[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma Highlights - Correction
Thanks, Ann. There was a guy from Brooklyn there who said it was Clapper Rail and got a good photo of it when it came out from behind the reeds. Then when I checked my Peterson's Guide, it seemed to match the description, but you are right! I forgot to check its region! Boy, the power of suggestion (and intimidation of those honking-big bazooka cameras!) Gotta always check region, no matter what! Thanks for the reminder! -- 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] Bink! Bink! Bobolinks on the move...
It's that bittersweet time of year. Favorite birds are starting to leave. Others are raising yet more youngsters! Each time I've taken a morning walk up Mt Pleasant Road over the past few weeks I've heard the flight calls of Bobolinks flying overhead, sometimes too high to see. This afternoon though, there was a large, if very spread out, flock in the mixed switchgrass/goldenrod field opposite the observatory and downhill toward the farm in the dip between hills. I started counting as at first a dozen or so took flight and flew low over the field, then more and more passed, a few stragglers here, another dozen there, all heading in the same general direction only to land further uphill and disappear from sight into the long grasses. I stopped counting at 55! Other delights were the distant sound of a Common Raven and a Eastern Wood Pewee calling from...well...the eastern woods! Back home, I discovered a quite visible Northern Cardinal nest with two large nestlings right near the house. How could I have missed that??? No wonder both Mr and Mrs Cardinal have been singing in the yard recently...I watched as the female flew into the nest tree after giving a short snatch of song, disappearing into the leaves with a beakful of green larvae. The paradoxes of late summer... Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu Website: http://www.marieread.com Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography-104356136271727/ -- 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] Actions of Red-Bellied young
This morning a male adult and young RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER landed on our silver maple. At one point the young bird pecked very rapidly, and with great ferocity, while the adult sat calmly within a couple feet. After its vigorous rapping, I can imagine the young bird saying something like, "Okay! Now what am I suppose to do!?" It then proceeded to walk up the trunk and right over top the adult, who didn't seem to mind. If only we humans could show such patience with our young! Larry -- W. Larry Hymes 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (H) 607-277-0759, w...@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/ --
