[cayugabirds-l] TVs, Killdeer

[Bill Mcaneny]

Late this afternoon there were 9 TVs circling low (tree top height) at the
intersection of Falls Rd and Cayuga View Rd  north of Taug. S.P.

A little bit north on Cayuga View there were 2 Killdeers next to the road
between the cornfields, probable nesters based on past year's experience.

Bill McAneny, TBurg 

 


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[cayugabirds-l] Rachel Carson

[Peter]

Dear fellow birders:

As we hunt marsh and field, wood and beach and ridge during this very
special (and ephemeral) time of year seeking those journeying birds we
love - and find deep satisfaction in the doing - here is some food for
thought from a kindred spirit.

"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of
birds..There is something infinitely healing in the repeated
refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and
spring after winter."
Rachel Carson




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[cayugabirds-l] Scarlet Tanager in Trumble Corners

[Dave Gislason]

Just saw a Tanager hopping around in the willow - I think a first for this 
property, as far as I can remember.

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[cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpeckers

[Birding]

Turn into Mays, cross bridge, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers in trees and yard of 
house on left
Susan and Ann

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[cayugabirds-l] Carolina Wren Fledgelings

[nocars dave]

The pair of Carolina Wrens we have been feeding all winter have 4 or 5 
fledgelings, which are growing rapidly and very active.  Tey are now eating  
some bugs and peant butter on their own, though the parents still seem to be 
feeding them.
    Dave Streater.

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[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma visitor center

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Approx 50 Least Sandpiper and 1 White-rumped

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[cayugabirds-l] CBC Trip - Hawthorn Orchard: May 15, 2016

[Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes]

This morning, 15 souls braved the crisp WNW winds for a morning walk at the 
Hawthorn Orchard for the Cayuga Bird Club. Despite the conditions, everyone got 
really nice looks at several accommodating individuals.

Also, I was informed today that I had my count off from yesterday’s tally of 
participants…there were actually at least 27 people in the CBC walk at the 
Hawthorn Orchard. Wow! Again, thanks to Bob Mcguire for being there, as well as 
some other experienced spotters who helped get people on birds yesterday!

The species list below includes my initial walk through the Hawthorn Orchard 
from 6:30-7:45am, and the main 8:00am to 10:45am walk. Highlights include 10 
warbler species seen today, which is fewer than yesterday, with TENNESSEE 
WARBLER once again being the most abundant species; several very showy NORTHERN 
PARULAS; One very cooperative BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER; several AMERICAN 
REDSTARTS, including at least one 1st-year male. Also, Bob and Joan Horn heard 
a Yellow-billed Cuckoo calling from just North of the Northeast corner, 
independent of the CBC walk.

Hawthorn Orchard
May 15, 2016
06:30
Traveling
1.50 miles
240 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Lead a field trip for the Cayuga Bird Club at the Hawthorn Orchard. 
Good turnout of participants (15) and good looks at birds despite the cold and 
blustery conditions!
Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.2.0 Build 62

2 Canada Goose
1 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
2 Ring-billed Gull
1 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
3 Mourning Dove
1 Red-bellied Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Hairy Woodpecker
2 Empidonax sp. (“whit” notes heard)
2 Warbling Vireo
2 Red-eyed Vireo
3 Blue Jay
1 American Crow
1 Common Raven
7 Barn Swallow
3 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Tufted Titmouse
2 White-breasted Nuthatch
1 House Wren
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (probably among the last to pass through the area this 
spring)
1 Wood Thrush
6 American Robin
10 Gray Catbird
4 European Starling
1 Cedar Waxwing

1 Blue-winged Warbler (very accommodating!)
20 Tennessee Warbler (everywhere…)
1 Nashville Warbler
3 Common Yellowthroat
3 American Redstart
3 Northern Parula
4 Magnolia Warbler
1 Blackburnian Warbler (female)
4 Yellow Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler

2 Song Sparrow
5 Northern Cardinal
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
4 Red-winged Blackbird
6 Common Grackle
2 Brown-headed Cowbird
4 Baltimore Oriole
2 House Finch
1 Purple Finch
4 American Goldfinch
8 House Sparrow

Number of Taxa: 48

Thanks again to all who participated and good birding!

Sincerely,
Chris T-H

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[cayugabirds-l] Red Tailed Hawk not OWLS NOT on nest in NEWMAN

[Stuart Krasnoff]

Whoops.  Paul Pflanz gave me a heads up that he photographed Red-tails on the 
nest in newman yesterday.  The wind was whipping up ‘horns’ on the adult on the 
nest in Newman this monring so after searching in vain for the owlets and 
freezing down in Jetty Woods I am now convinced that I wishfully turned hawks 
on nest into owls.  Stuart 


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[cayugabirds-l] Frontenac marina

[Birding]

75 Common Tern and 100 Bonapartes Gull. Ann and I searched diligently for 
Little Gull with no luck.

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[cayugabirds-l] More Sapsucker Natural History

[Jody W Enck]

I want to share two more observations I’ve made of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
behavior near their nest, which is easily visible from my stationary eBird 
count in the woods beside my house.  The first is from one of my counts during 
yesterday’s Global Big Day.

I have had the fortune of watching this pair stake out a territory and then 
excavate their nest only about 20 yards away from my count location.  Twice 
during my many observations of the nest, I believe I observed the female enter 
the finished cavity and probably deposit an egg.  I have seen them switch 
incubation or nest-security duties since incubation started.

Here is the entry I made to my eBird report yesterday afternoon:

At 1546, male flew to nest cavity. Female emerged, and pair flew just 5m to a 
branch where they copulated. Male flew to cavity and entered at 1549. Then at 
1553, he sat with head just sticking out of entrance. Female was off to west 
foraging in oaks. She returned to the nest at 1557, and replaced male in nest.

Here is the entry I made to my eBird report from this morning.

Male started count period in nest cavity with just head sticking out of 
entrance (at 0830). Female flew in from west at 0842 and switched places with 
male. At 0852, male approached from west and landed 10m away from nest where he 
issued several soft mew calls. He flew to the nest cavity at 0853 and looked 
inside. Female appeared at cavity entrance, looked from side to side (several 
time), and disappeared back inside. Male flew off again. He returned at 0858 
and sat preening at entrance to nest until end of count period.


I loved participating in the Global Big Day yesterday, and submitted 9 
checklists from various places, including my house, around the Lab of O, and 
down around Stewart Park.  I thoroughly enjoyed running into many friends and 
strangers alike who were out birding yesterday.  But, I find it hard to tear 
myself away from my local patch and its common birds when they have so much to 
teach me about their lives.

Enjoy the day
Jody

Jody W. Enck, PhD
Public Engagement in Science
Cornell Lab of Ornithology


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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sun 5/15

[Wesley M. Hochachka]

Adding to Mark’s observations, I’ll add a potential Willow Flycatcher or 
Eastern Wood-Pewee in the same general area as the Lincoln’s Sparrow.  I only 
saw the flycatcher for a handful of seconds in the shrubs along the edge of the 
pond, but in that time I failed to see a partial or complete white eye-ring (I 
looked specifically for this), and grey and not crisply-white wing bars (both 
of which I would expect on a Least Flycatcher).

Wesley Hochachka



From: bounce-120487691-3494...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-120487691-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Chao
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 11:50 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sun 5/15

I thought that the birding was just as good in the sheltered wooded areas of 
Sapsucker Woods on Sunday as it was under much more temperate conditions on 
Saturday.  Here are some highlights.

* LINCOLN’S SPARROW along the edge of the small pond by the maintenance 
building, East Trail

* Thirteen warbler species, including CANADA (1 silent M, Wilson Trail North), 
PALM, BLACK-THROATED BLUE (1 F, aforementioned pond edge along East Trail), 
BLACK-THROATED GREEN (1 F, Wilson/Severinghaus), MAGNOLIA (1 M and 1 F, Wilson 
North), CHESTNUT-SIDED (Wilson North), NORTHERN PARULA (2 singing, north end of 
Woodleton Boardwalk), and several YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS throughout

* Six male and four female WOOD DUCKS together on the main pond, plus two pairs 
in the woods, one on each side of the road

* Two Blue Jays giving quiet alarm calls and converging tentatively near an 
American Mink

* A singing Baltimore Oriole in female-like plumage.   The Birds of North 
America account says that second-year males in subadult plumage sing, and adult 
females sing too, but both only rarely.

And here in northeast Ithaca, my wife Miyoko “The Bluebird Whisperer” Chu saw 
an adult female EASTERN BLUEBIRD perched out in our yard this morning.  So 
Miyoko ran out and took a quick look inside this bird’s nest box.  There are 
five chalk-blue eggs in the nest!

Mark Chao






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[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sun 5/15

[Mark Chao]

I thought that the birding was just as good in the sheltered wooded areas
of Sapsucker Woods on Sunday as it was under much more temperate conditions
on Saturday.  Here are some highlights.



* LINCOLN’S SPARROW along the edge of the small pond by the maintenance
building, East Trail



* Thirteen warbler species, including CANADA (1 silent M, Wilson Trail
North), PALM, BLACK-THROATED BLUE (1 F, aforementioned pond edge along East
Trail), BLACK-THROATED GREEN (1 F, Wilson/Severinghaus), MAGNOLIA (1 M and
1 F, Wilson North), CHESTNUT-SIDED (Wilson North), NORTHERN PARULA (2
singing, north end of Woodleton Boardwalk), and several YELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLERS throughout



* Six male and four female WOOD DUCKS together on the main pond, plus two
pairs in the woods, one on each side of the road



* Two Blue Jays giving quiet alarm calls and converging tentatively near an
American Mink



* A singing Baltimore Oriole in female-like plumage.   The Birds of North
America account says that second-year males in subadult plumage sing, and
adult females sing too, but both only rarely.



And here in northeast Ithaca, my wife Miyoko “The Bluebird Whisperer” Chu
saw an adult female EASTERN BLUEBIRD perched out in our yard this morning.
So Miyoko ran out and took a quick look inside this bird’s nest box.  There
are five chalk-blue eggs in the nest!



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Great horned owl's at Newman golf course

[Stuart Krasnoff]

Adult with two fledglings hunkered on nest. Brrr!  Better angle from Vicinity 
of maintenance building. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Great horned owl fledgling on old nest.

[Stuart Krasnoff]

Fledgling sitting on previously occupied nest in the middle of Newman golf 
course.1130 h. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Salt point

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Orchard Oriole and Bay-breasted Warbler
Susan and Ann

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[cayugabirds-l] Tupper Road birds

[Geo Kloppel]

Cold and windy up here, but I've still got little groups of migrants moving 
about: several more Tennessee Warblers, another Northern Parula (a singing male 
this time), a Swainson's Thrush, Black-throated Greens and Blackburnians that 
don't seem to be the local breeders, Yellow Warbler, plus various birds hanging 
out in their typical breeding areas, including Magnolia, Hooded, 
Chestnut-sided, Blue-winged, Black and White, American Redstart, Common 
Yellow-throat, Veery, Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Scarlet Tanager...  No 
Cuckoos yet.

-Geo

West Danby


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