Re:[cayugabirds-l] Jetty Woods theis AM Tree Swallows
The SFO group I was leading yesterday saw 8 Tree Swallows fly over the light house jetty as we were walking out to the light house. Bill Baker - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- 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] tree swallows
Late this morning atop Mt. Pleasant, I watched a pair of TREE SWALLOWS, at one of the nest boxes along the road to the towers, starting territory and courtship behaviors. The female (presumably) hung on the front, looking in the hole, while the male (presumably) did flutter flight over her and sang the tree swallow song. Then both would fly rapidly about the box, describing mostly eccentric circles. Sometimes one or the other would fly very high in the air doing smaller circles. Initially there was only the pair, but when I left 1.5 hrs. later there were 3 pairs each interested in a different box. Steve FastBrooktondale -- 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] early Lincoln's Sparrow
This afternoon I noticed a possible Lincoln's Sparrow on our tray feeder. I got a good look before it was spooked by Gin walking in the yard. In a little while it appeared again with an Am Tree Sparrow, on the tray feeder. I was able to get another good look but it was quite skittish and flew off again when juncos landed on the feeder. I realize this is early for the average arrival date (I looked it up, it's May 3), but I am reasonably sure of the identification. I will report if it comes again. Nari Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd., Ithaca -- ___ -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York* Syracuse* April 06, 2015* NYSY 04. 06. 15 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird AlertDates(s):March 30, 2015 - April 06, 2015to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortlandcompiled: April 06 AT 6:00 p.m. (DST)compiler: Joseph BrinOnondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #437 Monday April 06, 2015 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of March 30, 2014 Highlights:--- TUNDRA SWANROSS’S GOOSECACKLING GOOSEEURASION WIGEONBLUE-WINGED TEALBLACK VULTURENORTHERN GOSHAWKGOLDEN EAGLESANDHILL CRANE BONAPARTE’S GULLICELAND GULLGLAUCOUS GULLLESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLLONG-EARED OWLSHORT-EARED OWLSAW-WHET OWLNORTHERN SHRIKE Montezuma National Wildlife Complex (MNWC) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) With more open water Waterfowl have arrived at the complex in a big way. 25 species were noted this week. Rarities will be noted below. 4/2: One ROSS’S GOOSE was found among an estimated 10,000 Snow Geese in the Mucklands along Rt.31. A PIPIT was also see. At the Main Pool an ICELAND GULL was found. 4/3: A SHORT-EARED OWL was seen from East Road. A CACKLING GOOSE was seen at the Visitor’s Center. Derby Hill A great week at Derby with just over 10,000 hawks counted. On 3/30 a ROSS’S GOOSE was seen. 4/3 was the big day with 4,480 hawks counted. Also that day a GLAUCOUS GULL and a BLACK VULTURE were seen. Oswego County 4/2: A BLUE-WINGED TEAL was found in Oswego Harbor. 4/5: 20 TUNDRA SWANS were found in Brewerton. Cayuga County 3/30: A LONG-EARED OWL was heard at Sterling Nature Center. Onondaga county 3/31: 3 SANDHILL CRANES and a NORTHERN SHRIKE were seen at Threee Rivers WMA. A GREAT CORMORANT was seen flying with Double Breasteds from River Road on the Oswego River. 4/3: A BONAPARTE’S GULL was seen in Tully. Another great day at Three Rivers WMA as a ROSS’S GOOSE, a GOLDEN EAGLE, a GOSHAWK and a SANDHILL CRANE were all found. 4/5: A EURASIAN WIGEON was found on Ferstler Road in a flooded field near Gerber’s Turf Farm. A BLUE-WINGED TEAL was seen at Three Rivers WMA. Madison County 4/4: A LESSER BLACK-BLACKED GULL was seen on Ditchbank Road. Oneida County 3/31: A BLUE-WINGED TEAL was seen on Oneida Lake at South Bay. 4/3: A SAW-WHET OWL was found in Waterville. -- end report Joseph BrinRegion 5Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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] Migrants in my yard
New in my 'yard' this morning were more singing Fox Sparrows, a lone Chipping Sparrow, several Golden-crowned Kinglets, and one or two singing Purple Finches. Turkeys are gobbling, Ruffed Grouse are drumming, and I'll be on the watch for returning Hermit Thrushes. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- 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] young Tundra Swan-Herman Rd nr Dryden
One young Tundra Swan walking and paddling among assorted Canada geese, Mallards and Herring Gulls, at 7pm this evening, on the receding overflow of Fall Creek along Herman Rd, just S of 38, E side of the road. It was the only swan there. I am assuming no one has a pet or hand reared one nearby. It was nicely white on the back but still cloudy, patchy grey up the neck and head. No sign of yellow near the eye and a very faint pinkish hue still, centrally on the upper bill. There have been a lot of waterfowl on the flooded creek near Freeville, including a Redhead on Saturday Apr 4. For a variety of reasons, I don't have an accurate list of other species on that day. Anne Clark -- 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] tree swallows
This evening about 5:45pm I saw an estimated 150 scattered TREE SWALLOWS southbound over Cayuga Inlet near Floral Avenue. They quit passing by before the north wind kicked in, but that may have been due to time of day. I don't know why they were headed south. --Dave Nutter On Apr 06, 2015, at 03:55 PM, Susan Fast sustf...@yahoo.com wrote: Late this morning atop Mt. Pleasant, I watched a pair of TREE SWALLOWS, at one of the nest boxes along the road to the towers, starting territory and courtship behaviors. The female (presumably) hung on the front, looking in the hole, while the male (presumably) did flutter flight over her and sang the tree swallow song. Then both would fly rapidly about the box, describing mostly eccentric circles. Sometimes one or the other would fly very high in the air doing smaller circles. Initially there was only the pair, but when I left 1.5 hrs. later there were 3 pairs each interested in a different box. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] calm Cayuga Lake Sunday
Yesterday morning Ann Mitchell I took advantage of near-perfect viewing conditions on Cayuga Lake: There was no wind, and the air temperature matched the water temperature. We sought the elusive Eared Grebe and re recalcitrant Ross's Goose. Both quests were a bust, even though at Long Point we saw 40 COMMON LOONS and a dozen HORNED GREBES, and from the Wells College boathouse I counted 59 Horned Grebes in all kinds of cute and crazy plumages. There were a relatively few hundreds of SNOW GEESE on the mucklands on NYS-31 between NYS-89 and the Village of Montezuma along with a some TUNDRA SWANS and various dabblers. Our consolation prizes included hearing a SAVANNAH SPARROW and seeing an EASTERN MEADOWLARK along the Lake Road fields below the Long Point Winery, me finding a EURASIAN WIGEON through a random gap between houses along NYS-90 north of the Village of Cayuga, and us getting excellent close looks at BLUE=WINGED TEAL in the weeds at the south end of the Visitor Center pond at Montezuma NWR, plus all the usual Anas Aythya ducks, as well and lots of other stuff. --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] Radar shows decent migration overnight
A warm front has passed through and the Cayuga basin experienced pretty heavy migration as perradar last night. It could be a great day with new arrivals. Good luck to everyone. -- 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] Northern Shrike and Vesper Sparrow
At least three more VESPER SPARROWS, including one in full song, were along Burdick Hill Road in Lansing this morning. The GLAUCOUS GULL and TUFTED DUCK continue off Stewart Park, as well as a Double-crested Cormorant and the usual waterfowl. The back of the pond at Sapsucker Woods has several RING-NECKED DUCKS, as well as Wood Ducks, Mallards, and Hooded Mergansers. Jay On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: At the east end of the airport fence on Snyder Road just west of Mohawk. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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] Northern Shrike and Vesper Sparrow
At the east end of the airport fence on Snyder Road just west of Mohawk. -- 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] Bonaparte's Gulls,Merlin
There were two Bonaparte’s Gulls on a mini-ice berg off the west end of Stewart Park around 8:30 this morning. As I was watching, they were forced off by a Herring Gull and flew to the north. While walking down Tioga Street (X corner of Courth St) around 10:00 I heard the calls of a Merlin. The bird was in the air, circling. And our Phoebe has finally returned - singing right now outside my window. 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Jetty Woods this morning
The Red-throated Loon was still present this morning (about 9am) just west of the white lighthouse. As I scoped towards the east I saw in the far distance just north of Stewart Park a bird that I believe was a Tree Swallow. I couldn't swear by it, and I lost it after about five seconds due to the great distance. Are they back? I had some other FOYs for me: Great-blue Heron, Pied-billed Grebe (about 4), two Double-crested Cormorants. -Paul -- Paul Anderson, VP of Engineering, GrammaTech, Inc. 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x118; http://www.grammatech.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] Merlin - Dryden Rite Aid - GHOW RTLoon continue
On consecutive 15 min. visits to the parking lot at Rite Aid in Dryden: two Merlin flying into spruce trees just to the east of Rite Aid at ~ 4:00 PM Sunday, and on Monday ~7:`15 one flying from trees to the south. ~7:15 AM. More info appreciated. Great Horned Owl actually winked as class watched at golf course (Thanks to whomever for the posting - I've forgotten name). RT Loon ridiculously close at marina on Sunday sfternoon: best views of my life, and an incredible treat for a class. (Again thanks for post). Sunday morning; About 6-7 meadowlark on Burdick Hill Rd. John Confer -- 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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
