Re:[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods mourning warbler

[Brad Walker]

There was also a very cooperative GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH on the ground on the
Wilson Trail, halfway along the stretch that runs along the pond on the
western side.

- Brad

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:56 AM Brad Walker edgarallenhoo...@gmail.com
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 Hi all,

 A MOURNING WARBLER is currently singing along the west edge of the pond,
 along the woods.

 Brad


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[cayugabirds-l] Merlin preempt Fish Crow nest.

[John Confer]

  Bob McGuire described hearing Merlin along Cascadilla Creek between 
Aurora and Tioga on 3 May. Since then I have made 6 visits to find the 
nest because I wanted to monitor it and determine nesting success. I 
heard/saw Merlins on 5 visits in the the block between Aurora and 
Tioga.  On 5 May, I watched very noisy Fish Crows, about 4, involved in 
taking small branches to top of tall pine between Tioga and Cayuga on 
north side of the creek. I saw Fish Crow on a few, subsequent visits. 
Twice I saw Merlin fly into spruce near corner of Aurora St. and 
Cascadilla Creek. A stick nest is visible in top of spruce from Aurora 
and I was sure that I had found the nest. On Sunday, I visited the area 
between Aurora and Tioga with Stefan Karkuff (who says hello). As we 
walked up to the supposed Merlin nest, I casually said there was a Fish 
Crow on the tip of the tall pine and emphatically pointed upstream and 
said there is where the Merlin nest is located. Stefan said , John, that 
bird on top of the pine is a Merlin.

Today (Mon) I watched the Merlins exchange at the nest and the male 
settled in as the female flew off. Definitive sign of incubation, 
probably the second or third day, given time to lay the complete clutch. 
In this case this is a real example of alchemy and I really am not 
crazy. Either the Fish Crows abandoned the nest or the Merlins drove 
them away. How could a pair of Merlin drive off 4 Fish Crow?

The nest can be easily watched from the bridge over Cascadilla Creek 
looking downstream on the north side of the creek in a tall White Pine.

John


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[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

[Ann Mitchell]

It was calling incessantly from the southeast corner of the Hawthorn   Woods at 
7:45 a.m.
Ann

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[cayugabirds-l] ~OT: Infrared camera; Peterson

[Suan Hsi Yong]

Some of you may have seen me play with my Therm-App infrared camera, which
I'm trying to use with mixed success to find birds (some experiences are
described in this blog which I'm failing misearbly at keeping up-to-date:
http://infrared-birding.blogspot.com/ ). Anyhow, just though I'd mention
that the camera, normally $1600, is on sale for a limited time for $939 at
http://therm-app.com/ . I can say unequivocally that this price is the best
value-for-many you can get with infrared technology (traditionally
ridiculously expensive); having said that it is still expensive.

While on techy news: if you have an iOS device and bought the Peterson app,
they recently released version 2.0 which I DO NOT recommend you update to
-- seems like they dropped a lot of content in favor of interface
improvements which ended up not being improvements at all.

Suan

PS. To get things back on topic (thought still OOB), here are some photos
of yesterday's black-billed cuckoo from Greensprings:


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206813078023498set=pcb.10206813084023648

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[cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[job121830]

For those who are fed up with damage done by house/English sparrows.   www.sialis.org/hospdispatch.htm  

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[Melanie Uhlir]

I took down all my nestboxes except for the one that House Wrens have 
favored for years and already had a pair defending it from the damn 
House Sparrow (and the one covering a woodpecker hole in our front wall, 
the entry of which is plugged.) As I watched the tiny wrens ferociously 
defending their home (the entry hole of which appeared to be too big to 
allow the HOSP to enter), I hoped that perhaps the wrens would win by 
killing the HOSP so I wouldn't have to. I still hear the wren song but 
haven't heard the horrible, monotonous cheeping of a HOSP since I 
witnessed the battle. So I'm hoping that Team House Wren gave that HOSP 
some of his own medicine.

If I ever, gods forbid, need to dispatch House Sparrows, I would be 
happy to pay someone to do it for me as I am a big, squeamish baby who 
can't kill things. Otherwise I might just have to give all my nestboxes 
away to someone tougher.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[Susan Gateley]

not really a bird watching note but here goes.

we are roofing a shed and had to take a nest down.

It was a phoebee nest with four almost white eggs and a COWBIRD egg,

Did we do the poor birdie a favor? Will she find another site and re-build
I wonder? Without a cowbird?

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Melanie Uhlir mela...@mwmu.com wrote:

  I took down all my nestboxes except for the one that House Wrens have
 favored for years and already had a pair defending it from the damn House
 Sparrow (and the one covering a woodpecker hole in our front wall, the
 entry of which is plugged.) As I watched the tiny wrens ferociously
 defending their home (the entry hole of which appeared to be too big to
 allow the HOSP to enter), I hoped that perhaps the wrens would win by
 killing the HOSP so I wouldn't have to. I still hear the wren song but
 haven't heard the horrible, monotonous cheeping of a HOSP since I witnessed
 the battle. So I'm hoping that Team House Wren gave that HOSP some of his
 own medicine.

 If I ever, gods forbid, need to dispatch House Sparrows, I would be happy
 to pay someone to do it for me as I am a big, squeamish baby who can't kill
 things. Otherwise I might just have to give all my nestboxes away to
 someone tougher.

 On 5/18/2015 3:09 PM, job121...@verizon.net wrote:

  For those who are fed up with damage done by house/English sparrows.

  *www.sialis.org/hospdispatch.htm
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

[Melanie Uhlir]

Correction: Apparently the road I'm on is Mohawk. The cuckoo seems to be calling from somewhere within the woods btween Mohawk and Neimi. Quite vocally birdy here at the moment.Melanie-- Original message-- From:Ann MitchellDate:Mon, 5/18/2015 8:48 AMTo:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu;Subject:[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed CuckooIt was calling incessantly from the southeast corner of the Hawthorn Woods at 7:45 a.m.
Ann

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

[Melanie Uhlir]

Right now hearing a Black-billedCuckoo calling from north of Etna rd near airport. Pulled over just past the turn to check out a Pine Warbler. Going to head over to Mohawk/Neimi to try to see the bird!-- Original message-- From:Ann MitchellDate:Mon, 5/18/2015 8:48 AMTo:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu;Subject:[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed CuckooIt was calling incessantly from the southeast corner of the Hawthorn Woods at 7:45 a.m.
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[cayugabirds-l] syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA *  New York*  Syracuse* May 18, 2015*  NYSY  05. 18. 15 Hotline: Syracuse 
Rare bird AlertDates(s):May 11, 2015 - May 18, 2015to report by e-mail: 
brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National 
Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga 
County),Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison  
Cortlandcompiled: May 18 AT 6:00 p.m. (DST)compiler: Joseph BrinOnondaga 
Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org  #443 Monday May 18, 2015 Greetings. 
This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of May 11, 2014 
Highlights:---
LEAST BITTERNGLOSSY IBISBLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONLAUGHING GULLICELAND 
GULLFORSTER’S TERNCOMMON NIGHTHAWKRED-HEADED WOODPECKERACADIA FLYCATCHERSEDGE 
WRENCLAY-COLORED SPARROWBLUE GROSBEAK

As hoped for this week saw the big migration push, especially for passerines. 
Virtually every expected Warbler was seen on 5/17 during the Region 5  
Birdathon. Most were seen at Sunset Bay park on lake Ontario. Good numbers of 
Shorebirds were noted at Montezuma this week also.
Montezuma National Wildlife Complex (MNWC) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex 
(MWC)
     5/13: LEAST SANDPIPER, both YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, 
SOLITARY SANDPIPER and SPOTTED SANDPIPER were noted along the Wildlife Drive.   
  5/15: An singing SEDGE WREN was reported on Carncross Road near Howland 
Island.     5/16: A single WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, a single SEMI-PALMATED 
SANDPIPER and a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER were added to the mix on the Wildlife 
Drive. Also BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, BLACK TERN and  ORCHARD ORIOLE.     5/17: 2 
RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen at the Mays Point Road location. 12 Shorebird 
species including an estimated 3,000 LEAST SANDPIPERS were seen along the 
Wildlife Drive.

Cayuga County
     5/11: 13 GLOSSY IBIS were seen in flight at Fair Haven State Park. Also 
seen were RUDDY TURNSTONE, DUNLIN and LEAST SANDPIPER.     5/12: A  RED-HEADED 
WOODPECKER has returned to West Barrier Beach Park at Fair Haven. A second bird 
was seen on the 15th.

Onondaga County
     5/14: 2 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen at Three Rivers WMA north of 
Baldwinsville.     5/15: A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was found at the corner of 
Kellog and 60 Roads in Three Rivers WMA.      5/16: The CLAY-COLORED SPARROW 
was refound in Three Rivers and another was refound in Green Lakes State Park.  
   5/17: A BLUE GROSBEAK was seen at the corner of Conners Road and East 
Sorrell Hill Road south of Baldwinsville. So far no success in relocating it.   
  5/18: The ACADIAN FLYCATCHER has returned to Whiskey Hollow in the Town of 
Van Buren.

Oswego County
     5/12: A FORSTER’S TERN was seen at Derby Hill.     5/13: An ICELAND GULL 
was found at the Oswego Yacht Club on Lake Ontario.     5/14: An Adult LAUGHING 
GULL was seen at the Oswego Yacht Club. It was seen again on the 15th. but not 
since.     
    

 --  end report


Joseph BrinRegion 5Baldwinsville, N.Y.  13027  U.S.A.  

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

[Geo Kloppel]

Successful Phoebes usually raise a second brood, so it's certainly possible 
that yours will try again...

-Geo 

On May 18, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Susan Gateley su...@silverwaters.com wrote:

 not really a bird watching note but here goes.
 
 we are roofing a shed and had to take a nest down.
 
 It was a phoebee nest with four almost white eggs and a COWBIRD egg,
 
 Did we do the poor birdie a favor? Will she find another site and re-build I 
 wonder? Without a cowbird?

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[cayugabirds-l] Living Birds 1962 issue/ Pine warbler

[Bernie Carr]

Can anyone direct me how to obtain a copy of an article by Ficken and Ficken 
that appeared in the first issue?  A few weeks ago, I watched a pine warbler 
stretch out its wings before it did a body shake and then gave its song. It did 
this for over a half hour as it flew from perch to perch. This behavior is 
cited in the Fickens article. The time spent was much better than the tick and 
run approach.
Bernie Carr
Syracuse,NY

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