[cayugabirds-l] Impromptu CBC field trip led by Suan, Sunday June 8 to Connecticut Hill

2014-06-05 Thread Linda Orkin
Hey All, Suan has motivated himself to offer a CBC field trip this coming Sunday, Thanks Suan. Below are details that he gave, please contact him by email or phone with questions. He is copied here. Meet at Wegman's parking lot (SW corner) at 7:30 to carpool, or 7:50 at the corner of

[cayugabirds-l] Need help with osprey observations at Salt Point

2014-06-05 Thread Candace Cornell
Friends, I hurt my rotator cuff and can't be at the Salt Point osprey nest as many hours as I'd like this week and next. Unfortunately, this is when the first osprey egg will hatch (sometime by June 11) and I must get the correct hatch date. If you are birding at Myers or Salt Point, please

[cayugabirds-l] Northern Bobwhite (!)

2014-06-05 Thread Caroline Manring
...calling outside my house up past the hospital. At first I thought it was a recording it was so clear and loud, that someone was putting me on. But it moved slowly to the northwest, calling intermittently. Sadly, I did not see it. By the time I retrieved my binocs, it was already moving

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Bobwhite (!)

2014-06-05 Thread Donna Scott
This might not be related, but I recently learned that a man who lives on West Whitney Rd. in Fairport, just down the street from my sister's house, raises No. Bobwhites. He sells them to hunters and others to train dogs, and for other purposes. Perhaps someone around here bought some from him

[cayugabirds-l] Cuckoo Sounds

2014-06-05 Thread Matthew Medler
Hi All, The topic of cuckoo vocalizations, and how to identify them, came up recently, so I thought I would share a link to archived recordings of Black-billed Cuckoo and Yellow-billed Cuckoo at the Macaulay Library web site: Black-billed:

[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club picnic and panel unveiling next Monday

2014-06-05 Thread Paul Anderson
All: The Cayuga Bird Club annual dish-to-pass picnic will be held next Monday June 9th at the Large Pavilion at Stewart Park, immediately preceded by the official unveiling of the Renwick Woods panel to mark our 100th anniversary. The panel will be unveiled at the location where it is