Hi all, I had a brief view of the Summer Tanager, in a bare deciduous tree, behind Bill's neighbors house at 4:15 pm today. From the corner of Highland and Gothic the tree was 3 houses down Gothic St on the same side as Bill's house.
She briefly hawked for some unseen insects ? I first saw her fly in from somewhere back toward Highland St. to this tree. Bill's many feeders were being visited by Chickadees, House Finches, Cardinals, Mourning Doves and Downy Woodpeckers, but no Tanager. All feeding activity quit promptly at 4:45. Thanks to Matt for posting and Bill for sharing his fantastic backyard ! Great feeders too. Gary On Nov 9, 2010, at 1:31 PM, grosb...@clarityconnect.com wrote: Hello all, Over the last two days I've had many back and forth emails with Bill Toner of McGraw (4-5 minutes other side of city of Cortland) over an odd bird he has coming to his suet feeder. The long and short of it is he has a FEMALE SUMMER TANAGER coming in. Bill has nicely offered for people to come by and view the bird. Bill lives on the corner of Highland Ave. and Gothic St. If no one is home, the yard/feeders border on Gothic so anyone could park on Highland and walk 50' or so down Gothic and view the hanging basket suet feeders. He last saw the bird about 10am this morning. While not a mega-rarity, Summer Tanager in upstate NY in November is very, very rare (NYSARC bird for upstate?) --it's a bird that breeds rarely on Long Island, and is for the most part a more southern bird that should be in Central America right now. Bill was a bird-bander for many years and has participated in the Cortland CBC since the 60's I believe. Kudos and thanks to Bill Toner! cheers and good luck to anyone that might chase it, Matt Young -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting _______________________________________________ CNY-Naturalhistory mailing list cny-naturalhist...@darkstar.cortland.edu http://darkstar.cortland.edu/mailman/listinfo/cny-naturalhistory -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
