warbler might appear, I found a medium-sized tree scratched all