[cayugabirds-l] Tompkins Co. night migration 5/1

Hi, I couldn't quite wait for it to get light today, so I started birding a bit earlier than normal. I listened in various places around the Ithaca area from midnight to 4:15 AM with lots of cool birds migrating over. At midnight from Mt. Pleasant there were about 8-10 birds per minute going acro

[cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Last evening I saw first male Rose-breasted Grosbeak of the year. Arrival date here in Johnson City for two previous years was 2 May. Regards, Stephen R Hill Johnson City, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabi

[cayugabirds-l] Sparrow fallout

We currently have at least 50 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS in our (small) yard and one WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW (first of year for us). While we've had the White-Throats for a while, this is the most we've ever spotted at one time! We've also heard a HOUSE WREN. -- Sara Jane Hymes Vine St -- C

[cayugabirds-l] B-t Blue Warbler

A Black-throated Blue Warbler is among the flood of new arrivals around my home this morning. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker & Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWE

[cayugabirds-l] [Cayugabirds-L] Red-breasted Grosbeak

Last evening I saw first male Rose-breasted Grosbeak of the year. Arrival date here in Johnson City for two previous years was 2 May. Regards, Stephen R Hill Johnson City, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabi

[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

Not a huge fallout by any means in our yard today, but we do have our year's first CATBIRD and Barn Swallow. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http:

[cayugabirds-l] Least Flycatcher

Not as much noise around the property this morning as I hoped, but I had a LEAST FLYCATCHER make a brief, but loud appearance over my deck, and a Brown Thrasher is singing along the power cut. Kevin Yellow Barn Road, Freeville Ithaca, NY 148

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods this AM

Hi all, Today I took an early morning walk through Sapscuker Woods. It wasn't the huge influx of warblers that I was hoping for, but there were some good birds around. There were many newly arrived Wood Thrushes, some Hermit Thrushes, my first Gray Catbird of the spring, and many Yellow-rumped W

[cayugabirds-l] A few new yard birds today

Last night, I listened to the night migration, hearing American Bittern and Yellow-billed Cuckoo as well as others. This morning announced the arrival of Ovenbirds, Black-throated Greens, foy Wood Thrush, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and a Baltimore Oriole. Jeff -- Jeff Gerbracht Lead Applicatio

[cayugabirds-l] Monkey Run arrivals

Location: ** Monkey Run--SE loop Observation date: 5/1/10 Notes: Great conditions last night with light south winds. A large number of arrivals at Monkey Run this morning. The biggest surprise by far was a male GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. WEATHER: 60F. Calm. Mostly cloudy (90% cloud cover).

[cayugabirds-l] New arrivals and photo information

We had a short banding morning before wind forced us to close. We had several hansome male Yellow Warblers and our first Chestnut-sided (a very bright male) and Eastern White-crowned Sparrows. Photos of the above will be on the khamolists...@yahoogroups.com soon. For historical photos such as the

[cayugabirds-l] New Arrivals in Richford

Wow! Lots of new birds here this morning. Highlights so far: NASHVILLE WARBLER- 6 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER- 1 YELLOW WARBLER- 1 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER- 1 OVENBIRD- 2 MAGNOLIA WARBLER- 1 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT- 1 All but the Yellow-rump were new today. Our other new arrivals were ROSE-BREAST

[cayugabirds-l] Bobolinks and White Crowned

We had one White crowned Sparrow last evening which was joined by two others this morning...also Bobolinks have begun to arrive in our back fields in Brooktondale. "Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre." Warren Buffett Thomas Hoebbel P

[cayugabirds-l] Hammond Hill

Cape May Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Black-throated blue and green, black and white, yellow rumped warbler and ovenbird along trail 1. Alberto and Chris Wiley Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Kestrel Haven information

In addition to the photos and information on our website (below), we routinely post to our natural history group at khamolists...@yahoogroups.com. This list allows photo enclosures and we maintain it as a closed group to prevent spammers. We extend an invitation to anyone interested in joining. Y

[cayugabirds-l] WHITE CROWNED SPARROW

It is 11:20 a.m. and there are two WHITE CROWNED SPARROWS in the Treman Bird Garden here at CLO Mary E. Winston Public Outreach Assistant Cornell Lab of Ornithology (607)-254-2473 "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Theo

[cayugabirds-l] warblers

In previous years I haven't had much luck seeing migrating warblers around my home, so I headed out early this morning to hunt some down. I didn't find quite as many as I hoped, though a CERULEAN WARBLER at Jetty Woods was exciting. Within five minutes of getting back home, however, I had stunn

[cayugabirds-l] Jetty Woods Saturday morning

I went to the Jetty Woods north of Newman golf course this morning from 9 until 11. Beautiful shirt-sleeve weather with no wind. I saw 23 species including 4 warblers. The best for me was a blue-winged warbler, first time I have found it myself. I spent 15 minutes trying to locate a singing war

[cayugabirds-l] Red-eyed Vireo

More good things at home: BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER and two RED-EYED VIREOS. I don't recall the latter having been reported yet. Sydney Penner 43 N. Landon Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabird

[cayugabirds-l] local morning birding

Alberto Lopez and I headed out to a few local spots around Ithaca to find him some migrant warblers, as it's his first spring in North America and he finally has a chance to see them in breeding plumage. We managed to find 13 species of warblers, many of which have been listed by others alr

[cayugabirds-l] Shindagin Hollow this morning

Lots of birds in Shindagin this morning... and one gentlemen dressed in camouflage from head to toe carrying a large gun. I didn't ask what he was hunting. I started at 8:00 and birded along the road to the bottom of the basin, driving and stopping here and there to walk around a bit. At abou

[cayugabirds-l] Tompkins Co. migrants - May 1

Cayugabirders, I birded around Tompkins County all morning and enjoyed the first real blast of neotropical passerine migrants, though lots of short-distance migrants were involved as well. Notable arrivals that I didn't see mentioned elsewhere on the listserv include Yellow-throated Vireo (Bruce H

[cayugabirds-l] Prairie Warbler

I had a little time late this morning to walk into the Lindsay- Parson's Preserve. I found a number of birds already reported by others in the past few days. The only addition to that list wass a single singing PRAIRIE WARBLER, on the east side of Coleman Lake, in the direction of the Sugar

[cayugabirds-l] DLT: ospreys

Two OSPREYS were seen early this morning, south of the lake, along the Dryden Lake Trail. Both were on limbs of snags, eating fish (carp). They were about 400 yds. apart. Later, both were seen over the lake, and one dived for another carp, unsuccessfully, right in front of me (it was in the wate

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Shindagin Hollow this morning

Today is the opening day of spring turkey season. It ends at noon daily and the last day is May 31. On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 14:41, Anne Marie Johnson wrote: > Lots of birds in Shindagin this morning... and one gentlemen dressed in > camouflage from head to toe carrying a large gun. I didn't ask wh

[cayugabirds-l] Finally!

Don't know when it first arrived since Kathy S. & I were in TX a wk. but today I saw a WHITE CROWNED SPARROW under the feeder out on the clotheline arm. Ah, the scissor-tailed flycatchers in TX were beautiful & quite numerous!! And what brilliant yellow feet the snowy egret has!!! While we enjoy

[cayugabirds-l] Prom night for toads

Following Tom's great Whip-poor-will find of yestereve, I was determined to be on watch at the appropriate time. I couldn't think of a better place to station myself than by the pond right outside my shop, a location that has produced 3 Whip-poor-will records in the past 14 years. Never min

[cayugabirds-l] More Saturday migrants

Wow, what a day! My main contribution to the migration stories is from my early morning trip to Mt. Pleasant (although not as early as Tom!) to view "morning flight" at my favorite spot at the base of the radio tower road across from the woodlot with spruces. I was there from 6-8 am and had a st