[cayugabirds-l] Bear

2019-05-02 Thread Geo Kloppel
Oh my! A bear just got my black oil sunflower feeder. Bent the pole right over to the ground. Ran off downhill when I put the flashlight on it. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, W. Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Danby Rails

2019-05-02 Thread Geo Kloppel
Have a Sora whinnying in the Michigan Hollow Marsh (Danby) at 9:00 this morning. Virginia Rail at Cayuga Headwaters Marsh (Hillview Road, Danby) about 8:45. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Lots of birds today

2019-05-02 Thread Laura Stenzler
Hi all, Today we had first-of-year Oriole, Woodthrush, Hermit Thrush and Catbird. In addition today we have Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, up to 24 Purple Finches, 6 House Finches, a bunch of Goldfinches and up to 10 Pine Siskins, White-throated Sparrows, Chipping Sparrows, White breasted and Red

[cayugabirds-l] Hummer! 5/2/19

2019-05-02 Thread Carol Schmitt
Just had a hummingbird at our Aurora cottage! Last year we also saw our first one on May 2nd. Carol Schmitt -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Lindsay Parsons This Morning

2019-05-02 Thread bob mcguire
I got in an hour of hill climbing behind the fire station this morning before the rain set in. And it seemed like every few steps I took, another species began to sing! Highlights of the walk were, for me, FOY Canada, Prairie, Black and White and Black-throated Green Warblers, Ovenbird,

[cayugabirds-l] Returning birds

2019-05-02 Thread Ken Haas
Yesterday, here at my Alder Pond home outside Mecklenberg, I had FOY Baltimore Oriole, and this morning I saw FOY Yellow Warbler, FOY Rose-breasted Grosbeak and FOY Ovenbird. Four Wood Thrushes were singing in the woods. They just returned a couple of days ago. It’s like the song says, “Spring

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow warbler in brooktondale

2019-05-02 Thread Tom Hoebbel
I had a singing yellow warbler as I left home this morning at 7:30 -- Thomas Hoebbel Photo~Video www.TH-Photo.com 607-539-6121 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Lansing Station rd

2019-05-02 Thread Donna Lee Scott
FOY in yard BROWN THRASHER foraging under front bushes in feed area, got a big worm. Also in yard: RUBY CROWNED KINGLET and YELLOW RUMPED WARBLERS, along with all the feeder birds & C. LOON on lake. Can't compete with Laura S's wood, but I will take it! Donna Scott Donna L. Scott 535 Lansing

[cayugabirds-l] Downtown Merlins and FOY Birds

2019-05-02 Thread Robin Tuttle
We had FOY Eastern Towhee and Brown Thrasher in our yard in Enfield this morning. Yesterday, I was treated to the sight and sound of a pair of Merlins acrobatically flying above the Lifelong back parking lot (on Buffalo between Geneva and Cayuga Sts). Robin Tuttle -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Scarlet Tansger

2019-05-02 Thread Donna Lee Scott
FOY near 727 Lansing Station rd. East side road. Male. Earlier in 600 block FOY Black & White Warbler. Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Thrush

2019-05-02 Thread marsha kardon
Heard a wood thrush (FOY) this morning in the woods behind my house on west hill. Marsha Kardon -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Mount Pleasant Bobolinks!

2019-05-02 Thread Marie P. Read
Around 10:30 this morning I hear my first Bobolinks of the season in the field overlooked by the communications tower on Mt Pleasant Rd. (Although because of the socked-in fog I couldn't see them). Also, some of you will have noticed that the eastern end of Mt Pleasant Rd has sprouted 8 new

[cayugabirds-l] FOY

2019-05-02 Thread Bill McAneny
We put up the hummingbird feeder about 5 pm; hummer appeared not long after. Oranges are out, orioles next. Shirley McAneny -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Townsend's Warbler, Cayuga Co.

2019-05-02 Thread Jay McGowan
An immature male TOWNSEND'S WARBLER found earlier by Dave Wheeler is still present now (5:25pm) at West Barrier Bar park (across the channel from Fairhaven Beach) in northern Cayuga County. Currently on east side of small pond in the middle of the park. Jay -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: