Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler

[Whitings]

Thanks Marie, I will crop in the larvae and post it. Would they be harmful or 
influence the female to avoid this nest box? Appreciate your help!

Diana

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> On May 17, 2020, at 6:59 PM, Marie P. Read  wrote:
> 
> Hi Diana and Cayugabirders,
> 
> Here is what birdsoftheworld.org (formerly Birds of North America online) 
> says about Prothonotary Warbler nesting:
> 
>  Selection Process
> Males establish territories around one or several suitable nest sites, and 
> place moss inside cavities before females arrive. Male displays at each 
> cavity. Female selects nest cavity from among those available. Settlement by 
> female is related partly to quality or number of nest cavities available> 
> and 
>  Construction Process
> Male places moss in potential nest sites. Amount of moss varies from several 
> pieces to foundation 1–8 cm deep, and male may fashion nest cup in moss. 
> Female alone constructs remainder of nest and lining, with male accompanying 
> but not assisting. >
> and
>  Males place various amounts of moss (but not complete nests) in all available 
> cavities within their territory.>
> 
> No mention of larvae. I can't quite tell what kind of larvae they are from 
> the one photo I can see on your site. But very interesting observation. I 
> didn't notice anything like this obvious new hatch of larvae on the 3 boxes I 
> observed there last week at Armitage Rd. I also saw/heard at least 3 
> different males along the road.
> 
> Marie
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
> Marie Read Wildlife Photography
> 452 Ringwood Road
> Freeville NY  13068 USA
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> From: bounce-124636532-5851...@list.cornell.edu 
> [bounce-124636532-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Whitings 
> [whiti...@roadrunner.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2020 6:02 PM
> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler
> 
> Hi All,
> I was able to watch the Prothonotary Warbler on Armitage Rd. For.  an 
> extended period of time. In the morning it was mostly foraging and singing as 
> well as displaying periodically. Then in mid day, it started bringing moss 
> into the nest box. I was wondering if this is the male making moss offerings. 
> I never saw more than one bird together that day.  Occasionally it would 
> leave with a pale green larvae in it’s peak. After looking at photos when I 
> got home, I noticed that there was a whole area of larvae around the nest box 
> hole. Someone else who was observing at a different angle thought it was 
> adhering insects to the box. I only could see the bird bringing back moss, 
> but can anyone explain the larvae at the nest hole? There are a few photos 
> https://www.dianawhitingphotography.com/Galleries/Favorites/Favorites-2020/i-5q7LXPJ/buy
> 
> 
> Diana Whiting
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler

[Marie P. Read]

Hi Diana and Cayugabirders,

Here is what birdsoftheworld.org (formerly Birds of North America online) says 
about Prothonotary Warbler nesting:

 
and 

and


No mention of larvae. I can't quite tell what kind of larvae they are from the 
one photo I can see on your site. But very interesting observation. I didn't 
notice anything like this obvious new hatch of larvae on the 3 boxes I observed 
there last week at Armitage Rd. I also saw/heard at least 3 different males 
along the road.

Marie










Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Freeville NY  13068 USA

e-mail   m...@cornell.edu
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Birds and Their Behavior

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From: bounce-124636532-5851...@list.cornell.edu 
[bounce-124636532-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Whitings 
[whiti...@roadrunner.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2020 6:02 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler

Hi All,
I was able to watch the Prothonotary Warbler on Armitage Rd. For.  an extended 
period of time. In the morning it was mostly foraging and singing as well as 
displaying periodically. Then in mid day, it started bringing moss into the 
nest box. I was wondering if this is the male making moss offerings. I never 
saw more than one bird together that day.  Occasionally it would leave with a 
pale green larvae in it’s peak. After looking at photos when I got home, I 
noticed that there was a whole area of larvae around the nest box hole. Someone 
else who was observing at a different angle thought it was adhering insects to 
the box. I only could see the bird bringing back moss, but can anyone explain 
the larvae at the nest hole? There are a few photos 
https://www.dianawhitingphotography.com/Galleries/Favorites/Favorites-2020/i-5q7LXPJ/buy


Diana Whiting
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[cayugabirds-l] Lindsay-Parsons Worm-eating and Hooded Warblers

[Sandy Podulka]

Sorry for posting a day late too busy birding.  Bill and I 
checked out the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve yesterday 
(Saturday) and found many of the usual residents including the 
invisible Prairie Warblers, several Brown Thrashers, Northern 
Waterthrush (near the entrance), Yellow-throated Vireo, and Least 
Flycatcher. Only a few migrants--Cape May Warbler and Northern 
Parula. I posted a full list on eBird.


The highlight was finally, after several decades, seeing my first 
local Worm-eating Warbler. We first heard it singing from the purple 
trail, near its junction with the red trail, on the steep hill that 
goes up to Thatcher's Pinnacles, where Worm-eatings traditionally 
breed. After about 1.5 hours, finally got literally a glimpse, but 
that was a triumph.  Also saw a Hooded Warbler along the purple 
trail, where it usually breeds (could hear it from the RR tracks even).


And not one tick.

Sandy Podulka


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[cayugabirds-l] Arnot Forest - Mournings and many other warblers

[Sandy Podulka]

Inspired by Suan's post (which sounded great to me), our family 
headed to Arnot Forest this morning. Martha Fischer gave us a tip to 
a patch of spruce trees down the road from Greensprings whose sunlit 
tops were teeming with migrants--Bay-breasted, Magnolia, 
Blackburnian, Cape May, Yellow-rumped, American Redstart, 
Black-throated Blue, and Black-throated Green. Ovenbirds were 
squabbling and one was carrying nest material!


Next we birded Decker Road, across Route 13 from Arnot Forest and 
found some of the same, and also Canada, Chestnut-sided, Tennessee, 
Nashville, Common Yellowthroat, and Northern Parula. Also most of the 
usual breeders and Yellow-throated, Blue-headed, Warbling, and 
Red-eyed Vireos. Veeries and Wood Thrushes, too. A male Rose-breasted 
Grosbeak was carrying a long string of nesting material and then 
couldn't resist singing and dropped it all! Heard our first Eastern 
Wood-Pewee there.


Headed up Banfield Road and finally heard a Yellow Warbler! Also 
Louisiana Waterthrush, lots of Canada Warblers (all invisible), 
several Winter Wrens, and quite a few other birds including a few 
migrant warblers. The highlight was watching two Mourning Warblers 
chase each other all over the place contesting a choice brush pile 
(while listening to a Hooded Warbler and Winter Wren).


Beautiful morning and very few people.

Sandy Podulka


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[cayugabirds-l] Prothonotary Warbler

[Whitings]

Hi All,
I was able to watch the Prothonotary Warbler on Armitage Rd. For.  an extended 
period of time. In the morning it was mostly foraging and singing as well as 
displaying periodically. Then in mid day, it started bringing moss into the 
nest box. I was wondering if this is the male making moss offerings. I never 
saw more than one bird together that day.  Occasionally it would leave with a 
pale green larvae in it’s peak. After looking at photos when I got home, I 
noticed that there was a whole area of larvae around the nest box hole. Someone 
else who was observing at a different angle thought it was adhering insects to 
the box. I only could see the bird bringing back moss, but can anyone explain 
the larvae at the nest hole? There are a few photos 
https://www.dianawhitingphotography.com/Galleries/Favorites/Favorites-2020/i-5q7LXPJ/buy


Diana Whiting
dianawhitingphotography.com


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[cayugabirds-l] Wood Peewee

[Geo Kloppel]

I was pleased to hear a Wood Peewee singing about 1,000’ south of Station Road 
along the State Forest / L-P Preserve boundary.

-Geo



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[cayugabirds-l] Male Indigo Bunting

[Jill Vaughan]

Last evening I watched my FOY Indigo Bunting flit around the avian buffet 
where he appeared  to favor the Oriole feeders. The combined colors of the 
fruit and the bird were stunning.

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[cayugabirds-l] Warblers at Myers Point

[Kenneth V. Rosenberg]

For those wanting some spectacular looks (and photo ops) of some warblers (Cape 
May, Tennessee, Nashville, etc) There are two flowering silver maples at the 
entrance to Myers Park (above the dumpsters) that are dripping w warblers all 
morning. Many down low. More diversity earlier but still a lot activity at 10 am

Ken

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Hawthorn Orchard Update: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorns today?

[Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes]

Hi Laura and everyone,

Yesterday morning, Scott Anthony and I spent a bunch of time there.

Birds were foraging mostly in the flowering pear trees and apple trees. Only a 
very few hawthorns (Crataegus sp.) were visible with blossom buds about to pop. 
Most are still in initial leaf-out stages. With the warm moist weather, we can 
see a burst of activity through the next 2-3 days.

Best birds were: 1 adult male Golden-winged Warbler, 2 Brewster’s Warblers 
(hybrids), 1 Wilson’s Warbler, 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo (flyby), and a Lincoln’s 
Sparrow.

Also, any recent visits to the Hawthorn Orchard and East Ithaca Recreation Way 
can be found here:

https://ebird.org/hotspot/L122418/activity?yr=all=

Below is our eBird checklist from yesterday with some details noted.

Please conduct and submit an eBird checklist for the official eBird Hotspot 
"Hawthorn Orchard and East Ithaca Rec. Way” should you make a visit, and please 
attempt to submit a “complete checklist."

Hawthorn Orchard and East Ithaca Rec. Way, Tompkins, New York, US
May 16, 2020 9:17 AM - 1:27 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.511 mile(s)
59 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose  2
Mallard  2
Mourning Dove  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1 Flyby in NE corner, by pear tree with mayapples 
growing around it. Bird was sleek, long-tailed, and long winged. Large white 
tail-tip spots, bordered by black interior edging to the outer tail feathers. 
Rust coloration on top of wings.
Killdeer  2
Turkey Vulture  3
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1 Adult. Carrying fresh kill, dropped into Hawthorn 
Orchard to eat.
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  3
Pileated Woodpecker  1 Foraging and calling from dead log on ground along 
West side of fire hydrant clearing at the NW corner of the Hawthorn Orchard 
property.
Least Flycatcher  8
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  13
American Crow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  5
Tufted Titmouse  2
Tree Swallow  1
Barn Swallow  10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
House Wren  2
Carolina Wren  3
European Starling  10
Gray Catbird  16
Wood Thrush  6
American Robin  8
House Sparrow  4
Purple Finch  1
American Goldfinch  6
White-crowned Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  8
Savannah Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  4
Lincoln's Sparrow  1 Central portion of Eastern edge, near NE corner, but 
in the Hawthorn Orchard. Dainty, crested-looking sparrow, with delicate 
streaking on buffy sides. Buff malar stripe. Gray face with tiny beady eye. 
Skulking behind branches about 15 feet up. Camera-shy...
Eastern Towhee  2
Bobolink  1
Baltimore Oriole  6
Red-winged Blackbird  6
Brown-headed Cowbird  4
Common Grackle  2
Ovenbird  2
Northern Waterthrush  1
Golden-winged Warbler  1 Adult male seen well, and poorly photographed, 
silently foraging in a blooming pear tree in the NW corner, just East of the 
small white pine grove that is East of the clearing with the fire hydrant. Gray 
body, black throat, black mask, gold-colored wing bars. Associating with clean 
male Blue-winged Warbler and Nashville Warbler.
Blue-winged Warbler  2
Brewster's Warbler (hybrid)  2 Two Brewster’s Warblers. One with a male 
Blue-winged Warbler near interior NW corner. Earlier there was a singing 
“winged” warbler doing a classic high, thin “bzee-dzzt-dzzt-dzzt” song three 
times, in the Northeast corner, moving East toward the hedgerow along the 
softball field outfield. Later, the singing “winged” warbler was heard again 
along the hedgerow and seen well as a Brewster’s Warbler.
Nashville Warbler  4
Common Yellowthroat  4
American Redstart  1
Magnolia Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  3
Chestnut-sided Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1 Singing distantly from Cemetery white pines on other side 
of Mitchell St from Hawthorn Orchard property.
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Wilson's Warbler  1 Male foraging low along Trail in Northeast corner. 
Non-vocal.
warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.)  8
Northern Cardinal  7
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S69152895

Good birding!!


Sincerely,
Chris T-H


On May 16, 2020, at 8:39 PM, Laura Stenzler 
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Did anyone bird the Hawthorn orchard today?

Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] A good variety of birds on Black Diamond Trail

[Diane Stone]

  Black Diamond Trail between Houghton Rd. parking area and Taughannock was
great birding yesterday morning. Lori Abbott and I saw a Sora, Rough Winged
Swallow, Eastern Bluebird,  a pair of Hermit Thrushes, Wood Thrush, Brown
Thrashers, Eastern Towhee, Indigo Bunting, Many Northern Orioles. and many
Warblers-Yellow, Blackburnian, Black Throated Green, and possibly a
Magnolia & Palm (possibly more - in the early morning the lighting was not
good) as well as the more common birds. Later at my feeder at Penny Lane I
enjoyed watching two female Red Grosbeaks eat suet mixed with oranges.

Diane Stone

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