[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard - WET -
Hawthorn Orchard - WET - same birds, similar numbers, more evenly dispersed. MOURNING WARBLER at NE corner. -- Chris T-H -- 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] Sapsucker Woods, Wed 5/18
On Wednesday morning in Sapsucker Woods, I found an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER on a tall dead tree near the lone bench south of the Sherwood Platform. I watched this bird for about 20 minutes, hoping for a front view, which I never really got. Presumably soaked from the downpour within the previous hour, this bird engaged in a few bouts of furious preening. At certain moments, the bird's white tufts were invisible. At others, they poked out along the bird's sides. Mostly, though, the tufts showed boldly above the folded wings on the bird's back. They looked like the eyes on Spider-Man's mask. Otherwise I found mostly the same species mix along the Wilson Trail as in recent days. The warbler-watching continues to be very good, with multiple MAGNOLIA, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKBURNIAN, BLACKPOLL (nice views of both male and female), CANADA, and migrant NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, plus single MOURNING (probable, heard singing once then chipping), WILSON'S, and BLACK-THROATED GREEN. Tennessee Warblers are conspicuously absent, maybe because they're all joining the throngs at the Hawthorn Orchard. YELLOW-THROATED VIREO is still singing along the south edge of the pond. In the woods, I saw one SWAINSON'S THRUSH, as well as the breeding pair of SCARLET TANAGERS. The tanagers were together in a small tree near Sally Sutcliffe's memorial bench. In the early evening on Tuesday, my daughter Francesca and I made yet another circuit of the Wilson Trail. We saw rather few birds, but did see one Blackpoll Warbler from Ruth Davis's arbor and bench south of the building. This bird, a life sighting for Francesca, was perched completely still in a pine for several minutes. I thought that we might be able to watch this bird all the way until sleep or migration takeoff at sundown, but alas, a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK chose that moment to buzz the east shore of the pond, setting off a great multispecies chorus of alarm calls, led by ringing Red-winged Blackbirds everywhere. When we looked back at the pine, the Blackpoll was gone. Mark Chao -- 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] Sapsucker Woods, Wed 5/18
Came late to Sapsucker so didn't get that Olive-sided. I can add BAY-BREASTED and, literally 2 minutes ago from this post, I had PHILADELPHIA VIREO, YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and HOODED WARBLER right out in front of the lab between the conifers and boardwalk. On May 18, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Mark Chao wrote: On Wednesday morning in Sapsucker Woods, I found an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER on a tall dead tree near the lone bench south of the Sherwood Platform. I watched this bird for about 20 minutes, hoping for a front view, which I never really got. Presumably soaked from the downpour within the previous hour, this bird engaged in a few bouts of furious preening. At certain moments, the bird’s white tufts were invisible. At others, they poked out along the bird’s sides. Mostly, though, the tufts showed boldly above the folded wings on the bird’s back. They looked like the eyes on Spider-Man’s mask. Otherwise I found mostly the same species mix along the Wilson Trail as in recent days. The warbler-watching continues to be very good, with multiple MAGNOLIA, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BLACKBURNIAN, BLACKPOLL (nice views of both male and female), CANADA, and migrant NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, plus single MOURNING (probable, heard singing once then chipping), WILSON’S, and BLACK-THROATED GREEN. Tennessee Warblers are conspicuously absent, maybe because they’re all joining the throngs at the Hawthorn Orchard. YELLOW-THROATED VIREO is still singing along the south edge of the pond. In the woods, I saw one SWAINSON’S THRUSH, as well as the breeding pair of SCARLET TANAGERS. The tanagers were together in a small tree near Sally Sutcliffe’s memorial bench. In the early evening on Tuesday, my daughter Francesca and I made yet another circuit of the Wilson Trail. We saw rather few birds, but did see one Blackpoll Warbler from Ruth Davis’s arbor and bench south of the building. This bird, a life sighting for Francesca, was perched completely still in a pine for several minutes. I thought that we might be able to watch this bird all the way until sleep or migration takeoff at sundown, but alas, a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK chose that moment to buzz the east shore of the pond, setting off a great multispecies chorus of alarm calls, led by ringing Red-winged Blackbirds everywhere. When we looked back at the pine, the Blackpoll was gone. Mark Chao -- 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! -- yours, Kevin Ripka www.nepabirdproject.org www.tekbirdr.com leaflittercritters.blogspot.com Ithaca, NY Tompkins Co. Dallas, PA Luzerne Co. -- 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] MNWR White-faced Ibis photos
Here's a link to two digiscoped photos. I haven't really given up on the bird still being around MNWR somewhere. David Wheeler http://www.flickr.com/photos/22183060@N08/5734102146/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/22183060@N08/5734102414/ -- 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] Larch Meadow: Mourning Warb. 5/18
My ebird report follows. Warning: If you go to Larch Meadows/ Buttermilk Falls SP expect deer ticks Sent from my iPhone Larch Meadows, Tompkins, US-NY May 18, 2011 4:22 PM - 6:05 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: overcast; mosquitos; deer ticks high 60's 38 species (+1 other taxa) Wood Duck 4 on water swamp; flushed Mallard 1 same swampy area as wood ducks Turkey Vulture 2 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 1 Least Flycatcher 1 singing Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 American Crow 1 Tree Swallow 5 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 4 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 3 Veery 1 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 4 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 2 Cedar Waxwing 4 Yellow Warbler 7 American Redstart 16 Ovenbird 1 Mourning Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 4 Song Sparrow 4 sparrow sp. 2 Northern Cardinal 4 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 8 American Goldfinch 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org) -- 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] Cornell Lab Lunchtime seminar /next/ Wednesday: Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez
Hope to see you there! Feel free to bring lunch... LUNCHTIME SEMINAR Wednesday, May 25, 12:05-1:00 Cornell Lab of Ornithology Auditorium Teaching (and learning) how to best monitor tropical bird populations: lessons from Costa Rica, Mexico, Cuba and Malaysia Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University and Visiting Fellow, Neotropical Conservation Initiative, Cornell Lab of Ornithology I will be informally talking about some of most recent work on the effects of forest fragmentation on tropical birds in Costa Rica, as well as the replication of this work in an experimental setting in Borneo, Malaysia. The bulk of my talk will be on capacity building efforts and data analysis support I have been doing with Eduardo Iñigo-Elias in Latin America, which includes estimating survival rates of resident birds from 20-yrs of banding efforts in Mexico, and estimating nest survival rates for 5 bird species in Siboney, Cuba. ** Charles Eldermire Public Education Outreach Associate Manager, Sapsucker Woods Johnson Visitors' Center Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-1131 (607) 254-2111 [fax] birds.cornell.edu/visithttp://birds.cornell.edu/visit twitter.com/sapsuckerwoods facebook.com/sapsuckerwoods -- 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] Sapsucker Woods Big Birding Year Leaderboards Updated
Hello Cayugabirders! I just updated the leaderboards for this year's Sapsucker Woods Big Birding year, which runs from 10/01/10 to 9/30/11 (http://birds.cornell.edu/bigbirdingyear). So far, a stunning 114 species have been spotted by the highest non-Cornell Lab staff participant, and the checklists competition and hours competition are currently led by the same person. You can check to see how you're doing at any time, and it's a perfect time to jump in to the competition if you've been holding back (guidelines are online at the above URL)! The next few weeks will see our migrants start to fade into the summer breeders, and you can pick up a LOT of species by lucking into the diverse flocks of warblers that are still present in the 'Woods. I just spoke with someone that had a 17 species warbler day yesterday, so there's still time--plus, we'll get another shot at those migrants on their way back down this Fall. Your birding (and use of eBird) makes Sapsucker Woods one of the most entered hotspots in the nation, and it gives us nearly unrivaled information about bird populations inside the sanctuary--thanks for sharing your observations, and good birding! charles. ** Charles Eldermire Public Education Outreach Associate Manager, Sapsucker Woods Johnson Visitors' Center Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-1131 (607) 254-2111 [fax] birds.cornell.edu/visit twitter.com/sapsuckerwoods facebook.com/sapsuckerwoods -- 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/ --
