One year, may be 1996 or 1995, Mike Pitzrick and I canoed around in this region (both Barge Canal and Clyde River) to look for Prothonotary Warblers if they are nesting away from the road. We spent some time searching for them but we did not hear or see them. But definitely that does not mean they were not there at all. That was the year when the tree they were nesting fell down. After that they were not reported from our area for quite some time.
Actually, what is more interesting to me is there seem to be more Prothonotary warbler (4) reported this year from various locations, may be some of them are same birds. But I was wondering if the birds from south are moving north. For example this year there have been many reports of Red-headed Woodpeckers from various locations in the Finger Lakes region. I think same is true for Prothonotary warblers and Mississippi kites. May be there is a trend. But of course one need to look for detailed data. Mine is just an hypothesis but testable. Some notes about non bird related, or bird food related as my catbird is ever eager to try any moths that come to my sheet. Today morning I had two beautiful Automeris io (Io moth) and a lovely female Cecropia Moth. Morning was cold for the moths to take off, so they were very lethargic! Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:08 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontary Warbler Spot 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 > > 607-254-2412 > > 607-342-4594 (cell) > > [email protected] > > > > 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 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> 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/ > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Cayugabirds-L List Info: > >>> Welcome and Basics > >>> Rules and Information > >>> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > >>> Archives: > >>> The Mail Archive > >>> Surfbirds > >>> BirdingOnThe.Net > >>> Please submit your observations to eBird! > >>> -- > >> -- > >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: > >> Welcome and Basics > >> Rules and Information > >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > >> Archives: > >> The Mail Archive > >> Surfbirds > >> BirdingOnThe.Net > >> Please submit your observations to eBird! > >> -- > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > > Welcome and Basics > > Rules and Information > > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > > Archives: > > The Mail Archive > > Surfbirds > > BirdingOnThe.Net > > Please submit your observations to eBird! > > -- > > Geo Kloppel > Bowmaker & Restorer > 227 Tupper Road > Spencer NY 14883 > > 607 564 7026 > [email protected] > [email protected] > > > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- Geo Kloppel Bowmaker & Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 [email protected] [email protected] -- 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/ -- -- 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/ --
