Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Headed Blackbird Endicott, NY Photos

2012-04-28 Thread Gary Kohlenberg
Yellow-headed Blackbird still present this morning , flying around a lot being 
aggressive toward the other RWBB's
Nice lighting for photos too.
Gary



On Apr 27, 2012, at 5:29 PM, david nicosia 
daven1...@yahoo.commailto:daven1...@yahoo.com wrote:

Just got texted by Jon Weeks. Bird still present as of 515 pm.
Given the cold northerly winds expected through tonight,
the bird may stick around for another day or so.


From: david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.commailto:daven1...@yahoo.com
To: Bluewing 
bluewing-gr...@googlegroups.commailto:bluewing-gr...@googlegroups.com; 
Cayugabirds- L Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edumailto:Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Headed Blackbird Endicott, NY Photos

Melissa Penta and I got great views mainly with the scope
of the YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD almost immediately
when we arrived at West Corners Marsh around 7 am.
I briefly heard the buzz saw sounding call while she was the first
to sight it. The white on the wings in flight is very
distinctive! What a great bird for Broome County and many
thanks to Sara Kinch for posting this last night!!!

Bob Grosek stopped by while we were there
and he could not recall if we have ever had one
in Broome County before. Anyone know?

Anyway I got some fair digi-scoped images
which are distant. I put the exact location of where we
had the bird on the mapping feature of flickr for those interested
in finding the bird. The bird is best seen if you pull onto the road
that the school is on. This road is above the marsh and gives
you the best views.

seehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157629546647154/

Dave Nicosia
Johnson City, NY
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[cayugabirds-l] Canada goslings

2012-04-28 Thread David Campbell
The retention pond just south of West Hill Circle, opposite Cayuga
Medical Center, had a family of five goslings plus parents (4/21) last
Saturday, but I have not seen them since.


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Fwd: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Headed Blackbird Endicott, NY Photos

2012-04-28 Thread Stephen R. Hill

The bird is still there today as well.

Stephen R Hill
Johnson CIty, NY

 Original Message 
Subject:Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Headed Blackbird Endicott, NY Photos
Date:   Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:29:31 -0700
From:   david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com
Reply-To:   david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com
To: 	david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com, Bluewing 
bluewing-gr...@googlegroups.com, Cayugabirds- L 
Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu




Just got texted by Jon Weeks. Bird still present as of 515 pm.
Given the cold northerly winds expected through tonight,
the bird may stick around for another day or so.


*From:* david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.com
*To:* Bluewing bluewing-gr...@googlegroups.com; Cayugabirds- L 
Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu

*Sent:* Friday, April 27, 2012 8:45 AM
*Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Headed Blackbird Endicott, NY Photos

Melissa Penta and I got great views mainly with the scope
of the YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD almost immediately
when we arrived at West Corners Marsh around 7 am.
I briefly heard the buzz saw sounding call while she was the first
to sight it. The white on the wings in flight is very
distinctive! What a great bird for Broome County and many
thanks to Sara Kinch for posting this last night!!!

Bob Grosek stopped by while we were there
and he could not recall if we have ever had one
in Broome County before. Anyone know?

Anyway I got some fair digi-scoped images
which are distant. I put theexact location of where we
had the bird on the mapping feature of flickr for those interested
in finding the bird. The bird is best seen if you pull onto the road
that the school is on. This road is above the marsh and gives
you the best views.

seehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157629546647154/

Dave Nicosia
Johnson City, NY
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[cayugabirds-l] NEXRAD site

2012-04-28 Thread John and Sue Gregoire
The NEXRAD site I use has been stuck on 23 April for 5 days now. This site is a
great tool for monitoring migration and I'm really missing it. Anybody having 
the
same problem or is it me?

http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~pauljh/US_Composite_Radar/

Sue G.


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[cayugabirds-l] Bald Eagle - Inlet Valley

2012-04-28 Thread Donna Jean Darling


Another nice view of a Bald Eagle at 11:50 today at the RR overpass at RT 13 
and Rt 13A intersection.  The adult was heading north toward Cayuga Lake. 
Smile:  it's contagious!
Donna Jean
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Headed Blackbird Endicott, NY

2012-04-28 Thread Anne Marie Johnson

  
  
Tim and I went to see the Yellow-headed Blackbird this morning. It's
still in the small marsh next to school. I am copying David
Nicosia's directions below. The view into this marsh from the road
to the soccer field is outstanding. When the bird is up and perched
in the marsh, it can be seen easily with binoculars.

The bird is spending long periods of time down inside a thicket
about halfway back on the left side of the marsh. In our experience,
when it popped up, it perched for a few seconds, flew to the left
edge of the marsh in trees and on the ground, and then returned to
the thicket, perched a bit more and then dropped back out of sight.

When we arrived at about 11:15, Victor Lamoureux
had been scanning for 30-45 minutes without seeing the bird.
Fortunately, the bird popped up about 15 minutes later, just as lots
of people arrived to see it (and Victor returned from checking
nearby roads). It only stayed up for a few minutes. Then it was down
for about 15 minutes before popping back up for a few more minutes.
When it was up, it perched in the open long enough to give everyone
amazing looks. What a beautiful bird!

Anne Marie Johnson


Directions:
To get to the marsh, you drive down route 26, the google
earth address is 1329 union center maine highway, endicott, ny.
You basically drive down route 26 and turn right before
you get to the Ann G. McGuinness Intermediate School.
There is a road which leads up to the soccer fields for
the school. The Marsh is on the corner of route 26/union center
main
highway and the road that leads to the soccer fields. You
can park by the marsh.The roadoverlooks it from above so you can get
good views. 

  
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[cayugabirds-l] Killdeer babies

2012-04-28 Thread John and Fritzie Blizzard
Fri.:  4.27.12:  2 Killdeer babies with their Mama in the grass beside our 
church parking lot. Perfect way to end the day. I hope Mama was able to keep 
them warm last night.


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] NEXRAD site

2012-04-28 Thread Mike Powers
Hi Sue,

Paul moved from Ithaca to Ohio and recently migrated (pun unintended,
but acknowledged) his radar composites as well.  I suspect he is not
updating the Cornell pages anymore, but continues to archive
composites here:

http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10/US_Composite_Radar/

Good birding,
Mike

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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.net wrote:
 The NEXRAD site I use has been stuck on 23 April for 5 days now. This site is 
 a
 great tool for monitoring migration and I'm really missing it. Anybody having 
 the
 same problem or is it me?

 http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~pauljh/US_Composite_Radar/

 Sue G.


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[cayugabirds-l] Ten-Legged Plover

2012-04-28 Thread Suan Hsi Yong
Today's SFO local trip started at Myers Park, where our goal bird, the
AMERICAN PIPIT, alighted by the parking lot shortly after our arrival,
giving fantastic looks at its brown lightly-streaked featureless
blandness. A number of pipits hung around the spits on both the Myers
and Salt Point side.

A NORTHERN PINTAIL hung out in the mouth of Salmon Creek for good
looks, and a half dozen RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS swam past for very
good close looks: only one was in dazzling breeding male plumage, the
rest were either female or juvenile. One of the f/j's caught a fish as
big as its head, at which point the heretofore listless gulls at the
spit sprung up and circled the mergansers looking for more.

Walking up along Salmon Creek we saw a BROWN THRASHER sing from across
the creek, and further along some BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERs alerted us
with their calls then tested our neck-stretching abilities before
rewarding us with fine views of their long white (from below) tails.

Crossing the lawn to the marina side, we came across a bizarre
TEN-LEGGED PLOVER:

  http://sfocornell.ning.com/photo/s1121-ten-legged

OK, so it was a KILLDEER with two, no three, no four! chicks huddled
within its folds! The precocial little ones were unbeatable on the
cuteness scale.

Looking across the marina were two TURKEY VULTURES on the ground, in
front of it a GREAT-BLUE HERON showing off its fine plumage on one of
the piers, and above that on the power lines was perched several
swallows, one twice as big and fully black: a male PURPLE MARTIN. With
that excitement I didn't even pay attention to its neighbor, which
Stuart pointed out was a BANK SWALLOW decked out with its oversized
bow-tie. And to its right was a TREE SWALLOW. And to the left and
above, a NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW: four species in one view!
There were plenty of BARN SWALLOWS around (seen earlier perched on a
nice little tree across Salmon Creek), but I guess they didn't get the
memo to join this party.

Driving around to Salt Point, we got another good look at the singing
brown thrasher, a male purple martin perched on a wire right above us,
and after spending much time trying to track down the location of the
singing FIELD SPARROW, we found a handful of them foraging by the
gravel road on the way back to the car, giving great looks.

Continuing to Sweazey Road, we struck out with the screech owl. Two
weeks ago another group also struck out. Has anyone seen the bird
there recently? I suspect it may have moved on, as after the cold
night I would've expected to see it today basking in the nice warming
sun.

We decided to return to the lab a little early to try our luck at
finding the BARRED OWL. Sauntering quietly and attentively down to the
gate by the road, we saw nothing. At this point Steph had to leave.
Good thing, too (emm... in a good way, that is :-D), for shortly
thereafter as the group approached the singing NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at
the Woodleton boardwalk, we heard Steph call out from the road I have
the owl. The group jogged clumsily towards where she stood on the
road with a great view of the owl on an open branch, but just before
we arrived a crow swooped by and harassed it off that branch and down
a short distance towards a pine tree. We scanned hard and eventually
found the bird sitting close to the trunk of that tree, and got decent
looks in the scope and an appreciation of its fine camouflage which
was hard to make out against the trunk of the tree.

An excellent way to end a fine morning of birding!

Suan

Epilog: After the trip, I joined Lee Ann and Ferris (?) in search of
the barred owl again. They saw it by the trail at first perched fairly
obviously; by the time I caught up to them it had flown towards the
road. When we walked to the road we had a good long look at the owl
perched fairly openly before flying to perch close to the trunk of a
pine tree looking obscure again. To any photographers looking for this
owl, walking along the road in the morning may yield good morning-sun
illumination.

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[cayugabirds-l] Shindagin Hollow Today

2012-04-28 Thread Evan Barrientos
I arrived a little late but the area was fairly quiet. Only heard one warbler 
(BLACK-THROATED GREEN). Heard one RUFFED GROUSE on the upper north end. Saw an 
immature GOLDEN EAGLE fly over. 5 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS heard singing. In the 
pines on Gulf Creek Rd. I heard 2 RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES and at least one PINE 
SISKIN. There were 2 LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSHES in different parts of the creek, 
including the small waterfall near the intersection of Gulf Creek and Shindagin 
Hollow Rd. 
Good birding,
Evan B

Begin forwarded message:

 From: do-not-re...@ebird.org
 Date: April 28, 2012 4:36:01 PM EDT
 To: emb...@cornell.edu
 Subject: eBird Report - Shindagin Hollow, Apr 28, 2012
 
 Shindagin Hollow, Tompkins, US-NY
 Apr 28, 2012 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
 Protocol: Traveling
 2.0 mile(s)
 Comments: Sunny, wind calm, Temp~40F. Overnight frost had wilted most 
 flowers.
 23 species
 
 Ruffed Grouse  1 Heard drumming
 Turkey Vulture  1
 Red-tailed Hawk  1
 Golden Eagle  1
 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  8
 Hairy Woodpecker  3
 Eastern Phoebe  1
 Blue-headed Vireo  5
 Blue Jay  2
 Black-capped Chickadee  8
 Red-breasted Nuthatch  2 Heard in pine forest near road
 White-breasted Nuthatch  2
 Brown Creeper  4 All heard singing
 Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet  3
 Hermit Thrush  1
 American Robin  X
 Louisiana Waterthrush  2
 Black-throated Green Warbler  1
 Song Sparrow  4
 Dark-eyed Junco  6
 Red-winged Blackbird  5
 Pine Siskin  1 Heard in pine forest on Gulf Creek Rd.
 
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[cayugabirds-l] Yard hawks, loon and swallow

2012-04-28 Thread Meena Haribal
While working on veggie garden fence, I saw a few interesting birds.



Two OSPREYS, three BROAD-WINGED HAWKS, 1 COOPERS HAWK, three TURKEY VULTURES 
(two of them heavily molting) and one bird, first I could not decide what that 
could be as it looked an odd sized and shaped, way high,  heading towards lake, 
with binoculars it turned out to be a COMMON LOON.

Also it looked like I saw a migrating Barn Swallow as it headed inn the same 
directions as the hawks went. All hawks came as individuals.



I am hoping head out now to something more.



Cheers

 Meena





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Ithaca NY 14850
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[cayugabirds-l] Carolina wren babies

2012-04-28 Thread Naomi Brewer
Late afternoon yesterday, with much commotion on the parents parts, 3 baby
Carolina wrens left their nest, little things with no tails. Papa and mama
got them settled down before the adults made many trips to the suet feeder
and back to the babies. This morning I heart a lot of gentle chattering out
by the porch and now they are off on their first adventure. I guess the 1st
was getting through last night's cold weather.

 

Naomi Brewer

7214 Wyers Pt Rd. 

Sheldrake


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[cayugabirds-l] SFO trip to Braddock Bay today

2012-04-28 Thread Jeff Gerbracht
This morning Wes and I led the 5:30 group to Braddock Bay.  A cold
morning and light winds from the north foreshadowed a slow morning at
the banding station.   We were treated with a close encounter of a
Peregrine in hot pursuit of an unidentified bird just over the car
while cruising on the throughway and after the required stop at Tim
Hortons, we  reached the Banding Station.  The morning was indeed slow
though Ruby-crowned Kinglets were in abundance in the woods and the
group also got to see a netted House Wren and Swamp Sparrow.   A
single large flock of Blue Jays was migrating very high above the
station but in general migrants were sparse with only a handful of
raptors.   Several Sharp-shinned Hawks, a couple Cooper's Hawks, a
single Broad-winged,  several Turkey vultures and the highlight of the
trip, at least for me, was a BLACK VULTURE seen from the hawkwatch at
Braddock Bay State Park.  I first saw the bird just after we stepped
from the cars, low and heading east and several folks were able to get
brief looks.  A few minutes later, i spotted the same? bird higher and
to the south, heading south-west.  Keep an eye out tomorrow.

Other good sightings were a breeding plumage Horned Grebe, several
Long-tailed Ducks and a number of Red-breasted Mergansers.

All in all a good day considering the cold weather.
   Cheers,
Jeff

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Lead Application Developer
Neotropical Birds, Breeding Bird Atlas, eBird
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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