[cayugabirds-l] Ruddy turnstone in Geneva
This evening around 630 I watched 3 RUDDY TURNSTONE working along the newly created beach on Seneca Lake, just north of the Ramada and the little iron footbridge. They were hanging out with a flock of gulls. I am surprised to see them there! Cool though. Alyssa Johnson Instructional Specialist Advisor, The Wildlife Society Student Chapter Department of Environmental Conservation & Horticulture Finger Lakes Community College 3325 Marvin Sands Drive Canandaigua, NY 14426 alyssa.john...@flcc.edu (585) 785-1232 Follow us on Facebook! -- 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] red headed WP
Shirley reports that she just saw a RED-HEADED WOODPECKER being chased thru our side yard by a Pileated WP. She knows the difference between Red-headed and Red-bellied WPs and clearly saw the all-red head and all-black back, plus the bold white areas in flight. This is the first Red-headed WP seen in our yard in the 18 years we have been here. Different subject: Hummers. After seeing a female a few weeks ago there was nothing until two days ago. We have seen both a female and a male at different times in the past two days. Smiling. Snake day yesterday. We were working outside yesterday and saw two, possibly three milk snakes (plus a shed skin), a garter snake, and a black snake reported by our daughter. All this was after a Spring with only one garter snake sighting. We are wondering about the experience of others. Pls reply to us directly to keep this space for bird comments. Bill and Shirley McAneny, TBurg -- 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] OT: anyone get a photo of the raccoon at Bock-Harvey on Sunday?
I did not, and would love to have one if you are willing to share! Pls pm any reply since attachments are verboten on this list. Thanks - Alicia - Original Message - From: Mark Chao To:"Cayugabirds- L" Cc: Sent:Sun, 28 May 2017 17:34:33 -0400 Subject:[cayugabirds-l] Bock-Harvey and Stevenson, Sun 5/28 (and weather note for Mon 5/29) First, here’s a note about tomorrow’s weather and scheduling. The forecast calls for likely thunderstorms on Monday morning, peaking just when we are planning our two group walks for the Finger Lakes Land Trust Spring Bird Quest (SBQ). I will definitely show up at the start times for both walks, but I think curtailment or cancellation on the spot are distinctly possible. Please plan accordingly, especially if you have a long drive. (If we do lose both walks, then I will hope to do an impromptu make-up session later in the day. Please check email around midday if you’re interested.) In any case, weather and everything else were ideal for today’s SBQ walks at the Bock-Harvey Forest Preserve and the Stevenson Forest Preserve. Again we had very strong turnout -- 25 people at Bock-Harvey, 19 people at Stevenson. I would guess that these were the first visits to either preserve for almost everyone. And again our sightings somehow defied any expectation that too many birders might spoil the birding. (Ken Kemphues, Diane Morton, and Suan Yong helped enormously in co-leading both walks, as they did yesterday.) Our first highlight at Bock-Harvey was a female YELLOW WARBLER by the road, pushing herself into her nearly-completed nest to custom-shape it. There were many other birds here as usual, including a singing CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER and a pair of EASTERN WOOD-PEWEES occasionally coming very close together to perch before the next sally. We got to know the varied and somewhat atypical songs of the three AMERICAN REDSTARTS in this first patch of woods, with some sight confirmation for most of us. Here I also heard a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO and saw the weekend’s only YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER before everyone arrived. Over on the yellow-blazed trail in the old-growth woods, only a small subset of us had fleeting sightings of WOOD THRUSHES, OVENBIRD, and more redstarts. But I believe that everyone eyewitnessed a most striking and dramatic moment, as two male SCARLET TANAGERS silently sized up a raccoon, deeply asnooze with belly and chin resting on a branch, arms dangling, about 20 feet off the ground. Some other birders saw a female tanager here too, but I missed her. I think only one of us saw one male HOODED WARBLER, despite a slow, quiet, vigilant walk through areas where I’d seen them recently. But as we tried to wait out one Hooded Warbler (who continues to end every other song in an unusual explosive squeak), we got the surprise of the morning – a BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO making short flights and taking long pauses in a sunny patch in the otherwise shadowy woods. Several of our group even got scope views of the bird’s red orbital ring, thanks to Ken’s quick positioning. Then we walked along the edge of the meadow up to the Locust Lean-To. Here we saw a male BALTIMORE ORIOLE perched within a body length or two of an EASTERN KINGBIRD. Suan also got many of our participants onto another male Scarlet Tanager here. It was harder to see birds at Stevenson, as expected, but we did all get long scope views of an ALDER FLYCATCHER singing in the meadow overlook area. Many of us (not I) got good views of a VEERY along the initial straightaway. We heard one HOODED WARBLER across the stream, plus a couple of BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS and BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS high in the hemlocks. I was glad also to pick up the weekend’s only BLUE-HEADED VIREO so far. (I think that my weekend species tally now stands at 78 species.) But I think that we’d all agree that the greatest thrills came from the butterflies in the parking lot – ten Eastern Tiger Swallowtails jostling to collect mineral-rich moisture from a 50-square-inch patch of some mysterious mud, heedless of our close presence for many minutes, plus an exquisite and cooperative female Black Swallowtail. So whatever thunderbolts and torrents we might have to dodge tomorrow, I’ll gladly take what we got today. Thanks to all for two great outings! Mark Chao -- CAYUGABIRDS-L LIST INFO: Welcome and Basics [1] Rules and Information [2] Subscribe, Configuration and Leave [3] ARCHIVES: The Mail Archive [4] Surfbirds [5] BirdingOnThe.Net [6] PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR OBSERVATIONS TO EBIRD [7]! -- Links: -- [1] http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME [2] http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES [3]
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch Lifespan
The eldest are documented at around 9 years. There's no way to compute an average. For this and other longevity questions, this is the most accurate source: https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/longevity/Longevity_main.cfm John --- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Rd Burdett, NY 14818 42.443508000, -76.758202000 On 2017-05-30 12:40, Robin Cisne wrote: > How long, on average, do goldfinches live? -- 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] Goldfinch Lifespan
How long, on average, do goldfinches live? *"True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. * On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Peterwrote: > Folks. > > I've read in both the book "Into the Nest (by Laura Erickson & Marie Read) > and on the Lab's Birds of North America online that, on the average, male > goldfinch live longer than females. Can anyone shed light on why this is > so? I recently purchased a new niger tube feeder that is 3 feet long with a > spiral wrap-around perch. It can handle many finches and is not > disappointing!So far I've had a total of 8 finches there at the same time. > But I AM seeing many more males than females and hence my question. Thanks > for the help!! > > > > > -- > > 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/ --