[cayugabirds-l] New sightings imminent!

[Laura J. Heisey]

I just got permission to hang out in the woods across the road from my house on 
Shaffer Rd. I am SO looking forward to looking for  Ovenbirds, Scarlet 
Tanagers, and many others. Thank you to those who have helped me identify by 
sound what I'm going to look for first.
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[cayugabirds-l] YB Chat in FL National Forest

[Alicia Plotkin]

Hi,

This was a life bird for me so I came home to do some checking 
before posting.  At 2:30 PM today I saw a yellow-breasted chat next to 
the Ravine Trail in the FL National Forest in Hector.  The bird was 
first near the short wooden stairs that are just northeast of the turn 
around point on the loop.  I was enjoying watching a RB Nuthatch when a 
strange cacophony started just up behind me, mixing sounds like a 
playground whistle, a blue jay's call, and the way a crow might laugh if 
a crow had a higher voice and was capable of laughter.  I turned and saw 
a smallish bird flitting in a hemlock tree about 10 feet away and got on 
it with binoculars.  It was bigger than a solitary vireo, which was my 
first thought as I glimpsed the spectacles, although never thought a 
solitary vireo was making those sounds and assumed I was on the wrong 
bird, but then it sang.  Was somewhat backlit making exact colors hard 
to see, but had clear white spectacles, dark back & long slim tail, 
lighter colored beneath, no wing bars.  It moved around and briefly 
fickered through better light, which gave an impression of a yellowish 
breast, but I never got a clear look & can't say I got the full effect 
of a brilliant yellow breast.  However, having now compared the sounds 
it was making with those online, and noting the size, bold spectacles, 
and long thin tale, I am very confident of the identification.  When I 
saw the bird it was moving around in the hemlocks and small trees, 
moving gradually north.  It sang pretty consistently for 2-3 minutes, 
then fell silent until several minutes later it sang from further north 
and I found it again about a tenth of a mile further up the trail, still 
on the same side of the little creek.


 If you go, there also were  at least three hermit thrushes, two BT 
green warblers, a pair of scarlet tanagers, and ovenbirds (this trail is 
extremely reliable for these four species in spring & summer), plus a N. 
waterthrush, all singing at midday; among other common woodland birds 
like juncos & chickadees and both nuthatches.


   Alicia

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers and sap trees

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,
I am still looking for sapsuckers with sap trees for a research project and 
sampling the sap. If you any of you have come across a tree with sap holes this 
summer please get in touch with me at 
(m...@cornell.edu) if you do not mind sharing the 
location. I am willing to travel quite some distance if necessary.

Thank you very much, I appreciate your help with this project.

Cheers
Meena

Meena Haribal
409 Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI)
Phone 6073011167
e-mail: m...@cornell.edu



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fallen Pileated Nesthole Tree

[Linda Orkin]

I just wrote that same question on facebook but with no posit.  good thought

Linda


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Anne Clark  wrote:

> Those maple leaves look quite fresh as if added recently, not during the
> nestling period.  Certainly the leaves are so big that they must be recent.
>  So we might hypothesize that squirrels moved in as the pileated young
> moved out?
>
> anne
>
> On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Suan Hsi Yong wrote:
>
> Walking this morning through the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve at
> Six-Mile Creek, I found partially-toppled the dead tree that had hosted the
> pileated woodpecker nest earlier this year. I found the hole and got to
> peek in (with my phone) to find some interesting interior decorations.
> Photos here:
>
> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204339627908791.1073741829.
> 1172377296&type=1&l=54608fdca7
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fallen Pileated Nesthole Tree

[Anne Clark]

Those maple leaves look quite fresh as if added recently, not during the 
nestling period.  Certainly the leaves are so big that they must be recent.  So 
we might hypothesize that squirrels moved in as the pileated young moved out?

anne

On Jul 11, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Suan Hsi Yong wrote:

> Walking this morning through the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve at Six-Mile 
> Creek, I found partially-toppled the dead tree that had hosted the pileated 
> woodpecker nest earlier this year. I found the hole and got to peek in (with 
> my phone) to find some interesting interior decorations. Photos here:
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204339627908791.1073741829.1172377296&type=1&l=54608fdca7
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[cayugabirds-l] Fallen Pileated Nesthole Tree

[Suan Hsi Yong]

Walking this morning through the Mulholland Wildflower Preserve at Six-Mile
Creek, I found partially-toppled the dead tree that had hosted the pileated
woodpecker nest earlier this year. I found the hole and got to peek in
(with my phone) to find some interesting interior decorations. Photos here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204339627908791.1073741829.
1172377296&type=1&l=54608fdca7

Suan

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[cayugabirds-l] The book about birds' food! (posted with permission from the list owner!)

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Dear Cayuga birders



Have you been spending the summer complaining about birds that are hard to 
find?  Is it not fun to look at the what birds are eating? You see those sneaky 
grackles always along the shores of the ponds and streams picking something. 
The bluebirds and blackbirds come back to nests with morsels of teneral 
odonates (damselflies and dragonflies) to their babies.  It is more challenging 
to identify a dragonflies than identifying birds as they are so small compared 
to birds. But there are ways to do so. If you are curious about them then you 
must come to this event!

 (I am truly sorry if some of you received part of this email 3rd time)

You and your friends are cordially invited to join the celebrations of release 
of the book "Where to find Damselflies and Dragonflies, In the Cayuga Lake 
Region and the Vicinity", an account of personal journey by Meena Haribal to 
find these odonates (damselflies and dragonflies) in the Finger Lakes region. 
The book is illustrated with more than 400 photographs of over 100 species of 
odonates mostly taken by the author in our region.
The book would be formally released by emeritus Prof. Thomas (Nick) Donnelly of 
Binghamton University, who is world renowned expert on Odonates and also 
Cornell University alum.

Where: Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium/atrium (GPS coordinates 42.446945, 
-76.467184, see the link to map below)
When: Sunday, July 20 2014 3.00 - 4.00 pm
Light refreshments will be served

This will be followed by a field trip to Stewart Park (from 4.30 to 5.30 PM) to 
see the damselflies and dragonflies, provided the weather is cooperative.

The book will be available at the event.
To have a peek at the book visit the following link to see a few sample pages.
http://haribal.wikispaces.com/file/view/140710samplebook.pdf/516008692/140710samplebook.pdf

Map and Note: You can park at the back of the institute or to the east side of 
the institute and use the main entrance on the Tower Road to the auditorium.  
Being Sunday you can park anywhere for free in the Tower Road parking lots 
including Peterson lot one in front of the Dairy bar and the O parking lot on 
the east side.  
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RSVP by email if possible but not necessary.

Meena Haribal
m...@conell.edu
Phone 6072298710
Ithaca, New York

42.429007,-76.47111
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