Re:[nysbirds-l] [geneseebirds-googlegroup] rarities in Monroe County today

2019-07-11 Thread Lynn Bergmeyer 
Curious what determines a chaseable bird.   Never heard of this before.
Thanks for sharing

Lynn Bergmeyer, Greece NY 585-576-0422

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 10:36 PM Pat Martin  wrote:

> The summer birding doldrums came to a spectacular end today with the
> finding of two large and showy rarities. A Cattle Egret was found by Candy
> Giles at LaSalle's Landing Park feeding on the lawn. This was not entirely
> a surprise as there had been a report of one a week or two ago seen on the
> roof of a car(!) in the airport parking lot. Not exactly a chaseable bird,
> although at today's sighting there were stories of people who had tried.
> Then Mike Tetlow, who had spent this SW-windy afternoon at the Braddock Bay
> hawkwatch counting Bald Eagles, young Broadwings and young Redtails,spied a
> black-and-white shorebird on the breakwall and drove to the East Spit to
> check it out. Sure enough, it was an American Avocet. Score another good
> bird for the new breakwall across the mouth of Braddock Bay.
>
> The Cattle Egret was still being seen through early evening. The Avocet
> was not visible but had not flown, having tucked itself in behind a
> barrier. It had been flushed once by a young eagle but had returned so
> might still be present tomorrow morning.
>
> ebird hotspot names are LaSalle's Landing Park and Braddock Bay--East Spit.
>
> Pat Martin
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[nysbirds-l] rarities in Monroe County today

2019-07-11 Thread Pat Martin 
The summer birding doldrums came to a spectacular end today with the finding of 
two large and showy rarities. A Cattle Egret was found by Candy Giles at 
LaSalle's Landing Park feeding on the lawn. This was not entirely a surprise as 
there had been a report of one a week or two ago seen on the roof of a car(!) 
in the airport parking lot. Not exactly a chaseable bird, although at today's 
sighting there were stories of people who had tried. Then Mike Tetlow, who had 
spent this SW-windy afternoon at the Braddock Bay hawkwatch counting Bald 
Eagles, young Broadwings and young Redtails,spied a black-and-white shorebird 
on the breakwall and drove to the East Spit to check it out. Sure enough, it 
was an American Avocet. Score another good bird for the new breakwall across 
the mouth of Braddock Bay.

The Cattle Egret was still being seen through early evening. The Avocet was not 
visible but had not flown, having tucked itself in behind a barrier. It had 
been flushed once by a young eagle but had returned so might still be present 
tomorrow morning.

ebird hotspot names are LaSalle's Landing Park and Braddock Bay--East Spit.

Pat Martin

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[cayugabirds-l] An encounter with a raven family

2019-07-11 Thread Nari Mistry 
I had a nice encounter with a family of ravens this morning. For many 
weeks this family has been around in the spruce tops across the road, 
driving our neighbor’s dog crazy. Today I saw one raven sitting on an 
extreme spruce tip, looking around so I started calling, croaking loudly 
like a young raven (slightly higher pitch)— first one and then two more 
ravens flew down to look at me and flew low round & around me , circling 
low again & again, just looking down at me.  Then they sat in our 
spruces & watched me while I spoke to them to come down.

Finally they flew off shaking their heads, not quite understanding what 
I was saying .

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Ellis Hollow Rd
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RE:[cayugabirds-l] Merlin nest GIAC

2019-07-11 Thread Magnus Fiskesjo 
Thanks for this intriguing report.
 
It reminds me of a bald eagle nest I saw in the middle of Hamilton, NY, a town 
about 1 1/2 hrs east of Ithaca. 
This July 3, I saw three grown bald eagle chicks getting ready to fly, sitting 
on branches around the nest, one even tried a short round flying around the 
tree. 
One parent came back with food, then sat in another tree across the street, 
vocalizing back to the chicks. 
The eagle nest is in a large pine in Madison cemetery on Madison street, right 
next to people's houses, in a regular street area. 
Lots of people going back and forth in cars and on foot, including to see the 
eagles. People were sitting outside their house, right below the nest. 
Local people seemed to love the eagles, some stopping to look at the eagles in 
my scope. 
One person did say that at another nest nearby, someone flew a drone over it, 
and the eagles left and did not come back after that. 

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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Merlin nest GIAC

THANKS!!  This is my fifth year of monitoring Merlin nest success.  THANKS!! to 
the directions and assistance provided by many, I have been able to monitor 
over 30 nests, including 7 this year. Most of the nests I have monitored were 
originally discovered by others. I am so very grateful for so many reports.

This year two nests have been predated (so far), three have fledged, and two 
still have nestlings. This is, so far, a good year for nesting success

I never share the location of a nest that is early in the nesting cycle. I 
never share the location of a nest that can only be seen from private property, 
or a nest where the parents seem upset by human activity. There is one nest 
this year that I feel I can share without any danger of birding visitors 
jeopardizing the nest.

There is a nest in a tall spruce between GIAC and the public swimming pool. In 
fact the spruce tree is inside the chain link fence surrounding the pool area. 
During the school year and now that the pool is open (after 12:00) there is an 
extremely high level of noisy human activity around the nest site. The addition 
of any quiet birders outsider the chain link fence, in comparison to kids 
leaving the school or playing in the pool, would make no difference to the 
Merlins. The male and female seem virtually oblivious to extreme activity. If 
the nest continues successfully, the young should fledge around the weekend of 
the 20th. For a few days before fledging, the young hop out limbs, exercise 
their wings, and generally look very comical. The nest can best be seen from 
outside the northwest corner of the chain link fence around the swimming pool. 
I have spoken to the lifeguards and some of them know that people with optical 
equipment are likely birders. But you may enjoy watching the birds before all 
hell breaks loose in the swimming pool at 12:00.

John Confer

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[cayugabirds-l] Merlin nest GIAC

2019-07-11 Thread John Confer 
THANKS!!  This is my fifth year of monitoring Merlin nest success.  THANKS!! to 
the directions and assistance provided by many, I have been able to monitor 
over 30 nests, including 7 this year. Most of the nests I have monitored were 
originally discovered by others. I am so very grateful for so many reports.

This year two nests have been predated (so far), three have fledged, and two 
still have nestlings. This is, so far, a good year for nesting success

I never share the location of a nest that is early in the nesting cycle. I 
never share the location of a nest that can only be seen from private property, 
or a nest where the parents seem upset by human activity. There is one nest 
this year that I feel I can share without any danger of birding visitors 
jeopardizing the nest.

There is a nest in a tall spruce between GIAC and the public swimming pool. In 
fact the spruce tree is inside the chain link fence surrounding the pool area. 
During the school year and now that the pool is open (after 12:00) there is an 
extremely high level of noisy human activity around the nest site. The addition 
of any quiet birders outsider the chain link fence, in comparison to kids 
leaving the school or playing in the pool, would make no difference to the 
Merlins. The male and female seem virtually oblivious to extreme activity. If 
the nest continues successfully, the young should fledge around the weekend of 
the 20th. For a few days before fledging, the young hop out limbs, exercise 
their wings, and generally look very comical. The nest can best be seen from 
outside the northwest corner of the chain link fence around the swimming pool. 
I have spoken to the lifeguards and some of them know that people with optical 
equipment are likely birders. But you may enjoy watching the birds before all 
hell breaks loose in the swimming pool at 12:00.

John Confer


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