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> On Mar 8, 2020, at 12:01 AM, Upstate NY Birding digest > <[email protected]> wrote: > > CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Sunday, March 08, 2020. > > 1. Sandhill cranes and Snow geese > 2. Song sparrow > 3. Re: Sandhill cranes and Snow geese > 4. My FOY Woodcock > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Sandhill cranes and Snow geese > From: "Johnson, Alyssa" <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 20:11:15 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > Not my sighting, but a report that came to the Audubon FB page of 3 Sandhill > cranes seen from the end of Morgan Rd by the DEC buildings in Savannah. First > of the year, to my knowledge! > > Snow geese are being reported from the Route 31 muck flats, and a large raft > on Cayuga Lake viewed from Dean's Cove State Boat Launch on the west side, > off 89. > > -- > Alyssa Johnson > Environmental Educator > 315.365.3588 > > Montezuma Audubon Center > 2295 State Route 89 > P.O. Box 187 > Savannah, New York 13146 > montezuma.audubon.org > Montezuma Audubon Center on > Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/MontezumaAudubonCenter/> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Song sparrow > From: Carol Keeler <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 15:15:10 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > Just had an arrival of Song Sparrows. I can also hear them singing. > Yesterday I had my FOS Turkey Vulture. I’ve seen more today. > > Sent from my iPad > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Sandhill cranes and Snow geese > From: Dave Nutter <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 16:04:20 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > The first 2020 record of Sandhill Crane for the Cayuga Lake Basin of which > I’m aware was on 4 March at Knox-Marsellus Marsh from East Rd in Tyre > reported by David Kennedy. (Please anyone who has information on any earlier > record, let me know, so I can correct the record on the Cayuga Bird Club > webpage) The next day, 5 March, cranes were also reported at Armitage Rd, at > Van Dyne Spoor Rd, and at Carncross Rd in Savannah. This information is on > eBird. > > Sandhill Cranes are wonderful whenever and wherever we find them, so it’s > great that people are seeing or hearing them today. It wasn’t always this > way. The first year the species was reported in the Cayuga Lake Basin of > which I am aware was 1990, and the next was 1994, but they have been regular > since 2000 and have built up a breeding population throughout the Montezuma > Wetlands Complex, with many of the marshes hosting a pair. Their number may > be augmented by migrants in autumn when we have seen gatherings of 70 or > more. > > The Dean’s Cove report by Suan Hsi-Yong was of overhead migrants, so that’s > not a regular location for them. > > - - Dave Nutter > > > > - - Dave Nutter >> On Mar 7, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Johnson, Alyssa <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Not my sighting, but a report that came to the Audubon FB page of 3 Sandhill >> cranes seen from the end of Morgan Rd by the DEC buildings in Savannah. >> First of the year, to my knowledge! >> >> Snow geese are being reported from the Route 31 muck flats, and a large raft >> on Cayuga Lake viewed from Dean’s Cove State Boat Launch on the west side, >> off 89. >> >> -- >> Alyssa Johnson >> Environmental Educator >> 315.365.3588 >> >> Montezuma Audubon Center >> 2295 State Route 89 >> P.O. Box 187 >> Savannah, New York 13146 >> montezuma.audubon.org >> Montezuma Audubon Center on Facebook >> >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> BirdingOnThe.Net >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: My FOY Woodcock > From: Ken Haas <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 20:13:25 -0500 > X-Message-Number: 4 > > HI folks, > > At 6:15 tonight I went about 100 yards down Rt. 79 from my house above > Mecklenberg to a wide open field and heard this year’s first Woodcock. Only > one. For the last 5 years I've lived here, they have been very reliable to be > heard around the first week in March. I got a good, but fleeting look at it > as he flew within 15 yards of me and only about 15 feet off the ground. There > was still enough light in the sky for me to make out his markings and color > through my binocular. A Woodcock flyby! > > I will be leading a somewhat shortened field trip along the West side of the > lake tomorrow Sunday March 8th, which was postponed from Saturday. We’ll meet > at the Ithaca Children’s Garden parking lot in Ithaca at 9:00 AM. Please note > the special start time of 9AM. We’ll car pool from there and be back about > 12:30. Hope to see you there! > > Ken Haas > > > > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
