[cayugabirds-l] Ruby throated Hummingbird
Last two days a Ruby-throated Hummingbird female has started visiting my garden. Yesterday I saw her on burdock flowers today I saw her cardinal flowers. She spent approximately five minutes at the cardinal flowers. A young Robin has been calling fairly incessantly but I don't see any parents nearby. I think they have left the juvenile to fend itself while they are starting another family. A cute family of Chipping Sparrows have been spending time in the yard. Babies don't know where to go they seem so confused while the parent seem to be collecting grass seeds and feeding them. Also a chickadee family also spent a fair bit of time in the yard in the morning. Today morning at my moth sheet there were three large Catocala moths and all three were Oldwife Underwing, Catocala paleogamma. Each moth has a wingspan of about 70-80 cm with yellow hindwing with black border. Besides these there were at least 20 more species of moths including a Leopard moth and several individuals of Pale Panthea. Finally, my fat woodchuck was out and feeding. He did not suspect me opening the door. After a few seconds he realized I was standing there. We both stared at each other for a few seconds and then seeing no threat he continued feeding. He took offense to my calling him rascal and that is when he bolted. 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hummingbird
Guess what, i just came out of my back door and hummingbird bolted from the moth sheet. she has found my moth sheet. There were some small tiny totricids, which catbird cannot see are now gone. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone -- 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] unofficial report of K-M shorebird walk Sat 15 Aug
I was not officially a leader of the shorebird walk at Knox-Marsellus marsh on Saturday morning. But co-leaders Steve Linda Benedict said they were glad I was there to help with shorebird IDs. I in turn was glad Bob McGuire, Jay McGowan, Matt Medler, Leona Lauster and others were among the 35 or so participants. The rain which had been approaching according to radar either dissipated or veered off and missed us. The cloudy weather for much of the morning made for pleasant temperatures and lighting, but the sun blasted through as we walked around Puddler. Although the goodies which Ann Mitchell I found last Tuesday seemed to have moved on (Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Wilson's Phalarope, and a continuing Red-necked Phalarope), shorebird diversity was even higher this week (16 species) than on last week's field trip. The most exciting bird for me was an Upland Sandpiper which flew around and alit on K-M mud closer and for longer than this rarity did last week. It (or its buddy, there were apparently 2) was also distantly visible on Puddler mud later on. Another rarity was a transitional plumage American Golden-Plover, apparently alone in distant low grass/weeds of K-M. There were lots of opportunities to study other species, and at one point I had 9 or 10 shorebird species in a single well-lit, close-range scope view. Here's the total K-M shorebird list: Black-bellied Plover - 1 nearly breeding plumage found after many birders had left American Golden-Plover - transitional adult Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Upland Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper - juvenile and winter adult Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher - juveniles Long-billed Dowitcher - 1 adult winter plumage Also from the Wildlife Driver: Wilson's Snipe Here's Jay's Matt's very thorough eBird list: Checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S24632009 Among non-shorebirds one of my favorites was a boldly patterned juvenile Bonaparte's Gull which flew past us. --Dave Nutter -- 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] Elm Beach Road, Town of Romulus
An even dozen Caspian Terns napping and/or exchanging epithets with each other on the long rocky extension into the lake. -- 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/ --
