RE: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpeckers nesting at May's Point
Dave Nutter wrote: although someone else reported on eBird today seeing one of them apparently feeding an unseen nestling. Mike Powers mentioned on Facebook on Saturday that he'd seen a nestling bill in the hole. I also thought I saw that very briefly on Friday. I bet we will be seeing the nestling(s) looking out soon. They are definitely feeding on wild grape at Mays, one can watch them on the vines around the edges of the dead tree area. While I was there on Friday, one caught a cicada which protested loudly for a few seconds before being quickly dispatched. The birds have favorite anvil trees, often the top of a snag, to which they return again and again to with food to process (in the case of the cicada, removing wings and legs), before taking the food to the nest or eating it themselves. This may superficially look like caching. (Other woodpecker species do this too...Lewis's e.g.) Meanwhile, if people would like to see a few photos, there are some on my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 From: bounce-107860097-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-107860097-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Dave Nutter [nutter.d...@me.com] Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 12:16 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Wo caching food I don't know what was in the photo or what else the Red-headed Woodpeckers have been eating, but this afternoon at South Mays Point Road I watched one in a tree just next to the road, eating wild grapes. It then flew to one of the dead trees, but not the tree with the cavity I believe they have been using. Both adults were present in the dead trees, but I did not see them approach that tree during the 20 minutes we were there, although someone else reported on eBird today seeing one of them apparently feeding an unseen nestling. --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] Apologies!
Sorry for the goof. I meant to forward the notice of the trip to Bud. Wrong buttons! Sue Norvell Sent from my ASUS Pad -- 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 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS far NW from T...
CayugaRBA 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS far NW from Towpath Rd on K-M mud near loosestrife per Bob McGuire. --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] Baby Red-headed Woodpecker
At Mays Point Now. Others have seen it earlier but it is sticking its head out of the nest hole now. Leona Lauster. 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] Red Headed Woodpeckers
Just got back from Mays Point to photograph the woodpeckers. A baby was sitting its head out quite often. There were even some food exchanges. One time I caught the parent with two grapes. When I look at my images I may find insects too. The baby was most active between 9-10. You can only see one head at a time. Can't tell how many babies are in the hole. It was a great morning watching them. Sent from my iPad -- 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] Whimbrel from Towpath Rd
Just met Tony and Chris (from) Syracuse on Towpath. They pointed out a WHIMBREL wandering the KM mud flats, seen from far end of Towpath looking west. Just wandered into the grasses along the flats... Jason Huck 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] Fwd: Sick robin in our yard
For Kevin, et al... I had forwarded the email about West Nile virus and got this in response: On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Linda lindaslatte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Betsy Frank noticed a robin in our yard at 960 E. State St. with a limp. Would this be something of interest to you? He could fly but not too high and not for too long. Frank and Linda Slattery Sent from my iPad -- Forwarded message -- From: Betsy Darlington darlingtonb...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Sick robin in our yard To: Linda lindaslatte...@gmail.com Thanks, Linda! I'll forward your report to the Cayuga bird club list serve. Kevin McGowan and others are the main ones studying this. Betsy On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Linda lindaslatte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Betsy Frank noticed a robin in our yard at 960 E. State St. with a limp. Would this be something of interest to you? He could fly but not too high and not for too long. Frank and Linda Slattery Sent from my iPad -- 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] Red Headed Woodpecker
The woodpeckers seem to feeding the babies both insects and berries. The parents certainly don't go to the hole with food as often as you would think they should. Of course, we don't know how many young they are feeding. Here's an image of a feeding. I hope to add more images later. http://www.pbase.com/carol_keeler_photo/image/152012558 -- 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] Montezuma Saturday/Sunday
I drove up to Montezuma later yesterday afternoon, checked a few of the favorite birding locales, then spent the night on Howland Island in order to be up at the crack of dawn to record the dawn chorus. I have nothing of note to report from yesterday. Shorebird numbers seemed to be way down at Knox-Marsellus. Contrary to reports I had heard, neither of the ponds at the MAC have been drawn down, and there was no shorebird habitat to speak of. The pond at Marten's Tract was covered with duckweed and was empty save for two Wood Ducks and a Great Blue Heron - although a Black-crowned Night-Heron flew up out of the cattails as I walked past. There is an attractive new viewing platform overlooking the deep muck off Savannah-Spring Lake Road. But, for now, it looks over a small patch of water and just a couple of Great Blues. Van Dyne Spoor Road - the so-called Sandhill Crane Unit - was also fairly uninteresting, with a few Coots, Gallinules, and Pied-billed Grebes close to the road. I did have an American Bittern fly in around 7:45 pm. Several Great Egrets came in from the south to a roost that is hidden deep in the cattails. And several flocks of Red-winged blackbirds, numbering in the hundreds each, came in to roost. I parked overnight at the iron bridge, the southern approach to Howland Island. The night was remarkably quiet - few insects and an occasional Barred Owl call. Hoping for some sort of dawn chorus, I was up and across the bridge by 5:30. The first birds to call were the Mourning Doves, but then it was a long half hour before anything else chimed in. This time it was a couple of Eastern Wood-Pewees. I walked the eastern loop, along warbler way, past several of the ponds, and back out to the main N/S road. All in all, I encountered only two feeding flocks and was able to note PIne and Chestnut-sided Warblers, Ovenbird, a couple of American Redstarts, two Tanagers, a couple of Wood Thrushes and Chickadees, Titmice, and Nuthatches. I did get a good recording of the Wood-Pewee's pureee call but nothing beyond that. Bugs were only a small problem, with more black flies than mosquitoes. On the way back I stopped off at Knox-Marsellus as viewed from Towpath Road. With the morning light coming in from the east, the mud flats were easy to scan although most of the birds were well to the north. The mix of birds was in constant flux due to the presence of one, then two, juvenile Peregrine Falcons, joined at one point by a Merlin. I never saw any of the falcons actually catch anything, and eventually they disappeared. I was able to pick out one Black-bellied Plover but could not find the Wilson's Phalarope nor the Golden-Plover that were reported yesterday. My consolation prize was a pair of BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS seen foraging in the short grass at the edge of the mud, way off to the east, up against the loosestrife. They would flush along with the other shorebirds as the falcons passed, but then return to exactly the same spot to continue feeding. Bob McGuire -- 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/ --
