[cayugabirds-l] Ruddy turnstone at Myers Pt
Ruddy turnstone at Myers Pt. now. Stuart Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Sapsucker Woods, Sat 5/19
I looked for birds around the Wilson Trail North, the Woodleton Boardwalk, and the road in Sapsucker Woods on Saturday morning. Here are some highlights. * YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER along the road, about 30 meters north of the gated trailheads. Suan Yong and I had a nice 20-second view of this bird in angled morning sunlight, before the flycatcher was chased away by a first-year male AMERICAN REDSTART. Suan remarked aptly that the flycatcher had female goldfinch colors. * A singing BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER not far from this flycatcher, two TENNESSEE WARBLERS by the East Trail gate, and another redstart singing deep in the woods by the Severinghaus Trail. * Territorial NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES along the Woodleton Boardwalk as usual, plus another in the swampy patch north of the building. This latter waterthrush, plus the warblers mentioned above, were the only passage migrant warblers I found today. * A pair of OVENBIRDS about to copulate between the East Trail gate and the Woodleton Boardwalk, before they saw me and decided to try somewhere else. * Near these Ovenbirds, Suan found a Catharus thrush, which I never saw. His description perfectly matches GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. I can think of no better date or place to find this species around Ithaca. * A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD, first found by Linda Orkin and her group, near the swallow boxes on the parking-lot knoll. This was only the fourth or fifth mockingbird I've ever seen in Sapsucker Woods. Mark -- 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] Least Bittern
A LEAST BITTERN is currently singing at Martens Tract (Nothern Montezuma WMA), in the marsh heard from the dike to the right of the parking lot. Jay McGowan -- 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] CayugaRBA WILSON'S PHALAROPE on mud
CayugaRBA WILSON'S PHALAROPE on mud Puddler's marsh Towpath Rd Montezuma NWR, also reported @ Visitor Ctr. --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] Clay-colored Sparrow, Seneca Falls
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW is singing and being territorial in the same row of blue spruces along King Road in Seneca Falls as one spent some time last year. Jay -- 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] May 19th CBC Trip
On Saturday May 19 Meg, I and seven brave souls braved the possibility of gnats, tics, chiggers and blood sucking carnivorous flying beasts, all to find the elusive bird. We visited Bear Swamp and the Dorthy Mcilroy Preserve to see what we could find. Our first stop was the parking area off Iowa Road on Bear Swamp road. The sounds of birds surrounded us and after spending two hours without leaving the parking area we saw or heard 18 species. Not bad for an area of about 75 feet square. We saw: Turkey Vulture Blue-headed Vireo Blue Jay Crow Red-breasted Nuthatch Magnolia Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Dark-eyed Junco Chipping Sparrow Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting We also heard: Wood Thrush Black-throated Blue Warbler Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Scarlet Tanager We then went to Dorthy Mcilroy Preserve and walked the loop.. We saw or heard 21 species. Birds Seen: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Alder Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Red-eyed Vireo Crow Tree Swallow Gray Catbird Robin Magnolia Warbler Ovenbird Baltimore Oriole Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Birds Heard: Ring-necked Pheasant Great Crested Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Veery Black-throated Green warbler Northern Waterthrush All in all a great day, many thanks to: Suan,Leishmania, Becky, Sue, Clause, Robert, Meg and Rick, great birders. Carl Steckler -- 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] Union Springs area
The last 5 pairs of Buffleheads left 4 wks. ago from Mill pond, leaving behind 2 females. Saw two on 7 May. Only one remained on the 11th. On the 13th, none. I wondered about their separate disappearance. Did one just get the urge to head north then later the second OR did the big snapping turtle get them, one by one??? Thus far I have seen no gulls or terns on the breakwall at the former Castelli's marina. Due to high wave action, the breakwalls were put out later than usual. This past Mon. (14th) I discovered a new Osprey nest so obvious it would have bitten me had it been a snake. It is almost directly over the 55 MPH sign at the south end of the village of Cayuga along Rte. 90S it is occupied! Also, the nest by Beacon Mills is on the old wooden utility pole as you look towards the RR bridge, not out on the big metal tower in the water. A wk. ago the 2 Bald Eagle juveniles at Mud Lock appeared to be almost as large as the parents. Today on Truesdale Rd. just east of Union Springs, I saw 2 Cedar Waxwings flying down to a roadside ditch, perhaps to get water. I do have a question ... I have observed our Tree Swallows continuing to copulate even tho' they are sitting on eggs. Is this normal?? I don't recall ever seeing this occur before. Fritzie -- 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/ --
