Hi all, Greeting from Newfoundland where we've been since late May. This post probably won't allay too many peoples' concerns in Ithaca, but there ARE some neotropical migrants up here, so maybe a lot of them just skipped the Cayuga Basin en route northward...
The predominate species anywhere we walk in the spruce/fir forest or any wet areas is Northern Waterthrush...they are singing everywhere up here. On the western coast of NFL a couple of weeks ago there were Ruby-crowned Kinglets all over the place. We've also seen/heard good numbers of Black-and-white Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, plus scattered Black-throated Greens, Yellow-rumped, Wilson's and a few Yellow. Hermit Thrush too. And I had my lifer Blackpoll Warbler a couple of days ago, and now recognize the call various from other sprucey places we've walked today and yesterday. That said, there is a depressingly HUGE amount of deforestation going on here, especially where we are right now an hour or so south of St. Johns...people are maniacally cutting trees, importing lawns and building houses. YUCKO!!! Certainly our birds face a huge threat in this human-dominated world...not intending to minimize that... Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.marieread.com Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography-104356136271727/ ________________________________________ From: bounce-121606671-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-121606671-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes [c...@cornell.edu] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 9:52 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Cc: John and Sue Gregoire; Glenn Wilson; JOHN BLIZZARD; Michele Emerick Brown Subject: No birds - Re: [cayugabirds-l] Tree swallow Everyone, Just pointing out the obvious here, but bird numbers in my immediate area of Upstate NY are way down this year. I mean, WAY down. John, if you have full capacity of nesting Tree Swallows, it may be that the sites you host are prime and being filled to capacity because they are the best locations. It sounds to me like the sub-par sites are not being filled. -- 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/ --
