[cayugabirds-l] barn swallows
Our barn swallows left yesterday, some may have left a few days earlier but there was a core group that waited until sometime during the day to depart. I had counted 3 individuals in the spring, there may have been more that straggled in. A couple of weeks ago I counted around 40 individuals, though that may be under the actual group that breeds in our out buildings. It is always a sad day not to see them in the morning, though that is the annual cycle. Godspeed to them over the Gulf of Mexico, and many thanks for keeping our yard relatively bug free. I was curious about their cousins, the tree swallows. They arrived before the barn swallows, took up nest boxes away from the buildings and hunted along with the barnies. At some point in the summer they disappeared, and I noticed a few individuals in the last few days near the barn swallows. Where did the tree swallows go for the summer? Toby Dean, North Danby -- 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] barn swallows
I see hundreds of tree swallows, mixed with barn swallows, over mown fields during August. On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Tobias Dean wrote: Our barn swallows left yesterday, some may have left a few days earlier but there was a core group that waited until sometime during the day to depart. I had counted 3 individuals in the spring, there may have been more that straggled in. A couple of weeks ago I counted around 40 individuals, though that may be under the actual group that breeds in our out buildings. It is always a sad day not to see them in the morning, though that is the annual cycle. Godspeed to them over the Gulf of Mexico, and many thanks for keeping our yard relatively bug free. I was curious about their cousins, the tree swallows. They arrived before the barn swallows, took up nest boxes away from the buildings and hunted along with the barnies. At some point in the summer they disappeared, and I noticed a few individuals in the last few days near the barn swallows. Where did the tree swallows go for the summer? Toby Dean, North Danby -- 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] barn swallows
After nesting, Tree Swallows tend to join large roosts in wetlands. During the daytime, they leave the roost and disperse (often large distances) to feeding areas, which is why we still may see them over our fields in the summer, post-breeding. Then in the evening they all head toward the roost again. These roosts are often out of our sight and may move location often, but occasionally they are visible as one was at Montezuma NWR back in late July: These photos are from July 25 this year: http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Tree-Swallow/GYOpvGGFa3n8/IZRcNxn0V7qs/CJGA3u3.D1t8 http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Tree-Swallow/GYOpvGGFa3n8/I2zBp95hsqyw/CJGA3u3.D1t8 Tree Swallow roosts can become enormous as more and more birds join (including multiple species of swallows and martins usually) as the summer/fall progresses. Eventually (even as late as October) they move south. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake BasinAvailable here: http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/GNlCxX37uTzE/CBPFGij6nLfE From: bounce-117801628-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-117801628-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Anne Clark [anneb.cl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 11:38 AM To: Tobias Dean Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] barn swallows I see hundreds of tree swallows, mixed with barn swallows, over mown fields during August. On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Tobias Dean wrote: Our barn swallows left yesterday, some may have left a few days earlier but there was a core group that waited until sometime during the day to depart. I had counted 3 individuals in the spring, there may have been more that straggled in. A couple of weeks ago I counted around 40 individuals, though that may be under the actual group that breeds in our out buildings. It is always a sad day not to see them in the morning, though that is the annual cycle. Godspeed to them over the Gulf of Mexico, and many thanks for keeping our yard relatively bug free. I was curious about their cousins, the tree swallows. They arrived before the barn swallows, took up nest boxes away from the buildings and hunted along with the barnies. At some point in the summer they disappeared, and I noticed a few individuals in the last few days near the barn swallows. Where did the tree swallows go for the summer? Toby Dean, North Danby -- 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] Yellow -bellied Flycatcher at Mundy
Hello all, Today on Mundy walk I saw a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher actively fly -catching near the overlook (I don't remember the name of the person in whose honor it is built) over Fall Creek. Also there were three Carolina Wrens calling from different locations in the Mundy and from behind Vet School. Yesterday on the way to home along EIRW, near the entrance to Strawberry Hill circle, I heard someone spishing. It reminded me of Jeff Gerbracht. So I was expecting to see a human being, to my surprise it turned out to be a Carolina Wren imitating human spishing! When I went to close to it continued spishing till I was just four feet away from it. Then it just moved a bit and continued calling. I don't know what it was worried about! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal 409, Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) Phone 6073011167 Email: m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4 Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/140817samplebook.pdf -- 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] Red Knot other photos
Jim Tarolli tells me it was not at Sodus Pt this morning. I've added more photos of the Knot with other shorebirds, plus some great ones of Semipalmated Plover. Speaking of semipalmated, it appears in my photos that Lesser Yellowlegs also has semi-p feet (which I did not know). Also a few shots of the juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker at Fair Haven. While the roost itself is not visible, the Great Egret roost flight is. The sky was very dramatic on Wednesday and I have put up some of the 126 birds that flew by my perch. https://www.flickr.com/photos/krankykestrel/ David Wheeler N. Syracuse, NY -- 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] OT: Monarch caterpillar rescue opportunity?
This morning I found a small monarch caterpillar in an unlikely spot downtown, and my untrained instinct tells me it's unlikely to survive to adulthood at this location, so if anyone is up for it, I think it would be a good idea/opportunity for someone to effect some level of rescue, anything from moving it to a bigger patch of milkweeds to trying to raise it at home (or better yet, in an educational setting somewhere). It is located on Seneca Street next to the bridge over the inlet, in front of the Finger Lakes Electric Supply Company, here: 42.440079, -76.511573 There is a very small bed of mulch with some decorative plants and two very small stray milkweeds (half a foot tall, about a dozen smallish leaves), and the still very small caterpillar (less than an inch in length) was in the easternmost of the two milkweeds. Here's a photo of the would-be adoptee: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204734943071423l=0218fab00e IMO the two milkweeds (not _that_ close to each other) will not provide enough nourishment, and are likely to be pulled anyways by anyone tending that bed (I assume they're considered weeds by gardeners). Thus, I would recommend that anyone effecting the rescue just pull out the entire plant. Feel free to let me know (offlist, if you want) if you adopt it, need more info, or think this message was a good/bad idea. Thanks. 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/ --
