[cayugabirds-l] Sora Martens Tract
Ann and I got a sora with our SFO groups. The bird responded to virginia rail calls. Later a few of us heard a virgina rail calling there also. Dave Nicosia Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Shorebirds at Benning Marsh, Montezuma
Shorebirds at Benning Marsh, Montezuma NWR: Dunlin, Pectoral, both Yellowlegs, Snipe. --Dave Nutter -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Dorthy Mcilroy Preserve, American Bittern
Meg and I walked the yellow trail at the Dorthy Mcilroy Preserve (#39 in the new CBC guide to Birding the Cayuga Lake Basin, shameless plug). The highlight was when Meg walked upon an American Bittern which squawked and then flew off. I on the other hand had nothing but a conversation with a couple of Blue Jays. Carl Steckler -- For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] SFO trip around the lake
Dave Nicosia and I led the day trip around the lake. Since Dave's and my agenda were about the same, we decided to combine our trip. These are the highlights of the trip: Ladoga Park - 3 Common Loons, 2 Red-necked Grebes, a couple Coots, Ring-necked Ducks, Common Merganzer. Myers Point - We saw a raft of waterfowl south of the point, so we walked to the lighthouse. The raft consisted of 2 White-winged Scoters, many Long-tailed Ducks, some Horned Grebes in breeding plumage, Ring-necked Ducks, and Wood Ducks. Harris Park area on Lake Street - All Aythya species (except for Ring-necked Ducks), Ruddy Ducks, 2 Western Grebes, Horned Grebe in breeding plumage. Visitors Center - Blue and Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers, Gadwall, American Wigeon, 2 Greater Yellowlegs. Martens Tract - Pied-billed Grebe, Sora, Virginia Rail, possible American Bittern. Dave saw a Eurasian Wigeon, but no one else got on it. East Road - Add ons were Double-crested Cormorants, 2 Snow Geese. We ran out of time, so we headed home. While there, we did see numerous Osprey nests and Osprey with fish, the Mudlock Eaglets, 2 male Northern Harriers in different locations, Red-tailed Hawks, and Turkey Vultures. Best, Ann ps If anyone remembers any other important sightings, please respond. -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] SFO Saturday All Day Group
Below are total species for our SFO Saturday All Day Trip. Leaders were Ann Mitchell and I. | Ann's notes are below. We had a total of 18 students. It was such a great day. We had so much fun that, before we knew it, the day was over!! Thanks to all for such a great birding trip!! Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY Apr 7, 2012 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM Comments: Dave Nicosia and I led the day trip around the lake. Since Dave's and my agenda were about the same, we decided to combine our trip. These are the highlights of the trip: Ladoga Park - 3 Common Loons, 2 Red-necked Grebes, a couple Coots, Ring-necked Ducks, Common Merganser. Myers Point - We saw a raft of waterfowl south of the point, so we walked to the lighthouse. The raft consisted of 2 White-winged Scoters, many Long-tailed Ducks, some Horned Grebes in breeding plumage, Ring-necked Ducks, and Wood Ducks. Harris Park area on Lake Street - All Aythya species (except for Ring-necked Ducks), Ruddy Ducks, 2 Western Grebes, Horned Grebe in breeding plumage. Visitors Center - Blue and Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers, Gadwall, American Wigeon, 2 Greater Yellowlegs. Martens Tract - Pied-billed Grebe, Sora, Virginia Rail, possible American Bittern. Dave saw a Eurasian Wigeon, but no one else got on it. East Road - Add ons were Double-crested Cormorants, 2 Snow Geese. We ran out of time, so we headed home. While there, we did see numerous Osprey nests and Osprey with fish, the Mudlock Eaglets, 2 male Northern Harriers in different locations, Red-tailed Hawks, and Turkey Vultures. Best, Ann P.S. If anyone remembers any other important sightings, please respond. Total 76 species- this is what at least 2 students saw/heard or 1 student + 1 leader saw/heard. Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens) X Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) X Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) X Gadwall (Anas strepera) X American Wigeon (Anas americana) X American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) X Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) X Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) X Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) X Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) X Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) X Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) X Redhead (Aythya americana) X Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) X Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) X Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) X White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca) X Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) X Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) X Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) X Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) X Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) X Common Loon (Gavia immer) X Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) X Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus) X Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) X Western Grebe (Aechmophorus occidentalis) X Seen for many weeks in this vicinity. Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) X Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) X Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) X Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) X Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) X Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) X Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) X American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) X Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) X Sora (Porzana carolina) X American Coot (Fulica americana) X Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) X Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) X Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) X Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) X Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) X Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) X Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) X Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) X Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) X Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) X Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) X Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) X Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) X Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) X Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) X American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) X Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) X Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) X Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) X Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) X Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) X White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) X Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) X Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) X American Robin (Turdus migratorius) X Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) X European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) X Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) X Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) X Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana) X Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) X Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) X Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) X Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) X Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) X House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) X American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) X House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) X This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm
[cayugabirds-l] Marten's Tract Eurasian Wigeon
eurasian wigeon swamp south of martens tract. Dave Nicosia. Rply: CAYUGARBA + yr msg. m.textmarks.com -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Shorebirds Montezuma
At Benning marsh today around 2 pm there were 10 greater yellowlegs, 2 lesser yellowlegs, 1 snipe, 1 killdeer and 2 pectoral sandpipers. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Intersti8ng Duck from Long Point SP Possible King Eider
Hi all, Around 11.00 am we saw a duck in the bay north of Long Point State Park in a very windy conditions. It was a diver and often dived and stayed under water long time came up far away from where it dove. General description is as follows: Overall, uniform light brown back and head was darker brown, at least head was darker than the body. Initially, I thought it was a female golden-eye. But as others and I got better of it and description of it this is what we saw. Had a yellowish broad beak, shape of the was sloping and not a very sharp rounded head as of golden-eye. Had some white near the cheek and on front part of the body. Very active and dove often. With elimination of other species Donna suggested why not King Eider first year male. I had not even thought of that. I looked up Peterson and Crossley's and Sibely's. To me bird was a hybrid of Crossley and Sibely guides. Forehead was more sloping as in Crossely's and other colors were more like Sibley's. After discussion I wanted to look at the bird in more details. I scanned that locality but did not see the bird again. By then it was getting very nasty and windy people from my group wanted to get back into the car and the bird was also not in sight. So we left the location. The exact location was from the LP SP if you look north where the land juts out into the lake the bird was in front of the last dock and behind it were many Buffleheads. The bird in question was almost twice the size of bufflehead. I am leaning more towards first year King Eider. Tomorrow many of you are heading along the lake so keep your eyes open. Also there is a bird along Long Point State park road off of 90 somewhere near the quarry, which sounds like Carolina Wren, but I think three years ago when I tracked down this sound it turned out to be a Tufted Titmouse. I have been hearing this call for three years. So if you hear it, try to to locate the bird so we can be sure of its identity. There is one tufted titmouse around Bebee lake, behind Mann Library, which sounds like Teacher teach and he sounds very mcuh like a oriole if you hear him in oriole season. But I have heard him in winter and spring too. Tufted Titmouse make all kinds of sounds. We had 69 specie of birds or can say almost 70 if we count Carolina Wren! Looking forward to tomoorw! Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --
