[cayugabirds-l] Fledglings of Common Grackles

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Today I spent most of my time at home and in the yard. Whole day I have been 
listening to the begging of the young grackles  and the way they make noise 
when the parents come to feed them. Even now they are continuously making noise.



Also other birds of interest, a Purple Finch sang from one of my spruces for  a 
longtime. A Red-eyed Vireo also spent much of his time in the yard.  A 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo called a couple of times.  House Wren has been weaving in 
and out.



I don't know what is the story of my Catbird.  In last week I have not heard 
the male sing in the morning, I attributed it to the cold mornings. But I have 
a catbird, and it makes a high pitched sound and meowing noise.  The day the 
male catbird arrived I saw both male and female together.  So now there are 
several possibilities.

1. The catbird I hear is a female and that is why she is not singing like a 
male. Has anyone heard a female sing in high pitched voice?

2. Something happened to my male catbird, hit by a car or eaten by a predator 
or a cat as I have seen recently one hanging around my yard. Or natural death 
due to old age. But he sang pretty vigorously.

3. He found another girl so he left the older girl for her.

4. Now may be the current catbird has a nest and she has laid eggs and that is 
the reason why he is not singing. But in the previous years he sang everyday.

It is bothering me as to what happened to the male.



Hope at least the female will find a new mate and they continue their family!



Cheers

Meena

Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
42.429007,-76.47111
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/



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[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA
 
*  New York
*  Syracuse
* June 02, 2014
*  NYSY  06. 02. 14
 
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):

May 26, 2013 - June 02, 2014
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),
Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison & Cortland
compiled: June 02 AT 6:30 a.m. (EDT)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
 
 
#395 Monday June 02, 2014
 
Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of 
May 26, 2014
 
Highlights:
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GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
EURASIAN WIGEON
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER
SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER
RUDDY TURNSTONE
SANDERLING
RED KNOT
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
WHIP-POOR-WILL
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
KIRTLAND’S WARBLER
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW
LARK SPARROW
ORCHARD ORIOLE




Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)


     5/26: 400 DUNLIN, 45 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 19 RUDDY TURNSTONES, a 
SANDERLING, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were all seen 
at Carncross Road. The RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS continue on Mays Point Road.
     5/27: A RED KNOT was added to yesterday’s mix at Carncross Road.
     5/28: A LARK SPARROW was seen along the Wildlife Drive. At Carncross Road 
a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, a RED-NECKED GREBE, a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER and 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were seen.
     5/30: 5 RED KNOTS, 40 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS and a GREATED WHITE-FRONTED 
GOOSE were all found at Carncross Road.
     6/2: An EURASIAN WIGEON was seen atTschache Pool.


Oswego County


     The HAWKWATCH at Derby Hill is officially over . Check the site for final 
numbers. Once again Steve Kolbe did a fabulous job, not only counting Hawks but 
also helping everyone both through his class on Hawk ID and fielding any and 
all questions BIRD for birders on all levels. Congratulations Steve on a job 
WELL DONE.
     5/26: COMMON NIGHTHAWKS are still being counted at Derby Hill and have 
been seen through 6/1.
     6/1: An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was found on Kibbe Lake Road in Constantia. 
WHIP-POOR-WILLS are still being heard on Roosevelt Road north of Oneida Lake.


Madison County


     2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS were found onMills Road in Durhamville.


Onondaga County


     COMMON NIGHTHAWKS have also been seen at Three Rivers WMA north of 
Baldwinsville most evenings this week.
     6/1: A pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES were see on Tacoma Road on the Erie Canal 
in Warners. A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW continues to be seen at Green Lakes State 
Park.


Oneida County


     5/27: CLAY-COLORED SPARROW, probably breeding, is still being seen at 
Spring Farm Nature Center in Clinton.
     5/30: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was found near Cassville.


Extralimital


     6/1: An impossibily rare male KIRTLANDS WARBLER was found and seen and 
photographed at Hamlin Beach State Park west of Rochester. Unfortunately there 
have been no positive reports today.
     

    
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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y.  13027  U.S.A.
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[cayugabirds-l] Phalarope & continuing birds in northern Montezuma

[Ken & Rose Burdick]

Tom Riley, Dave Graham and I visited shorebird habitat on the state 
lands this morning, and re-located some of the finds from earlier in week.


Carncross still had lots of Semipalmated Sandpipers, a few 
Semipalmated Plovers, an adult breeding RED-NECKED PHALAROPE, a few 
Dunlin, and a probable Sanderling.  The Snow Goose, Trumpeter & Mute 
Swans and Ruddy Duck were still there, also, two Northern Shovelers, 
Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal.  The family of four Sandhill 
Cranes were in the usual area.


At VanDyne Spoor Rd was another family of four Sandhill Cranes, 17+ 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERs, and a large number of Double-crested Cormorants.


At Armitage Road, a Prothonotary Warbler was seen singing at the nest 
site.  Also, the flooded corn field on Armitage is currently being 
pumped down and will soon cease to be shorebird habitat.  Shorebirds 
were in there, but we couldn't see them.  Running short on time, we 
didn't get over to K-M Marsh or Morgan Rd.


Good birding,
Ken

Ken & Rose Burdick
Skaneateles, NY
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RE:[cayugabirds-l] Black and white duck on Beebe Lake

[Karen Steffy]

Thanks all who pointed me in the direction of the male Common Merganser.  That 
was my first guess.  I think of them as being more white, but this one has grey 
on it and that threw me.

Thanks again!

Karen

From: bounce-116205253-25410...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-116205253-25410...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Steffy
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 12:52 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Black and white duck on Beebe Lake

Good afternoon,

There is a duck on Beebe Lake that I can't identify.  I googled black and white 
duck, and this is what it looks like: 
http://www.123rf.com/photo_5523284_a-black-and-white-duck-swimming-through-the-water.html

What is it?

Thanks!

Karen


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[cayugabirds-l] Black and white duck on Beebe Lake

[Karen Steffy]

Good afternoon,

There is a duck on Beebe Lake that I can't identify.  I googled black and white 
duck, and this is what it looks like: 
http://www.123rf.com/photo_5523284_a-black-and-white-duck-swimming-through-the-water.html

What is it?

Thanks!

Karen



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[cayugabirds-l] Orchard Oriole, Stewart Park

[Jay McGowan]

A few people have heard it singing over the past week or two but it may not
have been posted here yet. An immature male ORCHARD ORIOLE has been making
the rounds at Stewart Park, and Mike Tetlow reports that it is currently
singing up a storm in a sycamore right at the entrance to the park.


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[cayugabirds-l] Acadian Flycatcher

[Geo Kloppel]

Between 7:00 and 8:15 this morning I got an 8 Tyrannid sweep: all the 
flycatcher species that breed in the West Danby area.

I started with Eastern Phoebe on Tupper Road. I found Alder Flycatcher and 
Willow Flycatcher singing in close proximity along Hillview Road near the old 
Landstrom landfill, and a pair of Eastern Kingbirds in the snaggly swamp there. 

The next stop was for Acadian Flycatcher along Michigan Hollow Creek, near the 
_southern_ crossing of the Abbott's Loop Trail (not Diane's Crossing). This 
location has hosted Acadian Flycatchers since Karl David's days at least, 
making it the oldest still-active territory I know of in the Emerald Necklace. 
And it's a drive-up bird! (JOOB though; more precise location on request).

A little farther up the creek I found Least Flycatcher. Then along the edge of 
the big sedge marsh I found Great Crested Flycatchers, and finally Wood Pewee 
at the easternmost extremity of the L-P Preserve, south of Station Road. There 
used to be Acadians there, but to the best of my knowledge they disappeared 
several years ago.

When I got home my own pair of Great Crested Flycatchers was very talkative.

-Geo Kloppel
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[cayugabirds-l] bald eagle

[Linda Post Van Buskirk]

About 7:25 am, a mature bald eagle, flying low, direction nw, crossed Rt 90 at 
the Aurora south village limit.   Glorious sight for a morning commute.  In 
past years, an eagle has patrolled the east shore of the lake near Aurora, but 
usually later in the day.

Linda Van Buskirk

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[cayugabirds-l] Night Migration - Etna, NY: 5/31-6/1 and 6/1-6/2

[Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes]

Saturday night (5/31) was a fairly decent night, but with low species 
diversity, consisting primarily of a cleanup flight of Swainson's and 
Gray-cheeked Thrushes of about equal numbers – perhaps 40-50 of each.

There were at least 14 Black-billed Cuckoo calls from at least 10 individuals. 
Two (2) Yellow-billed Cuckoos also called (one at 00:50 and another at 03:18).

Biggest surprise was an apparent distant BARN OWL which called three times 
early Sunday morning (6/1) between 00:08 and 00:09.

These three Barn Owl clips may be downloaded and listened to at the Mail 
Archive for the message posted to the Night Flight Call eList (NFC-L), here: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/msg01095.html

Sunday night (6/1) was very quiet, probably due to the breezy winds out of the 
South. There was either minimal migration or any migrants simply were not 
calling. The only birds calling as night migrants last night were a single 
Black-billed Cuckoo, one Yellow-billed Cuckoo, one Alder Flycatcher and a 
pre-dawn Ovenbird in song.

Good night listening!

Sincerely,
Chris T-H

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