[cayugabirds-l] Dawn chorus?
Last night, around 1:00 a.m., I stepped outside to check the moon, and was greeted with a lot of different birds singing. Somewhat taken aback, I thought this was a bit too early for the dawn chorus, and further reflection indicated that MOCKINGBIRDS often sing at night. I haven't heard our local one for several months, and am wondering if, because of the harsh winter, it went to visit friends in Pa. for a while, and has just returned.Even more reflection (great time for it) showed that certain canids also sing to Luna, so I think this is a good example of convergent evolution. On a kind of related note, on my morning walk yesterday, I heard a BROWN THRASHER doing a credible imitation of a whip-poor-will. First time I've heard one doing that. Steve FastBrooktondale -- 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] Dawn chorus?
Several years ago at Salt Point I heard a Brown Thrasher include Whip-poor-will in its repertoire. I wondered if the mimid had heard the nightjar at that location. Similarly last year (I think) where a Whip-poor-will had earlier called near The Strand in Lansing, a Gray Catbird give a similar but imperfect call, perhaps having only just learned it from the bird (or from birders' playback attempts) wiith little opportunity for rehearsal. It each case it was a bit like hearing an echo of a bird that had probably moved on. --Dave Nutter On Apr 29, 2015, at 06:30 AM, Susan Fast sustf...@yahoo.com wrote: on my morning walk yesterday, I heard a BROWN THRASHER doing a credible imitation of a whip-poor-will. First time I've heard one doing that. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- -- 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 Louisiana Waterthrush this morning
Hi everyone, It's a bit strange, but not unprecedented: I heard a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH singing for about 5 minutes in a low area of vernal pools in Sapsucker Woods, on the east side of Sapsucker Woods Road. While I first heard the bird from the Woodleton boardwalk, I tracked the sound to somewhere northwest of the Goldsworthy pinecone. I never saw the bird, but the loud, clear song was consistently what I associate with Louisiana Waterthrushes: an initial two longer whistling notes that each dropped in pitch, followed by a jumble of shorter, rounded (i.e. not sharp, staccato) notes. If memory serves me correctly, the last time that there was a Louisiana Waterthrush in this general area, a few years ago, it remained for more than one day, singing frequently, before disappearing. Wesley Hochachka -- 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] Around home
Still pretty quiet around my place, though the trillium, blue cohosh, toothworts, hepaticas and trout lilies are blooming. Most notable bird on my morning walk was a Winter Wren visiting a previous year's nest site inside the upturned root ball of a huge cucumber magnolia (visible from Maple Avenue high on the south bank of the ravine, where the fallen tree lies across a small tributary ravine about 100 yards west of the Danby-Newfield town line). -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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] barn swallows
Our barn swallows arrived yesterday during the morning hours, 3 in total. Many more than that left here last fall, I always wonder if some of the others succumbed to the stress of the trip or moved elsewhere. It looks like there is enough insect activity for them. tree swallows seem to have come this morning and are occupying one of the birdhouses. Ditto on the welcome, don't know what we do without them! Toby On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Michele Mannella mkmanne...@gmail.com wrote: Seems our BARN SWALLOWS finally arrived last night, about a week or more later than usual. There are at least 3 of them in the barn and few flitting about, a great welcome to a sunny spring day! Michele Interlaken/Ovid --- www.thehaywardhouse.com www.bodyshopwellness.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/!* -- -- 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] Golf course owls, etc., Wed 4/29
Jay McGowan, Livia Santana, and I saw the two baby GREAT HORNED OWLS and their mother out of their nest in a neighboring tree at the Newman Municipal Golf Course in Ithaca on Wednesday morning. One young owl appears much bigger than the other, but I think that impression arises from retained natal down, not dense body mass. I also paid a visit to the Goetchius Wetland Preserve, a Finger Lakes Land Trust property on Flatiron Road in Caroline. I saw at least three WILSON'S SNIPE around the flooded swale straight out from the parking area. Several SAVANNAH SPARROWS were singing on territories. At one point, four Savannah Sparrows came together in a scrum, which resolved itself into two departing males and a pair. Bobolinks and Eastern Meadowlarks both seemed absent. On Saturday, May 2, I'll lead the first of the month's Spring Bird Quest walks for the Land Trust at the Wesley Hill Nature Preserve between Canandaigua and Honeoye Lakes. This preserve is about 1 hour 50 minutes from Ithaca. The walk will begin at 8 AM from the preserve's parking area along Gulick Road. If you do make the trip, please do not confuse the Wesley Hill Nature Preserve parking lot with that of the Cumming Nature Center along the same road. 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] Thrasher
FOY brown thrasher here a mile north of Taughannock Falls SP. Perched atop the tallest tree in our yard for about 20 minutes, softly singing a long song about love in the springtime. Bill McAneny, TBurg -- 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] House wren
While taking a short walk just now on EIRW, Larry and I heard and saw our first house wren--off Mitchell St.. -- Sara Jane 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] Baldwin Preserve, Irish Settlement Rd.
I walked all around the Baldwin Preserve (aka Park Preserve, South Unit) this morning. An observation: following the path from the parking area along the small creek, ALL the bird songs emanated from the scrubby unmanaged area across this creek, to the north. I heard nothing from the spruces, etc. to the south. Even the PRAIRIE WARBLER was singing to the north. A LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH sang very briefly from the 6-Mile Creek gorge; I heard it there a week ago, again just briefly. Maybe it's shy. Pair of COMMON MERGANSERS in the Creek. Steve FastBrooktondale -- 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] Varied Thrush in Irondequoit, NY
On Mon., 4/27/15, Kathy Strickland I played hookey journeyed to the Rochester suburb of Irondequoit to look for the female Varied Thrush. After about 15 min., thanks to the quick eye of Jim Tarolli of Baldwinsville, we got to see it, a lifer for the three of us! Several people had been waiting quite a while (one woman for over an hr.) with no luck so we felt quite privileged to see it so soon after arriving. Jim got a really good picture of it in a tree overhead I am pleased that he forwarded a copy to me. Dave Wheeler was there with Jim but I don't know if he was as fortunate. Dave has been tallying birds at Derby Hill this spring, certainly a cold, dismal often boring, perhaps thankless, job ... until migrants began coming through in respectful numbers. The home owner where the Thrush was seen has been very gracious to the many eager birders who came to her home, even inviting them to sit in deck chairs on her back porch. She apparently doesn't own binoculars so some appreciative folks are donating money to have a birder get a pair for her as thanks for her kindness. :-) At MNWR visitor's center later at Sodus on the break wall birding was rather poor but at both places we saw always beautiful Caspian Terns. Watching the many gulls just floating in the air always makes us wish we could fly as they do, seemingly without a care, but Kathy then mentioned how tough life really is for birds that have to seek food each day, all day, to survive. Here in Union Springs, my daughter Becky spotted a brand new osprey nest at Frontenac Harbor last wk., easily seen from the west end of Basin St.. Hopefully the birds will not be disturbed by all the activity that goes on by the many boaters at the marina all summer. Fritzie -- 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] barn swallows
Seems our BARN SWALLOWS finally arrived last night, about a week or more later than usual. There are at least 3 of them in the barn and few flitting about, a great welcome to a sunny spring day! Michele Interlaken/Ovid --- 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] Mountain Birdwatch needs volunteers
Hi all, I am forwarding this message from our colleagues at Vermont Center for Ecostudies, who organize the Mountain Birdwatch monitoring program. Mountain Birdwatch is the primary means of monitoring Bicknell’s Thrush and other high elevation birds in northeastern mountains that are not well surveyed by other programs. The survey points are remote, along routes on high mountain trails. So this is a great way to combine hiking and birding, and even camping (the birds start singing about 4 AM), while helping out an important project. Please contact Judith Scarl if you have interest in “adopting” a route in the Adirondacks or elsewhere this summer. thanks KEN From: mountainbirdwa...@yahoogroups.commailto:mountainbirdwa...@yahoogroups.com[mailto:mountainbirdwa...@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 9:14 AM To: mountainbirdwa...@yahoogroups.commailto:mountainbirdwa...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [MountainBirdwatch] Packets, New York routes, and training workshops Good morning, Mountain Birdwatchers, I drove down to DC this past weekend, and as I headed due south, I watched the coming of spring- leaves unfurled on the trees, tulips and cherry blossoms opened, and the sun shone on green grass, buzzing bumblebees, and strutting pigeons. Spring will be here in the Northeast before we know it! Our Mountain Birdwatch season opens in just under a month, and I wanted to send a few reminders in preparation: 1. Volunteer Packets went out last Thursday and Friday! If you are signed up to survey a route this year and don't receive your packet by tomorrow, please let me know (email jsc...@vtecostudies.orgmailto:jsc...@vtecostudies.org). 2. We still need help in the Adirondacks! 13 routes still don't have volunteers in the Adirondacks. If you've been on the fence about adopting a route in New York, please consider helping out! (We've also got one available route in the Catskills, four in northern NH, and one in Maine, if you're interested...) 3. RSVP for Training Workshops: If you haven't already, please let me know if you'll be attending a training workshop. Also, if you will be attending, please go through your volunteer packets BEFORE you come to the workshop- you will get the most out of the workshops this way. Looking forward to seeing many of you in the next few weeks! All the best, Judith -- Dr. Judith Scarl Vermont Center for Ecostudies P.O. Box 420, Norwich, VT 05055 (802) 649 1431 x7 jsc...@vtecostudies.orgmailto:jsc...@vtecostudies.org __._,_.___ 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Birding this morning
Saw my FOY BROWN THRASHER singing heartily. Also my FOY HERMIT THRUSH. I also had a treat watching a BROWN CREEPER, both doing its thing (scooting up tree trunks) and singing. Lots of PURPLE FINCHES, lots of RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, and surprised and was surprised by (not sure who was more surprised!) by a RUFFED GROUSE. Only one YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. Hoping I'm going to get some warblers before I leave for England (permanently) and will then have to make do with the drab little warblers over there. What a gorgeous morning! EcoVillage, Tompkins, US-NY Apr 29, 2015 7:15 AM - 9:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: West end of EVI, Coy Glen, Cornell Natural Area 30 species Ruffed Grouse 1 Mourning Dove 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 3 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 12 Tufted Titmouse 7 Brown Creeper 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 2 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow X Dark-eyed Junco 8 Northern Cardinal 8 Red-winged Blackbird 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 House Finch 1 Purple Finch 5 American Goldfinch X House Sparrow 2 -- Stephanie Greenwood -- 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/ --
