[cayugabirds-l] Owasco Caspian Terns

There were also about 20 Caspian Terns just offshore at Owasco Flats on Saturday. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Young Broad-wings

This morning my neighborhood Broad-winged Hawks are out soaring above the forested ravines and calling. I imagine this is encouragement for the fledged youngsters to come up and see the lay of the land. I didn't locate this year's nest. Had a few sights of adults hunting from perches well down

[cayugabirds-l] Rude awakening

It's sometimes said that hawks are late-risers, so when I heard a thin, feeble pweee at 6:30 this morning, I had three reasons for thinking That must be another imitative Blue Jay. But moments later the yard crows drove a Broad-winged Hawk from its perch in a tree by the pond. Kids! They'll go

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

that this accipiter has discovered a bat roost in the area. Might be fun to find out where that is. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hummingbird Moth

Hi Kathy, Around our area, that's probably Hemaris thysbe. Here's a link to an article with nice photos. Make sure to look at the caterpillars! http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/hthysbe.htm -Geo On Aug 13, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Kathleen Kramer k...@cornell.edu wrote: Although this posting isn't

[cayugabirds-l] Cicada surprise

for a picture. A few minutes later it was gone, and shrill singing came down from the treetops. Anyone know what this all-black species is? -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Merlin - Southwest End

Driving south on rte 13 at 5:00 this evening, I glimpsed a Merlin zooming NE over the (still-unopened!) bike trail bridge into the Buttermilk Plaza area. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] goose poop an issue at interior of Myers Park

Since machines have to be driven all over these lawn areas on a regular basis to keep the grass short, it would probably be acceptable for the goose droppings to get picked up the same way. And sure enough, there are now machines designed for this very purpose. In the not-too-distant future

[cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks Renwick now

At least nine Common Nighthawks over the Fall Creek estuary / Stewart Park suspension bridges right now! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks

This evening Pat and I were delivering groceries to her 95 year old mother, who's recovering from temporal arteritis. We left her place on Triphammer Road at 7:15, stopped at Sunset Park to see if we could spot any Nighthawks from there, then zipped down to the RTJ golf course. We parked near

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks

Newman Golf Course, of course, sorry! I wonder if these Nighthawks have been roosting in the same place day after day? Or are they even the same birds? -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Double-brooding

As has been the case for a number of years now, the last warbler still singing on territory in my yard is the Hooded Warbler who owns a patch of shrubby woods just below my workshop. Singing steadily this morning, he went into alarm mode as I walked through. Answering chips indicated that he's

Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: Migration of Willow Flycatcher

Must have been flying on assist from Tropical Storm Dolly! -Geo On Sep 2, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote: FYI! Wow that is an amazing feat! This came on another list. - Original Message - From: Manuel Grosselet birdin...@gmail.com To:

[cayugabirds-l] Barred Owls, etc.

At 4:00 am my local Barred Owls were amazingly exuberant; they sounded like a troupe of excited monkeys down at the western edge of the L-P Preserve! I've been awake ever since, and I'm feeling pretty sleepy. Better wake up, I have to drive up to Syracuse this evening. A Sharp-shin or

[cayugabirds-l] Screech Owl

began hooting over towards Lindsay-Parsons, and that was that! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http

[cayugabirds-l] Turkey mom

and house cats, but these birds learn to fly when they're still quite small. Nevertheless, mom keeps them close. I can often tell where the little family is from the soft call-and-response music they make as they forage together in the deep undergrowth or out in the tall goldenrod. -Geo Kloppel

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird call question

If you can't make chipmunks fit, you night consider Turkey moms and their half-grown poults. They're trading alarm clucks right now. -Geo Kloppel On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Sue Rakow sue.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I know chipmunk chatter quite well so am not sure of this. It is a loud sound

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park geese

Those birds may have to stay near the lake today. The ceiling has dropped to ground level out here in the upper inlet valley, and the surrounding highlands are thickly enshrouded. This is our first day without big flights of departing Snow Geese since last Tuesday before the storm (during the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Belle School Rd - CL Basin or Not?

, which flows into Orinoco in general, but if the precipitation is heavy then it flows into Amazon. Meena Ithaca Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: Well, collectively we're interested in _both_ the 1/1/2015 Ithaca Christmas Bird Count and the Cayuga Basin First Records for 2015

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Belle School Rd - CL Basin or Not?

Jody W. Enck, PhD Program Development and Evaluation Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2471 From: Geo Kloppel Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎January‎ ‎3‎, ‎2015 ‎9‎:‎50‎ ‎AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Sandy is correct. Without testing, it's hard to guess which way the surface water ought to run

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Belle School Rd - CL Basin or Not?

guess fifty acres or more. The ditch along the south side of Belle School Road coming down from the west also drains northward through the same culvert. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] bird feeders and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

I wonder if birds might some day soon be drafted to spread the biological control agents that will keep hemlock wooly adelgid in check? -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT : Comet Lovejoy is visible right now

Two clear nights in a row! Green slushball Comet Lovejoy is easy to spot right now, about a hand's breadth (1.5 binocular fields) SW of the Pleiades. Thanks Meena. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] In My Neighborhood

I too enjoyed a long window session with a Cooper's Hawk this morning. My young bird (a male, I guessed) was definitely hungry, though, and made numerous attempts at feeder birds, who only retreated to the underbranches of the spruce tree behind the feeder. It almost seemed that they could tell

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OOB? Rough-legged

Hi Michelle, I think all of Townsendville Road is IN. -Geo On Jan 22, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Michele Mannella mkmanne...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday and last Saturday I found two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Townsendville Road, south of Covert Road and north of Vesa in Interlaken. They were a joy to

[cayugabirds-l] Butler's Pine warbler within Cayuga Basin?

Here's a link to the locality topo, if anyone wants to see it. The location of interest is along rte 89 in the NW corner of the map, just east of the 524' drumlin summit shown there. http://www.dec.ny.gov/data/dfwmr/bba/pdf/3577a.pdf -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] RFI: possible first 2015 Cayuga Lake Basin PINE WARBLER

Ay, that's a tough one! Even on the USGS topo I can't tell (see BBA block 3577A). On Kevin's tennis principle (the line is IN), I'd call this inside the basin, unless the owner declares his/her yard is definitely out. -Geo On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Butler Creek drainage

at that address may drain both ways. -Geo Kloppel On Feb 18, 2015, at 3:23 AM, M Miller mmiller...@hotmail.com wrote: I did a brief review of the waynecountynysoilandwater.org site and found out a couple things. The town of Butler is listed as partly in the Lake Ontario watershed (basin drainage

[cayugabirds-l] Siskins and Redpolls

I've also got at least one Pine Siskin at my feeders now (Tupper Road, West Danby), and I've had flyover Redpolls, so I'm hoping they'll drop in too. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Long Point Short Ears

and headed NE, quickly disappearing from view in the gathering darkness. I didn't see any others, but I could hear them barking back down in the vineyard, so I trust the whole group is still present. Not so sure about the Lansing Short-ears... Is anybody still seeing them? -Geo Kloppel

[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls

A couple of Redpolls have joined the 40+ Goldfinches at my feeders this morning. They seem to have replaced the two Pine Siskins that were here for a few days. Although I have a feeder devoted to niger, it's not as popular as my big hopper-style feeder, which I keep filled with the Turek Farm

Re: [cayugabirds-l] City of Ithaca: Raven, non-count-week Gadwall, legal sanctuary at south end of lake

Does the Ithaca Police Dept have a police boat? That seems like it would be essential equipment for enforcing the firearms ban in the portion of Stewart Park that extends 2,000' north over the water. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Waterfowl hunting regulation

I guess the courts have the final say on the validity of Ithaca's ordinance. Concern about the cost and risks associated with jurisdictional disputes may be explanation enough for the lack of enforcement heretofore. But if the city begins to enforce its No Hunting ordinance, then DEC will have

[cayugabirds-l] Waterfowl hunting regulation

://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/40550.html : The State holds the authority to regulate hunting, and no lesser government can usurp that authority. Although No Hunting laws are not valid, they may nonetheless be on the books in some municipalities. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Waterways Jurisdiction

Hi Chris, The city and state jurisdictions apparently overlap in the portion of the lake that lies within the city boundary. State agencies do not enforce the city's hunting ban there, but it seems logical that city police should still have the authority to do so (after all, this area is within

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Geese!

; their northward advance is noticeably slowed by the strong headwind. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES

[cayugabirds-l] Siskins and Purple Finch

New at my feeders are 3 Pine Siskins and a male Purple Finch. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1

[cayugabirds-l] Kettle of Ravens

Snow Geese have been passing over West Danby all day. At 3:00 I heard some remote croaks, and looked up to see a kettle of ten Ravens riding a thermal upward. My local Raven pair is also very active, quite vocal and often flying close together. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Goose flights

Some northbound flocks of geese entering the basin over West Danby now. Both Canadas and Snows. This morning it was Gulls, moving southward. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Goshawk!

I was sitting at home with a cup of tea just now, gazing across the upper Cayuga Inlet valley toward sunlit Thatcher's Pinnacles, enjoying the thought that in seven or eight weeks this will all look so different, and the Worm-eating Warblers will be back. Suddenly a large whitish bird flew

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Raven courtship

material, as they headed up toward the traditional nest site (north face of Sorry Hunter Hill, 1920' elevation) -Geo Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby On Mar 4, 2015, at 12:53 PM, John Confer con...@ithaca.edu wrote: Spring around our house includes Raven courtship. -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Crows, Eagle

A pair of Crows was gathering nest material on the bank outside my kitchen window this morning. Plenty of other Crows around, of course, but one that I saw downtown this afternoon is notable, because it was chasing a first year Bald Eagle over the Unitarian Church. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Crows, Eagle

A pair of Crows was gathering nest material on the bank outside my kitchen window this morning. Plenty of other Crows around, of course, but one that I saw downtown this afternoon is worth noting, because it was chasing a first year Bald Eagle over the Unitarian Church. -- Cayugabirds-L List

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ladoga Point

This is the spot: 42.53540N, 76.53968W -Geo Kloppel -- 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

[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows

Today we finally lost enough snow up here in the West Danby highlands to expose some habitat for ground foragers, and sure enough, several Fox Sparrows are singing from deep in the thickets. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

[cayugabirds-l] Mucklands

for Shovelers, Blue-winged Teal or any shorebirds. Saw the two Red-necked Grebes on the Union Springs Mill Pond. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Another Phoebe

Phoebe here also, new this morning. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker

comes back, but the intervals are long and he seems to be in no hurry. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1

[cayugabirds-l] More building

-and-learn mode. Think I'll put out some horse hair for them. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1

[cayugabirds-l] Jennings Pond, etc

at Hillview Road; no luck yet. The Eagles at North Spencer Marsh were hanging around their nest, until one flew off toward Spencer Lake, at which point the other went to stand in the nest, and began tearing-up a fish. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

I'm not sure what they'd do in a really ferocious windstorm, but normal windy conditions shouldn't stop them. After all, the display is a show of fitness. But wind might well make it harder for you to hear and observe them. -Geo On Apr 13, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.net

[cayugabirds-l] Swan pen

On the principle that too much location info _is_ better than not enough, I'd like to remind anyone who cares (and inform anyone who might not know) that the so-called swan pen is actually the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Memorial Bird Sanctuary. Nowadays we tend to reserve the words Bird Sanctuary

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher, Red-shouldered Hawk

Road. Not an unusual bird in the Danby State Forest, but memorable because the sky was so gray that the hawk seemed to be in flames, the brightest thing anywhere to be seen. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Around home

Avenue high on the south bank of the ravine, where the fallen tree lies across a small tributary ravine about 100 yards west of the Danby-Newfield town line). -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Newman Golf Course Great Horned Owls home alone etc

Hi Marie, In Great Britain the young of Common Mergansers (Mergus merganser) are often called goosanderlings. One of my photo goals this spring/summer is Common Mergansers with ducklings (merglings?). -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Ovenbird

Finally an Ovenbird this morning. Far western Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, along the Newfield-Danby town line. Ruby-crowned Kinglets everywhere. 3 Blue-headed Vireos. I'm still hoping for some Warblers to pipe-up as the treetops warm in the bright sunshine... -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Broadwings building

I found my yard Broad-winged Hawks decorating a (new) stick nest with green hemlock switches this morning. The nest tree is of course right over one of my tractor trails, so I'll have to avoid going that way for a while. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Owl pellets, bats

of bats wintering under the siding on my shop too... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http

[cayugabirds-l] More thrushes; Nashville

A pulse of thrushes arrived in my woods this morning: many Veeries, two Wood Thrushes; also have several Nashville Warblers. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

(Pheucticus ludovicianus) began singing. As I type this, the bird has moved over to the feeder, like a native returned. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

A dawn chorus walk around my yard (5:35, 40 degrees F) produced a Gray Catbird and a Common Yellowthroat. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warblers

-throated Hummingbird appeared last evening. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- 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

[cayugabirds-l] Yard birds

, a Black-and-White Warbler and a Chestnut-sided Warbler, along with the usual Hermit Thrushes, Blue-headed Vireos, etc. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk eggs

Broad-winged Hawk was sitting deep in her nest this morning; only the tip of her tail was visible, sticking out beyond the rim... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows like toad liver

I guess it's an element of local Crow culture, maybe even limited to particular families who have toad ponds within their territories and pass the trick down the generations. -Geo Kloppel On May 6, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Melanie Uhlir mela...@mwmu.com wrote: Very interesting. But I'm sad about

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods worm eating warbler

The West Danby Worm-eating Warblers do sing from within the canopy on their nesting territories, especially around 9:00 AM when the sun first breaks over the pinnacles to light the treetops. But the steep exposed habitat is very harsh and the trees seem stunted: mostly they top-out at 25 - 30

[cayugabirds-l] Morning birds

This morning I climbed to the top of Sorry Hunter Hill (1,920 summit, West Danby). I encountered a number of Scarlet Tanagers along the way. Hooded Warblers and American Redstarts are also back in force. Lady slippers are just peeking out of the leaf litter. Without looking for it, I

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Recent highlights (breeding sandpipers, Merlins, toads)

Hi Mark (and all), You wrote about Wesley Hill: We found 39 bird species and an orgy of American Toads. The account on the SBQ blog was great fun, and timely too, as american toads are holding their annual pool party in my pond right now, and it's so loud I can hardly think straight to

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard Monday

Hi Bob, you wrote: I almost forgot - we got good looks at a single Blackpoll Warbler. This normally signals the end of spring migration. How many days do we have left?? The trouble with the Blackpoll benchmark is that at least a few Blackpolls pass through here early (10th of May!), though

[cayugabirds-l] More Canada Warblers

I slept with the windows open, of course, and woke up thinking that I must go see Cardinal Richelieu. So, I ambled down to the little gorge on the west side of Beech Hill Road (Lindsay-Parsons Preserve) to find that Canada Warblers are back on territory there. On the way back I found a pile of

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby yard birds

Around my yard, Common Yellowthroats, Black-throated Green Warblers and Chestnut-sided Warblers are more numerous today. There are plenty of Wood Thrushes and Veeries and Ovenbirds, Catbirds and Towhees and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Purple Finches and so on, but just a single Indigo Bunting.

[cayugabirds-l] Anxious about being on his own, perhaps?

Most of my Purple Finches are gone, but one male that lingers at the feeder has from time to time been delivering what the Audubon guide describes with curious specificity as the vireo-like song given in the presence of a hawk. Perhaps this short song has a more general function...? Prairie

[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

A Black-billed Cuckoo is singing just below my yard right now. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] More Acadians

a bird song from memory, it also turns up the gain on the associated detector. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler, Blackpoll

A couple of obviously new migrants are singing in my yard. One is a Blackpoll Warbler (I always feel a slight resistance to putting Warbler after the name Blackpoll. It feels as if one were to write Redpoll Finch) The other is a MOURNING WARBLER. Although its rich rolling song left no room for

Re: [cayugabirds-l] hummingbird aggression

Both sexes are aggressive. It's pretty interesting, but if their squabbles become tiresome, you can put up more feeders, located on opposite sides of the house, or even farther apart if you've got room. -Geo On May 13, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Hile School

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

Successful Phoebes usually raise a second brood, so it's certainly possible that yours will try again... -Geo On May 18, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Susan Gateley su...@silverwaters.com wrote: not really a bird watching note but here goes. we are roofing a shed and had to take a nest down. It

[cayugabirds-l] Acadian Flycatcher

I found a singing ACADIAN FLYCATCHER this morning in Michigan Hollow, occupying the same territory as last year. Also in the vicinity: Winter Wren, Least Flycatcher, Canada Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers and American Redstarts, among many others. In the Michigan Hollow marsh an American

[cayugabirds-l] R-c Kinglets and Siskins

I have a couple of Pine Siskins at my niger feeder this morning, and Ruby-crowned Kinglets are singing from three directions. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit thrushes and insects

) darner fly by. Common Green Darner, I suppose... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hermit thrushes and insects

Meena's wonderful book (link below) gives some info on migration of odonates (page 117). Green Darner is one of the long distance migrants. Maybe these darners that are showing up now hatched in the deep south, or even in Veracruz, and came north on more-or-less the same timetable as the

[cayugabirds-l] Blue-headed Vireo

In my yard I've had a Blue-headed Vireo this morning, a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and a new group of brightly-painted White-throated Sparrows. Still have Fox Sparrows singing. I just spotted a Blue Jay carrying nest material into a clump of young white pines, the so-called cabbage trees.

[cayugabirds-l] Louisiana Waterthrush

growth, a Towhee was steadily chewinking. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- 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

[cayugabirds-l] Broadwing

My Broad-winged Hawk is out doing a territorial flight right now. Crows don't like it much. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Pine Warbler

along Townline Road just north of Lick Brook I did find a singing Pine Warbler. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Local Broad-winged Hawk returns

in the vanguard of the migratory wave. I also saw some kind of fracas among three very vocal Pileated Woodpeckers. It went on for several minutes, but I couldn't determine the sexes... -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows chasing ravens

that's currently nesting in my yard, since the Ravens are passing back and forth right over the Crows' territory. -Geo Kloppel On Apr 11, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Benjamin Freeman bg...@cornell.edu wrote: Hello, I went for a nice walk this morning at Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve. Phoebes

Re: [cayugabirds-l] woodcock viewing?

The Lindsay-Parsons Preserve has long been a good place for viewing Woodcock displays. Just park in the lot, walk down the trail into the ravine, cross the little bridge and continue up and out into the big fields. Head for the knoll with the Leopold bench: you can see a huge expanse of sky

[cayugabirds-l] Late Snow Geese

Around 11:30 or 12:00 a flock of c. 35 Snow Geese went over West Danby. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit Thrush, Winter Wren

Over the roar of Beech Hill Brook (just west of the eponymous road, Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, West Danby) I heard one or more Hermit Thrushes early this morning, and also a Winter Wren. Fox Sparrows are singing here and there, Ruffed Grouse are drumming. Wood Ducks have circled my pond, but

[cayugabirds-l] Migrants in my yard

New in my 'yard' this morning were more singing Fox Sparrows, a lone Chipping Sparrow, several Golden-crowned Kinglets, and one or two singing Purple Finches. Turkeys are gobbling, Ruffed Grouse are drumming, and I'll be on the watch for returning Hermit Thrushes. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Ducks and Ticks

I took a short walk in the mown fields in the central part of the LP Biodiversity Preserve (West Danby). Ponds are just beginning to open down there, and Wood Ducks were concentrated in the small ice-free areas. I stopped counting at 16... Great Blue Herons were standing in a high nest out in

Re: [cayugabirds-l] 13 Bonaparte's Gulls at Stewart Park

Count is now 21 Bonaparte's Gulls at Stewart Park, all swimming close-in, picking tiny edibles off the surface of the water (3:50 pm). -Geo Kloppel On Apr 7, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Diane Morton dianegmor...@gmail.com wrote: Looking north from the Swan Pen, Ken and I saw 13 Bonaparte's Gulls

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler still

Forget to mention that a Mourning Warbler continued today singing in the same hard-to-penetrate thicket in my yard. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] More Acadians

Hi Kevin, you wrote: So, one has to ask, what is your mnemonic for Canada Warbler? The mnemonic that I use won't initially strike many readers as a plausible rendering, especially not if they have been introduced to field guide representations like chip-chupety-swee-ditchety. Some years ago

[cayugabirds-l] Two more Acadian Flycatchers

here... -Geo Kloppel -- 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

[cayugabirds-l] Cayuta Lake Osprey

Just spotted an Osprey at the top of Cayuta Gulf... -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Hendershot Gulf (and a plea)

some kind of action to prevent this? At the very least, I would hope for one of DEC's signs at the state boundary, like the ones I see at various other Conn Hill locations, declaring MOTORIZED VEHICLES PROHIBITED. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Cascadilla Merlins, West Danby bear

I happened to be on foot in Ithaca's Fall Creek neighborhood about 1:45 yesterday afternoon, so I looked in on the Merlin nest along Cascadilla Creek, and watched for a few minutes. It was pretty quiet, but I did see one falcon leave the nest, take a series of perches in nearby trees over the

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-wings to fledge soon

Looks like the Broad-winged Hawks nesting just below my yard will be fledging soon... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

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