I should add that all are welcome on this field trip, members and
non-members, beginners and experts alike.
Suan
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Join me on a half-day Cayuga Bird Club field trip this Saturday, meeting
at the lab at 8am
Just had a loose flock of at least 14 crows fly by the BJM school area,
frolicking in the warm south winds, with high-pitched cawing coming from at
least three four individuals, so I presume the entire flock to be fish
crow. Would be the largest number of fish crows I've noticed in Ithaca.
Suan
For the second year, I was happy to participate in the Muckrace in the new
photography category, as part of Team Shutterbirds with Mark Miller and
Marissa Newland (Eaton Birding Society). We tallied 70 species, which I was
pleased with, given the mid-morning rain and the strong afternoon winds
This morning I found a small monarch caterpillar in an unlikely spot
downtown, and my untrained instinct tells me it's unlikely to survive to
adulthood at this location, so if anyone is up for it, I think it would be
a good idea/opportunity for someone to effect some level of rescue,
anything from
Walking this morning through the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve at Six-Mile
Creek, I found partially-toppled the dead tree that had hosted the pileated
woodpecker nest earlier this year. I found the hole and got to peek in
(with my phone) to find some interesting interior decorations. Photos here:
A hairy woodpecker nesthole was actively being attended this morning during
the bird walk, with the mother bringing two load of goodies while we
watched. All feeding was in the hole thus not visible -- don't know if
young hairies ever stick their heads out like pileateds.*
The walk also found two
For an incredible third consecutive year I've stumbled across a pileated
nesthole at the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve. The bird alerted me with
its squawking as I jogged past, looked at me nervously for a long moment
before popping into the hole. I did not hear baby noises, so I assume it is
Sora seen in reeds across from Sherwood platform, first spotted (sans
binoculars) by Colleen. Brief look before disappearing behind only giving
hints of movement before disappearing altogether. Not heard.
Many myrtles and palms and yellow warblers. Lots of rusty blackbird squeaks
from the woods.
White-Eyed Vireo from 9:30am today:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50094151@N03/sets/72157644310674355/
Following the Wilson Trail where it skirts the pond past the feeder blind,
when it starts curving away from the pond to the footbridge, there is a
little clearing to the left. This is where
Hi all,
I'll be leading a field trip this Sunday at the late-bird hour of 8:30am,
meeting at the Lab parking lot. Destination is still in flux (and subject
to influence of attendees), but will likely be in the direction of Park
Preserve and Dryden Lake. Trip will end around 1pm. All are welcome
Three hardy souls joined me on this cold breezy day for a CBC field trip.
The lab parking lot saw much activity from tree sparrows, juncos, and
goldfinches. Our first stop at East Shore Park found the ice too far out
for decent views of buffleheads, goldeneyes, and mergansers, but Myers Park
had
FYI, I'll be leading a field trip this Saturday (3/1).
We'll meet at 8am at the lab parking lot, and plan to be back around 2pm.
Forecast says cold and windy, so dress for cold and windy :-D.
Likely destinations are along the lake up to Aurora, possibly Union
Springs, and maybe the Indian Field
I did my first Muckrace this year with Team Shutterbirds, comprising
members from east, west, north, and south of Montezuma. For the added
challenge, we only counted birds we could photograph (or in a few cases,
audio record), and ended up with 88 species, with which I personally was
impressed.
Visitors to Lindsay Parsons this year may have heard a strange trill from
the first field, coming from the trees in the east. Our SFO group had heard
this on May 5, during which I said it was probably an odd junco song. This
morning's CBC field trip heard the song again. Here's an iPhone
I went to bed last night with my windows open, and at 11:40 I was surprised
to hear an ovenbird's evening song -- a complicated melody reminiscent of
winter wren with a few teachers thrown in. It kept me awake listening for
more, but the bird did not sing again.
A group of at least three ravens
On May 12, our SFO group at Arnot saw a brown creeper do the same pose but
vertically on a trunk, remaining fully camouflaged when doing so. I wish I
had my camera then. Anyhow, I assumed it was sunning itself, a reasonable
assumption on that cool day (40s-50s). The fact that your gnatcatcher did
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Asher Hockett veery...@gmail.com wrote:
Yesterday I heard a song, a thrice repeated ascending arpeggio, roughly a
musical perfect 4th between each: g c f, g c f, g c f (just to give an
idea).
This may be the Cardinal song I've nicknamed the bugle call, though
I
Had a silent but active and easy-to-track WILSON'S WARBLER at Hawthorn
this morning, this after meeting two birders (sorry, don't know your
names) who directed me towards canada and mourning they'd seen
earlier. I found the CANADA WARBLER singing near the NE entrance,
eventually got decent looks,
At the Mullholland wildflower preserve, not far from the parking lot,
is a beautiful and photogenic cavity where on the morning April 22, I
saw the face of a pileated woodpecker inside the hole. I have not seen
any pileated activity at that hole since (on my 2-3 times a week
passing that spot), so
Did a quick round of Hawthorn, finding more birders than noteworthy
birds: three yellow warblers; good numbers of white-throated and song
sparrows skulking on the forest floor; house wren singing near the
recway (FOY for me), and a chickadee continually singing the first
part of its song followed
Jay wrote:
Migrants seem very slow today
Yeah, the satellite last night showed mass movements here and west of
here and southwest (all the way to Georgia and Texas), but almost
nothing due south of us -- i.e., many birds left us to go north, but
few from south of us came up.
I'd been looking at
A raven was soaring all around commonland this morning (a bird which I
would've seen if I'd walked back to my yard -- does that count? ;-D).
In the thickets a FOY catbird was foraging and meowing, and in the
woods a black-throated-green was singing. A towhee which I'd been
hearing call for at
FYI, white-throated sparrows are not sexually dimorphic -- meaning a
normal human can't tell male from female in the field. But they do
have two morphs -- bright-striped and tan-striped -- with an
interesting cross-preference relationship (see
Like Meena I had a double-header weekend of SFO to kick off the
season, though Saturday morning's cold dark drive to the lab on a
snow-dusted road made one wonder how much spring there would be. But
the enthusiasm of a mink bouncing about the small island across the
open water of the lab brought
At the Mullholland preserve this morning I thought I heard a winter
wren singing across the rippling sound from the creek, but when I got
closer all I heard were junco trills. This was pretty close to the
parking lot.
At about the same time there was an odd whistling call -- something
between a
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:47 PM, david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have a photo of a tagged snow goose with a yelllow neck collar
number 55AY
http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/gon-gsg/
Looks like 55AY was banded April 2009 at Ile-aux-Oies (Quebec).
Three years ago I reported two such yellow
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, after the morning bird walk at the lab, I
drove up Tehan Road and walked down Signal Hollow Road on the edge of
Yellow Barn State Forest to just past the pond and back. The power cut
had a singing indigo bunting (up high, not seen) and a chestnut-sided
warbler heard
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com wrote:
At one point I heard what I thought was a double-veery, but when I
reviewed the iPhone recording I made it sounded too high:
http://suan-yong.com/sound/yellow-barn-mystery.wav
Thanks to Jay and Chris, who both thought
Yesterday (Sunday, 5/13) our SFO group made a quick stop at the
Hawthord Orchards at ~7:20am, where we heard a CANADA WARBLER singing
in the NE corner (near the white house), saw a female BLACK-AND-WHITE
WABLER, near the NE entrances, and saw/heard a BLUE-HEADED VIREO in
that NE forest/ravine. We
Walking to work today via 6-mile-creek/Mulholland, I found a great
horned owl, my first ever unassisted owl sighting in the east (OK,
assisted by a pair of crows).
Other highlights of the walk were a pair of pileated woodpeckers, my
FOY pe-o-weee, a scarlet tanager singing and chick-breeing
Today's SFO local trip started at Myers Park, where our goal bird, the
AMERICAN PIPIT, alighted by the parking lot shortly after our arrival,
giving fantastic looks at its brown lightly-streaked featureless
blandness. A number of pipits hung around the spits on both the Myers
and Salt Point side.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Chris Pelkie chris.pel...@cornell.edu wrote:
One of my deal sites just alerted me that for a short (indeterminate) time,
both the Apple iTunes Store and the Android (Amazon AppStore) have the
Audubon Birds app for $1 instead of $20. I have not used it yet, but
My feeder was more popular than usual this morning, with handsome
chipping sparrows milling about photogenically against the white
backdrop. A songlike sparrow sat for a while looking almost
lincoln-ish, but flushed before I could get my camera or otherwise
convince myself that it wasn't just a
Had a vireo singing look at me, way up here, in the tree at six-mile
creek (mulholland preserve, towards the second dam). No bins and no
visuals, alas. My untrained and rusty ears thought it felt
blue-headed.
Suan
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This morning's bird walk around Sapsucker Woods, led by Becky and me,
was very lively. Highlights included a flock of golden-crowned
kinglets foraging in the bushes around the Sherwood platform, eye
level, at times about ten feet away (my best looks at this species
ever; naturally, I didn't have
This morning, SFO Group 2 went first to Dryden Lake, where there was a
surf scoter at decent scoping distance. Other highlights were fly-by
osprey and great blue herons, many buffleheads, some lesser scaups, a
pair of ring-necked ducks, and some ruddy ducks; red-bellied
woodpecker and eastern
Oh, I forgot to mention the horned grebe at Dryden Lake hanging out
very close to the platform, showing off its confusing transitional
plumage.
Suan
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com wrote:
This morning, SFO Group 2 went first to Dryden Lake, where
I did not notice its absence last Saturday; I distinctly remember it
being still there two weekends ago, when a/the adult bald eagle was
hanging out in a neighboring tree -- which seemed odd to me since I
thought that snag was its favored perch. The cormorants, likewise,
have eschewed this snag
Yesterday (Sunday) evening near the Taughannock swimming area, a
not-quite-fledgling waxwing was on the grass presumably fallen from
its nest.
Its frequent trills alerted its presence to some of the many passers
by, though on at least one occasion when it took a break from calling,
someone almost
Thanks for the responses to my query about the Lindsay Parsons mystery
song. The consensus is that it is a variant field sparrow song.
Suan
FWIW, here's the y.b.cuckoo:
http://www.suan-yong.com/ithaca-2010/s4007-ybcuckoo.jpg
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com
I was at Lindsay Parsons yesterday ~1-3pm, and the first loud voice I
heard was one in a tree by the first field, which I could neither
identify nor locate visually until, after some 10 minutes of repeating
the same song, it flitted away across the field. I have a lousy
iPhone-recording here:
I saw one individual pine siskin yesterday (Sunday) ~1pm at Ballard
Pond in the Finger Lakes National Forest, amid a flock of chipping
sparrows.
Suan
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:
Dave Tetlow reported two from Rochester area two days ago. So probably
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