[cayugabirds-l] My Catrbird is back!
After four or five days delay he is back today! I was starting worry that something happened to him and to my neighboring catbird. I heard a single chatter at 4.11 am as I was awake from 3.30 am. So I got ready with my recorder if I heard the chatter again. I was wondering who made that sound, I was thinking may be the wren, but now I know it is the catbird. Then everything was quiet till 6.40 am. At 6.40 am he started singing and his phrases were so fast and lots of new sounds which I have not heard before. It seemed he was in hurry to establish his territory and make sure nobody else has taken up the territory. Now he is quiet. So he must have landed at 4.11 am and gone to sleep till 6.40 am. And now again he is resting or looking for something to eat. How cool! And I am so thrill he has returned! So one more season of saving my moths in the morning from his claws (or rather his beak), that means I have to be up before the day breaks and photograph the moths and scare them away from my sheet! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Clay-colored Sparrow, Cornell Campus
Hi all, Andrew Dreelin reports that the Clay-colored Sparrow is on the south side of Goldwin Smith this morning. - Brad Brad Walker Audio Archivist Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 607-254-2168 Our Mission: To interpret and conserve the Earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: Late this evening a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was discovered on the Cornell Campus, originally in the Azalea Garden and then feeding on the road and in trees along paths on East Ave in front of Goldwin-Smith Hall just north of the intersection with Tower Road. The bird was moving around a lot and even singing occasionally. I'm sure the students will keep up updated if it is refound tomorrow. -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *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 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] New Yard Bird
I'm so excited! For the first time ever, I had a Scarlet Tanager under my feeder. It didn't stay long. Who knows what else came with those nasty storms? Sent from my iPad -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods this morning
Things were pretty quiet around the Wilson Trail, but activity picked up on the Severinghaus Trail between the Wilson Trail and the road. We found a SWAINSON'S THRUSH through here and then came upon a warbler flock high in the trees as we approached the road that included at least one BAY-BREASTED WARBLER and a NORTHERN PARULA. After the flock disappeared, we went across the street, where we refound the flock. We saw at least a dozen warblers foraging in the tree tops. Most were silent and backlit, but we found and heard BLACK-THROATED GREEN and BLACKBURNIAN. Later on the wood chip trail that connects the Hoyt-Pileated Trail with the road, we found a GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. This bird was very dark backed-from cap to tail, and it lacked face markings. It had limited, clear, dark spots on the lower throat and upper breast, surrounded by smudgy spots on the sides and lower breast. Like the bird I found before, this bird was very cooperative and let us study it for quite a while at about 10' away. Anne Marie Johnson (with husband, Tim) -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Bird recordings
Hi all, The American Bird Association has an ethics document that addresses the issue (see below). While it’s not as specific as I’d like, it clearly mentions heavily birded areas among a number of other caveats. Given the fact that our region has lots of birders, many of whom have smart phones or iPods etc, I would assume that recordings are probably being played for recreational purposes with some regularity. I’m assuming that each time a recording is played, it’s a disturbance event for the bird(s) among many other events including: predators, real” rivals of the same species, invasive species (plant and animal), West Nile Virus, human development (here and abroad), weather events, dogs, cats, all the crazy things they encounter in their winter habitats and during migrations, bad science, and truly unethical birders/wildlife watchers. Given all this, playing recordings for kicks doesn’t sound like a good thing to me. Issue is probably not so simple as that, it’s just my two cents. Hope I didn’t sound like some holy birder. I’ve played recordings before and this discussion is causing me to rethink. David Diaz Trumansburg, NY 1(b) To avoid stressing birds or exposing them to danger, exercise restraint and caution during observation, photography, sound recording, or filming. Limit the use of recordings and other methods of attracting birds, and never use such methods in heavily birded areas or for attracting any species that is Threatened, Endangered, or of Special Concern, or is rare in your local area. Keep well back from nests and nesting colonies, roosts, display areas, and important feeding sites. In such sensitive areas, if there is a need for extended observation, photography, filming, or recording, try to use a blind or hide, and take advantage of natural cover. -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] ANy resource for hybrid warbler photos?
Hi Alicia, Warbler hybrids do occur, but in general they are less frequent (or at least less frequently reported) than in some other groups, such as ducks. The exception of course is Blue-winged x Golden-winged crosses, which are seen quite frequently, especially in this part of the world. The bird you describe sounds to me like an immature male American Redstart, which look essentially identical to females their first year but often look blotchily transitional their second. I just saw a similar looking bird to what you describe at Sapsucker Woods, mostly like a female redstart but with a small black mask and blotchy black markings on the body. Take a look at some photos on the web and see if that seems reasonable for what you saw. -Jay On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Alicia Plotkin t...@zoom-dsl.com wrote: Hi, As often happens after storms in May, we had a bunch of warblers in our yard this morning, and I just got in from four hours of watching them. (Since the part of our yard involved is only about an acres, this is a lot of time - partly it was birdy, partly it's hard to come in when there is anything at all to watch or hear.) One bird definitely was not a standard issue warbler, but I don't have a camera so am reduced to looking at other people's pictures, although it was extremely cooperative and staying in clear view at or a little above eye level for 20 minutes and may still be there for all I know! (But my neighbors with cameras have all gone to work.) It seemed redstart-ish in many ways - size, feeding patterns, songs variable and generally w/i the redstart spectrum - and it also in many ways was like a female redstart in overall color. However, the tail had a bit less yellow, it had a single short and very slim buffy wingbar, and, most peculiarly, it s head had a greyish cast and also a black mask that extended to the eyes. It had the same yellow shoulder patches but it also had a fairly large blotch of black on it's upper breast that was slightly off center to the left, where it met the yellow patch, but didn't extend nearly as far to the right; and a much smaller blotch a bit below that and on the right, with one or two very short vertical black lines below that smaller blotch. The rest of the chin and breast, all the way to the tail, were white. I don't really expect anyone to recognize this bird from this description, but if you could point me toward a resource with photos. I'd be much obliged. Alicia oob in Ovid -- 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/ -- -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard, May 14, 2014
Went to the Hawthorn Orchard early this morning and didn't expect much, given the cool temps and blustery winds from the SE. As it turns out, things picked up by about the time I needed to leave, probably as a result of the sun coming out. The first highlight was hearing and then observing two MERLINS copulating in a spruce treetop across Mitchell Street, as visible from the Northeast corner of the Hawthorn Orchard. I'm guessing they will be nesting somewhere over in the East Hill Cemetery. Then came my final highlight. As I was getting ready to head out, I met two undergrad students, Eric and Taylor (apologies for misspellings), who tipped me off to a male BAY-BREASTED WARBLER which they had seen minutes earlier in the Northeast corner. Fortunately, I came across the male BAY-BREASTED WARBLER silently foraging in a hawthorn tree right near the muddy Northeast Corner entrance. As I was observing this bird, I kept hearing high frequency, short, thin seet flight notes, but couldn't quite localize where they were coming from. Finally, I honed in on their source, up in the top of the tallest Maple tree immediately adjacent to the Northeast corner. I got onto a warbler which turned out to be a nice male CAPE MAY WARBLER. Then, I saw movement of another bird, and another bird, and another bird, and another bird, and finally another bird. They were ALL CAPE MAY WARBLERS foraging in the treetop of this maple and giving constant contact flight notes. In total, five males and one female. Then, as soon as I got on them, they rapidly flew down into the sunlit hedgerow of hawthorns adjacent to the one the Bay-breasted Warbler was in and began probing leaves and gorging themselves on extricated Tortricidae larvae (Tortrix or Leafroller Moths). This flock was feverishly moving around the hawthorn edges and were soon joined by both male and female MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, two male TENNESSEE WARBLERS and two AMERICAN REDSTARTS. I eventually moved myself around to the outside of the hedgerow to get better views of the Cape May Warblers, but by the time I had gotten to a location where the sun was to my back, the only Cape May Warbler remaining was a female. I suspect the rest of the males must have either moved along down the hedgerow or took flight and headed into the Hawthorn Orchard. On my way out, I ran into Stuart Krasnoff and Bob McGuire who were just arriving. Hopefully, they will have similar success to report from today. Overnight last night, following the thunderstorm-associated rain showers, the dominant canopy hawthorn flowers have resultantly totally popped open. If this small flock of Cape May Warblers is any indication, along with the arrival of at least four male Tennessee Warblers, and the Bay-breasted Warbler, this may be the beginning of full forage use of the Hawthorn Orchard by neotropical migrants this spring. Keep an eye out over the coming days, the potential is now there. Thank you to Eric and Taylor for the Bay-breasted Warbler tip. Had I not stopped to look for that bird, I almost certainly would have missed those Cape May Warblers! Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, US-NY May 14, 2014 7:25 AM - 8:52 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.5 mile(s) Comments: Really nice showing of Cape May Warblers in NE corner, later in AM walk. Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.7.1 32 species (+1 other taxa) Osprey 1 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Merlin 2 Heard calling, observed copulating in top of spruce tree across Mitchell Street in East Hill Cemetery. Least Flycatcher 2 Blue Jay 4 Barn Swallow 1 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 1 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 8 Northern Mockingbird 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Heard singing, North ravine Tennessee Warbler 4 Singing NW corner, NE corner, 3 males at one time in NE corner Nashville Warbler 2 Singing NE corner Common Yellowthroat 5 American Redstart 5 North ravine and NE corner Cape May Warbler 6 1 female, at least 5 males; 4 in one binocular view at one point. In tall maple tree at NE corner, then descended into Hawthorn hedgerow just East of NE corner. Lots of short, thin flight notes. Rapidly moving flock. Magnolia Warbler 11 Mostly in North ravine and NE corner Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Silently foraging male in corner hawthorn, NE corner. Thanks to tip from Eric and Taylor! Yellow Warbler 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 NE corner Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Singing, maples, East of NE corner warbler sp. 5 Flyovers Chipping Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 1 NE corner Eastern Meadowlark 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18383961 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- Christopher T.
Re:[cayugabirds-l] redstart resource for warbler photos?
Ageing and sexing website for American Redstart. Will help with transitional plumages. http://www.migrationresearch.org/mbo/id/amred.html -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] ANy resource for hybrid warbler photos?
Yep, that's it! While I haven't found any quite as weird as the bird I saw, the mask definitely seems identical to several, and one shows small blotches on the upper breast. Thanks, Jay! Alicia On 5/14/2014 11:59 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: Hi Alicia, Warbler hybrids do occur, but in general they are less frequent (or at least less frequently reported) than in some other groups, such as ducks. The exception of course is Blue-winged x Golden-winged crosses, which are seen quite frequently, especially in this part of the world. The bird you describe sounds to me like an immature male American Redstart, which look essentially identical to females their first year but often look blotchily transitional their second. I just saw a similar looking bird to what you describe at Sapsucker Woods, mostly like a female redstart but with a small black mask and blotchy black markings on the body. Take a look at some photos on the web and see if that seems reasonable for what you saw. -Jay On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Alicia Plotkin t...@zoom-dsl.com mailto:t...@zoom-dsl.com wrote: Hi, As often happens after storms in May, we had a bunch of warblers in our yard this morning, and I just got in from four hours of watching them. (Since the part of our yard involved is only about an acres, this is a lot of time - partly it was birdy, partly it's hard to come in when there is anything at all to watch or hear.) One bird definitely was not a standard issue warbler, but I don't have a camera so am reduced to looking at other people's pictures, although it was extremely cooperative and staying in clear view at or a little above eye level for 20 minutes and may still be there for all I know! (But my neighbors with cameras have all gone to work.) It seemed redstart-ish in many ways - size, feeding patterns, songs variable and generally w/i the redstart spectrum - and it also in many ways was like a female redstart in overall color. However, the tail had a bit less yellow, it had a single short and very slim buffy wingbar, and, most peculiarly, it s head had a greyish cast and also a black mask that extended to the eyes. It had the same yellow shoulder patches but it also had a fairly large blotch of black on it's upper breast that was slightly off center to the left, where it met the yellow patch, but didn't extend nearly as far to the right; and a much smaller blotch a bit below that and on the right, with one or two very short vertical black lines below that smaller blotch. The rest of the chin and breast, all the way to the tail, were white. I don't really expect anyone to recognize this bird from this description, but if you could point me toward a resource with photos. I'd be much obliged. Alicia oob in Ovid -- 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/ -- -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu mailto:jw...@cornell.edu -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *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 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard, Tuesday, May 13, 2014
This is a little delayed, but is an interesting comparison to today. Best bird yesterday was a softly singing and scolding, brightly-colored, male PHILADELPHIA VIREO in the very Northeast corner of the Hawthorn Orchard. Jay McGowan and Livia Santana were already observing it as I was walking toward the source of the softly singing Red-eyed Vireo sound-alike, suspecting Philly Vireo. It is fairly common to have general daily turnover of migrants at the Hawthorn Orchard, especially with low food resources there. Now that the Tortricidae larvae have hatched, there may be more birds arriving and staying for longer durations…I hope. Tuesday, there was only one hawthorn tree that I observed with flowers open on the crown…compared to most of the crowns open today. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H Hawthorn Orchard, Tompkins, US-NY May 13, 2014 7:00 AM - 8:39 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.7 mile(s) Comments: Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.7.1 37 species (+1 other taxa) Osprey 1 Flying with fish in direction of Game Farm Rd Mourning Dove 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Least Flycatcher 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Philadelphia Vireo 1 Bright male singing and scolding softly at NE corner. Red-eyed Vireo 1 Singing in oaks, NW corner Blue Jay 5 American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 4 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Wood Thrush 1 Male singing NE corner in ravine American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 8 Brown Thrasher 1 Male singing from various tall perches in middle Northern side European Starling 6 Northern Waterthrush 1 Singing near West edge of South creek. Blue-winged Warbler 1 Female Black-and-white Warbler 1 Female Tennessee Warbler 1 Male singing quietly in NW corner Common Yellowthroat 4 American Redstart 2 Magnolia Warbler 1 Male singing middle West side Yellow Warbler 6 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 warbler sp. 6 Flyovers Song Sparrow 4 Scarlet Tanager 1 Male singing, passing through NE of Hawthorn Orchard Northern Cardinal 4 Indigo Bunting 2 Flyover Red-winged Blackbird 4 Common Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18368828 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn birds
I spent the late morning at Hawthorn. As Chris's RBA pointed out there was a nice selection of migrants. With a good chunk of time spent birding with Larry Hymes. There were multiple copies of Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll , Yellow-rumped, Tennessee, Yellow, A. Redstart, C. Yellowthroat , Chestnut-sided, Magnolia and Nashville Warblers. There was one Wilson's and a B-T. Green Warbler. We had stellar looks at 2 Swainson's thrush with one of them singing and the two Merlin's displaying. Many Red-eyed Vireos a Blue-headed Vireo along with Indigo Bunting, Rose-breasted Grosbeak helped past the time. I misses the Cape May Warblers, but it's one of the days where if you keep at it silent birds pop-up every where. Good birding , Gary -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Clay-colored Sparrow, Cornell Campus
The CLAY-COLORED SPARROW continues around the lawns and flowering trees south of Goldwin-Smith hall on Cornell Campus this evening. Gary Kohlenberg also found a nice LAWRENCE'S WARBLER singing on Burns Road this evening. On May 14, 2014 8:05 AM, Brad Walker bm...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, Andrew Dreelin reports that the Clay-colored Sparrow is on the south side of Goldwin Smith this morning. - Brad Brad Walker Audio Archivist Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 607-254-2168 Our Mission: To interpret and conserve the Earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: Late this evening a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was discovered on the Cornell Campus, originally in the Azalea Garden and then feeding on the road and in trees along paths on East Ave in front of Goldwin-Smith Hall just north of the intersection with Tower Road. The bird was moving around a lot and even singing occasionally. I'm sure the students will keep up updated if it is refound tomorrow. -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *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 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Chimney Swifts
I thought I would share this email from Bryant Park List Serve, that even non-birders are enjoying the Chimney Swifts: Neighbors, It appears that the flock of Chimney Swifts has returned to the Belle Sherman school chimney. They put on quite a show...I'd recommend it! If you're interested, they begin gathering about 8:20 (at least that's been their pattern over the past few days). After 15-20 minutes of flying in big circles over the school and surrounding area the flock (50-60?) then streams into the chimney for the night. It's quite fascinating. I'm not a birder, so if anyone has more information to share, please do! Regards, -Rob (603 Mitchell) -- Sara Jane Hymes -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Nighthawk
I heard a Common Nighthawk this evening at home in Enfield. The sound moved away to the north. Martha Fischer Enfield, NY -- 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/ --