Going west over the green steel bridge actually puts you on an island
containing about 150 acres. It seems plausible that Prothonotary
warblers have occupied it continuously since the early 1990s, perhaps
some years settling out of range of detection from the roadside.
Speaking of marsh islands and Acadian Flycatchers, does anyone know
if Acadians still breed on Howland Island?
-Geo
On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Matthew Medler wrote:
Yes, the two Prothonotary Warblers that I heard yesterday are in
the same general area that Geo describes below. However, they were
not singing from right along the canal, as they did back in the
1990s. Instead, they were a bit west of that, away from the canal.
Looking at Google Earth, the coordinates for the gravel parking
spot are 43.020880, -76.800188, and the birds were singing 25+
yards west of that (a bit farther west than I estimated below).
Matt
From: Geo Kloppel <[email protected]>
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Birding <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontaries -- Yes
When I plugged-in the provided coordinates the other day, Google
Earth landed me out in the open, hundreds of yards to the east. But
Matt Medler's description of the "one-lane green bridge" made it
clear that these birds are in just about the same spot where
Prothonotary Warblers were found in the late 1990s - i.e. the west
end of the high steel bridge over the modern barge canal.
-Geo
On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote:
> This is a strange series of events. Having been a little confused
by the bridges on Armitage Rd myself on Sunday, I wonder if there
is the possibility of these being two separate spots? 3 calling
Acadian FCs would seem to be hard to miss by all the other
Prothonotary seekers, and vice versa.... Just a thought.
>
> KEN
>
>
> Ken Rosenberg
> Director of Conservation Science
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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> On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:46 AM, J. Gary Kohlenberg wrote:
>
>> Yesterday at 6:30 pm I was able to hear and then see both
Prothonotary warblers. I recorded video of one to have the singing.
They are LOUD at close range.
>> This area is amazingly birdie.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, "Matthew Medler" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>
>>> There were two Prothonotary Warblers countersinging from
opposite sides of Armitage Road at 4:30 pm on Monday afternoon (31
May 2011). These birds were just 10-20 yards west of the little
gravel pull-off area on the west side of the one-lane green bridge.
No sign of any Acadians at that time, but a singing Northern
Waterthrush was a bit of a surprise. Not a surprise, but always
nice to hear, were two Cerulean Warblers. Oh, and a distant Black-
billed Cuckoo sang for about 30 seconds.
>>>
>>> Matt Medler
>>> Ithaca
>>>
>>> From: bob mcguire <[email protected]>
>>> To: cayugabirdlist <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8:47 AM
>>> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontary - no
>>>
>>> John Confer and I drove up to the north end of the lake yesterday
>>> evening to look for some of the recently-sighted birds. From
the tower
>>> at Tschache Pool we scoped the vast mud flats and found - 3 BLACK-
>>> BELLIED PLOVERS and two distant shorebirds that flew in and
>>> disappeared behind logs and stumps. No other shorebirds. 3 Red-
winged
>>> Blackbirds. One of the plovers had a markedly darker cap,
making it
>>> worth a closer look. However the throat and belly were black
while the
>>> vent was white, and the bill was relatively short and stubby.
So we
>>> left it as Black-bellied Plover.
>>>
>>> From there we drove out Armitage Road, parked just past the green
>>> bridge, and spent about a half hour walking up and down the
road to
>>> the west. We heard several Yellow Warblers, 2 American
Redstarts, also
>>> Common Yellowthroats, Swamp Sparrows and, surprisingly, 3 ACADIAN
>>> FLYCATCHERS. Two of them were on the north side, close to the
road.
>>> The third was on the south side. Unfortunately for us, no
Prothonotary
>>> Warblers. We left at sunset.
>>>
>>> Bob McGuire
>>>
>>>
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