[cayugabirds-l] Common Nighthawk, Bluegrass Lane
Brad Walker and I had a nice look at a low flyover COMMON NIGHTHAWK headed west near the horse barns at Bluegrass Lane this evening at 7:36PM. This morning I succeeded in my goal of finding a Cayuga County OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, perched in the snags and spruces in the Dresser Road bog in Summerhill. I have been checking Myers Point regularly the last couple of weeks. Aside from the occasional Least, Semipalmated, Solitary, and Lesser Yellowlegs, it has been pretty quiet. Still no turnstones or Sanderlings there this year that I have seen. -- 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] Question
Friends: Cape May is having a 2 day "field trip" to look for shorebirds on the 24th and 25th of August. It's led by one of the folks who wrote the shorebird book. Cost for the workshop (not including travel, room and board) is about $190. Anyone interested in car pooling? Pete Saracino Here is a description of the workshop: *Shorebirds with the Man Who Wrote the Book* *Wednesday-Thursday, August 24-25, 2016 (2 Days) With Michael O’Brien Second leader added if registration warrants Cost: $150 members, $190 nonmembers.* It is not surprising Houghton Mifflin’s landmark /The Shorebird Guide/ sprang from the brains and hands of three Cape May birders and authors. Now you can experience some of the East Coast’s best shorebirding while guided by one of them. Michael O’Brien is equal parts skilled birder and superb teacher. Search storied locations like Bunker Pond, the South Cape May Meadows, Stone Harbor, and Brigantine NWR for peeps, plovers and yellowlegs plus possible gems like phalaropes or godwits. Over 25 plovers and sandpipers are in easy reach, with some species numbering in the thousands. Learn to begin with size, shape, behavior and voice, and then move on to careful examination of plumage details, just as /The Shorebird Guide/ teaches. -- 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
This morning at the swan pen at stewart park perched on a partly submerged tree limb I believe I saw an American Bittern. Has anyone else seen one. Also 3 huge belted kingfishers, one female perched on a limb in the water for a good long while. So regal! Carol Cedarholm -- 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] Kingbirds flocking
Until this morning, I had only seen Kingbirds alone, but today there was a whole big flock assembling in the scrubby field (bushes, thistles, and teasels, etc.) at the corner of Route 79/Slaterville Road and Landon Road. *Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' * — Isaac Asimov -- 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/ --
