Re: [cayugabirds-l] Gray Kingbird reported at Montezuma
Hi All, Here is an e-mail from Jeff Doyle, who asked that I share this with the group. Matt From Jeff: No, I had no camera with me, so no photograph. My wife and I hadn't been to Montezuma in a year or more. We had stopped at the visitor's center and learned that the best birding was May's Point and further north. We'd stopped at the observation tower opposite Tsache Pool, then spent some time at the May's Point Pool before heading further north. We'd never been to the Monument area before, and missed our turn the first time before coming back and turning onto North May's Point Road. We stopped at the intersection with East Road around 3:30, and I spotted a bird perched on the telephone wire a few poles up East Road from the intersection. My first thought was kingfisher--it seemed to have a disproportionately large beak and head. But even a quick glance through binoculars dispelled that thought, as it didn't have a crest. Next thought we had was kingbird, because the overall aspect was reminiscent--flycatcher posture, for example. But no Eastern kingbird fieldmarks--uniform gray, no band on tail (though at first I didn't get a good look at the tail, particularly), and, I thought, larger size--more the size of a Great Crested, but not the coloration. We drove up the road slowly, stopped and looked, but didn't get out, not knowing the road and there not being an obvious place to pull off and park. The bird stayed on the wire and we got good looks with our binoculars. My next passing thought was shrike--overall gray, and perhaps I saw the dark streak through the eye (though I don't remember noting it at the time), but the overall shape was wrong and there wasn't the contrasting coloration of a shrike or mockingbird. We drove a little closer and the bird was disturbed, flew up (flycatcher like), and lighted again. At that time I distinctly noticed the deeply notched tail, which was quite distinctive. We hadn't brought our field guide, so I couldn't look it up there. We'd seen what we could see of the bird, so we continued on to the Monument, and soon headed back south, as we hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast. The bird wasn't on the wire when we got back to the intersection. When we got home, I looked it up in my Peterson's, and there just isn't anything else that it could be, though of course I'm highly skeptical of having seen a S. Florida/W. Indies species that is at best casual to Long Island and Nova Scotia and is coastal even in Florida on a wire in upstate NY! We have no internet at home, and I couldn't find Mena Haribel (sp.?) in the phone book, so the best I could do was walk over to Sapsucker yesterday morning. That's what I know! --Jeff On 9/26/10 2:20 PM, charles eldermire wrote: Hello- Jeff Doyle stopped by the Lab to report a Gray King bird he saw on Saturday at 330pm at the junction of East Rd and Mays Point rd on a telephone wire. If you have questions contact Jeff at j...@cornell.edu charles. -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Gray Kingbird not found Monday @ 10am
I am only a few minutes from this spot so I shot over this morning and found no Gray Kingbird or anything else on the wires for that matter. This was at about 10AM and the rain was just starting and has gotten heavier since. JVN From: bounce-6363107-3493...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Matthew Medler Sent: Mon 9/27/2010 9:06 AM To: cayugabirds Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Gray Kingbird reported at Montezuma Hi All, Here is an e-mail from Jeff Doyle, who asked that I share this with the group. Matt From Jeff: No, I had no camera with me, so no photograph. My wife and I hadn't been to Montezuma in a year or more. We had stopped at the visitor's center and learned that the best birding was May's Point and further north. We'd stopped at the observation tower opposite Tsache Pool, then spent some time at the May's Point Pool before heading further north. We'd never been to the Monument area before, and missed our turn the first time before coming back and turning onto North May's Point Road. We stopped at the intersection with East Road around 3:30, and I spotted a bird perched on the telephone wire a few poles up East Road from the intersection. My first thought was kingfisher--it seemed to have a disproportionately large beak and head. But even a quick glance through binoculars dispelled that thought, as it didn't have a crest. Next thought we had was kingbird, because the overall aspect was reminiscent--flycatcher posture, for example. But no Eastern kingbird fieldmarks--uniform gray, no band on tail (though at first I didn't get a good look at the tail, particularly), and, I thought, larger size--more the size of a Great Crested, but not the coloration. We drove up the road slowly, stopped and looked, but didn't get out, not knowing the road and there not being an obvious place to pull off and park. The bird stayed on the wire and we got good looks with our binoculars. My next passing thought was shrike--overall gray, and perhaps I saw the dark streak through the eye (though I don't remember noting it at the time), but the overall shape was wrong and there wasn't the contrasting coloration of a shrike or mockingbird. We drove a little closer and the bird was disturbed, flew up (flycatcher like), and lighted again. At that time I distinctly noticed the deeply notched tail, which was quite distinctive. We hadn't brought our field guide, so I couldn't look it up there. We'd seen what we could see of the bird, so we continued on to the Monument, and soon headed back south, as we hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast. The bird wasn't on the wire when we got back to the intersection. When we got home, I looked it up in my Peterson's, and there just isn't anything else that it could be, though of course I'm highly skeptical of having seen a S. Florida/W. Indies species that is at best casual to Long Island and Nova Scotia and is coastal even in Florida on a wire in upstate NY! We have no internet at home, and I couldn't find Mena Haribel (sp.?) in the phone book, so the best I could do was walk over to Sapsucker yesterday morning. That's what I know! --Jeff On 9/26/10 2:20 PM, charles eldermire wrote: Hello- Jeff Doyle stopped by the Lab to report a Gray King bird he saw on Saturday at 330pm at the junction of East Rd and Mays Point rd on a telephone wire. If you have questions contact Jeff at j...@cornell.edu charles. -- 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/ -- -- 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] English sighting of YBFC (OOB)
(Really) Out of basin: Passed onto me this morning: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/27/hundreds-of-birdwatchers-flock-to-the-norfolk-coast-to-see-rare-yellow-bellied-flycatcher-115875-22590261/ -- asher -- 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] English sighting of YBFC (OOB)
I believe that this is an Alder Flycatcher. I suppose there is a very slim chance it could be an eastern Willow Flycatcher, but the eyering, crown color, contrasty throat, primary projection, bright green back all indicate Alder (as well as migration timing and distance). eBird Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Asher Hockett veery...@gmail.com wrote: (Really) Out of basin: Passed onto me this morning: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/27/hundreds-of-birdwatchers-flock-to-the-norfolk-coast-to-see-rare-yellow-bellied-flycatcher-115875-22590261/ -- asher -- 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] Connecticut Warbler?
Anyone care to share any information about the Connecticut Warbler reported on Freese Road yesterday? Kevin -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * September 27, 2010 * NYSY 2709.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): September 29, 2009 - September 27, 2010 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:September 27 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #223 -Monday September 27, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of September 20 , 2010 Highlights: --- GREAT EGRET LITTLE BLUE HERON GLOSSY IBIS SANDHILL CRANE SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER LONG-BILLED DOWITICHER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER STILT SANDPIPER PARASITIC JAEGER GRAY KINGBIRD PHILADELPHIA VIREO ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER LINCOLN’S SPARROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 9/20: The IBIS sp. was seen at May’s Point Pool 9/26: Six shorebird species including a group of 17 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS were seen at May’s Point Pool. The immature LITTLE BLUE HERON was seen also A very rare GRAY KINGBIRD was reported on the power lines at the corner of North May’s Point Road and East Road. It was not relocated. AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER were seen in May’s Point Pool. Eight Warbler species and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO were seen along Towpath Road. Six shorebird species and two SANDHILL CRANES were seen from East Road. In all 12 species of shorebird were seen at Montezuma this week. They are - BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, and SNIPE. Onondaga County 9/25: 9 species of Warbler and a LINCOLN’S SPARROW were seen at Three rivers WMA. 2 other LINCOLN’S SPARROWS were seen near Dead Creek in the Town of Van Buren west of Baldwinsville. 9/26: A LINCOLN’S SPARROW and 2 PHILADELPHIA VIREO’S were seen in Three River’s WMA. Madison County 9/22: A GREAT EGRET was seen from the Thruway near Fyler Road. Presumably the same bird was seen on the 24th. Oswego County 9/22: A GREAT EGRET was seen at Mallory Pond. 9/23: 8 species of Warbler including an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER was seen in Hastings. A PHILADELPHIA VIREO was seen also. 9/25: 20 PARASITIC JAEGERS were seen from Derby Hill. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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] Freeze Rd. Gardens Sunday
I was in the gardens for a few hours Sunday in the late morning. The diversity of birds is fun and interesting. I was able to see: Song Savanna Chipping House Field LINCOLN'S White-throated Sparrows Indigo Bunting House Wren Ruby-throated Hummingbird Common Yellowthroat Ravens Red-tailed Hawks Turkey Vultures A. Kestrel The Kestrel was an obvious migrant, bombing in over the ravine, strafing a couple songbirds without much course correction then full speed south and out of sight. Paul and I birded together for a time and he had a Palm Warbler. I wasn't able to see it again. Gary -- 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/ --
