[cayugabirds-l] Cornell Community Gardens, Mon 10/13
Diane Morton, Ken Kemphues, and I went looking for sparrows at the Freese Road gardens on Monday morning. Diane found a VESPER SPARROW on the fence at the east edge of the large Dyce Lab corral. We had long, close views of the bird's distinctive face and head, plus one diagnostic glimpse of white outer tail feathers when the sparrow flew. We last saw the bird flying back into the center of the community plots. I am very fired up about this sighting. This was the first Vesper Sparrow I've ever seen on this side of Freese Road! Otherwise, the species mix was much the same as the other day, with apparently fewer SAVANNAH SPARROWS (we saw only one), more WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS (15+), still many SONG SPARROWS, two or more SWAMP SPARROWS, and three or more WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, but no Chipping Sparrows nor House Sparrows today. TURKEY VULTURES streamed by both northbound and southbound all morning. We also saw one SHARP-SHINNED HAWK and a COOPER'S HAWK. After about an hour in the gardens, we crossed over to the west side of Freese Road and looked in the tall grasses by the pond edge. Diane found a FIELD SPARROW here. We also saw a backlit PALM WARBLER along the path between the hedgerows near the Liddell Lab parking area. Mark Chao --- 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] Julie Zickefoose, Cayuga Bird Club meeting TONIGHT
A reminder... The Cayuga Bird Club will be meeting on Monday, October 13, at 7:30 at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with cookies and conversation at 7:15. Our speaker, Julie Zickefoose, a writer, artist and naturalist at home in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio, will give her presentation The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds. Every day, I roam our 80 acre wildlife sanctuary, and every day I find something new. This deep relationship with the land is the wellspring for my writing and art. Join writer/artist Julie Zickefoose for an evening exploring the intersection of birds and spirituality in our lives. Can a bird become a demigod to some? Can certain species achieve the level of a totem or spirit guide? Are there phenomena that occur at the intersection of man and nature that cannot be explained by conventional means? These are concepts that have surfaced over a lifetime of helping broken birds and mothering those who are orphaned, and in so doing coming to know birds from the inside out. A scientist at heart, Julie has lately found herself wondering more than knowing. This talk will help you keep your spirit open to the thrust of grace, thinking about the unexplainables in your own life. * And if interested: Julie will also be doing a talk for the Cornell Plantations called, Personal Habitat: Creating a Haven for Wildlife (and Yourself) - the story of an artist's love affair with a piece of land, and the birds, animals, and plants that inhabit it. Simple habitat enhancements can take a back yard from bland to bustling with wildlife. In this talk, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose shows how she and her husband have transformed their abandoned farm into a wildlife sanctuary and observatory-a perfect personal habitat. Date/time: Wednesday, October 15; 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Cost: Free; no-registration is required. Location: Statler Hall Auditorium -- Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edumailto:l...@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] Meadowlark and bald eagle
At 4:00 this afternoon Driving north on Hall Road in Interlaken I was surprised to see an Eastern Meadowlark perched on the telephone wire just after seeing a KESTREL on a wire close by. Yesterday we saw a bald eagle flying low over Interlaken on Rt 89 just a few miles north of Sheldrake. I love autumn! Michele -- www.thehaywardhouse.com www.bodyshopwellness.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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 6, 2014 * NYSY 10. 06. 14 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): September 29, 2014 - October 06, 2014 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled: October 06 AT 5:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #412 Monday October 06, 2014 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 22, 2014 Highlights: --- CACKLING GOOSE AMERICAN AVOCET PARASITIC JAEGER LITTLE GULL FORSTER’S TERN SNOWY OWL ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER DICKCISSAL NELSON’S SPARROW PINE SISKIN Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) Only seven species of shorebirds were seen at the complex this week highlighted by the two AMERICAN AVOCETS seen as recently as yesterday (10/12) at Knox-Marsellus Marsh but not yet reported today. Onondaga County 13 species of Warbler and LINCOLN SPARROW were found in the county this week. Get them before they’re gone. 10/7: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was found again in Three Rivers WMA under the power lines on 60 Road. They were found again yesterday and today in the same location. 10/8: A juvenile female type DICKCISSAL was found on the east side of Van Rensselear Street near the inner harbor in Syracuse. Unfortunately it was not relocated the next day. 10/11: A SNOWY OWL was still being seen actively hunting in the Rt. 31 mall location in Clay. 10/12: An adult and juvenile BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON were seen again in Onondaga Creek south of Spencer Street on the Creekwalk in Syracuse. 10/13: 2 CACKLING GEESE were found in the Inner Harbor area in Syracuse. Jefferson County 10/10: A NELSON’S SPARROW was found on Zimmer Road in Fort Drum. Driving is not allowed on this road but apparently you may walk it. Oswego County 10/8: 3 PARASITIC JAEGERS, a LITTLE GULL and a FORSTER’S TERN were all seen from the overlook at Derby Hill. The next day one of the JAEGERS and the LITTLE GULL were seen again. Cayuga County 10/7: 7 FORSTER’S TERNS were spotted from the beach at Fair Haven State Park. 10/8: A LITTLE GULL was seen at West Barrier Park in Fair Haven. 10/12: An ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen at Great Bear Recreation Area north of Phoenix. Oneida County 10/10: 4 PINE SISKINS were seen at Spring Farm Nature Center near Clinton. -- end report Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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] Turkey Vultures
I agree Sunday was a good migration day for Turkey Vultures. At about 1pm I was near the Lab entrance looking at the western skyline beyond the pond, and I watched a near-continuous line of them flying south, about 60 all told. They were gliding and gradually losing altitude, and when they got low enough to almost be blocked by trees for me, one of them would find a thermal and start circling up. Then all those behind it in line would veer into the thermal, and suddenly there would be 20 birds kettling. But it seemed they would only circle a few times (2 or 3? it was distracting, but I should have tried harder to follow a single bird) before they would peel off the top and continue south. I saw this a couple of times there, and then when I went to the Freese Road Gardens I saw it again, once to the west and once almost overhead. I saw about a hundred southbound Turkey Vultures altogether. There were also a few apparent locals, by their behavior. --Dave Nutter On Oct 12, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Ann Mitchell annmitchel...@gmail.com wrote: Saw 18 Turkey Vultures flying above Triphammer Road 3 miles north of Shops of Ithaca. Pretty impressive! Ann Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html'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 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] Turkey Vultures
I counted 74 tv's golfing cornell's course today with most of them before 12 Jim Gaffney Sent from my iPhone On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:26 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote: I agree Sunday was a good migration day for Turkey Vultures. At about 1pm I was near the Lab entrance looking at the western skyline beyond the pond, and I watched a near-continuous line of them flying south, about 60 all told. They were gliding and gradually losing altitude, and when they got low enough to almost be blocked by trees for me, one of them would find a thermal and start circling up. Then all those behind it in line would veer into the thermal, and suddenly there would be 20 birds kettling. But it seemed they would only circle a few times (2 or 3? it was distracting, but I should have tried harder to follow a single bird) before they would peel off the top and continue south. I saw this a couple of times there, and then when I went to the Freese Road Gardens I saw it again, once to the west and once almost overhead. I saw about a hundred southbound Turkey Vultures altogether. There were also a few apparent locals, by their behavior. --Dave Nutter On Oct 12, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Ann Mitchell annmitchel...@gmail.com wrote: Saw 18 Turkey Vultures flying above Triphammer Road 3 miles north of Shops of Ithaca. Pretty impressive! Ann Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu http://www.mail-archive.com/a href= /maillist.html'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 List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/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/ --
