[cayugabirds-l] Swan Pen
Yellow, Yellow-rumpled, and Palm Warblers with a Song Sparrow joining them. Happy Spring! Good birding, 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) 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] Renwick/Fall Creek Gnatcatchers (Monday)
I haven’t seen this mentioned yet, so I thought I’d post it: on Monday late afternoon, there were two Blue-gray Gnatcatchers calling repeatedly and softly from a couple different treetop locations along Fall Creek, upstream from the green footbridge over Fall Creek, in the Stewart Park and Renwick area (City of Ithaca). Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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-rumped Warblers at SSW
I just spotted three bright, male Yellow-rumped Warblers at the edge of the pond in Sapsucker Woods near the gate in the Wilson Trail that leads to the building. Anne Marie Johnson -- 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] Newman Municipal Golf Course owls et al., Wed 4/22
Your turkey sighting reminds me that yesterday morning there was a female turkey in a backyard at the North end of Muriel Street, near the Boces path and would not be hard to get to or from SSW from there. Linda Orkin On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Mark Chao markc...@imt.org wrote: The GREAT HORNED OWL mother and her two chicks have been at their nest on the Newman Municipal Golf course throughout this week. On Monday, the mother perched just off the nest. On Tuesday, she was about 30 feet away on a neighboring tree. Today she was back on the nest with the owlets, maybe to reduce everyone’s exposed surface area in the cold rain. But I think that the young owls will step out and fly soon. Their flight feathers look ready. I looked for birds on the east side of Sapsucker Woods this morning too. My lone exciting find was a female WILD TURKEY in the mossy hemlock stand past the north end of the Woodleton Boardwalk on the right. It was the first turkey I’ve seen in the sanctuary in several years. During the week after Anne Clark posted about the Merlins along Christopher Lane in our neighborhood in northeast Ithaca, I would see one Merlin atop a tree every time I passed. But I haven’t seen any Merlins there for more than a week now. Mark Chao -- http://www.avast.com/ This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com -- *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/!* -- -- Veganism is simply the acknowledgment that a replaceable and fleeting pleasure isn't more valuable than someone's life and liberty. ~ Unknown If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- 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] Newman Municipal Golf Course owls et al., Wed 4/22
The GREAT HORNED OWL mother and her two chicks have been at their nest on the Newman Municipal Golf course throughout this week. On Monday, the mother perched just off the nest. On Tuesday, she was about 30 feet away on a neighboring tree. Today she was back on the nest with the owlets, maybe to reduce everyone's exposed surface area in the cold rain. But I think that the young owls will step out and fly soon. Their flight feathers look ready. I looked for birds on the east side of Sapsucker Woods this morning too. My lone exciting find was a female WILD TURKEY in the mossy hemlock stand past the north end of the Woodleton Boardwalk on the right. It was the first turkey I've seen in the sanctuary in several years. During the week after Anne Clark posted about the Merlins along Christopher Lane in our neighborhood in northeast Ithaca, I would see one Merlin atop a tree every time I passed. But I haven't seen any Merlins there for more than a week now. Mark Chao --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. 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] Recent birds
In addition to several singing YELLOW WARBLERS along the north side of the pond at Sapsucker Woods, at least 40 Yellow-rumped Warblers were present this morning. Yesterday, a PALM WARBLER was singing at the Sherwood Platform. Livia and I had our first SPOTTED SANDPIPERS in the lagoon/turnaround along the road at Stewart Park on Monday morning, as well as finally some gnatcatchers yesterday morning. We spent time at Myers Point and Stewart Park Monday morning, as well as the Ithaca Yacht Club and Taughannock a little later in the morning, hoping that some of the Little Gulls seen farther up the lake might have made their way south with the bad weather, but no luck. We did have decent numbers of Bonaparte's at Myers and at the south end, but no different gulls I never got a chance to post more details from Sunday's Little Gull explosion, but here are our two checklists with photos: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22940267 http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22950229 We spent a long time scanning Bonaparte's at Long Point and Aurora Bay before finding the first one off the Mackenzie-Childs bluffs, and then spent a long time watching at least four individuals on the other side of the lake in Varick. Lots of Horned and Red-necked grebes on the lake over the weekend as well. In between Little Gulls, we birded around Montezuma on Sunday without finding anything too exciting, other than a brief encounter with a singing White-eyed Vireo at the beginning of Towpath, which defied our attempts to see or relocate it. BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, HOUSE WREN, and SANDHILL CRANE were the other highlights here. Last night on a tip from Gary Kohlenberg, Livia and I walked over to the Arrowwood Drive trail and heard a drumming RUFFED GROUSE somewhere to the south towards the BOCES campus, a rather odd and seemingly brushy spot for this bird. Singing Fox Sparrow and lots of towhees were other highlights from a quiet and stormy evening. Good birding, Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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] Program tomorrow evening about Renwick Wildwood
I thought some might be interested in this event tomorrow evening. Apologies if it was already posted; I've been out of town and may have missed it. Revitalizing the Renwick Wildwood Fuertes Bird Sanctuary Through Community-Conservation Efforts Thursday, April 23, 6:30pm @ Borg Warner Room, Tompkins Public Library, 101 E. Green Street, Ithaca Learn about this project to conserve the bottomland forest at the Renwick Wildwood Fuertes Sanctuary in Stewart Park, at this free presentation by project manager, Miguel Berrios. Mr. Berrios will describe the various invasive plants targeted for removal from the project area, the native plants that have been chosen for replanting, and the timetable for accomplishing these efforts. The project aims to conserve the biodiversity of the park forest while at the same time building capacity in the Ithaca communities that interact with it. Learn more about the project, how you can be involved, and how Toyota TogetherGreen by Audubon and Friends of Stewart Park are collaborating with local partners to Revitalize Stewart Park. For more information, visit Revitalizing Stewart Park on Fhttps://www.facebook.com/RevitalizingStewartParkacebook at https://www.facebook.com/RevitalizingStewartPark https://www.facebook.com/RevitalizingStewartPark%20 or direct questions to Mr. Berrios by the contact method listed below. Miguel Berrios, MLA, LEED AP Principal, Ecological Landscape Designer e: mig...@landbeyondthesea.commailto:mig...@landbeyondthesea.com Robyn Bailey -- 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] loons and Broad-wings
While taking a late lunch on my back deck (northeast Ithaca), I watched a small kettle of 4 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS moving through a patch of blue sky, and at least 8 different COMMON LOONS barreling north just under the clouds. KEN Kenneth V. Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology Office: 607-254-2412 cell: 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@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/ --
RE:[cayugabirds-l] loons and Broad-wings
I just saw 4 C. LOONS all at once in my field of view (binocs) here at the lake. Then they were calling a lot, standing up and flapping wings, diving and coming up farther away. Donna L. Scott Lansing Station Road Lansing From: bounce-119084040-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-119084040-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kenneth V. Rosenberg Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 2:40 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] loons and Broad-wings While taking a late lunch on my back deck (northeast Ithaca), I watched a small kettle of 4 BROAD-WINGED HAWKS moving through a patch of blue sky, and at least 8 different COMMON LOONS barreling north just under the clouds. KEN Kenneth V. Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology Office: 607-254-2412 cell: 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Merlins
Well I'm hopeless looking for raptor nests. I went by Christopher Lane between 6:30 and 7:00 when I thought would be the best times, and didn't see the Merlin once. Nice that Mark saw it though. I would like to know of other Merlin sightings, please. (Not that I'm going to see it.) John Confer During the week after Anne Clark posted about the Merlins along Christopher Lane in our neighborhood in northeast Ithaca, I would see one Merlin atop a tree every time I passed. But I haven’t seen any Merlins there for more than a week now. Mark Chao http://www.avast.com/ This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com http://www.avast.com/ -- *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/!* -- -- Veganism is simply the acknowledgment that a replaceable and fleeting pleasure isn't more valuable than someone's life and liberty. ~ Unknown If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- *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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
[cayugabirds-l] Today up the Lake
I drove up the lake today hoping that, with the recent southerly flow of air, there would be some new guys around. And there were. Large numbers of Tree Swallows were swarming over the pool at the refuge visitor’s center along with 20 Purple Martins, a few Barn Swallows and a lone BANK SWALLOW. The only shorebirds there were two GREATER YELLOWLEGS. I picked out two COMMON GALLINULES along the drive and my FOY SPOTTED SANDPIPER at Benning Marsh. A House Wren was singing continually at the beginning of Towpath Road, but I could find no Night-Herons. Carncross Road held the jackpot. Well hidden in the corn stubble were some 20 Greater and one LESSER YELLOWLEGS as well as 2 DUNLIN and 3 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS. Three SANDHILL CRANES flew over and landed closer to Martin’s Tract, so I headed over there. From the dike to the south I was abel to call in a VIRGINIA RAIL, and then a second VIRRAI responded from deep in the reeds. Finally, there was a BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON stalking prey at the back side of the pond, seen from the overlook. On the way back south, I drove through the Lott Farm (with permission from Mrs Lott: 315 568 9501). Passing by Meadowlarks, Savannah Sparrows, and Horned Larks, I found a single UPLAND SANDPIPER in the short (for now) grass at the far north end of the property. Back to Rt 89, I came across the lingering flock of Bonaparte’s Gulls just north of the Varick town line. 100 or so birds, but no Little Gull that I could find. Bob McGuire -- 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] Sapsucker Woods cliff swallow, yellow warbler
Hi all, A CLIFF SWALLOW and a YELLOW WARBLER are currently on the pond at Sapsucker Woods. -- 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] Chipping sparrow adn junco songs
?Hi all. Recently I had chance to look at the spectrograms of the songs of Chipping sparrow and Dark-eyed junco as they are considered to be difficult to distinguish. Chipping Sparrow does beautiful variation in its song. The energy level peaks either at higher frequency in every subsequent trill note or decreases. And sometimes it forms a nice pattern of energy peaking in each trill note. Also it is of much longer duration. While junco's trill were shorter almost replicable length for each phrase and the energy level peaked in subsequent trills rather randomly. I need to look more closely if there is any difference. I will have to record more Chipping sparrows to see if it holds true for all chipping sparrows or it was this particular individual who did so much variation. I also had recorded a Song Sparrow on the same day. Out of nine songs I recorded, eight of them were different in some respect or the other in the notes used and the placing of the notes. And there was another Song Sparrow singing some distance away it also seemed to do lot of variation in its song but not as much as the closer one. It is such fun to learn the differences of individuals and I am very excited. I must look at my older Song Sparrow recordings and pay attention to their variation. If anyone else is curious to see the spectrogram send me an email to me at m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu I will mail the spectrogram. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.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/ --
