[cayugabirds-l] Allegany Nature Pilgrimage, June 1-3, 2012
The new schedule won't be out for some time, but in the past this event has offered virtually non-stop birding from early-morning walks and bird banding to evening owl prowls. In between there were mid-morning and afternoon birding field trips as well as an all-day Saturday trip. http://alleganynaturepilgrimage.com/ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=203473689725832view=wall Dave -- 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] Hanshaw Rd Geese Barred Owl
Yesterday at dusk, about 700+ Canada geese were migrating from the Hanshaw Rd. fields across from our house to the Sapsucker Woods' pond, honking loudly in chevron flight. From within our house and amidst the honking, I could distinctly hear a Barred Owl call who, who, who cooks for you all twice. It was unusual to hear that combination of calls. Was there an adept birder imitating the owl in the field or was it the real thing? Eyes to the sky and G.B. Candace * Submit your bird * * sightings to e http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ *Bird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/! *[image: Picture]* ** ** * * ** * * * * -- 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] George Road pond 12Oct2011
Hi all, The George Road wetlands in Dryden were fairly active this morning this morning. There is now quite a bit of open water, lots of weedy vegetation for ducks to hide in, and a decent amount of muddy and grassy shoreline. Geese and diving ducks were conspicuously absent, but dabbling ducks and shorebirds were plentiful, and I'm sure it will only get better for waterfowl in the coming weeks. Nothing too exciting at the moment, but I did see 45+ KILLDEER, 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and ~12 PECTORAL SANDPIPERS foraging in the shallow water on the Rt. 38 side, and 30+ GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 1 NORTHERN PINTAIL, 1 AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, and lots of Mallards were among the vegetation on this side as well. I will try to check this spot with more frequency, but I would encourage anyone for whom it is convenient to do the same, looking especially for interesting shorebirds (such as American Golden-Plovers and Long-billed Dowitchers, both of which could turn up here now) and uncommon waterfowl. Good birding! -- 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] CayugaRBA TEN GREAT EGRETS Stewart
CayugaRBA TEN GREAT EGRETS Stewart Park --Dave Nutter -- 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] cayugaRBA #11 GREAT EGRET in
cayugaRBA #11 GREAT EGRET in Jetty Woods marsh! --Dave Nutter -- 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] Am. Robin behavior question
I just spent a half hour watching a flock of Robins mob a pair of Pileateds in the woods here above Owasco Lake, hounding them from tree to tree, chasing them up above the canopy and down into the understory. Why? Is it because they Can in such large numbers? And what threat would the woodpeckers be to them at this time of year? Eben McLane Scipio -- 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] CayugaRBA TEN GREAT EGRETS Stewart
Ten Great Egrets were still present at 6:30pm On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, 6072292...@vtext.com wrote: CayugaRBA TEN GREAT EGRETS Stewart Park --Dave Nutter -- 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 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] Stewart Park turnover, etc.
Yesterday afternoon on my day off I biked over to Stewart Park. This morning and afternoon I stopped by there briefly in the taxi. Among the many CANADA GEESE, MALLARDS, DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, and RING-BILLED, HERRING, and GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS, there was a changing mix of migrants. Yesterday (Tuesday 11 Oct) afternoon: Around the Swan Pond there were several YELLOW-RUMPED (MYRTLE) WARBLERS. They were separate, mobile, and hard to count, but I saw at least 3 at once, and I think there were at least 6 and probably more like 8. By the weedy overgrown boatramp next to the dock I saw a single (WESTERN) PALM WARBLER and a couple SONG SPARROWS. A pair of WOOD DUCKS squealed as it flew from one part of the Swan Pond to the other. Later I saw a single male WOOD DUCK out on the lake. The males are in fine breeding plumage these days. 6 COMMON MERGANSERS swam by the red lighthouse breakwater. A single male LESSER SCAUP swam offshore. Like the recent photos, there seemed no doubt about the ID, which made me wonder if this is a different bird, and the ambiguous scaup departed. A flock of 7 AMERICAN COOTS was together off the Swan Pond while an eighth individual was far to the east. A pair of NORTHERN SHOVELERS (male in breeding plumage) swam far off the east end of Stewart Park. They were tipping up as Mallards do, but which is unusual for shovelers. A single female-ish HOODED MERGANSER rested on the lake. A single AMERICAN BLACK DUCK swam on the lake. A single breeding plumage male REDHEAD seemed to have lost his buddy of recent days - there had been 2 on the 8th I saw 3 PIED-BILLED GREBES, a single and a duo.Off all these, only the AMERICAN BLACK DUCK, the REDHEAD, and the single AMERICAN COOT were obvious enough to be seen from the taxi this morning. Additions included several GREEN-WINGED TEAL. This afternoon the big surprise was finding a flock of ten GREAT EGRETS resting on one of the more branchy dead trees lying offshore. Within the same view on adjacent logs were 3 GREAT BLUE HERONS (a 4th stood in the foreground along the shore), and a bunch of DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS. Yet another GREAT EGRET was hunting in the wetlands of Jetty Woods. On one of the mats of floating vegetation off Stewart Park there were at least 7 RUDDY DUCKS - 5 sleeping female types I think, 1 diving female-type, and 1 alert non-breedling plumage male. There were also several other sleeping birds there which I think were GREEN-WINGED TEAL. The Great Egret fall-out is the biggest I've seen at the south end of Cayuga Lake, my previous maximum being 3, I think, and it provoked Mark Chao's coveted "confirm" prompt on eBird. By the way it's been over a month since I saw the other 2 Great Egrets which roosted in Jetty Woods for over a month. I think I last saw them on the morning of September 7th, but I think they were last reported by Lee Ann Van Leer on the evening of September 8th and someone else another evening. After a front passed through I looked for them in the early morning and the late evening and did not find them, and I did not made a big effort since. Since learning that the herbiciding of Cayuga Inlet and Treman Marina happened yesterday and today (not waiting until the 13th as all the signs suggested) I made a quick stop in the taxi at Treman Marina this afternoon as well. There were several DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS fishing in the marina and the inlet, and I saw a single COMMON MERGANSER in the inlet. There were also numerous RING-BILLED and a few HERRING GULLS on the marina docks, and a few RING-BILLED GULLS on the inlet. A pair of MALLARDS rested on one of the dragon boat docks. Although the red lighthouse breakwater had been full of gulls and cormorants when I had scoped from Stewart Park, it was empty when I viewed from Treman, but there were plenty of gulls, including several GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS on the white lighthouse jetty. A male MERLIN perched atop a tree across NYS 89 from the Cass Park skating rink. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma this morning
I stopped briefly at Montezuma this morning on the way out towards Buffalo. The Visitors Center and Wildlife Drive held nothing unusual, just small numbers of waterfowl that were buzzed at the HQ by a Peregrine. There were only handfuls of Canada Geese present, and no sign of the White-fronted or Snow x Canada hybrid. May's Point was more interesting. There continues to be a massive amount of Green-winged Teal there, sometimes flushed up by a Bald Eagle for quite a spectacle. I counted 940 Teal, when they were settled down on the pool. At one point while they were flushed, I noticed a flock of about 20 Calidris sp. flying with them, which I refound after landing and confirmed as DUNLIN. A group of 12 DOWITCHERS is still present on the right-hand side of the pool, presumably Long-billed. My full eBird checklist for May's is below. Cheers, Nick Montezuma NWR Mays Point Pool, Seneca, US-NY Oct 12, 2011 9:35 AM - 10:10 AM Protocol: Stationary 18 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 130 Gadwall (Anas strepera) 16 American Wigeon (Anas americana) 17 American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) 2 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 10 Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) 2 Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) 940 Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 18 Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 5 Great Egret (Ardea alba) 3 Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) 2 Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) 2 Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) 2 Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca/flavipes) 20 Dunlin (Calidris alpina) 20 Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) 12 Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) 10 Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) 1 Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) 50 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- 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] Shindagin Hollow--a sad day
My daughter and I took a walk through Shindagin Hollow late this morning. We found a WINTER WREN squashed flat in the road. How?? We did hear a live WINTER WREN berating us from the woods, however. We saw 2 HERMIT THRUSHES, and were vocally abused by a RED-TAILED HAWK. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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] Am. Robin behavior question
Competition for fruit, I wonder? Pileateds eat a lot of fruit this time of year. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Now on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marie-Read-Wildlife-Photography/104356136271727 From: bounce-38145872-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-38145872-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Eben McLane [ebenmcl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:33 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Am. Robin behavior question I just spent a half hour watching a flock of Robins mob a pair of Pileateds in the woods here above Owasco Lake, hounding them from tree to tree, chasing them up above the canopy and down into the understory. Why? Is it because they Can in such large numbers? And what threat would the woodpeckers be to them at this time of year? Eben McLane Scipio -- 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 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/ --
