Re: [cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher, Red-shouldered Hawk
I had two Brown Thrashers working their way through my yard this morning also. It was finally the day ! Gary On Apr 25, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: I was beginning to worry about the absence of Brown Thrasher from my yard, but here he is at last this morning! Yesterday afternoon at 4:30 while heading over to Abbott's Loop with my dogs, I spotted a Red-shouldered Hawk in the little spruce swamp at the corner of Station Road and Bald Hill Road. Not an unusual bird in the Danby State Forest, but memorable because the sky was so gray that the hawk seemed to be in flames, the brightest thing anywhere to be seen. -Geo Kloppel -- 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 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] Swan pen
On the principle that too much location info _is_ better than not enough, I'd like to remind anyone who cares (and inform anyone who might not know) that the so-called swan pen is actually the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Memorial Bird Sanctuary. Nowadays we tend to reserve the words Bird Sanctuary for more extensive properties, but this little hotspot at Stewart Park was designed, constructed and dedicated in memory of Fuertes by folks who knew him and lamented his untimely death. -Geo -- 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] Cass Park Birds (including white-winged gull)
Hi all, At about 1pm today, Nathan Goldberg and I had a white-winged gull (that we thought was an Iceland Gull) soaring over The Boatyard Grill. It appeared to be the same size and proportions-ish as the Herring Gull soaring with it. Other birds of note were a low Common Loon over the water, a Caspian Tern and a Merlin that flew over the boathouses while calling. - Brad -- 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] SFO Local Trip Saturday
I spent yesterday morning scouting for today’s local trip, looking for new arrivals and for particularly birdy locations. Unfortunately, I did not come up with much and was left wondering, this morning, what to do. The answer came via text message from Ann Mitchell. Just as we were leaving the Lab of O to walk around Sapsucker Woods, Ann writes of an AMERICAN BITTERN hanging out at the Swan Pen (actually, the “Louis Agassiz Fuertes Memorial Bird Sanctuary” - Thanks Geo), Stewart Park. We jumped in the cars and headed down. We would have had a very difficult time locating the statuesque Bittern, hidden as it was in a small stand of cattails. We would have walked right past it had Susan not pointed us directly to it. We enjoyed great scope views, even better when the bird was flushed up onto an exposed tree truck by a local photographer. Our attention was then drawn to the few remaining ducks offshore: Ruddy Duck, both Scaup, Ring-necked Ducks, the lone remaining Canvasback, and a pair of Spotted Sandpipers. From there we headed out to Monkey Run South and walked the eastern loop of the Cayuga Trails Club trail. At the start the woods were filled with …..quiet. But it picked up as we moved along. We were able to call in both Nuthatches, Downy, Hairy Woodpeckers, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (in fact, a group of three, nicely interacting and calling all the while), a very cooperative Brown Creeper, a more cooperative Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and an even more cooperative (or at least, very obliging) pair of PINE WARBLERS. Just short of the parking lot we picked up a Hermit Thrush - no way on knowing if he is a newly-arrived migrant or the guy that has wintered there this year. With a bit of time left, we drove down to the Mulholland Preserve on Six Mile Creek, hoping for the recently-reported Louisiana Waterthrushes. We listened. We tried to call them in. But to no avail. That was it for the day. All in all, I think we did all right! It was a great group, with lots of knowledge and a willingness to pass it around. And I heard that a couple of folks saw life birds today. 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] Pine Siskins
I have 2 that have been feeding at the feeders for about a week. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 25, 2015, at 1:09 PM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: On the principle that too much location info _is_ better than not enough, I'd like to remind anyone who cares (and inform anyone who might not know) that the so-called swan pen is actually the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Memorial Bird Sanctuary. Nowadays we tend to reserve the words Bird Sanctuary for more extensive properties, but this little hotspot at Stewart Park was designed, constructed and dedicated in memory of Fuertes by folks who knew him and lamented his untimely death. -Geo -- 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 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] Eurasian wigeon @ Knox Marsellis
Seen from East Rd, maybe same bird seen at Tschache earlier. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via 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] Loons, Kingfishers
At least 15 COMMON LOONS 2 BELTED KINGFISHERS seen in Cayuga Lake at 535 Lansing Station Rd. Lansing. Also pair COMMON MERGANSERS who've been hanging around for awhile. Loons are calling in early morning at night. Hooting a little during day. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott -- 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] Warblers, kinglet
At Fuller Wetlands boardwalk overlook at Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Wilson trail): Gorgeous YELLOW WARBLER, a few pretty YELLOW RUMPED WARBLERS, a quiet NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, RUBY CROWNED KINGLET w/ red crest clearly visible, SWAMP SPARROWS, ROBINS, RED WINGED BLACKBIRDS, C. GRACKLES. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott -- 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] Common Tern
I meant Common Tern, not Common Teen. I don't know about auto correct. 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] Lots of Purple Finches here too
This morning I went out birding the West side of our land at EcoVillage to see if any warblers have arrived. It was pretty nippy out so it was a relatively quiet start, but I was rewarded with 1 YELLOW WARBLER and 1 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. Notable were quite a surprising number of singing PURPLE FINCHES, and both RUBY-CROWNED and GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS. EoVillage Apr 25, 2015, 7:32 AM, Tompkins, US-NY Apr 25, 2015 7:32 AM - 9:32 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: *28 species* Mallard 2 Killdeer 1 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 4 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Blue Jay 6 American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 *Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4* American Robin 7 *Yellow Warbler 1* *Yellow-rumped Warbler 1* Eastern Towhee 6 Song Sparrow X Dark-eyed Junco 4 Northern Cardinal 5 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 House Finch 4 *Purple Finch 5* American Goldfinch 10 House Sparrow 3 Stephanie -- Stephanie Greenwood U.S. Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 280 1050 England 73 Kynaston Road London N16 0EB 07946 341208 -- 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] Common Teen
There is a Common Tern at Harris Park in Cayuga sitting on a buoy. Also a Caspian Tern sitting on the break water. 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] Bittern flushed from Swan Pen
A jogger just flushed the American Bittern from the Swan Pen at Stewart Park. The bittern flew east over the willows along the parking lot and then out of sight. Scott -- 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] Louisiana Waterthrush
They were heard at Sweedler Preserve. 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] Brown Thrasher, Red-shouldered Hawk
I was beginning to worry about the absence of Brown Thrasher from my yard, but here he is at last this morning! Yesterday afternoon at 4:30 while heading over to Abbott's Loop with my dogs, I spotted a Red-shouldered Hawk in the little spruce swamp at the corner of Station Road and Bald Hill Road. Not an unusual bird in the Danby State Forest, but memorable because the sky was so gray that the hawk seemed to be in flames, the brightest thing anywhere to be seen. -Geo Kloppel -- 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] many, many purple finches
males and females swarming the feeders on Meadowlark Rd. What a nice sight. Therese -- 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] Downtown Ithaca Merlin pair
Ken Kemphues first noted Merlins in the 400 block of N. Titus. At about 7:15, a pair was sitting in a tree in the middle of the block between N. Titus and Center Street. I moved to get a better view and the female disappeared as my view was blocked so I don't have a clue about the nest location. The male called very infrequently. He actually flew in and perched over my head, looking down at me as if he certainly was aware of my presence and perhaps concerned about me being there even on the sidewalk. The birds are obviously accustomed to some human activity and can be seen from the sidewalk without having to get closer. I would love to know where the nest is so that I could monitor nesting success. Cheers, John -- 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] American Bittern
There is an American Bittern at the Swan Pen currently well hidden in the reeds on the north side of the pond. 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] Warbling vireo
Hi all, There is a warbling vireo singing at jetty woods. Brad -- 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] ADMIN: Location, location, location!
Good afternoon! As a reminder, it is better to provide too much location information than not enough. Many of the subscribers, especially those who more regularly contribute sighting information to this eList, may be familiar with local or colloquial nomenclature; however, there are almost 900 subscribed email addresses to Cayugabirds-L. What this means, is that there are likely hundreds of users who read short postings with little or no information about how to get to a location where a bird was seen. For future postings, please be a little more clear about where a sighting occurred relative to a nearby city, town, village, hamlet, or crossroads. This will become especially important as spring migration gets into full swing and there are lots of sightings to report and similarly lots of lurkers who want to go see these birds or bird at these birding locations. Thanks very much and good birding!! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Chris Tessaglia-Hymes Listowner, Cayugabirds-L Ithaca, New York c...@cornell.edumailto:c...@cornell.edu Cayugabirds-L – Archiveshttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Cayugabirds-L – Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Cayugabirds-L – Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Cayugabirds-L – Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm -- 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/ --
