[cayugabirds-l] Migrants still
Migrants are still moving through. I've been out 5 minutes, just walking around my yard this morning, and I've already got Mourning Warbler and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Como esta bien
After this morning's well-attended spring bird quest at the McIlroy bird sanctuary (highlights for me included a pair of close low Blackburnians and a singing Magnolia along with alder flycatchers and other expected species), I pulled over with Rick L by the Branch Road bridge over Lake Como to just enjoy the marshy scenery with the usual blackbirds and grackles and kingbirds and a skulking GBH. Suddenly a peregrine flew past exciting a minor ruckus; later two crows were seen harassing a raven, and a yellow-throated vireo started singing. It reminded us that sometimes the best birding happens when you just sit and wait at one spot. 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] Willow Ptarmigan in VT
Just FYI, a willow ptarmigan was seen in VT a couple days after the last sighting in NY. From photos posted, it appears to look the same as the one on point peninsula (white phase). I’m not sure about the reports from Canton of the bird being found dead, it may have been to discourage people from invading point peninsula. (I know there was a lot of negative feelings from some of the locals about all the crowds that showed up - myself included). Mark Miller Sent from Windows Mail -- 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] Grasshopper Sparrow, Caroline
A GRASSHOPPER SPARROW is currently singing from the field on the wesy side of the road on Bald Hill Road just north of Grove School Road. Jay -- 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] Etna, Genung, McIlroy (FLLT SBQ), Sat 5/24
Two gentlemen named John - Mr. Sutton from Skaneateles and Mr. Confer from Caroline - bookended our group of 18+ far-flung neighbors brought together this morning by the Finger Lakes Land Trust Spring Bird Quest (SBQ) at the Dorothy McIlroy Bird Sanctuary in Summerhill. As Suan has noted, we had our share of highlights. I also made a few stops along the way. Here's the report. 1. Etna Nature Preserve Route 366, Etna 6:20-6:40 AM 29 species, including WILSON'S WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER, WOOD THRUSH, and WOOD DUCK This sleepy little preserve has, I admit, always been something of an afterthought for me. Today, however, it distinguished itself with maybe the best species-per-minute ratio I've ever had at a preserve during a SBQ. It also delivered one of the better surprises I've had in recent years, a SBQ life bird - a male WILSON'S WARBLER in the creekside corridor of woods and shrubs, right by the Land Trust sign. Upon hearing its song, I immediately suspected that it was something different, but I could not identify it by sound alone. The song had a rather musical quality and a two-part structure - a little like a House Wren but too slow and structured, a little like a Nashville Warbler but too low and late in the season, but very much unlike the usual fusillade of Wilson's Warbler chappity-chaps that I consider familiar. Eventually I got a fine diagnostic view of the whole bird, including black cap and thin black tail. Excellent Etna exultation ensued. The other surprises here included a WOOD THRUSH and a SCARLET TANAGER heard singing across Fall Creek. People sometimes ask me if I count birds identified FROM Land Trust preserves or only ON Land Trust preserves for the purpose of my SBQ fundraising tally. My answer is from, in part because it's good for fundraising, and in part because of Kevin McGowan's David Cup principle of it's volleyball [baseball], not tennis, the lines are in. But when I heard these two birds singing in the woods across the creek today, I realized there's actually another better reason. Protection of land means not only preservation of habitat on that very site, but also reduction of fragmentation and creation of corridors, which could well have contributed to the presence of these species here today. Who knows if those birds would even have been in those trees across the way if I had been standing in a yard or a parking lot? I'm going to give the Land Trust some credit by counting the birds, especially since the Land Trust makes contiguity of preserved land a significant priority when considering acquisitions. Chalk dust flies - fair ball! 2. Genung Nature Preserve Route 38, Freeville 6:45-7:15 AM 31 species, including MOURNING WARBLER, PINE WARBLER, CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, and BLUE-WINGED WARBLER As if the Etna excitement weren't enough, Genung generated a genuine gem too - a singing MOURNING WARBLER, my first at this preserve. This bird sang repeatedly along the trail to the right as one advances along the creek. I was glad barely to pick up a PINE WARBLER too, which will probably prove to be my only one of the weekend if past patterns prevail. Having added a BLUE-WINGED and CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER here too, I had tallied eight warbler species between the two preserves by 7 AM. (I also counted House Sparrows that I heard around the buildings at the intersection of Routes 38 and 366, as I stood at the southeastern corner of the preserve. So much for grand conservation principles behind my lines are in policy:) 3. Dorothy McIlroy Bird Sanctuary Lake Como Road, Summerhill 7:45-10:30 AM 48 species, including ALDER FLYCATCHER, RUFFED GROUSE, CANADA WARBLER, BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, MAGNOLIA WARBLER, BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, and NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH We began our group walk along Peth Road at the 90-acre tract that the Land Trust recently acquired from the Maneri family. This land comprises some mixed hardwood forest, an open field, and significant frontage among the slow-moving headwaters of Fall Creek. Jason Gorman, who works as the full-time Land Steward at the Land Trust, and Nick Gavrielides, the preserve steward, led us through the area. We heard a fine variety of birds here, including a CANADA WARBLER close to the road, a MAGNOLIA WARBLER in a patch of woods, and a rather unexpected HOUSE WREN along the creek. A male BLUE-WINGED WARBLER obliged us with some long scope views. Regrettably, several others and I missed the Blackburnian Warblers that Suan mentioned earlier. Along the main trail network of the preserve, we found only a subset of the expected breeding birds of the sanctuary, and didn't really get great looks at much. But it was still a joy to walk in the quiet moist woods amid the sounds of BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLERS, OVENBIRDS, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES, VEERIES, and at least seven ALDER FLYCATCHERS. And Nick, his wife Dorothy, and Betsy Darlington helped all of us to find many exquisite
[cayugabirds-l] White Crowned Sparrow
I just had a WHCR Sparrow show up under the feeder. I haven't seen nor heard any of the small flock that was here for two days now. Would this be a different migrant going through? Sent from my iPad -- 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] Common Nighthawk
Hi all, At about 8:30 this evening there was one COMMON NIGHTHAWK flying north relatively low over the fields on Bluegrass Lane, near Hanshaw Road. - Brad -- 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/ --
