[cayugabirds-l] Tundra Swans at Taughannock Park

2015-03-14 Thread Eva Smith
Friday around noon I saw and heard five TUNDRA SWANS flying north along the shore of Cayuga Lake. I saw them from Taughannock Park, on the west shore of the lake. I did not see where they landed. There were also quite a few REDHEAD and COMMON MERGANSER still present. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: h

[cayugabirds-l] Red winged blackbird

2015-03-14 Thread M & K Mannella
One red winged blackbird at our feeders this morning! Michele Interlaken -- www.thehaywardhouse.com www.bodyshopwellness.com -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirdin

[cayugabirds-l] Grackles

2015-03-14 Thread Carol Keeler
Had a large flock of Grackles fly over this morning. Sent from my iPad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://w

[cayugabirds-l] Red-winged Blackbirds

2015-03-14 Thread bilbaker
With the rain this morning the FOS Red-winged Blackbirds showed up at our feeders in Caroline Center. A flock of 6. - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.Nort

[cayugabirds-l] Shrike & food

2015-03-14 Thread Susan Fast
There is a 40 acre hay field across from my house with an ash tree in the center surrounded by thick bushes.  I noticed a bird flying out of the tree and down to the deep snow surface, picking up something, and returning to the tree.  This was an adult N. SHRIKE.  I saw it drop down several tim

[cayugabirds-l] Tufted Duck, Black Scoter

2015-03-14 Thread Jay McGowan
After a couple of days' absence from the yacht club, the short-crested TUFTED DUCK is being seen off Myers Point, south of the lighthouse and west of the marina. Livia and I just found a BLACK SCOTER, quite possibly the same immature male seen at the south end in January, south of the boathouse in

[cayugabirds-l] Red-necked Grebes, Union Springs

2015-03-14 Thread Jay McGowan
Two very nearly alternate plumage RED-NECKED GREBES are on the Mill Pond in Union Springs right now. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLea

[cayugabirds-l] Bohemian Waxwing

2015-03-14 Thread bob mcguire
I sent this post at 11:35 this morning and, so far, it has not come through my in box. My apologies if it is repeated here. "Coming up the driveway (Whitted/Snyder Hill Rds) a short while ago my attention was caught by a flock of some 70 waxwings perched at the edge of the woods. As I got close

[cayugabirds-l] Bohemian Waxwing

2015-03-14 Thread bob mcguire
Coming up the driveway (Whitted/Snyder Hill Rds) a short while ago my attention was caught by a flock of some 70 waxwings perched at the edge of the woods. As I got closer they all took off and flew overhead. One of them was noticeably larger. They stopped again in a hedgerow of pines, and I was