[cayugabirds-l] Grasshopper Sparrow in Danby, Cerulean Warbler near Belle Sherman
Yesterday morning I stepped outside to check the weather and the first thing I heard was a tick tick BZZZ. Psyched, my second Grasshopper Sparrow ever. I put on my muck boots and grabbed my bins and was able to watch him sing from a bush for a few minutes. Other breeders singing at the time: Willow Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrush, Blue-winged Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Bobolink (lots), Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch This morning I parked off the edge of Cornell campus, and as I started walking I heard an interesting, rising warbler song. Four slower, steady notes, followed by three quick ones and then a held bu at the end. This great page on All About Birds made it easy for me to go through potential songsters and figure out it was a Cerulean Warbler: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax.aspx?family=40 Bird! Eric -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hudsonian Godwit
This morning 8:30 the Godwit was feeding close to the Visitors Center. I was able to watch it from the balcony after two other birders saw it from the Observation Tower. It was still there when I left around 9. For a double treat I watched a Red-headed Woodpecker in the swampy area before you get to the pond on the path from South Spring Pool. The lighting was perfect it was perched on the side of a snag. The all red head caught my attention and then I saw the rest of it. It was close enough to ID without binocs. I watched it for a few minutes before it flew off showing the white rump and secondaries. Janet Akin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Bald Eagle
There was a bald eagle recently standing in a field along East Spencer Road. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2925 - Release Date: 06/08/10 02:35:00
[cayugabirds-l] Laughing gull on white lighthouse
Laughing gull on white lighthouse jetty 4pm 8 june -dave nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Grasshopper Sparrow in Danby
Hi Eric, It's great to hear that Grasshopper Sparrows are still possible in Danby. Throughout the Ithaca June Count years, and up until about 2000, we used to find them in what could be called the greater Jersey Hill area (Town of Danby, west of Comfort Road). I particularly remember locations along the west side of Townline Road a few thousand feet south of Blakesly Hill, also east of the FLT between there and Bruce Hill Road, and in the highland fields where Hilltop Road, Bruce Hill Road, Jersey Hill Road and Gunderman Road come together. I wonder if anybody has looked for Grasshopper Sparrows in that area lately? -Geo On Jun 8, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Eric Banford wrote: Yesterday morning I stepped outside to check the weather and the first thing I heard was a tick tick BZZZ. Psyched, my second Grasshopper Sparrow ever. I put on my muck boots and grabbed my bins and was able to watch him sing from a bush for a few minutes. Other breeders singing at the time: Willow Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrush, Blue- winged Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Rose- breasted Grosbeak, Bobolink (lots), Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch This morning I parked off the edge of Cornell campus, and as I started walking I heard an interesting, rising warbler song. Four slower, steady notes, followed by three quick ones and then a held bu at the end. This great page on All About Birds made it easy for me to go through potential songsters and figure out it was a Cerulean Warbler:http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax.aspx? family=40 Bird! Eric 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/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Black-bellied Plovers, etc, East Rd
Around 5:45pm Tuesday 8 June I talked to Stuart Krasnoff who was at East Rd in Tyre and watching: 2 Sandhill Cranes 5 Black-bellied Plovers, including 3 in beautiful breeding plumage 2 or more Semipalmated Plovers, lots of Peeps, including a couple larger ones, but all left unidentified due to distance and a case of scope-eye. He did not find the Hudsonian Godwit on his first stop at the visitor center. On Sunday late morning and evening (yes, Susan, I went back after other errands), on East Rd there were 2 Sandhill Cranes a handful of Semipalmated Plovers about 50 Semipalmated Sandpipers 2 White-rumped Sandpipers 1 Dunlin And I also did not see the Hudsonian Godwit. However I did get a nice look at a Solitary Sandpiper alongside the Wildlife Drive opposite Benning Marsh. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Grasshopper Sparrow in Danby and new thread ORCAHRD ORIOLE at Freese Raod gardens
Geo and all, I did recently drove around slowly along some of the locations you mention including Eric's recently but have not been successful. I do remember the Grasshoppers sparrows and Bobolinks on Nelson road. Today after dropping off my brother and family at Pyramid mall for shopping, I worked on my Freese Road garden for couple of hours and most of the time I worked, an ORCHARD ORIOLE sang from the grove in front of garden parking lot entrance. Initially I ignored it thinking that it was a Purple Finch, but then realised that it sounded like my mail alert. So I left the work halfway to check out. I found a young male singing his heart out to attract a female. While eh was singing the Baltimore Oriole kept reminding me that my feet are still dirty or sometimes my feet are silvery. He has been singing this phrase over more than four years now. Yesterday on the way back from Canada, I stopped at Montezuma to look for the HUGO. But was not lucky to see him. But I did see a Pergrine from the deck of Skylon restaurant. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ From: bounce-6022086-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-6022086-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf of Geo Kloppel [geoklop...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 5:58 PM To: cayugabirds-l L Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Grasshopper Sparrow in Danby Hi Eric, It's great to hear that Grasshopper Sparrows are still possible in Danby. Throughout the Ithaca June Count years, and up until about 2000, we used to find them in what could be called the greater Jersey Hill area (Town of Danby, west of Comfort Road). I particularly remember locations along the west side of Townline Road a few thousand feet south of Blakesly Hill, also east of the FLT between there and Bruce Hill Road, and in the highland fields where Hilltop Road, Bruce Hill Road, Jersey Hill Road and Gunderman Road come together. I wonder if anybody has looked for Grasshopper Sparrows in that area lately? -Geo On Jun 8, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Eric Banford wrote: Yesterday morning I stepped outside to check the weather and the first thing I heard was a tick tick BZZZ. Psyched, my second Grasshopper Sparrow ever. I put on my muck boots and grabbed my bins and was able to watch him sing from a bush for a few minutes. Other breeders singing at the time: Willow Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Wood Thrush, Blue- winged Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Savannah Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Northern Cardinal, Rose- breasted Grosbeak, Bobolink (lots), Red-winged Blackbird, Eastern Meadowlark, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch This morning I parked off the edge of Cornell campus, and as I started walking I heard an interesting, rising warbler song. Four slower, steady notes, followed by three quick ones and then a held bu at the end. This great page on All About Birds made it easy for me to go through potential songsters and figure out it was a Cerulean Warbler:http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax.aspx? family=40 Bird! Eric 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/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
