[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet Owl

2024-03-04 Thread Geo Kloppel
5:30 AM: still tooting, 25 days now -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeCon

[cayugabirds-l] Geese

2024-03-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
Lots of Canada geese flying high over Hunt Hill Road, Dryden, this morning. No snow geese yet Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm No

[cayugabirds-l] Black vultures

2024-03-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
A new yard bird this morning over Hunt Hill Road. Two black vultures circling each other just flew over. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_h

[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club March meeting and speaker dinner

2024-03-04 Thread Colleen Richards
Next Monday, March 11, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club. Linda Ziemba, MNWR Wildlife Biologist, will give her presentation, "Wetland Management for Migratory Birds at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge" on Monday, March 11, 2024, 7:30pm at Foundation of Light at 391

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black vultures

2024-03-04 Thread anneb . clark
Let’s try to figure out where they nest this year!! Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2024, at 12:04 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > A new yard bird this morning over Hunt Hill Road. Two black vultures > circling each other just flew over. > Laura > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > -- > >

[cayugabirds-l] Merlin in Freeville

2024-03-04 Thread Tim Gallagher
I just saw an adult male Merlin a few minutes ago in Freeville, vocalizing loudly and doing a flutter flight high above me. -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirdin

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Geese

2024-03-04 Thread anneb . clark
Indeed. gb of geese. Saw one skein of snows, maybe 55 with a single blue phase. Around 1230 Anne Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2024, at 11:25 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > Lots of Canada geese flying high over Hunt Hill Road, Dryden, this morning. > No snow geese yet > Laura > > La

[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet

2024-03-04 Thread Geo Kloppel
Started tooting at 6:20 PM. Today I put up a nest box, and I will do another one tomorrow. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DO

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet

2024-03-04 Thread Geo Kloppel
…and still at it an hour later. Pretty determined! My neighbor throws two quarts of bird seed on the ground every day, which must be a real boon for voles and deer mice. Maybe that is what’s keeping the Saw-whets around… Les campagnols et les souris sylvestres S’occupent de ses affaires champês

[cayugabirds-l] Birding Cuba

2024-03-04 Thread Karin Suskin
> > Wondering if anyone has had experience birding in Cuba. If so, please reply directly to me. Thank you, Karin Suskin -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastB

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black vultures

2024-03-04 Thread Dave Nutter
Paul Rodewald said a pair of Black Vultures seemed to be prospecting a barn recently between Freeville & Cortland. Last year the number of sightings over downtown Ithaca & lower S Hill, & near Titus Flats/ Wegmans/ the Elmira Rd strip seemed like some affinity - maybe nesting nearby? Or is it