Re: [cayugabirds-l] FOY

Yep. After walking thru some thickets in Michigan Hollow yesterday, I got test-bitten in two places by a tick, and then found the presumed explorer crawling on my forehead. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayu

[cayugabirds-l] Multiple Fox Sparrows

Fox Sparrows are singing all around my place this morning. There are 4 Wood Ducks on the pond, several pairs of Phoebes hanging around the sheds, lots of Juncos, no more Redpolls. Turkeys are gobbling, Ruffed Grouse are drumming. -Geo Tupper Road, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http:/

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese on Cayuga Lake

West Danby: Around 1:00 pm I saw a number of flocks of Snow Geese just entering the Cayuga Basin from the south. Not sure how extensive the flight was, but that mid-day timing always suggests a dawn origin in the coastal regions to our south. So, not entirely over yet! -Geo Sent from my iPhon

[cayugabirds-l] Cranes and Short-ears

I visited a few spots in the Northern Montezuma area this afternoon, like Carncross Road and Van Dyne Spoor, hoping to see some Sandhill Cranes. On the shoulder of rte 89 a bit south of Savannah I came upon a dead owl. The head was rather damaged, but the densely feathered toes and the profusion

Re: [cayugabirds-l] American Crow "snow-bathing"!

Chickens do this too. -Geo >  > I recently watched snow buntings do this. > Pete Sar -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHI

Re: [cayugabirds-l] 50 Robins

At about 2:45 pm on February 5th, I was driving south along Dubois Road. Between Perry City Road and Indian Creek Road it was continuous Robins, scattering from the road shoulders ahead of me. They must have totaled several hundred. There was one dead in the middle of the road, presumably the vi

Re: [cayugabirds-l] 50 Robins

There have been well over 100 around my place on Tupper Road in West Danby for several days. They’ve stripped all the sumac fruits, the privet berries and the wild grapes. One stretch of road shoulder looks like the goose-fouled lawns at lakeside parks, but the droppings are deep purple instead

[cayugabirds-l] Loon Count - West Danby

This morning between 7:15 and 9:15 I counted 113 Loons migrating south over West Danby. All appeared to be following the line of the upper Cayuga Inlet Valley. The Meade Period breakdown was: Period 3 - 8 Loons Period 4 - 7 Loons Period 5 - 1 Loon Period 6 - 10 Loons Period 7 - 61 Loons Period 8

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hummingbirds?

None at my feeders, but I did see one at the pond, where the New England asters are really starting to blow. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 12, 2020, at 12:17 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > >  Last night was a big migration night. (Check out > https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migr

Re: [cayugabirds-l] The Bald Eagle: A Conservation Success Story

Ooh! I wish that was my front porch! I’d happily tolerate the mess during the short nestling period (2 weeks), in exchange for the charming natural history lesson. Maybe put up a “Please Excuse Our Mess” sign for my human neighbors, like a business undergoing refurb. -Geo > On Jun 15, 2020,

[cayugabirds-l] Bear raids

Oh oh! There’s a bear at my feeders again. Not sure it’s the same one that came by on May 24th, as that one stood tall and just leaned on the feeder pole, bending it down to the ground, whereas this bear looks shorter, and danced with the pole for quite a while, leaving it standing in the end.

[cayugabirds-l] Olive-sided Flycatcher

Spotted an Olive-sided Flycatcher at 7:12 this morning in the swamp about 800’ north of the Station Rd RR crossing, West Danby. Singing, snag-sitting. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.N

[cayugabirds-l] Bear!

4:45 AM. A bear just raided my bird feeders. (Tupper Rd, West Danby) They love those black oil sunflower seeds! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubsc

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Big brown bats .. Union Springs

Mine (West Danby) came out moments ago, at 8:52 pm. Only one so far... -Geo > On May 22, 2020, at 10:11 PM, John and Fritzie Blizzard > wrote: > > At 7:30 this evening I saw a big brown bat flying around the spruce tree in > front of the house. I probably missed seeing the 2nd one because I

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler

AUTHOR of: > Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing > Birds and Their Behavior > > https://rockynook.com/shop/photography/mastering-bird-photography/?REF=101/ > > From: Geo Kloppel [geoklop...@gmail

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler

It looks like there was an egg mass right on the box, and they’ve all just hatched. Be climbing the trees soon. -Geo > On May 17, 2020, at 6:59 PM, Marie P. Read wrote: > > Hi Diana and Cayugabirders, > > Here is what birdsoftheworld.org (formerly Birds of North America online) > says about

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Peewee

I was pleased to hear a Wood Peewee singing about 1,000’ south of Station Road along the State Forest / L-P Preserve boundary. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/C

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler -Danby

Almost my first bird this morning was a Mourning Warbler singing in the familiar breeding territory on the west side of Bald Hill Road, opposite the yellow gate, in the Danby State Forest. Across the road one or two Pine Warblers sang frequently (OK, I’m paying more attention to them!) -Geo

[cayugabirds-l] Woodcock chicks

This morning in an alder swamp at the edge of Michigan Hollow Marsh I nearly stepped on a brood of Woodcock chicks. Mom flew up just in front of me, attempting distraction, but I looked down at my feet instead, and there they were. Photo on my eBird checklist, if you’re in need of a dose of cute

[cayugabirds-l] Cooper’s courting

At 8 this morning a pair of Cooper’s Hawks came through my yard at canopy level, doing an elegant side-by-side courtship flight that I’d never seen before, with gracefully coordinated swoops and turns. The way they kept together instantly made me think of ice dancers! -Geo >> On May 4, 2020,

[cayugabirds-l] Least Bittern

Michigan Hollow Marsh (Danby). Least Bittern gave just one good chuckle, well heard. Virginia Rails grunting, Pied-billed Grebe singing, Northern Harrier female keeping watch from her favorite spot. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.N

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Mergansers

Previous BBAs confirmed breeding at several locations along the south shore of Long Island, so in the simple latitudinal sense, Cayuga Lake is not too far south. But... -Geo > On Apr 29, 2020, at 3:21 PM, Tom wrote: > > Will Red-breasted Mergansers breed/nest as far south as Cayuga Lake? I

[cayugabirds-l] Nice day to start a nest

My lovage is now about five inches tall, soon to be five feet I trust. I’m dreaming about pesto di levistico, and also want to try some recipes from the ancient cookbook of Apicius (De Re Coquinaria). Got my Piper longum ready! So it was a little disconcerting to see nothing in the garden this m

[cayugabirds-l] 20+ Ruby-crowns

I came across a loose flock of twenty some Ruby-crowned Kinglets foraging (and singing) along Beech Hill Brook in the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve early this morning. Can’t swear there weren’t any Golden-crowns among them, but I didn’t spot any, or hear any either. A couple of Brown Creepers were pa

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby

I took Sandy (my dog) for a (leashed) walk at the L-P Preserve today, incidentally encountering: A Northern Mockingbird, perched in shrubs across the road from the main parking lot. It was eating rosehips and occasionally darting down to the ground for insects. A Horned Lark. Although there ar

[cayugabirds-l] A few West Danby birds

At 7:00 am in my yard, I noticed a pair “P” of Eastern Phoebes foraging together in the vicinity of the eaves under which they and their predecessors have nested for decades. In the late morning I watched a pair of Great Blue Herons begin construction of a ninth nest out in the heronry by the

[cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: MOS:  COVID 19 Virus Alert

> On Apr 1, 2020, at 8:09 AM, k...@empireaccess.net wrote: > That rookery on guard experience must have been something to see. Yes, and it made me wonder if this heronry will soon meet the fate of the one that used to occupy a wooded island in the North Spencer Marsh, until it was appropriated

[cayugabirds-l] Heron alert

There was an interesting tableau at the West Danby heronry when I drove up late this morning: It appeared to be an ‘all hands on deck’ alert. Nobody was off foraging. Every nest had multiple guardians. In the highest nest one Great Blue Heron was settled very low, as if incubating an egg (early

[cayugabirds-l] Backyard Snipe

Today’s snowstorm put down a visitor that wouldn’t ordinarily bother descending to my little pond in the woods: a Wilson’s Snipe, busily feeding in the spillway. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRUL

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Wildlife drive?

The MNWR website says the Wildlife Drive will open on April 1st, weather permitting. The Visitor Center will remain closed. https://www.fws.gov/refuge/montezuma/ -Geo > On Mar 21, 2020, at 8:27 AM, Nancy Cusumano wrote: > >  > Does anyone know if the wildlife drive is open yet for the seaso

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ithaca airport Meadowlarks / with a warning

Birders can find this fine car placard among the New York State Breeding Bird Atlas III materials. During the 2000 Atlas I made up something like this for my own car while surveying far from home, and I can testify that it’s an effective ice-breaker. Just print it, slip it in a clear plastic sl

Re: [cayugabirds-l] BBA: how do Amish birders participate?

I know that hospitals in Amish areas often have someone whose title is Liaison to the Amish Community, and I’d guess the NY BBA could assign someone similarly. Anyone know how they managed it in the Ohio BBA? -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME ht

Re: [cayugabirds-l] BBA: how do Amish birders participate?

; Society has a club account and I enter eBird/BBA data for anyone who doesn't > use eBird. > Dave Spier > Clifton Springs, NY > > > > >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 9:06 AM Geo Kloppel wrote: >> Is any information available yet about how birders who aren’t going t

[cayugabirds-l] BBA: how do Amish birders participate?

Is any information available yet about how birders who aren’t going to use eBird (such as the Amish) can participate in the Atlas 2020 field effort? -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.N

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby Tundras and Snows

While shoveling snow for a few minutes around 8:00 this morning I saw a guesstimated 5,000 Snow Geese pass overhead, riding a 10mph tailwind to exit the Cayuga basin. Also one flock of 27 Tundra Swans. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby Tundra Swans

My back yard Tundra Swan Count for today is now up to 43. I had 49 earlier, but then deducted so that were flying back north! > While out in my yard just now preparing to make a wreath, I heard Tundra > Swans, and looked up to see eight of them flying south at just a few hundred > feet about t

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby Tundra Swans

While out in my yard just now preparing to make a wreath, I heard Tundra Swans, and looked up to see eight of them flying south at just a few hundred feet about the highest summits surrounding the upper Cayuga Inlet Valley -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayu

[cayugabirds-l] Newfield Loon Watch

This morning I counted 212 migrating Loons from Benjamin Hill in Newfield between 6:56 and 9:11 AM. I say _from_ Benjamin Hill because none actually went overhead there; these Loons were all far to the east, and obviously following the Cayuga through-valley. I could’t have counted them without m

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Niger seed

, and the Goldfinches were very happy with it. I kept putting it out and they ate their way through the entire jug. So, eights months on my back shelf in an airtight jug didn’t render it unacceptable to the birds. -Geo > On Oct 1, 2019, at 9:48 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > My experienc

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Niger seed

My experience is that niger can get moldy rather quickly in an outdoor feeder exposed to high humidity, fog, rain or snow. Niger seeds pack very close, so there’s not much air circulation through the pile, and the voids between neighboring seeds are tiny, so capillarity is enhanced. I find it be

[cayugabirds-l] Recrudescent Cooper’s Hawk

Dawn at my place on Tupper Road lately features a very talkative Cooper’s Hawk, who flies around the spruce plantation giving excited “cak” calls as if courting. Been doing it for a week! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.Northeast

[cayugabirds-l] Cape May Warblers

Nice little group (5?) of Cape May Warblers feeding in the sun-lit tops of my Tupper Road spruces early this morning. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabirds

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler

Oops, finger apparently slid right off the map! Those coordinates should have read 42.32425°N 76.49878°W -Geo > On May 17, 2019, at 10:01 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > This morning a Mourning Warbler was singing in the usual location on the west > side of Bald Hill Road, Danby (acr

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler

This morning a Mourning Warbler was singing in the usual location on the west side of Bald Hill Road, Danby (across from the yellow gate) 42.36387°N 76.50339°W For those who are still thinking about when Northern Waterthrushes sing, I heard at least two different singers around 8:00 this morning

[cayugabirds-l] American Bittern -Danby

>From the RR causeway I heard an American Bittern thunder-pumping in the marsh >along Cayuga Inlet at 8:40 this morning just south of Walding Lane, West Danby. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirdi

[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warblers

Right now I have two Worm-eating Warblers exchanging songs near West Danby’s north pinnacle (Danby State Forest / L-P Preserve). Very nice looks at one of them from about 20’ distance. This is the first day it has been dry and windless enough that I thought I could find them. A bit cold up her

[cayugabirds-l] Sora

A SORA continues in Michigan Hollow Marsh (Town Of Danby, not Spencer), as of 7:52 this evening, when I heard it give several whinny calls. Not sure if it would have been audible from the road, as it was calling from the far (west) side of the marsh. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://

[cayugabirds-l] Danby Rails

Have a Sora whinnying in the Michigan Hollow Marsh (Danby) at 9:00 this morning. Virginia Rail at Cayuga Headwaters Marsh (Hillview Road, Danby) about 8:45. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Bear

Oh my! A bear just got my black oil sunflower feeder. Bent the pole right over to the ground. Ran off downhill when I put the flashlight on it. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, W. Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow

The marsh in Michigan Hollow (Town Of Danby, not Spencer) was covered in a thin skin of ice this morning, before the sun hit it. An American Bittern was pumping loudly. I also heard a single song from a Pied-billed Grebe, and watched a male Harrier surveying his territory. Lots of Wood Ducks, M

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher, Virginia Rails

Two grunting Virginia Rails and a singing Brown Thrasher at the Cayuga Headwaters Marsh This morning (Hillview Road, Danby). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayu

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows a nesting

Speaking of Crows, I was out in my driveway at 10:30 last night, when a distant bunch of Crows began doing something that sounded like mobbing. I couldn’t remember ever hearing them make such a ruckus at night. I thought of Great Horned Owls, and tree climbers like raccoons or fishers. The Crows

[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows and more

Three Fox Sparrows under my feeders now. Fifty Goldfinches, twenty Purple Finches, a couple Grackles and, mirabile dictu, one Redpoll! -Geo Tupper Road, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ht

[cayugabirds-l] More Fox Sparrows

Two more Fox Sparrows under my feeders this morning -Geo Tupper Road, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES:

[cayugabirds-l] Still night, with Saw-whets

It’s quite windless out on Tupper Road this evening. Moments ago I whistled-up a couple of Saw-whet Owls. I stood in the mouth of my driveway, directing my toots across the road, and in response I got one rapid series of toots after another from the spruce plantation. As the tooting continued ov

[cayugabirds-l] Around my yard

I’ve had about a dozen plain brown Purple Finches at my feeders for weeks. At last some are showing raspberry patches. Goldfinches, Juncos, a White-throated Sparrow, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Mourning Doves, Blue Jays, Cardinals, Tufted Titmice, Chickadees, both Nuthatch species, one or two Carol

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows at my feeders

We offer food year round to a small group of 3-5 Crows in our yard. We’ve actually been missing them recently. The lack of snow following hunting season made for easy access to discarded deer carcasses and parts (common in our neighborhood), as we several times observed. Even though we have a fo

[cayugabirds-l] Tundra Swans

. -Geo Kloppel -- 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

[cayugabirds-l] Evening Grosbeak

While shoveling out my car this morning in West Danby (13”), I heard an Evening Grosbeak calling. Looked up, and there she was in a tree. I was so happy to see her that I retreated into the house, hoping she’d check out the feeders, and that’s what she did, but not for long... -Geo Sent from m

[cayugabirds-l] Swainson’s galore

number of Swainson’s Thrushes, who have dropped out of the dawning sky for a day of rest and feeding, before taking wing again southward at dusk. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] what is this bird?

Yes, Blue Jay. Turning my screen’s brightness way up, I can even see the black necklace. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.h

Re: [cayugabirds-l] North Spenser Marsh

The North Spencer Marsh (Tioga County, Town of Spencer) is private, but much of it can be viewed from Michigan Hollow Road - a circumstance that sometimes leads to confusion with the Michigan Hollow Marsh (Tompkins County, Town of Danby), five miles distant. It can also be confused with the “Hea

[cayugabirds-l] Cold morning

At my house it was 46 degrees at 6:00 this morning. Our hummingbird feeders were loaded, but it was a different story for wild nectar sources out in the forest, where I came across an outraged Sapsucker, vigorously defending his wells against a trespassing hummer. He couldn’t match the hummer’s

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Missing birds

Hi Cathy, Hmmm... I see a lot of barn swallows around number 400 Gunderman right now, so it seems that what you’re experiencing is not a neighborhood-wide phenomenon. Also see some House Sparrows up here, and the ubiquitous Starlings. Competitors for nest boxes. -Geo > On Jun 19, 2018, at 3:1

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Where are the birds?

There are plenty of birds around my place, and West Danby generally. In this area I have all the expected breeding birds, and even some fun additions, like Marsh Wrens, Pied-billed Grebes and Northern Harriers. If you’d asked me a couple days ago about what’s missing, I might have said Cerulean

Re: [cayugabirds-l] West Danby marsh birds

our scrambling > on the steep slope where they usually are. Does anybody know of a territory > that is active this summer? > > Ken > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 11, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: >> >> In the cattail marsh just south of Walding

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby marsh birds

In the cattail marsh just south of Walding Lane, West Danby, I’ve got more Marsh Wrens, a nice pair of very vocal Virginia Rails out in plain sight, and a male Northern Harrier (used to breed along here, probably still do). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayuga

[cayugabirds-l] Danby Marsh Wrens, Marsh Hawks, Pied-billed Grebes, Acadian Flycatcher

I paddled around Danby’s Michigan Hollow Marsh (not North Spencer Marsh) this morning from about 5:00 until 8:00. Enjoyed multiple Marsh Wrens, including a pair in a spot that has been occupied for several weeks now. Then I found an obviously paired Pied-billed Grebe twosome, who quietly retreat

[cayugabirds-l] More Acadian Flycatchers

I took a 5:00 pm walk into the Cayuta Outlet Gorge along the FLT. Within half an hour I’d found three different singing male Acadian Flycatchers. The one farthest down the gorge was about at 42.33772°N 76.72720°W -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOM

[cayugabirds-l] Least Bittern, Marsh Wrens

An early morning paddle in Michigan Hollow Marsh (not North Spencer Marsh) produced a couple of singing Marsh Wrens and a Least Bittern (flushed at very close range!) -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsR

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

A Black-billed Cuckoo was singing in my yard an hour ago. I spotted the bird in trees, and while I was watching it sing I noticed in the background the persistent “turree” calls of a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, interspersed with occasional “killic” songs. Forgetting all about the Cuckoo, I follo

[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

...and this evening, a Black-billed Cuckoo in my yard. -Geo Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warblers

Mourning Warblers, Danby State Forest, both sides of Bald Hill Road 1/4 mile south of Comfort. Look for the yellow gate on the east with the red STOP sign in the middle. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.Northeast

[cayugabirds-l] Acadian Flycatcher

8:50 AM; one singing Acadian Flycatcher, Michigan Hollow Creek about 1/4 mile above the lower crossing of Abbott’s Loop (not the upper one, known as Diane’s Crossing). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugab

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo

A Yellow-billed Cuckoo.is back in my yard today, after spending the past few months in a far-away region: perhaps Bolivia, Paraguay, or Argentina... -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.N

[cayugabirds-l] Sora, Virginia Rails

Heard a Virginia Rail at the Hillview Road marsh beside the old county landfill. Now I have another grunting in Danby’s Michigan Hollow Marsh (not to be confused with the North Spencer Marsh at the south end of Michigan Hollow Road in Tioga County). And there’s still a Sora here, giving kerwees

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Common Nighthawk in Collegetown?

Hi Tom, Very likely. The sound of Nighthawks over collegetown (and downtown Ithaca) is a fond memory of summer from the sixties and seventies, when they still bred here. Migrants seem to linger here for a few days, just long enough to make me wonder if they might take it up again some year.

[cayugabirds-l] Cape May Warbler

Happy to see a Cape May Warbler in my yard this morning, this one offering extended looks as it foraged quietly in a still leafless ash tree, rather than the typical business of disappearing and reappearing constantly as they work around the upper parts of tall spruces. -Geo Tupper Road West D

[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow Rails

Day 14 for Soras at Michigan Hollow Marsh! Also have a distant Virginia Rail. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES

[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warblers

Worm-eating Watblers are back on their breeding territory (Danby State Forest / L-P BioD Preserve) this morning. I had 3 counter-singing near the northernmost of Thatcher’s triple Pinnacles at about 9:30 AM. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME h

[cayugabirds-l] Swainson’s Thrush

Just had a very nice close-up with a Swainson’s Thrush at Lick Brook, less than 100’ up the Thayer Trail from the Townline Road bridge. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirdi

[cayugabirds-l] Hooded Warbler

Around my yard this morning Hooded Warbler and Magnolia Warbler were singing in their accustomed breeding spots. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubsc

[cayugabirds-l] Sora again

I’ve got a Sora down here in the Michigan Hollow Marsh again this evening. This time it’s giving whinny calls as well as “kerwee” calls. And it sounds like there is a second bird across the water. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.

[cayugabirds-l] Crow behavior - hunting toads

on the grass. So this tradition of toad-killing at my pond has not ceased, it has only evolved a new wrinkle: now the Crows retire with the kill to some less-frequented location! -Geo Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Crows preying on toads

American Toads began returning to my pond two nights ago for their annual breeding event. Their night singing is really delightful (if you care for that sort of thing), but they do run the risk of daytime predation as they cross the grassy dike. The predators are American Crows. The toads were u

[cayugabirds-l] Blue-winged Warbler, Indigo Bunting, etc

Around my place this morning, new arrivals include Gray Catbird, Blue-winged Warbler, Indigo Bunting, American Redstart, Magnolia Warbler, Ovenbird, Common Yellowthroat, plus more numerous Blue-headed Vireos, Wood Thrushes, etcetera -Geo West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.Northe

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Thrush

I also had Wood Thrush this morning, plus Chestnut-sided Warbler and Black-throated Blue Warbler. -Geo West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeC

[cayugabirds-l] Danby Sora

Right now I have a Sora calling from across the deep water mid-section of Michigan Hollow Marsh in Danby (not to be confused with the North Spencer Marsh near the south end of Michigan Hollow -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.Northeas

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged hawk

I heard and saw a Broad-winged Hawk this morning in apparent possession of the traditional Maple Ave territory. Quite a few other Broad-wings were passing over West Danby, right through the midday. Then at about 2:30 there was some kind of aggressive interaction at treetop level involving three

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows in Tompkins County (long)

I’ve still got numerous Fox Sparrows. Between my yard, the old orchard, and the five minute walk down to the edge of the L-P Preserve there seem to be about a dozen, and I know that means there are more nearby in other directions. I’m watching some foraging under a band of spruces at this moment

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Very strange spring!

Speaking of unusual feeding, I saw something new just now: the Wood Ducks who visit my pond each day, typically to dabble in the shallows or wade in the spillway, climbed up the bank and onto a large ant hill (about eight feet wide by ten feet long), where they seem to have begun poking around i

[cayugabirds-l] Yard birds

West Danby enjoyed a bright sunrise. There was hardly a cloud in the sky for a short period this morning. I had Fox Sparrows singing from all directions, a couple of Hermit Thrushes drinking or bathing or foraging at the pond outlet, Wood Ducks on the pond, a Brown Thrasher rummaging under the s

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Juncos

I ran into the surfeit of juncos on Sunday, while walking my dog Sandy from Larue Road to Curtis Road along Fisher Settlement Road, which parallels Miller Creek in the Danby State Forest. If there were any Pine Warblers along there (as seemed likely enough), they were swamped by all the Juncos:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cedar Waxwings in silver maple

“Buds” are usually included in lists of foods that waxwings will find to eat in late winter and spring, but check out this article about what the waxwings (mostly Bohemians) were actually eating in a silver maple in Toronto on April 4th - 5th 2008. https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/165-1

[cayugabirds-l] Virginia Rail

About an hour ago I found a Virginia Rail in the cattails at the NW corner of Jennings Pond, a location where they bred last year. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hermit Thrush/Fox Sparrow

Hi Larry and all, Fox Sparrows are just peaking now out here in the hills around West Danby. This morning they seems to be everywhere, and easy to spot because the world is white again (groan). I was just watching a couple of Hermit Thrushes eating sumac berries. -Geo > On Apr 17, 2018, at 1

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Some kind of thrush?

The bill looks foreshortened because of this pose, but note that it’s all dark, down-curved and quite pointy. The breast and flanks have streaks rather than spots; the eye is yellow. The whole color scheme is right for Brown Thrasher, even down to the white wing bars, which you won’t see on any

[cayugabirds-l] Louisiana Waterthrush

More Fox Sparrows around my place this morning, and my first Louisiana Waterthrush. -Geo Tupper Rd West Danby > On Apr 14, 2018, at 8:45 AM, W. Larry Hymes wrote: > > There are now FOUR Fox Sparrows vigorously scratching in the leaves out back. > A new first --- one is the most we have ever

Re:[cayugabirds-l] More Fox Sparrows

I took a walk down by the waterfalls on Beech Hill Brook. No P. motacilla yet, but I did find a Towhee and more singing Fox Sparrows -Geo > On Apr 13, 2018, at 9:00 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > Have a few Fox Sparrows singing around my place this morning, Sapsuckers in > all direc

[cayugabirds-l] More Fox Sparrows

Have a few Fox Sparrows singing around my place this morning, Sapsuckers in all directions, quite a few Golden-crowned Kinglets, Purple Finches, etc. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabir

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