[cayugabirds-l] Woodcock
Just got home from choir rehearsal and heard the WOODCOCK skydancing over the fallow field out back. I always think of Aldo Leupold and his Sand County Almanac when I hear Woodcock in the spring. CHIPPING SPARROWS are back. They seemed to have been animated by the mild thunderstorm that moved through around 5:00. --Kathy Strickland, Union Springs PS: Anyone birding up this way mid-day Saturday? I have a funeral to play for here at 10 but should be free around 11 and I could join you wherever you happen to be at the time--up towards this end of the lake or the Montezuma/Audubon complex. Let me know and I'll give you my cell #. _ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Lansing Greenway
CHIPPING SPARROWS have been singing all day at North Wood Apts. in Lansing. They were also prevalent along the greenway at the end of Coventry Walk. Also along the greenway were several singing EASTERN TOWHEES, a few EASTERN PHOEBES and a CAROLINA WREN. Just off the paved trail (I could see its head without binoculars!) was a drumming RUFFED GROUSE. Good birding, Ryan -- Ryan Douglas r...@cornell.edu Dept. of Plant Biology 142 Emerson Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Drumming sapsucker
Last evening we returned from a month-long trip down south, including 12 days in Fla. Florida has had the coldest winter and early spring in decades, but we brought them good fortune, as it warmed into the 70's while we were there. Lots of great birds, although I was hoping to see more warbler species. After unpacking the car, I went out to re-fill our by-now-empty feeders. There was music to my ears, when I heard a YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER rat-a-tat-tatting on a nearby street sign (probably not "music" to those living in closer proximity!). I was also happy to see CHIPPING and SONG SPARROWS. Sara Jane spotted our first PURPLE FINCH of the year this morning. We have many good birding stories to relate about our trip, including having FLORIDA SCRUB JAYS land on our heads to get free handouts, and getting great, long looks at a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER feeding on a dike road together with a bunch of YELLOW-RUMPS. But one that deserves special mention concerns a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (paler Florida sub-species). As we were driving a dike in a wastewater reclamation facility, we spotted one of these birds in a tree next to the road. We stopped to admire it, when it suddenly flew down and splashed into the marshy grasses/reeds next to the road. It sat there a couple minutes with its wings outstretched "glaring" at us, as though telling us, "don't even think about trying to take away my prey". We didn't know what it had caught, until it flew away and we saw the long leg of a frog trailing behind in its talons. Larry Hymes -- W. Larry Hymes 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] 10 TV's @ Union Springs Academy barn & silo 12:20 PM today
Nine in a row, sitting on the roof ridge & one on the silo ! OSPREYS at home on their platform 1/2 mi east of Post Office on Center St aka #1 Rd John Blizzard -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher
Had an early Brown Thrasher singing-it-up all around my place this morning. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker & Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@clarityconnect.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher- Richford
Hi All, I don't recall seeing BROWN THRASHER mentioned yet this year so I thought I'd share my sighting from this morning. So nice to see and hear this chatterbox again! Also, since last Friday afternoon we've had the following birds show up at our place: YB Sapsucker Northern Flicker Tree Swallow Eastern Phoebe Golden-crowned Kinglet Chipping Sparrow Good Birding, David Mccartt Tubbs Hill Rd. Richford -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
