[cayugabirds-l] white-crowns

2016-05-04 Thread Bill Mcaneny
Since Saturday, we have hosted six WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS. No Orioles yet. No Hummers either. A male R-B Grosbeak before last weekend. Bill and Shirley McAneny TBurg -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] RB Grosbeak

2016-05-04 Thread W. Larry Hymes
They're on the move. We had both male and female ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS at our feeders today. This was our first female (saw a male on 4/28). Larry -- W. Larry Hymes 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Duck nest boxes at Mill Pond

2016-05-04 Thread Donna Lee Scott
It sounds like those duck boxes are also way too close together, and too close to the benches, which the ducks don’t like. - Donna Scott [Fritzie B. wrote: I'm presuming the scout who put the benches & cut out a path along the south side of Mill pond is the one who, a couple wks. ago, put up 3

[cayugabirds-l] first ruby throat!!!!

2016-05-04 Thread Carol Cedarholm
Just had our first ruby throat visit our feeder on First St!!! -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Heights to Cornell yesterday

2016-05-04 Thread Ray Zimmerman
Yesterday morning I walked to Cornell from Eastern Heights. Here are some highlights … - about 30 Pine Siskins along Tudor Rd. - a Solitary Sandpiper by the side of the trail near Hawthorne Woods - a White-crowned Sparrow by Maplewood Apartments - House Wrens galore - a Brown Thrasher - Eastern

Re: [cayugabirds-l] new visitors!

2016-05-04 Thread Kurt Vandeveer
Funny you should mention that...2 nights ago we lost 3 N0-NO feeders to a black bear. My wife has lived in the area (Wayne, NY) most of her life and wished she would see one...it came back at 6:00 PM yesterday so she got to see it. We took down the rest of the feeders but we have an larger

[cayugabirds-l] new visitors!

2016-05-04 Thread Asher Hockett
Yesterday I spent the day at home adding feeding stations. We had a beautiful Yellow-rumped Warbler eating suet scraps from the deck railing - he had the brightest and most distinct yellow crown I have ever seen on a Y-r, not fuzzy at all like Sibley's. The male R-b Grosbeak was parked alternately

[cayugabirds-l] Swan Pen

2016-05-04 Thread Ann Mitchell
There is a Blue-winged and Nashville Warbler there at 12:30 today. Ann Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Cormorants on Frontenac Island ... dozens!!!

2016-05-04 Thread John and Fritzie Blizzard
At 11 a.m. I was quite dismayed to see many, many, many dozens of cormorants in the trees, on the rocks & in the waters of Frontenac Island in Cayuga Lake here at Union Springs. :-(:-( The Bass tournament will take place here 23-24 June if the cormorants leave any fish! This is the first yr.

[cayugabirds-l] Bobolink on West Hill

2016-05-04 Thread Caro
May the 4th be with you, cause the BOBOLINKS have arrived up here. (I always thought they sounded like R2D2 or some sort of alien transmitter radio) Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] More Blackburnians

2016-05-04 Thread Geo Kloppel
This morning I've found several Blackburnian Warblers singing in the NE corner of the L-P Preserve (off Station Road), and from the north pinnacle I heard a few distant songs, including Wood Thrushes and a second Scarlet Tanager. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Fw: eBird Report - Shindagin Hollow SF, May 4, 2016

2016-05-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
Hi all, We also had two Baltimore Orioles in our yard this morning Hunt Hill Rd). When I returned from birding at Shindagin Hollow (report below), I found two Orioles sharing a suet block! As I just mentioned, I drove and walked about 3 miles along Shindagin Hollow Rd. this morning, north

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Wed 5/4

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Chao
On Wednesday morning, Annie Wexler, Tony Gaenslen, and I saw a VEERY and a WOOD THRUSH on the Hoyt-Pileated Trail in Sapsucker Woods, while an OVENBIRD, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, and BROWN CREEPER sang nearby. We also heard two NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES and a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER around the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cornell Arboretum, Goetchius birds

2016-05-04 Thread Linda Orkin
I heard three Baltimore Orioles in the woods across from the arboretum. Possibly the same three and they moved to more open locations. But maybe a different three. Linda Orkin On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Marie P. Read wrote: > Hi all, > > New at the Cornell Plantations

[cayugabirds-l] Cornell Arboretum, Goetchius birds

2016-05-04 Thread Marie P. Read
Hi all, New at the Cornell Plantations Arboretum this a.m. were 3 Baltimore Oriole males. The first one was singing its heart out when I first arrived 7:30 or so. Later it joined two others in a tree and they all sat looking at each other. I bet they all arrived last night (didn't hear any

[cayugabirds-l] Birds around my place

2016-05-04 Thread Geo Kloppel
The buds have been stalled for days here in the cold shadow of Beech Hill, Seeley Hill, and 1920' Sorry Hunter Hill, but finally today a warmer start and some new birds: Nashville Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow-throated Vireo,

[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: eBird -- Hawthorn Orchard -- May 4, 2016

2016-05-04 Thread Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
I did a quick walk through the Hawthorn Orchard this morning from 6:30-7:40am. Highlights include: Least Flycatcher (calling along section of East Ithaca Recreation Way, close to the High Volt Lab near Mitchell Street), Great Crested Flycatcher (calling from area West of the East Ithaca

[cayugabirds-l] Yard birds

2016-05-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
New yard birds this morning are Louisiana waterthrush in the ravine and woodthrush. Hunt Hill Rd, Ithaca. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES