[cayugabirds-l] The book about birds' food! (posted with permission from the list owner!)
Dear Cayuga birders Have you been spending the summer complaining about birds that are hard to find? Is it not fun to look at the what birds are eating? You see those sneaky grackles always along the shores of the ponds and streams picking something. The bluebirds and blackbirds come back to nests with morsels of teneral odonates (damselflies and dragonflies) to their babies. It is more challenging to identify a dragonflies than identifying birds as they are so small compared to birds. But there are ways to do so. If you are curious about them then you must come to this event! (I am truly sorry if some of you received part of this email 3rd time) You and your friends are cordially invited to join the celebrations of release of the book Where to find Damselflies and Dragonflies, In the Cayuga Lake Region and the Vicinity, an account of personal journey by Meena Haribal to find these odonates (damselflies and dragonflies) in the Finger Lakes region. The book is illustrated with more than 400 photographs of over 100 species of odonates mostly taken by the author in our region. The book would be formally released by emeritus Prof. Thomas (Nick) Donnelly of Binghamton University, who is world renowned expert on Odonates and also Cornell University alum. Where: Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium/atrium (GPS coordinates 42.446945, -76.467184, see the link to map below) When: Sunday, July 20 2014 3.00 - 4.00 pm Light refreshments will be served This will be followed by a field trip to Stewart Park (from 4.30 to 5.30 PM) to see the damselflies and dragonflies, provided the weather is cooperative. The book will be available at the event. To have a peek at the book visit the following link to see a few sample pages. http://haribal.wikispaces.com/file/view/140710samplebook.pdf/516008692/140710samplebook.pdf Map and Note: You can park at the back of the institute or to the east side of the institute and use the main entrance on the Tower Road to the auditorium. Being Sunday you can park anywhere for free in the Tower Road parking lots including Peterson lot one in front of the Dairy bar and the O parking lot on the east side. https://www.google.com/maps/search/Boyce+Thompson+Institute+for+Plant+Research,+Ithaca,+NY/@42.4473264,-76.4688205,657m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en RSVP by email if possible but not necessary. Meena Haribal m...@conell.edumailto:m...@conell.edu Phone 6072298710 Ithaca, New York 42.429007,-76.47111 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Fallen Pileated Nesthole Tree
Walking this morning through the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve at Six-Mile Creek, I found partially-toppled the dead tree that had hosted the pileated woodpecker nest earlier this year. I found the hole and got to peek in (with my phone) to find some interesting interior decorations. Photos here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204339627908791.1073741829. 1172377296type=1l=54608fdca7 Suan -- 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] Fallen Pileated Nesthole Tree
Those maple leaves look quite fresh as if added recently, not during the nestling period. Certainly the leaves are so big that they must be recent. So we might hypothesize that squirrels moved in as the pileated young moved out? anne On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Suan Hsi Yong wrote: Walking this morning through the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve at Six-Mile Creek, I found partially-toppled the dead tree that had hosted the pileated woodpecker nest earlier this year. I found the hole and got to peek in (with my phone) to find some interesting interior decorations. Photos here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204339627908791.1073741829.1172377296type=1l=54608fdca7 Suan -- 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 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] Fallen Pileated Nesthole Tree
I just wrote that same question on facebook but with no posit. good thought Linda On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Those maple leaves look quite fresh as if added recently, not during the nestling period. Certainly the leaves are so big that they must be recent. So we might hypothesize that squirrels moved in as the pileated young moved out? anne On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Suan Hsi Yong wrote: Walking this morning through the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve at Six-Mile Creek, I found partially-toppled the dead tree that had hosted the pileated woodpecker nest earlier this year. I found the hole and got to peek in (with my phone) to find some interesting interior decorations. Photos here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204339627908791.1073741829. 1172377296type=1l=54608fdca7 Suan -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://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 eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://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 eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- 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-bellied Sapsuckers and sap trees
Hi all, I am still looking for sapsuckers with sap trees for a research project and sampling the sap. If you any of you have come across a tree with sap holes this summer please get in touch with me at (m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu) if you do not mind sharing the location. I am willing to travel quite some distance if necessary. Thank you very much, I appreciate your help with this project. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal 409 Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) Phone 6073011167 e-mail: m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@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] YB Chat in FL National Forest
Hi, This was a life bird for me so I came home to do some checking before posting. At 2:30 PM today I saw a yellow-breasted chat next to the Ravine Trail in the FL National Forest in Hector. The bird was first near the short wooden stairs that are just northeast of the turn around point on the loop. I was enjoying watching a RB Nuthatch when a strange cacophony started just up behind me, mixing sounds like a playground whistle, a blue jay's call, and the way a crow might laugh if a crow had a higher voice and was capable of laughter. I turned and saw a smallish bird flitting in a hemlock tree about 10 feet away and got on it with binoculars. It was bigger than a solitary vireo, which was my first thought as I glimpsed the spectacles, although never thought a solitary vireo was making those sounds and assumed I was on the wrong bird, but then it sang. Was somewhat backlit making exact colors hard to see, but had clear white spectacles, dark back long slim tail, lighter colored beneath, no wing bars. It moved around and briefly fickered through better light, which gave an impression of a yellowish breast, but I never got a clear look can't say I got the full effect of a brilliant yellow breast. However, having now compared the sounds it was making with those online, and noting the size, bold spectacles, and long thin tale, I am very confident of the identification. When I saw the bird it was moving around in the hemlocks and small trees, moving gradually north. It sang pretty consistently for 2-3 minutes, then fell silent until several minutes later it sang from further north and I found it again about a tenth of a mile further up the trail, still on the same side of the little creek. If you go, there also were at least three hermit thrushes, two BT green warblers, a pair of scarlet tanagers, and ovenbirds (this trail is extremely reliable for these four species in spring summer), plus a N. waterthrush, all singing at midday; among other common woodland birds like juncos chickadees and both nuthatches. Alicia -- 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] New sightings imminent!
I just got permission to hang out in the woods across the road from my house on Shaffer Rd. I am SO looking forward to looking for Ovenbirds, Scarlet Tanagers, and many others. Thank you to those who have helped me identify by sound what I'm going to look for first. -- 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/ --
