Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nysbirds-l] NYS Birding Checklists
Forwarded by Jerry Lazarczyk Thanks to everyone who shared info and knowledge about old checklists from around New York State. There are lots! First, having a reference librarian respond is helpful, as Donna Schulman let me know about a tool to find some lists (I will include her information about that below my signature). Thanks to Andy Guthrie (who also pointed out that many of the older works are available for free online as google books), Joseph Dicostanzo (who provided a ton of info), Jerry Lazarczyk, Harry Maas, Bill Purcell, Brett Ewald, and Sally Svenson for responding with information about checklists from around New York State. Below are all of the checklists about which I was informed. Sorry about the different formats but I largely cut-and-pasted and edited directly from other folks' emails. Please note that the geographical areas I divided the lists into are pretty rough... WESTERN NEW YORKBirds of Western New York by Ernest Short from 1893. He lived in Chili, NY (a suburb of Rochester), and the checklist was printed by A. M. Eddy in Albion, NY. It is a 13 page checklist. A Popular Account of the Bird life of the Finger Lakes Section of New York, with Main Reference to the Summer Season by C. J. Spiker (1935, Roosevelt Wildlife Bulletin Volume 6, Number 3) The Birds of Livingston County , New York by K. Fox (1998, Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science, vol. 18, no. 4) Studies of breeding birds in the Allegany State Park by A. A. Saunders (1938, New York State Museum bulletin, no. 318) Birds of the Niagara Frontier Region: An Annotated Checklist by C. S. Beardslee and H. D. Mitchell (1965, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences) CENTRAL NEW YORKAnnotated list of the birds of Oneida County, N.Y., and of the west Canada Creek Valley by Egbert Bagg, published in Utica, NY, by the Press of T.J. Griffiths, 1912 The Birds of Central New York Marshes by A. A. Saunders (1926, Roosevelt Wildlife Bulletin Volume 3, Number 3) Ornithology of the Oneida Lake Region: with reference to the late spring and summer seasons by D. Stoner (1932, Roosevelt Wild Life Annuals, volume 2, nos. 3 and 4, New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University) ADIRONDACKS / NORTHERN NYSummer Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y., from 1877, by Roosevelt and Minot. Birdlife of the Adirondack Park by B. Beehler (1978, Adirondack Mountain Club) The Summer Birds of the Northern Adirondack Mountains by A. A. Saunders (1929, Roosevelt Wildlife Bulletin Volume 5, Number 3) Birds of Essex County, New York by G. Carleton (1999, High Peaks Audubon Society) Birds of Clinton County, Second Edition by C. W. Mitchell and W. E. Krueger (1997, High Peaks Audubon Society) There was a list put together by resident/members of the Trudeau Bird Club at the Trudeau tuberculosis sanitarium in Saranac Lake, reprinted from the October 1904 issue of Outdoor Life. It recorded local arrival dates of 163 birds. It is on file as a pamphlet in the Adirondack Room at the Saranac Lake Library: T867b pam. MOUNTAIN REGIONSNotes on Some Birds of the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, New York by K. C. Parkes (1954, Annals of the Carnegie Museum ) CATSKILLSA Review of the Summer Birds of a Part of the Catskill Mountains, with Prefatory Remarks on the Faunal and Floral Features of the Region by E. P. Bicknell (1882, in Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York , vol. I) LONG ISLANDA list of the birds of Oyster Bay and vicinity, Long Island, by Rudyerd Boulton and J T Nichols, published in Roslyn, NY by the The Bird Club of Long Island, 1940 The Birds of Great Gull Island, 1966-1972 by D. C. Duffy and C. LaFarge (1973, privately published) The Birds of Long Island - Jacob P. Giraud, 1844 A List of the Birds of Long Island, New York, Dr. William C. Braislin, 1907 CAPITAL REGIONThe Birds of Albany County by Wilbur Webster Judd, 1907 Birds of Washington Park, Albany , New York by D. Stoner and L. C. Stoner (1952, New York State Museum Bulletin 344) DOWNSTATEGuide to the summer birds of the Bear Mountain and Harriman Park sections of the Palisades Interstate Park by P M Silloway; New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University.; Palisades Interstate Park Commission and published in Syracuse, NY by the State University College of Forestry at Syracuse University, 1920. (Syracuse University publications vol. 9, no. 21; Bulletin of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, no. 11) The Birds of Dutchess County, New York by L. Griscom (1933, Transactions of the Linnaean Society of New York , vol. III) NYCBirds Around New York City , Where and When to Find Them by A. D. Cruickshank (1942, American Museum of Natural History) Birds of the New York City Region by L. Griscom (1923, American Museum of Natural History) Birds of the New York Area by J. Bull (1964, Harper Row) The Birds of the New York City Area; A Guide to the Exhibit of Local Birds in the
[cayugabirds-l] Question
We built a Kestrel house and a Screech Owl house and put them out last spring.with no takers.now they are occupied by squirrels. Our question is.will a Kestrel or Screech Owl dislodge a squirrel from a prospective nesting sight? Or are we going to have to build more nest boxes? Thanks. Kurt Julie Kurt Broken Road Farms Dundee, NY 14837 Email: k...@brokenroadfarms.com www.BrokenRoadFarms.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] Aurora Bay Aythya raft
Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads with some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost directly below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had slowly moved southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45 am. I had a lot of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter, watching as the raft slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around. One still photo, showing just part of the raft, is here: http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42pos=10 Anybody want to count 'em??? Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured field just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??) had a large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks. There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that got me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes! A pretty winter day. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * January 31, 2011 * NYSY 3101.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): January 24, 2010 - January 31, 2011 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:January 31 AT 4:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #241 -Monday January 31, 2011 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of January 24 , 2010 Highlights: --- COMMON LOON TUNDRA SWAN MERLIN SCREECH OWL BARRED OWL TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE BOHEMIAN WAXWING YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER LAPLAND LONGSPUR COMMON REDPOLL HOARY REDPOLL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 1/28: 22 species were found on a walk at Howland Island WMA. Highlights were SCREECH OWL, 2 BARRED OWLS, and 3 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS. Onondaga County BALD EAGLES were in the news again this week with a front page spread in the Sunday edition of the Syracuse Herald American. They are again collecting in numbers at the south end on Onondaga Lake near Carousel Mall. Another place to try is the walking trail starting at the Inner Harbor parking area and walking north toward Bear Street. Eagles are often in the trees along the creek. 1/25: 5 TUNDRA SWANS were in the Seneca River below the dam in Baldwinsville. 1/29: 50 COMMON and 1 HOARY REDPOLL were seen on Shakham Road near the Cortland County border. 19 TUNDRA SWANS were seen on Onondaga Lake at the mouth of Nine Mile Creek in Lakeland. A COMMON LOON continues to be seen in the Inner Harbor off of Kirkpatrick Street. 1/30: A HOARY REDPOLL continues to be seen with a lagre group of COMMON REDPOLLS at Beaver Lake Nature Center west of Baldwinsville. A single LAPLAND LONGSPUR was seen with numbers of HORNED LARKS and SNOW BUNTINGS on Masters Road south of Marcellus. A YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER continues to be seen and heard at the corner of Rt.31 and Conners Road west of Baldwinsville. Oneida County 1/25: 2 BARRED OWLS were found in the area at the north end of Delta Lake near Rome. One was seen on Town Line Road. 1/26: A MERLIN was seen at the intersection of Sulphur Springs and Doolittle Roads in Saquoit. Cayuga County 1/26: 1 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER and 15 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS were seen alon the entry road to Fair Have State Park. Jefferson County The TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE continues at Point Peninsula west of Watertown. There were positive sightings made on 1/26 and 1/30. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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] questions about the pheasant farm
Hello list, I have a couple questions about the Reynolds Game Farm, which I see every day out my back window. A few days ago I was running on Stevenson Rd and I noticed someone next to the game farm fence swinging a whistle on a string over his/her head. Does anyone know what the person was up to? And I am sure this has been discussed before, but are the red tailed hawks attracted by the pheasants or by rodents attracted by the pheasant food? I have witnessed them eating pheasants, and I occasionally find a pheasant body part in my backyard, but I'm wondering why they don't just clean house? I often see them sitting on the fence alongside pheasants. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity! Andrew Myers -- 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Grebe Sweep
Yeah, forgot to mention Pied-billed Grebes (3) at the Yacht Club and Eared Grebe at Aurora. Bob -- 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] Northern Shrike, Trumpeter Swans, Turkey Vultures, Peregrine Falcon
Yesterday (Sunday 30 Jan) Ann Mitchell, Bob McGuire I went to Summerhill in the morning hoping to see the Hoary Redpolls in the big flock of Common Redpols which Matt Young reported on Lane E along Lake Como Rd. We met Jay McGowan there with similar hopes, and although we saw a lot of COMMON REDPOLLS at times, which is quite fun, it was a very challenging viewing situation, with birds flying between close spruce trees and behind the house with the feeders. Although Ann said she briefly saw a light colored individual, none of the rest of us saw any solid candidates. We also swung by the Hovel Chalet on our way there and back, where there were impressive numbers of BLUE JAYS and lots of other species, but we did not find any Evening Grosbeaks. However we did find a very cooperative and gratifying immature NORTHERN SHRIKE atop the tallest twig of a tree on Eaton Rd. Ann then had to go to work, but after dropping her off in Ithaca, Bob I went clockwise around the lake. One thing we noticed was TUNDRA SWANS seemingly scattered along all the shoreline. When we got to the north end of the lake we saw solid birdless ice. There were no openings even at Mud Lock or Harris Park. However near Mud Lock there were 5 TRUMPETER SWANS sitting on the ice. They were not veryclose, yet they did not tolerate us using a scope and binoculars through the open window of Bob's car. The 4 adults bobbed their heads then flew north through a heavy snowfall, making their loud bleating call as they went. The single immature stayed sitting on the ice, neck vertical. I wonder where the adults went and how long it was before they were reunited. The ice comes south well past Lower Lake Rd on the west. We did not drive that road, as we saw people walking many places on the ice, but instead went west to Van Cleef Lake That, too, was frozen solid and birdless. On the east, the ice comes past Union Springs, as far south as Farley's Point In Union Springs we saw an Eastern Screech-Owl plugging the hole of the box in the Factory Street Pond. We did not see vultures yesterday, but early this afternoon (1220) I had a chance to drive by Burdick Hill Road briefly. I wish I could've stayed longer. Instead of 14 Turkey Vultures and 1 Black Vulture on the back row of fenceposts around the big yard on the north (as we saw on Saturday at 1030) today there were 15 TURKEY VULTURES and zero Black Vulture, which I found very amusing as there were no doubts about ID. The TVs were sunning themselves in various positions, facing toward or away from the sun, some with spread wings, others closed. Turkey Vulture #15 arrived from the north as I watched. Is there a carcass beyond the trees? Was the Black Vulture still feeding? By 4pm, the next time I could check, they had all left, which is not surprising because the sun was low no longer so attractive in that area. This evening as I left work at 5pm it was still light, and none of the American Crows had yet returned to their roost site of the past several days, the treetops along Spencer Rd north and south of the intersection of Stone Quarry Rd. I walk under them in the darkness on my way to work. A possible reason there were no crows around as I began my walk home was a PEREGRINE FALCON which came winging overhead, circled once and disappeared over South Hill After the Peregrine left, a single AMERICAN CROW flew past. --Dave Nutter
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay Aythya raft
That photo reminds me of those MagicEye images where when you hold it close and move it slowly away you will be able to see a hidden picture. This one has Donald Duck, I think. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Marie P Read m...@cornell.edu wrote: Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads with some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost directly below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had slowly moved southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45 am. I had a lot of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter, watching as the raft slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around. One still photo, showing just part of the raft, is here: http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42pos=10 Anybody want to count 'em??? Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured field just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??) had a large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks. There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that got me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes! A pretty winter day. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOMEhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULEShttp://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/ -- -- asher -Never play it the same way once. -- 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/ --
