Re: [cayugabirds-l] Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler (intergrade?), Ithaca

2024-01-11 Thread Dave Nutter
Hi All, First, what’s the big deal about Audubon’s & Myrtle Warblers? When I was a kid starting birding in the early 1970s my field guides considered them separate species, and the adults are distinctive but clearly closely related. Many listers were disappointed when, based on studies of

[cayugabirds-l] Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler (intergrade?), Ithaca

2024-01-11 Thread Jay McGowan
Hi all, John Garrett found an apparent Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler at the Ithaca Farmers Market on Christmas Eve (checklist ), a bird which eluded observers for some time until Dave Nutter refound it near the bridge to Renwick Woods and Stewart Park late

[cayugabirds-l] Male Bald Eagle - Candor

2024-01-11 Thread David McDermitt
Good morning, I just spotted a bald Eagle perched on a tree top looking down towards the water at the small spillway on Mill street in Candor. I didn’t stop to glass him but its coloring was pretty evidently this as opposed to an osprey -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text

[cayugabirds-l] Young eagles over Cayuga Lake

2024-01-11 Thread Dave Nutter
Yesterday (10 Jan) I was scanning Cayuga Lake from Allan Treman State Marine Park. Viewing conditions to the north showed such detail of buildings at Myers that I hoped to see the Trumpeter Swans somewhere along the shore, but no luck. Either they were obscured by whitecaps or they were