[cayugabirds-l] Glossy Ibis, Montezuma
Alex Lamoreaux reports two adult GLOSSY IBIS at the Visitor Center this morning: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18100060 No sign of them yesterday. -- 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] Lime Hollow vicinity, Sun 4/27
On Sunday afternoon just before 6 PM, I saw a GREAT EGRET in the air south of McLean Road, near the Lime Hollow Center. Yesterday, my wife Miyoko and I spent about 40 minutes birding together on the Wilson Trail North in Sapsucker Woods. Our biggest surprise was probably a male BLUE-WINGED TEAL near the berm that divides the two main portions of the big pond. This teal maybe only the second or third one of this species I've seen in my hundreds of visits to the sanctuary. Other highlights included some noisy RUSTY BLACKBIRDS perched in trees right above the teal, an OSPREY perched low in a snag nearby, and a singing BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER seen for a long time at very close range with Gladys Birdsall's group at the Owens Platform. We haven't seen any screech-owls here at home since Thursday. Mark --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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] SFO Derby Hill trip
Hi all, Today was one of the best days of Derby Hill trips, in spite of cold. On the way to Derby Hill we stopped at Subway where we heard a trill and I was so confident it was a junco. When we tracked down the bird it turned out to be Chipping Sparrow. I think because of the cold morning it was trilling much slower than the usual. Then the snipe point we had three Snipes, which gave us fleeting glimpses, but many of us could see their long bills so we were sure of their identity. A Swamp Sparrow trilled in the vicinity but we could not see him. At Derby Hill initially we spent time at bluff looking at the LTDs (Long-tailed Ducks), Red-breasted Mergansers, Horned Grebe, Loons, Caspian Terns and other common species. In the hedgerow at the top of the hill, we saw a few singing Ruby Crowned Kinglets and a Nashville Warbler. Also from the bluffs we saw two adult Bald Eagles and a couple of Sharp-shinned Hawks heading east. Then we headed to look for the hawks. First a Broad-winged Hawk passed by as Steve Kolbe called our attention to it. Soon we saw a kettle of Broad-wings rising up in the west. Then a few more and then several more kettles and more. They kept coming. In between there were some Golden Eagles, Ospreys, a couple of Northern Harriers, several more Bald Eagles and a few of Red-tailed flew past us. Of course there were several of Turkey Vultures passed by too. Non-hawks included some loons, heading straight north. By about 1.30 PM my group members thought they are frozen enough to do something else. So we were planning to decide which should be out next destination. On the way to the car Bernie Carr and Brian (from Paul Smith's group) convinced my group members that it was worth going to look for the Willow Ptarmigan an hour north of Derby Hill. This delighted me as I had never seen a Ptarmigan in my life and always wanted to see one. So we decided to head north. I had Kimberly Sucy's email of approximate location of the bird from the previous report. We punched in the address into our cell phone's GPS and headed north. It was beautiful along Rte 3 north. We took 180 N and then on to 12 E and county Rd 57 till S Shore Road. Finally, we went on to South Shore Extension road. There we found a couple of cars and Gerry Rising I believe. He told us to look on the shores and there it was a beautiful snow white bird, with black tail hiding among the branches and feeding. After sometime it became bold and started feeding in front of us. It quickly nibbled on the buds of the willow and to prove it was a Willow Ptarmigan. It fed greedily on the buds for all the time we were there, may be for about half an hour or more. We watched it through binoculars and camera and took lots of pictures. I will upload the pictures when I have time. In all we had a great time and great group and one of the best Derby Hill trips! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 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] SURF SCOTERS
Sunday, about 10 am, East Shore park, I spotted what I thought was a pair of white-winged scoters far off shore to the north west. I noticed an oval white spot on the back of the male's head. With the help of a birder from NW Pa., I learned that they were SURF SCOTERS. There were dozens of SWALLOWS ( n. rough-winged, tree, and barn) acrobatically feeding just off shore in the steady northern wind. Two CASPIAN TERNS were flying up the lake. Also seen: some DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, a few RING BILLED GULLS. Otherwise, not much. Pete -- 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] Black-and-white Warbler
This afternoon I went looking for a couple of specialty warblers. Pine Warbler has been found by many people many places but not yet by me. I have checked Parkway Place without luck, a considerable hike in an attempt to add it to my Luddite List. Today I drove to Comstock Knoll, but again without luck. I continued to the bowl of Newman Arboretum and hiked to various groves of pines, where I kept finding CHIPPING SPARROWS and (SLATE-COLORED) DARK-EYED JUNCOS. Finally I heard a triller a bit different, more like a short series of whistles than chips, in the old short-needled pines along the top of the bowl parallel to Dryden Road and got a great view of a PINE WARBLER. Another bird which I always like sang from the trees and brush below, a BROWN THRASHER, but it quit and hid when I looked for it. My next goal was to get a look at the NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH which has been singing east of the Woodleton Boardwalk on the Dryden side of Sapsucker Woods. Like yesterday morning, I heard it but couldn't see it. Deb Lynn came by and told me she'd seen waterthrushes in a pool near the Sherwood Platform and along the pond outlet stream, so I headed north and west. Before I left the forest I found several small birds in the deciduous canopy a PINE WARBLER (presumably a migrant since it wasn't in pines) along with a couple of (MYRTLE) YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS and a RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. At the Owens Platform I saw more MYRTLES, but no other warblers. The outlet stream wasn't flowing because beavers have succeeded in blocking the outflow, and I saw no birds on the mud. By the Sherwood Platform I heard and saw a couple of RUSTY BLACKBIRDS, but no warblers. But in the southwest corner of the pond by the Charley Harper benches I found another RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET and a couple more MYRTLES, and on a small lichen-covered tree a boldly zebra-striped male BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER explored the bark, the first of this species for me this year, and I believe the first report for the basin. --Dave Nutter -- 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/ --
