I have to tell you about the woodpeckers....... I was sitting on the deck the other day, in a chair, about 8 or 10 ft. from a hanging feeder, which is...
Hiked the Goodyear Swamp near Springfield Center on July 2, and had a nice Osprey fly over. Also saw a probable Yellow Warbler nest, and a female Common...
While waiting on the side of Mt. Utsayantha in Stamford, Delaware Co. for the fireworks display to start around 9:30 p.m. this evening, four Woodcock whistled...
I stopped by the Burnt-Rossman Hills State Forest in the towns of Blenheim and Fulton on Friday (7/4). Some of the highlights included: Red-shouldered Hawk-2...
Singing Carolina Wren in hamlet of Roseboom yesterday evening. Bob Donnelly...
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Jul 9, 2008 8:52 pm
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Maybe the Carolina wrens are becoming more numerous. I have been hearing one(and sometimes another one answering it) around my house (Mill Street, Cooperstown)...
Marion
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Jul 10, 2008 1:10 am
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For about three years I have had Carolina Wrens in Treadwell, year round. I used to get them in my porch or down the chimney, and thus in the house, in the...
Hi John. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Extra work at school, a cold, and a contractor showing up a week early made the past few weeks kind of...
Oops, I did it again. I accidently sent a message to osbirds that was meant only for John Davis. Sorry. The Oneonta Merlin chicks are getting noisy. I could...
AUDUBON YOUNG BIRDERS WALK Young people who are interested in learning about birds and birdwatching are invited to participate in a walk in Wilber Park on...
The Oneonta Merlins have fledged. I only did a run-through without binoculars on Friday; I heard lots of noise from the nest area, so I assumed they had not...
From the backroad of Davenport My bluebirds are doing a second nesting...The first brood had successfully fledged three... I checked yesterday, as the male did...
Eleanor and all, Similar situation here in Milford: A brood of 3 fledged not long ago, and the bluebirds are sitting on 4 fresh eggs in an adjacent box. I ...
Today was a bit of a triumph. using my song finder i think i have hermit thrush call and wood thrush straight and determined that except for veery the hermit...
While canoeing and fishing this morning on the North end of Goodyear lake (just South of Wightman's lumber), I watched a Merlin make an attack on a Kingbird. I...
Here is a mystery I am trying to solve. There is a half acre of second growth woods at the back of my Cooperstown property where I maintain little walking...
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Jul 23, 2008 2:15 am
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Marion-- Cats kill little rabbits. If it was a feral cat, I'd think it would eat it though, but if a well-fed neighborhood cat, maybe not. ... Andrew Mason ...
Here's an improbable explanation. Providing the rabbit was quite small,.....it was killed by a northern shrike, impaled on a barbed wire fence, and saved for...
I would suspect a weasel. When I was a child downstate our pet rabbits were killed in the very same manner by a weasel, also left uneaten. Dorian, Treadwell. ...
Whenever my house cats have caught a rabbit, young or old, they eat most of it. I think cats would at the least dismember a rabbit to some extent. Dorian ...
This morning, as I jogged around the high school and neared the sports fields beyond, I heard a killdeer calling over and over, sounding very distressed. As I...
Sandy - I've seen Merlins in the Adirondacks hanging around nest sites into mid-August - sans parents. I've seen them attended to by parents into early August....
Hello all, This morning Greg Budney and I went over to the Pharsalia area (Chenango County) for pre-sunrise with hopes of getting Ovenbird and/or Common ...
Hi all, While walking with my daughter (not intending to bird - no binos!) I saw a sparrow-sized bird, brown sparrow colors, do a very interesting distraction...
I forgot to mention: the displaying sparrow was vocalizing: a short "chip", reminiscent in my ears of the quality of a single segment of the Blackpoll...
... Until you described the "mate: in the tree, I thought you were seeing a female Indigo bunting. Relatively the same size as a sparrow and without glasses,...
While doing some birding in the Schoharie Co. town of Fulton today I came across a small flock of White-winged Crossbills (aprox. 6). One of the birds was...
Hello, I also got out on Sunday morning where I had another WHITE-WiNGED CROSSBILL flying over at Pitcher Springs State Forest in Pitcher Chenango Co.....and ...
