Yesterday evening around 6:45pm, my parents, Larry and Sara Jane Hymes, and I went for a nighttime jaunt in Upper Buttermilk Falls State Park to attempt to locate a lost phone (which we successfully found on the West trail around Treman Lake). On the way back from our nighttime hike, around 8:00pm, two loud EASTERN SCREECH-OWLS responded to my whistles; they were up high in the tall pines located about 100 yards down the closed-off section of road from the main parking lot at Upper Buttermilk Falls State Park.
During the walk, though, despite repeated attempts to get responses from any Saw-whet Owl that may have been at UBFSP, we heard no responses in that area last night. But, it seems like last night was good for hearing and getting responses from small owls. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:00 PM, bob mcguire <[email protected]>wrote: > I just returned from a long walk on the eastern portion of the east Ithaca > Recreation Way. As I reached my half-way point at Judd Falls Road I heard > the four-note call of a Northern Saw-whet Owl repeated several times. I > returned to my cay and drove back to Maple Ave, parking in the pull-off > where the Rec Way joins Maple Ave (near the water tower). This was about 30 > minutes later. I got out and played a series of toots on my penny whistle > and the owl answered - once from about 50 feet away (from atop one of the > horse enclosures), and then flew over, tooting four notes again. It was > headed into the cemetery and did not respond any more. > > Bob McGuire > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/CayugabirdsWELCOME<http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/CayugabirdsRULES<http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > http://www.NortheastBirding.**com/**CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurat** > ionLeave.htm<http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > > ARCHIVES: > 1) > http://www.mail-archive.com/**[email protected]/**maillist.html<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > 2) > http://www.surfbirds.com/**birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > 3) > http://birdingonthe.net/**mailinglists/CAYU.html<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/**ebird/ <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/> > > -- > -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
