[cayugabirds-l] Dryden Eagle’s nest redux.
>From talking to others on trail I learned that this nest is perennial and well >known but not to me. Built about five years ago. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Bald Eagle on nest se end of Dryden lake looking due north
Viewing from extreme southeast end of Dryden lake on Jim Schug trail (42.4576306, -76.2691257).44 mi down from nearest parking area. Viewing almost due north (8 degrees) into conifers upslope maybe 350-400 m distant Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Yellow rumped warbler in renwick
Female type with obvious butter butt. Maybe one of two. On Creek shore. Just upstream from huge tree fall lying in water. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff and his iPhone -- 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] 65 brant at Stewart park
Flock of 65 brant at Stewart park 0900h From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff and his iPhone -- 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] TEWAs in CU Bot. Gdns. Crabapples
Vociferous Tennessee warblers in flowering crabapples near pond in CU Botanical gardens. Synaesthesia! Aromatherapy. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff and his iPhone -- 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] Am. Redstart SSW Powerline cut
Make Calling at East end of powerline cut now. >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] White-crowned sparrow on Wilson trail north.
Seen by Becky Hanson and me a few yards west if the feeder blind 0900 h >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] birding guide book found on Woodcrest Ave. on Monday 4/24
A friend found a birding guide book in the middle of Woodcrest ave. in the Belle Sherman area this past Monday 4/24. To retrieve it the owner can contact Donald Specker at donald.spec...@gmail.com<mailto:donald.spec...@gmail.com> Stuart Krasnoff -- 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] RED NECKED GREBE AT SALT POINT
Spotted by CBC field trippers from Myers. Better viewing from northernmost salt point >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Surf scoters
Besides 2 female type SUSC near red lighthouse there is a breeding plumage male far to north toward west shore. Two Bonapartes gulls on red jetty. Viewing from hog hole trail shore near white lighthouse >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Black Scoter still at Myers 1545h
South of light house ca. 600 m. Not diving. >From the semi-opposablethumbSB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] followup to Stewart Park birds: Cuckoo still present by dock at 0920 h
Just after running into Mark Chao on his way out of Stewart Park I tried unsuccessfully to find the warbler flock by the aluminum dock mid park. I did, however, see a cuckoo, presumably the YBCU from yesterday, moving around in the 3rd willow east of the dock around 0920 AM. Stuart -- 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] Drive in Acadian Flycatcher - Leonard rd.
At the first pull off on the right .2-.3 miles up Leonard rd from bottom I heard 2-3 pizza vocalizations from an Acadian Flycatcher at 0800 h. Have recording of one burst to vet. >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Red Tailed Hawk not OWLS NOT on nest in NEWMAN
Whoops. Paul Pflanz gave me a heads up that he photographed Red-tails on the nest in newman yesterday. The wind was whipping up ‘horns’ on the adult on the nest in Newman this monring so after searching in vain for the owlets and freezing down in Jetty Woods I am now convinced that I wishfully turned hawks on nest into owls. Stuart -- 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] Great horned owl's at Newman golf course
Adult with two fledglings hunkered on nest. Brrr! Better angle from Vicinity of maintenance building. >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Great horned owl fledgling on old nest.
Fledgling sitting on previously occupied nest in the middle of Newman golf course.1130 h. >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Also WW SCOTERS
Ann Mitchell found two WW SCOTERS Earlier. Diane redound them with a large flock of goldeneyes closer to the western shore. >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Long-tailed Duck East Shore park
Male seen 1 k north >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Peregrine at compost
Until the very moment I commenced to thumb this message there was a peregrine falcon at the compost piles Perching on a short horizontal branch of the only sizable tree south of the piles. If it returns it should be visible from Stevenson Road. >From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Make that 2 RUTU ON SPIT
From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Ruddy turnstone at Myers
On spit From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Redstarts at jetty woods
A few. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Eurasian wigeon @ Knox Marsellis
Seen from East Rd, maybe same bird seen at Tschache earlier. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] REDPOLL FLOCK TRIPHAMMER TERRACE
Flock of about 30 Redpolls in birches on Trip TERR. And hill rest. 1050 h. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] PEREGRINE STIILL AT BRADFIELD
East side. Viable from greenhouses. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] No Willet at Myers
No sign of Willet at Myrrs or Salt Pt. This morning. Semipalmated Plover and Sandpiper plus Least on spit at 0740. Just one Spotted there now. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Sanderling continues at Myers Pt.
The Sanderling was at Myers Pt. last evening and this morning as well as of 0745 h. I saw 3 Least Sandpipers around the islands in the creek and 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers on the spit...Stuart -- 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] Black-crowned Night Heron continues at Swan Pen
I saw the Black-crowned Night Heron juv. at the Swan Pen this morning ca. 8 AM along with 2 Great Blue Herons, a Green Heron and two Belted Kingfishers...Stuart -- 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Friday the 13th-Blow flies from Bluebird box and other ghoulish breeding season phenomena
Re: Richard's insects. My guess would be blow flies (family Calliphoridae) from a cadaver. I dont think they'd pose a threat to a living bird best to get the adults and take them to Jason Dombroskie in Entomology for id. Given today's date, I thought i'd share another grisly observation from a few weeks ago. Judy Abrams and I were scoping the Heron rookery in the swamp south of the W. Danby firehouse on June 1. Just as we were starting to enjoy discovering chicks in one nest one of the brood of 4(!) starting hammering the runt with its beak and it looked like it was trying to flip it over the side and out of the nest. I didn't see anything fall, but I did see what looked like feeding (pecking and possible flesh rending) on something out of sight low in the nest ,so maybe cannibalism could be added to the rapsheet in addition to fratricide. The internet yielded abundant reports of this phenomenon in ardeids. It's all right there in the The Selfish Gene (I mean literally-I think there was a chapter on conflict of interest among sibs), but it turned a 'cute' baby bird into an evil-eyed dinosaur in a West Danby minute. BTW, I haven't noticed other postings on the collection of active nests out there. Is this a perennial rookery? If so, maybe Geo can comment on its history. Good luck for the rest of the day...Stuart -- 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] MOURNING WARBLER in SSW
MOWA SINGING BY DUCKWEED POND NEAR SHERWOOD. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Ah, the Prickilie Bush...
I dropped into the Hawthorn Orchard a little before noon to find an abundance of bare sticks, but a paucity of foliage and birds. A westerly pass along the northern edge yielded a small flock of White-throated sparrows and a Baltimore Oriole. The perennial Great-crested Flycatcher was doing its wheepy thing in the open area west of the NE corner. I went down the paved trail a few hundred yards and checked Chris T-H's Cape-may Warbler magnets, the two scraggly spruces on the north edge of a private yard just off the trail to the west, but there was no magnetism happening there at noon. Then I cut back into the grassy field south of the Hawthorn plot and found a Yellow Warbler working the big willow on the south edge of the strip, where, I assume, the Nashville and Cape May were found this morning. It's the only respectably flushed out tree around. After some judicious spisshing (say that ten times fast and birds just pour out of the bush) I had Yellow-rumped, Blackburnian, Nashville, and Willson's Warbler as well as a Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a vireo I couldn't id with certainty although I'm pretty sure it was a Red-eyed. It's humbling to struggle with a bird that I've read is the most common breeding passerine in northeastern deciduous forests (here i am, where are you?). So...until the Hawthorns green up that willow tree may be a micro-hotspot on east hill. Yeah...spring fever. Stuart -- 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] Laughing Gull
I found the Laughing Gull at 1345 h sleeping on the grass with Ring-billed Gulls across the cass park marina inlet. Something spooked the gulls and they took off. When they resettled the LAGU was replaced by a Caspian term. I then refound the LAGU swimming by the jetty. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH
NOWA SINGING NOW AT WOODLETON. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Brown Thrasher on South Hill
This morning at 0730 I was surprised to hear a Brown Thrasher singing away here in suburbia. I caught a brief glimpse of the singer before he took off. Around 0810 a Pine Warbler was singing on Comstock Knoll as if he intended to stay. Best...Stuart -- 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] Horned grebe near east shore
There's a nice breeding plumage horned Grebe at east shore park south of the most southerly docks. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Whoops Pied billed
I guess I hallucinated nice orange horns on a pied billed grebe when from Stewart Park but I can only find pie billed from the southern end of the Eastshore sailing docks. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Birding by Nose for field birds
Followiing up on the McGowans' followup on Bob McGuire's tip about field birds in Lansing I drove up Davis Rd. around noon today. I don't think I've ever been there before so I didn't know what to expect and where to look, but when the fumes of manure started to displace all the oxygen in my vehicle I figured I was in the right place, i.e. just north of Town Line Rd. where Davis Rd. becomes Mahaney. The flock was in the field on the east side of the road across from the big bunker on the biosecure farm lot. Maybe the meth chemists use the same olfactory cues to find what they're looking for. I found ~200 Horned Larks, ~10 Snow Buntings, and 2-4 Lapland Longspurs (I did not see the numbers of the latter reported yesterday). Stuart -- 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] Scoter Flock on south end of Cayuga Lake still growing (47 from East Shore!)
I've been following reports on ebird of the flock of Scoters that has been growing in numbers over the past week or so at the south end of Cayuga Lake. Jay McGowan's ebird report from yesterday gave an exact count of 38 all confirmed as White-winged. I've seen this flock several times in very poor light and very far off from both the east and west shores. With today's sunshine promising a better look I visited East Shore Park at noon and finally got a well-lit, if distant, view. Eye-commas were visible on several males and many of the female types displayed white wings either at rest or in display. Today, I got a count of 47 from East Shore. I also saw about 20 Long-tailed Ducks and at least 12 Horned Grebes, some near the Scoter flock. Later, viewing from Stewart Park, I relocated the Scoters pretty much in the middle of the lake and noticed a distinct group of 9 female types, moving in and out of the main flock at times separating by 100 yards or more. This 9 plus Jay's 38 matches the 47 count I got earlier. I'm not sure of the id of the putative newcomers. In saltier or bigger bodies of water these birds can be a lot less elusive and mysterious than they are around here, so it's gratifying to have them hanging around even if they do insist on keeping their distance. Best…Stuart -- 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] East shore Aythya raft.
Thousands of Aythya right off east shore park 1010 h. Mostly Redhead. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] South end of Cayuga waterfowl including Long-tailed Duck and White-winged Scoters
I scoped from East Shore Park this morning from 0830-9 and got a distant view of the spectacular assemblage of waterfowl from the the Hog Hole up the west shore of the lake. Notable were 20+ Tundra Swans, a female Log-tailed Duck fishing around the cluster piling, and a male/female pair of White-winged Scoters 200-300 yards out from the East Shore. I'm hoping that Dave Nutter, who is down along near the west shore, will post a detailed list from that area. Best…Stuart -- 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] Binocular Case Found at East Shore Park
I found a soft binocular case at East Shore Park this morning (Thurs). Contact me off-list to recover. Stuart -- 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] 2 White-winged Scoters from east shore park.
2 WWSC males flew to middle of lake at 0910. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] 100's (really!) of White-throated Sparrows at Bluegrass Lane (Tues AM)
In the last 36 hours I made 3 trips to Bluegrass Lane to not see the vaunted Blue Grosbeak, arriving once just after it was spotted and waiting an hour for it not to reappear, and twice leaving just before it was re-reported. But enough about the thrill of the vain chase...during my visit to the locale early this morning (ca. 0730 h) I flushed a Wilson's Snipe along the northern edge of the southwest cornfield near the cattails. Then I walked the southern edge of that field down the road that runs west from where the John Deere is currently parked. There I witnessed an astonishing migration manifestation: throngs of White-throated Sparrows were emerging from the corn and rising into the trees to the south. Besides a few Song Sparrows, a Field Sparrow, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, a House Finch, a Yellow-rumped Warbler, a Gray Catbird and a Robin or two, everything I got my binoculars on during an intense twenty minutes was a WTSP. As I walked along, snatches of song praising Canada and hailing Sam Peabody floated down from the trees and I could hear wings whirring in the corn as the sparrows flushed in front of me. I continued to where the road turns to the north and then started back. As I retraced my steps the sparrows were just exploding from the corn in wave after wave of 10-15 birds. Along one 50 yard stretch I counted ~165 birds pass in front of me in 30 seconds. I estimated the total at 200 and think this may have been conservative. Wow! It occurred to me that there must be some kind of highly constrained post-season superlative that I could apply to the experience...how about largest flock of non-introduced non-icterine migrating passerines ever observed below eye-level by a Cayuga-birder during a government shutdown? -- 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] Olive-sided Flycatcher on South Hill RecWay
I took a stroll on the South Hill Recreationway from 6-7 PM. Pretty cool and quiet but...I saw an Olive-sided Flycatcher perched in the open on a snag below the trail behind the Northview drive backyards. The bird was showing the white rump patches of a juvenile. This was a first for me in my local patch. Best...Stuart -- 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] Worm-eating Warbler persists at Lindsay Parsons on Railbed
I walked the tracks south from Station Rd. both yesterday (Sat) and today. Yesterday I searched in vain for Worm-eating Warbler on the Lindsay-Parsons blue trail at the base of the pinnacles where Jay M. and LIvia S. reported seeing several Worm-eating Warblers last week. On my way back I ran into the Ann M., Donna S., and Judy T. who had just seen a WEWA on the railbed. This morning as I heard and then saw what is possibly the same bird in the same area. At about 0815 this morning I heard a Black-and-white Warbler and also a dry triller singing near the railroad bridge with new catwalks. Just north of this bridge is a 'restrict spray' sign. I eventually saw what may be the same WEWA as Ann et al. saw yesterday. I ran into Bruce Packard on the LP blue trail and we revisited the WEWA location and refound the bird. Later Sandy and Bill Podulka reported that they also heard this bird. July in the serene Inlet Valley! Stuart K. -- 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] Clay-colored sparrow persists at LP
Clay-colored sparrow singing (0615h-) at Lindsay-Parsons. NE of first field where mowed path bends to east along hedgerow. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Common Nighthawk on Inlet; Myers; add Canada Warbler at Sapsucker Woods
I stopped at Myers this morning at ca. 0720h. I didn't see any migrant shorebirds. An Osprey was on the snag at Salt Pt. and the expected residents were about including both Common and Hooded Mergansers with brood. I also want to add a vocal Canada Warbler to Mark and Tilden Chao's list from this morning. Jesse Ross and I saw the bird in the buckthorns on the high end of the pond leg of the Wilson North at about 0830. Late yesterday I birded Inlet Rd. which should be pinned on the google map link below. At about 1930h I saw a Common Nighthawk rock and roll up the inlet and off to the southwest. I had another sighting far off to the south at about 2030h which I thought might have been the same bird I saw earlier. Seems like a good spot to look for nighthawks . Stuart https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Inlet+Rd,+Ithaca,+NYhl=ensll=42.425927,-76.525526sspn=0.037507,0.071754oq=inlet+road+t=hhnear=Inlet+Rd,+Ithaca,+Tompkins,+New+York+14850z=16 Inlet Rd. near Railroad Bridge, Ithaca, NY, Tompkins, US-NY May 21, 2013 7:25 PM - 8:40 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.3 mile(s) Comments: br /Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3 22 species Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 50 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 8 Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) 14 4 adults; brood of 10 Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) 4 Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 24 Kettle far to south Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 1 Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) 1 Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) 1 Flew up inlet and away to SE. Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 1 Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) 1 Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons) 1 Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) 1 House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 1 Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) 2 Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) 1 Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) 1 Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 1 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 1 Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) 1 Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) 1 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14204752 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.orghttp://ebird.org/) -- 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] Philadelphia Vireo @ SSW
Singing quietly near pallet in pond on Wilson north. 0830h. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Kip's Island FIelds Location info: 42° 59' 49.61, -76° 43' 8.40
This is in response to several requests for location info on Kip's Island Fields which I had never heard of before Tim Lenz's CayugaRBA of Glossy Ibis and Ruff from there and Jay McGowan's relay to the list. I was with Gary Kohlenberg last Friday and did not see either rare bird but reported Black-bellied Plover. I have gotten several requests for location info. Gary found the site by using Tim Lenz's ebird checklist map info. Tim Lenz's checklist corresponding to his original report : http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14057602 has the location of Kip Island Fields (SE of SR 90 I-90 Thruway), Cayuga County, New York, US as 42.997114, -76.718999 or +42° 59' 49.61, -76° 43' 8.40 If you are coming from the north go south through the village of Montezuma. Stay on NYS 90 and run along the thruway and look for the dirt parking area as described below. If you are coming up from Union Springs on 90 just where it bends to the northeast to run along the Thruway there's a dirt parking area with some heavy equipment parked there. There's a Refuge sign on a gate. We saw distant shorebirds far to the left (est. 500-700 meters off). Maybe Tim could refine this if it needs any correction. Best...Stuart -- 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] Kipp Island (not Kip's Island)
Kip has a barn but, apparently, not an island. The erstwhile haunt of the Ruff and Glossy Ibis is Kipp Island, not Kip's Island. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee... http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lon=-76.7263402lat=42.9967316datum=nad83 Stuart -- 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] Friday-Black-bellied Plover at Kips Island
Sorry for the late post, but I thought I should add that late Friday afternoon Gary Kohlenberg and I had a distant Black-bellied Plover (as well as two Sandhill Cranes, a displaying tom turkey and 5 hens at the Kips Island site where we searched in vain for Ibis. -- 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] CBC field trip: Saturday, 4/27/2013; South Hill Recreationway
On Saturday morning (4/27/13) I led a CBC field trip on the South Hill Recreationway in the Town of Ithaca. Our group of seven started out at the Juniper Drive gate where we observed several foragaing Ruby-crowned Kinglets. These birds were vocalizing everywhere throughout the morning and the total of 7 reported for the trip is very conservative, possibly by a factor of 2x-3x. A Ruffed Grouse was drumming in the thicket to the north of the grassy path below the Juniper gates. We proceeded up the main rail trail and soon encountered the first of several Blue-headed Vireos we would eventually see/hear. This one was foraging in the same tree as a pair of Purple Finches. Farther along we had two Eastern Towhees countersinging from fields on either side of the main trail. We then explored some of the woodland trails that run along the gorges feeding Six-mile Creek. One of these yielded a singing Lousiana Waterthrush within 200 meters of the main trail. This is presumably the same bird I heard in the same area last week. Farther downstream we heard a single bout of song from a Winter Wren who then went silent and, like the Waterthrush, defied our efforts to get a look at him. Later, we all had rewarding sunlit views of another Blue-head Vireo foraging at close range while yet another sang in the distance. We flushed a second grouse on the narrow grassy trail that runs below and parallel to the main trail between Northview creek and Juniper. We also scanned the old reservoir from a vantage point far above 2nd dam where scores of Red slider turtles were sunning themselves. In the distance we picked out a pair each of Common Mergansers and Canada Geese. While we ended up doing a bit more hiking than we might have done if some of more of the hoped-for migrants and returning residents had been in evidence it was a glorious spring morning to be out on our local trails. My ebird report follows. South Hill Recreation Way, Tompkins, US-NY Apr 27, 2013 6:48 AM - 10:58 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) Comments: CBC Birdwalk with Klaus, Paul, David, Lee, Susan, Loretta, Becky. Clear, cool starting in the high 30s; up to the low 50s. 33 species Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 3 Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) 2 Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) 2 Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 1 Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 1 Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1 Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 3 Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) 2 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 3 Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) 1 Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) 1 Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) 2 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 4 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1 Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 4 Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 5 White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 1 House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) 1 Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) 7 American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 4 European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 4 Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) 1 Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) 2 Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 3 White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) 2 Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 2 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 4 Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 1 Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) 3 Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus) 2 House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) 4 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13899862 -- 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] BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER etc. on So. Hill RecWay
I birded the So. Hill RecWay and adjacent trails this morning hoping the wind blew in some migrants that will stick around for Saturday's CBC field trip (7:30-noon; meet at the end of Juniper Dr.) Highlights this morning included Purple Finch, a Lousiana Waterthrush singing in the gorge about halfway between Juniper and Burns Rd., two Blue-headed Vireos, one singing, deep in the woods, and a BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER singing in the brushy woods below the trail behind the Northview Drive backyards. Best...Stuart South Hill Recreation Way, Tompkins, US-NY Apr 24, 2013 6:35 AM - 8:15 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: 45-50 F. wind from south 5-10 mph. br /Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3 23 species Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 2 Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 1 Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1 Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) 2 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 2 Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) 2 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 3 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 3 Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 6 Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) 2 American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 5 European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 2 Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) 1 In gorge below prairie heard about 100 yards down north ridge trail. Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) 1 Singing near dey's Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) 2 Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 3 Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 1 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 5 Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 1 Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus) 1 Singing over the junco spruces below main trail. View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13862795 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) South Hill Recreation Way, Tompkins, US-NY Apr 24, 2013 6:35 AM - 8:15 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: 45-50 F. wind from south 5-10 mph. br /Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.3 23 species Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 2 Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 1 Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1 Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) 2 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 2 Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) 2 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 3 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 3 Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 6 Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) 2 American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 5 European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 2 Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) 1 In gorge below prairie heard about 100 yards down north ridge trail. Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) 1 Singing near dey's Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) 2 Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina) 3 Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 1 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 5 Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 1 Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus) 1 Singing over the junco spruces below main trail. View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13862795 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- 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] Rusty Blackbirds now east of CLO
Rusty Blackbirds now east of CLO between Powerlines and trail to south. 1400h. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Rusty Blackbirds just flew toward WILSON north.
Rusty Blackbirds just flew toward WILSON north. 1410 h. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Virginia Rail continues at SSW
Calling now in wetland behind 3rd lot. From the semi-opposable thumbs of SB Krasnoff via iPhone -- 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] Woodcocks, Winter Wren on South Hill Trail
I heard three Woodcocks on the South Hill trail above Juniper this morning around 0645-0710h dst. Two were spaced about 150 yards apart in the thick brush below the trail opposite the backyards of the houses on Northview. I heard one definite display flight. I heard the third bird peeting from a field off the trail to the east about a half-mile uptrail from Juniper. On my return trip I heard a Winter Wren singing near the Northview backyards. Stuart -- 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] Yikes! Shrikes!
At 4 PM Friday I went up to the Equine Research Lab to find the Northern Shrike reported by Dave Nutter. It flew into the 'top of a tall tree behind the lab buildings and showed itself briefly but brightly in the fading sunlight, disappeared and did not reappear in the next 15 minutes. Then, I headed up Scofield Rd. and saw yet another Northern Shrike on the east side of the road opposite the house at 436 Scofield. Whence this plenitude of shirkes? A quirk of sampling due to January enthusiasm? Stuart -- 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] Acadian Flycatchers at Ford Hill
I spent a few hours Sunday morning in the Ford Hill area. I heard an Acadian Flycatcher singing intermittently from the south side of the creek in the area where Jay reported one a few weeks ago. I also heard and saw a Yellow-throated Vireo. I then crossed to the north side of the creek and up to an area that held among other birds, singing Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Hooded Warbler, an active family of Baltimore Orioles, and another singing warbler I recorded but couldn't id. I then went back to the north bank of the creek and down into it at the spot where I'd heard the Acadian previously thinking the hike out would be easier in the creek bottom (it wasn't--there's a tricky ten-foot waterfall to scale). While I was down there two Empidonax flycatchers flew up and down the creek just over my head. i didn't get great looks, but they weren't Pewees or Phoebes so I think it's reasonable to conclude they were Acadians. Stuart -- 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] MERLIN (nesting?) in City Cemetary
After a discussion about Cape May Warblers I decided to stop at the Ithaca City Cemetary to check the tall spruces. I didn't get that far. Just below the Stewart Ave. entrance there's a short road that goes off sharply to the north and over that road and up toward Stewart Ave. stands a white pine with its top 20' dead and sere. I saw a lump near the top that turned out to be a MERLIN with its back to me, either grooming or picking at some food. After a minute of watching it, it dive bombed a cardinal and then flew to the south into another white pine. I refound it perched near a dense packing of sticks that might be a nest. To find the putative nest tree find the bench with the short flagpole on the left of the main road where it bends sharply to the right. Stand across the road (on the north side) at the bend and sight to the left of the flagpole looking SSE. There are several pines up there just 50 yards or so below Stewart AVe. The bird and nest (or collection of sticks) was in the left-most tree maybe 20-25' from its top. Merlins have been reported thereabouts perennially but this the first one I've found there. Marginal digivideo through my scope at: http://youtu.be/azf-ZZlmi9Q Best...Stuart -- 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] Cemetary Merlin Video link revised
Cemetary Merlin Video link revised: http://youtu.be/wm8ZK_gFdDA -- 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] Hawthorn additions
I must have just missed Chris in the Hawthorn's where I meandered from about 0845 to 1000 h. Most of the same birds for me including the singing WIlson's Warbler in the north central part of the tract. I can add a Black-throated Blue Warbler male singing briefly and a Red-eyed Vireo both on the slope to the ravine where I also had eye-level views of the Great-crested Flycatcher. Best...Stuart -- 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] Northern Parula in Hector reported by Judy Abrams
Judy Abrams just called to report that she saw a NORTHERN PARULA with a flock of Chickadees in Hector. She was in the woods about a half-mile north of the parking area on Seneca Rd. between Potomac and Warner Corners Rd. Stuart Krasnoff -- 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] 50 snipe at Bennington? Really?
I was not on a college tour in Vermont today. Siri made Bennington out 'Benning'. and I didn't catch it. Sorry about that. I'll spare you how she voice-recognized Two Fox Sparrows in tree in Earhardt's yard. A few highlights from a full day of birding locally and around the lake: I tried unsuccessfully for Vesper Sparrow by the lone tree west of Liddell lab this morning before 7 AM. I did see a Coyote in the field to the southeast of the grass track and then another one to the south, each at about 300 yards. They briefly checked me out before slipping into the woods. One them had a yellowish pelt . They me the primal willies (they make me feel like food). At 0735 I found a very cooperative Vesper Sparrow singing persistently on the northwest corner of Cherry Rd. and Warren Dr. near Ithaca Airport. Around noon at Aurora Boathouse I saw a flock of 8 Long-tailed Ducks about 500 yards out and another pair flying up the east shore of the lake. I saw Northern Harriers today in the Rafferty Rd. area, Lake Rd., and Montezuma. Just before stopping at Benning a male Harrier was doing courtship loops and stoops over the marsh to the south. Benning (really) was crawling with shorebirds as reported by others and most were in great light and fairly close to the wildlife drive. I counted 55 Wilson's Snipe and probably missed a few. The Pectorals and Dunlin were also putting on a show. I struck out on BC Night Heron at Towpath but I did see a cooperative Ruby Crowned Kinglet on the way out to Puddlers where there were 9 Caspian Terns fishing and loafing with Herring and Ring-billed gulls. I also saw a lone Great Egret, presumably the same one reported yesterday. Good birding tomorrow. Stuart -- 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] Bonaparte's Gull at Stewart Park
A Bonaparte's Gull was fishing just offshore on the eastern side of Stewart Park this morning at 7:20. Stuart -- 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] Cackling Goose at Sheldrake on Saturday
Sorry for the late post. There were a lot geese (1000's) in the Sheldrake area yesterday. At the park I saw two possible Cackling Geese. #1 looks a bit less likely than #2 to me. Videos for vetting are posted: Goose #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-wKF8wwV1o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvwFbpxRSaw Goose #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6G1OA2ajTM Sheldrake also hosted 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye and Mallard. Judy Abrams reported seeing a Brown-headed Cowbird at 9045 Seneca St. in T'burg. Best...Stuart -- 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] Common Ravens on Burdick Hill Rd.
Sorry for the late post. Yesterday (Thursday 12/27/11) at about 12:45 PM I pulled into the TIkkun V'or parking lot on N. Triphammer Rd. and Burdick Hill Rd. and saw two Common Ravens soaring and rolling over the field just south of Burdick Hill Road. They descended on a carcass and began to pick nervously at what I assumed to be an erstwhile deer. As I scoped the action I noticed a third bird. After looking at a bit of video I took of the scene the third bird revealed itself as a Turkey Vulture. Others of its ilk were circling overhead. Stuart -- 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] Horned Grebe, Pintail @Stewart Pk; Red-throated Loon at Myers
A quick note before attending to the plucked bird in the fridge...There was a Horned Grebe at Stewart Park off the west. There was also a male Northern Pintail, a pair of Common Goldeneye, 30 Bufflehead, 2-4 Redhead, ca. 8 Ring-necked Ducks, some Lesser Scaup, along with Coot, Goose, and Mallard. Myers was quiet but I did find a Red-throated Loon a few hundred yards off the point, and 5 Common Loons. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Stuart -- 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] Myers (Dunlin and Surf Scoters) and Mt. Pleasant (Pipits)
Despite a paucity of birds (no shooting or ducks of wood, styrofoam or other polymers either) I spent an hour around Myers and Salt Points this morning from about 9-10 (EST! yeah!). There was a lone DUNLIN on the spit with 2-3 dozen plus Ring-Billed Gulls and a few Herring Gulls. Lots of Mallards scattered about hither and yon, plus 1 Common Merganser. However, In the Salt Point cove in the lee of the howling south wind I saw three juvenile SURF SCOTERS. there was a Grea Blue Heron on the shore and a Common Loon up close that I couldn't refind after it submerged. It may have been the same individual I saw later farther out to the north. No grebes for me. Not a Canada Goose to be seen. Encouraged by recent reports on the list I declared today The Day of the Pipits and headed up to Mt. Pleasant and spent another hour (1045-1145 h) there trying to find some. I soon saw/herd a flock of 80-100 American Pipits a few hundred yards east of the road to the towers. They were pretty much constantly on the move in the fields near the tower access road down to Mineah Rd. At one point there were about 20 of them bobbing and twitching on the Mount Pleasant Rd. asphalt. Best...Stuart -- 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] Lesser Yellowlegs and Least Sandpiper Tues AM @ Myers Pt.
I had one Lesser Yellowlegs and one Least Sandpiper at 0730h @ Myers Pt. this morning. Neither stayed very long. The peep was attempting forage amongst the forest of Canada Goose legs that were studding the point. The Yellowlegs was in the little side pool off and took off up the lake tooting as soon as I got out of my vehicle. total count as follows: Myers Point, Tompkins, US-NY Aug 16, 2011 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Protocol: Stationary 17 species Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 50 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 30 Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) 1 Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 3 Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) 1 Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) 1 Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) 1 Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) 30 Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 2 Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) X Purple Martin (Progne subis) 20 Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) X American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 1 European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 20 Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) 1 House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 -- 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] Hooded Warbler and Hermit Thrush Singing near South Hill Rail Trail
I hiked off-trail below the South Hill Rail Trail near the Burns Rd. entrance this afternoon between 1::00 and 3:00 PM. I had two encounters with birds I've never heard singing in those woods. One was a Hermit Thrush singing sporadically in tall timber on the edge of a gorge. About an hour later I had a Hooded Warbler singing persistently in another area about 1/4 mile away from the thrush . With no encouragement from me the Hooded came down to check me out and we made naked-eye contact. I watched him sing for a few minutes and observed some brief aerobatic interactions with another bird. A singing Tufted Titmouse and a foraging Red-eyed Vireo were nearby so it could have been either one of them, or maybe...I'd like to think... it was a Hooded female. I've had both these species in the area in the past but never singing as if on territory. I'd be interested in any observations anyone might have suggesting either of these species might be regular breeders in the lower Six-mile Basin. If anyone (the June counter for this area?) wants to know how to find the exact location for these birds please contact me off-list. Thanks...Stuart -- 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] Yellow-billed Cuckoo on South Hill; Bay-breasted Warblers continue at Hawthorns (late morning)
I birded around home and then walked the off-the-rail-trail-trails below Juniper Drive on South Hill this morning from about 5:30 to 9:00 AM. The highlight was a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO I spotted at about 7:30. About an hour later on my way back I was about 200 meters from where I saw the cuckoo earlier when I heard soft keeowp calls, but I could not find a cuckoo producing them at first. I did see a rotund lump of Ruffed Grouse in a tree whence the keowping issued. The Grouse eventually took off and the keeowping continued so I circumambulated a bit and finally located the Cuckoo in the same tree that the Grouse had occupied and watched it call for awhile. Warblers were few and far between. I managed a quick glimpse of a Magnolia and a Chestnut-sided and heard a few American Redstarts and Yellow Warblers. In between Cuckoo sightings I climbed up to the high flat knoll that overlooks the second dam (and lower Reservoir). I heard a Scarlet Tanager singing sporadically in the tree-tops up there and watched what looked like two conspecific song birds engaged in a high-speed treetop chase for about 20 minutes. The interaction looked more agonistic than amatory although I am aware that there is a fine line between the two categories of behavior throughout the animal kingdom. There were Red-eyed Vireos singing on territory everywhere in the vicinity this morning and my best guess is I was watching two males of the species arguing over control of the mountain top. When I got home and read about the warbler extravaganzas at the Hawthorns and Sapsucker Woods I felt compelled to my mini-vacation and ducked into the Hawthorns from about 10-11. Besides Larry Hymes and the more common migrants and residents reported by Bob and Chris, I found 1 Blackburnian Warbler, 3-5 Magnolias, and a pair of male Bay-breasted Warblers in two different locations. No YB Cuckoo, Golden-winged Warbler, or Yellow-bellied Flycatcher for me at that hour. Best...Stuart -- 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] Blackburnian in Sapsucker Woods near
Brown Creepers and Ovenbirds seemed to be singing everywhere in Sapsucker Woods this morning from about 8:30-9:30. At the Woodleton I saw the northside Northern Waterthrush and heard the southside half of that duelling pair. I then ran into an incredible profusion of Yellow-rumped Warblers on the eastern north-south leg of the East Trail by the swampy pond and shelter. Everything that moved seemed to be a Rumpie and I was just about to give up finding any other migrants when I ran into Karen, a California Park Ranger from Yosemite. While we were comparing notes on east and west-coast birds (it's chastening to be reminded how stunning Northern Cardinals and Blue Jays are) she found a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER which obliged us with brief but excellent views. Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] More Pine Siskins (lower South Hill)
Me too for Pine Siskins; Tos at our feeder on Juniper Dr. Saturday morning ~8:45. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Triphammer Terrace Redpoll flock now 100
I checked for the Redpolls again this morning and am giving myself another chance to try to type 'flock' . At ca. 0800 h I counted 105 Redpolls in two adjacent birches. Yesterday a Red-tailed Hawk cruised over and the flock briefly evacuated the triangular patch of birches. Today, a Red-tailed was sitting in a birch when I drove up, but the Redpolls were going about their business about 100 yards away...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Now approx. 60 Redpollin Lansing fglock
I trailed other Cayuga birders to the Common Redpolls feeding on Birch catkins in the patch between Triphammer Terr. and Hillcrest. Yesterday there were ca. 30 birds at 1030 h. Today, also at ca. 1030 h, the flock had increased to ca. 60.Yesterday I also saw a Rough-legged Hawk patrolling the fields south of Burdick Hill Rd. and a Common Raven soaring over Esty Dr. at 34B. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] King Eider back at Myers
Paul Anderson had the King Eider at Myers Pt. at ca. 0930h. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] ID problem: female Black Scoters or winter male Ruddy Ducks at Dryden Lake?
Hi all, Bird ID problem... see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GixbxmtaGY8 I took this at Dryden lake late yesterday (Sunday morning). My first impression before looking carefully was Ruddy Duck winter males. Once I scoped them I started to doubt and wondered if they were Black Scoter females. any help would be appreciated. Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] dead coot @ stewart park, etc.
In response to Mary W's question...Saturday morning at Stewart Park (8-9 AM) I did indeed see a dead coot near the entrance to the Swan Pen trail. It looked so fresh that I checked to see if was warm (it wasn't) but it was not stiff and I could not see any rips or tears. I had just seen an adult Bald Eagle strafe the waterfowl on the lake and there were maybe half dozen Great Black-backed Gulls scattered about in the water way offshore. I didn't any birds on the jetty. Besides many Mallards and Canada Geese I saw 4 Tundra swans, 3 adults and a juvenile. One of them was persistently producing a dove-like cooing vocalization accompanying the ducking of its head. The four swans took off up Fall Creek while I was checking out the coot. I also saw a mixed flock of 50 Aythya, 4 spp. present, mostly Redheads, with at least one male of each Scaup, and at least two CANVASBACK. 3 Hooded Mergansers took flight when the eagle made its pass, there were ca. 50 Bufflehead about, 5 Gadwall well offshore, a Kingfisher and Great Blue Heron in the Lagoon, and a Carolina Wren calling near the Swan Pen. I did not hear TIm's WInter Wren. Good birding...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Long-Tailed Duck at Myer Pt. Sunday morning
sorry for the late post. I saw a female Long-tailed Duck at 0930 this morning at Myers. it was about 30 yards off the point. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Nashville Warbler above Plantation Rd. by Vet School
I can add a bright Nashville Warbler male and a Scarlet Tanager to Hope's list of CU campus birds along the southern slope of Fall Creek. There are some feeders behind Schurman Hall and there was a flurry of vociferous Chickadees, Titmice, and House Finches visiting them this morning around 9 AM. The Nashville popped out of the brush on the slope above Plantation Rd. for a few seconds as if to see what going on. Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Great Horned Owl - Juniper Drive
I heard a Great Horned Owl hoot briefly this morning at 0530 h. It was probably in the vicinity of the gate at the end of Juniper where it meets the South Hill rail trail. I have observed much concerted crowing of crows down there over the past 10 days and have wondered if there was a big owl about. There was this morning. I was at Myers and Salt Pt. shortly after 6, saw gulls, mallards, mergansers, spotties, Killdeer, etc., a well-dispersed case of Keystone Light MTs (the devil's brew). Absolutely no connection attributed to the latter but just as a heads-up to the birding community I also observed much concerted deployment of Canada Goose decoys off the points and heard some gunfire from the west shore. A September goose hunting window opened today until until 9/25 (http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/28496.html). Best...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Plantations Rd. HOODED WARBLER, etc.
I also birded the greater Fall Creek Gorge area on CU campus from 0900-0930 h this morning mostly standing in one place looking down into Mundy from the K-permitted area on Plantations Rd. behind the Plant Pathology greenhouses. There was a flurry of activity as the sun flushed the area below with Robins and Waxwings dominating the action with a Pewee and Carolina Wren singing. Visual highlights were an Ovenbird, a Scarlet Tanager male showing irregular patches of scarlet on the mostly greenish-yellow breast and a bright male Hooded Warbler seen just below the rock wall. In addition, I watched a warbler I couldn't definitively identify foraging farther down--olive-yellow above, yellow breast and belly, noticeable white on tail visible from above, no eye ring or wing-bars - swayed by the presence of a male I am guessing female Hooded Warbler. Number of species: 20 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia 10 Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 1 Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 1 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos X Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus 1 American Robin - Turdus migratorius 10 Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 3 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 5 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 15 American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla 1 Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla 1 Hooded Warbler - Wilsonia citrina 1 Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 4 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis 2 Scarlet Tanager - Piranga olivacea 2 Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 2 House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 2 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis 5 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 10 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Canada Warbler low on Hammond Hill; winged warbler singing like Golden-winged at Park Preserve
Sorry for the late and lengthy post. The gist of it is there's a Canada Warbler singing very close to Hammond Hill Rd. near Irish Settlement and a winged warbler of indeterminate parentage in the Park Preserve not-seen but-heard singing alot like a Golden-winged. Details and other highlights are as follows: After a visit to Salt Pt., which was alive with Orchard Orioles, Willow Flycatchers, Warbling Vireos and Yellow Warblers early yesterday (Sunday) morning, I headed up to Hammond Hill and ran into Sandy, Bill, and Lisa Podulka who, along with Lynn Leopold, directed me to a Canada Warbler singing on the brushy slope above the road near the intersection with Irish Settlement Rd. I headed back down to the spot, quickly located the bird by ear, and then persisted for 15 minutes before getting a glimpse of it. A little later I got better views of either the same bird and or a second one ca. 100 yards up the road on the same side. This time the song lacked the distinct chip note before the burst that I'd heard in the earlier bout of singing leading me to think it might be a second bird. I then went to the Park Preserve where I walked down the Blue Trail past a singing a Blue-winged Warbler, an Alder Flycatcher along the creek, and other expected residents. Near the beginning of the Red Trail I heard a singing Magnolia Warbler in the spruces and while trying to get a look at it, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo with nesting material in its bill popped out of a nearby spruce 20 feet away at eye-level and retreated just as I got it focussed in my scope for a digishot that never happened. As I continued to look for the Magnolia the cuckoo popped out twice, each time retreating before I could get off a shot. Just past where the Red Trail meets the Orange Trail a Prairie Warbler was singing persistently in a clearing (with several 20-foot white pines that have had their lower branches neatly trimmed) and while I was maneuvering to locate him I heard a winged warbler singing a 5-syllable song that sounds like the first sample of Golden-winged Warbler on the Stokes Guide CD. I did not see the bird, but I recorded the song and got opinions from knowledgeable birders that range from possible Golden-winged, through probable hybrid, to possible Blue-winged singing Golden-winged. I will try to post an mp3 to the web, but in the meantime if anyone is interested please contact me off-list and I will send the sound file by email. Today, a little past noon, I went back and after several circumambulations I located what I think is the same bird, singing the same song-variant that I recorded yesterday. I recorded it again today. I found this bird on the blue trail just past (if you're headed in) where the red trail branches off to the right. It was in or near some white pines that sit above the end of the narrow goldenrod meadow that runs along the creek. Once again I did not see the bird but heard it close to the trail and then down in the thick brush at the end of the meadow, so it was 150 to 200 yards away from where I heard it yesterday and moving yet further away when I left. On the way out today on the Blue trail pretty close to the lean-to I heard and saw what I believe is the same Blue Winged Warbler I digiscoped yesterday and then I am pretty sure I heard yet another Blue-winged singing bee-bizz while the first one foraged. One more thing...on the way into the Park Preserve today I heard a Raven croaking and looked up to see a Turkey Vulture, a Red-tailed Hawk, 6-8 crows, and the noisy Raven gyring about and mixing it up. Best...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk over East Hill
I was in the lot behind the Rite Aid across from East Hill Plaza checking out a singing/foraging Yellow Warbler when I .I saw a Broad-winged Hawk flying north high over the cemetery (ca. 0900 h). Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Spotted Sandpipers - Salt Pt. and Private Marina; Yellow-rumped Warbler - Stewart Park
At ca. 7:30 this morning there were 3 Killdeer around the pool on the north side of the spit at Myers. One was vocalizing persistently from a brooding posture on a low mound of beach gravel near the pool. Later, In the bird's absence, I could see what looked like a nest excavation at the site. Around that time I saw a Spotted Sandpiper across the creek at Salt Pt. Later I saw what I presumed was a second one working the beach at the Private Marina. At ca. 8:20 I saw a bright male Yellow-rumped warbler at the Swan Pen in Stewart Park. Also in the vicinity were 5 Hooded Mergansers, a Fish Crow, and a Red-bellied Woodpecker. Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Found - Bottle-Cap Digiscope Adapter at Myers Pt.
I found a home-made digiscope Bottle-Cap camera Adapter at Myers Pt. on Sunday. Please email me off-list if it's yours and you want to retrieve it. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Presumed Bonaparte's gull with red legs at Armitage plushttp://picasaweb.google.com/booleanquery/BirdsForID# Montezuma miscellany
I posted some frame captures of digivids I took of the black-headed gull (all lower case) that Dave Nicosia found at Armitage Rd. Saturday afternoon (2 April). Please forgive the quality...I picked frames to try to show variation in appearance of the leg color (which I would describe as Freshly Nitrited Nova Lox ) as well as the bill-shape and proportion, and the extent of black and sides of the head (this bird certainly did not show the fingers of black descending from crown to eye and ear that Sibley figures. Find photos at: http://picasaweb.google.com/booleanquery/BirdsForID# The ID consensus there on the dike looking north northwest at about 1700h was Bonaparte's based on maximum likelihood, but ...the gull gave a bulkier, chestier appearance than Bonaparte's to me (Bill Evan's saw the videos and voiced that impression as well). One of the frames has a Ring-billed Gull in it which is closer, but may give a sense of size. Also the bill appeared somewhat longish for a Bonaparte's. For comparison to a Bonaparte's with red legs see: http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/birds/ohio_birds/Bonaparte_Gull_Red_Legs.html I would appreciate opinions from laridoligists far and wide on range of color in the legs of these gulls (which Sibley describes as 'pink').Other observations from the Montezuma area that might be relevant to vistors this weekend: After several Greater Yellowlegs and a furtive Wilson's Snipe at Larue's I think I had 2 Lesser Yellowlegs in Benning Marsh, but am still mulling over photos. I will post some shots of them for interested dichomtomizers. I ran into two DEC guys (Jim and another who's name I didn't get) at the new shore bird spot (1 Killdeer and many Green-winged Teal among other ducks) who said that there were 17 Pectoral Sandpipers and a Dunlin at Van Dyne Spoor in the morning. The presumption was they were the same bunch seeni n previous days at Armitage. I spent an hour (ca. 2-3 PM) -at Van Dyne Spoor and din't see any shorebirds (lots of Pintail, GW Teal etc., 1 Sandhill Crane, 2 Trumpeter Swans, 6-7 probable Tundra Swans, a circling Rough-legged Hawk, the expected No. Harrier). At Armitage I looked for the Pectorals for awhile and finally found 8-9 about 125 yards east of the dike on the western edge of the fields to the north of the road. The Dunlin was there with them. Good birding...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] photo of dark-mantled Gull found by Ken Rosenberg @ Stewart Pk. Sunday 10 Jan
Here's a link to a photo (video frame grab) I uploaded of the gull with the dark mantle that Ken Rosenberg found off Stewart Park Sunday (1/10): http://picasaweb.google.com/booleanquery/BirdsForID#5425506357720418146 Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] White-winged Scoters, Red-breasted Mergansers at Sheldrake
On my way up to the Thruway on Thursday and on my way back yesterday I checked the lake shore around Sheldrake Pt. I found 2 male White-winged Scoters on Thursday (12/24). They were still there Sunday (12/27) about 50 yards offshore near 7225 Wyers Pt. Rd. On Sunday there were two Red-breasted Mergansers in the same vicinity. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Long-tailed Duck @ Stewart Park this AM
There was a female Long-tailed Duck at Stewart Park this morning in the company of 3 Bufflehead,8-9 Ruddy Ducks, and 5 Aythya including 1 Ring-necked Duck, 2 Lesser Scaup, 1 Greater Scaup, and 1 yet-to-be- determined that Dave Nutter was studying when I left. The birds were about 250 yards out from the tennis courts. There was also a flock of 6 Hooded Mergansers that were in the eastern park at about 0845h and flew toward the inlet at about 0920. Best...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] South Hill - Sunday - Swainson's Thrush, Blue-headed Vireo, etc.
Apologies for the late post...I spent Sunday morning on and around the South Hill Rail Trail. Highlights were a male Pileated Woodpecker feasting on grapes, a solitary Blue-headed Vireo, an Ovenbird, and a lingering encounter with a SWAINSON'S THRUSH that kept its buffy eye- ringed eye on me from about 20 feet into the dense brush near the southeast end of a trail that runs parallel to the main trail 50 -100 yards below it. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Mixed flock w/ Magnolia, Blackburnian Warblers near So. Hill Rail Trail
I ran into a small chickadee-anchored mixed flock this morning (0730 H) in the woods below the So. Hill Rail Trail near Juniper Dr. I got the sense of quite a few migrants about that I couldn't get good looks at, but I did spot at least 1 Blackburnian Warbler, two Magnolia Warblers. There was also a Red-eyed Vireo n the vicinity. Stuart Krasnoff Ithaca, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Temporary archive: http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
