Fwd: [cayugabirds-l] Major Broad-winged Hawk flight 16 Sept Tioga County NY
Yes, my mistake, that is of course OWEGO, not Oswego. - - Dave Nutter Begin forwarded message: > From: Wes Blauvelt > Date: September 17, 2021 at 8:55:45 PM EDT > To: Dave Nutter > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Major Broad-winged Hawk flight 16 Sept Tioga > County NY > > > Dave - That would be Owego. Wes >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 8:48 PM Dave Nutter wrote: >> I just got a report from Adam Troyer who was with a group of 6 birders on a >> high steep hill off Blodgett Rd, which is off West Creek Rd near NYS-38 in >> Flemingville, north of Oswego. This is close to the confluence of the East >> and West Branches of Oswego Creek. >> >> In that location yesterday afternoon (16 September) between noon & 4pm they >> saw a stream of 6,680 Broad-winged Hawks go by. >> >> Adam is wondering if anyone else in our region was doing a concerted hawk >> watch that day, or recently, and if so what totals they had. >> >> - - Dave Nutter >> -- >> 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! >> -- -- 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] Major Broad-winged Hawk flight 16 Sept Tioga County NY
I just got a report from Adam Troyer who was with a group of 6 birders on a high steep hill off Blodgett Rd, which is off West Creek Rd near NYS-38 in Flemingville, north of Oswego. This is close to the confluence of the East and West Branches of Oswego Creek. In that location yesterday afternoon (16 September) between noon & 4pm they saw a stream of 6,680 Broad-winged Hawks go by. Adam is wondering if anyone else in our region was doing a concerted hawk watch that day, or recently, and if so what totals they had. - - Dave Nutter -- 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] crazy amazing migration redux
I second Dave Nutter's description of migration. I was settling down yesterday afternoon just past 4 for some lunch on my deck (in Trumansburg village) when I noticed a warbler flying into some of our goldenrod. I grabbed my bins, and about 45 minutes later, had, more or less in order: Orange-crowned Warbler, along with its congeners Nashville and Tennessee Cape May Warbler 2 Bald Eagles high overhead flying from the NW in a S Easterly direction, followed quickly by 47 Broad-winged Hawks, 2 Red-shouldered Hawks, several Monarch butterflies (quite high), a low-flying Merlin, 2 Ravens, 16 Turkey Vultures, 2 accipiters, and a Northern Harrier. All of these species were following this same bearing. Sometime in this melee a female Scarlet Tanager flew into a nearby tree. There was almost no wind at ground level, but it must have been a pretty steady wind aloft, almost all of the raptors were soaring. A few of the Broad-wingeds did some gyring but most flew directly through at varying altitudes. The two times I've driven to a hawk watch spot specifically for this species, I've had 6 and 8 of these small buteos, so you really never know! For details on my day's sightings, the ebird list is at https://ebird.org/checklist/S94759958 Good birding, Jared Dawson Trumansburg -- 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] Raptors aloft despite south winds
That shallow glide was *southbound* making progress to more than offset the northward drift while circling up. - - Dave Nutter > On Sep 17, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Dave Nutter wrote: > > Since then I’ve watched a Broad-wing glide north at a ridiculously shallow > angle before circling up again, a kettle of 6 climb beyond my view in cloud > mist, and a climbing kettle of 13 drift north out of view behind trees, yet > at least 9 likely from that group gliding SSW a short time later. It’s normal > migration, and it’s crazy amazing. > > - - Dave Nutter > >> On Sep 17, 2021, at 11:20 AM, Dave Nutter wrote: >> >> Yesterday I watched a couple of Broad-winged Hawks and a couple of Turkey >> Vultures kettling upward only to disappear into the misty base of a cloud. I >> didn’t know they flew in clouds. >> >> This morning I was watching the sky despite the south winds, and the >> Broad-winged Hawks were moving again. I saw at least 5 circling and climbing >> - and drifting decided northward at a pretty good clip. Will they climb >> enough to be able to glide farther south? Or is it just a good day for >> flying regardless? I also saw a Peregrine Falcon disappear up into the mists >> of cloud, but what could have been the same bird was later in the clear >> again and managing to stay over downtown Ithaca. >> >> The Monarchs managed to maintain southward travel for awhile, but later they >> too were getting blown northward. >> >> - - Dave Nutter -- 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] Raptors aloft despite south winds
Since then I’ve watched a Broad-wing glide north at a ridiculously shallow angle before circling up again, a kettle of 6 climb beyond my view in cloud mist, and a climbing kettle of 13 drift north out of view behind trees, yet at least 9 likely from that group gliding SSW a short time later. It’s normal migration, and it’s crazy amazing. - - Dave Nutter > On Sep 17, 2021, at 11:20 AM, Dave Nutter wrote: > > Yesterday I watched a couple of Broad-winged Hawks and a couple of Turkey > Vultures kettling upward only to disappear into the misty base of a cloud. I > didn’t know they flew in clouds. > > This morning I was watching the sky despite the south winds, and the > Broad-winged Hawks were moving again. I saw at least 5 circling and climbing > - and drifting decided northward at a pretty good clip. Will they climb > enough to be able to glide farther south? Or is it just a good day for flying > regardless? I also saw a Peregrine Falcon disappear up into the mists of > cloud, but what could have been the same bird was later in the clear again > and managing to stay over downtown Ithaca. > > The Monarchs managed to maintain southward travel for awhile, but later they > too were getting blown northward. > > - - Dave Nutter -- 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] Raptors aloft despite south winds
Yesterday I watched a couple of Broad-winged Hawks and a couple of Turkey Vultures kettling upward only to disappear into the misty base of a cloud. I didn’t know they flew in clouds. This morning I was watching the sky despite the south winds, and the Broad-winged Hawks were moving again. I saw at least 5 circling and climbing - and drifting decided northward at a pretty good clip. Will they climb enough to be able to glide farther south? Or is it just a good day for flying regardless? I also saw a Peregrine Falcon disappear up into the mists of cloud, but what could have been the same bird was later in the clear again and managing to stay over downtown Ithaca. The Monarchs managed to maintain southward travel for awhile, but later they too were getting blown northward. - - Dave Nutter -- 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] Turkey vultures
Hi There are well over 100 Turkey vultures along Stevenson Road, many in the air and many more perched on the solar panels and fence posts around the solar farm. 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] Cayuga Bird Club Webinar recording
FYI, the recording from Monday's Cayuga Bird Club webinar - "Northern Cardinal Urban Ecology" by Dan Baldassarre, is available here: https://tinyurl.com/cbc2021baldassarre The recording will be available until next month's webinar. 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/ --
