[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows

Fox Sparrows around my place typically forage deep in the thickets, but snow cover has driven three of them to work the ground under the feeders in plain view this morning. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows

Each morning's dawn chorus around my place lately has included the songs of Fox Sparrows. But today's multiple brief rain showers and snow showers were followed by renewed bouts of singing, in which one or two Towhees and a Chipping Sparrow gave themselves away. -Geo Tupper Rd, West Danby --

[cayugabirds-l] Sharp-shin back on territory

Sharp-shinned Hawks have nested in my spruce plantation for decades. Today It appears the owner of this territory has just returned from somewhere to resume his traditional proprietorship. He's moving all about the area, fit and very vocal, and I just saw him closely chasing a hapless crow, as

[cayugabirds-l] Sunday hawks

There weren't as many migrating Hawks over West Danby yesterday afternoon as the sunny skies and tailwinds seemed to promise. I was out frequently for short periods of watching, but only saw 4 TVs, 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk and a couple of distant unidentified buteos gliding north toward Jersey

[cayugabirds-l] Red-shouldered Hawk

A Red-shouldered Hawk is calling loudly from across the stream in the ravine along Maple Avenue (the "West Branch of West Danby Creek" on some maps). I'm getting Wood Ducks on my pond every morning. A couple of days ago six of them dropped in at 6:50am. When they take off, they generally head

[cayugabirds-l] More Siskins

I've missed seeing any Pine Siskins at my feeders this year - until today, hooray! But I'm pretty confident they've been here when I wasn't looking. My next-door neighbor even picked one up a few weeks ago after it collided with her window. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Another Phoebe or two

I thought I glimpsed a Phoebe yesterday out the window, flitting away from last year's nest under the eaves. I didn't see it again, or hear anything, but this morning at least one is singing in the sunshine here. Earlier, the same or another one was singing near a different nest site on a

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fields

An additional wrinkle that may affect a rural homeowner's plans to keep an abandoned field open through infrequent mowing is that certain shrub and tree species respond very aggressively to cutting, and in a single season can put up enough new woody growth to overwhelm the available machinery,

[cayugabirds-l] Quiet Ravens

The Tupper Road Ravens seem to have gone quiet, perhaps indicating that incubation is underway? -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Rough-leg

Helpless to resist today's cumulus-studded sky, I took my lunch out in the yard with scope from 12:30 to 1:45, hoping a few raptors would be migrating across the strong west wind. My entire tally: 1 Rough-legged Hawk -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] More Fox Sparrows

Several Fox Sparrows have been singing this morning under the impenetrable roadside thickets just below the driveway at 227 Tupper Road, West Danby. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] help determining the time to mow fields

ther/Hayfields_Grassland_Birds.pdf -Geo > On Mar 15, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Prompted by Mike Palermo to go to the _correct_ section, I find that the > collection of Cooperative Extension documents he shared does contain just > what the lives

Re: [cayugabirds-l] help determining the time to mow fields

Prompted by Mike Palermo to go to the _correct_ section, I find that the collection of Cooperative Extension documents he shared does contain just what the livestock guy at Winter Market needs. Readers can navigate to it as Mike described (you have to hunt for the link labeled "Hayfields &

Re: [cayugabirds-l] help determining the time to mow fields

The NYDEC and Cornell Cooperative Extension documents that were mentioned seem to be oriented toward management for grassland wildlife, so they say that no cutting should take place between late April and mid August. That's fine if you're managing a nature preserve, but it's probably not

Re: [cayugabirds-l] help determining the time to mow fields

Here's my take: I think a cut-off date (a one-date-fits-all approach) is pretty hopeless, as it forces you to postpone all your cutting until quite late, reducing the economic viability of your business operation. In my opinion it's much better to do an assessment year-by-year and

[cayugabirds-l] TV snacks

Breezy today. Looks like the Turkey Vultures have gotten wind of my deer carcass out in the woods. Six of them are circling-down now over the spot. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] More swamps

I leashed my dogs and went down to the West Danby Fire Station this afternoon for a look in the beaver pond. Only two Wood Ducks, but at least 20 Hooded Mergansers were in there. A Red-tailed Hawk was perched alongside one of the big stick nests belonging to Great Blue Herons. Then we went

[cayugabirds-l] Western Tanager as usual

The Western Tanager is still present this morning, visiting the same Day Hall windowsill and trees along the tiny glen. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Nest-sitting Eagle

Patricia and I did a car trip, visiting swamps from West Danby to Spencer, Van Etten, Alpine, Cayuta Lake (the NYS boat launch), Trumbull Corners and Newfield, hoping we might run into some Rusty Blackbirds. Struck out on those, but I thought It worth mentioning that a Bald Eagle is already

[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrow

A pair of Wood Ducks dropped into my pond early this morning, and now that the sun is shining one Fox Sparrow has begun singing from deep in the thickets of the old apple orchard. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Ducks

West Danby is socked-in this morning, with a ceiling just a few hundred feet above the valley floor - a condition that sometimes produces a migrant fallout. Four Wood Ducks circled my pond just now. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Turkey talk

I'm hearing a lot of yelps and gobbles right now from over in the nature preserve (the portion of the L-P Preserve west of Beech Hill Road) -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Morning voices

A very light sprinkle, and I'm working with the door open. There sure are lots of bird voices around my yard this morning! A Song Sparrow seems to be the only new arrival, unless there are newcomers among the Juncos that are trilling from all directions. But Cardinals, Robins, Jays, Crows,

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Morning flights

Osprey, or was I dreaming?? Still have honking V-s going over at 2:00 pm, but there isn't a hawk in the sky! -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 9, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Morning flights of waterfowl continue passing over West Da

[cayugabirds-l] Morning flights

Morning flights of waterfowl continue passing over West Danby, presumably coming from the lower Susquehanna / Chesapeake region. Also just saw an Osprey go over. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Tundras over West Danby

A late flight of 18 Tundra Swan's just passed over West Danby. Probably will be passing over Ithaca by about 9:40 or 9:45... -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Raven carrying material

Following up on my West Danby Raven post (yesterday): A Raven was down on the deer carcass just now, with Crows all around, raising a ruckus. When the Raven flew up, with several Crows in close attendance, I could see that its beak was full of something white. Deer hair for nest lining, my

[cayugabirds-l] Food for Ravens

at that carcass. I have a few bluebird houses at the pond, that I hoped might attract some Tree Swallows. This morning I was surprised to see a Bluebird singing from the very top of one of the tallest trees overlooking the pond, as if to say "look what I found"! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Apiarian Question

Yes, in very early spring, when there are no pollen or nectar sources (flowers) available, honeybees will be attracted to mill dust and pollen found on bird seed, cracked corn, etc. They may also visit compost piles and other chance resources. -Geo Kloppel > On Mar 8, 2016, at 11:06 AM, C

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT? FYO bear nr West Danby

That's my neighborhood, too. (Tupper Road). Yesterday I found a scat filled with coarsely chopped acorn shells, which made me think of bear. What a weird winter! -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 1, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Nigel Dyson-Hudson wrote: > > This morning we got up

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Rough legged hawk

Everything on the east side of Potomac Road in the vicinity of Searsburg Road is in the Cayuga basin. The west side is more ambiguous, though there is clearly some basin territory over there too. See the Town of Hector map: http://www.schuylercounty.us/DocumentCenter/View/622 -Geo Sent from

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Short-eared owl

Yes, that location is in the Cayuga basin. -Geo On Dec 6, 2015, at 7:11 PM, M & K Mannella wrote: > This evening I went searching for SHORT-EARED OWLS in an area where I thought > had potentially good habitat. I did see one at sunset (which was awesome this > evening)

[cayugabirds-l] Location, location, location

To determine if a boat or a bird is inside the City of Ithaca's de facto waterfowl sanctuary, just pull out a phone and check the latitude. Several sources show the city line crossing the lake at 42.467079 degrees north latitude (42 degrees 28 minutes). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] No hunting reminder in paper today

suspect it's out beyond the city line. Anybody know?) -Geo Kloppel On Nov 19, 2015, at 1:02 PM, Nancy Cusumano <nancycusuman...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's Karen's map I believe, she is a local GIS specialist > > Cayuga Dog Rescue has saved more than 500! dogs since 200

Re: [cayugabirds-l] No hunting reminder in paper today

Per NOAA navigation chart #14791 I've come to believe that the far pilings are OUT, well beyond the city's cross-lake boundary. -Geo > I can't quite tell from the map whether the isolated cluster of lighted > pilings that marks the city's wastewater outfall is in or out. -- Cayugabirds-L

[cayugabirds-l] DEC Mixed messages?

discharge ordinances. When using public lands and waters, it is essential that hunters access these areas legally." Can it really be DEC's position that "no hunting" ordinances are not valid, but "no discharge" ordinances are valid? -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabird

Re: [cayugabirds-l] and back to birds - MERLIN, LOONS

Hi John, you wrote: > > A Cayuga and/or Seneca "pelagic" would be a fun fall/winter cruise. Yeah! Fun to dream, anyway. A few weeks ago I dropped some friends off at the dock for an Ithaca Boat Tour on the HAENDEL. I hadn't previously been up close to that steel-hulled vessel. It reminded me

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ithaca City ban on hunting

Fantastic!!! I'll be looking out for IPD boats! -Geo On Nov 16, 2015, at 8:40 PM, "Kenneth V. Rosenberg" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The following media release was sent to a number of outlets today — this > should clarify any uncertainty on the part of the City. > > KEN >

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park boundaries

, that this is not an appropriate activity on this part of >> the lake. >> --Dave Nutter >> >> On Nov 15, 2015, at 07:57 AM, Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Afraid not. That's just where the well-established supremacy of t

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park boundaries

Afraid not. That's just where the well-established supremacy of the state's sole authority to regulate hunting comes in. This is not an issue where home rule rights might plausibly be asserted. State-wide regulation of hunting is clearly a preemptive "general law" as defined in Article IX of

Re: [cayugabirds-l] guns at Stewart Park

(whatever it may be) at the park for all to see. 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

Re: [cayugabirds-l] guns at Stewart Park

h law. The same logic would apply > to the City's firearm ordinance if someone tried to ticket or arrest a hunter > working in or on the lake. > > Alicia > > > > On 1/8/2015 8:13 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > I guess the courts have the final say on the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] hybrid teal, Montezuma; lake birds

I had a look at this teal yesterday, and noted the marks that others have discussed. But I paid little attention to its two constant companions, assuming they were just female Blue-winged Teal. Has anyone studied them more closely? -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] meadowlark migration question

Bent says that Meadowlarks form roving bands in August, after the breeding season is done, and that by mid-October most of these have left Ontario and Quebec for points south. So it seems likely that migrants from north of the border are now moving through our area.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] GHO calling from game farm road

to lift off and fly to the big snag on the hemlock-shaded penninsula at the back of the pond, where it perched, dislodging an adult male Merlin, who stooped repeatedly upon the heron. The heron squawked loudly, swaying and raising its wings, until the Merlin flew off toward downtown Danby. -Geo

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Purple Martin house at Swan Pond, Stewart Park?

Hi Sandy, I think you mean the Renwick Wildwood. The Fuertes Bird Sanctuary is _just_ the so-called swan pond. Confusion about the names has found it's way onto some maps, but those are incorrect. For a full explanation, see historian Jane Grave's articles on the Cayuga Bird Club website:

[cayugabirds-l] Caspian Terns night flight

One or more Caspian Terns passed over West Danby last night around 9:30, calling repeatedly throughout their passage from north to south. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Nightfall

is just an amazing thing! -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

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-wings to fledge soon

Looks like the Broad-winged Hawks nesting just below my yard will be fledging soon... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Hendershot Gulf (and a plea)

some kind of action to prevent this? At the very least, I would hope for one of DEC's signs at the state boundary, like the ones I see at various other Conn Hill locations, declaring MOTORIZED VEHICLES PROHIBITED. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Cascadilla Merlins, West Danby bear

I happened to be on foot in Ithaca's Fall Creek neighborhood about 1:45 yesterday afternoon, so I looked in on the Merlin nest along Cascadilla Creek, and watched for a few minutes. It was pretty quiet, but I did see one falcon leave the nest, take a series of perches in nearby trees over the

[cayugabirds-l] Ravens

My local Ravens have not yet fledged, though they may be hopping around on the dense hemlock branches (I couldn't see young in the nest, but the parents are still defending the immediate area). Cypripedium acaule is now in flower there! -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dispatching house sparrows ... 5/18/15

Successful Phoebes usually raise a second brood, so it's certainly possible that yours will try again... -Geo On May 18, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Susan Gateley su...@silverwaters.com wrote: not really a bird watching note but here goes. we are roofing a shed and had to take a nest down. It

[cayugabirds-l] Two more Acadian Flycatchers

here... -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

[cayugabirds-l] Cayuta Lake Osprey

Just spotted an Osprey at the top of Cayuta Gulf... -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] More Acadians

a bird song from memory, it also turns up the gain on the associated detector. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler still

Forget to mention that a Mourning Warbler continued today singing in the same hard-to-penetrate thicket in my yard. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] More Acadians

Hi Kevin, you wrote: So, one has to ask, what is your mnemonic for Canada Warbler? The mnemonic that I use won't initially strike many readers as a plausible rendering, especially not if they have been introduced to field guide representations like chip-chupety-swee-ditchety. Some years ago

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler, Blackpoll

A couple of obviously new migrants are singing in my yard. One is a Blackpoll Warbler (I always feel a slight resistance to putting Warbler after the name Blackpoll. It feels as if one were to write Redpoll Finch) The other is a MOURNING WARBLER. Although its rich rolling song left no room for

Re: [cayugabirds-l] hummingbird aggression

Both sexes are aggressive. It's pretty interesting, but if their squabbles become tiresome, you can put up more feeders, located on opposite sides of the house, or even farther apart if you've got room. -Geo On May 13, 2015, at 11:58 AM, Anne Clark anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Hile School

[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

A Black-billed Cuckoo is singing just below my yard right now. -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] Acadian Flycatcher

I found a singing ACADIAN FLYCATCHER this morning in Michigan Hollow, occupying the same territory as last year. Also in the vicinity: Winter Wren, Least Flycatcher, Canada Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers and American Redstarts, among many others. In the Michigan Hollow marsh an American

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard Monday

Hi Bob, you wrote: I almost forgot - we got good looks at a single Blackpoll Warbler. This normally signals the end of spring migration. How many days do we have left?? The trouble with the Blackpoll benchmark is that at least a few Blackpolls pass through here early (10th of May!), though

[cayugabirds-l] More Canada Warblers

I slept with the windows open, of course, and woke up thinking that I must go see Cardinal Richelieu. So, I ambled down to the little gorge on the west side of Beech Hill Road (Lindsay-Parsons Preserve) to find that Canada Warblers are back on territory there. On the way back I found a pile of

[cayugabirds-l] Anxious about being on his own, perhaps?

Most of my Purple Finches are gone, but one male that lingers at the feeder has from time to time been delivering what the Audubon guide describes with curious specificity as the vireo-like song given in the presence of a hawk. Perhaps this short song has a more general function...? Prairie

[cayugabirds-l] Morning birds

This morning I climbed to the top of Sorry Hunter Hill (1,920 summit, West Danby). I encountered a number of Scarlet Tanagers along the way. Hooded Warblers and American Redstarts are also back in force. Lady slippers are just peeking out of the leaf litter. Without looking for it, I

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby yard birds

Around my yard, Common Yellowthroats, Black-throated Green Warblers and Chestnut-sided Warblers are more numerous today. There are plenty of Wood Thrushes and Veeries and Ovenbirds, Catbirds and Towhees and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Purple Finches and so on, but just a single Indigo Bunting.

[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawk eggs

Broad-winged Hawk was sitting deep in her nest this morning; only the tip of her tail was visible, sticking out beyond the rim... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows like toad liver

I guess it's an element of local Crow culture, maybe even limited to particular families who have toad ponds within their territories and pass the trick down the generations. -Geo Kloppel On May 6, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Melanie Uhlir mela...@mwmu.com wrote: Very interesting. But I'm sad about

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods worm eating warbler

The West Danby Worm-eating Warblers do sing from within the canopy on their nesting territories, especially around 9:00 AM when the sun first breaks over the pinnacles to light the treetops. But the steep exposed habitat is very harsh and the trees seem stunted: mostly they top-out at 25 - 30

[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warblers

-throated Hummingbird appeared last evening. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- 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

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Recent highlights (breeding sandpipers, Merlins, toads)

Hi Mark (and all), You wrote about Wesley Hill: We found 39 bird species and an orgy of American Toads. The account on the SBQ blog was great fun, and timely too, as american toads are holding their annual pool party in my pond right now, and it's so loud I can hardly think straight to

[cayugabirds-l] More thrushes; Nashville

A pulse of thrushes arrived in my woods this morning: many Veeries, two Wood Thrushes; also have several Nashville Warblers. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Yard birds

, a Black-and-White Warbler and a Chestnut-sided Warbler, along with the usual Hermit Thrushes, Blue-headed Vireos, etc. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Owl pellets, bats

of bats wintering under the siding on my shop too... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http

[cayugabirds-l] Broadwings building

I found my yard Broad-winged Hawks decorating a (new) stick nest with green hemlock switches this morning. The nest tree is of course right over one of my tractor trails, so I'll have to avoid going that way for a while. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

(Pheucticus ludovicianus) began singing. As I type this, the bird has moved over to the feeder, like a native returned. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

A dawn chorus walk around my yard (5:35, 40 degrees F) produced a Gray Catbird and a Common Yellowthroat. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Ovenbird

Finally an Ovenbird this morning. Far western Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, along the Newfield-Danby town line. Ruby-crowned Kinglets everywhere. 3 Blue-headed Vireos. I'm still hoping for some Warblers to pipe-up as the treetops warm in the bright sunshine... -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Around home

Avenue high on the south bank of the ravine, where the fallen tree lies across a small tributary ravine about 100 yards west of the Danby-Newfield town line). -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Newman Golf Course Great Horned Owls home alone etc

Hi Marie, In Great Britain the young of Common Mergansers (Mergus merganser) are often called goosanderlings. One of my photo goals this spring/summer is Common Mergansers with ducklings (merglings?). -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Swan pen

On the principle that too much location info _is_ better than not enough, I'd like to remind anyone who cares (and inform anyone who might not know) that the so-called swan pen is actually the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Memorial Bird Sanctuary. Nowadays we tend to reserve the words Bird Sanctuary

[cayugabirds-l] Brown Thrasher, Red-shouldered Hawk

Road. Not an unusual bird in the Danby State Forest, but memorable because the sky was so gray that the hawk seemed to be in flames, the brightest thing anywhere to be seen. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Blue-headed Vireo

In my yard I've had a Blue-headed Vireo this morning, a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and a new group of brightly-painted White-throated Sparrows. Still have Fox Sparrows singing. I just spotted a Blue Jay carrying nest material into a clump of young white pines, the so-called cabbage trees.

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit thrushes and insects

) darner fly by. Common Green Darner, I suppose... -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hermit thrushes and insects

Meena's wonderful book (link below) gives some info on migration of odonates (page 117). Green Darner is one of the long distance migrants. Maybe these darners that are showing up now hatched in the deep south, or even in Veracruz, and came north on more-or-less the same timetable as the

[cayugabirds-l] R-c Kinglets and Siskins

I have a couple of Pine Siskins at my niger feeder this morning, and Ruby-crowned Kinglets are singing from three directions. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Jennings Pond, etc

at Hillview Road; no luck yet. The Eagles at North Spencer Marsh were hanging around their nest, until one flew off toward Spencer Lake, at which point the other went to stand in the nest, and began tearing-up a fish. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

I'm not sure what they'd do in a really ferocious windstorm, but normal windy conditions shouldn't stop them. After all, the display is a show of fitness. But wind might well make it harder for you to hear and observe them. -Geo On Apr 13, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.net

[cayugabirds-l] Louisiana Waterthrush

growth, a Towhee was steadily chewinking. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- 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

[cayugabirds-l] Broadwing

My Broad-winged Hawk is out doing a territorial flight right now. Crows don't like it much. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Pine Warbler

along Townline Road just north of Lick Brook I did find a singing Pine Warbler. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Local Broad-winged Hawk returns

in the vanguard of the migratory wave. I also saw some kind of fracas among three very vocal Pileated Woodpeckers. It went on for several minutes, but I couldn't determine the sexes... -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows chasing ravens

that's currently nesting in my yard, since the Ravens are passing back and forth right over the Crows' territory. -Geo Kloppel On Apr 11, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Benjamin Freeman bg...@cornell.edu wrote: Hello, I went for a nice walk this morning at Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve. Phoebes

[cayugabirds-l] Late Snow Geese

Around 11:30 or 12:00 a flock of c. 35 Snow Geese went over West Danby. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

Re: [cayugabirds-l] woodcock viewing?

The Lindsay-Parsons Preserve has long been a good place for viewing Woodcock displays. Just park in the lot, walk down the trail into the ravine, cross the little bridge and continue up and out into the big fields. Head for the knoll with the Leopold bench: you can see a huge expanse of sky

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit Thrush, Winter Wren

Over the roar of Beech Hill Brook (just west of the eponymous road, Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, West Danby) I heard one or more Hermit Thrushes early this morning, and also a Winter Wren. Fox Sparrows are singing here and there, Ruffed Grouse are drumming. Wood Ducks have circled my pond, but

Re: [cayugabirds-l] 13 Bonaparte's Gulls at Stewart Park

Count is now 21 Bonaparte's Gulls at Stewart Park, all swimming close-in, picking tiny edibles off the surface of the water (3:50 pm). -Geo Kloppel On Apr 7, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Diane Morton dianegmor...@gmail.com wrote: Looking north from the Swan Pen, Ken and I saw 13 Bonaparte's Gulls

[cayugabirds-l] Migrants in my yard

New in my 'yard' this morning were more singing Fox Sparrows, a lone Chipping Sparrow, several Golden-crowned Kinglets, and one or two singing Purple Finches. Turkeys are gobbling, Ruffed Grouse are drumming, and I'll be on the watch for returning Hermit Thrushes. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby

[cayugabirds-l] Another Phoebe

Phoebe here also, new this morning. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http

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