[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: FW: Structural engineer... amazing
-- Forwarded message -- From: Therese O'Connor Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012 Subject: FW: Structural engineer... amazing To: cayugabirds-l-requ...@cornell.edu Can someone identify this bird for me? See shots below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Therese A O'Connor t...@cornell.edu Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:24 PM Subject: FW: Structural engineer... amazing To: therese2...@gmail.com therese2...@gmail.com Subject: FW: Structural engineer... amazing remarkable! All God's creatures are blessed! This IS AMAZING –!!! Structural engineer in action Whether you’re a ‘bird person’ or not, this is stunning!!! (and touching too). Not to detract from the sheer magic of it, but in practical terms, how MANY trips would a bird have to make with that tiny little quantity of mud/clay it could carry? (and how far from the nest is the source?) If you take the construction of a “circular bowl” in your stride as instinctive, how does the bird come up with the windbreak/entrance design that shields the eggs/chicks from the elements and at what point in fashioning the bowl do they start to construct it? thismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=137c8ea0f0fd52ddattid=0.12disp=embrealattid=65a0a717612b53b_0.1zwatsh=1 thismessage:/mail/u/0/s/?view=attth=137c8ea0f0fd52ddattid=0.14disp=embrealattid=65a0a717612b53b_0.2zwatsh=1 -- 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] Mourning Warbler et al
Hi all, I was working in the garden, when I heard call of a insistent mourning warbler several times in the morning from across the street in front of my house. My house is just 500 ft from Six Miles creek preserve and perfect habitat for Mourning warblers. I also heard, redstart, Common yellowthroat and Yellow Warblers. Sneaky House Wrens are feeding their young, and they sneak into thickets and overgrown busy area to find something or the other and, I see them carrying juicy caterpillars. that means I will have fewer moths:-( . Talking about moths, yesterday night I had Polyphemus moth, Oak Beauty, Acronitum americanum etc. Not a whole lot though, about 25 species including smaller ones.. Some of the moths, Hickory Tussock Moth, Isabella Tiger and two geometrids have become morning breakfast for some of the birds in my yard. There are two pairs of catbirds using my yard as their borders. It is fun to watch them puff themselves up and sing. Occasionally they would be very close to each other and flexing their muscles. My main yard catbird, that is one who is nesting a multiflora rose I think, is not very tolerant of his neighboring House Wrens. House wren gets chased off by the catbird. but smart House wrens just dive into thickets and become invisible. Not many odes ion my yard yet. But hoping that will be soon remedied. Only butterflies I saw in the morning were a Silver Spotted Checkerspot, Cabbage White and a Hobmok Skipper. Cabbage white was looking to oviposit. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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] Nat history lesson = skunks
I returned home this morning at 0930 to find 2 STRIPED SKUNKS foraging at our open compost pile. The local family is different in that the back and sides are pure white and the tail 90% white, the rest deep black. The pattern of both skunks was the same. One of them looked dirty, and it was almost twice the size of the other, which was very clean-looking. I immediately thought mother and half-grown baby. Awww. They were feeding side-by-side when first seen, but soon the larger snapped at the smaller. I thought this odd, but ignored the implications. The smaller hid in the tall grass for several minutes until the larger waddled away, when it returned and fed for some time. I then got out my scope to get more detail on the exact color patterns. Viewed from the rear, I noted a fleshy protuberance. Penis?; but it was not in quite the right place. A good view from the side, however, showed a row of dangling nipples. THIS was a mother, nursing young somewhere nearby. So what is the large skunk? Males are solitary and are not supposed to hang around nursing females. Presumably another female, maybe the female we saw last year here and now the grandmother of the hidden nursing babes. I did not check the larger one for nipples, but will do so if opportunity presents itself. Moral: things are not always what they seem. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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] African Grey escaped in Lansing
If anyone spots (or hears the whereabouts of) an escaped African Grey Parrot in the Lansing area (Sears Rd/ Rte 34/34B), please phone the distraught owners at 607-592-4201 (Marion) or 607-280-0256 (Gil) Feel free to forward this message to anyone you know who might be able to help. Melissa Craven Fowler Public Outreach Assistant [Description: Description: CL_logo_RGB25] (607) 254-2473 w -- 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] Ithaca airport Grasshopper Sparrows
I spent 3 hours this morning walking all of Snyder Rd and also the part of Cherry Rd alongside the fields by the airport. I found 3 GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS. Two were within the airport fence, one seen singing reasonably close and a bit west of the nearly bare-ground area by Gate O, and another seen singing inaudibly far to the south of there. The third was west of the northwestern-most stretch of Snyder Rd where there is good habitat on both sides of the fence, on top of which the bird sang when provoked by playback. I thought I had heard but not seen a bird here on 7 June. Today I may also have heard a Grasshopper Sparrow south of this stretch, south of the burned out cars, but I never saw it and heard it poorly. I did not find any in the field southwest of Cherry Warren, but I only checked from Cherry.I also counted 14 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS, 9 male BOBOLINKS, and 20 SAVANNAH SPARROWS, but I'm not very confident about the numbers on those birds which fly around so much.--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] Strange Oriole behavior
While driving around the back roads above Groton I observed an Oriole apparently feed on roadkill. Has anyone else noted this behavior? Carl Steckler -- 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] Frustrated Oriole
You could use bar-soap to draw a bunch of streaks on the outside of the window, thereby breaking up the reflection, which should put him out of his frustrated misery! It will also free him up to put his energy to better use. 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 Now on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 From: bounce-61054010-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-61054010-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Tom Vawter [tvaw...@wells.edu] Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:54 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Frustrated Oriole My heart goes out to the male northern oriole who periodically attacks the large under-gable window on the south side of the house. It does, however, give me good, close-up views of his impressive beauty and suggests that there are orioles nesting nearby. -- A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D. Assoc. Scientist, EcoLogic, LLC 5 Ledyard Ave. Cazenovia, NY 13035 Visiting Professor and Fellow Ecology Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 a...@cornell.edumailto:tvaw...@wells.edu Professor of Biology, Emeritus Wells College Aurora, NY 14882 tvaw...@wells.edumailto:tvaw...@wells.edu 607.279.9924 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Frustrated Oriole
Tried that or similar. The window is inaccessible w/o a ladder, but I put things up the w/ poles. Also, put a light behind the window to dull the reflected image, but the sign stimulus and the fixed action pattern overwhelm my attempts, Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Marie P Read m...@cornell.edu wrote: You could use bar-soap to draw a bunch of streaks on the outside of the window, thereby breaking up the reflection, which should put him out of his frustrated misery! It will also free him up to put his energy to better use. 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 Now on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 From: bounce-61054010-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-61054010-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Tom Vawter [tvaw...@wells.edu] Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 3:54 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Frustrated Oriole My heart goes out to the male northern oriole who periodically attacks the large under-gable window on the south side of the house. It does, however, give me good, close-up views of his impressive beauty and suggests that there are orioles nesting nearby. -- A. Thomas Vawter, Ph.D. Assoc. Scientist, EcoLogic, LLC 5 Ledyard Ave. Cazenovia, NY 13035 Visiting Professor and Fellow Ecology Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 a...@cornell.edumailto:tvaw...@wells.edu Professor of Biology, Emeritus Wells College Aurora, NY 14882 tvaw...@wells.edumailto:tvaw...@wells.edu 607.279.9924 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Hooded Warblers more at Roy H. Park Preserve Baldwin Tract 6/10/12
We had an excellent Girls Day Out of Birding this morning. This was the first time for all of us to the Roy H. Park Preserve--Baldwin Tract. I must say that this preserve is stunningly beautiful. I loved the lush green wooded areas and the blue path to the creek. We will definitely be back! The trip started out by finding a SNAPPING TURTLE sunning itself on the entrance to the parking lot. Since I have the most experience handling reptiles, I was designated as the Reptile Wrangler. I picked it up to move it out of harms way. It did try to free itself from my clutches by clawing at me with all four of its feet at once but I was not deterred. Before we even left the parking lot we heard two ALDER FLYCATCHERS. The highlight was two singing HOODED WARBLERS. We sat down on the ground for quite some time hoping one might pop out and make an appearance but this didn't happen. A gorgeous RED EFT (Eastern Newt) was crawling through the grass. We did have some excellent views of singing COMMON YELLOW THROATS, EASTERN TOWHEE MAGNOLIA WARBLER's. For a long time at the beginning we were frustrated by lots of singing birds but all hidden from view. PRAIRIE WARBLERS, OVENBIRDS, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS were heard all around us but out of sight. We happened upon a very agitated pair of WOOD THRUSHES that had young hidden on the ground right by the trail. The pair both were carrying food and disappeared to the ground behind some greenery. My friend Maria was pumping her fist in the air with glee after spotting a gorgeous SCARLET TANAGER. We had only planned on staying for a couple hours but enjoyed the preserve so much we stayed nearly 4 hours. We saw about 30 hikers but no other birders. Here is the complete e-bird checklist I uploaded via the BirdLog app. (love that app!) Roy H. Park Preserve--Baldwin Tract, Tompkins, US-NY Jun 10, 2012 9:18 AM - 12:56 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.5 mile(s) Comments: br /Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.4.4 29 species Mourning Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Alder Flycatcher 3 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 10 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 1 Wood Thrush 5 carrying food to young hidden on ground. American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 4 Cedar Waxwing 3 Ovenbird 8 Common Yellowthroat 8 very good looks; singing out in open in two spots Hooded Warbler 2 2 singing near each other on Blue Trail. We sat for 1/2 hour hoping for one to pop out but they remained hidden. Magnolia Warbler 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler 2 Prairie Warbler 6 Black-throated Green Warbler 5 Eastern Towhee 6 Chipping Sparrow 1 Field Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1 Scarlet Tanager 3 One seen only; two heard only; the one seen was on blue trail not to far from lean to Northern Cardinal 1 American Goldfinch 4 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- 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/ --
