Re:[cayugabirds-l] Migrants

2019-09-14 Thread Kevin J. McGowan 
"Watch this space!"

Look for some fascinating, and depressing information about this topic in the 
next couple of weeks!

Kevin

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Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 9:10 PM
To: Laura Stenzler ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: RE:[cayugabirds-l] Migrants


What a lucky occasion!

Such flocks seem rare. I have not seen any of these birds migrating this fall, 
no warblers, despite a number of excursions. I think I have seen just one 
Yellow-rumped warbler. In Lindsay Parsons the other day, the only migrants were 
2-3 warbling vireos (also, a couple catbirds and goldfinches, but those would 
be local residents, I think?). Otherwise silent and rather empty, and most 
places seem pretty empty of birds ... is my admittedly unscientific overall 
sense. In birdbooks and online, one often sees notes on drastic declines in 
various birds, because of farming, poisons, etc. There was a discussion here 
earlier, involving experts on numbers of breeeding birds, and it was 
interesting to read, but also inconclusive, and I still wonder if there are 
things to read that sum up what we know of the overall big-picture decline of 
bird numbers, if that is what is happening?

--yrs.
Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or: n...@cornell.edu

From: bounce-123920880-84019...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-123920880-84019...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Laura Stenzler 
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Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 7:56 PM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Migrants

Hi all,
This evening between 5:30 and 7 pm there was a large migrant flock moving 
around our yard on Hunt Hill Rd, east of Ithaca. They went back and forth and 
generally stayed in the vicinity, which I found unusual and wonderful. As 
always, they were moving fast from spot to spot, hiding behind leaves and 
generally being a pain to identify. But I did see the following:
Swainson's Thrush
Robin
Parula Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Baybreasted Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Black and White Warbler
Chestnut sided Warbler
Common Yellow Throat
Red-eyed Vireo
Catbird
Chipping Sparrow
Phoebe
Eastern Wood pewee
Titmouse
Goldfinch
Chickadee
Hummingbird

Plus a couple of warblers I was unsure about.  Possible Pine Warbler and 
Blackpoll Warbler. But I am not confident about either.
It was a fun and amazing 1 1/2 hours!

Cheers!
Laura

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RE:[cayugabirds-l] Migrants

2019-09-14 Thread Magnus Fiskesjo 


What a lucky occasion! 

Such flocks seem rare. I have not seen any of these birds migrating this fall, 
no warblers, despite a number of excursions. I think I have seen just one 
Yellow-rumped warbler. In Lindsay Parsons the other day, the only migrants were 
2-3 warbling vireos (also, a couple catbirds and goldfinches, but those would 
be local residents, I think?). Otherwise silent and rather empty, and most 
places seem pretty empty of birds ... is my admittedly unscientific overall 
sense. In birdbooks and online, one often sees notes on drastic declines in 
various birds, because of farming, poisons, etc. There was a discussion here 
earlier, involving experts on numbers of breeeding birds, and it was 
interesting to read, but also inconclusive, and I still wonder if there are 
things to read that sum up what we know of the overall big-picture decline of 
bird numbers, if that is what is happening? 

--yrs.
Magnus Fiskesjö, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
McGraw Hall, Room 201. Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
E-mail: magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu, or: n...@cornell.edu  

From: bounce-123920880-84019...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-123920880-84019...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Laura Stenzler 
[l...@cornell.edu]
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 7:56 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Migrants

Hi all,
This evening between 5:30 and 7 pm there was a large migrant flock moving 
around our yard on Hunt Hill Rd, east of Ithaca. They went back and forth and 
generally stayed in the vicinity, which I found unusual and wonderful. As 
always, they were moving fast from spot to spot, hiding behind leaves and 
generally being a pain to identify. But I did see the following:
Swainson's Thrush
Robin
Parula Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Baybreasted Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Black and White Warbler
Chestnut sided Warbler
Common Yellow Throat
Red-eyed Vireo
Catbird
Chipping Sparrow
Phoebe
Eastern Wood pewee
Titmouse
Goldfinch
Chickadee
Hummingbird

Plus a couple of warblers I was unsure about.  Possible Pine Warbler and 
Blackpoll Warbler. But I am not confident about either.
It was a fun and amazing 1 1/2 hours!

Cheers!
Laura

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Migrants in the morning

2010-08-29 Thread Geo Kloppel 
 But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now  
 I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old  
 eyes and go closer to see birds!  Or look for those birds that are  
 visible!   Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds  
 that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and  
 see what others think.

Hi Meena,

If your competitive urges can be squelched, and you're not feeling  
left out of the high-definition telescopic fun, you can certainly go  
back to birding without top optics. It should offer some interesting  
stalking challenges (though you wouldn't practice at Knox-Marcellus),  
and I'm sure you could approach the whole thing as a kind of special  
training.  I've heard that at a certain point in Ski Rescue training  
they take away your poles, and you're sent out day after day to  
traverse extremely rugged terrain with just the skis (and a pack on  
your back, of course).

-Geo

On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Meena Haribal wrote:

 Hi all,

 Today morning from 5 to 5.40 am I listened to migrant  birds and  
 recorded some of the calls.  Based on the calls and the  
 spectrogram, there were several groups of VEERIES that flew  
 overhead. There were also some ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS and at least  
 one WOOD THRUSH.  I also heard something like clicking of bills,  
 could have been a cuckoo, but did chance to record so cannot confirm.

 Local Great Horned Owl between 5.10 5.20 hooted several times.   
 There at least six species of night insects all occupied different  
 frequency levels in the spectrogram.  In one species, two or three  
 insects were calling and initially one would start and then second  
 would join in and after few seconds the sounds were matched and  
 sang as one insect but with increased volume! When I was watching  
 the spectrogram at real time I could see how the frequencies joined  
 and separated in real time.

 About 17 years ago I bought Ziess 10x42 (before that I used Nikon  
 7X25 and previous to that an 8X32 which had double image, though my  
 brain after some days of use corrected them to a single image) and  
 went to Stewart park hoping that I would be able to see all the  
 birds now better from any distance.  Scope was not known to people  
 in India then.  I watched the lake and found no birds.  Then Kevin  
 McGowan drove in and set up his scope and declared he seeing all  
 three species of Scoters. I was little disappointed that my  
 binoculars were no good to see that far. He let me peek through his  
 scope and I did see all three species of Scoters.  Then my goal was  
 to get a scope, which I managed to get one and when I spent evening  
 at  May’s point watching shore birds, I used to be frustrated with  
 distant birds that other people could pick up with their scope.

 Yesterday birds were something like 400 m to 1000 m away from  
 observation site  (I actually checked using google distance  
 calculator)  and everyone is watching Phalaropes, Buff Breasted  
 Sandpiper and I barely could see them in my scope.  Again Kevin  
 McGowan mentioned, that with his old scope, which was similar to my  
 current he could not see birds so well, but with current Swaroski  
 he can see things much better.  Oh well, but = since last two years  
 I have been thinking I need to get better optics, but recently they  
 seem to have become so very expensive and beyond my reach. I have  
 been digging in my yard to see if someone has buried any treasure,  
 but so far have found none L

 But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now  
 I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old  
 eyes and go closer to see birds!  Or look for those birds that are  
 visible!   Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds  
 that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and  
 see what others think.

 Yesterday, on the way back from an errand in Rochester at the  
 junction of 318 and 414, I saw a huge flock of BROWN-HEAED  
 COWBIRDS. There may have been more than 1000+ birds and flock was  
 almost pure cowbirds only.

 Also this did not make it to Cayugabirds. To add to Dave Nutter’s  
 list of shorebirds at Knox Marcellus, later in the evening while  
 searching for Buff-Breasted, Mike Tetlow found a Golden Plover from  
 East Road. Viewing was much better from East Road at this time, I  
 could actually see RED-NECKED PHALAROPES as red-necked and not just  
 phalaropes, with the same scope.  There were also 7 SANDHILL CRANES  
 in the marsh.

 Meena


 Meena Haribal
 Ithaca NY
 http://haribal.org/
 http://picasaweb.google.com/ithmoths
 http://picasaweb.google.com/mharibal
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Geo Kloppel
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Spencer NY 14883

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