[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods this morning

2014-09-18 Thread Anne Marie Johnson
On the Wilson Trail this morning, I came across a warbler flock at the back of 
the pond around the little peninsula with two benches. Included in the flock 
were:

Magnolia
Blackpoll
Chestnut-sided
Common Yellowthroat

I think there were more that I could never get a look at. Yesterday morning 
there was a smaller flock in this area with an Ovenbird, a Magnolia Warbler, a 
Redstart, and a Carolina Wren. But at mid-day yesterday the area was quiet, 
except for the constant presence of multiple catbirds.

Anne Marie Johnson

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[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Screech Owl

2014-09-18 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
I had left the window open yesterday night and was facing the window and 
sleeping to catch the cool breeze. Early morning at 1.50 am I was woken up to  
a call of Eastern Screech Owl.   After a few seconds it became louder, so I 
went to pick up my recorder and tried to record the sound, to my dismay I found 
both Hard drive and SD card were both full. So I deleted some files and then 
tried to record. Just then the my battery power went low and started flashing. 
Finally I gave up and just listened to it calling. First it did several 
winnowing and did tooting for quite some time.  It continued till 10 minutes or 
so.   Then I got desperate. So I decided to use my android note pad with a 
video recorder. I was just about to hit the video switch on, when the bird 
decided it had enough and it stopped.



What is interesting to me and bothering question is did I wake up to the call 
of owl? Or was it by chance I woke up and heard the call. What I recall is when 
I woke up I was listening to the call of the owl. So it seems I was conscious 
of bird calling already when I came to my senses.  So this brings another 
question, so if I knew I was listening to the owl, did my brain wake me up so 
that I could hear it? I don't wake up for the truck passing by or a dog 
barking, which occur through out the night everyday.  So how does our brain 
know that we are interested in listening to owl call so it wakes us up and we 
don't care for dog barking or a passing truck so our brain just does not wake 
us up to perceive those sounds. So it is amazing if our brain wakes us up as we 
are quite interested in listening to owl calls! Oh it is all confusing to 
explain!



Meena

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[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [nfc-l] Thursday: Night Flight in Northeast

2014-09-18 Thread Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
Just a heads-up about a potential push of birds into this area overnight 
tonight...

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From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes 
c...@cornell.edumailto:c...@cornell.edu
Subject: [nfc-l] Thursday: Night Flight in Northeast
Date: September 18, 2014 at 9:38:18 PM EDT
To: NFC-L nf...@list.cornell.edumailto:nf...@list.cornell.edu
Reply-To: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes 
c...@cornell.edumailto:c...@cornell.edu

There is currently a fairly heavy liftoff going on in the Northeast and 
surrounding regions. The high pressure system situated North of Lake Ontario 
could make for a good push of birds down into the Northeast overnight tonight.

If you can, keep your ears skyward!

Sincerely,
Chris T-H

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