[cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens
I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that the woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty. My impression was that the males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing- but these two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other. There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the feeding spot? Or is it possible that the second bird is a female? Do they stay around in the winter too? I've never seen two together in the winter before. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- 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] Carolina wrens
Hi John and all, Perhaps the answer may be that it's no longer winter for them. The earliest New York State egg date for Carolina Wren is something like April first. -Geo On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu wrote: I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that the woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty. My impression was that the males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing- but these two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other. There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the feeding spot? Or is it possible that the second bird is a female? Do they stay around in the winter too? I've never seen two together in the winter before. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- 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 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] Carolina wrens
Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first: says there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year. Funny I haven't noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring. Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too. Anyway, my two must be a pair. --John On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote: I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that the woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty. My impression was that the males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing- but these two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other. There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the feeding spot? Or is it possible that the second bird is a female? Do they stay around in the winter too? I've never seen two together in the winter before. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- 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 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] Myers Glaucous, Pintail, Cackler, etc.
Three hardy souls joined me on this cold breezy day for a CBC field trip. The lab parking lot saw much activity from tree sparrows, juncos, and goldfinches. Our first stop at East Shore Park found the ice too far out for decent views of buffleheads, goldeneyes, and mergansers, but Myers Park had plenty of waterfowl huddled north of the spit at Salt Point for great views. A young GLAUCOUS GULL flew about and landed on the water; also present were several RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS and at least two male NORTHERN PINTAILS, one accompanying a female. We drove around to Salt Point for better looks at the gathering of aythyas, many redheads and canvasbacks, some scaups (the ones I ventured to ID were greater), and a few ring-necked ducks. I happened to notice one among the canada geese looking quite small, only a notch bigger than the neighboring mallards, and am quite sure it is a CACKLING GOOSE. From there we drove up Salmon Creek to Indian Field Road, our convoy briefly merged with Jay's car, but struck out on snowys or much else save for a few horned larks scattering as we drove by and never giving good looks, only teasing us with their beautiful songs seeming to emanate from empty-looking fields. We cut across to Aurora and headed for Union Springs where Mill Pond was packed with canada geese, which presently took off in a spectacle of cacophony. Towards the far side of the pond were RED-NECKED GREBES (one for sure, probably two) and a HORNED GREBE along with aythyas and gadwalls and American wigeons, one of whom was green-headed but lacked a white pate. There were also a few odd brownies that suggested ruddy ducks, but now I'm not sure. No wood duck. Factory pond hosted some up-close gadwalls and a ring-necked duck; beyond the park was a small area of open water in which was a lone sleeping swan amid ducks and geese. Dorie's was empty of customers but had good sandwich, coffee, and dessert. From the boat house were about a dozen more tundra swans among a fairly rich variety of canadas and aythyas and a flock of black ducks. Long Point State Park also held a good raft of aythyas, and not too far beyond were about eight WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS which dove in unison each time a harassing herring gull hovered close. A pretty good outing for a late winter day. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens
I had one here in Syracuse this AM Don't forget to look up, Joe DeVito On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Ellen Haith elliehait...@gmail.com wrote: I've had a Carolina in the yard all winter, singing a lovely variety of songs. Last winter there was a pair, so I'm a bit concerned for this little fellow's companion. On a different note, I've had a Pileated Woodpecker at the suet on two different occasions this week - that's about 15 feet from the kitchen window, closest I've ever been to one. Magnificent! ellie haith On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:23 PM, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu wrote: Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first: says there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year. Funny I haven't noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring. Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too. Anyway, my two must be a pair. --John On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote: I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that the woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty. My impression was that the males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing- but these two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other. There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the feeding spot? Or is it possible that the second bird is a female? Do they stay around in the winter too? I've never seen two together in the winter before. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- 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 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 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Myers Glaucous, Pintail, Cackler, etc.
Nice post. The ruddy duck mimics are sleeping female Redheads. I noticed some of them today, too. We saw no real ruddies in the millpond today. The wood duck was in the outlet stream of the millpond that drains out under the entrance to the business at the end of the deadend street north of the pond. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.commailto:suan.y...@gmail.com wrote: Three hardy souls joined me on this cold breezy day for a CBC field trip. The lab parking lot saw much activity from tree sparrows, juncos, and goldfinches. Our first stop at East Shore Park found the ice too far out for decent views of buffleheads, goldeneyes, and mergansers, but Myers Park had plenty of waterfowl huddled north of the spit at Salt Point for great views. A young GLAUCOUS GULL flew about and landed on the water; also present were several RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS and at least two male NORTHERN PINTAILS, one accompanying a female. We drove around to Salt Point for better looks at the gathering of aythyas, many redheads and canvasbacks, some scaups (the ones I ventured to ID were greater), and a few ring-necked ducks. I happened to notice one among the canada geese looking quite small, only a notch bigger than the neighboring mallards, and am quite sure it is a CACKLING GOOSE. From there we drove up Salmon Creek to Indian Field Road, our convoy briefly merged with Jay's car, but struck out on snowys or much else save for a few horned larks scattering as we drove by and never giving good looks, only teasing us with their beautiful songs seeming to emanate from empty-looking fields. We cut across to Aurora and headed for Union Springs where Mill Pond was packed with canada geese, which presently took off in a spectacle of cacophony. Towards the far side of the pond were RED-NECKED GREBES (one for sure, probably two) and a HORNED GREBE along with aythyas and gadwalls and American wigeons, one of whom was green-headed but lacked a white pate. There were also a few odd brownies that suggested ruddy ducks, but now I'm not sure. No wood duck. Factory pond hosted some up-close gadwalls and a ring-necked duck; beyond the park was a small area of open water in which was a lone sleeping swan amid ducks and geese. Dorie's was empty of customers but had good sandwich, coffee, and dessert. From the boat house were about a dozen more tundra swans among a fairly rich variety of canadas and aythyas and a flock of black ducks. Long Point State Park also held a good raft of aythyas, and not too far beyond were about eight WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS which dove in unison each time a harassing herring gull hovered close. A pretty good outing for a late winter day. Suan -- 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] Carolina wrens
I also enjoyed Carolina Wren, which has wintered here, singing in a.m. in Liverpool on Shoreview. Also had Brown Creeper at suet. Onondaga Lake Inner Harbor late afternoon: 7 Iceland Gulls, 1 adult Glaucous with the many Herring, several Ring-billed, a few Great Black-backs. Judy Thurber Liverpool Sent from my iPad On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Joe DeVito joeb...@yahoo.com wrote: I had one here in Syracuse this AM Don't forget to look up, Joe DeVito On Mar 1, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Ellen Haith elliehait...@gmail.com wrote: I've had a Carolina in the yard all winter, singing a lovely variety of songs. Last winter there was a pair, so I'm a bit concerned for this little fellow's companion. On a different note, I've had a Pileated Woodpecker at the suet on two different occasions this week - that's about 15 feet from the kitchen window, closest I've ever been to one. Magnificent! ellie haith On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:23 PM, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu wrote: Ah, I should have looked at the Lab's page on Carolina Wrens first: says there they don't migrate at all and stay paired all year. Funny I haven't noticed in the winter the countersinging they do all the time in the spring. Alicia Plotkin tells me that hers do that in the winter too. Anyway, my two must be a pair. --John On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote: I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of his living by cleaning up the bits of suet on the ground under the feeder that the woodpeckers waste. But for the last week I have had two Carolina Wrens coming together on suet cleanup duty. My impression was that the males defend territories in the winter- hence all the singing- but these two are not at all aggressive, often foraging within a foot of each other. There are other males singing elsewhere in Ludlowville- is this just a truce at the feeding spot? Or is it possible that the second bird is a female? Do they stay around in the winter too? I've never seen two together in the winter before. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- 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 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 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: 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] West side of the lake
Dave Nutter and I went up the lake starting around 12:15. Our stops were the Ithaca Marina (or boat club), Taughannock Park (north side) and Sheldrake. We saw all ducks, except for Northern Shoveler and any teal. No rarities. Dave found White-winged Scoters at Taughannock and Sheldrake. A single Ruddy Duck was seen at Sheldrake. Of note, there were many gulls at the north end of Taughannock plus one Red-necked Grebe that Dave viewed far north. One last thing, at Taughannock we saw many Red-breasted Mergansers and also at Sheldrake. Personally, I have never seen them in those numbers! Dave, if I missed something, please post it. All athyas were in abundance. Forgot to mention- we also saw 4 Bald Eagles at the Marina- two adults and two juveniles. We saw the nest north of Glen Wood Pines, but no eagles present. My hunch is that they were on the ice, but... Good birding, Ann 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/ --
