[cayugabirds-l] Grasshopper Sparrow still singing this morning on Bald Hill Rd, Brooktondale
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[cayugabirds-l] Hairy Nest @ SSW
A hairy woodpecker nesthole was actively being attended this morning during the bird walk, with the mother bringing two load of goodies while we watched. All feeding was in the hole thus not visible -- don't know if young hairies ever stick their heads out like pileateds.* The walk also found two two blackburnians -- one silent by the Wilson north footbridge, one singing by Podell -- and two blackpolls -- one kitty corner from the visitor center, one near Sherwood. A blue-winged warbler sang near the Wilson north footbridge as well. A Traill's Flycatcher (weak eye-ring) was at Owens making wit calls -- is that a reliable Willow distinguisher? Suan *To find the nest, walk south past the Podell boardwalk, curve right then left and look for a yellow birch right next to the trail. From there you should be able to hear baby noises. Turn right about 120 degrees and look for a tree about 50 feet away with a big rotted-off cavity. The nest hole is below that rotted part, facing to the left. -- 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] Hooded Warbler at Monkey Run
We got many good looks at a hooded warbler slightly after noon at Monkey Run. It was located along the path going left (west) as you face the creek entering from the 366 side. Follow the path along the creek, past the remains of the old bridge, until the path moves away from the creek and is about to go up the hill. It was located in low branches on both sides of the path, singing strongly. Max (Richard Maxwell) -- 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] Willow Ptarmigan retraction
I just found out the Willow Ptarmigan was seen in VT before the last NY sighting, meaning there were at least two birds far away from their normal range. It is sad to hear that the NY bird was found dead, does anyone know the details/cause? While I was on Point Peninsula for several hours on 4/30, I met a few of the residents. Most were friendly and welcoming to the birders, but I did hear a couple negative comments, and since I work along a camp access road, I know that some of the homeowners value the peace and quiet that normally exists. Mark Miller Sent from Windows Mail -- 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] Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve (FLLT), Sun 5/25
Almost everything about today's Finger Lakes Land Trust Spring Bird Quest (SBQ) group walk met or exceeded my highest hopes - warm sunshine, still winds, 25+ spirited supporters in attendance, and the usual bird specialties about as cooperative as I've ever found them. We even had one long-coveted but still surprising addition to my SBQ life list. I am pleased to present this full report. Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve Routes 34 and 96, West Danby 6:10 - 10:45 AM 65 species, including YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER, BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO, PRAIRIE WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, BLACKPOLL WARBLER, BLACK-AND WHITE WARBLER, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, HOODED WARBLER, CANADA WARBLER, MOURNING WARBLER, and BROWN THRASHER I began the morning with Jody Enck on the west side of Routes 34 and 96 at the Land Trust's wooded pond by the fire station. Through the dissipating fog, we saw at least three GREAT BLUE HERON nests looming in distant dead trees, each with a hunchbacked parent sitting low and barely visible above the lip of sticks. Here we heard a GREEN HERON (Jody saw it fly in and out), and also the weekend's first HOODED MERGANSERS. My intentions for a longer vigil over the snags and still waters were soon foiled by songbird commotion in neighboring hedgerows. We sifted through quite an impressive assortment just between the fire station and the road leading up to the water tower - two MOURNING WARBLERS, HOODED WARBLER, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, AMERICAN REDSTART, OVENBIRD, a pair of YELLOW WARBLERS, and a singer that put me on high alert for a Cape May (alas, unconfirmed and uncounted). The Mourning Warblers were very close, but defied our patient attempts to get a good view. My best glimpse revealed the whole bird for a split second, from full gray hood to to yellow underside to pink legs, but left me feeling my glass about three-quarters empty. But I got fired up again in a hurry at the sight of our group, all tucked in and ready to roll at 8 AM. (I admit to sometimes feeling just a bit dorky when I tuck my pant legs into tall white socks for tick suppression at this preserve. If you have the same problem, you should really try joining two dozen others who are likewise arrayed. It's very socially affirming.) We followed our usual SBQ path down the big open slope to Coleman Lake. We had excellent views of singing PRAIRIE WARBLERS at four different sites; I confirmed three singing more or less simultaneously on adjacent territories. At one point, one of these birds perched right above the trail three meters from the front of our queue, and sang and preened for more than five minutes in perfect light. We also saw a cuckoo dashing all the way across the open space. The bird in flight gave all of us the impression of being very rufous, but not markedly more so on the wings. A BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO called behind us just as we watched the other cuckoo fly away. It was confusing enough that I am counting only one of the two cuckoo species. A BROWN THRASHER in flight here was surprisingly silent, but still much easier to ID. The highlight of our stop at Coleman Lake was a SPOTTED SANDPIPER expertly spotted by Ken Kemphues probably 200 meters away, bobbing away behind a cordon of turtles. It was quiet along the lower open stretches of the blue trail, but then by the railroad tracks, we found two singing HOODED WARBLERS (one provided a very brief but diagnostic view), a CANADA WARBLER, and a cooperative MAGNOLIA WARBLER. A third Hooded Warbler and a Chestnut-sided Warbler sang repeatedly near Celia's Cup, giving us a fine lesson in the subtle differences of their emphatic songs. We ended with a side jaunt over to the red trail and the northern pond, where we found the day's biggest surprise - a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER piping its slurred two-note call from the hedgerow. I don't have a lot of experience with this call, but comparison with recordings from the Macaulay Library leave no doubt in my mind about whether to count this bird. Here we also found the weekend's first WILLOW FLYCATCHER, just seconds after I began lamenting missing it. I am still stuck without some very common species for my weekend tally, including Killdeer and Turkey Vulture, but I guess that just gives us more reason to look forward to tomorrow. I hope to see many of you at the Goetchius Wetland Preserve at 6:30 and the Roy H. Park Preserve at 8:30! Mark Chao --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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)
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Willow Ptarmigan retraction
I wrote to Jeff Bolsinger about the Willow Ptarmigan's death, and below is his reply. --Dave Nutter On May 25, 2014, at 05:34 AM, Jeff Bolsinger jsbolsin...@yahoo.com wrote: The ptarmigan is going to be sent to the American Museum of Natural History, where I assume that they will look into how it died. On May 25, 2014, at 04:48 PM, M Miller mmiller...@hotmail.com wrote: It is sad to hear that the NY bird was found dead, does anyone know the details/cause? -- 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] Yellow-headed Blackbird report
My friend Stefhan Ohlström reports an apparent female Yellow-headed Blackbird at his feeder on Ithaca's West Hill. Sorry it took me so long to get this out. --Dave Nutter Begin forwarded message: From: Stefhan Ohlström s_ohlst...@hotmail.com Date: May 22, 2014 11:56:29 AM To: Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com I saw a bird today that could be a female Yellow-headed Blackbird, it was just outside our kitchen window for a minute, no chance to get the camera and take a picture. The size was as a ordinary Blackbird, no color on the wings, yellowish head, neck and chest, black seed-eater bill, for the rest black or very dark gray-brown. Are there, or here, any other bird that looks like that? My first thought was a Cowbird but those I have seen quite often so I am sure it was not that. -- 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 area shorebirds
I went north today seeking the Prothonotary Warbler (no luck for me, although others heard it earlier in the distance), and shorebirds, which turned out to be more interesting. In fact it was shorebirds that delayed my arrival at the hardwood swamp on Armitage Road where the Prothonotaries have been. The field on the south side of Armitage is still flooded, and the northeast corner (where one can conveniently pull off with a car and set up a scope) hosted a goodly number and variety of shorebirds. Although they flushed, flew, rearranged, and returned or added several times while I was there, I saw: 1 KILLDEER 5 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS 1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER 47 DUNLIN 25 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - most arrived in a later batch 100 LEAST SANDPIPER (estimate) 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER. Although I was unable to pick it out when they flushed, and didn't refind it afterward, and was a bit frustrated while viewing it, I've become more confident of the ID based on large size, including width end-on, and rufous stripe on back. The spotting on the side was minimal, but the breast face were streaked with gray a bit more than I would expect on Semipalmated.) Later Ann Mitchell, Gary Kohlenberg I found some shorebirds and others at the flooded field (in distant cornstubble on the west side) on Carncross Rd in Savannah: SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - several KILLDEER - at least 1 3 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER. The bird I studied most (which was plenty orange-red on face, neck, breast) appeared to be Short-billed based on gold-spotted back, whitish lower belly undertail, and more white than black top of tail seen during preening. Another individual showed a flat back when feeding. 50 DUNLIN SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - several LEAST SANDPIPER - several 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, flew into my scope view with 4 Semipalmated Sandpipers, it was similarly grayish tan white in color but substantially larger and with a slightly downcurved bill, and as it alit I saw the broad white band across the upper tail. Unfortunately it landed behind a dense row of cornstubble, so Gary Ann did not get to see it. Other neat birds at Carncross included a breeding plumage RED-NECKED GREBE swimming, diving and sleeping near a female RUDDY DUCK, a male NORTHERN PINTAIL (late), a male (American) GREEN-WINGED TEAL, and 2 adult SANDHILL CRANES which observers from a different vantage said had 2 youngsters. An AMERICAN BITTERN gallunked from the north side of the road and then flushed when a car stopped on the road nearby. MARSH WRENS were unusually visible. At the Sandhill Crane Unit (the flooded land south of Van Dyne Spoor Rd) we scoped a distant pair of SANDHILL CRANES with at least 1 youngster atop a muskrat mansion. The RED-HEADED WOODPECKER pair continues to give a fine show in the dead trees on South May's Point Rd. While there I heard a single song which made me think of Yellow-throated Warbler (a full clear tuwee, tuwee, tuwee, tu tu) but was probably something else, like a Baltimore Oriole. I also heard a BLACKPOLL WARBLER sing nearby. My last new bird, found as I was about to leave the Tschache Pool tower parking lot, was a single west-bound BLACK TERN. By the way, there were lots of fine songbirds singing in the woods along Van Dyne Spoor Rd and along Armitage Rd, although most were invisible. --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/ --
