[cayugabirds-l] Eastern kingbird
foy EASTERN KINGBIRD last night at 7:00. Barn swallows arrived on 4/19 Michele Interkaken / Ovid Sent from miPhone @ The Hayward House BB www.thehaywardhouse.com and @ The Body Shop www.bodyshopwellness.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] Sapsucker Woods, Th 5/2
Highlights from Sapsucker Woods on Thursday morning (6:40-7:30 AM): * One singing WOOD THRUSH (Hoyt-Pileated Trail) * One singing BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER (north end of Woodleton Boardwalk) * Two singing OVENBIRDS (Wilson/Severinghaus and Hoyt-Pileated) * Four singing NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES (two east of Woodleton, two west) * A few calling YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS throughout * Two other warbler songs, each issued once along Wilson Trail North - one had the pattern of Black-and-White, and the other had an emphatic ending like Chestnut-sided, but both were weak and atypical * Two singing GRAY CATBIRDS (Wilson Trail North and Sherwood Platforms), plus a third one that was silent (Sherwood) * A few singing RUSTY BLACKBIRDS (Wilson Trail North and parking lot) * A pair of EASTERN BLUEBIRDS near the service driveway by the Lab (one head-scratching, foot over wing) * Many TREE SWALLOWS of course - one surprised me by briefly landing in the parking lot * One calling GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER (Wilson Trail South) * A pair of WOOD DUCKS flying over the main pond, then one male at the small green pool at the far portion of the East Trail * One DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT in the heron-cam snag (it's been years since I've seen one here). Mark Chao -- 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] Migration on radar?
Alicia ( all),I looked at the radar last night shortly after you wrote, but didn't have time to respond. I know a little about radar, but unfortunately I was locked out of Dave Nicosia's lecture, so maybe others know more. Short answer: It looked like bird migration to me, but as Suan mentioned I didn't see that pattern on radar from for instance Baltimore, so maybe what we saw was birds from here leaving more than birds from further south arriving. What's out there today? I don't know, but I want to find out, so I'l keep this brief.Longer answer: Radar designed to detect precipitation will also detect animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air if there are enough of them, because they 70% water. Birds migrate when winds are favorable (or at least not too unfavorable; 5mph the wrong way may be tolerable) rather than expending extra energy, so the times to see bird migration on radar are in the spring with calm, low-speed, or southerly winds, and to see them in the fall are with calm, low-speed, or northerly winds. I've seen nocturnal migration on radar, when many birds, especially songbirds, begin flying when it gets dark and stop at dawn.The radar beam is a rotating straight, nearly level line, so it views a disc or very shallow cone from the weather station, in this instance, the Binghamton airport. At the center of the disc it shows ground level, but farther out, because the earth is curved, it shows higher elevations as the ground drops away below the radar disc. Birds start and end their trip on the ground, and they have a cruising altitude which is within the what the radar detects for a radius of tens of miles. After dark when many birds rise up over a large area to start migrating you can see a fuzzy green disk start to grow from the radar station, by using the "animate map" feature to show the previous hour or so. First the birds which were close by are detected, then birds which were farther away get high enough to show up in the radar, and for much of the night there appears to be a big fuzzy disc centered on the radar station, although there is no precipitation. That was what I saw last night. Rainclouds by contrast, are usually very well-defined and not symmetrical around the radar station. At dawn the fuzzy disc shrinks and disappears as birds at the periphery drop off the radar first.I know of two ways to see evidence of bird movement within the radar. One is to look at radial velocity. This is doppler radar which detects the rate an object (rain cloud, bird cloud) is moving toward or away from the radar station. The disc now looks like a pie divided into four portions. The birds whose movement is more or less toward the station are in a wedge of one color, and opposite is the other color as they leave. In between are wedges of neutral color for birds which are passing by the station, not moving significantly toward or away. These wedges indicate the direction of movement. If this is a bit different than the actual wind direction, or if it shows directed movement even when there is no wind, that indicates birds or bats using power to correct their course, not passive insects.Another way to see movement is to look at where birds would cross water. The Buffalo radar station is perfect for this because birds start on land then fly over Lake Erie or Lake Ontario. Using the "animate map" feature you can see what would have been a disc of migration grow, but only over the land portions. Then it moves north (spring) or south (autumn) to cover the water over the course of about an hour. Meanwhile on the shore where birds were flying away from the water you can even see the color leaving the land until birds arrive from across the water to fill in that airspace.--Dave NutterOn May 01, 2013, at 10:15 PM, Alicia Plotkin t...@zoom-dsl.com wrote:Could someone more learned than I - which is just about anyone - interpret what is happening on radar right now what it might mean for tomorrow morning? I'm hoping good things ... Thanks! Alicia -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html'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] Nothing @ Hawthorn
Did a quick round of Hawthorn, finding more birders than noteworthy birds: three yellow warblers; good numbers of white-throated and song sparrows skulking on the forest floor; house wren singing near the recway (FOY for me), and a chickadee continually singing the first part of its song followed by the second part of its call -- cheese-deedee, if you will. Suan -- 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 good stuff at SSW
Mark reported many neat things, several of which I had also this AM. I started off by watching the DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT circling the snag a couple times before landing on the end of the long horizontal branch point south. This seemed to cause no distress (at least no franking sounds) from the nest bird. It did make quite a nice sight glowing in the 7am rising sun. Could you see it on the nest cam? Yesterday I was pleased to add DC Cormorant to my yard list as I saw a flight of 6 'funny looking geese' coming at me from a distance and couldn't think why 6 geese would be moving in that formation at 645 am on May 1. Had the binocs though and got a good look as they passed over. I noted these had their tails flared out in the wedge shape. Looked at lots of Google images of 'cormorant flying' and it seems they don't always show this flare in flight. The snag bird flared its tail upon landing. Also on WIlson-Severinghaus this AM, my first of year GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER also gloriously yellow in the morning sun, wheeping but not singing and actively flycatching. BLUE-HEADED VIREO occasionally singing and foraging: good looks at his prominent spectacles. Loud and persistent BROWN CREEPER singing from at least 2 birds. Brad Walker came by and said he had 3 birds the day before in the same area singing. One song from the BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, not seen today, but I heard and found it yesterday in the binocs in about the same place. OVENBIRD(s) singing. Lots of YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER activity: multiple birds interacting in some cases; yesterday I watched a group of 3 doing the 'flicker-flicker' pole chasing thing together, then later either the same 3 moved down the trail with me, or another 3 were doing the same thing. At the same time, a 4th YBSA was pestering a RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER who liked the same tree. I heard one of the NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHs over in the Woodleton bog without even crossing the road. All this is to say: get up early tomorrow and come up to SSW! On the subject of getting fooled by mimicry or similarity: Someone recently mentioned how the EASTERN TOWHEE can yelp in a way that sounds rather like Great-crested Flycatcher and indeed when I got home yesterday, I thought I had my FOY yard GCFL. Later in the afternoon, we heard and chased down the full song and view of the Towhee. I had heard the full song last week, but this was the first visual this year. Yesterday at SSW as I walked under the power line toward the Rail/Swamp Sparrow field (the Rail was not heard by the way), I heard EASTERN MEADOWLARK. Since I had heard and seen one a couple weeks ago in this same spot, I started scanning the low treetops for it. Moved further into the field and now heard it behind me. I finally concluded it was the very active EUROPEAN STARLING sitting up on the power pole with his mates. He did a number of other talented whoops and whistles. And I watched the GREY CATBIRD on Sherwood Platform yesterday as he did an amazing song set, including a very good Northern Waterthrush. I've had NOWA right around the platform in the past, but this Catbird was good! They are just so full of song when they first arrive before settling down to meow-ing the rest of the summer. __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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] Chestnut-sided Warbler
Quick walk around home this morning produced a Chestnut-sided Warbler and a few Yellow-rumps, nothing else new... -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] Balt. Oriole
About 4 days ago, Shirley put some chunks of fresh orange on the feeder to attract orioles and today her efforts bore fruit. (Sorry, but I couldn't resist that.) Male Baltimore Oriole about 9 am, might have been there earlier but no one was up to see him. Before today, a Red Bellied WP had been pecking at the oranges. Bill McAneny, TBurg -- 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] Hawthorn Orchard Park Preserve
We spent about an hour migration watching from between the Hawthorn Orchard and tennis courts on the east side this morning and had a few birds. Highlights included Eastern Kingbird, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and some nice patch birds like Purple Martin, Chimney Swift, Red-brested Nuthatch and Pine Siskins. A complete list is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13962187 Grant and I also went to the Park Preserve earlier in the day. Highlights included NINE species of warblers including Magnolia, Prairie, Black-throated Blue, Nashville, Black-and-white and parula. A complete list is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13961726 Cheers, Chris Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Migration on radar?
Here's the Weather Underground site I use for radar of our area, from the Binghamton airport:http://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?zoommode=panprevzoom=zoomnum=0frame=0delay=15scale=1.000noclutter=0ID=BGMtype=N0Rshowstorms=0lat=42.23885727lon=-76.01076508label=Glen%20Aubrey,%20NYmap.x=400map.y=240scale=1.000centerx=400centery=240showlabels=1rainsnow=0lightning=0lerror=20num_stns_min=2num_stns_max=avg_off=smooth=0To see movement during the previous 40 minutes or so, click the "Animate Map" button at the upper left. This is good for seeing migration blossoming just after dark and retracting just before dawn. It's also good for judging whether a storm is aimed for you and how soon.For doppler radar click the "Select Radar Type" button at the upper right. This takes you to a page with several choices. Base radial velocity 0.50° works well for migration. It turns the birds or storms green if they are moving toward Binghamton or have a component of movement in that direction, orange if they are moving away from Binghamton, and gray if they are neutral relative to Binghamton (although they may still be moving past from the side).To view other maps from other radar stations, scroll down to a small map of the northeastern US. For every radar station there is a "+" mark. Blue is for the one you are looking at. You can click on others to switch.--Dave NutterOn May 02, 2013, at 09:51 AM, Candace Cornell cec...@gmail.com wrote:Thank you for the cogent explanation. You just gave a brilliant summary of Dave's lecture, even though you didn't hear it. Do you go to the radar station webpage to track the birds or do you use another source?CandaceOn Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:17 AM, nutter.d...@me.com wrote:Alicia ( all),I looked at the radar last night shortly after you wrote, but didn't have time to respond. I know a little about radar, but unfortunately I was locked out of Dave Nicosia's lecture, so maybe others know more. Short answer: It looked like bird migration to me, but as Suan mentioned I didn't see that pattern on radar from for instance Baltimore, so maybe what we saw was birds from here leaving more than birds from further south arriving. What's out there today? I don't know, but I want to find out, so I'l keep this brief.Longer answer: Radar designed to detect precipitation will also detect animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air if there are enough of them, because they 70% water. Birds migrate when winds are favorable (or at least not too unfavorable; 5mph the wrong way may be tolerable) rather than expending extra energy, so the times to see bird migration on radar are in the spring with calm, low-speed, or southerly winds, and to see them in the fall are with calm, low-speed, or northerly winds. I've seen nocturnal migration on radar, when many birds, especially songbirds, begin flying when it gets dark and stop at dawn.The radar beam is a rotating straight, nearly level line, so it views a disc or very shallow cone from the weather station, in this instance, the Binghamton airport. At the center of the disc it shows ground level, but farther out, because the earth is curved, it shows higher elevations as the ground drops away below the radar disc. Birds start and end their trip on the ground, and they have a cruising altitude which is within the what the radar detects for a radius of tens of miles. After dark when many birds rise up over a large area to start migrating you can see a fuzzy green disk start to grow from the radar station, by using the "animate map" feature to show the previous hour or so. First the birds which were close by are detected, then birds which were farther away get high enough to show up in the radar, and for much of the night there appears to be a big fuzzy disc centered on the radar station, although there is no precipitation. That was what I saw last night. Rainclouds by contrast, are usually very well-defined and not symmetrical around the radar station. At dawn the fuzzy disc shrinks and disappears as birds at the periphery drop off the radar first.I know of two ways to see evidence of bird movement within the radar. One is to look at radial velocity. This is doppler radar which detects the rate an object (rain cloud, bird cloud) is moving toward or away from the radar station. The disc now looks like a pie divided into four portions. The birds whose movement is more or less toward the station are in a wedge of one color, and opposite is the other color as they leave. In between are wedges of neutral color for birds which are passing by the station, not moving significantly toward or away. These wedges indicate the direction of movement. If this is a bit different than the actual wind direction, or if it shows directed movement even when there is no wind, that indicates birds or bats using power to correct their course, not passive insects.Another way to see movement is to look at where birds would cross water. The Buffalo radar station is perfect for this
[cayugabirds-l] Orchard Oriole, Myers Point
The lake was pretty quiet this morning at Myers Point and Stewart Park. A breeding plumage HORNED GREBE continues south of the marina. Highlight was an unseen ORCHARD ORIOLE that sang vigorously for a few minutes then went silent somewhere towards the entrance or center of the park. Some good warblers on the west side of Sapsucker Woods a little later in the morning, including Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Nashville, Yellow-rumped, and Northern Waterthrush. Good birding, Jay McGowan -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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] No WEWAs yet
I did a quick check for Worm-eating Warblers at 10:00. They don't seem to have arrived yet. The chestnut oaks are not yet unfurling their leaves, so on that basis I think it may be a couple more days. I did find quite a few Black-throated Green Warblers and one Black and White Warbler. I also passed a vernal pool with many spotted salamander egg clusters. -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] SSW at noon-1 today
Hi all, A noon-1:15 pm walk on the east side of Sapsucker Woods Rd., in SSW was mostly quiet but did reveal a few nice birds. There were 3 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES singing off the Woodleton Boardwalk, 2 on the north side and one on the south. Near the small pond in the along the East trail, on the eastern side of the woods I found singing BLUE-HEADED VIREO, YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER, a WOODTHRUSH doing an alarm call and a silently foraging BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. Grey tree frogs were calling. Nice day out there! Laura Laura Stenzler Lab Manager Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, New York 14850 Office: (607) 254 2141 Lab:(607) 254 2142 Fax:(607) 254 2486 l...@cornell.edumailto: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] Request for this listserve.....
Hi all, It would be really great if we could all remember to mention the location when we are posting sightings to this listserve. We all become so familiar with the area that we sometimes forget, but we must remember the new people to this list and to the area who might not be able to benefit if locations are not mentioned. Thanks and happy birding! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edumailto: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] Request for this listserve ....., etc.
Thanks Laura ... I've often thought the same thing. Help others. Also remember, when forwarding someone's post, please delete all the Cayugabirds info at the end as well as non-pertinent info. I side-tracked to Mud Lock this a.m. saw the ospreys at the former eagle nest. We saw no fewer than 15 ospreys between Union Springs the Rte. 89 ... 5 20 intersection. One eagle was in a tree north of the new nest tree. When we moved here 22 yrs. ago I saw my 1st ever osprey there at the lock carrying a gold carp. They occupied the tower nest for several yrs. before the eagles took. I have yet to see any gulls or terns at Frontenac Harbor ... former Castelli's Marina. Harris park breakwall in Cayuga is more productive. For those who enjoyed Factory St. pond here in the Springs basically forget it. It's a mess with fallen trees all the green scum on the water. I saw a mallard pair yesterday. I have talked to the mayor about what an eyesore the pond has become. Really would suggest birders write to the mayor of the Springs tell him how much you miss the many birds that formerly were there the great photography opportunities we used to have, etc.. Two yrs. ago he was asking for suggestions about how to bring more visitors. Still have 2 pr. buffles on Mill pond along Rte 90. Fritzie It would be really great if we could all remember to mention the location when we are posting sightings to this listserve. We all become so familiar with the area that we sometimes forget, but we must remember the new people to this list and to the area who might not be able to benefit if locations are not mentioned. Thanks and happy birding! 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard Park Preserve
I can add to this list a single Great Crested Flycatcher calling to the NW of the Hawthorns and a single quiet skulking Brown Thrasher just at the SW corner. There was a flock of 4-6 White-throated Sparrows working the bushes along the stream to the South of the Hawthorns and a single Swamp Sparrow upstream from them, near the main path which crosses the stream in line with the East edge of the Hawthorn Orchard. I heard a single Yellow-rumped flyover when I was there earlier and saw a single probable Yellow-rump flyover while chatting with Chris, Jessie and Grant. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H On May 2, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: We spent about an hour migration watching from between the Hawthorn Orchard and tennis courts on the east side this morning and had a few birds. Highlights included Eastern Kingbird, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and some nice patch birds like Purple Martin, Chimney Swift, Red-brested Nuthatch and Pine Siskins. A complete list is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13962187 Grant and I also went to the Park Preserve earlier in the day. Highlights included NINE species of warblers including Magnolia, Prairie, Black-throated Blue, Nashville, Black-and-white and parula. A complete list is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13961726 Cheers, Chris Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.orghttp://ebird.org/ http://birds.cornell.eduhttp://birds.cornell.edu/ -- 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/! -- -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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] Request for this listserve.....
I think I'm the one who omitted mention of a location today, so for the benefit of new readers, the one known regular breeding location for Worm-Eating Warblers in the Cayuga Basin is Thatcher's Pinnacles (Danby State Forest, overlooking the upper Cayuga Inlet valley at West Danby). -Geo On May 2, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, It would be really great if we could all remember to mention the location -- 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] Request for this listserve.....
Please give the town, as well as the road name when posting to the list. I am guilty of this omission myself sometimes. Thx. Donna scott Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On May 2, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, It would be really great if we could all remember to mention the location when we are posting sightings to this listserve. We all become so familiar with the area that we sometimes forget, but we must remember the new people to this list and to the area who might not be able to benefit if locations are not mentioned. Thanks and happy birding! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- 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] EIR walk
And my plea is GPS coordinates of the bird’s exact location please ☺☺ I too walked East Ithaca recreation way in the morning. From my side I heard a Baltimore Oriole, two House Wrens (one was close to my house), one Yellow Warbler (42.433672,-76.470079) and one Yellow-rumped in Strawberry Hills woods (42.432255,-76.472193). Nothing much else Yesterday I heard one Grey Catbird on Plantations Road (42.449143,-76.46531) singing very softly. Cheers Meena From: bounce-87188350-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-87188350-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Scott Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 4:33 PM To: Laura Stenzler Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Request for this listserve. Please give the town, as well as the road name when posting to the list. I am guilty of this omission myself sometimes. Thx. Donna scott Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On May 2, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edumailto:l...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, It would be really great if we could all remember to mention the location when we are posting sightings to this listserve. We all become so familiar with the area that we sometimes forget, but we must remember the new people to this list and to the area who might not be able to benefit if locations are not mentioned. Thanks and happy birding! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edumailto:l...@cornell.edu -- 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: 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] Swan Pen
There was a Savannah Sparrow at the swan pen today. Good birding, Ann Mitchell 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] Request for this listserve.....
OK, Tompkins County, Town of Danby, roughly half a mile south of Station Road, 3/4 mile west of Bald Hill Road, 7/8 mile east of NY 34. Latitude Longitude in decimal degrees: 42.31605N 76.50678W (approximate, per Google Earth; if you prefer another coordinate system you probably already have an app for conversion) That's probably enough location info for birds that haven't even arrived yet! :-) -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] Stewart Ave Redtail Chick
At the Stewart Avenue bridge over Fall Creek the red-tailed hawk was feeding a lone chick this evening. Initially there looked to be two furry blobs, but one of them turned out to be a squirrel. A passerby who checks out the nest when he walks by every day said this was the first time he'd seen the mother stand up to reveal a chick. For the photographer, the shadow of the bridge falls upon the nest around 6pm: before that you get a late afternoon sun; after you get a nice even shadow. The annoying fence remains. Suan _ http://suan-yong.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] [OT] Sapsucker Woods events
I had occasion to be in the neighborhood, so I took a walk in Sapsucker Woods even though it was mid-afternoon and about 80°F, therefore very quiet in terms of birds. It was so summer-like that I heard my FOY Bullfrog calling, "Wawaron"(or "Ouaouaron," which is the Québécois term for the critter, in use since 1632, from the Huron "Ouaron"). The sound came from the green slimy pool on the west side of the Wilson Trail, north of the Sherwood Platform.Continuing my walk on the east side of Sapsucker Woods I tried to sneak up on a singing Northern Waterthrush along the Woodleton Boardwalk. On Tuesday it took me 3 times looking for the bird before I saw it. Each time I approached, treading as silently as I could on the boards, it would shut up, invisibly leave, and sing from farther off, only to restart from close by as soon as I gave up and had neared the end of the boardwalk. Today I was determined to find it the first try. So I only glanced back briefly at a faint rustle in the leaves. And I didn't waver at all at the squeak and splash of a frog jumping into one of the swamp pools practically under my feet. But when the rustle became a Mink, diving smoothly into that same water and swimming, immersed, in tight circles and figure eights I was thoroughly distracted. Seconds later it leapt back onto a mossy hummock with its jaws clamped onto something nearly half its own size and thrashing. By the time I recognized the prey as a Bullfrog, the struggle was over. Frogs don't have much of a neck, but that's where the Mink knew to bite to dispatch it. When the frog lay still (except for the reflexive repositioning of a hind leg), the Mink let go and rubbed its face and neck on the moss, cleaning off slime, I think. Then it took the frog in its mouth again, got back in the water, and swam under me to the far side of the pool where it dropped the carcass for a minute (again the corpse made its legs more comfortable) before carrying it again over the uneven swamp terrain and out of sight, presumably to a hidden hungry family. I don't remember any birds on the rest of my walk, but I do recall looking down and seeing two more Bullfrogs sitting silently in the water, doing their best to imitate inanimate objects. Their days are numbered.--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! --
