[cayugabirds-l] Peregrine at Steamboat Landing

Just had an adult Peregrine flying north over the Steamboat Landing / Ithaca Farmers Market. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Northern Saw-whet Owl

Lately I’ve been whistling for Saw-whets when I give my dog Sandy her evening walk. Tonight there’s one tooting back at me, right outside my door, and up and down the driveway. Sounds pretty excited! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Ducks

This morning at 6:15 a couple of Wood Ducks short-hopped over the ridge behind the West Danby Fire Station to visit my pond. They were about to hit the water, but aborted at the last moment when they spotted me. Turkeys are gobbling. We could see a foot of snow in the next 48 hours. -Geo

[cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese

West Danby - lots of Snow Geese have been re-entering the basin this morning on a tail wind out of the south. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Raven with nest material

On Feb 12, 2018, at 12:42 PM, John Confer wrote: > > Alright, why is it called Speed Hill and why is the other called Buffalo?) > Hi John and all other interested Cayugabirders. The answer to those questions can be found here:

[cayugabirds-l] Ravens

A Raven pair is pretty evident lately around the traditional nesting area in the hemlocks on the steep northern slope of 1,920’ “Sorry Hunter Hill” (not so named on any maps), West Danby. Right now they’re talking: one giving a “krawk krawk krawk” and the other deep and resonant “gronk” calls

[cayugabirds-l] Re: Crows and Cooper’s Hawk

to my living room. The Crows soon returned, and so have all the other feeder birds. -Geo > On Jan 30, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Three Crows, regulars at my feeding station, are resting quietly on their > usual perches in an ash tree. They’r

[cayugabirds-l] Crows and Cooper’s Hawk

Three Crows, regulars at my feeding station, are resting quietly on their usual perches in an ash tree. They’re about 30 feet up, and the scene looks just like any other winter day, except that an adult Cooper’s Hawk is perched about ten feet below them. Been there for 15 minutes! The Crows

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby PIne Siskin, Purple Finch

Only one PIne Siskin and one Purple Finch here so far, but I’m happy to say “me too!” from Tupper Road -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ladies

Hi Bard, I tried to determine which species mine were. They had strings of 4 - 5 equal-sized submarginal black spots with blue centers both topside and underside of the hindwings, so I called them painted ladies (Vanessa cardui) rather than American ladies (Vanessa virginiensis). I was

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Wilson's Phalarope, Montezuma Visitor Center

We have lots of Painted Ladies in West Danby right now, nectaring on New England asters Over the past 3 - 4 weeks we've also watched a number of 4th generation wild Monarch caterpillars grow through several molts and pupate. Some chrysalises have now opened and the adults have flown off. A

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Terns

Like at Myers, Caspian Terns are hanging out on the mud bars and driftwood at the mouth of Owasco Inlet, as Patricia and I found while kayaking in the swamps yesterday evening. Saw an adult Smooth Green Snake in our yard this afternoon. They've been breeding here for some years, but we don't

[cayugabirds-l] Disturbing the peace

t seems now, but my pants legs and socks are _plastered_ with the sticky seeds of agrimony, avens, cleavers and other hitchhikers! -Geo Geo Kloppel, Tupper Road, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBir

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow Marsh

A few days ago I wrote: > Paddling in Michigan Hollow right now. In case anyone is puzzled, this is _not_ the North Spencer Marsh down in Tioga County, it's the big sedge marsh at the _north_ end of Michigan Hollow, centered about 2.5 miles south of the Danby Town Hall. In its present form

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hungry youngsters! and song question

Hi Melanie, I'm drawing a blank, unless of course it _was_ a Towhee. They have a number of song types, and I suppose juvenile males will soon be practicing the local repertoire, if they haven't already started... Such great butterfly weather! In the last few days my old fashioned purple

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hungry youngsters!

, > > > Kevin > > > > Best, > > > Kevin > > From: bounce-121694030-3493...@list.cornell.edu > <bounce-121694030-3493...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Geo Kloppel > <geoklop...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017

[cayugabirds-l] Hungry youngsters!

Lots of hungry young birds around, but I especially feel for this fledgling Broad-winged Hawk, whose wails are not only piteous (all Broad-wings sound that way to me) but also right in my ears, because the bird favors the trees that shade my workshop. Most years the Broad-wing fledglings take

[cayugabirds-l] Great Crested Flycatcher family

Sounds like I've got a family group of Great Crested Flycatchers down in the orchard. They used to nest in the dead apple tree hollows. Maybe I just missed their nest this year. Anyway, great to have their cheery voices! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow Marsh

..and here are two young Harriers! -Geo > On Jul 31, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Turns out it's navigable all the way north to the edge of the pine swamps, > about one mile above the beaver dam. I've found a few Wood Ducks and > Mallar

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow Marsh

' kayak around up here will be tight... -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Paddling in Michigan Hollow right now. There's at least half a mile of > navigable channel up the middle, maybe more. And there's a nice

[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow Marsh

Paddling in Michigan Hollow right now. There's at least half a mile of navigable channel up the middle, maybe more. And there's a nice colony of Marsh Wrens out here! -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Broad-wings out

... and one of them got mobbed by Blue Jays at about 4:30 this afternoon! The episode was brief, and ended abruptly with the arrival of another Broad-wing. The second hawk had a much more robust voice. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-wings out

Have 3 Broad-winged Hawks soaring low (c. 100') over the traditional nesting territory (Maple Ave, West Danby) right now. Vocalizing constantly. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] local birds

Forgot to mention that one of my nest boxes fledged a brood of Chickadees in June, and then a couple of weeks ago I spotted a pair of Chickadees refurbishing it. Now it contains a full clutch of eggs. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] local birds

At least one Broad-winged Hawk fledgling has been around my yard for several days, calling to be fed. Species that breed down in the valley below me have begun making (post-breeding) appearances up here: Kingfishers, Great Crested Flycatchers, Yellow-throated Vireo. I've noticed Wood Peewees

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hummingbird!!!

We have a pair of Ruby-throats in residence this summer, same as always. Haven't seen any youngsters yet, but we've got three hummzingers loaded in anticipation! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ominous

I've got a pair coming regularly to my feeders... -Geo, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Acadian Flycatcher

On a quick drive through Michigan Hollow this cool morning I found one Acadian Flycatcher, singing in one of the usual locations, familiar since Karl David's day. Approximately: 42.30059°N 76.48253°W -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] best bet for bird bonanza?

I'd give the prize to Hermit Thrush, but really, Melanie, your self-description suggests that instead of the morning you should arrange to be out in suitable habitat in the _evening_, from an hour before sunset until an hour after, and you will likely be treated to all three of our locally

[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warblers and other Danby breeders

Right now at the north pinnacle (traditional nesting area) I have at least two singing Worm-eating Warblers, 100 yards apart, so I presume the whole "colony" has returned. Last time I checked was on Friday. There were none. I had Yellow-throated Vireos up here that morning (used to surprise me,

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cold weather

It looks like temperatures are moderating now, but during these last cold days some upland forest habitats around West Danby have actually seemed pretty empty. I didn't even bother trying for Worm-eating Warblers until yesterday, the signs just weren't there. And when I did go it was so cold up

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-necked Grebes on Dryden Lake

I was visiting a friend's house just north of Dean's Cove about 2:30 this misty afternoon, enjoying the hundreds of swallows circling just inches above the water. The cove stream spilled out a plume of silt-laden rainwater that stretched north toward us along the shore. Out beyond it, Loons

[cayugabirds-l] Virginia Rail

West Danby this evening: I found a Virginia Rail as usual in the little marsh on Hillview Road beside the old county landfill. Others are likely to be present nearby, like in the Cayuga Inlet headwater marsh just west of the landfill cap, along abandoned Center Schoolhouse Road. -Geo --

[cayugabirds-l] Magnolia too

...and here's a Magnolia Warbler, also in its traditional nesting area. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Hooded Warbler

This morning a Hooded Warbler is back, singing in a traditional nesting area a couple hundred feet from my house (Tupper Road, West Danby) -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher, and an unexpected reprieve

I'd been thinking there might be no Brown Thrashers nesting at my place this year, but just this morning one took up the usual singing perches, and made himself very noticeable. The toad frenzy ended days ago, and the revelers have all departed from the pond, leaving behind lots of eggs, and

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Thrushes, Northern Parula

Wood Thrushes are singing from several corners of my "yard" in the woods west of the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve this evening. In the morning I had my first-of-spring Northern Parula just inside the Preserve. Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Blue-winged Warbler

A singing Blue-winged Warbler was the only new arrival I detected in my yard this morning. That put an end to my thought of brush-hogging an area within his territory this spring... -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Mystery bird revealed!

Oh yeah, I've heard Tufted Titmouse do that! In fact, there's a recording of just such a song in the Audubon Birds app (Tufted Titmouse, Track #3), and it's pitched right on the open E string of the violin. Any violinist would notice the resemblance. -Geo > On Apr 29, 2017, at 9:04 AM, Betsy

Re:[cayugabirds-l] New arrivals

iPhone > On Apr 28, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Newly arrived in my West Danby yard this morning were Gray Catbird, > Chestnut-sided Warbler, > Nashville Warbler and Ovenbird. > > I usually wind up flushing the early morning ducks off

[cayugabirds-l] New arrivals

Newly arrived in my West Danby yard this morning were Gray Catbird, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Nashville Warbler and Ovenbird. I usually wind up flushing the early morning ducks off my little pond before I can get close, but this morning I got lucky with a pair of Wood Ducks, and achieved a

[cayugabirds-l] Birds, bats, toads and snakes

I had a Yellow-rump and a Black and White Warbler along the L-P Preserve's Beech Hill Brook this morning, and a Rose-breasted Grosbeak at my sunflower feeder. Two days ago at dusk a Great Horned Owl perched on a Spruce spire at the bottom of my yard. Four days ago we watched a Chickadee and a

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-wings

Out in the yard pretending to garden, I looked up in response to the call of a Broad-winged Hawk, and saw what I always do at about this time in April. A nice Broad-wing, fairly low, making what I interpret as a territorial flight. After sailing about and calling for several minutes he(?)

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prairie Warbler???

Hi Karen, Field Sparrow can give that impression, because its song too is delivered in accelerando, sometimes even with a slight rise in pitch. If you have the Audubon Birds app, you can compare Track #3 for both species to see what I mean. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 20, 2017, at

[cayugabirds-l] Blue-headed Vireo

We had sun for the Easter egg hunt at Taughannock Falls this morning, but at 3:30, darkling sprinkles have arrived in West Danby, and that has set the birds outside my door to singing. Among the rest I can hear my first-of-spring Blue-headed Vireo. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Willow Creek TV shed?

I spotted two Turkey Vultures this afternoon entering a low open shed in trees east of Willow Creek Road, perhaps 1,000' north of the Black Diamond Trail crossing. About here: 42.52957°N 76.59377°W -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Migrants around home

I went out at 5:45 for the pre-dawn chorus. The temperature was 32 degrees F. From my place on Tupper Road I walked a few hundred yards over to Beech Hill Brook in the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, hoping for some Hermit Thrushes. On my way I passed several Eastern Towhees that were exchanging

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

That's right: Miller Creek joins Michigan Creek 1/2 mile south of the Spencer Lake dam. The combined waters are afterwards named Catatonk Creek on USGS maps. It flows south and east, gathering other waters, until it joins with Owego Creek and empties into the Susquehanna. -Geo > On Apr 2,

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Phoebe!

First Phoebe for my yard today too. And arriving yesterday, six Purple Finches: 3 roseating (purplescing?) males and 3 brown streaky basic types. These are the first Purple Finches to visit our feeders in months. They're doing some singing! Also have Wood Ducks visiting our pond. -Geo --

[cayugabirds-l] Drumming

ute little predator out on the prowl! -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/cay

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Migration Video and question

...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > > Thanks Geo. > > How about migrants wintering deeper into So. America? > > Pete > > >> On 3/20/2017 9:52 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: >> Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas, and northernmost parts of Brazil and >> Ecuador actually li

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Migration Video and question

the very same cycle that is so pronounced in the higher latitudes where these warblers breed each year, so I doubt that they lose track of it, even if they winter at or south of the equator, as some do. -Geo Kloppel > On Mar 20, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Peter <psara...@rochester.rr.com&

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

hat's available without much effort. >> >> Wesley >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu >> [mailto:bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel >> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

requests? Do management planners routinely make such requests? I ask this because in my area (Danby/Newfield) I've seen several recent DEC actions that look like they could easily have been modified if location information had been available. -Geo Kloppel > On Mar 15, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kennet

[cayugabirds-l] Deep snow

I'm feeling sorry for Fox Sparrows. Early this morning they were still working the ground under sheltering spruces, rummaging among the snow-dusted leaves, but all that is buried now. Grackles and Red-wings occupied the sunflower feeder, dispossessing some of the smaller birds. A Raven

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk takes Red-bellied Woodpecker

PM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Feeders are deserted now! I wonder how long this will last? -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.North

[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk takes Red-bellied Woodpecker

Looking out the window just now in response to scream calls out in the yard, I was treated to the stirring sight of a Cooper's Hawk on the ground, wings and tail spread to make a sort of cage, and with a bird in its talons. The screaming lasted less than a minute, and then the immature Coop was

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Hi Laura, It's certainly possible. The Ithaca Christmas Bird Count (held on Jan 1st every year) usually turns up one or two Sapsuckers, sometimes three or four, once even five. -Geo > is it possible that any stuck around? -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Crow roost

Thousands and thousands of Crows are streaming south over the Fall Creek neighborhood, heading for a roost on South Hill I guess. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Great-horned Owl chorus

thesis): https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v050n04/p0274-p0285.pdf -Geo Kloppel > On Dec 11, 2016, at 3:01 AM, Melanie Uhlir <mela...@mwmu.com> wrote: > > I was very lucky last evening to catch a Great Horned Owl call from a > westerly direction while about

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fox sparrows

I've got Fox Sparrows around my place too, since the day before yesterday. Not sure how many, but at least two, as one actually sang from the bushes while I had another in binocular view. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, West Danby > > There are 3 Fox Sparrows in our yard on Hunt Hill Rd

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ID help? Whistling at night

Night before last, I heard several ascending whistle calls, right outside my door. The local Barred Owls responded with typical hooting, so I think the whistles were (still begging?) calls from their immature youngsters. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Marty Schlabach

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prairie Warbler question

So quickly time flies, and spring turns to summer. More and more warblers are feeding nestlings and even fledglings now. Some birds have already begun their second broods. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Betsy Darlington > wrote: > > Have

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warblers

I needed to find Mourning Warblers this week for the Danby Breeding Bird Survey, so at 5:30 this morning I went down to the West Danby Fire Station, walked up-slope to the town water tank, then south along the Pennsylvania & Sodus Bay RR grade into the Lindsay Parsons Preserve to visit a

[cayugabirds-l] Nice morning for ducklings

I took an early morning walk at the central Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, looking for ducklings. There were none to be seen in the big beaver pond beside the West Danby Fire Station (the Great Blue Heron nestlings are growing fast; an adult Eagle was standing on a log out on the island; Grackles

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby Nighthawks

Just had NIGHTHAWK pass over my yard. It was quite high, and I might have missed seeing it if it had been silent, but the "peent" gave it away. And now here's another one, also vocalizing! And down in the woods, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo is singing. Heard it yesterday too, and thought of Ken

[cayugabirds-l] Acadian Flycatchers

Riding my bike through Michigan Hollow this morning, I encountered singing Acadian Flycatchers in two locations: 42.30680°N 76.48124°W 42.31141°N 76.48191°W -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Thunder-pumper continues

Michigan Hollow marsh rang regularly with American Bittern calls this morning while I was there (5:45 - 6:15). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Alder Flycatchers, etc

Several Alder Flycatchers were newly evident in Michigan Hollow today. Least Flycatchers have been singing for a few days in traditional breeding spots there. Likewise Canada Warblers and a Winter Wren. A Northern Waterthrush was still singing from the same swamp woods near the beagle club as

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warblers

I can hear a Mourning Warbler singing just down from my house. Also had one near Diane's Crossing two days ago. And Canada Warblers in their regular breeding area in lower Michigan Hollow. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Yard birds

This morning I've got multiple CAPE MAY and BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS (both sexes) in my spruces on Tupper Road (West Danby). Hard to count, but maybe 10-12 individuals between them. Tennessee Warblers continue too. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Tupper Road birds

Cold and windy up here, but I've still got little groups of migrants moving about: several more Tennessee Warblers, another Northern Parula (a singing male this time), a Swainson's Thrush, Black-throated Greens and Blackburnians that don't seem to be the local breeders, Yellow Warbler, plus

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Swainson's Thrush

Hi John, I'm located at about 1350-1400', but the property goes up to a 1920' summit. It's all hillside, some of it glacially oversteepened, of NE aspect, overlooking the upper Cayuga Inlet Valley. It's cut by hemlock ravines running down to the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve and the West Danby

[cayugabirds-l] Swainson's Thrush

Not many new arrivals this morning around my place, but a (silent) Least Flycatcher was feeding warbler-like among the apple blossoms, and right now I have a (singing!) Swainson's Thrush down by the brook (Beech Hill area of the L-P Preserve. Canada Warbler too. Oooh! Even as I write this, a

[cayugabirds-l] N. Parula

...and now the sun is peeking out, and just below the pond I have an adult female Northern Parula in a heavily flowering apple tree. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Philadelphia Vireo

Walking around my place during a break in the rain, I've found quite a few actively foraging birds, including newcomers: a PHILADELPHIA VIREO and two singing TENNESSEE WARBLERS. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Food for the Crows

Hundreds of toads are having their annual get-together in my pond, while out on the grassy dike certain local Crows are having their annual feast of toad-liver! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Danby American Bittern

As usual at this time of year, an AMERICAN BITTERN is calling "oong-KA-chunk" in the Michigan Hollow marsh this morning. Approximately here: 42.32532°N 76.47900°W -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Danby Rails, Mourning Warbler

Around home this morning, the Cape May Warblers were gone, but my missing Brown Thrasher has suddenly turned up. And, unusual for my yard, I've got a White-crowned Sparrow. After Chris' remarks yesterday about the state of the hawthorn orchard, I couldn't stop dreaming about all those

[cayugabirds-l] Cape May Warblers

I've got a couple of Cape May Warblers foraging in the sunlit spruces across from my driveway (227 Tupper Road, West Danby) -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] eBird Report - Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve (FLLT), May 6, 2016

Hi Laura, I was at Lindsay-Parsons today too. Can't add much to your list: Hermit Thrush, Blue-headed Vireo, Blackburnian Warbler and Louisiana Waterthrush. No Worm-eating yet. From the looks of things, it may be a couple of days yet. One thing that interested me was a very vocal

Re: [cayugabirds-l] New arrivals

I too have a Ruby-throated Zumbador at the feeders today! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] 203 Tupper

I j ust found a nice little group of migrants feeding in trees around my old house (203 Tupper Rd, just above Maple Ave), including: Chestnut-sided Warbler (male) Nashville Warblers (both sexes) Blue-winged Warbler (male) American Redstart (male) Hooded Warbler (male) Blue-headed Vireos

[cayugabirds-l] Hooded Warbler

New this morning around my place: Hooded Warbler and Chestnut-sided Warbler. -Geo Tupper Road, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] More Blackburnians

This morning I've found several Blackburnian Warblers singing in the NE corner of the L-P Preserve (off Station Road), and from the north pinnacle I heard a few distant songs, including Wood Thrushes and a second Scarlet Tanager. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Birds around my place

The buds have been stalled for days here in the cold shadow of Beech Hill, Seeley Hill, and 1920' Sorry Hunter Hill, but finally today a warmer start and some new birds: Nashville Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow-throated Vireo,

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk

On Monday afternoon I came across a Broad-winged Hawk on Station Road (West Danby), just below the State Forest / Land Trust boundary. It was perched in a tree above the small stream there, in a typical hunting situation, so I would guess it's a local, newly returned from Veracruz or

[cayugabirds-l] Oriole

There was a substantial fallout of Ruby-crowned Kinglets around my place this morning (we saw about 30, and heard more). Didn't seem like there was much else - a few Yellow-rumps - but now we've got a Baltimore Oriole. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Winter Wren, Virginia Rail

On a short walk west from Michigan Hollow Road up the south leg of the Abbotts Loop Trail, Pat and I found a Winter Wren singing near a promising nest site (overturned tree roots), a few Blue-headed Vireos, some Ruby-crowned Kinglets, etc. Earlier we stopped at the little marsh in front of

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Etna: House Wren

No House Wrens here, but I do have Blue-headed Vireos (since Thursday, actually). Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Beech Hill Brook

...and this morning I got my answer: one Louisiana Waterthrush is singing down in the flood-scoured gorge. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Beech Hill Brook

Nice chorus of Hermit Thrushes this morning along Beech Hill Brook in the L-P Preserve. Ruby-crowned Kinglets singing in all directions. Fox Sparrows are at or perhaps past their peak now. One singing Winter Wren. No Louisiana Waterthrushes yet. That's got me wondering: like many other streams

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk

are making this afternoon! -Geo > On Apr 17, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Susan Fast <sustf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Could be. I just spent 2 hours on Mt. Pleasant and had only 2 hawk > migrants--a SHARP-SHINNED and a BROAD-WING. Steve Fast > > > On Sunday, April 17, 2016 12:

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk

I believe my local Broad-winged Hawk has returned today. For several hours it has been circling high and low over the traditional nest area on my property and vocalizing. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Michigan Hollow

I visited a plantation area on the west side of lower Michigan Hollow this morning, hoping for Pine Warblers. What I got was Red-breasted Nuthatches, Brown Creepers, Ruby-crowned Kinglets and Hermit Thrushes. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Birds and bat

, I believe... Thermometer says 40 degrees! -Geo Kloppel 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: 1

[cayugabirds-l] Dawn chorus

It's 20 degrees F, and snow is falling through the still air, heavy enough to hide the distant ridges from view. About on hour ago I had Fox Sparrows singing a short distance below my driveway and Hermit Thrushes singing over toward Beech Hill Road in the nature preserve. -Geo Tupper Rd, W

[cayugabirds-l] Great Horned Owl

A Great Horned Owl just flew in to perch on the spire of a Norway Spruce about 200' downslope from my living room window. Although I can sometimes hear GHOWs in the far distance, my neighborhood is a long-standing Barred Owl area - I hear them up close on an almost daily basis. So this

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskins

Lately I've only got two Pine Siskins, but some 20 Purple Finches, plus plenty of Goldfinches. Probably at least 6 Fox Sparrows... hard to get a count on them because the ground is reappearing and they've gone back to singing from deep in the thickets. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] 10 degrees

It was just 10 degrees F in my neighborhood this morning, so I imagine the early nesters (Ravens, Bald Eagles...) must be sitting pretty tight to keep their eggs and nestlings warm. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

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