[cayugabirds-l] killdeer nest
I walked by the killdeer nest Suan mentions, later in the morning yesterday, and saw how vulnerable it was to the softball players who kept running over the culvert to collect wayward balls. Along with a couple friends I was with, we did a bit of cordoning off of the nest area with rocks and sticks. I wonder if it can be officially roped off, though, and would appreciate any tips from anyone on whom to contact to ask about this. Thanks, Melissa Melissa Groo Wildlife Photography http://melissagroo.com Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] eBird -- Hawthorn Orchard -- May 10, 2013 From: suan.y...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 12:37:09 -0400 To: CAYUGABIRDS-L@cornell.edu My addition to the hawthorn reports is a (the?) yellow-throated vireo which sang from a tall tree across the recway from the SW entrance, flying a couple times but not staying put long enough to get my binoculars on it before flying off. Also a green heron calling from the small pond. I saw a BW warbler foraging quietly and close at three locations in succession: couldn't tell if it was the same bird following me (maybe it was attracted to my shiny orange jacket :-). I left just as a softball game was starting, with one of the teams warming up on the culvert with the killdeer nest (four eggs today). The birds were going crazy, and the players had no clue. Incredibly camouflaged are those eggs. Suan -- 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] Ruddy Turnstone, Myers Point
Nice breeding plumage RUDDY TURNSTONE with a Dunlin on the beach at Myers Point. Cape May Warbler singing at the entrance. Jay -- 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] a few yard birds (Perry City Rd., T-burg)
2 dueling male BALTIMORE ORIOLES 2 SAVANNAH SPARROWS a flock of ~35 PINE SISKINS eating dandelion seeds EA. KINGBIRD EA. BLUEBIRDS nesting AM. GOLDFINCH CHIPPING SPARROWS mating WHITE CROWNED SPARROWS eating dandelion seeds RW BLACKBIRDS SONG SPARROWS AM. ROBINS nesting RB WOODPECKER EA. PHOEBE nesting YB SAPSUCKER -- 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] Canada warbler park preserve
Canada warbler along steep sides of gorge at Park Preserve. Actually, just off the preserve. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- 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] Bobolinks!
3 noisy bobolinks this morning. 2 baltimore orioles. Michele Sent from miPhone @ The Hayward House BB www.thehaywardhouse.com and @ The Body Shop www.bodyshopwellness.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] eBird -- Hawthorn Orchard -- May 11, 2013
Mostly quiet start to the morning, then encountered tight flock along middle part of North edge in Hawthorn Orchard (East Hill of Ithaca, accessible behind and to West of Reis Tennis Center and the Oxley Equestrian Center on Pine Tree Road). Drizzling and calm in the AM, then brief WSW winds shifting to NW by late AM. Highlights: briefly singing MOURNING WARBLER, singing and calling Swainson's Thrush, vociferously singing Tennessee Warblers, plus Northern Parulas and Chestnut-sided Warblers, among others. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H May 11, 2013 Hawthorn Orchard Traveling 1 miles 216 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Drizzly morning and overcast. Calm then becoming breezy WSW then NW winds. Most warblers in North middle section of Hawthorn Orchard. 8 Canada Goose -- 3 ad, 5 goslings 1 Green Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern) 1 Ring-billed Gull 3 Mourning Dove 1 Chimney Swift 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Blue-headed Vireo 14 Blue Jay 7 American Crow 2 Common Raven -- One carrying food. Both being mobbed by crows. 3 Tree Swallow 5 Barn Swallow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 2 House Wren 1 Swainson's Thrush -- Singing 7 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 1 Brown Thrasher 8 European Starling 6 Tennessee Warbler -- Singing vociferously 4 Nashville Warbler 3 Northern Parula -- NE corner of HO 5 Yellow Warbler 4 Chestnut-sided Warbler 7 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Blackburnian Warbler 2 American Redstart 1 Mourning Warbler -- Singing in NE area of HO 6 Common Yellowthroat 2 Chipping Sparrow 7 Song Sparrow 10 White-throated Sparrow 9 Northern Cardinal 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 7 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Baltimore Oriole 2 House Finch 6 American Goldfinch 3 House Sparrow Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Lone snow goose
Hi Folks, It is possible that the same bird is flying around this area. I didn't see it until about 10 days ago after several scans of the Thomas Rd wetlands when I spent enough time that I think I would have seen it if it were there. It was at the Thomas Rd wetlands last Friday at about 1:00. The time Karen and I saw it was awfully close to the time John saw it, although that doesn't mean that it didn't arrive or fly away just minutes before/after we saw it. Cheers, John On 5/10/2013 2:03 PM, Marie P. Read wrote: I wonder if that's the same one I saw in the Thomas Road wetland last week...just a couple of miles north of Wilseyville Swamp as the goose flies. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 From: bounce-89893376-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-89893376-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of John Cancalosi [jjcpurav...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 1:58 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Lone snow goose I saw a lone snow goose flying north in the Wilseyville area yesterday afternoon. As they are not exactly solitary birds, I wonder what was going on. John -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://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 Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://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/ -- -- 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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
[cayugabirds-l] cape may warblers on dodge rd
Just heard 2-3 cape mays singing in the southern part of the spruces on dodge rd! Kevin Loope -- 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] SSWainson's Thrush
Becky Hansen and I are looking at a Swainson's Trush at SSW Hoyt Pileated trail a little west of the junction to the north exit to the power cut. Suan _ http://suan-yong.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] Montezuma 11May2013
Some quick highlights from a lond day of birding up Cayuga Lake and around Montezuma: RUDDY TURNSTONE and DUNLIN on the beach at Myers Point GRASSHOPPER SPARROW and dozens of Bobolinks on Lake Road, Ledyard Singing immature male ORCHARD ORIOLE on Lake Road just south of bluffs 6 COMMON TERNS at Harris Park, Cayuga No shorebirds of note at Kip Island Fields, just lots of Dunlin and Least. No Tricolored Heron on Wildlife Drive. Not as many shorebirds on the main pool as yesterday (when we had 2 STILT SANDPIPERS, 1 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, 1 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, hundreds of Least Sandpipers, and 40+ Dunlin), but did have a flyover flock of 12 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS A flyover flock of 105 BRANT at Tschache Pool Many LEAST SANDPIPERS in Puddlers Marsh LEAST SANDPIPERS and a flyover LAPLAND LONGSPUR but no other shorebirds at Carncross Road. Not sure where the bulk of the shorebirds were today, but Least Sandpipers were everywhere. No sign of the Ruff, although we ran into a pair of birders at Carncross who told us they saw it at Larue's on the wildlife drive around 10 this morning. Did not get any more details or description from them than that. It was not there at 11:30AM or in the evening when we checked it. The TRICOLORED HERON was seen in the afternoon, but not by us. No sign of the ibis. -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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] Myers and Salt Point, Sat 5/11
On Saturday morning, Tilden sent me to Sapsucker Woods at 7 AM with instructions to come home and wake me up if you find anything good. Well, Brad Walker and I did find some fine birds on a walk around the Wilson Trail, including a MAGNOLIA WARBLER, NASHVILLE WARBLER, a couple of cooperative OVENBIRDS, a few unseen BALTIMORE ORIOLES and WOOD THRUSHES, and other expected birds. I also crept up within 4 meters of a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drumming on a metal Stay off the ponds sign right next to a painted version of itself on a wooden Stay on the trails sign. But there certainly was no fallout, and many expected breeding birds still haven't arrived. (We found no redstarts on the Wilson Trail North, nor any Red-eyed Vireos or tanagers in the woods.) So I decided to let T wake up on his own. By 9:20 AM, we were ready to head out together. I gave him the choice among 1) chasing the Ruff at Montezuma; 2) finding breeding warblers like Pine Warbler and Louisiana Waterthrush in their special nearby habitats; 3) giving ourselves a chance for variety at Sapsucker Woods or the Hawthorn Orchard; or 4) going to Myers to follow up on Jay's morning report. He picked the last option. I silently cheered, and off we went. Just past the house at the entrance, we quickly found the CAPE MAY WARBLER by its song, then got some decent views of the bird as it foraged and twice crossed the road. Here we also heard our first AMERICAN REDSTART of the year. Then on the beach, we had long, splendid scope view of the RUDDY TURNSTONE and DUNLIN from about 15 meters away. Tilden and I saw our first BANK SWALLOWS of the year, about a half dozen of them. He also found a GREEN HERON and an OSPREY in trees across Salmon Creek. On the way out, we stopped again at the house on the corner, and then, on a tip from Stuart Krasnoff, at Salt Point. This time we didn't find the warblers, but we did see three ORCHARD ORIOLES - one subadult male, one adult male, and one adult female. Mark Chao PS. Later, Tilden joined the throngs at the International Migratory Bird Day celebration at the Lab. Not only did he get to see an incredible variety of live diurnal and nocturnal raptors up close, he got ice cream from the mobile operations unit of the Cayuga Lake Creamery. Thank you to all the Lab's volunteers who made this huge event such a success again! -- 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] Friday-Black-bellied Plover at Kips Island
Sorry for the late post, but I thought I should add that late Friday afternoon Gary Kohlenberg and I had a distant Black-bellied Plover (as well as two Sandhill Cranes, a displaying tom turkey and 5 hens at the Kips Island site where we searched in vain for Ibis. -- 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/ --
