[cayugabirds-l] OOB - Red-necked Grebes, Scoters, etc. to our north
I spent the weekend in Ottawa, and did some birding at Shirley's bay, spotting several Red-necked Grebes, 1 Black Scoter (all alone!), 5 Surf Scoters, 90+ Lesser Scaup, a few Common Goldeneye, and various other waterfowl. The cold northwest wind felt a bit like a Cayuga November (and of course tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day up there). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] more Brant
At 7:30 this morning a flock of Brant (60 or more) flew over my place in West Danby, headed south. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Basin boundaries
Jennings Pond is most definitely (entirely) within the Cayuga basin, whether you mean the physical drainage basin or the arbitrarily adjusted basin as presented first in THE FLORA OF THE CAYUGA LAKE BASIN by Karl Wiegand and Arthur Eames, Cornell University, 1924. You can find an image of the original Wiegand and Eames map on the Cayuga Bird Club website at this link: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/cayugabirdclub/firstrecords.htm -Geo On Dec 29, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Kathy Dan C. wrote: Is there a map showing the boundaries for birding in the Cayuga Basin? I read that it is different from the true watershed. Specifically, is Jennings Pond in Danby within the basin for birding? Kathy Clements Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@clarityconnect.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Phoebes, Fox Sparrows, bats
Phoebes have been singing around my place for the last four or five days. Today a pair was investigating their traditional nest site under the eaves at my shop, and another was at my house. A few Fox Sparrows were singing from under the bushes. I checked the bat house this evening. No one was inside, but several bats were circling it, and flitted through my flashlight beam. -Geo On Apr 1, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Kathy Strickland wrote: Phoebes up at this end of the lake too. First saw my phoebe about 8:30 while I was talking to Fritzie on the phone just before I left for the morning. Then when I was home this afternoon it was delightful to hear it singing thru the open windows. Also tonight a few spring peepers are calling in what is left of the swampy woods across the road (a breeding sink, unfortunately, since the rest of it will be bulldozed shortly) and at least one toad is trilling. Venus and Mercury a pretty sight in the west just now, too. Such a lovely spring day. -Kathy Strickland, Union Springs From: m...@cornell.edu To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:04:05 -0400 Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Phoebes In the morning to keep of the smell of Jointer compound (or whatever it is called, but stinks), I opened the windows and I also heard a very insistent Eastern Phoebe of my neighborhood vocalizing. Last a couple of times when I have walked to Pine Tree road, I have got fooled by a mockingbird. I heard Kestrel calling so I looked immediately for it and only to hear a next call either a killdeer or tufted mouse or anything else. He does perfect mimicry of Kestrel. I think it must have learnt from the local kestrel of Equestrian center. Meena From: bounce-5509275-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-5509275-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Ryan Douglas Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:53 AM To: CayugaBirds Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Phoebes On my bike ride into lab late this morning I heard EASTERN PHOEBES along the south edge of the Cornell golf course, a couple along the creek in the Mundy Wildflower Garden, another one along Beebe Lake and another one just east of Mann Library. Lots of SONG SPARROWS and DARK-EYED JUNCOS were singing all along my route as well. Good birding, Ryan -- Ryan Douglas r...@cornell.edu Dept. of Plant Biology 142 Emerson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@clarityconnect.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher
Had an early Brown Thrasher singing-it-up all around my place this morning. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@clarityconnect.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Eagles' nest - Michigan Hollow Road
Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but a pair of Bald Eagles has built a nest on one of the wooded islands in the North Spencer Marsh. My neighbor Jay Reed emailed me about it several weeks ago, but I was in Puerto Rico at the time, and I've only this evening gotten around to checking it out. It's visible from a spot along rte 34 about 900' south of Mandeville's vegetable stand, but it's much closer and easier to watch from Michigan Hollow Road along the SE edge of the marsh. Both parents were present while I was there, and tending to something in the nest (turning eggs, perhaps?), but I didn't see any eaglets. One of the cool things about this nesting is that the pair constructed the nest right in the midst of a heronry, and the herons are all on their nests surrounding the eagles. -Geo Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Eagles' nest - Michigan Hollow Road
Apologies if this has been mentioned before (and double apologies if this message comes through twice - I'm breaking in a new email address!), but a pair of Bald Eagles has built a nest on one of the wooded islands in the North Spencer Marsh. My neighbor Jay Reed emailed me about it several weeks ago, but I was in Puerto Rico at the time, and I've only this evening gotten around to checking it out. It's visible from a spot along rte 34 about 900' south of Mandeville's vegetable stand, but it's much closer and easier to watch from Michigan Hollow Road along the SE edge of the marsh. Both parents were present while I was there, and tending to something in the nest (turning eggs, perhaps?), but I didn't see any eaglets. One of the cool things about this nesting is that the pair constructed the nest right in the midst of a heronry, and the herons are all on their nests surrounding the eagles. -Geo Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Barred Owls
There seem to be Barred Owls everywhere I go lately. They're hooting around my place tonight. Earlier this evening some other Barred Owls were hooting-it-up along the south leg of the Abbott's Loop Trail in lower Michigan Hollow. Two days ago I was walking in the swamp woods west of Michigan Hollow Marsh and came upon a lot of whitewash under hemlocks. Looking more closely at the ground I spotted owl pellets. When I looked straight up, there were the owls, 2 Barred Owls. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Nashville
I woke up this morning thinking Last day of April. There must be a Nashville Warbler around here somewhere! And of course there was, right in the blooming apple trees. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] B-t Blue Warbler
A Black-throated Blue Warbler is among the flood of new arrivals around my home this morning. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Prom night for toads
Following Tom's great Whip-poor-will find of yestereve, I was determined to be on watch at the appropriate time. I couldn't think of a better place to station myself than by the pond right outside my shop, a location that has produced 3 Whip-poor-will records in the past 14 years. Never mind that two of those were on successive nights in September, 1996, and that the third (May, 1998) may have represented the same individual returning to a remembered migration stop. It still seemed as fair a prospect as any. As it turned out, there was no Whip for me tonight, but numerous bats came out, and the toads were holding one whale of a pool-party! The water was seething! After a while I retreated 100' from the water's edge, to save my ears, and to have a better chance of actually hearing a Whip-poor-will if one should pass. Can't wait to learn if anyone was over on West Jersey Hill Road this evening. In my own (very limited) experience a repeat performance after 24 hours is perfectly possible... -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] new wave of migrants
It seems a fresh wave of migrants dropped into my neighborhood this morning. With no more effort than leaving the door open while I work, I've got 3 MOURNING WARBLERS, 2 TENNESSEE WARBLERS, 1 N. PARULA, several HOODED WARBLERS, various other warblers, multiple Cuckoos of both species (cuckoo food is dangling from all the trees!), and so on and so on... The Phoebes under my eaves have been feeding nestlings for several days. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Morels and Hooded Warblers
I've been finding yellow morels under large dead apple trees. Got one today as big as my hand. Hooded Warblers seem to like the dense understory shrubbery beneath the irregular canopies in the long- abandoned orchards here, so that's the connection, I guess. -Geo On May 14, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Jeff Gerbracht wrote: In Indiana we always found them around large, dead American Elms (that's the morels, not the warblers). On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone else noticed that morels grow in the nesting habitat of Hooded Warblers.? It would be cool if we could use auditory clues to hunt for them! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] nesting activity
At my home lately a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers has been gathering nesting material. They make quite a noisy operation of it! Harrison says both sexes build, but it seems like one bird gets to do all the risky groundwork while the other stays posted in the relative safety of the trees, calling out encouragement, and no doubt keeping a sharp eye out for predators. The young Ravens have been out of their nest (if there's anything left of it) for several weeks I guess. Last week they began following their parents in the direction of the L-P Preserve, demanding ever more loudly to be fed. The first brood of Phoebes left their nest beneath my eaves a few days ago, to perch in the thin understory, looking like easy prey! Lots of black rat snakes about now, so better out of the nest than in it, I suppose. They're very quiet, compared to the recently fledged Ravens, whose raucous begging easily carries across the gulf from the razorback ridge over in the L-P Preserve. The rash of bright sun brought out many red admirals last week, and now tiger swallowtails. Watching meanderings of swallowtail following thistle-blossom pollen trail sipping flower juice in the sun profuse between shadows seeping through to April Grove -Chrysalis (1967) -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Tree-nesting Mallards
Hi Caroline, In A FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS' NESTS Hal Harrison mentions that Mallards occasionally nest in trees. In the guide, each species is allotted one page max, at the bottom of which is a catch-all section called Notes, which often includes descriptions of unusual nest locations. His notes on the Mallard page are as follows: Perhaps more than any other waterfowl, Mallards seek unnatural nesting sites: the rain gutter on roof of a 4-story building, incubating 7 eggs; in vines at top of a stone wall, 12 feet from ground, incubating 12 eggs; in accumulated leaves at bottom of window well, 4-5 feet below ground level; on brick floor of an open recess on side of a building, 35 feet from ground. The notes for House Wren are predictably funny, but you should see the entry for Rough-winged Swallow! -Geo On May 27, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Caroline Manring wrote: We were walking at Stewart Park, and saw a Mallard couple making a fuss, circling around a lawn area and landing, then taking off and circling again, agitating and vocalizing. We watched for awhile and then heard peeping near a tree. We assumed there was a duckling in the scrubby growth around the base of the tree somehow caught or injured, so we looked, but found nothing, and it began to dawn on us that the peeping was coming from up in the tree. I combed my overheated brain for an explanation, and it thought maybe a hawk or crow had made off with the duckling and then dropped it by chance into the crotch of a tree while being chased by another bird. Well, there was indeed a Mallard couple's duckling up in the tree, but it hadn't been dropped there by a predator. There were at least three other offspring, all in a nest about twenty feet up, which the female finally landed near and waddled onto, presumably after deciding we didn't pose an immediate threat. Then she flew down and circled the tree on foot, vocalizing. Suddenly, a duckling came tumbling out of the tree, bounced alarmingly high off the ground after it hit, rolled a little, and then got up and proceeded to follow mom back and forth in front of the tree as she vocalized to the rest of the brood. The tree rained ducklings at intervals until three were following her as she paced. She gave the fourth duckling extra time but couldn't persuade it, so she headed into the pond with the three ducklings she had managed to collect, and was joined there by the male. I'd never heard of Mallards nesting in trees before, but there they were. It seems they found a suitable solution to the problem of nesting in a park with lots of foot and dog traffic. Caroline Manring Ithaca Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Tree-nesting Mallards
Hi David, We don't know if the Mallard drake in the vicinity was father to those ducklings. Perhaps he was just a casual participant in the excitement of the moment. I think the usual story is that the Mallard male defends the nest territory only until the clutch is complete, monopolizing the female until his paternity is assured, and then he retires from the scene. Interestingly, Hal Harrison writes that the male Mottled Duck (a very close congener of the Mallard) defies the usual pattern, remaining in the nest area during incubation, following the female around when she leaves to feed, etc. He speculates that Mottled Ducks may mate for life. -Geo On May 28, 2010, at 12:19 PM, David Ruppert wrote: Caroline also mentioned that the male Mallard was staying with the mother and ducklings. This is unusual for male ducks, right? How unusual? David Geo Kloppel wrote: Hi Caroline, In A FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS' NESTS Hal Harrison mentions that Mallards occasionally nest in trees. In the guide, each species is allotted one page max, at the bottom of which is a catch-all section called Notes, which often includes descriptions of unusual nest locations. His notes on the Mallard page are as follows: Perhaps more than any other waterfowl, Mallards seek unnatural nesting sites: the rain gutter on roof of a 4-story building, incubating 7 eggs; in vines at top of a stone wall, 12 feet from ground, incubating 12 eggs; in accumulated leaves at bottom of window well, 4-5 feet below ground level; on brick floor of an open recess on side of a building, 35 feet from ground. The notes for House Wren are predictably funny, but you should see the entry for Rough-winged Swallow! -Geo On May 27, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Caroline Manring wrote: We were walking at Stewart Park, and saw a Mallard couple making a fuss, circling around a lawn area and landing, then taking off and circling again, agitating and vocalizing. We watched for awhile and then heard peeping near a tree. We assumed there was a duckling in the scrubby growth around the base of the tree somehow caught or injured, so we looked, but found nothing, and it began to dawn on us that the peeping was coming from up in the tree. I combed my overheated brain for an explanation, and it thought maybe a hawk or crow had made off with the duckling and then dropped it by chance into the crotch of a tree while being chased by another bird. Well, there was indeed a Mallard couple's duckling up in the tree, but it hadn't been dropped there by a predator. There were at least three other offspring, all in a nest about twenty feet up, which the female finally landed near and waddled onto, presumably after deciding we didn't pose an immediate threat. Then she flew down and circled the tree on foot, vocalizing. Suddenly, a duckling came tumbling out of the tree, bounced alarmingly high off the ground after it hit, rolled a little, and then got up and proceeded to follow mom back and forth in front of the tree as she vocalized to the rest of the brood. The tree rained ducklings at intervals until three were following her as she paced. She gave the fourth duckling extra time but couldn't persuade it, so she headed into the pond with the three ducklings she had managed to collect, and was joined there by the male. I'd never heard of Mallards nesting in trees before, but there they were. It seems they found a suitable solution to the problem of nesting in a park with lots of foot and dog traffic. Caroline Manring Ithaca Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds- L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/ maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- David Ruppert Andrew Schultz, Jr., Professor of Engineering Professor of Statistical Science Editor, Electronic Journal of Statistics email: d...@cornell.edu WWW: http:// people.orie.cornell.edu/~davidr/ office hours: http:// people.orie.cornell.edu/~davidr/officehours.html Mailing Address: School of Operations Research and Information Engineering 1170 Comstock Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 607 255-0845 607 255-9129 (FAX) Some links: ORIE: http:// www.orie.cornell.edu/ DSS: http://www.stat.cornell.edu/ EJS: http:// www.imstat.org/ejs/ Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Grasshopper Sparrow in Danby
Hi Eric, It's great to hear that Grasshopper Sparrows are still possible in Danby. Throughout the Ithaca June Count years, and up until about 2000, we used to find them in what could be called the greater Jersey Hill area (Town of Danby, west of Comfort Road). I particularly remember locations along the west side of Townline Road a few thousand feet south of Blakesly Hill, also east of the FLT between there and Bruce Hill Road, and in the highland fields where Hilltop Road, Bruce Hill Road, Jersey Hill Road and Gunderman Road come together. I wonder if anybody has looked for Grasshopper Sparrows in that area lately? -Geo On Jun 8, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Eric Banford wrote: Yesterday morning I stepped outside to check the weather and the first thing I heard was a tick tick BZZZ. Psyched, my second Grasshopper Sparrow ever. I put on my muck boots and grabbed my bins and was able to watch him sing from a bush for a few minutes. Other breeders singing at the time: Willow Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrush, Blue- winged Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Rose- breasted Grosbeak, Bobolink (lots), Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch This morning I parked off the edge of Cornell campus, and as I started walking I heard an interesting, rising warbler song. Four slower, steady notes, followed by three quick ones and then a held bu at the end. This great page on All About Birds made it easy for me to go through potential songsters and figure out it was a Cerulean Warbler:http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax.aspx? family=40 Bird! Eric Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] hay cutting question
Here's a sample of breeding season dates for just a few birds of grass and pasture. Much more at http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/ wildlife_pdf/brddate.pdf UPLAND SANDPIPER - NY egg dates 4/23-6/15, 1 brood, 17-21 days incubation, nestlings full grown at 30 days COMMON SNIPE - NY egg dates 4/20-6/16, 1 brood, 18-20 days incubation, young fly at 18-20 days SAVANNAH SPARROW - NY egg dates 5/11-6/16, 1-2 broods, 12 days incubation, no info on nestling period GRASSHOPPER SPARROW - NY egg dates 5/17-8/2, 1-3 broods, 11-12 days incubation, 9 days nestling period HENSLOW'S SPARROW - NY egg dates 5/17-7/5, 1-2 broods, 11 days incubation, 9-10 days nestling period BOBOLINK - NY egg dates 5/18-6/20, 1 brood, 10-13 days incubation, 10-14 days nestling period, young fly a few days later EASTERN MEADOWLARK - NY egg dates 5/9-8/1, 1-2 broods, 13-17 days incubation, 11-12 days nestling period -Geo From: bounce-6035125-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-6035125-5851...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Jacalyn C. Spoon [jc...@cornell.edu] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 10:55 AM To: Cayugabirds-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] hay cutting question Anyone want to chime in on managing hay and pasture for birds? I’m also writing this question to NOFA and SARE. OK, so I’ve been told don’t cut my hay until August and other said July. June 15th is the accepted date that I was told in my farmer circles. If I delay cutting my field past mid June I can’t expect much of a second cutting. It’s too hot and the field will not grow well. It seems that I would eventually end up plowing to get rid of the unwanted brush and that wouldn’t be good either. I want to keep the land open grassland as the McMansions pop up around me. Thanks, Jacie Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Migrants in the morning
But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old eyes and go closer to see birds! Or look for those birds that are visible! Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and see what others think. Hi Meena, If your competitive urges can be squelched, and you're not feeling left out of the high-definition telescopic fun, you can certainly go back to birding without top optics. It should offer some interesting stalking challenges (though you wouldn't practice at Knox-Marcellus), and I'm sure you could approach the whole thing as a kind of special training. I've heard that at a certain point in Ski Rescue training they take away your poles, and you're sent out day after day to traverse extremely rugged terrain with just the skis (and a pack on your back, of course). -Geo On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Meena Haribal wrote: Hi all, Today morning from 5 to 5.40 am I listened to migrant birds and recorded some of the calls. Based on the calls and the spectrogram, there were several groups of VEERIES that flew overhead. There were also some ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS and at least one WOOD THRUSH. I also heard something like clicking of bills, could have been a cuckoo, but did chance to record so cannot confirm. Local Great Horned Owl between 5.10 5.20 hooted several times. There at least six species of night insects all occupied different frequency levels in the spectrogram. In one species, two or three insects were calling and initially one would start and then second would join in and after few seconds the sounds were matched and sang as one insect but with increased volume! When I was watching the spectrogram at real time I could see how the frequencies joined and separated in real time. About 17 years ago I bought Ziess 10x42 (before that I used Nikon 7X25 and previous to that an 8X32 which had double image, though my brain after some days of use corrected them to a single image) and went to Stewart park hoping that I would be able to see all the birds now better from any distance. Scope was not known to people in India then. I watched the lake and found no birds. Then Kevin McGowan drove in and set up his scope and declared he seeing all three species of Scoters. I was little disappointed that my binoculars were no good to see that far. He let me peek through his scope and I did see all three species of Scoters. Then my goal was to get a scope, which I managed to get one and when I spent evening at May’s point watching shore birds, I used to be frustrated with distant birds that other people could pick up with their scope. Yesterday birds were something like 400 m to 1000 m away from observation site (I actually checked using google distance calculator) and everyone is watching Phalaropes, Buff Breasted Sandpiper and I barely could see them in my scope. Again Kevin McGowan mentioned, that with his old scope, which was similar to my current he could not see birds so well, but with current Swaroski he can see things much better. Oh well, but = since last two years I have been thinking I need to get better optics, but recently they seem to have become so very expensive and beyond my reach. I have been digging in my yard to see if someone has buried any treasure, but so far have found none L But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old eyes and go closer to see birds! Or look for those birds that are visible! Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and see what others think. Yesterday, on the way back from an errand in Rochester at the junction of 318 and 414, I saw a huge flock of BROWN-HEAED COWBIRDS. There may have been more than 1000+ birds and flock was almost pure cowbirds only. Also this did not make it to Cayugabirds. To add to Dave Nutter’s list of shorebirds at Knox Marcellus, later in the evening while searching for Buff-Breasted, Mike Tetlow found a Golden Plover from East Road. Viewing was much better from East Road at this time, I could actually see RED-NECKED PHALAROPES as red-necked and not just phalaropes, with the same scope. There were also 7 SANDHILL CRANES in the marsh. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY http://haribal.org/ http://picasaweb.google.com/ithmoths http://picasaweb.google.com/mharibal http://www.flickr.com/photos/91426...@n00/ Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http
[cayugabirds-l] more Redpolls
Common Redpolls (just 2 adult males so far) have joined the Goldfinches at my niger feeder in West Danby this morning. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] West Danby Redpolls
I expected the Redpolls would go off as the snow melted this morning, but now the ground is finally bare and I have about 50 coming to my West Danby feeders. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Saw Whet Owl
Last night I stood in my driveway and whistled for Northern Saw Whet Owl. I got just one rubber ducky squeak in reply. This evening I tried again at dusk, and this time a cute little owl flew up with a slightly squeaky tew-tew-tew and perched, first in the balsams, then right in sight about 12 feet from me in a wild apple tree. Not wanting to create a big disturbance, I turned and walked back toward the house, but I couldn't resist whistling one more series of toots before going indoors. Again the owl flew right up with a tew-tew-tew, perched briefly in a pear tree and then crossed the driveway to a pine. I'm five miles outside of the Ithaca count circle, sorry... but I wonder, did anyone try for Saw Whets at the top of West Jersey Hill Rd? -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] gobbling
I can't remember any mention of gobbling yet, but it's been going on at my place every morning for about a week. I've also heard Ruffed Grouse drumming. No Redpolls at my feeders lately, but I do see them overhead occasionally. About 30 went over this morning. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] fox tests turkeys
About 40 Turkeys were in my yard this morning, the boldest picking through fallen sunflower shells under the feeders. The snow pack was sufficiently hard-crusted that they were able to walk on top, and so was the rather large red fox that came by. The fox stayed low for several minutes, watching, and then approached the nearest Turkeys. Several flew up into the trees; others ran off followed by the fox, but after a few dozen paces she turned back, and approached still more Turkeys. They also ran off, and she pursued several more small groups, until she had tested them all in turn. When no weaklings or disabled birds were revealed, she finally trotted off into the woods. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] dog park Osprey
It was fun to see an Osprey perching on the pole-mounted nest platform at Treman Marine Park this morning. In spite of the dog- walking traffic on the trail that encircles the site, the bird persisted for more than an hour (all the time I had). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Golden Eagle
Steve and Susie wrote: Derby Hill [...] also recorded over 100 chickadees moving. This is interesting, as 2 weeks ago, while at Fair Haven Beach SP, Susie I saw a large group of small birds kettling over a tree along the shore. We thought they were chickadees, but did not believe it, nor report it, as we assumed that chickadees did not “migrate”.S. S. Fast When the word migration appears without scare quotes, I tend to think of the default type of migration that so many of our region's breeding birds undertake: a complete, latitudinal, seasonal removal- and-return type of migration (true migration, as it's sometimes called). Since Chickadees don't do that, we can add qualifiers (in place of the scare-quotes) like Partial and Dispersive to informatively characterize what they do. However, the following quote from http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/ species/039/articles/migration suggests that what Chickadees do is actually best characterized as irruptive migration. Nature Of Migration In The Species Over 60,000 Canadian banding records collected from 1921 to 1995 show that 90% of recaptured birds show no movement (Brewer et al. 2000). Long-distance movements do occur, however, generally by young birds during a period of post-fledgling dispersal. In addition, large movements occur irregularly every 2+ years; these events are best termed “irruptions” rather than true migration (Lawrence 1958, Hussell and Stamp 1965, Bagg 1969, Bock and Lepthien 1976, Smith 1991, Hussell 1996). Few adults are found in these irruptions (Bagg 1969, Smith 1991). -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Danby: Bald Eagle, Brown Thrasher, Yellow-rumped Warbler
On Apr 24, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: I'm curious, a Killdeer was doing it's broken-wing fake out yesterday, would they have eggs to defend already? Or was it just practicing? ;^) Eric First New York egg date for Killdeer is April 3rd (see the NY breeding season tables at http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/ brddate.pdf ) Add a couple of weeks for our upstate location, and it's definitely possible that your Killdeer has eggs now. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Another kitchen-window Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pat and I just looked out OUR kitchen window, and there's a male ROSE- BREASTED GROSBEAK, all decked-out for Easter! -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pine siskins
A couple of Pine Siskins just dropped in at my place too, to join the Goldfinches and Purple Finches. -Geo On May 1, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Asher Hockett wrote: Comfort Rd this morning - on the niger feeder, 3 Pine Siskins, with a Purple Finch and several goldfinches at that and other feeders. -- asher -Never play it the same way once. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] today on Tupper Road
Seems like a very birdy morning. No time for birding, alas, but earlier I walked my dog Sandy around at the eastern edge of my property, which coincides with the Danby/Newfield town line and adjoins the westernmost edge of the L-P Preserve in West Danby (an area also known as Beech Hill Brook, the South Branch Woods, the South Branch of West Danby Creek, Beech Hill Road, Tompkins County Unique Natural Area #189, and other names besides (the real old timers call it the back stairs). I was happy to hear both YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO. Had an INDIGO BUNTING, a singing MOURNING WARBLER, TENNESSEE WARBLER, lots of HOODED WARBLERS and many other birds. One spot, which I think of as 'City of the Redstarts' on account of their breeding density, was the scene of a mass squabble among about ten male Redstarts. They were zooming about so aggressively that Sandy actually jumped and snapped after them, as if they were horseflies! Here's my warbler list so far today: BLUE-WINGED WARBLER CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER MAGNOLIA WARBLER YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER AMERICAN REDSTART BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLR BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER TENNESSEE WARBLER NASHVILLE WARBLER HOODED WARBLER MOURNING WARBLER LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH OVENBIRD CANADA WARBLER COMMON YELLOWTHROAT -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] yard birds
My warbler list looks about the same as a couple of days ago, but there are certainly more TENNESSEE WARBLERS in the mix now! I met with half a dozen HOODED WARBLERS, including two females who flashed their white tail spots and gave warning notes from their skulking places in the low undergrowth. I came upon one flowering apple tree in which about eight INDIGO BUNTINGS (males and females together) were quietly foraging. There were lots of noisy Orioles about, and Black-billed Cuckoos called almost simultaneously from several directions. When I was wet enough I retreated. There are no Collegetown Bagel outlets here, but I'd found a couple of morels in the orchard, so when I got home I sauteed them in butter and put them between rye with just a thin slice of Lorraine cheese. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Tupper Road birds
Not much change here. Still the same mob of singing Tennessee Warblers (not actually as boring as it sounds!), the apple tree full of Indigo Buntings. the migrant Magnolias and Black-throated Blues and all the rest. I had about four CANADA WARBLERS on presumed territories along the brook, several territorial Hooded Warblers, etc. Leaf-out is pretty advanced now, but I think that's a Broad- winged Hawk's tail I can see protruding over the edge of the stick- nest. I also found a SWAINSON'S THRUSH on the ground this morning. I carelessly dropped Eastern Phoebe and Black-capped Chickadee into the wrong list in a post I made a few days ago. These birds are now incubating, not feeding young like the Robins and the Ravens! I watched with interest as the Phoebe built her clutch, one egg per day. She finished three days ago with five eggs. No cowbird eggs have appeared! To outwit the Cowbird that I had observed scouting their nest, the Phoebes employed a stratagem that was so simple it's hard to believe it worked: they abandoned the scouted nest under the northside eaves of my tiny workshop, leaving a bunch of long horsehairs dangling in plain sight. (For years I've been putting discarded bowhair out for the birds, and often find sparrow's nests lined with it.) Then they built a new nest under the southside eaves. The new location is scarcely twelve feet away from the old, but offers the advantage of concealment behind vegetation. The Phoebes left even more exuberant streamers of horsehair dangling from the new nest, but these are easily overlooked behind the foliage. I have not seen Phoebes use horsehair this way before, and wonder how they came to take up the practice. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Nighthawk
While driving along route 34 in Cayuga County, I spotted a COMMON NIGHTHAWK about a mile north of Scipio Center. The time was approximately 5:30 pm. I think that area drains westward to Great Gully, or maybe southward to Big Salmon Creek... -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] more nests
I watched a pair of Great Crested Flycatchers investigating a hollow tree in the orchard this morning. Nearby I found a Hooded Warbler's nest, about 20 off the ground in a low thicket of multiflora rose (no eggs yet). 100 yards into the deeper woods, my neighborhood Broad- winged Hawk is now incubating in a well concealed stick nest 60 feet above the ground. I've read that Broad-wings probably mate for life, change territories regularly, and build new nests yearly. But mine have used this nest before (I discovered it several years ago, and even earlier knew that their nest must be somewhere very close to this location.) I think they're switching between this and another undiscovered nest in alternate years. I've got one Robin feeding young in a well-made nest nicely hidden in the top of a white pine, another sitting eggs in a very skimpy, highly visible nest in the first crotch of a maple in the woods, and a third hidden from view inside a large nest founded on the attachment clevis of a service entrance cable, a nest so massive and conspicuous I'm reminded of the Monk Parakeet colony on the Baroque entrance towers at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] settling-in
Not much new around my house this morning, except for one Alder Flycatcher (we-BEE-oh), so I walked over to the Beech Hill ridge in the L-P Preserve. In this breezy location the lady's slippers and even the diminutive fringed polygala were all nodding northward, but from the hemlocks overhead male Blackburnian Warblers were advertising territories, saying No, no, we're staying here! -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Cliff Swallow colony (OOB)
I ate lunch on the deck at the River Rose Cafe in Owego. While eating I watched the CLIFF SWALLOWS flying about beneath the rte 96 bridge over the Susquehanna River. I estimate there are 30 jug nests on the bridge, many of them directly below the sidewalk that crosses it. One can stand at the railing and enjoy a close-up top-side view as the birds enter and leave. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Field Sparrows?
No shortage of Field Sparrows here either. -Geo On May 23, 2011, at 2:50 PM, J. Gary Kohlenberg wrote: This morning at Park Preserve there was no shortage of Field Sparrows. I hadn't been there this year and the new trails really extend the fun. Gary On May 23, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: Where are all the Field Sparrows? The severe mowing of the powerline cut beside my house could account for the lack of my regular yard one, but I haven’t heard a single song this spring. Kevin -- 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: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] yard birds
My neighborhood 'rain crows' - both Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos - have really been living up to their nickname! Along with all the rain, hailstones have rattled the roof for several days running. And they're likely to do it again today, if the Cuckoos are to be believed. It's amazing to sit under shelter and think of all the birds out in these storms, like the female Hooded Warbler sitting tight on on her knee-high nest, which now contains 4 little eggs of ivory wreathed in red, while all around her lightning flashes and the ground is pelted by hailstones as big as hickory nuts! -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Nighthawk, etc.
I also heard COMMON NIGHTHAWK calls yesterday evening (Sat) at home. The bird seemed to rise from a ground-roost close by. -Geo On May 29, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Dave Nutter wrote: I sent this late Saturday evening, but it seems not to have gone through. --Dave Nutter On May 28, 2011, at 07:42 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote: Highlights of a walk at dusk to the shore of Cayuga Lake at Treman State Marine Park included: a female HOODED MERGANSER with at least 10 downy merganserlings in the flooded ditch by the Hangar Theatre; an unseen WILLOW FLYCATCHER which fitzpewed twice from the tall weeds and short saplings near the lake; an unseen COMMON NIGHTHAWK which called 5 times as it flew past northbound, presumably to migrate along the west shore of the lake; a southbound GREAT BLUE HERON flying low over the water in silhouette in front of the Cornell boathouse. --Dave Nutter -- 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! -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontary Warbler Spot
Going west over the green steel bridge actually puts you on an island containing about 150 acres. It seems plausible that Prothonotary warblers have occupied it continuously since the early 1990s, perhaps some years settling out of range of detection from the roadside. Speaking of marsh islands and Acadian Flycatchers, does anyone know if Acadians still breed on Howland Island? -Geo On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Matthew Medler wrote: Yes, the two Prothonotary Warblers that I heard yesterday are in the same general area that Geo describes below. However, they were not singing from right along the canal, as they did back in the 1990s. Instead, they were a bit west of that, away from the canal. Looking at Google Earth, the coordinates for the gravel parking spot are 43.020880, -76.800188, and the birds were singing 25+ yards west of that (a bit farther west than I estimated below). Matt From: Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Birding cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontaries -- Yes When I plugged-in the provided coordinates the other day, Google Earth landed me out in the open, hundreds of yards to the east. But Matt Medler's description of the one-lane green bridge made it clear that these birds are in just about the same spot where Prothonotary Warblers were found in the late 1990s - i.e. the west end of the high steel bridge over the modern barge canal. -Geo On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: This is a strange series of events. Having been a little confused by the bridges on Armitage Rd myself on Sunday, I wonder if there is the possibility of these being two separate spots? 3 calling Acadian FCs would seem to be hard to miss by all the other Prothonotary seekers, and vice versa Just a thought. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:46 AM, J. Gary Kohlenberg wrote: Yesterday at 6:30 pm I was able to hear and then see both Prothonotary warblers. I recorded video of one to have the singing. They are LOUD at close range. This area is amazingly birdie. Gary On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Matthew Medler m...@cornell.edu wrote: There were two Prothonotary Warblers countersinging from opposite sides of Armitage Road at 4:30 pm on Monday afternoon (31 May 2011). These birds were just 10-20 yards west of the little gravel pull-off area on the west side of the one-lane green bridge. No sign of any Acadians at that time, but a singing Northern Waterthrush was a bit of a surprise. Not a surprise, but always nice to hear, were two Cerulean Warblers. Oh, and a distant Black- billed Cuckoo sang for about 30 seconds. Matt Medler Ithaca From: bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com To: cayugabirdlist cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8:47 AM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontary - no John Confer and I drove up to the north end of the lake yesterday evening to look for some of the recently-sighted birds. From the tower at Tschache Pool we scoped the vast mud flats and found - 3 BLACK- BELLIED PLOVERS and two distant shorebirds that flew in and disappeared behind logs and stumps. No other shorebirds. 3 Red- winged Blackbirds. One of the plovers had a markedly darker cap, making it worth a closer look. However the throat and belly were black while the vent was white, and the bill was relatively short and stubby. So we left it as Black-bellied Plover. From there we drove out Armitage Road, parked just past the green bridge, and spent about a half hour walking up and down the road to the west. We heard several Yellow Warblers, 2 American Redstarts, also Common Yellowthroats, Swamp Sparrows and, surprisingly, 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS. Two of them were on the north side, close to the road. The third was on the south side. Unfortunately for us, no Prothonotary Warblers. We left at sunset. 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 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: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds
[cayugabirds-l] one flew east, one flew west...
Just spotted a Black-billed Cuckoo, moving surreptitiously from tree to tree, carrying food for young. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] West Danby Acadian Flycatcher
The Station Road Acadian Flycatcher was actively singing at 9:30 this morning. Thought I'd mention it, in case anyone's still trying to tick this species for 2011. Find the boundary between the L-P Preserve and the Danby State Forest (just opposite the uppermost cliff), then follow the preserve signs and SF yellow paint blazes south about 1,000' through hemlock forest to reach the tiny stream; walk upstream just 100' - 200' and you're there. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Cayuta Outlet Winter Wren
This morning I took a walk along the very easy stretch of the FLT that goes down the Cayuta Outlet gorge. A Winter Wren was singing about 250 yards downstream from the lake control dam in the mouth of the gorge. I continued downstream, enjoying lots of Canada Warblers and other characteristic birds, but missing Acadian Flycatcher (I guess they don't breed there any more?). I turned around at the black locust truss bridge. On my way back I passed a Winter Wren (probably the same one) singing from the opposite side of the narrow gorge, 180 paces below the control dam. I didn't make an effort to spot the singer, but I imagine it wouldn't have been too difficult, as the gorge is quite narrow and visibility is good under the tall hemlocks and yellow birch. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead Birds - Mulberry Tree
The unripe fruits and the milky sap of several mulberry species are mildly toxic, and can cause hallucinations and stomach upset. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Morusal.htm -Geo On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:01 PM, bob mcguire wrote: I just had lunch with a friend who has two mulberry trees on his property. This year, shortly after the fruits began to appear (whitish-green when unripe, going to reddish-black when ripe), he began to find dead birds under the trees: 5 Starlings, 2 male Baltimore Orioles, 1 Gray Catbird so far. There is a strong correlation (timewise) between fruiting and the deaths. Is anyone familiar with this phenomenon? 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/ -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead Birds - Mulberry Tree
Perhaps the fruiting mulberry trees are only luring birds into the vicinity of something else that's deadly. Windows? -Geo On Jun 23, 2011, at 5:21 PM, bob mcguire wrote: Yes Joe, we've heard that. But death?? On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Geo Kloppel wrote: The unripe fruits and the milky sap of several mulberry species are mildly toxic, and can cause hallucinations and stomach upset. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Morusal.htm -Geo On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:01 PM, bob mcguire wrote: I just had lunch with a friend who has two mulberry trees on his property. This year, shortly after the fruits began to appear (whitish-green when unripe, going to reddish-black when ripe), he began to find dead birds under the trees: 5 Starlings, 2 male Baltimore Orioles, 1 Gray Catbird so far. There is a strong correlation (timewise) between fruiting and the deaths. Is anyone familiar with this phenomenon? 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/ -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead Birds - Mulberry Tree
Well, if the deaths continue without explanation, there's always DEC's Wildlife Pathology Unit: http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/6957.html#port -Geo On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:58 PM, bob mcguire wrote: Nope. No windows within 200 ft. And the dead birds were all UNDER the trees. Bob On Jun 23, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Geo Kloppel wrote: Perhaps the fruiting mulberry trees are only luring birds into the vicinity of something else that's deadly. Windows? -Geo On Jun 23, 2011, at 5:21 PM, bob mcguire wrote: Yes Joe, we've heard that. But death?? On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Geo Kloppel wrote: The unripe fruits and the milky sap of several mulberry species are mildly toxic, and can cause hallucinations and stomach upset. http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Morusal.htm -Geo On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:01 PM, bob mcguire wrote: I just had lunch with a friend who has two mulberry trees on his property. This year, shortly after the fruits began to appear (whitish-green when unripe, going to reddish-black when ripe), he began to find dead birds under the trees: 5 Starlings, 2 male Baltimore Orioles, 1 Gray Catbird so far. There is a strong correlation (timewise) between fruiting and the deaths. Is anyone familiar with this phenomenon? 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] S-b Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plovers - MNWR Sunday
Just speculating myself, but some two-year old Black-bellied Plovers making their first trip back to the arctic might fail to breed through inexperience rather than lack of energy. -Geo On Jun 28, 2011, at 8:42 AM, david nicosia wrote: It is very interesting that shorebirds are already showing up again and it is late June. Failed breeders? or did they just halt their northward migration for some reason (lack of fat reserves?) and will stage before continuing south again? Could they be very late spring migrants (younger birds that won't breed)? It seems hard to believe these birds would have made it to the arctic, failed at breeding and had enough energy to make it all the way back down here by the end of June. Since I am not an ornithologist these are mere speculations on my part. Anyone have a more definitive idea on this? or know of research studies on this? just really curious. thanks. Dave Nicosia -- 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] S-b Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plovers - MNWR Sunday
If you Google shorebirds + failed breeders you'll get a lot of hits, and you'll see the word 'presumed' again and again. The Ontario Field Ornithologists website offers a more cautious assessment: Failed Breeders: Most adult shorebirds do not stay long on the breeding grounds after nest failure or loss of chicks. Some very early or earlier than normal first migrants in full alternate (breeding) plumage may be failed breeders. However, adults of most species appear at the same time every year suggesting that the “failed breeders” explanation is questionable in many cases. http://www.ofo.ca/reportsandarticles/southboundshorebirds.php When deciding how early is early enough in the Cayuga Basin to risk floating the failed breeder explanation, Steve Kelling's shorebird bar chart might be useful: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/cayugabirdclub/firstrecords/shorebirds.htm -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] S-b Dowitcher, Black-bellied Plovers - MNWR Sunday
There may also be some ambiguity about which kinds of failures are meant to be included among the failed breeders. The phrase does seem to cover individuals who fail in the midst of breeding (losing their eggs or unfledged young to predation or accident), but what about those who fail earlier in the attempt (being eliminated in the competitions to secure desirable patches of ground or obtain mates), or those who just fail to breed (join the northward migration, but don't make it all the way to the breeding grounds, or do get there but then make little or no attempt to reproduce)? With several kinds of failures occurring at different points in the breeding calendar, there might be several waves of early south-bounders to confound the picture. -Geo -- 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] Failed Thrashers? starting over?
For a number of years a Brown Thrasher has made a tradition of singing from certain trees in my yard. In early to mid May he sings from their very tops, which overlook about 30 acres of abandoned orchards on the hillside below. The show is pretty much over before June comes in. From this I've guessed that nesting has gotten underway somewhere in the shrub-tangled orchards below. So I was surprised this year when he suddenly reappeared on his springtime lookouts in the third week of June, very prominently singing. I guessed something had gone wrong. It turned out that my neighbor had rented a baby backhoe and torn up a few acres of shrubs in the farthest part of the orchard - at the peak of nesting season, no less! Whether my resurgent Thrasher lost his brood to this ill-timed habitat modification I don't know. I thought it was getting kind of late to start over, but he still seems keen. This morning he was singing from very prominent perches, and I watched him for a while. Then I wandered a short way down the hill. I was having a peek at some Blue Jays feeding young, when behind me I heard loud smacking notes, and there was another Brown Thrasher moving about in the shrubbery, eyeing me nervously. Good sign! And I can hear that delightful singing again out the window as I write this. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina Wren serenade
He may very well be at your window. Around my house the window trim, eaves and rafter tails are good places to find spiders, flies, and other tasty items, and the Carolina Wrens are not shy about investigating them. -Geo On Jul 22, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Nari Mistry wrote: A Carolina Wren is singing loudly just outside my window right now as I sit at my desk. I can see his throat action as he sings. He has been flitting up down the spruce branches within 15 ft. of my window. Now he is trying out a whole variety of songs in his repertoire! Possibly he is a young bird trying all his songs and trills. Some mornings his song seems loud enough as if he sitting at our bedroom window. Nari Mistry Ellis Hollow Rd. -- Nari B. Mistry, Ithaca, NY To see my paintings, visit http://www.ArtbyNari.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/ -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Lindsay Parsons -- Cerulean, Worm-eating and Parula
Hi Chris, you wrote: Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum) 1 *Local/Rare in summer. This bird was NOT up the far hillside (!!), but along the main trail system right where the trail crosses the railroad tracks. Yes. At the L-P Preserve at this time of year, after the young have fledged, certain warblers that are expected on the steep slopes or even atop the pinnacles can be found in the valley woods instead. Also true in spring before nesting gets underway. In the spring of 1997 two male Cerulean Warblers turned up in the valley woods (the 'Blumner Woods', south of the big Liriodendrons). Several days later these same two (presumed) had taken up territories atop the pinnacles, where they continued countersinging for some weeks. It's a long round-about or an arduous climb for us, but a very short flight for them. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some breeding Parulas somewhere in the area. A few weeks ago I noticed some amazing lichens bearding the spruces along Sulphur Springs Creek in the Danby State Forest. -Geo -- 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] hard-working parents
Meena wrote: I cant imagine the amount of work they put in to raise their kids! I Speaking of harried parents, the Sharp-shinned Hawk fledglings at my place are now old enough to chase their parents during prey-deliveries. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] still hatching
Yesterday evening in the Danby State Forest I came across the eggshell of a thrush, probably Hermit Thrush. It must have been discarded very recently, as it was lying atop fresh ATV tracks. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Nighthawks over Wegmans
I spotted two Nighthawks over Wegmans / Nate's Floral Estates at about 5:45 this evening. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: herbicide for Cayuga Inlet invasive plant
It's quite possible that birds (migratory waterfowl) were the vector that introduced H. verticillata to the Ithaca waterways, in which case we could expect more of the same. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] hawks moving
The upper airs were contrary, but wispy clouds at lower levels were moving in a favorable direction, so I decided to watch the West Danby sky for a while at lunchtime. There was a modest flight of migrating hawks, including 1 kettle of eight Broad-winged Hawks (it's not too late), 1 adult Golden Eagle, 1 adult Cooper's Hawk, numerous Red- tailed Hawks and several Turkey Vultures, as well as a strong flight of monarch butterflies. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] before dawn
I was sitting outside at 6:00 this morning, listening to the thrushes descend, but the local Barred Owls really stole the show, exchanging double hoots, single hoots, quad-hoots, octo-hoots and weird monkey calls. And they've kept it up throughout the day, periodically reminding us that it's still a jungle out there. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] out the window
While rehairing violin bows at my workbench this afternoon, I heard the soft chattering of a Carolina Wren as it flew up under the eaves and began to hunt for insects and spiders. This is a pretty common occurrence at my shop, so I didn't bother craning my neck for a view, but a few minutes later when a bird flew out to a nearby brushpile in direct view from my bench, I picked up the bins and took a look, expecting to see the wren. The bird in the brushpile was a Swainson's Thrush. I watched it for several minutes through bins, and then a second bird flew into the same field of view. In the tiny fraction of a second required to foveate the new arrival, I anticipated another thrush, but the bird was a Carolina Wren. -Geo -- 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] loon flight
I didn't read the aurora alert until 11:30, oh well! But at 6:15 this morning the moon rolled up over the top of Thatcher's Pinnacle, framed by dark tattered clouds that were moving south at quite a clip. Before dawn the eastern sky turned to gold, and ducks were already up in it, so I decided to stand out in the yard and see what migrants might come off Cayuga. By 9:15 I had counted 192 loons. I also saw a little flock of 11 or 12 Brant go over. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Myers Point - Black Scoters, Brant
On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: The highlight was an incredible 2865 BRANT Wow! I wonder if they just kept going? The cloud ceiling in West Danby has hovered just a couple hundred feet obove the valley floor all morning, but there doesn't seem to be any fallout... -- 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] Decimal degrees
The metric Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates were pretty convenient for pinpointing locations on printed USGS topos, as UTM grid ticks are shown in the margins. The block grid of the New York State Breeding Bird Atlas follows UTM. I still have a few USGS sheets on which I drew the BBA grid, and I did the same in my old DeLorme's Atlas. But for casual birding navigation I vote for decimal lat long. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Redpoll and Siskin at feeder
The 30-some Am. Goldfinches that regularly jostle for perches at my little 4-perch niger feeder are joined this morning by one COMMON REDPOLL and one PINE SISKIN! The Redpoll perched at the feeder and couldn't be dislodged, while the Siskin and most of the Goldfinches were obliged to rumage for fallen seeds below. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Walking through mixed woods between Tompkins Community Hospital and the Black Diamond Trail this afternoon I came upon a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Perhaps an over-wintering bird, but in keeping with the mild weather, it was singing! Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] yard birds
Around my yard this morning: lots of gobbling tom Turkeys, Ruffed Grouse thumping from various directions, several Hermit Thrushes, numerous Ruby-crowned Kinglets, one Blue-headed Vireo, one Black and White Warbler, one Louisiana Waterthrush, several Field Sparrows, at least six Fox Sparrows (peaking here now!), numerous Eastern Towhees, a few Purple Finches... Several days ago all my feeder birds vanished for a few minutes while an immature Cooper's Hawk ambushed the deserted feeders. For five minutes I watched a pair (!) of Cowbirds attend very purposefully to the movements of the Phoebes nesting under my eaves. I thought this kind of scouting was just the responsibility of the female Cowbird, but apparently not. Maybe female scouting just looks irresistibly attractive to the male? A Red-bellied Woodpecker threesome made quite a commotion in the big maple tree over my porch. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Least Flycatcher
In 'downtown' West Danby this morning, a LEAST FLYCATCHER. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Wood Thrush
Another early bird: along Station Road in West Danby, at the old foundation on the L-P Preserve , a singing WOOD THRUSH! Quite a few Hermit Thrushes and Blue-Headed Vireos here too. The woods are swimming and the streams are roaring! -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warbler
The temperature was very cool up in West Danby's traditional Worm- eating Warbler habitat this morning: apart from a querulous Hermit Thrush and a couple of Chickadees, the place seemed almost deserted. Between 9:00 and 9:30 small groups of apparently migrating Blue Jays flew past below me (about 75 Jays in all). An unidentified accipiter made what might have been a territorial overflight, but did not vocalize. A few Turkey Vultures soared very close to the wall. Distantly I could see that several birders were walking around in the L-P Preserve. They seemed to be getting more action than I. But I waited until the sun climbed high enough to clear the looming summits of the pinnacles and strike the tops of the stunted chestnut oaks, pitch pines and Amelanchiers (the latter in full bloom), at which encouragement a few birds were moved to sing: Ovenbirds, Black-and- white Warblers, Juncos, a Northern Oriole, and a Worm-eating Warbler. However, the filtered sunlight was too wan for much of that, and within five minutes they all shut up! -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] yard birds
Here's my warbler list from right around home today: BLUE-WINGED WARBLER NASHVILLE WARBLER CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER AMERICAN REDSTART BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLR YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER YELLOW WARBLER TENNESSEE WARBLER HOODED WARBLER LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH OVENBIRD CANADA WARBLER COMMON YELLOWTHROAT And a few other mentionables: LEAST FLYCATCHER YELLOW-THROATED VIREO RED-EYED VIREO BLUE-HEADED VIREO SCARLET TANAGER numerous now And a few birds that I've noticed building nests: CARDINAL TUFTED TITMOUSE BROAD-WINGED HAWK (nest is complete, and contains some down) And some birds that are already carrying food for young: BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE AMERICAN ROBIN EASTERN PHOEBE COMMON RAVEN (young are out of the nest now, I think) -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] yard birds
Just before sunset I added a MAGNOLIA WARBLER. Hoping for more warblers ahead, as many of the fruit trees are just now coming into flower. Expecting Cuckoos any day now! Might get one tonight for the price of going outside to listen (if only the toads would shut up! - their annual pool party has been roaring for days) -Geo On May 11, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: Wow. I was hoping that with all the activity in nearby Sapsucker Woods, I would get at least a trickle of warblers in my yard -- but no. A few migrants have stopped by, including a che-beking LEAST FLYCATCHER, briefly singing SCARLET TANAGER and RED-EYED VIREO, and 2 WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS under the feeder -- but nary a warbler. Oh, and a flock of 12 PINE SISKINS after none for several weeks. KEN Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontaries -- Yes
When I plugged-in the provided coordinates the other day, Google Earth landed me out in the open, hundreds of yards to the east. But Matt Medler's description of the one-lane green bridge made it clear that these birds are in just about the same spot where Prothonotary Warblers were found in the late 1990s - i.e. the west end of the high steel bridge over the modern barge canal. -Geo On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: This is a strange series of events. Having been a little confused by the bridges on Armitage Rd myself on Sunday, I wonder if there is the possibility of these being two separate spots? 3 calling Acadian FCs would seem to be hard to miss by all the other Prothonotary seekers, and vice versa Just a thought. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:46 AM, J. Gary Kohlenberg wrote: Yesterday at 6:30 pm I was able to hear and then see both Prothonotary warblers. I recorded video of one to have the singing. They are LOUD at close range. This area is amazingly birdie. Gary On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Matthew Medler m...@cornell.edu wrote: There were two Prothonotary Warblers countersinging from opposite sides of Armitage Road at 4:30 pm on Monday afternoon (31 May 2011). These birds were just 10-20 yards west of the little gravel pull-off area on the west side of the one-lane green bridge. No sign of any Acadians at that time, but a singing Northern Waterthrush was a bit of a surprise. Not a surprise, but always nice to hear, were two Cerulean Warblers. Oh, and a distant Black-billed Cuckoo sang for about 30 seconds. Matt Medler Ithaca From: bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com To: cayugabirdlist cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8:47 AM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontary - no John Confer and I drove up to the north end of the lake yesterday evening to look for some of the recently-sighted birds. From the tower at Tschache Pool we scoped the vast mud flats and found - 3 BLACK- BELLIED PLOVERS and two distant shorebirds that flew in and disappeared behind logs and stumps. No other shorebirds. 3 Red- winged Blackbirds. One of the plovers had a markedly darker cap, making it worth a closer look. However the throat and belly were black while the vent was white, and the bill was relatively short and stubby. So we left it as Black-bellied Plover. From there we drove out Armitage Road, parked just past the green bridge, and spent about a half hour walking up and down the road to the west. We heard several Yellow Warblers, 2 American Redstarts, also Common Yellowthroats, Swamp Sparrows and, surprisingly, 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS. Two of them were on the north side, close to the road. The third was on the south side. Unfortunately for us, no Prothonotary Warblers. We left at sunset. 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 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: 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: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Why cowbirds foster their eggs to other birds
Hi Marilyn, This article from the Smithsonian National Zoo covers your question: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi/migratorybirds/fact_sheets/default.cfm? fxsht=3 -Geo On Jun 26, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Marilyn Ray wrote: Hello Birders, The other day I got into my car just as a show about birds was ending on the car radio. I did not get to hear the name of the expert who was telling the audience about why cowbirds started leaving their eggs in the nests of other birds to hatch and raise their young. The expert said that the practice had its origins in the middle part of the country when cowbirds had traditionally followed the roaming buffalo herds and did not have time to lay and hatch their own eggs before the herd moved on and they had to follow. Could someone please tell me if this story is true? If so, what was the food the birds got from following the buffalo that they could not get elsewhere? Thanks, Marilyn Ray -- 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] Why cowbirds foster their eggs to other birds
Marilyn only caught the tail end of the radio spot, and didn't get the names of any experts. But here's an article that discusses the origins of brood parasitism: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/2/196.full.pdf For each of a number of avian lineages in which obligate interspecies brood parasitism has independently evolved, the authors examined the probability that it evolved directly from the normal breeding mode (through such routes as the takeover or use of nests built by other species, or communal laying by cooperative species), versus indirectly by way of transitional intraspecies nest parasitism. -- 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] OT: aurora forecast
For those who haven't heard, we're hoping for a northern lights display tonight.: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/2 -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Black-throated Green Warbler
Have a Black-throated Green Warbler singing in my yard this morning -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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] Renwick dedication 1917
An article appeared in the Ithaca Daily News, Monday evening June 11, 1917: BIRD CLUB GIVES ARCH TO THE CITY Several Hundred Attend Impressive Ceremony In Renwick Wildwood The arch at the entrance in the Renwick wild woods presented to the city by the Cayuga Bird Club was dedicated yesterday afternoon with appropriate exercises attended by about 250 people. The speakers were Professor John G. Needham [etc.] Goes on at length, with a description of presiding luminaries, and extensive biblical recitations. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga lake basin map
Hi Meena, The basin boundary outlined on that map definitely needs editing, at least down in my neighborhood. The level of precision is just not commensurate with the other geographic details provided. An editable map that includes a USGS topographic overlay would be very helpful. On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, I often get question about Cayuga lake Basin map used for bird reports. Here is map that shows you the boundaries. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTFmsa=0msid=214805312847666779826.0004b7e99f502b6d9f5ff Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://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 eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/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] Redpolls today
Redpolls have been audible around my place for weeks, but it took a good snowstorm to drive them to the feeders. Had as many as 20 at a time since then. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] And MORE as I typed previous message!!!!
Just passed over my house (West Danby). I guesstimated 8,000 - 10,000, more still coming. -Geo Kloppel On Dec 27, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Stephanie Greenwood stpegreenw...@gmail.com wrote: I've never ever seen so many. -- Stephanie Greenwood Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 280 1050 -- 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 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] HUGE Snow Geese movement
Still streaming out the south gates of the Cayuga Basin at 2:30! -Geo -- 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] HUGE Snow Geese movement
From my position overlooking the upper reaches of Cayuga Inlet I saw great numbers of Snow Geese fly south beyond the limits of the basin - at least 3 to 4 times the number that Ken reported returning to the lake at dusk. I expect a lot of them are still winging southward over moonlit Susquehanna country. Large flocks were still passing my place at 4:30, but the composition had changed, and the latest southbound flocks consisted of Canada Geese only. Given Ken's report at dusk, I would guess that in the late afternoon a final wave of Snows came down the lake, considered the enclosing highlands and the low ceiling, and turned back to the water, daunted by the uncertain prospects of making the long overland flight to Chesapeake entirely at night. -Geo -- 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] Snow Geese flying south over Ithaca - hundreds. --...
During the last hour, about 1,000 Canada and 300 Snow Geese flew over my head and out of the basin in what looked like determined southbound migration. The high hilltops (circa 1900 feet) seemed to scrape the cloud ceiling earlier, but perhaps it is lifting enough to embolden migrants... -Geo Kloppel On Dec 28, 2012, at 9:13 AM, 6072292...@vtext.com wrote: Snow Geese flying south over Ithaca - hundreds. --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 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] More Snow Geese depart
More Snow Geese are passing south out of the basin on this morning's brisk tail wind. I don't expect to see them circle back. There's relatively little agricultural land south of here, and it's all buried in snow. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Redpolls
Since the snows, I've been feeding upwards of 100 Common Redpolls. They gather all around my lone 4-perch Niger feeder, and empty it every day or two, which makes frequent cleaning easier. Remember, crowds of Redpolls are a treat in January, but by February or March we may begin to see them sickening from feeder-born diseases. Sanitize! -Geo Kloppel -- 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] white-winged, but not a scoter, poor thing
I wonder if this entangled duck isn't a hazard for Eagles? -Geo -- 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] 200 Redpolls
Two hundred Redpolls at my feeders today. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] 100+ Redpolls-for a minute
Hi Wesley, you wrote: I'd actually expect the opposite: something that's called a selfish herd effect, where the larger the group, the less likely that you'll be depredated because by chance alone you're far less likely to be killed by the small number of predators in the area if you're in a group of 100 than if you're in a group of 2, for example. Maybe, but selfish herd payoff calculations have to take account of the costs of the behavior too: increased intra-specific competition, marginalization of the weak, and the much greater conspicuousness of large aggregations to predators. I definitely take your point about finite and depletable winter food supplies enforcing more-or-less continuous exploration for fresh resources, but why would this result in larger aggregations being any twitchier than smaller ones? -Geo -- 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] Evening Grosbeaks
Out walking the dogs in our West Danby woods earlier this morning, I heard Evening Grosbeaks overhead, and now about six of them are coming to the sunflower feeder. What a treat! -Geo Kloppel -- 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] 200 Redpolls again
I'm back to at least 200 Redpolls in the yard. These birds feed for a few dozen seconds, then bolt en masse to the treetops as if at some alarm, then after a few more seconds they begin spilling back down to the feeders. Within a minute they're all back, and then they all bolt again. This nervous feed-and-startle cycle repeats for perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes, then they all disappear for a variable interval (from minutes to hours), then they return and do it all again... So perhaps they are both skittish AND twitchy. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Evening Grosbeaks
My Evening Grosbeaks had a quick snack, then disappeared... -Geo Kloppel On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: Out walking the dogs in our West Danby woods earlier this morning, I heard Evening Grosbeaks overhead, and now about six of them are coming to the sunflower feeder. What a treat! -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Evening Grosbeaks
Evening Grosbeaks continue this morning. They're not coming to my feeders, but hanging out in my neighbor's yard. She has a bigger sunflower operation, but it's not visible from the road. I will try to put up a feeder today, within sight of the road for the benefit of car birders. Will keep you posted. -Geo -- 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] 18 Evening Grosbeaks
...perching in the treetops, looking at my feeders. -Geo -- 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] Evening Grosbeaks
Yesterday I added a sunflower hopper out near the road. It took a day for birds to begin visiting it. But I've had no sight or sound of Evening Grosbeaks today, so for the moment, no joy... -Geo -- 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] Hoary or not?
Thanks, Laura, that ABA discussion was very interesting. I found myself in Ryan O'Donnell's camp; the reported lack of genetic differentiation between Common and Hoary Redpolls just didn't seem to justify the suggestion that we ought to practice Hoary Denial, and Andy Boyce's quick dismissal of the likely explanation left me groping for about three imperfectly remembered sentences from E. O. Wilson's popular writing. Happily, I didn't need to look them up, as Ryan neatly framed that explanation in just three words: incomplete lineage sorting. Redpolls at my feeders peaked near 300. I tried hard to call one or two of them Hoary, but for whatever reason, I just couldn't make it stick. My failure had little if anything to do with doubts about the legitimacy of the split, and I'm not challenging anyone else's distinctions, but somehow I still feel better after reading through that discussion! -Geo Kloppel On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi All, I found a very interesting article (link below), followed by a discussion, about the ‘Hoary Redpoll Question” which you might want to look at. Don’t skip the comments at the end. There are some familiar names taking part in that discussion. Food for thought….. http://blog.aba.org/2013/01/open-mic-redpolls.html Laura Laura Stenzler Lab Manager Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, New York 14850 Office: (607) 254 2141 Lab:(607) 254 2142 Fax:(607) 254 2486 l...@cornell.edu -- 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] Hoary or not?
John wrote: By the way, even if some newer studies can find a nuclear difference, we still have to make a subjective decision about how much of a difference is sufficient for us to accept them as one or two species. Our decisions may turn out better (we may reverse ourselves less often) if we can relax our desire for bright lines enough to acknowledge that speciation events can only be recognized retrospectively: there will be cases in which it is simply too soon to tell whether a permanent parting of ways has occurred. A few tens-of-thousands of generations might give us the answer, but at present there may be no fact of the matter. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Redpolls - Sibley Scores
I may just have been inattentive, but I don't recall actually seeing Sibley Scores posted here for any local Hoary Redpolls, so I'm curious to know if anyone is using this 3-character index (described at the link below), or for that matter using any other standardized method of separating Hoary from Common Redpolls in the field? http://www.sibleyguides.com/2008/01/a-character-index-for-redpoll-identification/ -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Bald Eagles in Danby
Hi Kim, Sounds like you're talking about the eagles' nest on a wooded island in the North Spencer Marsh? Yes, this is their fourth year there. -Geo On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Kim Haines-Eitzen kj...@cornell.edu wrote: Yesterday morning (around 9:30am) I saw Bald Eagles apparently working on a nest at the SW end of Michigan Hollow Road just south of West Danby.Is that a known nesting site? I also heard my first “konkareee” of a red-wing blackbird there at the same time. A beautiful way to end February and move into March. Kim Kim Haines-Eitzen 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about lower lake road
I imagine a number of factors contribute to the attractive power of that area. Here's one: the lake is still broad there, but it's very shallow, mostly 5 - 6 ft. -Geo On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Barbara B. Eden b...@cornell.edu wrote: I am curious why that is the place where the snow geese and tundra swans congregate Thanks, Barbara -- 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] Question about lower lake road
Those two factors (shallow water, ice shelf) are related; ice forms soonest and lingers longest over the shallows. Aquatic ecology (hence exploitable food resources) are also influenced by depth. And of course the north end of the lake is surrounded by marshes and agricultural lands that offer forage whenever the snow cover does not prevent it. The winter draw-down of lake level makes the shallows even shallower, almost like a tidal area. -Geo Kloppel On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:58 AM, John VanNiel vanni...@flcc.edu wrote: There was also an ice shelf there to loaf on... -Original Message- From: bounce-75479805-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-75479805-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 8:06 AM To: cayugabirds-l Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about lower lake road I imagine a number of factors contribute to the attractive power of that area. Here's one: the lake is still broad there, but it's very shallow, mostly 5 - 6 ft. -Geo On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:29 AM, Barbara B. Eden b...@cornell.edu wrote: I am curious why that is the place where the snow geese and tundra swans congregate Thanks, Barbara -- 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 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 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] Question about lower lake road
For birders who enjoy maps, the following link opens the official Cayuga and Seneca navigation chart (depths in feet): http://www.canals.ny.gov/navinfo/charts/14786cs1.png -Geo -- 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/ --
