Re: [cayugabirds-l] Large flock of Common Ravens flying southeast!
I too remember the excitement of seeing this for the first time, while walking the bounds of the newly-created Steege Hill Preserve in 2001 or 2002. We were near the eastern edge, where the land drops suddenly into the spectacular gorge of the Chemung River, and rises again on the far side to Harris Hill, the “Soaring Capital of America” - a splendidly grand setting for the large number of soaring Ravens.-GeoOn Sep 1, 2024, at 7:24 PM, Marie P. Read wrote: Well according to Birds of the World, Common Ravens do indeed form communal roosts. Very cool. First I’ve ever seen this dusk flight in this neck of the woods. Marie Get Outlook for iOS From: bounce-128359566-5851...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Marie P. Read Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2024 7:10:04 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Large flock of Common Ravens flying southeast! I just stepped outside to cut some herbs for dinner, when hearing the croak of a Common Raven overhead, I looked up and witnessed an astonishing sight. A steady stream of Common Ravens flying overhead, quite low, some circling as they do on thermals then proceeding, headed southeast. I counted about thirty then lost count. They were acting just like crows going to roost. Maybe the corvidophiles on the list can elucidate as what was going on? Do they actually form big roosts at this time of year? I did not know this. I am used to seeing smallish family groups or pairs. Or maybe was this a migration event ahead of some cooler weather coming in? Quite fascinating whatever the reason. Marie Get Outlook for iOS -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA 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 ABA 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 ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Teenage fledglings feeding the next brood
The number 3 suggests one possibility: Many bird populations contain significant numbers of unpaired “floaters”, and at times, if accepted, a non-territorial floater can become a helper at the nest of a breeding pair…-GeoOn Jul 30, 2024, at 11:47 AM, Deb Grantham wrote: Definitely 3 or more robins going in and out of that bush feeding. But could be more than one nest. There has been in the past. Deb From: bounce-128312562-83565...@list.cornell.edu On Behalf Of Deb Grantham Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2024 11:19 AM To: Donna Lee Scott ; anneb.cl...@gmail.com Cc: madonna stallmann ; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Teenage fledglings feeding the next brood I’ve been watching robins feeding and it seems as if there are many more than 2 of them feeding. At times, there’s almost a conveyer belt of them going in and out of the bush. The nest is in a dense juniper bush so I can’t see what’s going on in there. But it sure looks as if some of the robins flying into that bush with things in their beaks are young looking (their head feathers). Deb From: bounce-128312534-83565...@list.cornell.eduOn Behalf Of Donna Lee Scott Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2024 9:45 AM To: anneb.cl...@gmail.com Cc: madonna stallmann ; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Teenage fledglings feeding the next brood regarding Madonna‘s neat observations of young bluebirds “helping to feed” their younger siblings : I have just been reading “the bird way: a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think” by Jennifer Ackerman. She discusses novel, unexpected bird behaviors & said Louis Lefebvre of McGill University in his work on bird behavioral flexibility “combed through journals of the past 75 years and found more than 2000 reports of … innovative behaviors in birds of different species.” So, here we have another example of that, perhaps. Donna Scott Kendal at Ithaca-377 Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2024, at 11:54 AM, anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Western bluebirds do have “ help at the nest” from previous young (year old ones) but I wasn’t aware of it in Eastern Bluebirds. And especially not young of the same year! I thought I saw this in barn swallows—well, not feeding but bombing me around a second nest— when I was myself a kid. If others know of reports or published descriptions, please share! One wonders if climate change will make later nesting/ renesting more advantageous. Might change these familial behaviors or offer more opportunities. Anne Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2024, at 8:43 AM, madonna stallmann wrote: Hi bird friends! We've been having fun watching our bluebird nest box! This year we've had the pleasure of watching the first of the year nestlings hang out with the parents, and to our surprise they are even "helping" feed the second brood! I'm curious as to whether others in this group have witnessed this behavior? I would love to hear your stories. Anyone? ❤️🐦, Madonna Stallmann -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA 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 ABA 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 ABA 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 ABA 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 ABA 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 ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! --
[cayugabirds-l] Hendershot Gulf Acadians
I walked down through Hendershot Gulf this morning with a microphone, encountering multiple singing Acadian Flycatchers, Canada Warblers, Winter Wrens, Louisiana Waterthrushes, etc... the same suite of birds one encounters in the Cayuta Outlet gorge. >From the DEC kiosk on Swan Hill Road down through the hidden gorge to the >limit of state land just short of Pony Hollow is only about 1.5 miles, but >it’s very slow going, as the way is much encumbered. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Ravens fledging
…and now the young Ravens have come out of the spruces and into the wider world, taking flights of 100 yards or more. > On May 15, 2024, at 7:41 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > The remarkably noisy young Ravens in the spruces just across the road from > my house have gotten out of their nest tree and are moving around quite a bit > in the plantation. I’m looking forward to hearing their raucous > importunations from greater and greater distances as they get their wings! > > -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Ravens fledging
The remarkably noisy young Ravens in the spruces just across the road from my house have gotten out of their nest tree and are moving around quite a bit in the plantation. I’m looking forward to hearing their raucous importunations from greater and greater distances as they get their wings! -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Siskins still
West Danby - still have a few Siskins coming to my nyjer feeder -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Re Grape Jelly for orioles/catbirds
For purely incidental (i.e. not experimental) reasons, one of the two identical hummingbird feeders that I’m running side-by-side is loaded with the usual colorless 1:4 solution of “pure cane sugar” (Domino), and the other is loaded with a 1:4 solution of “certified organic pure cane sugar”, which of course has not been stripped of all traces of cane molasses by the so-called “bleaching” process, and consequently has a very slight tawny color. The hummers are favoring the Domino. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Siskins
Lots of welcome arrivals, including Great Crested Flycatcher today, but I’m still feeding nyjer seed to a couple of Pine Siskins. The Ravens at Taughannock Falls have four nestlings. They are quite late compared to the big and noisy youngsters in my spruce plantation, seeming to support the presumption that their parents are the same pair that attempted to construct a nest farther up the gorge in late February but couldn’t make the sticks stay put upon the tiny, outward sloping ledge they had chosen. I wonder if they made actual use of the stolen eggs they had cached up that-a-way, or if that business in which they cooperated was a kind of invented courtship activity? -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine hatch begins
When I arrived after 11 this morning the incubating Peregrine was casting her eyes down upon her own breast, with her head cocked to one side as if listening. Sure enough, when she stood up her first hatchling was revealed. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Falls light show?
Being listed as endangered or threatened isn’t really the criterion for legal protection. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) already protects these birds and their nests, eggs, and nestlings. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Falls light show?
The Peregrines’ nest is just below the Visitor’s Center building at the falls overlook, so not likely to be lighted directly, unless the technicians are planning something really extravagant! The Ravens' nest is above and slightly north of the lip of the falls itself. It's well within the reach of spotlighting intended to highlight the falls, unless that were carefully aimed to avoid the nest area…On Apr 14, 2024, at 1:53 PM, Rachel Hogancamp wrote:Do we know where the lights will be? Will they light up the nest? I know someone at the Parks office and will try to contact them to see what’s possible.Sent from my iPhoneOn Apr 14, 2024, at 1:46 PM, Sandy Podulka wrote: Would the Endangered Species Act make this illegal? At 10:15 AM 4/14/2024, Tim Gallagher wrote: I heard some disturbing news last night. Apparently Taughannock Falls will be brightly illuminated from 8:30 to 10:00 this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night (April 18, 19, and 20). I guess it’s some kind of PR stunt to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York State Park Service, but it couldn’t possibly come at a worse time, with the eggs just about to hatch in the Peregrine Falcon eyrie and a pair of Ravens nesting right beside the falls—not mention all the other wildlife in the park.. There certainly should be other, less potentially harmful, ways to celebrate the Park Service. You can contact the Taughannock Park office at (607) 387-7041. (Photo by Arthur A. Allen) -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA 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 ABA 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 ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Falls light show?
Peregrines (and Ravens too) sometimes nest on buildings, bridges, and other structures in the vicinity of artificial lights. But those individuals have chosen those sites, and they are accustomed to the lights. I think the potential for harm to the birds nesting in the dark Taughannock gorge is concentrated in the suddenness and surprise of turning spotlights upon them. Especially tough for the Ravens, whose nest is right above the falls!If it was my decision, I wouldn’t risk it at this season. But if it’s really beyond cancelling, I suppose it might help to turn on the lights early, _before_ darkness settles in the gorge. Also to direct the spots solely upon the falls itself, and not flood the Raven’s nest and the whole amphitheater with light. There will already be quite a bit of moonlight those evenings. I know I want to be there, not to see the spotlights but to observe the reaction of the incubating females.-GeoOn Apr 14, 2024, at 1:16 PM, Deb Grantham wrote: So what do we do? Deb From: bounce-128145578-83565...@list.cornell.edu On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 12:07 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Falls light show? Below is the press release for the evening light shows at the great falls in Taughannock Falls State Park later this week, which have potential to disturb the Peregrine Falcons and Ravens that are currently on nests there). Note that the event is jointly hosted by NYS Parks, Visit Ithaca, and also the Tompkins Chamber, which is handling online registration for after-dark hikes up the gorge trail to the lighted falls. Go for a hike and view the lights to celebrate 100 years of NYS Parks at Taughannock Falls mytwintiers.com On Apr 14, 2024, at 10:16 AM, Tim Gallagher <t...@cornell.edu> wrote: I heard some disturbing news last night. Apparently Taughannock Falls will be brightly illuminated from 8:30 to 10:00 this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night (April 18, 19, and 20). I guess it’s some kind of PR stunt to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York State Park Service, but it couldn’t possibly come at a worse time, with the eggs just about to hatch in the Peregrine Falcon eyrie and a pair of Ravens nesting right beside the falls—not mention all the other wildlife in the park. There certainly should be other, less potentially harmful, ways to celebrate the Park Service. You can contact the Taughannock Park office at (607) 387-7041. (Photo by Arthur A. Allen) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA 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 ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Falls light show?
Below is the press release for the evening light shows at the great falls in Taughannock Falls State Park later this week, which have potential to disturb the Peregrine Falcons and Ravens that are currently on nests there).Note that the event is jointly hosted by NYS Parks, Visit Ithaca, and also the Tompkins Chamber, which is handling online registration for after-dark hikes up the gorge trail to the lighted falls.Go for a hike and view the lights to celebrate 100 years of NYS Parks at Taughannock Fallsmytwintiers.comOn Apr 14, 2024, at 10:16 AM, Tim Gallagher wrote:I heard some disturbing news last night. Apparently Taughannock Falls will be brightly illuminated from 8:30 to 10:00 this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night (April 18, 19, and 20). I guess it’s some kind of PR stunt to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York State Park Service, but it couldn’t possibly come at a worse time, with the eggs just about to hatch in the Peregrine Falcon eyrie and a pair of Ravens nesting right beside the falls—not mention all the other wildlife in the park. There certainly should be other, less potentially harmful, ways to celebrate the Park Service. You can contact the Taughannock Park office at (607) 387-7041. (Photo by Arthur A. Allen) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Peregrines
Yes, a few reports of LA Waterthrush around Ithaca and elsewhere in the FingerlakesOn Apr 12, 2024, at 7:13 PM, Peter Saracino wrote:Thanks Geo.Are any Louisiana waterthrush back?SarOn Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 5:35 PM Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote:The Taughannock gorge Peregrines should see their eggs hatching soon. She has been lying on her nest ledge since March 14th. She has four brown eggs beneath her. He has been making food deliveries… twice while I watched today. Those are very excited, talkative events, though I guess all the vocalizing comes down to something like: “Bring more! more!” And “Okay, okay!” -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds ABA Please submit your observations to eBird! --
[cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Peregrines
The Taughannock gorge Peregrines should see their eggs hatching soon. She has been lying on her nest ledge since March 14th. She has four brown eggs beneath her. He has been making food deliveries… twice while I watched today. Those are very excited, talkative events, though I guess all the vocalizing comes down to something like: “Bring more! more!” And “Okay, okay!” -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse
> Ithaca, New York (where the skies are very rarely clear during celestial > events.) The evening _before_ the eclipse the skies were quite clear. I went up to the top of my hill in West Danby with a couple of my neighbors, and we enjoyed viewing Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks through binoculars and spotting scope for the better part of an hour. Of course the day of the eclipse was cloudy. My daughter in Ithaca got a nice photo of the partly eclipsed sun through a brief hole in the cloud cover. No such luck in West Danby. At the darkest point, my feeder birds briefly disappeared. But the Raven female across the road began begging very loudly and insistently. I saw her partner head off toward the valley in the gloom, presumably to find something for her. My chickens did not bother going to roost. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Varna mystery bird song
In addition to their familiar trills, delivered all at one pace and pitch, Dark-eyed Juncos do have a two part song that can suggest Song Sparrow. You can find examples in some of the field guide apps. -Geo > On Apr 1, 2024, at 5:30 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > Pretty sure it’s a junco. > Laura > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Ravens
The Ravens are nesting again in the same location as last year, a ledge on the north wall close to and higher than the great falls, easily viewed from a nearby lookout on the South Rim trail. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Harrier courtship
A pair of Northern Harriers was keeping close company at the traditional nest site in Michigan Hollow this morning. Observing from a considerable distance, I watched the male drop into the sedges in the area of previous years’ nest(s). He immediately took flight again, and moments later the female appeared and dropped into precisely the same spot. She popped up again and both birds melted back into the piney swamp at the north end of the marsh. I suspect he left her a gift, though I wasn’t close enough to confirm that. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Siskins
A couple of Pine Siskins have joined the Goldfinches at my feeders this morning. Encouraged, I’ve put out a second Nyjer feeder. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows
Two Fox Sparrows are rummaging under my feeders at the moment. We’re expecting 4” of “Wintry Mix” here in West Danby. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Montezeuma
My count was 26 Cranes at the MNWR visitors’ center yesterday about 3:00 PM. Mostly standing around, or strutting a bit, lightly tooting their horns. Made me think of a brass band just gathering in the assembly area before the start of a parade. Indeed at 3:15 they all went walking north together along the dike -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] More Ravens building
>From the sound of things, the Tupper Rd Ravens are nest-building in my spruce >plantation again. Kevin, Jay and Anne may remember this location as the first >stop in a day of Raven-banding on the 30th of April, 2003. (No, I don’t >actually have elephant memory, but I do have the photos that Jay took that >day, and the date is written on the disk). I’ve failed to find the Taughannock Ravens on several recent visits. The ledge nest that they had begun does not appear to be advancing… -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet
…and still at it an hour later. Pretty determined! My neighbor throws two quarts of bird seed on the ground every day, which must be a real boon for voles and deer mice. Maybe that is what’s keeping the Saw-whets around… Les campagnols et les souris sylvestres S’occupent de ses affaires champêstres. Ils rongent et remâchent, Ils courent et se cachent Dans la peur des chouettes senestres! -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet
Started tooting at 6:20 PM. Today I put up a nest box, and I will do another one tomorrow. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet Owl
5:30 AM: still tooting, 25 days now -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet
21 days here! -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Influx of Purple Finches
The number of Purple Finches at my feeders has jumped quite suddenly from ten to about thirty. -Geo -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] our birds are picky, only Sunflower seeds for them
Black oil sunflower seed in the big hopper, sure, but I offer Nyjer all by itself in a dedicated finch feeder, and the Goldfinches are very happy with that. I buy 5# bags at Agway; Lizzie Mae’s Birdseed and Dry Goods Company. The bags are zip-lock, but I transfer the Nyjer to 1-qt plastic jugs with screw caps; they stand up in the back of the fridge or freezer, taking up very little space, and they make topping-up the feeder very easy and neat. -Geo > On Jan 31, 2024, at 5:22 PM, Nigel Dyson-Hudson wrote: > > Some folks on CAYUGABIRDS-L fill their feeders with different seeds - > Sunflower, Niger, etc. We have tried this in the past with Sunflower and > Niger seed feeds. Even the Goldfinches barely touched our Niger seed. It was > "fresh" from Agway, stored in the fridge until put out. Forget about the > mixes with Milo and Corn. > So now we just put out Sunflower seed, spread some seed on trays on the > ground. Last winter we had a Mourning Dove that figured out how to land on > our rectangular metal feeder. Which was quite entertaining to watch. Since > this feeder has a squirrel baffle on the post, we have used a stick to fix > the movable perch in place. > Nigel > > -- > > (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm > NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm > NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html > 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] River otters at Jennings Pond, Danby
Their home range must be at least a few square miles, so the otters at Jennings Pond may be the same ones that hang out in the big Michigan Hollow sedge marsh, about a mile south of the pond. Incidentally, beaver have recently repaired the old dam that controls the mile-long marsh, and the water level has returned to its former height, which may again attract Marsh Wrens, Rails, Bitterns and Grebes… -Geo > On Jan 27, 2024, at 9:09 PM, Catharine O'Neill wrote: > Yes, the otters were lovely to watch. > I know they live in the pond, or at least were released there years ago, but > do you see them there often? I never have. > Catharine O’Neill -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question
I know quite a few humans who do what strikes me as much the same kind of thing: their dining tables and kitchen windowsills are decorated with trinkets and natural objects like polished stones, pine cones, crystals, snake skins, and dried flowers. On mine there are currently several bits of beach glass and a bowl of oak galls… guess it’s just my animal nature. -Geo > On Jan 19, 2024, at 9:21 AM, Donna Lee Scott wrote: > > Some people have observed this trinket -leaving near food source with Crows > & wondered if it was a gesture of gratitude for the feeder food. > Maybe just us anthropomorphizing? > > Donna Scott > Kendal at Ithaca-377 > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Jan 19, 2024, at 6:58 AM, Peter Saracino wrote: >>> >> >> Hey folks. >> I hear some people tell of blue Jay's leaving pebbles and bits of twigs on >> feeder trays. Anyone else ever hear of such things? If so, what might be the >> reason? >> Thanks! >> Pete Saracino/NY State Master Naturalist Volunteer >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> ABA >> 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 > ABA > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Count Week!!!
Given the open streams and the forecast, the Great Blue Heron I‘m looking at just now is not going to be needed as a “count week” addition. Confluence of Buttermilk Creek and Cayuga Inlet. -Geo > On Dec 29, 2023, at 6:12 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: > > It’s actually frustrating to see things like coot and Great Blue Herons at > Myers and not be able to count them for the Ithaca CBC. -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Eagle with fox
Driving in my West Danby / Newfield neighborhood a few days ago, I turned east from Vanbuskirk Road onto Bower Road, and came upon a second year Bald Eagle standing on a fox in the middle of the road. Although one sees a lot of road-killed foxes, the tableau strongly suggested that the Eagle had just made the kill. I slowed my car to a crawl while the Eagle struggled to get airborne with the fox. In the end it lifted just a few feet off the asphalt, flew east along the road and bore left into the descending slot of the seasonal section of Vanbuskirk Gulf Road. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Turkey Vulture egg(s)
The nest site is not giving off any noticeable odor now. Hal Harrison wrote that careful concealment of the nest from predators was imperative, because of the strong odor that results from feeding carrion to the young. Perhaps “careful concealment” includes eating and defecating off-site during the incubation period to postpone detection as long as possible. But is that the onset of the climate apocalypse that’s choking me this morning? The boreal forest is burning, and my nostrils are full of the smoke. Imagine the toll those fires are taking on nesting birds. -Geo > On Jun 6, 2023, at 8:23 AM, Donna Lee Scott wrote: > You have a lot of predators down there, Geo. > So they are a threat to baby TVs. > I did notice that there was very little odor in the boathouse while the birds > were there, even tho baby Hissy did poop inside. > Maybe lack of odor will help hide the chick(s) from predators. > Here’s hoping. -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Turkey Vulture egg(s)
Thanks Donna, that gives me a lot to look forward to! I had undertaken a bit of slow, desultory salvage work at the abandoned shack in the woods, but after discovering the Turkey Vulture scraping in the debris on the floor there on April 29-30, I avoided the place for weeks. It does seem like a PERFECT place for a Turkey Vulture nest, except perhaps for the range of mammalian predators in the vicinity: red foxes, gray foxes, coyotes, bobcats and especially fishers. I wonder how much of a risk they pose… -Geo > On Jun 6, 2023, at 7:34 AM, Donna Lee Scott wrote: > > My experience with timing of Turkey vulture egg laid in my boathouse about > May 11, 2022: -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Turkey Vulture egg(s)
In late April I found a Turkey Vulture scraping around in the domestic debris on the floor of one of our abandoned shacks deep in the woods. I coded it as NB (nest building). Over the next few weeks I observed several comings and goings that I interpreted hopefully as shift-changes. She’s still in there today. Sitting in a scrape in the trash for five weeks running seems so purposeful that I feel pretty confident there must be an egg or two, soon to hatch… -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] More birds
… also Veery, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler -Geo > On May 7, 2023, at 8:40 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > …Baltimore Oriole, Black-throated Green Warbler, Nashville Warbler, > Black-and-white Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo, Chestnut sided Warbler > > -Geo > > >> On May 7, 2023, at 8:15 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote: >> >> FOY Red-eyed vireo and scarlet tanager added to yard list! >> >> Laura >> >> Laura Stenzler >> l...@cornell.edu >> >> -- >> >> 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/ >> >> -- >> -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] More birds
…Baltimore Oriole, Black-throated Green Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo, Chestnut sided Warbler -Geo > On May 7, 2023, at 8:15 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > FOY Red-eyed vireo and scarlet tanager added to yard list! > > Laura > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Lots O birds
Yup, lots around my place in West Danby too: Indigo Bunting, Scarlet Tanager, Warbling Vireo, American Redstart, Gray Catbird, Wood Thrush, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Ovenbird, Canada Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush, Blue-headed Vireo… -Geo > On May 7, 2023, at 7:15 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > There was a lot of movement of birds into the area last night! Here is my > eBird list for our 5 acre property this morning. A nice fallout! > > Laura -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hummingbird, bats
A Ruby-throated Hummingbird visited my feeder earlier this evening, and just now the big brown bats have emerged from my roof. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Peregrines?
I’d guess the chicks are going on two weeks old, so four more weeks to go on the ledge…? Mom is on her favorite perch about twenty feet away, waiting for a food delivery. Oh, here comes dad… -Geo > On May 4, 2023, at 5:41 AM, Dave Nutter wrote: > Yesterday afternoon (3 May) about 5:15pm, Ann Mitchell & I stopped on Gorge > Rd and scoped across Taughannock gorge, and the Peregrines’ nest ledge > appeared empty. Nor did we see or hear adults, although our visit was brief. > I have not followed their progress closely, but isn’t this early for > fledging? What has been happening? When was the last sighting of young on the > ledge & what stage? Are the adults still in the area? > > - - Dave Nutter > -- > 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: 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Peregrines?
The little Peregrine chicks are fine - their dense down is just the same color as the splattered ledge, so if they’re sleeping in a pile you might miss them. The adults are around too. -Geo > On May 4, 2023, at 5:41 AM, Dave Nutter wrote: > > Yesterday afternoon (3 May) about 5:15pm, Ann Mitchell & I stopped on Gorge > Rd and scoped across Taughannock gorge, and the Peregrines’ nest ledge > appeared empty. Nor did we see or hear adults, although our visit was brief. > I have not followed their progress closely, but isn’t this early for > fledging? What has been happening? When was the last sighting of young on the > ledge & what stage? Are the adults still in the area? > > - - Dave Nutter > -- > 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: 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue Jay migration
Yesterday noon my feeders were briefly mobbed by about 15 Blue Jays, which I took to be migrants, as the local Jays are already carrying nest material. -Geo > On Apr 28, 2023, at 2:38 PM, Dave Nutter wrote: > > Yesterday in the late afternoon I saw a small quiet flock of 8 Blue Jays > moving eastward into the treetops of the northeast part of Allan H Treman > State Marine Park, a similar path to the migrating Black-capped Chickadees I > reported recently going around the southeast end of Cayuga Lake. This morning > around 9:25am I saw a quiet flock of 32 Blue Jays flying north over the south > end of Cass Park, also clearly migrating. They were over a field approaching > a woodlot just above treetop level. > > Blue Jays migrate in the daytime, and they fly quietly in rather spread-out > flocks, each bird keeping a distance of a several feet to a few yards from > all of its neighbors. They flap constantly in what looks to me like weak > flight aimed at conserving energy. > > An interesting place to watch migrant Blue Jay flocks is around the Braddock > Bay banding station, where they must turn generally east in order to get > around Lake Ontario, but in that specific area must go southeast, leading so > some apparently confused and circuitous travel. > > Migration is made when the wind is from a helpful direction, like today and > the day I saw the Chickadee movement, generally from the south. > > In autumn I have watched Blue Jays fly south over the east end of Stewart > Park, presumably having been gathered and guided by Cayuga Lake’s diagonal > “east” shore, and over downtown Ithaca as well. > > To me, it’s a thrill to see the migration phenomenon played out. > > - - Dave Nutter > -- > 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: 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Feeding time
Late this afternoon I watched the Taughannock Peregrine female take delivery of an unrecognizable catch from the male, fly to the nest with it, then tear it up to carefully and patiently feed her four little eyases (nestlings). The Raven female above the great falls was also feeding her three nestlings. Their scarlet gapes and blue eyes are unforgettable! -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine incubating
I took my dog for a long walk at Taughannock, then did some shopping at the T-burg Shur-Save. On my way out I stopped to take some digi-scope photos of the Peregrine nest from the opposite rim of the gorge. Looks like incubation is underway. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Toads
Over the years, many people have told me that they do not see this predation by Crows at their own favorite toad ponds, which leads me to imagine that the technique for extracting the goods without the poisonous bufotoxin is a kind of traditional knowledge passed down the generations in certain Crow families. With a break in the rain, I walked the dike and found three eviscerated toads, so the tradition persists at my pond. -Geo > On Apr 17, 2023, at 9:30 AM, Catharine O'Neill wrote: > > > Those toads are indeed early and mine have not yet come to my Fall Creek > pond. Though it is rather cool, perhaps the rain will bring them tonight. I’m > glad the Ithaca crows have not discovered them. > Catharine O’Neill > > Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] possible Chickadee migration near Allan Treman marina
Last October there was an article in the Bangor Daily News titled “Plague Of Chickadees In Acadia Could Mean A Frigid Winter In Maine” (Paywall). Seems unlikely that the Chickadees were just anticipating cold weather. Perhaps a poor year for some food resource that’s important to Chickadees wintering in the Canadian northeast? -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Crows and toads
Speaking of migrations, the toads’ annual pool party at my pond in West Danby is in full swing, a good 2 - 3 weeks ahead of schedule. (Over the past 14 years I’ve come to expect their gathering to occur in the very last days of April / the first week of May) For years the local Crows harvested toads in a gruesome slaughter right on the dike, slitting the poisonous skins and taking only some internal organ, perhaps the liver. In more recent years I’ve watched them carry off entire toads, presumably to conduct the evisceration elsewhere, perhaps even at nest-side. Yesterday I could tell that the Crows are well aware of the gathering, but I haven’t yet seen them take any toads. Perhaps it’s too early in their own breeding season for them to need this potentially poisonous resource? The bears are up and about. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] possible Chickadee migration near Allan Treman marina
This 2005 Chickadee Irruption post from our old friend Jeff Wells is also fun: https://www.borealbirds.org/blog/2005/09/30/chickadee-irruption -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] possible Chickadee migration near Allan Treman marina
Nice, Dave! “Irruption” seems to be the preferred term for these mass movements of young Chickadees. Andrea Patterson posted the following piece on April 18, 2013, about observations of the phenomenon over a number years at Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, where Lake Ontario poses the barrier that the birds pile up against: https://braddockbaybirdobservatory.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/the-chickadee-migration-continues/ -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawks
Two Broad-winged Hawks are soaring low over my West Danby hillside in the mid-day sunshine. The Ravens, who have gone quiet and seem to have nestlings now, are not pleased with these new arrivals, and one of them is attempting to drive the hawks away. He has the size advantage, and he’s very serious! -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Nyger seed
Make sure to keep it cool and dry after you buy it too, so it doesn’t get “old” prematurely in your own cupboard. I like to transfer the contents of a newly-opened bag into a jug with an air-tight screw cap. -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Vocal Cooper’s Hawk
A bit chilly above West Danby this morning (34° F), but when the sun rose over the distant pinnacles and lit our spruce plantation, the female Cooper’s Hawk began calling from within: “whaaa… whaaa…. whaaa”. The Crows must have been aware, but they ignored it. She went on giving these tripled calls for six or eight minutes, before flying to a perch at roadside, where she gave several more series, then flew out and down over the forested ravines below. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Goose
My guess (nothing more) is that this may be the same Snow Goose that was walking about on the grass at Taughannock Point on the afternoon of March 16th. That goose was pretty clearly unwilling to fly - it held one wing slightly raised as if injured, and when it became wary of the attention it was attracting, it walked down the sloping beach and swam off, with the wing still cocked-up. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Bernie’s Bridge, etc
For a third time this month I really enjoyed the new deck on Bernie’s Bridge, which no longer threatens to tilt users into the creek at the north end of the Montour Falls Marina. (Last week I sent a note of thanks to the mayor for his part in the repairs.) Later this afternoon, and a bit farther north, I watched an incubating Bald Eagle in my old home town (Watkins Glen), and later still I saw a Peregrine Falcon perched along the Middle Road, high above the lake cliffs. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Red-tails building
I saw a pair of Red-tailed Hawks at the corner of Agard Road and Willow Creek Road at 12:30. One was carrying nest material (grape vines I think), and flew south along the road several hundred yards before turning east toward the Black Diamond Trail. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Laden Raven
One of my local Ravens just flew by at window height carrying a rigid object, which (at a guess) looked about eight inches long. I figured the pair had eggs by now, so perhaps it was a food delivery for the incubating female - something with a bone still in it? -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Peregrines
There was deep slush everywhere at my house yesterday, and it was hard work for my elderly dog to struggle through, so I took her for a long leisurely walk at Taughannock Point. There was a Snow Goose at the north point that had an injured wing. It paddled north toward Frontenac, forestalling a capture attempt by park staff. Before heading home I stopped at the dirt turnout along Gorge Road around 5:15 pm to look across the gorge at the cliff just below the overlook Visitors Center. As I watched, an adult Peregrine flew to a snag that hangs downward from the cliff-top. A minute later, the second adult flew in and settled on a ledge just behind the snag. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese?
Hi Sandy, There are some big rafts of Snow Geese in Aurora Bay, SE of Dean’s Cove. Can’t see any at Cayuga Lake State Park where I’m now walking with my dog… -Geo > On Mar 3, 2023, at 11:12 AM, Sandy Podulka wrote: > > Anyone been to the Savannah Mucklands or by Cayuga Lake State Park the last > couple of days? Are there lots of Tundra Swans and/or Snow Geese? Looking > back on my notes, the next two weeks seem to be the peak time for them here, > but with the odd weather, who knows? > > Sandy > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] blue jays
Hi Deb, The Blue Jay is a “partially migratory” species. If you google “blue jay migration” you’ll get lots of hits that attempt in a few words (or a few paragraphs) to explain what this means. The persons who asked you to find out why they aren’t seeing Blue Jays this winter might get something (if not satisfaction) out of this one: https://birdwatchingbuzz.com/do-blue-jays-migrate/ -Geo > On Mar 2, 2023, at 10:48 PM, Deb Grantham wrote: > > Hello, > > I’ve been asked by someone else to find out why they aren’t seeing blue jays > this year. -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Purple Finches
Hi Laurie and all, I usually have a few Purple Finches at my winter feeders. About six lately. But my brother in Interlaken gets the congener House Finches instead. Guess it just depends on where you are situated! -Geo > On Feb 26, 2023, at 1:42 PM, Laurie Rubin wrote: > > Two female purple finches have been enjoying my Lodi feeders all day. I have > never seen them here in winter before. Unmistakable whitish eyebrow. Anyone > else? > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Short-eared Owls, Ithaca Airport
I had to pick up my daughter at the Ithaca Airport last night, so I went early (5:30) to see the Short-eared Owls. From Snyder Road near the western corner of the solar farm, I watched one in flight for several minutes. The snow was flying too, and when the light dimmed, I walked SE along the road to the point where it turns east and leaves the airport fence. Watchers there had seen several owls. I briefly caught sight of another one silhouetted against the lighted buildings across the distant runway. Eventually I turned and retraced my steps. At about 6:25 I was again walking past the solar farm. It was completely dark, but I could hear the owls barking and screaming just over the fence. At 6:30 my daughter’s plane came in from the SE, drowning out the owls and telling me it was time to leave. Lots of fun! If you go, I suggest 5:15 or even earlier. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Geese
I spite of the low cloud ceiling, numerous flights of Snow Geese and Canada Geese are entering the Cayuga Basin at West Danby this afternoon, and passing northward down the Cayuga Inlet valley -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Any sites of large snow geese numbers?
>From Long Point State Park last Thursday afternoon I saw a distant raft of >Snow Geese near Dean’s Cove on the west shore. The distance and low viewing >angle made it look like just a line, but when all the geese re-shuffled in >their typical rolling-snowsquall manner it was clear that there were many >thousands. My conservative guesstimate was five thousand, but I think it could >easily have been two or three times that number. A couple days earlier I’d seen a smaller raft just south of Frontenac Point… -Geo > On Feb 13, 2023, at 1:05 PM, Lanie Wilmarth wrote: > > I’m just wondering whether anyone has seen large numbers of snow geese near > the northern end of the lake yet? I’ve been up twice and have only seen one > fairly long, narrow strip of snow geese, but nothing like the numbers of the > past. Is it too early? > > Lanie Wilmarth > Ithaca > > Sent from my iPhone > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Early migrants
A small flock of 10-12 Grackles went over my house at dawn, headed north. Yesterday I had an Eastern Bluebird feeding on the grassy bank below my house. This morning I‘m hearing their “turalee” calls as they pass overhead, and even full songs from several scouts checking out the nest boxes. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Not a bird, but traveling in the sky
Last night I went to bed with a sore throat. It woke me up at 3:00, so I got up to make a soothing hot drink. That was lucky, as it turned out. A little later, and a little colder, I was writing this: 3:45 AM 13°F The moon has gone behind the hill. There are some light clouds, but the region surrounding Polaris has opened up decently. Through a high, thin haze, the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is visible in binoculars as a green smudge at the tip of the Dragon’s tail. It will be in Camelopardalis (the Giraffe) by tonight. Clear skies are forecast! I’ve got my spotting scope to put on it, if the forecast comes true. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pochard?
Just received the Murray McMurray Hatchery catalog. This discussion prompted me to look there and elsewhere for the availability of Red Crested Pochard Hatchlings. Turns out they are offered by lots of hatcheries, though at $150 - $300 per pair, they’re aimed at bird fanciers rather than common barnyards. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Harlequin hunting bans
So it would seem. The rationale, we might suppose, is that duck hunting in New York State poses no threat to the conservation status of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks or Cinnamon Teal in their own ranges. -Geo > On Dec 12, 2022, at 7:57 AM, Richard Guthrie > wrote: > > > "For all other duck species found in New York, the daily limit is 6." > > So, up to 6 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, Cinnamon Teal, etc may be taken? > > Rich Guthrie > >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 7:37 AM Tom Fernandes >> wrote: >> If you look closely at the NYS DEC Waterfowl Bag Limits, it says no >> Harlequin ducks. This is in the paragraph below the waterfowl chart >> >>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 7:29 AM Geo Kloppel wrote: >>> I imagine the legal status of eastern Harlequin Ducks is regularly >>> mentioned in hunter education courses run by the wildlife management >>> agencies in the various states and provinces. In 1990 the Committee on the >>> Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) listed the entire eastern >>> population of Harlequin Ducks as endangered. Hunting Bans followed in >>> Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime Provinces and the eastern United States. >>> >>> https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2014/ec/CW69-14-274-2014-eng.pdf >>> >>> -Geo >>> >>> -- >>> 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! >> -- > > > -- > Richard Guthrie > -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Harlequin hunting bans
I imagine the legal status of eastern Harlequin Ducks is regularly mentioned in hunter education courses run by the wildlife management agencies in the various states and provinces. In 1990 the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) listed the entire eastern population of Harlequin Ducks as endangered. Hunting Bans followed in Ontario, Quebec, the Maritime Provinces and the eastern United States. https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2014/ec/CW69-14-274-2014-eng.pdf -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] American Tree Sparrows
A flock of about a dozen White-throated Sparrows has been working my yard and neighborhood lately; seen as recently as this morning. No Tree Sparrows here, but several Purple Finches and Red-breasted Nuthatches appear at the feeders each day. Pileated Woodpeckers are tearing great strips of bark off the dying ash trees! Sunday’s snow might shake things up a bit… -Geo > On Dec 9, 2022, at 3:11 PM, John Gregoire > wrote: > > > We had a three individuals arrive in November, stay a few days and nothing > since. The same for white-throated sparrows. None of the irrupting finches > have graced this western basin location. We do have three or four > Red-breasted nuthatch that bred here again this year and appear to be staying > with us; we now have had them year-round for 3 consecutive years. > > We are curious as to what happened with the tree sparrows this fall. Does > anyone have them or white-throated sparrows in numbers? > > The Schuyler County CBC will be on 31 December this year. > > > -- > 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: 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Tundra Swan flight
At 6:26 am I heard a group of Tundra Swans passing over West Danby on their way south out of the Cayuga Basin. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Harlequin duck
At one point late this morning the Harlequin Duck moved well south of the sailing center and all the associated buoys, into the bay at the SE corner of the lake, still associating with Mallards and Bufflehead in shallow water. The view from Stewart Park or the RR tracks behind the Ithaca Visitors Center would have been quite good at that time. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodpeckers wreaking havoc
Downy Woodpeckers may drill cavities in the late fall to use for winter roosting. If that’s what you’re experiencing, you might try offering them some bird houses as alternatives… -Geo > On Dec 4, 2022, at 6:30 PM, Christopher Sperry wrote: > > > We do not see any indication of insects around or inside the trim where the > Downies are digging lots of holes – some an inch wide and 2 inched deep. I > have put up perhaps a hundred 6” reflective strips – but more holes keep > appearing. > > Chris Sperry and Karin Suskin > > From: bounce-126996100-89368...@list.cornell.edu > on behalf of Sandra J. Kisner > > Date: Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 5:54 PM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Woodpeckers wreaking havoc > > This message originated from outside the Ithaca College email system. > > Unfortunately that doesn’t help much when they appear to be using the house > for drumming, not hunting for food. > > Sandra > > From: bounce-126996034-3493...@list.cornell.edu > On Behalf Of bob mcguire > Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2022 3:33 PM > To: Karin Suskin > Cc: diane morton ; CAYUGABIRDS-L > > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodpeckers wreaking havoc > > You could try a suet feeder (or multiples) out away from the house. > > Bob > On Dec 4, 2022, at 1:23 PM, Karin Suskin wrote: > > Any creative strategies besides Mylar strips for deterrence of woodpecker > hole making? Our home and garage are looking awfully tinselly. > Thank you, > Karin Suskin > -- > 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: 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Common Loons on Seneca
NW to NNW winds are forecast for the morning of Tuesday the 29th, but the predicted velocity is quite low; don’t know if that will make for much of a loon flight… -Geo > On Nov 23, 2022, at 4:56 PM, John Gregoire > wrote: > > > I've been to check on Loons over Seneca Lake three times so far, and don't > have much to report. Each day has shown under a dozen Loons. Guessing they > haven't had a reason to move yet. A lot of south winds. > > Yesterday two Great Black-backed Gulls flew low right overhead, emitting some > of the most eerie calls I've ever heard and today three Common Loons were > calling from mid lake. > > Is anyone watching for Loons on Cayuga this year? > > Sue G. > -- > 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: 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] External mic setup suggestions
For night listening, my old iPhone outside the bedroom window does a good job, as it’s quite sensitive (after all, this is the mic that Merlin uses). Last night it treated me to crickets, a Barred Owl, and a coyote chorus. Feed the output to a second device running Merlin and detect the night birds! Then there all the daytime bird sounds… The next step for me is probably not to get a different mic, but rather to devise a weatherproof enclosure for the phone, which I can place away from the house for a more omnidirectional listening experience. I’m happy to run an extension cord for this purpose, or tap into one of those that I already have running out to the garden shed, the chicken coop and the workshop. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] External mic setup suggestions
Hi Karen, You can spend a lot for a high quality ambient microphone - from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. But if you have an old Android or iPhone that’s just gathering dust, you could be listening tonight, while you research products and ideas. Just put the phone outdoors on a charger, auto-lock off, turn on its mic, and cable or bluetooth the output to whatever listening system you may have indoors. -Geo > On Oct 22, 2022, at 12:09 PM, Karen Edelstein wrote: > > > While the weather has been continuing to be mild this fall, I've enjoyed > sleeping with the windows open and listening to the night sounds of the last > crickets, and happily, in the past week, a pair of duetting barred owls. But > soon enough, the windows will be closed, and the sounds outside will be lost > to me. I'm wondering whether there might be some way to run a microphone from > outside the window into a device like an old Android phone that I can > Bluetooth to a speaker, and then be able to listen to the wonder of nature > while I'm cozy in my warm bed. > > Do any of you audio-savvy folks have some suggestions about how this might > work? > > Best, > > Karen > -- > 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: 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hummingbird feeders & unwanted guests
If squirrels don’t have easy access to your roof, you might try what has worked well at my house for many years: the hummingbird feeders are suspended from the eaves troughs on long hangers of the type used for flower baskets. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Catbird fun
I’ve got a Catbird in the yard who does imitations of Bobwhite and Whip-poor-will :-) -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Olive-sided Flycatcher
I have an Olive-sided Flycatcher singing and hunting from the top of a snag at my pond this morning. -Geo Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo
A Black-billed Cuckoo was singing cu-cu-cu-cu over and over again in the trees just north of my garden this afternoon (Tupper Rd, West Danby). Not a harbinger of rain on this occasion, alas! But still welcome: I’m just starting to see tiny caterpillars, so I hope there will be plenty of cuckoos. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Late-building Ravens
If you thought mid-March was late, here it is the evening of March 31st, the final hours of the month, and the Ravens on Sorry Hunter Hill* are still carrying sticks (not lining material) and croaking excitedly. -Geo *1,920’ summit west of Tupper Rd, West Danby Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow Marsh
This morning I went over to the beaver dam that controls the water level in the big Michigan Hollow sedge marsh north of Diane’s Crossing (Finger Lakes Trail). As some readers will know, the lodge became unoccupied more than a year ago, and without maintenance the dam has deteriorated. The lowered water level means far less habitat suitable for the Pied-billed Grebes and Bitterns found summering there in recent years. I was hoping to see some evidence of reoccupation by beaver, as their work formerly made a splendid mile-long impoundment, but so far, nothing. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrow, big brown bat
Nice warm-up around West Danby today. So much snow has melted up here on the hill that a Fox Sparrow found some bare ground to rake at the edge of my yard. This evening one of my house’s resident big brown bats is out flying about, and catching insects too, to judge by the type of flying I‘m seeing. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] purple Finches
My (mostly sunflower) feeding operation at home (West Danby) has attracted about 20 Purple Finches daily for the last week or so, along with a similar number of White-throated Sparrows, and the usual Goldfinches, Chickadees, Tufted Titmice, White and Red-breasted Nuthatches, Carolina Wrens, Juncos, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Downy Woodpeckers, Hairy Woodpeckers, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Flickers, Pileated Woodpeckers, Crows and Turkeys. Actually the larger woodpeckers are feasting mostly at a badly infested ash tree. A Flicker is extracting marmonated stink bugs from the crevices in my house’s ship-lap siding. A tight group of Cedar Waxwings is usually somewhere nearby. The local Raven pair is very evident. I’ve watched an immature Cooper’s Hawk try her luck near the feeders several times. I expect I could find a Ruffed Grouse or two if I tramped around in snowshoes. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Suet question
I’m not advocating, but one can buy grass-fed organically produced beef suet through the mail. One source that I see online sells it for about $7 / lb., which is not more than one might pay for certain brands of organic peanut butter (which are typically non-hydrogenated, so no need to wonder about the health effects of feeding hydrogenated vegetable oils to birds). -Geo > On Jan 9, 2022, at 9:45 AM, Linda Orkin wrote: > > > I have a question for everyone regarding suet. Since we know that pesticides > and other harmful human chemicals including industrial agriculture > antibiotics accumulate in the fat of mammals how healthy can animal suet from > animal agriculture actually be for birds. I have never seen anyone mention or > consider this. I have tried to look it up but cannot find anything. Just > going by my own understanding of the food chain and bioaccumulation I’m > relying on my common sense. I mix organic peanut butter and organic cornmeal > and use that. > > Linda Orkin > Ithaca, New York. > >>> On Jan 9, 2022, at 9:39 AM, Peter Saracino wrote: >>> >> >> >> Folks im looking for a suet log/cylinder for a suet holder I have. Just >> suetno embedded seeds. At least 6-7" high and a few inches in diameter. >> Any ideas where I can buy some. No luck at Tractor Supply, Running, Country >> Max or Wild Birds Unlimited, Amazon >> Thanks. >> Pete Sar >> >> -- >> 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: 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Swan flight
No loons to be seen over West Danby yesterday morning, because of the persistently falling snow. A brief but particularly heavy squall swept through between 8:00 and 8:30. Right in the thick of it, riding a tail wind out of the north, came a flight of Tundra Swans. I was indoors, but ran outside when I heard them coming. Invisible from the ground, but calling excitedly to keep together, they progressed directly southward until beyond my hearing. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Young fledgling Cedar Waxwings
> On Sep 26, 2021, at 9:20 PM, anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: > > Summer isn’t over til the last fledgling flies??? > Anne I guess it’s not over, then. A just-fledged Mourning Dove popped up in my driveway this morning. Although these can appear in any season, this one was under incubation before the autumnal equinox. MODO fledglings can look noticeably smaller than the adults, and I was reminded of the tiny ground doves of the Caribbean region. -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Wood stork at Knox Marcellus
Wood Stork continued today (Knox Marcellus), as did the Roseate Spoonbill (west of the rte 89 bridge at May’s Point). A pair of Trumpeter Swans with two cygnets rested in Guy’s Marsh mid-afternoon. -Geo > On Jul 21, 2021, at 7:08 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: > > > The immature WOOD STORK found last night continues at Knox-Marsellus Marsh > from East Road, Montezuma NWR in Seneca County this morning. Surprisingly > hard to see behind cattails most of the time, currently in the southwest > section of the marsh. The ROSEATE SPOONBILL is also still present from the > Rt. 89 bridges nearby. > > Jay > >> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 8:05 PM Laura Stenzler wrote: >> From the rare bird alert hotline; >> >> Tim Lenz: WOOD STORK found by Les Preston continuing at Knox Marcellus >> Montezuma. Close shoreline from East Rd. >> >> Laura >> >> Laura Stenzler >> l...@cornell.edu >> -- >> >> 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/ >> >> -- >> > > -- > 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: 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] worm eating warblers at Lindsay Parsons
Yeah, gypsy moth caterpillars stripped the slopes around West Danby pretty bare. New leaves are popping now, but I guess any effect the defoliation may have had on this year’s breeding is a done deal. Still, this has happened before. Whatever the effect, I’m counting on the resilience of West Danby’s little population of Worm-eating Warblers. For one thing, they’re not limited to the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, but have been found in comparable habitat over a four mile stretch of the Cayuga Inlet valley wall. During the last twenty-some years individual singing males have also turned up in locations like Michigan Hollow, Hulburt Hollow and Beech Hill Brook, sidetracks just off the target breeding area along the Cayuga Inlet valley. Taken together, all this suggests the local population is well established. One old guesstimate was 25 pairs. That still seems reasonable to me. -Geo > On Jul 7, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Tobias Dean wrote: > > After hiking up to the Pinnacles above the LP Preserve Monday we were a bit > shocked by the more or less complete defoliation by caterpillars [...] -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fields being mowed.
Hi Anne, I wasn’t thinking of entering the fields that had been pre-selected for early mowing, nor searching for nests. Rather, I was wondering if in some way those fields could be rendered unappealing just before nesting begins, at the critical moment* when the sociable and polygamous Bobolinks are choosing which fields to build their nests in. Maybe they would find certain noises or predator signals or patrolling drones or something else unacceptable, and move on to settle into other fields that were slated for later mowing. *I wrote “moment” for whatever the brief period might be before they make their choice and begin nest building. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 21, 2021, at 6:36 AM, anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: > > Speaking as someone who spent years locating redwing nests, I think this is > a mountain not a molehill. Locating nests in grassland is HARD on purpose. > Birds make it that way. Feeding females do t go down to their nests. They > drop and walk to the nest. One makes paths tromping through the grass which > neither farmer nor birds will benefit from. > > I was thinking about what long term obs and relatively few nesting areas it > took for the one farm as described. > > No not impossible but much harder than it seems. And leaving clumps with > nests as well as paths near them will increase predation. > > I am dubious as good as this sounds. > > Anne > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 20, 2021, at 10:40 PM, Geo Kloppel wrote: >> >> I’ve been musing along a different line, wondering if a preemptive approach >> is possible. >> >> It takes time to mow the big fields that grassland nesters favor, and the >> hay farmer can’t mow all of them simultaneously. The work of haying season >> has to begin somewhere, and start early enough that the farmer can get >> through it all. So each year some field will be selected to go first, and >> another second, and the rest must wait their turns. >> >> Clearly some fields that are later in the queue can produce a crop of >> fledglings before it’s their turn to be mowed; otherwise we wouldn’t be >> having this conversation. So, suppose for the moment that the decision about >> which fields to mow early could be made before nesting had even begun. If >> there was then some way to discourage the birds from selecting those >> particular fields to nest in, the effect would be to direct them to the >> fields slated for later mowing... >> >> -Geo >> -- >> >> 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/ >> >> -- >> -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fields being mowed.
I’ve been musing along a different line, wondering if a preemptive approach is possible. It takes time to mow the big fields that grassland nesters favor, and the hay farmer can’t mow all of them simultaneously. The work of haying season has to begin somewhere, and start early enough that the farmer can get through it all. So each year some field will be selected to go first, and another second, and the rest must wait their turns. Clearly some fields that are later in the queue can produce a crop of fledglings before it’s their turn to be mowed; otherwise we wouldn’t be having this conversation. So, suppose for the moment that the decision about which fields to mow early could be made before nesting had even begun. If there was then some way to discourage the birds from selecting those particular fields to nest in, the effect would be to direct them to the fields slated for later mowing... -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fields being mowed.
I was about to say that anyone who wants to discuss the matter cogently with actual farmers and hayfield managers would do well to consult the Resources page on the Cayuga Bird Club website, where this link lives: Cornell Cooperative Extension has published a very helpful document on Hayfield Management and Grassland Bird Conservation. Alas! That link is broken. But here’s one that still works: https://www.nyfoa.org/application/files/6314/7948/6092/HayfieldsGrassland_Birds_3MB.pdf More generally, let’s remember that without field culture and haymaking, most of what we call grassland in this part of the country would revert to forest cover, where Bobolinks and Meadowlarks would not be found. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2021, at 6:07 PM, Sandy Podulka wrote: > Ken and all, > > Thank you so much for this clear, concise summary of this issue. I have some > friends I am trying to convince to not mow too soon, so will use your words > there, too. > > Can anyone tell me what is a "safe" date for mowing? Until when should I ask > them to delay? > > Thanks, > Sandy Podulka > > At 04:07 PM 6/15/2021, Kenneth V. Rosenberg wrote: > >> Linda, thanks for bringing this mowing to everyone’s attention. In a >> nutshell, what is happening today in those fields, repeated over the entire >> U.S., is the primary cause of continued steep declines in Bobolink and other >> grassland bird populations. >> >> >> >> Last year, because of the delays in mowing due to Covid, the fields along >> Freeze and Hanshaw Roads were full of nesting birds, including many nesting >> Bobolinks that were actively feeding young in the nests at the end of June. >> In the first week of July, Cornell decided to mow all the fields. Jody Enck >> and I wrote letters and met with several folks at Cornell in the various >> departments in charge of managing those fields (Veterinary College, >> University Farm Services) – although they listened politely to our concerns >> for the birds, they went ahead and mowed that week as dozens of female >> bobolinks and other birds hovered helplessly over the tractors with bills >> filled food for their almost-fledged young. >> >> >> >> The same just happened over the past couple of days this year, only at an >> earlier stage in the nesting cycle – most birds probably have (had) recently >> hatched young in the nest. While mowing is occurring across the entire >> region as part of “normal” agricultural practices (with continued >> devastating consequences for field-nesting birds), the question is whether >> Cornell University needs to be contributing to this demise, while ostensibly >> supporting biodiversity conservation through other unrelated programs. Jody >> and I presented an alternative vision, where the considerable acres of >> fields owned by the university across Tompkins County could serve as a model >> for conserving populations of grassland birds, pollinators, and other >> biodiversity, but the people in charge of this management were not very >> interested in these options. >> >> >> >> And there we have it, a microcosm of the continental demise of grassland >> birds playing out in our own backyard, illustrating the extreme challenges >> of modern Ag practices that are totally incompatible with healthy bird >> populations. I urge CayugaBirders to make as much noise as possible, and >> maybe someone will listen. >> >> >> >> KEN >> >> >> >> Ken Rosenberg (he/him/his) >> >> Applied Conservation Scientist >> >> Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> >> American Bird Conservancy >> >> Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future >> >> k...@cornell.edu >> >> Wk: 607-254-2412 >> >> Cell: 607-342-4594 >> >> >> >> >> >> From: bounce-125714085-3493...@list.cornell.edu >> on behalf of Linda Orkin >> >> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 3:02 PM >> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L >> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Fields being mowed. >> >> After a couple year hiatus in which the Freese Road fields across from the >> gardens have been mowed late in the season allowing at least Bobolinks to be >> done with their nesting and for grassland birds to be lured into a false >> feeling of security so they have returned and I’ve counted three singing >> meadowlarks for the first time in years, Cornell has returned to early >> mowing there as of today. And so the mayhem ensues. How many more multitudes >> of birds will die before we believe our own eyes and ears. Mow the grass >> while it’s still nutritious but are we paying attention to who is being fed. >> Grass taken from the land to pass through animals and in that inefficient >> process turning to food for humans. >> >> Linda Orkin >> Ithaca NY >> -- >> >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm >> >> ARCHIVES: >> 1) http:/
[cayugabirds-l] Around West Danby
I had a Mourning Warbler singing in my yard this AM. Both Black-billed and Yellow-billed Cuckoos. And our perennial Barred Owls. I actually had a face-to-face with one of them a couple days ago, down in the hemlock-shaded ravine. Elsewhere around my local haunts I had two grunting Virginia Rails, a thunder-pumping American Bittern, and a pair of Northern Harriers, the female mostly out of sight at her nest, but popping up several times, with the more visible male attending closely, before going off to hunt. Up on top of Bald Hill my 70 year old brain dipped on a variant bird song that is actually very familiar to me, as the species also nests in numbers around my place, and indeed in many other locations around the greater West Danby area. Bald Hill was my last stop before home, and I kept the song replaying in my mind until I had a cup of coffee in hand and told Patricia about it. And as these things go, as soon as I’d put my failure into words, the solution presented itself! The song variant was that peculiar inversion that Hooded Warblers sometimes sing, as part of their so-called “Dawn Song”. Maybe my brain couldn’t retrieve the ID in real time because morning had left the dawn so far behind (it was after 10:00 AM), or maybe I just wanted a cup of coffee... Wait! That’s the same thing! -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Another Whip-poor-will
I’m outside my house watching a couple of big brown bats this evening, and suddenly a Whip-poor -will has started singing! First time here since the late ‘90s. Still going! -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Toads and Cuckoos
Despite the predation by Crows, who hunted them in the tall grass at the water’s edge, lots of toads succeeded in leaving long strings of eggs in my pond, and today the jellied strings have opened to release tiny, tiny tadpoles. Even tinier (3mm long) are the just-hatched forest caterpillars (eastern tent, I think). Hundreds of them are walking on my porch railing under a big sugar maple. All this food for Cuckoos! And right on cue, a Black-billed Cuckoo, tripli-cooing off in the woods. I found two singing Canada Warblers this morning along the brook below my place on the western edge of the L-P Preserve, where they have nested in the past. Hope they’ll do it again, as I missed the confirmation during last year’s Atlas effort. -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Toads and Crows
The toads’ annual breeding party has been running for days (and nights!) at my pond, and as usual the hapless toads are easy prey for a family of Crows that has a long tradition of exploiting this event. This year’s hunters have revised the time-honored practice of gutting the toads right on the dike, then extracting some choice organ (the liver, perhaps), and leaving the rest of the corpse, including the toxic skin, exposed in the grass. Instead, they’re flying off with the entire living toad, still kicking. They fly with it by a circuitous route to a secluded forest area some 500m distant, where, as I imagine, someone is sitting a nest. I observed the carrying flight three times this morning, and by stationing myself in a sort of blind I then watched an actual catch at the water’s edge. The toad was grabbed by one leg, and the Crow immediately took flight with it. Just at a guess, I’m thinking the advantage of doing it this way is that the toad will have no opportunity to jump back into the pond before it can be dispatched. Or perhaps the hunters are delivering the toads to an experienced elder who knows (better than they) how to separate the edible from the inedible parts? -Geo -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] More Evening Grosbeaks
Six Evening Grosbeaks just arrived at my feeders. Or I should say, they’re watching the activity at my feeders from the adjacent trees, talking it over... ah, here we go: they’re moving in! -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Virginia Rail
A hidden Virginia Rail gave me a grunt display at ridiculously close range (10’?) this morning in Michigan Hollow marsh, Danby (not to be confused with the North Spencer Marsh near the south end of Michigan Hollow Road, where BTW the bridge is closed). -Geo -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] large dark bird
What food was being offered to attract the Crows ? -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 22, 2021, at 2:22 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: > > > Crows would not tolerate an eagle unless it was very focused on eating > something else. Vulture sounds most likely. > > Kevin > > > > From: bounce-125566860-3493...@list.cornell.edu > On Behalf Of Donna Lee Scott > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:46 PM > To: Sandra J. Kisner > Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] large dark bird > > Ravens hang around where eagles are, but i am not sure crows would tolerate > being next to them. > Kevin McGowan would know. > > Donna Scott > Lansing > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 22, 2021, at 12:41 PM, Sandra J. Kisner wrote: > > By appearance the eagle seems more likely than a vulture (the neck was > short), but would crows tolerate it? I'll suggest it to her; I don't > actually know where she lives, so I don't know if bald eagles are likely to > be in the area. > > Sandra > > > From: Joshua Snodgrass > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:11 PM > To: Sandra J. Kisner > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] large dark bird > > Any chance it was a juvenile Bald Eagle? Young birds are very dark, but have > white markings. It would be huge compared to crows. > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 10:19 AM Sandra J. Kisner > mailto:s...@cornell.edu>> wrote: > I'm afraid I don't have much information to base my question on, but I > promised I'd try. A friend showed me a short video on her phone of a group > of crows that she puts food out for near the end of her long (rural) > driveway, with a large dark bird apparently feeding with them. The shot is > from far away; not knowing that I would have guessed it was a bunch of > grackles being joined by a crow, but she assures me they are her usual crows. > The guest is rather stocky, with a short (broad?) tail. The crows weren't > in the least disturbed by the visitor, so it's not likely it was a hawk. At > one point she pointed out what looked like a white wing bar (very hard to see > at that distance). She also occasionally sees turkeys, but this didn't look > like a turkey to me. Any ideas? > > Sandra > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > -- > 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: 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] question about feeder crowds
I have a bog metal hopper-type feeder with spring-loaded perching bars, and the spring tension is adjustable. At any particular setting, birds over a certain weight will depress the bars, which closes off the seed ports. During Blue Jay migration, for example, the spring loading can be adjusted so the heavy Blue Jays are denied access. But really, where’s the fun in that? Unless it’s in watching their clever attempts to circumvent the exclusion mechanism! In the end, I’ve just opted to leave the spring tension on high, and the only critters who actually depress the bars are the bears, who are not deterred in the least, but simply push over the feeder pole, bust open the hopper and devour the entire load of sunflower seed! Hmm... April 21st, nearly time for the bears to show up... -Geo > On Apr 21, 2021, at 4:23 PM, Anne Marie Johnson > wrote: > > You can find a few more tips for deterring large flocks of birds on this > page of the FeederWatch website. > > Anne Marie Johnson > Caroline > > On 4/21/2021 2:15 PM, Donna Lee Scott wrote: >> I too have many RW Blackbirds, Brown-headed Cowbirds, and 6-8 Grackles and I >> am going thru a lot of expensive bird food. >> I put out food in early morning, one time a day. >> >> The only thing I can think to do is to stop feeding the birds altogether for >> a while, so that the hoards go somewhere else and then start feeding the >> “dainty” birds again. >> >> Donna L. Scott >> 535 Lansing Station Road >> Lansing >> >> From: bounce-125563710-15001...@list.cornell.edu >> [mailto:bounce-125563710-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Deb Grantham >> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 2:06 PM >> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L >> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] question about feeder crowds >> >> Hi, >> >> A neighbor of mine is bothered that she gets a lot of grackles and starlings >> at her feeders, and that they hog all the food she puts out. Any suggestions? >> >> Deb >> >> >> -- >> 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! > -- -- 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/ --