[cayugabirds-l] Mockingbird song
We have a resident mocking bird who sits in our yard and sings on and on with all sorts of peeps and mutters. Question: Does the mockingbird have a song that is unique to itself, or does it only borrow from others? Richard Tkachuck -- 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] Mockingbird song
Good question. I have a Mockingbird who serenades me quite often and he sings many other birds songs. He's fooled me in early spring when I thought I had a Phoebe, but when he changed his verse, I knew who it really was. I'd like to hear an answer to Richard's question as well. My guess is that his song is all mimic. Sent from my iPad On Jun 28, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Richard Tkachuck rictkal...@gmail.com wrote: We have a resident mocking bird who sits in our yard and sings on and on with all sorts of peeps and mutters. Question: Does the mockingbird have a song that is unique to itself, or does it only borrow from others? Richard Tkachuck -- 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] Some recent notes
Hi all, I was out of town last week-end and when I got back home on Monday I realized my Catbird has stop singing. So I am hoping he did not become 'Cat'(s) bird. But I have also noticed in the past that when they have fledglings they stop singing and hang around with their kids and sometime move away from the location. I did not see anything of the catbirds till yesterday morning. I was as usual looking at moths on my sheet early morning at 4.50 am, when a catbird came and complained to me. I thought may be the male is lost and the female is still taking care of babies. So I did not scare away most of the moths, hoping this will help her a bit in her chores of feeding babies. Today morning as I was running out to catch a bus, I heard squawking of many catbirds, a quick look in the direction of the sound found two babies begging for food and a parent watched me seeing them, it landed above me and fired a firecracker at me and when I crossed the road, it followed me to the other side of the road with some more firing. So now I am relieved that at least the babies are fledged! Yesterday, I was walking along Beebe lake when I heard a loud distress call of Great Blue heron. When I looked in the direction of the sound I found a Red-winged Blackbird was chasing the Great Blue heron and the heron was freaking out. It looked very funny. It was something like when humans encounter a spider they start screaming and running around. He stopped only when he reached the safe haven of the lakes fallen log. Cheers Meena Dr. Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Ph: 607-3011167 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] More on Great Crested Flycatchers
Yesterday, I was watching the nest box again when a big yellow flurry appeared at the nest hole. At first, I thought a Flicker was raiding the box (I had just found a dead, intact Flicker on the ground nearby; my only theory was it flew into a tree and broke its neck while chasing around with others; today the body was gone, probably to the Red Fox who lives here). But the yellow flash was the wing of a very large Swallowtail butterfly clamped firmly in the jaws of the GCFL parent. Oddly, the parent did not enter the box after landing on the edge of the entry hole; I don't know if it saw me or just decided the butterfly was too big or not dead yet, so it flew up to its normal 'safety' perch and sat rearranging the bug in its mouth. Eventually, it had both wings folded to one side and antennae out the other, making an amusing sight. After all, this Swallowtail was several inches across, so it looked like a yellow-belied flycatcher wearing a huge fashionable summer yellow hat. I did not have time to outwait it so never saw it go to the nest. This morning, the parent I believe is the male, based on it being somewhat larger, usually showing somewhat erect crest, all gray face, cheek, and neck, and more vocal (wheeps from a perch on occasion when it returns with food) flew to the nest with a small beetle then emerged again. At that time, the female (smaller, never shows erected crest, has faint white sub-auricular patch and faintly white just under bill) arrived and perched nearby as well. That meant that the bird that had popped into the entry hole was one of the feathered but apparently not yet fledged young! Yay! it sat there looking goofy showing much lighter color 'grin'. So then, here's the interesting bit: one of the parents flew to the nest hole, wiggled past that young and dropped into the nest to feed another one. Interesting that the older stronger chick didn't beg or expect or just receive the fresh offering. This was repeated in short order. On the third trip, the young one turned and dropped back into the nest. Again, this is such a marked contrast with the Red-bellied Woodpecker whose older chick was extremely aggressive when new food arrived, almost always winning it by pecking viciously at the parent mouth and stepping on its nest mate (who eventually died inside the nest for one reason or another). Final observation today was a female Cowbird appeared on a nearby branch and was immediately buzzed by one of the GCFL parents. So it then hopped onto the roof of the nest box (angled aluminum flashing, so not a good footing), then to a branch on the same cherry tree where it picked haphazardly at some loose peeling bark. I am sure in my own mind it was gauging whether or not it could drop an egg or two into that well-tended box. We'll have to see what emerges over the next week or so. I expect the GCFLs will stop feeding young after their first brood is fledged, but time will tell. __ 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] FWD: Cambodian tailorbird: A new species seen in Phnom Penh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23044469 Tahir Poduska Web Application Programmer Cornell Lab of Ornithology (607)-254-2434 -- 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] Prothonotary Warbler
One PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, probably a male, was singing on the west side of the bridge on Armitage Road this morning at about 9:00. The bird seems to stay further north near the river this year. There is a path that goes in a ways and we were able to see the bird well but not before giving a large amount of blood. I have never seen mosquitos this bad! Joseph Brin Baldwinsville, N.Y. -- 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/ --
