[cayugabirds-l] Hermit Thrushes

Several Hermit Thrushes are singing this morning along Beech Hill Brook (Lindsay-Parsons Preserve). -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] New yard bird!

A female WOOD DUCK perched in a couple of my trees near my little stream and uttered several calls, then finally flew south. I wish one of my dead trees had a large enough cavity for a nest. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sun 4/13

On Sunday morning, a GREEN HERON was surveying Sapsucker Woods from high perches in the Fuller Wetlands and on the heron-cam snag in the main pond. Becky Hansen and her group also saw this bird. This is surely the earliest date in April for a local Green Heron sighting for me. The other

[cayugabirds-l] Green Heron in Seneca Falls

There was a nice variety of songbirds along the sculpture trail in Seneca Falls Sunday morning. A huge surprise was one GREEN HERON that perched in a tree for a few minutes before flying down the Erie Canal. I wonder if this is the same bird seen in TN and PA earlier in the week :-)  See my

[cayugabirds-l] Flock of cormorants?

Just saw what I believe were a flock of cormorants, pretty high up, in a flock like geese, maybe 35-40 of them. Heading north. Looks like the silhouette in Sibley, though. My best guess. Nancy Cusumano West side Cayuga lake near Jacksonville Cayuga Dog Rescue has saved more than 455 dogs since

[cayugabirds-l] Blue headed Vireo and La waterthrush

Our FOY blue headed vireo and Louisiana waterthrush singing in the woods behind our house on Hunt Hill Rd. this afternoon! Neither heard this morning but both singing at noon. Also found a Red tailed hawk nest. East of Ithaca. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Marten's Tract Gallinule

Hi all, Tim and I just had three COMMON GALLINULE swimming around in the ponds furthest east at Marten's Tract. Otherwise, all the usual birds are hanging about. Brad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] osprey pair courting over Jessup Woods

Today about 11-1130, a pair of ospreys, one clasping a 6-8 inch fish with both feet, circled, giving high calls, and repeatedly alighted on the playing field lights just W of the Woods and N across Jessup Rd from the Purcell Center. They moved off toward the north, appearing to stay for a

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher on South Hill

This morning at 0730 I was surprised to hear a Brown Thrasher singing away here in suburbia. I caught a brief glimpse of the singer before he took off. Around 0810 a Pine Warbler was singing on Comstock Knoll as if he intended to stay. Best...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Towhee

First of yard year EASTERN TOWHEE showed up today (W Meadow Dr Lansing) singing his head off but with an unusual (and at first baffling) added strong second syllable that challenged my memorized pattern to something at first unidentifiable: drink-a-you-TEEE or drink-you-your-TEEE; the trill was

Re: [cayugabirds-l] osprey pair courting over Jessup Woods

That's the second pair trying to nest on CU campus athletic field lights. I think CU should consider putting up a safe osprey platform or two! Candace On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Today about 11-1130, a pair of ospreys, one clasping a 6-8 inch fish

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Salt Pt. Ospreys on nest

The adults at Salt Point, Ophelia and Orpheus, are the mated pair from last year, arriving at Salt Point on Saturday, April 5. 2014. This will be their approximate arrival date every spring for as long as they survive. They've been courting, nesting, and fighting off intruding ospreys, 1-4 at a

Re: [cayugabirds-l] First Broad-wings

Just one day after Ken's observation, my (presumed) local Broad-winged Hawk is back on territory. I've seen him several times today, flying low over his traditional nest area, not far above the treetops, calling out the familiar Pe-h? as if expecting an answer. I recently discovered

[cayugabirds-l] FOY bat

As Larry and I were just out in the yard listening to the wonderful 'dusk chorus', I spotted a Bat flying around---our first of the year!! -- Sara Jane Hymes -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit chorus

7:30 pm. Multiple Hermit Thrushes. I'm sitting on a rock right on the Danby/Newfield town line, which corresponds to the boundary between my woods and the westernmost extremity of the L-P Preserve. Hard to say how many Hermit Thrushes are singing down by the brook, as I'm 100 yards up the bank.

[cayugabirds-l] Barred Owls, Woodcock, peepers

...an hour later, and it's now as dark as it's going to get under this nearly-full moon. Barred Owls are talking, as they regularly do here year-around, but tonight spring peepers are singing too, as I imagine they're doing all over the basin. My yard Woodcock is still displaying, thanks to the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Flock of cormorants?

Cormorants look all dark below, have a longer tail than geese, and have a kink in their thick neck like someone had tried to strangle them--Dave NutterOn Apr 13, 2014, at 09:38 PM, "Kenneth V. Rosenberg" k...@cornell.edu wrote:Nancy, that's exactly right for migrating cormorants. Yesterday we had

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Marten's Tract Gallinule

My SFO group heard a COMMON GALLINULE there about 11:30am.--Dave NutterOn Apr 13, 2014, at 01:54 PM, Brad Walker bm...@cornell.edu wrote:Hi all,Tim and I just had three COMMON GALLINULE swimming around in the ponds furthest east at Marten's Tract. Otherwise, all the usual birds are hanging