[cayugabirds-l] Newman Golf Course vicinity and Sapsucker Woods, Wed 5/15
I went to the sycamores along Pier Road by Ithaca's Newman Golf Course at 6 AM on Wednesday. I found one YELLOW-THROATED VIREO and the WARBLING VIREO pair at its nest as Dave Nutter described the other day. The score was vireo species 2, Yellow-throated species 1, with one versatile individual accounting for a point on each side. The drama mounted. Would the Yellow-throated Warbler show up and break the tie? No, alas, it did not. (But then a Common Yellowthroat sang, setting off a confusing and still unresolved rulebook debate.) I then ran over to the woods on both the lighthouse/Newman side and the Stewart/Renwick side in the hope of finding Cerulean Warblers. Again I missed, but did find more Yellow-throated Vireos, lots of AMERICAN REDSTARTS and BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS, WOOD THRUSHES, a pair of ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS, WOOD DUCKS, and other expected birds. The biggest surprise was a pair of sleepy RUDDY DUCKS in the creek. (Yesterday by the boathouse, Tilden and I found two PALM WARBLERS.) Then I dashed off to Sapsucker Woods and made a fast full circuit of the Wilson Trail (6:55-7:10 AM). Birding mostly by ear, I found only a few passage migrants - a singing MAGNOLIA WARBLER and chipping YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER north of the Sherwood Platform, and a silent SWAINSON'S THRUSH in the woods. Mark Chao -- 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] Cornell Siskin Flock
Walking up to Cornell campus today, I was distracted by a din of calling birds near the Cornell Bookstore. Getting closer, I started hearing distinct buzzy calls that made it clear the din was from a fairly large flock of PINE SISKINS in the trees to the E of the campus bookstore, near Day Hall. I had a single bird in this same area yesterday, but today the count was much higher. 25? 50? 100? I did not have time to stop and count, but there were at least a few dozen there from my quick look while walking by (I was late for a meeting). They may stick around for a bit and be worth a look if you're passing through campus today. Good birding! Chris Dalton Ithaca, NY christopher.m.dal...@gmail.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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton dianegmor...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=dianegmor...@gmail.com wrote: I have a copy of a booklet called Stewart Park, Its History, Buildings and Plantings, published for Earth Day, 1990. Here is what it says about that tract of land: When the future of the park was uncertain, fifty-five acres immediately to the south were set aside as a bird sanctuary. Sometime in 1913, the land was presented to the City of Ithaca by Renwick descendants-- it was the last significant portion of the 1790 tract to remain in their hands. The sanctuary was christened as the Renwick Wildwood and maintained by the Cayuga Bird Club. The club developed a system of trails and constructed a concrete arch at the southern entrance in 1917. These projects were funded by the city's Board of Public Works, but executed with volunteer labor. The president of the club at the time was the artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. After his death in 1927, the sanctuary was renamed in his honor. So it would seem that either name could be used, with Fuertes Sanctuary dating from 1927. Diane Morton It was six years after his death, more specifically June 1933, that the sanctuary was renamed in Fuertes' honor. And this re-naming was done by your very same Cayuga Bird Club in conjunction with the Ithaca Rotary Club. (See Boynton, Mary Fuertes. 1956. p.308. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Oxford Univ. Press, New York.) Good birding, Randolph Scott Randy Little -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cornell Siskin Flock
I had a similar experience on campus yesterday and encountered three separate large groups: One at Balch Hall on North Campus, one on the Arts Quad and one at Wee Stinky Glen near the Cornell Store. The third group was the lowest and spent a lot of time in the small stream at that spot. - Brad On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Christopher Dalton christopher.m.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Walking up to Cornell campus today, I was distracted by a din of calling birds near the Cornell Bookstore. Getting closer, I started hearing distinct buzzy calls that made it clear the din was from a fairly large flock of PINE SISKINS in the trees to the E of the campus bookstore, near Day Hall. I had a single bird in this same area yesterday, but today the count was much higher. 25? 50? 100? I did not have time to stop and count, but there were at least a few dozen there from my quick look while walking by (I was late for a meeting). They may stick around for a bit and be worth a look if you're passing through campus today. Good birding! Chris Dalton Ithaca, NY christopher.m.dal...@gmail.com -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- 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] eBird -- Hawthorn Orchard -- May 15, 2013
Very difficult birding the Hawthorn Orchard today. Cool blustery Southeast winds followed by rain showers. Most birds were vocal by calls only, and very limited song. Largest Yellow-rumped flock seemed to prefer Western interior of Hawthorn Orchard. Highlights: male HOODED WARBLER at NE corner, Swainson's Thrush seen twice in NE area, male and female Indigo Buntings, female Black-throated Blue Warbler. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H cth4th May 15, 2013 Hawthorn Orchard Traveling 1.25 miles 230 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Comfortably cool to cold. Blustery Southeast wind. Overcast. Approaching rain showers. Then showers and wind for a period. Most birds silently foraging and difficult to locate. Seemed to prefer Western interior of the Hawthorn Orchard. 4 Canada Goose 1 Mourning Dove 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 5 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 2 Tree Swallow 4 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 House Wren 1 Swainson's Thrush -- Flushed from forest floor just South of NE corner 1 Wood Thrush -- Singing in ravine of NE corner 6 American Robin 9 Gray Catbird 9 European Starling 2 Cedar Waxwing 1 Blue-winged Warbler -- Seen and heard singing from very center of Hawthorn Orchard. 3 Tennessee Warbler 2 Northern Parula -- Male and female 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Magnolia Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler -- Female, South of HO 20 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Palm Warbler (Western) 3 American Redstart 6 Common Yellowthroat 1 Hooded Warbler -- Male. Seen and heard giving chink call notes at 6:25am just East of NE corner in entrance area to maple grove/slope. 2 Chipping Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow -- Field at SE corner of HO by retention pond, S of the North rugby field. 7 Song Sparrow 16 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Scarlet Tanager 5 Northern Cardinal 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting -- Male seen and heard calling. Foraging just North of creek in North ravine. Female seen South of HO. 7 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 7 Baltimore Oriole 1 Purple Finch 2 House Finch 6 American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] eBird -- Hawthorn Orchard -- May 15, 2013
Some additional highlights toward the NW side of Hawthorn included a Least flycatcher and male chestnut-sided warbler. Cheers, Derrick J. Thrasher Ph.D. Student Neurobiology Behavior Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University On May 15, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes c...@cornell.edu wrote: Very difficult birding the Hawthorn Orchard today. Cool blustery Southeast winds followed by rain showers. Most birds were vocal by calls only, and very limited song. Largest Yellow-rumped flock seemed to prefer Western interior of Hawthorn Orchard. Highlights: male HOODED WARBLER at NE corner, Swainson's Thrush seen twice in NE area, male and female Indigo Buntings, female Black-throated Blue Warbler. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H cth4th May 15, 2013 Hawthorn Orchard Traveling 1.25 miles 230 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Comfortably cool to cold. Blustery Southeast wind. Overcast. Approaching rain showers. Then showers and wind for a period. Most birds silently foraging and difficult to locate. Seemed to prefer Western interior of the Hawthorn Orchard. 4 Canada Goose 1 Mourning Dove 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 5 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 2 Tree Swallow 4 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 House Wren 1 Swainson's Thrush -- Flushed from forest floor just South of NE corner 1 Wood Thrush -- Singing in ravine of NE corner 6 American Robin 9 Gray Catbird 9 European Starling 2 Cedar Waxwing 1 Blue-winged Warbler -- Seen and heard singing from very center of Hawthorn Orchard. 3 Tennessee Warbler 2 Northern Parula -- Male and female 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Magnolia Warbler 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler -- Female, South of HO 20 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Palm Warbler (Western) 3 American Redstart 6 Common Yellowthroat 1 Hooded Warbler -- Male. Seen and heard giving chink call notes at 6:25am just East of NE corner in entrance area to maple grove/slope. 2 Chipping Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow -- Field at SE corner of HO by retention pond, S of the North rugby field. 7 Song Sparrow 16 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Scarlet Tanager 5 Northern Cardinal 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 Indigo Bunting -- Male seen and heard calling. Foraging just North of creek in North ravine. Female seen South of HO. 7 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 7 Baltimore Oriole 1 Purple Finch 2 House Finch 6 American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 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 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
On my way to the library right now to get this book. Would be nice to get the definitive answer. I am not invested in this one way or the other, just want to get it right. Linda Orkin On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Randolph Scott Little r...@att.net wrote: On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton dianegmor...@gmail.comhttp:/** /mc/compose?to=dianegmorton@**gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=dianegmor...@gmail.com wrote: I have a copy of a booklet called Stewart Park, Its History, Buildings and Plantings, published for Earth Day, 1990. Here is what it says about that tract of land: When the future of the park was uncertain, fifty-five acres immediately to the south were set aside as a bird sanctuary. Sometime in 1913, the land was presented to the City of Ithaca by Renwick descendants-- it was the last significant portion of the 1790 tract to remain in their hands. The sanctuary was christened as the Renwick Wildwood and maintained by the Cayuga Bird Club. The club developed a system of trails and constructed a concrete arch at the southern entrance in 1917. These projects were funded by the city's Board of Public Works, but executed with volunteer labor. The president of the club at the time was the artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. After his death in 1927, the sanctuary was renamed in his honor. So it would seem that either name could be used, with Fuertes Sanctuary dating from 1927. Diane Morton It was six years after his death, more specifically June 1933, that the sanctuary was renamed in Fuertes' honor. And this re-naming was done by your very same Cayuga Bird Club in conjunction with the Ithaca Rotary Club. (See Boynton, Mary Fuertes. 1956. p.308. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Oxford Univ. Press, New York.) Good birding, Randolph Scott Randy Little -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/CayugabirdsWELCOMEhttp://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/CayugabirdsRULEShttp://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/**CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurat** ionLeave.htmhttp://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/**cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/**maillist.htmlhttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/**birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/**mailinglists/CAYU.htmlhttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/**ebird/ http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Don't ask what your bird club can do for you, ask what you can do for your bird club!! ')_,/ -- 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] Ruff
If someone hears of the Ruff being re-found please post. Thanks Carl -- 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] Wilson's Warbler, Yellow-bellied FC, Sapsucker woods
Hi 1:45 today (Wed) there was a Wilson's Warbler and a probable Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in the evergreens near the main entrance to the Lab of Ornithology. The Flycatcher was very yellow underneath, wingbars and an eye ring. I haven't seen enough of them to be 100% sure. Then they disappeared. Laura Laura Stenzler Lab Manager Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, New York 14850 Office: (607) 254 2141 Lab:(607) 254 2142 Fax:(607) 254 2486 l...@cornell.edumailto: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] More Wilson's on Wilson's
Three first of years on this afternoon walk at Sapsucker: I found a nice male WILSON'S WARBLER right down low in plain sight a few feet in front of me, just off the pond where Wilson's Trail turns up the small rise before the footbridge also around 1330 today, so maybe a different bird than Laura's. Heard what was very likely a RED-EYED VIREO as the phrases were far more frequent than the recent Blue-headed Vireos seen here. PURPLE MARTIN flying over the pond, not in full breeding plumage (whitish belly with brown markings on underside and breast. Also heard SCARLET TANAGERS, one singing a lot, the other singing, then calling, but both in too thick a canopy to see. Laura got us on one on the Saturday bird walk at Park Preserve, so these were second and third of year! __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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] Fwd: Montezuma Refuge Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan Environmental Assessment
I just got this and haven't read it yet, but it's doubtless interesting and important to many birders.--Dave NutterBegin forwarded message:From: geneseebirds-l-requ...@geneseo.eduDate: May 15, 2013 3:11:00 PMMontezuma Refuge Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan Environmental Assessment (Lynn A. Braband) Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 19:10:46 + From: "Lynn A. Braband" la...@cornell.edu To: Genesse_Birds geneseebird...@geneseo.edu Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Montezuma Refuge Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan Environmental Assessment Message-ID: CDB955F3.2C840%la...@cornell.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" http://www.fws.gov/northeast/planning/Montezuma/ccpchapters.html Lynn Braband NYS Community IPM Program of Cornell University 249 Highland Avenue Rochester, NY 14620 (585) 461-1000 ext. 241 Fax (585) 442-7577 http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu ___ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - geneseebird...@geneseo.edu https://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
[cayugabirds-l] Looking for ruff picture
For the next issue of the Cayuga Bird Club newsletter I would like to find a picture of the local ruff. If anyone has one please send to: cbcedit...@gmail.com. Thanks, Richard -- 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/ --
