Re: [cayugabirds-l] best bet for bird bonanza?

[Glenn Wilson]

I'm not sure where in "Cayuga land" is the best place to find these but the 
prettiest bird songs to me are the Veery, and the Wood Thrush. Both sing songs 
no human can come close two. To me, they sound like several tunes at the same 
time. 

Glenn Wilson
Endicott, NY
www.WilsonsWarbler.com

On May 24, 2017, at 1:08 AM, Melanie Uhlir  wrote:

Hello birders!

As a musician who is often out late and also struggles with a sleep disorder I 
am not able to be an early riser very often. If I can manage to get out of the 
house of a morning, can you recommend some places where I might get the most 
birding bang for my precious morning buck?

My favorite things are beautiful songs and breathtaking plumage. I love 
thrushes, warblers, and mimics especially. So much do I love a pretty song that 
Song Sparrows are actually one of my favorite species. I know some hardcore 
birders probably call them "trash birds" since they are so easy to find, but I 
find their song very beautiful and uplifting. And the first time I laid bins on 
a Blackburnian I wept. Now that you know what floats my birding boat, if you 
have a gem of a place or places that you can recommend I would be extremely 
grateful for your generosity!

Thank you for your patience!

Sincerely,

Melanie


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[cayugabirds-l] best bet for bird bonanza?

[Melanie Uhlir]

Hello birders!

As a musician who is often out late and also struggles with a sleep 
disorder I am not able to be an early riser very often. If I can manage 
to get out of the house of a morning, can you recommend some places 
where I might get the most birding bang for my precious morning buck?


My favorite things are beautiful songs and breathtaking plumage. I love 
thrushes, warblers, and mimics especially. So much do I love a pretty 
song that Song Sparrows are actually one of my favorite species. I know 
some hardcore birders probably call them "trash birds" since they are so 
easy to find, but I find their song very beautiful and uplifting. And 
the first time I laid bins on a Blackburnian I wept. Now that you know 
what floats my birding boat, if you have a gem of a place or places that 
you can recommend I would be extremely grateful for your generosity!


Thank you for your patience!

Sincerely,

Melanie


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[cayugabirds-l] Osprey, Pine Warbler, etc.

[W. Larry Hymes]

While walking Beebe Lake/Mundy early yesterday afternoon, I saw an 
OSPREY carrying a fish and heading in a generally easterly direction 
(going to Game Farm Road??).  Also, while walking Comstock Knoll, I once 
again heard a PINE WARBLER.  Finally, I ran into another birder at the 
upper end of Beebe (sorry, can't remember her name!).  When we see each 
other on rare occasions, we'll discuss what birds we've been seeing.  
She was puzzled by the call of one particular bird, which she described 
as like a Robin, but with a sore throat.  Focusing only on the "sore 
throat", I half-heartedly mentioned the possibility of yellow-throated 
vireo.  I didn't have time to stay there and think what else it might 
be, so we left each other, walking in opposite directions.  A very short 
time later it finally came to me.  I said to myself, you dummy it was a 
scarlet tanager!  By then we were too far apart for me to tell her.  I 
hope she reads this message! 

I had heard a scarlet tanager a few days before at Beebe doing the same 
song, and I too was initially perplexed.  It took me a short time, 
before the name of the bird came to me.  Being a mostly casual birder, 
at the start of each new season I find myself having difficulty pulling 
out the names of birds singing songs that sound all too familiar --- 
sort of like starting all over!!


Larry


W. Larry Hymes
120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
(H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu



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[cayugabirds-l] Photo challenge answer, plus Bock-Harvey and Stevenson Forest Preserves, Tues 5/23

[Mark Chao]

Thanks to all of you who sent guesses for my photo challenge.  We got
single votes for American Crow, Rusty Blackbird, Northern Cardinal, Blue
Jays, Green Heron, and a few each for starlings and Brown-headed Cowbird.
But I think that the birds in my photos this morning are COMMON GRACKLES,
about to fledge from a nest along the parking area road by the Lab of
Ornithology, with parents coming by occasionally to deliver food.



Later this morning, I went to the Bock-Harvey and Stevenson Forest
Preserves in Enfield to make sure I’d know my way around easily for
Sunday’s SBQ walks.  Highlights include:



* Two singing HOODED WARBLERS and one silent female at Bock-Harvey, plus
one heard across the stream at Stevenson

* A BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO singing percussive tripled coos near the entrance
at Bock-Harvey, then another giving a long series of decelerating kerps and
kewps, barely confirmed by sight in the canopy maybe 90 feet off the ground
in the grand old-growth woods

* Several unseen BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS and three BLACKBURNIAN
WARBLERS at Stevenson – Blackburnians also extremely high in old-growth
(hemlocks maybe 100 feet tall), barely visible here, but much more obliging
next to parking area



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park swan pen Baltimore Oriole nest

[Laura J. Heisey]

Being a semi-noob birder, I'm going to say I'm not 100% sure of what I saw, 
never having watched Orioles do this ...

I think I spotted a Baltimore Oriole nest under construction yesterday. With 
binoculars I was able to follow a male carrying nest material from the lake 
side of the path to the tall maple tree on the swan pen 'island'. He stayed up 
there a while and I was able to see the sack-shaped nest as leaves moved with 
the wind. I gather the female was nearby or busy building. It will likely be 
hidden once the tree finishes leafing out.

The nest is on the north-ish side (facing the lake) of the tallest maple on the 
island, a few feet from the top.

Laura

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