[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * July 02, 2012 * NYSY 07.02.12 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): June 25, 2012 - July 02, 2012 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:July 02 AT 6:00 p.m. (EDT) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #310 -Monday July 02, 2012 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of June 25 , 2012 Highlights: --- GREAT EGRET RED-HEADED WOODPECKER CERULEAN WARBLER DICKCISSEL Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) The RUFF seen on 6/23 and 6/24 was not relocated on 6/25 and appears to be gone. Extralimital 7/1: 2 DICKCISSELS were seen and heard at Seneca Meadows on Black Brook Road east of Rt.414 in Seneca Falls. There had been no report today as of yet. Onondaga County 6/26: A female DICKCISSEL was found at the Camillus Unique Forest Area off of Thompson Road. The bird was found at the intersection of Trail 1 and Trail 5. It was relocated on 6/27 but there have been no further reports. 6/29: A GREAT EGRET and a COMMON TERN were seen below the dam in Baldwinsville on the Seneca River. 6/29: A CERULEAN WARBLER was heard at Oneida Shores State Park. Oswego County 6/28: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen in Constantia from Rt.49. 7/1: 1 adult and 4 young PIED-BILLED GREBES were seen at the Rt.6 wetland north of Rt.3 in Volnay. -- 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 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] Cayuga Bird Club Summer Birding & Walks....
Thanks to all who have responded with the joys of summer birding and thanks, as always, to Laura for her fine service in scheduling all walks throughout the year. I so enjoy all the posts also, from our eloquent, observant and poetic birders in the area, singling out right now Laura, Lee Ann and Suan. I hope this little bit of discussion may galvanize us of the Cayuga Bird Club to formulate ways of scheduling walks throughout the summer. Those of us who want it could stop forward to offer, and perhaps we could even establish a group of members who might be up for moments of spontaneous birding. A good thing to work towards. Linda Orkin On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > Hi Lee Ann and everyone else. > As the current Field Trip coordinator for the Cayuga Bird Club, I > thought I'd try to answer the question of summer bird club field trips. > I's say we don’t plan summer trips for a very simple reason - it is REALLY > hard to get people to commit to lead at this time of year! A lot of the > birding that happens, as you know, is pretty spontaneous. People are > really busy on the weekends and things come up, such that people are > reluctant to say yes to leading. I guess the Lab of O will have to keep > fulfilling that function for now. It’s certainly something the club members > can talk about once we find a new field trip coordinator (I'm stepping down > from that position). > Happy birding! > Laura > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > > > -Original Message- > From: bounce-62179192-8866...@list.cornell.edu [mailto: > bounce-62179192-8866...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Ann van Leer > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:03 PM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Summer Birding & Walks;Big Days & Big Years; > watch for pileated fledglings. > > 1) Summer Club walks > 2) SSW Big Year/ Summer was highlight > 3) Be on lookout for Pileated Woodpecker fledglings soon > 4) Last Week's Big Day > > > 1)I have always wondered the same thing about the summer and club bird > walks as Linda mentioned. I'm in favor of them. > > > 2)Last year (Oct 1, 2010-Sept 30, 2011) I competed in eBird's Big Year at > Sapsucker Woods (SSW). From a behaviorist's point of view I found that > summer time was by far my favorite season at SSW. My goal was to win the > most hours spent at SSW because I love to sit in one spot watching bird > behaviors. Watching the nestlings and then fledglings was an amazing > experience. When viewers watch the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO) or > Audubon bird cams they become attached to that bird family's story. > Comparatively, if one visits same birding spot many times a week you get > to know the bird families and watch them grow and progress. I became quite > attached to a GRAY CATBIRD nest/family last summer at SSW. A very common > bird but watching their nest progress and eventually fall victim to > mammalian predation was quite interesting. They had positioned their nest > such that it was very easy to see it from Wilson Trail, perhaps too easy. > > Summer & year round birding so rewarding and the SSW ebird Big Year > experience literally changed my life. > > 3) July 11, 2011 was my favorite day of the whole year I spent. It was > around 7pm at SSW on the EAST TRAIL. > SSW TRAIL MAP > http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bbimages/clo/pdf/visit/TrailMap2010.pdf > I was walking along the Woodleton Boardwalk when a Pileated Woodpecker > flew up from under the boardwalk. I was a bit thrown off wondering what it > had been doing under the boardwalk. Then I realized it could barely fly as > it was a fledgling still breaking in it's wings. Then I saw a couple more > fledglings on the dead trees around me. One made it to the top of a dead > tree and hammered away more vigorously than I'd ever witnessed. Wood > splinters were flying all around as it perhaps practiced it's drilling? It > was hysterical to watch, a bit of drilling overkill. I was being eaten > alive by mosquitos but when surrounded by PILEATED WP fledglings it seemed > worth it. I bumped in to a stranger and we communicated with hand motions > as neither of us wanted to scare the fledglings off. I was without iphone > or camera at the time, darn! The stranger was a new birder and had a new > camera. He captured the fledglings on camera. I never saw "Woodpecker Guy" > (Mark from Lansing) again but if you are on this list serv Mark, I am still > waiting for an email of the photos. =)(Reason #187 why you should always > bring your own camera birding). > > I went back the next day and found the PILEATED WP fledglings with an > adult male at the SSW feeding garden. I did get video of that so I was > happy. > > 4)Big Day June 24 123 for me 125 for Kevin.>25 hot spots visited all in > the Cayuga Basin. 4:15a.m. to around 8:30pm. I loved the challenge and had > just as much fun as any one day of the November Texas Trip. I thank Kevin > for posting about our Big Day because my fingers are still
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Yellow Barn
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Suan Hsi Yong wrote: > At one point I heard what I thought was a double-veery, but when I > reviewed the iPhone recording I made it sounded too high: > > http://suan-yong.com/sound/yellow-barn-mystery.wav Thanks to Jay and Chris, who both thought this was a veery, despite the unusual doubling. Donna, this would be your "your" call from last week (which, BTW, I thought was an incredible job of accurately describing a one-syllable bird call with a short English sentence by email - a feat that seems rather impossible.) Suan -- 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] Cayuga Bird Club Summer Birding & Walks....
Hi Lee Ann and everyone else. As the current Field Trip coordinator for the Cayuga Bird Club, I thought I'd try to answer the question of summer bird club field trips. I's say we don’t plan summer trips for a very simple reason - it is REALLY hard to get people to commit to lead at this time of year! A lot of the birding that happens, as you know, is pretty spontaneous. People are really busy on the weekends and things come up, such that people are reluctant to say yes to leading. I guess the Lab of O will have to keep fulfilling that function for now. It’s certainly something the club members can talk about once we find a new field trip coordinator (I'm stepping down from that position). Happy birding! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -Original Message- From: bounce-62179192-8866...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-62179192-8866...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Ann van Leer Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:03 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Summer Birding & Walks;Big Days & Big Years; watch for pileated fledglings. 1) Summer Club walks 2) SSW Big Year/ Summer was highlight 3) Be on lookout for Pileated Woodpecker fledglings soon 4) Last Week's Big Day 1)I have always wondered the same thing about the summer and club bird walks as Linda mentioned. I'm in favor of them. 2)Last year (Oct 1, 2010-Sept 30, 2011) I competed in eBird's Big Year at Sapsucker Woods (SSW). From a behaviorist's point of view I found that summer time was by far my favorite season at SSW. My goal was to win the most hours spent at SSW because I love to sit in one spot watching bird behaviors. Watching the nestlings and then fledglings was an amazing experience. When viewers watch the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO) or Audubon bird cams they become attached to that bird family's story. Comparatively, if one visits same birding spot many times a week you get to know the bird families and watch them grow and progress. I became quite attached to a GRAY CATBIRD nest/family last summer at SSW. A very common bird but watching their nest progress and eventually fall victim to mammalian predation was quite interesting. They had positioned their nest such that it was very easy to see it from Wilson Trail, perhaps too easy. Summer & year round birding so rewarding and the SSW ebird Big Year experience literally changed my life. 3) July 11, 2011 was my favorite day of the whole year I spent. It was around 7pm at SSW on the EAST TRAIL. SSW TRAIL MAP http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bbimages/clo/pdf/visit/TrailMap2010.pdf I was walking along the Woodleton Boardwalk when a Pileated Woodpecker flew up from under the boardwalk. I was a bit thrown off wondering what it had been doing under the boardwalk. Then I realized it could barely fly as it was a fledgling still breaking in it's wings. Then I saw a couple more fledglings on the dead trees around me. One made it to the top of a dead tree and hammered away more vigorously than I'd ever witnessed. Wood splinters were flying all around as it perhaps practiced it's drilling? It was hysterical to watch, a bit of drilling overkill. I was being eaten alive by mosquitos but when surrounded by PILEATED WP fledglings it seemed worth it. I bumped in to a stranger and we communicated with hand motions as neither of us wanted to scare the fledglings off. I was without iphone or camera at the time, darn! The stranger was a new birder and had a new camera. He captured the fledglings on camera. I never saw "Woodpecker Guy" (Mark from Lansing) again but if you are on this list serv Mark, I am still waiting for an email of the photos. =)(Reason #187 why you should always bring your own camera birding). I went back the next day and found the PILEATED WP fledglings with an adult male at the SSW feeding garden. I did get video of that so I was happy. 4)Big Day June 24 123 for me 125 for Kevin.>25 hot spots visited all in the Cayuga Basin. 4:15a.m. to around 8:30pm. I loved the challenge and had just as much fun as any one day of the November Texas Trip. I thank Kevin for posting about our Big Day because my fingers are still tired from trying to enter in as much data in to eBird as I could. For an avid eBirder a Big Day can be conflicting because one can't really maximize the # of birds you see if you are busy with keeping track on BirdLog app or making notes of Where, When, and What birds on paper either. Thus, I mostly only kept track on paper of new for the day birds and where we saw those. Next time I'll hire a scribe. I found that using the smart phone apps "BIRDSEYE" and "AUDUBON" which both use e-bird data in different ways helped with both advanced intelligence and in the field updates on where the birds are. Also checking the CAYUGA BIRDS list in the field. I also signed up for e-bird "rare bird" alerts for all the counties in the Cayuga Basin. I wish even more people entered in data to e-bird. HI
[cayugabirds-l] Summer Birding & Walks;Big Days & Big Years; watch for pileated fledglings.
1) Summer Club walks 2) SSW Big Year/ Summer was highlight 3) Be on lookout for Pileated Woodpecker fledglings soon 4) Last Week's Big Day 1)I have always wondered the same thing about the summer and club bird walks as Linda mentioned. I'm in favor of them. 2)Last year (Oct 1, 2010-Sept 30, 2011) I competed in eBird's Big Year at Sapsucker Woods (SSW). From a behaviorist's point of view I found that summer time was by far my favorite season at SSW. My goal was to win the most hours spent at SSW because I love to sit in one spot watching bird behaviors. Watching the nestlings and then fledglings was an amazing experience. When viewers watch the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO) or Audubon bird cams they become attached to that bird family's story. Comparatively, if one visits same birding spot many times a week you get to know the bird families and watch them grow and progress. I became quite attached to a GRAY CATBIRD nest/family last summer at SSW. A very common bird but watching their nest progress and eventually fall victim to mammalian predation was quite interesting. They had positioned their nest such that it was very easy to see it from Wilson Trail, perhaps too easy. Summer & year round birding so rewarding and the SSW ebird Big Year experience literally changed my life. 3) July 11, 2011 was my favorite day of the whole year I spent. It was around 7pm at SSW on the EAST TRAIL. SSW TRAIL MAP http://www.birds.cornell.edu/bbimages/clo/pdf/visit/TrailMap2010.pdf I was walking along the Woodleton Boardwalk when a Pileated Woodpecker flew up from under the boardwalk. I was a bit thrown off wondering what it had been doing under the boardwalk. Then I realized it could barely fly as it was a fledgling still breaking in it's wings. Then I saw a couple more fledglings on the dead trees around me. One made it to the top of a dead tree and hammered away more vigorously than I'd ever witnessed. Wood splinters were flying all around as it perhaps practiced it's drilling? It was hysterical to watch, a bit of drilling overkill. I was being eaten alive by mosquitos but when surrounded by PILEATED WP fledglings it seemed worth it. I bumped in to a stranger and we communicated with hand motions as neither of us wanted to scare the fledglings off. I was without iphone or camera at the time, darn! The stranger was a new birder and had a new camera. He captured the fledglings on camera. I never saw "Woodpecker Guy" (Mark from Lansing) again but if you are on this list serv Mark, I am still waiting for an email of the photos. =)(Reason #187 why you should always bring your own camera birding). I went back the next day and found the PILEATED WP fledglings with an adult male at the SSW feeding garden. I did get video of that so I was happy. 4)Big Day June 24 123 for me 125 for Kevin.>25 hot spots visited all in the Cayuga Basin. 4:15a.m. to around 8:30pm. I loved the challenge and had just as much fun as any one day of the November Texas Trip. I thank Kevin for posting about our Big Day because my fingers are still tired from trying to enter in as much data in to eBird as I could. For an avid eBirder a Big Day can be conflicting because one can't really maximize the # of birds you see if you are busy with keeping track on BirdLog app or making notes of Where, When, and What birds on paper either. Thus, I mostly only kept track on paper of new for the day birds and where we saw those. Next time I'll hire a scribe. I found that using the smart phone apps "BIRDSEYE" and "AUDUBON" which both use e-bird data in different ways helped with both advanced intelligence and in the field updates on where the birds are. Also checking the CAYUGA BIRDS list in the field. I also signed up for e-bird "rare bird" alerts for all the counties in the Cayuga Basin. I wish even more people entered in data to e-bird. HINT-HINT! The app BirdLog makes it easier and more timely. I wrote out directions to some of the target spots/personal locations because 3G coverage is spotty around the lake on AT&T. Don't be daunted at the thought of a personal Big Day. We were walking leisurely, not sprinting, and we spent a lot of time photographing and lingering at out favorite hot spots.This was not like a scene from "Band of Birders"(great documentary) or the fallout scene from "The Big Year" with birders rushing around. I was amazed that we were able to find so many birds in the summer and more birds than any one day of May field trips to NJ. Visiting LOTS of hot spots for short amounts of time seems to make all the difference and above all having fun. It was nice that it wasn't a competition so we could be relaxed about it and enjoy the baby birds and behaviors. I do think I'd like to do a competition to raise money someday though. Good Luck to future Big Dayers and keep us posted. Hat's off to Susan, Bob, & Laura who did their Big Day in such hot weather. Sounds like you had a
Re: [cayugabirds-l] LOTS of birds out there-again!
Hey all, Nice list, nice day. Wondering why the club doesn't lead any walks in the summer, especially with all this list chatter about how great the birding is at this time of the year. Sapsucker Woods walks get a great turnout every week, each day of the weekend. Just a thought. Linda On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > Hi all, > Inspired by Kevin McGowan's and Lee Ann van Leer's big day of > breeding-time birding, Susan Danskin, Bob McGuire and I spent yesterday, > Sunday, finding as many bird species as we could between 3:40 am and dusk > (we started home at 8:40 pm).Our total for the day was 131 species, > including the Dickcissel at the Seneca Meadows Wetland preserve. (The list > is below). > We started at the P&C parking lot at the East Hill Plaza with our first > bird of the day - American Robin. We then headed to the Finger Lakes Land > Trust's Lindsay-Parson's Biodiversity Preserve in West Danby, arriving > before light. Our basic itinerary was then Deputron Hollow Rd., Shindagin > Hollow, FLLT's Park Preserve, Mount Pleasant, Sapsucker Woods, Airport, > Stewart Park, Salt Point and then up the lake on the east side, stopping at > Lettie Cook Forest along the way. At the north end, we first sought the > Upland Sandpipers at Lott Farm (missed), then Clay-colored Sparrow on King > Rd. (as previously reported), and then to all of the Montezuma and north > areas (Tschache Pool, Towpath Rd., Armitage Rd., Seneca Meadows Wetland > Preserve, Marten's Tract, Morgan Rd., Carncross Rd. - not necessarily in > this order) - finishing at Van Dyne Spoor Rd. as we watched an American > Bittern fly up and away from us. It was a long, at times hot but always > fun day of birding! > > Laura > > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > > Subject: eBird Report - New York, Jul 1, 2012 > > New York, US-NY > Jul 1, 2012 3:40 AM - 8:40 PM > Protocol: Traveling > 250.0 mile(s) > Comments: Susan Danskin, Bob McGuire, Laura Stenzler doing a "Big Day" > starting from Ithaca > 131 species > > Snow Goose > Canada Goose > Trumpeter Swan > Wood Duck > American Black Duck > Mallard > Green-winged Teal > Redhead > Common Merganser > Wild Turkey > Pied-billed Grebe > Double-crested Cormorant > American Bittern > Great Blue Heron > Great Egret > Green Heron > Black-crowned Night-Heron > Turkey Vulture > Osprey > Bald Eagle > Northern Harrier > Red-tailed Hawk > American Kestrel > Virginia Rail > Common Gallinule > American Coot > Semipalmated Plover > Killdeer > Spotted Sandpiper > Greater Yellowlegs > Lesser Yellowlegs > Semipalmated Sandpiper > Least Sandpiper > Short-billed Dowitcher > Ring-billed Gull > Herring Gull > Great Black-backed Gull > Caspian Tern > Black Tern > Rock Pigeon > Mourning Dove > Barred Owl > Chimney Swift > Ruby-throated Hummingbird > Belted Kingfisher > Yellow-bellied Sapsucker > Downy Woodpecker > Hairy Woodpecker > Northern Flicker > Pileated Woodpecker > Eastern Wood-Pewee > Alder Flycatcher > Willow Flycatcher > Least Flycatcher > Eastern Phoebe > Great Crested Flycatcher > Eastern Kingbird > Yellow-throated Vireo > Blue-headed Vireo > Warbling Vireo > Red-eyed Vireo > Blue Jay > American Crow > Common Raven > Horned Lark > Northern Rough-winged Swallow > Purple Martin > Tree Swallow > Bank Swallow > Barn Swallow > Black-capped Chickadee > Tufted Titmouse > Red-breasted Nuthatch > White-breasted Nuthatch > Brown Creeper > Carolina Wren > House Wren > Winter Wren > Marsh Wren > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher > Eastern Bluebird > Veery > Hermit Thrush > Wood Thrush > American Robin > Gray Catbird > Northern Mockingbird > Brown Thrasher > European Starling > Cedar Wawing > Ovenbird > Louisiana Waterthrush > Northern Waterthrush > Blue-winged Warbler > Black-and-white Warbler > Mourning Warbler > Common Yellowthroat > Hooded Warbler > American Redstart > Cerulean Warbler > Magnolia Warbler > Blackburnian Warbler > Yellow Warbler > Chestnut-sided Warbler > Black-throated Blue Warbler > Prairie Warbler > Black-throated Green Warbler > Canada Warbler > Eastern Towhee > Chipping Sparrow > Clay-colored Sparrow > Field Sparrow > Savannah Sparrow > Song Sparrow > Swamp Sparrow > Dark-eyed Junco > Scarlet Tanager > Northern Cardinal > Rose-breasted Grosbeak > Indigo Bunting > Dickcissel > Bobolink > Red-winged Blackbird > Eastern Meadowlark > Common Grackle > Brown-headed Cowbird > Orchard Oriole > Baltimore Oriole > House Finch > American Goldfinch > House Sparrow > > > > 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 observatio
[cayugabirds-l] Yellow Barn
Yesterday (Sunday) morning, after the morning bird walk at the lab, I drove up Tehan Road and walked down Signal Hollow Road on the edge of Yellow Barn State Forest to just past the pond and back. The power cut had a singing indigo bunting (up high, not seen) and a chestnut-sided warbler heard then seen. The walk started rather unremarkably, with ovenbirds and veeries and revireos and sapsuckers and other common breeders. At one point I "flushed" a silent ovenbird foraging on the ground near the road -- which ran away rather than flew while holding a nice juicy grub in its bill. Then a quiet chick-burring revealed a male scarlet tanager foraging low enough for pretty good photos (modulo the canopy darkness), with a female hanging around nearby accompanied - it seemed - by an entourage of red-eyed vireos. I passed zones serenaded by black-throated blue (haven't heard that for a while), black-throated green, hermit thrush, and blackburnian "second song" (like a black-and-white warbler, but with a chattery suffix). At the pond an adult cooper's hawk flew to a snag, but wouldn't hold for a photo before taking flight again. Many small frogs leapt into the puddles as I passed. A raven (or ravens) cronked from not too far away. At one point I heard what I thought was a double-veery, but when I reviewed the iPhone recording I made it sounded too high: http://suan-yong.com/sound/yellow-barn-mystery.wav Anyone know what this is? After repeating the double-call often it switched to a single call a few times (possibly coincident with my approaching a little closer). Seemed a little richer than a titmouse. Returning to the road, when I thought I would try to visually find one of those loud teachering ovenbirds, a flash above turned into a yellow-billed cuckoo, silent and poised a little nervously but quite close, allowing me only one over-exposed shot before it jumped a few branches into invisibility, cuckled a few syllables, then flew away as I shuffled about seeking a vantage. Yet another fun exploration of one of our many local natural areas during a time of day and year when things supposedly go quiet. Suan -- 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] LOTS of birds out there-again!
Hi all, Inspired by Kevin McGowan's and Lee Ann van Leer's big day of breeding-time birding, Susan Danskin, Bob McGuire and I spent yesterday, Sunday, finding as many bird species as we could between 3:40 am and dusk (we started home at 8:40 pm).Our total for the day was 131 species, including the Dickcissel at the Seneca Meadows Wetland preserve. (The list is below). We started at the P&C parking lot at the East Hill Plaza with our first bird of the day - American Robin. We then headed to the Finger Lakes Land Trust's Lindsay-Parson's Biodiversity Preserve in West Danby, arriving before light. Our basic itinerary was then Deputron Hollow Rd., Shindagin Hollow, FLLT's Park Preserve, Mount Pleasant, Sapsucker Woods, Airport, Stewart Park, Salt Point and then up the lake on the east side, stopping at Lettie Cook Forest along the way. At the north end, we first sought the Upland Sandpipers at Lott Farm (missed), then Clay-colored Sparrow on King Rd. (as previously reported), and then to all of the Montezuma and north areas (Tschache Pool, Towpath Rd., Armitage Rd., Seneca Meadows Wetland Preserve, Marten's Tract, Morgan Rd., Carncross Rd. - not necessarily in this order) - finishing at Van Dyne Spoor Rd. as we watched an American Bittern fly up and away from us. It was a long, at times hot but always fun day of birding! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu Subject: eBird Report - New York, Jul 1, 2012 New York, US-NY Jul 1, 2012 3:40 AM - 8:40 PM Protocol: Traveling 250.0 mile(s) Comments: Susan Danskin, Bob McGuire, Laura Stenzler doing a "Big Day" starting from Ithaca 131 species Snow Goose Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Green-winged Teal Redhead Common Merganser Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Virginia Rail Common Gallinule American Coot Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Black Tern Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Horned Lark Northern Rough-winged Swallow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Wawing Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler American Redstart Cerulean Warbler Magnolia Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Canada Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow 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] Broad-winged Hawk chicks
My backyard Broad-winged Hawks have at least two chicks in the nest, who are now whitewashing the completed road repair project! Geo Kloppel -- 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/ --
