[cayugabirds-l] South Spring Trail (Montezuma)

[M Miller]

Found a Solitary Sandpiper and a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets in with all the 
Golden-crowned along the South Spring Trail at Montezuma Saturday evening.

Pelican, Ross’s Goose, Tundra Swans still along the wildlife drive on Saturday 
(didn’t relocate Wilson’s Snipe from Friday). Western Meadowlark still being 
found along Armitage Rd (west of Rte 89 intersection).

Mark Miller

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[cayugabirds-l] Ospreys harassed

[Linda Orkin]

Hey all. 

My daughter Jessica was at the dog park early this morning. She watched a man 
and his dog go right up to the base of the osprey nest and was pointing his 
camera straight up at them. They were quite agitated and left the nest and then 
returned vocalizing in distress. Jess was trying to yell at him from a 
distance. I won’t repeat what she said. 

I don’t know how people can be prevented from this. Just wanted to alert you 
all. 

Thanks. 

Linda Orkin 

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Osprey spotted - Ernsberger Road

[Nancy Cusumano]

I saw one today on Rt 96 near Interlaken sitting on a pole eating a fish.

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On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Sally Eller  wrote:

> Yesterday we saw one Osprey on the nest at the top of the hill on
> Ernsberger Road, Romulus. Near Knapp Winery.
> Coordinates are 42.7645507 X 76.778507
>
> This is the first Osprey that I have seen on this nest.
>
> Sally and Tim Eller
> Romulus
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[cayugabirds-l] Osprey spotted - Ernsberger Road

[Sally Eller]

Yesterday we saw one Osprey on the nest at the top of the hill on
Ernsberger Road, Romulus. Near Knapp Winery.
Coordinates are 42.7645507 X 76.778507

This is the first Osprey that I have seen on this nest.

Sally and Tim Eller
Romulus

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows in Tompkins County (long)

[Asher Hockett]

Kevin et al,

It sounds fantastic, but even though I'm no Luddite, I am clinging to my
flip phone as if my life depends on it, reluctant to have a smart phone and
yield to the mind-control powers of the big tech giants like Amazon,
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple.

I will be traveling and would love to avail myself of the benefits you
described, but I fear my birding will be constrained by my fear of big
brother.

Still no Fox Sparrows (satisfying bird content protocol).

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Kevin J. McGowan  wrote:

> I've still got a few Fox Sparrows, too. I can't ever remember waking up to
> them singing in my yard for over a week before. It always seemed that a few
> would be present a few days in the spring and fall, and that was it.
>
>
> No doubt our lingering winter is to blame. They don't go far south for the
> winter, but they go pretty far north to breed, so it makes sense that they
> should be aware of local weather and be cautious before they make the final
> move.
>
>
> A fun new addition to the Merlin app (free!) for your phone is that when
> you browse birds in a specific area, you see bar charts of the likelihood
> of occurrence for the whole calendar year. You can find the same
> information in eBird, but it takes more finagling to find it there. In
> Merlin, go to "Explore Birds" from the main screen, go up to the icon at
> the top that looks like lines and spots, click "Likely Birds," then filter
> by your current location and date. I suggest using "Family - Most Likely."
> That puts all the sparrows together, all the ducks, etc. Scroll down to the
> sparrows, and there, 11th on the list is Fox Sparrow. You can see by the
> bar chart that it's never abundant, but that it's usually seen in March and
> April, and that we're getting to the end of the narrow window when they
> normally occur.
>
>
> If you browse the sparrows, you see that the next most/least likely
> sparrow here this time of year is White-crowned. But, comparing the two bar
> charts shows that Fox Sparrows should be on their way out, while
> White-crowns should just be coming in.
>
>
> Also interesting, if you browse farther down the list, is that we have
> just gone through the peak time of Vesper Sparrow reports. And, unlike the
> other two species, they breed here! But, apparently they show up more on
> eBird checklists during April as they arrive and can't get to their
> breeding grounds yet, what with the snow and all, and show up in parking
> lots and roadsides the way they have done this last week or two. There have
> been dozens of Vesper Sparrow reports all over the county this last week
> and a half, and that perfectly reflects the bar chart in Merlin based on
> ebird checklists.
>
>
> I've been a half-hearted endorser of Merlin over the last few years
> because, frankly, I don't need the help identifying birds. But, the app is
> becoming much more than what it started as, and it's growing all the time.
> It's now one of the fastest and easiest portals to finding what birds are
> to be expected at a specific time of year, pretty much everywhere in the
> world. Soon it is going to be a reference source for birds all over the
> world, with photos, songs, and maps. Already it covers all of the US and
> Canada, Mexico, and most of Central America, as well as parts of Colombia
> and northwestern Europe. And it's growing every day.
>
>
> I did a West Coast business trip in February, and I used Merlin to tell me
> what birds to expect in the places I visited. I went to Oregon, and Merlin
> told me that Acorn Woodpeckers would be common in Medford, west of the
> Cascade Mountains, but would be rare in Klamath Falls, east of the
> mountains. It told me that I'd be seeing California Quail all along most of
> my drive to San Diego, but when I went to Joshua Tree National Park, I
> would be seeing Gambel's Quail.
>
>
> So, just a head's up to the birding community. The Cornell Lab's Merin app
> is not just some cute toy for beginners. (Although, it did get my
> bird-averse sister to start liking looking at birds.) It's becoming a
> powerful tool for traveling birders to use all over the world. Currently,
> it only has photos, maps, and information for the areas I mentioned above.
> But, it already can give you a list of the most likely birds you will see
> anywhere on earth. Well, anywhere there are eBird checklists. But, every
> eBird checklist you put in from some exotic locale helps the program refine
> its results and improve the accuracy of its predictions. And, every photo
> you upload to an eBird checklist from a foreign location gets Merlin closer
> to being able to identify that species from photos, and closer to having
> photos available in the app.
>
>
> Latin America has an avid and active birding presence, so we can expect
> big strides there in the near future. But, it also has the most diverse and
> complex suite of birds on the planet, so, that's a hurdle. I personally
>