On Nov 14, 2017 1:49 PM, "Lynn Bergmeyer" <lynnbergme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone seen Seneca Lake rarities today? GRACO or PALO or BLGR?? > > On Nov 13, 2017 12:04 AM, "Upstate NY Birding digest" < > cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > >> CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Monday, November 13, 2017. >> >> 1. Red-headed WP @ Palmer Woods >> 2. Seneca Lake rarities today >> 3. Brant >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Red-headed WP @ Palmer Woods >> From: Suan Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> >> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:49:33 -0500 >> X-Message-Number: 1 >> >> There's a red headed woodpecker at Palmer Woods, north side, 42.461656 N >> 76.481159 W, first seen attacking a pileated woodpecker who held fast for a >> bit before fleeing. It's been foraging and stashing food in a white oak, >> and making occasional forays to shoo off interloping blue jays. It appears >> to be establishing a wintering territory. >> >> Suan >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Seneca Lake rarities today >> From: Jay McGowan <jw...@cornell.edu> >> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:50:07 -0500 >> X-Message-Number: 2 >> >> Hi all, >> Seneca Lake experienced an inundation of rare birds today. The first was >> found by Kevin Ebert and Logan Kahle at Seneca Lake State Park, first >> reported as a Barnacle Goose but on close inspection revealed to be a >> BARNACLE GOOSE HYBRID. Based on body and bill size and the fact that is >> was >> hanging closely with a group of Cackling Geese, I suspect it was a >> Barnacle >> x Cackling cross, but it's hard to be sure. Also noteworthy were the >> density of CACKLING GEESE in the large Canada flock off the swimming beach >> near the east end of the park, with at least 30 in the close group and a >> handful of others scattered in more distant groups. A few pictures here: >> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40477631 >> >> Yesterday, Shawn Billerman, Jeremy Collison, and I had a group of 16 >> GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE in with other waterfowl in Knox-Marsellus >> Marsh >> at Montezuma NWR. This is by far the highest number of this species I have >> seen in the area. Checklist with poor photos showing the whole group here: >> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40455625 >> >> Today lower numbers of white-fronts were seen by others around midday. >> When >> Livia and I stopped by in the afternoon we were unable to pick any out of >> the Canadas, but we did get a better look at a hybrid we had seen the day >> before, which I now suspect to be a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED x CANADA GOOSE >> HYBRID. It looks quite different from the usual "Stewart Park Goose" we >> see >> around Ithaca, Canada x Graylag/domestic, showing more white on the face >> with a smaller and more slender body. Again hard to be sure on parentage, >> but I think it's a good candidate for a wild hybrid. >> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40477637 >> >> Meanwhile at the south end of Seneca Lake, Mayte Torres discovered a >> female-type BLUE GROSBEAK near the waste water treatment plant just west >> of >> the canal in Watkins Glen. Livia and I decided to drop down and take a >> look >> on our way home as the sun started to dip towards the horizon. We found >> the >> grosbeak easily enough, hanging out with Song Sparrows in the brushy field >> behind boats just east of the waste water plant, on the north side of the >> parking lot accessed from Decater Street off of 4th St. As we were >> preparing to leave, I took one last scan over the lake and noticed a big, >> white-bellied cormorant sitting on the pilings at the base of the metal >> light tower on one of the breakwalls offshore. Sure enough, it was a >> juvenile GREAT CORMORANT. The bird was still present on the same perch as >> we left at dusk, and was visible from the viewpoint at the southeast >> corner >> of the lake as well. To cap it all off, a small, dark loon distant out on >> the lake with several Commons convinced me it was a PACIFIC LOON. More >> details and photos of the grosbeak and cormorant here: >> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40478420 >> Birders will certainly be looking for all three of these individuals >> tomorrow, so we will be sure to post if they are refound. >> >> Good birding, >> Jay >> >> -- >> Jay McGowan >> Macaulay Library >> Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> jw...@cornell.edu >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Brant >> From: Judith Jones <j...@cornell.edu> >> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:08:57 -0500 >> X-Message-Number: 3 >> >> 4 in Canada Goose flock in field at south end of Stewart Park, 4:30 pm >> Sunday. >> >> >> >> >> --- >> >> END OF DIGEST >> >> -- 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 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
