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Other visitors to your Bird Feeder
Posted on February 8th, 2010 1 comment - Add a comment >>One night last week I looked out in the spot light a saw a Barred Owl looking for a snack under the feeder. It let me take a couple of pictures before it caught something on the ground a flew away.
Friday 1/29/10 about noon I was catching Goldfinch to band in a Potter Trap when i looked out and a Northern Shrike had caught one of my Goldfinch throught the cage. I went out and retrieved two others that were in the trap and left the dead one. I opened the cage door and came back inside. The Shrike came right back looking for his meal. I got a few good pictures of him before he went into the trap. I retrieved him from the trap with a gloved hand and he is now wearing a band on his leg.
The 13th Great Backyard Bird Count takes place Friday February 12 through Monday February 15, 2010. The National Audubon Society and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are calling on everyone to “Count for Fun, Count for the Future!” During last year’s count , participants turned in more than 93,600 checklists online, creating the continents largest instantaneous snapshots of bird populations ever recorded. This year maybe this record can be broken. You can submit your bird list from your backyard or on a hike you take in the woods to www.birdcount.org. If you don’t have a computer, I would be glad to send in your list so give me a call at 357-5150 to get your birds counted and join in the fun.
Northern Shrike
Barred Owl
Keep those feeders full as you never know what may come for a treat. Gary Lee 2/3/10
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Duck Count Region 7-Adirondacks
Posted on February 8th, 2010 2 comments Add a comment >>Duck Count Essex, Frankilin, Clinton and Hamilton Counties 2010
The final count of Ducks in Region 7 was quite impressive with most of them being on Lake Champlain, Snow Goose 3, Canada Goose 188, Am. Black Duck 92, Mallard Duck 873, Redhead 17, Ring-necked Duck 23, Lesser scaup 2, Mixed Lesser and Greater Scaup 1,300, Bufflehead 169, Common Goldeneye 6,595, Barrow’s Goldeneye 5, Hooded Merganser 20, Common Merganser 1,234, Red-breasted Merganser 3, Red-throated Loon 1, Common Loon 6, Pied-billed Grebe 2, Horned Grebe 30, Double-crested Cormorant 14 for a total of 10,077 birds. The parties also saw three Bald Eagles, hundreds of Ring-billed Gulls, several Herring Gulls and several Greater Black-backed Gulls.
Gary N. Lee-Naturalist and Retired Forest Ranger I
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Name: Gary
Bio: Gary Lee is a passionate birder and naturalist who worked as a New York State forest ranger for thirty-five years, mostly in the Moose River Plains and West Canada Lakes Wilderness. With John M.C. Peterson, he coauthored Adirondack Birding: 60 Great Places to Find Birds, distributed by the Adirondack Mountain Club. He has written a weekly newspaper column, often focusing on birds and other wildlife, since 1986, first for the Adirondack Express, later for Adirondack Weekly. His photographs of birds have appeared in the Adirondack Explorer and other publications. Gary is a graduate of the New York State Ranger School in Wanakena. He lives in Inlet with his wife, Karen. They have three children and four grandchildren.
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