[cayugabirds-l] Bobolink

[Jody W Enck]

Hello Everyone,

Heard/saw my first-of-year Bobolink (just one) singing/displaying just to the 
west of the pond near the Bee Lab off of Freese Road this evening about 7:30pm.

Nice to hear its jingle again.
Jody

Jody W. Enck, PhD
Public Engagement in Science
Cornell Lab of Ornithology


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: tagged Snowy Owl video

[Laura Stenzler]

Sorry, it's from NPR, not the NYTimes. 

Laura

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> On May 24, 2016, at 3:51 PM, Laura Stenzler  wrote:
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> Hi all,
> Here is a neat video from the NYTimes about a radio tagged snowy owl. Enjoy!
> 
> http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/479223874/we-followed-a-snowy-owl-from-maryland-to-ontario
> 
> Laura
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[cayugabirds-l] OT: tagged Snowy Owl video

[Laura Stenzler]

Hi all,
Here is a neat video from the NYTimes about a radio tagged snowy owl. Enjoy!

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/479223874/we-followed-a-snowy-owl-from-maryland-to-ontario

Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] Kildeer Update, Raptors, and Mammals at Newman Golf Course

[Sandy Wold]

The skinny:  the mowers were already aware of the Kildeer nest and had it
staked off, said the babies run, but they are mindful.  The shared amazing
raptor and fox stories with me...read on!  Am in a hurry, so pardon any
future mistakes.

The long story:  Everyone at Newman was super nice and caring!  I called
the main number and talked to a Mike who thought I was a prank caller and
then passed me on to the superintendent, who is also named Mike, who said I
should come down and go in the golf cart and show him where the birds
were...in the meantime, Mike#1 walks outside and see the mowers who tell
him they already know about the Killdeer.  I arrive an hour later and talk
to Mike #1 thinking he is Mike #2.  After we sort out a lot of confusion :)
  the mower shows up, and we talk birds!

He tells us of the time he and other mowers saw a Bald Eagle coming in to
get an owlet mid air and the momma owl dive-bombing the Bald Eagle out of
nowhere sending the eagle pummling (sp?) to the ground.  another time
 (last year) he said the owl was taking two ducklings at a time up to the
nest.  Recently, he said they watched a red fox hunting geese or ducklings
and taking them back to her cubs, teaching them how to hunt.  He also said
something about trying to round up the Mallard ducklings to save them from
the owl, but the owl was faster and won.  I might be confusing a few
details here, but you can see the mowers are animal lovers, and Mike #1 is
going to be looking for the Killdeer chicks tonight when he goes golfing.
 (I showed him a video of what they look like.)

I told them about the mink.  In case I was not clear in my last report, it
was a mink I saw on the inlet near the docks transporting a kit in her
mouth.  They had another story about an osprey and four foot long carp
story...which took me to my osprey story where I saw one hunting in the
inlet last year.  It landed on the water as if to bring up a fish, it
struggle to lift off, then it was gone with bubbles coming up.  I have
since seen similar bubble where it is a beaver...so I really don't know
what I saw; it is still a mystery.  Mike #1, who is a local fisherman, said
a large Pike could have done that.

So, that's the news from Newman Golf Course!!!
Happy Birding!!!

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[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Tues 5/24

[Mark Chao]

Another little pulse of migrants seems to have arrived in our area today.
Many people have submitted interesting eBird reports in Tompkins County,
including observations of Canada, Wilson’s, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll,
Tennessee, Blackburnian, and other warblers.  See
http://ebird.org/ebird/subnational2/US-NY-109/activity and look around a
bit for information on observer, location, and all species.



As for me, I heard a few warblers calling in the treetops on the East Trail
in Sapsucker Woods late this morning, but didn’t manage to see them.  I did
have two sightings of SWAINSON’S THRUSH on this trail south of the roadside
gate.  I also saw a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO flying across the southern part of
Sapsucker Woods Road.



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Myers shorebirds

[Jay McGowan]

Nice little assortment of shorebirds on the spit at Myers now: two Least
Sandpipers, three Semipalmated Sandpipers, two Dunlin, and a Semipalmated
Plover.

Jay

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