[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [OneidaBirds] Fair Haven No Cave Swallows as of 1:30

[Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes]

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From: Ken & Rose Burdick mailto:kenburd...@ieee.org>>
Date: October 25, 2012 9:36:18 PM EDT
To: OneidaBirds 
mailto:oneidabi...@yahoogroups.com>>
Subject: Re: [OneidaBirds] Fair Haven No Cave Swallows as of 1:30



Hi,

Looking back at the wind patterns from the last day or so, it looked
like the Cave Swallows should have landed in Michigan rather than
NY. Postings from Michigan and Ohio seem to support that, with 96
birds reported from Whitefish Point, Mich.

The winds aloft in Texas look good right now (Thurs evening) for
arrivals on Friday PM - assuming that is where the Caves are coming
from. The frontal system is moving east, so it looks like the odds
will be improving in Ohio on Friday, and Saturday AM will be a good
bet for Lake Ontario.

Good birding,

Ken & Rose Burdick
Skaneateles, NY
kenburd...@ieee.org

At 03:29 PM 10/25/2012, Judy Wright wrote:
>After seeing Andy Guthrie's post on NYSBirds about Cave Swallows
>appearing at Hamlin Beach I went to Fair Haven at a bit before noon.
>No Cave Swallows and just the usual gulls, Mute Swans and dabblers
>near the beach. I did not bird the other areas away from the
>beach. Hopefully the Swallows will appear later today or tomorrow.
>
>Judy Wright


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Union Springs Eastern Screech-Owl?

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

Haven't yet seen Screechie but in checking my past records of the last 16 yrs. 
it should be in one of the boxes. I don't go for mail every day so could be 
missing it. The waters of Factory St. pond are covered with horrible mung. Only 
see a few mallards there.

Fritzie in Union Springs




Has anyone seen a screech-owl in the Union Springs box lately? I'm taking 
students on a field trip and passing through there, and am trying to scout out 
our chances.


  Thanks,


  Caroline Manring
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[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Awesome day - Cave Swallows, Mississippi Kites

[Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes]

Message from Kurt Fox, below.

Hamlin Beach State Park (just NW of Rochester, NY)
2 MISSISSIPPI KITES
159 CAVE SWALLOWS

Details below.

Sincerely,
Chris T-H


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From: Kurt Fox mailto:kfbir...@gmail.com>>
Date: October 25, 2012 8:53:21 PM EDT
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Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Awesome day - Cave Swallows, Mississippi Kites

Although Andy Guthrie captured the gist of the Hamlin birds today. I want to 
emphasize that there was a massive movement of birds today, especially finches, 
and robins. The visibility on the lake was poor due to heavy fog early, and 
haze most of the day, but even with poor conditions a fair variety / number of 
waterfowl were moving too.

David Tetlow and I were the last to leave Hamlin - about 1:45 PM - with no Cave 
Swallows visible for over an hour.  With the ultra-warm temperatures (well, for 
Oct 25th in WNY), the suspicion is that swallows (like raptors) were migrating 
higher than we were able to detect. With similar weather conditions tomorrow 
plus a frontal passage, tomorrow might be even more productive for swallows 
along the lakeshore than today.

We left Hamlin with 159 CAVE SWALLOWs and 1 BARN Swallow (all flying west).

As Andy mentioned, other goodies were: jaegers, Black and Surf Scoters 
outnumbering WW Scoter, Brant, 6 Snow Geese, Merlin, and a "soaring" RB 
Nutchatch pair.

At Braddock Bay Bennet Road unit, an Ammodramus sparrow was flushed. The 
'bouncy' flight, and lack of mantle streaking suggests Nelson's but we could 
not be sure. Also present were Swamp, Song, Savannah and Am Tree Sparrow, 
Plenty of tick seed and burrs. Note: now is the time to look for LeConte's 
Sparrow (and Yellow Rail) in similar habitat as Nelson's (Hog Hole and 
Montezuma Marten's Tract should be checked carefully).

At the East Spit of Braddock Bay, a single BB Plover was on the lakeside. A 
scan of the gulls produced 1 LBB Gull, but was disrupted by a PEREGRINE FALCON. 
Several Dunlin flushed. The falcon made several passes, flushing the gulls and 
ducks. Before I could continue the scan, David alerted me to two raptors in a 
dog-fight over the West Spit (interpret: very close). One raptor was the 
Peregrine, the other bird was a MISSISSIPPI KITE!  I was able to watch the 
in-flight spat in the scope with the kite taking the last swipe at the 
Peregrine. The kite continued over the Bay and took several swipes at an 
OSPREY, but did not harass the adult BALD EAGLE on the 'island'.  The kite 
drifted back and forth, reluctant to pass over the bay (reminiscent of spring 
raptors migrating late in the day).  With the kite still in my scope view on 
the opposite side of the bay, David went back to the car to get his video 
camera. If I was able to keep track of it, we might video footage. Several 
minutes (!) later the kite had "kettled" up on the far side of the bay, and it 
took a pass at another raptor... which was a second MISSISSIPPI KITE !!!  I had 
both kites in the same scope view for at least 60 seconds before they drifted 
out the sides of the field of view. I could only follow one, and watched it 
until it became a very tiny speck which faded in and out of the haze until I 
finally lost it quite high and quite far (over Rose's Marsh?). In all, I had a 
kite in scope view for well over 5 minutes!   We drove towards the Manitou 
Beach overpass and tried scoping from there with Andy Guthrie but had no luck 
(but did have N. Harrier over the bay). Andy also picked up ~12 WW Crossbills.

If the kites are like the spring raptors, it is possible that the kites 
remained west of the bay, fed and roosted there.  Because we walked the length 
of the east spit to drive to the overpass, the kites may have moved on during 
that time.  ** IF ** the birds did not pass, then the place to be tomorrow 
morning is the Hawk Watch platform, as it is expected that the kites will rise 
and move early. Additionally, the  bay might be a good place to watch for Cave 
Swallows, especially if they roost in the Braddock Bay marshes.

Hoping for a different view, or more Cave Swallows, the Payne Beach water plant 
was visited.  Three BARN SWALLOWS are still lingering.

I headed west to Point Breeze, scanning the lake, and did a search of Oak 
Orchard River at the point, the marina under the parkway, and at Narby's / 
Captain's cove, but did not turn up additional swallows.  Lots of DC Cormorants 
remain on the lake.  I added Am Kestrel to complete the expected falcons of the 
day.

good birding,
Kurt Fox
Alexander, NY
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[cayugabirds-l] Union Springs Eastern Screech-Owl?

[Caroline Manring]

Has anyone seen a screech-owl in the Union Springs box lately? I'm taking
students on a field trip and passing through there, and am trying to scout
out our chances.

Thanks,

Caroline Manring
Ithaca

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[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma and Towpath Road

[Ann Mitchell]

The wildlife drive today was mainly filled with Canada Geese.  There were
Cackling Geese also. Northern Shovelers were at Larues. The main pool had a
number of Scaup with Redheads mixed in. I am sure there were other species
of Aythya ducks there, but I didn't look through a scope. The shorebird
spot and Benning Marsh was filled with Canada Geese.  On Towpath Road, I
saw a Fox Sparrow bathing in a puddle. At Knox Marcellus there were many
Canada Geese, a number of Sandhill Cranes, and Green-winged Teal. The Snow
Geese were at Puddlers where I saw at least 3 Ross's Geese. They were
sleeping at times, so I don't think I saw them all. There were more Snow
Geese there than Jay saw the day before. The invasive Ladybugs were in full
force. It was a beautiful day to be out.
Good Birding,
Ann

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Fwd: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Rufous Hummingbird YES me too

[Stephanie Greenwood]

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[bounce-69397785-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Stephanie Greenwood 
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Rufous Hummingbird YES me too

I was there between 2-3pm today and he came every 10-15 minutes.
It was so wonderful to get such good, close looks at him.
Thank you Marty and Mary Jean!
And thank you Nancy for confirming he was there earlier.

Stephanie

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[cayugabirds-l] ROSS'S GOOSE

[cobra]

Currently seeing 4 Ross's North of Armitage Road 200 yards East of
irrigation ditch bridge. We followed them here from Puddlers.
Wade and Melissa

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[cayugabirds-l] 200+ TURKEY VULTURES over Cayuga Heights now. --Da...

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200+ TURKEY VULTURES over Cayuga Heights now.
--Dave Nutter

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[cayugabirds-l] Rufous Hummingbird YES me too

[Stephanie Greenwood]

I was there between 2-3pm today and he came every 10-15 minutes.
It was so wonderful to get such good, close looks at him.
Thank you Marty and Mary Jean!
And thank you Nancy for confirming he was there earlier.

Stephanie

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[cayugabirds-l] Ross's Geese

[annmitchell13]

They are at Puddlers now at 3:30.

Ann Mitchell
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[cayugabirds-l] rufous hummingbird- yes

[Nancy W Dickinson]

I topped off the gorgeous morning with a visit to Marty's porch, where I sat 
from 11:20 to 11:50.  To my surprise, the Rufous Hummingbird indeed came in at 
15-minute intervals and gave me ample opportunity to study it.  A very handsome 
life bird, and a beautiful spot-- no wonder he likes it there!  Seemed to be 
perching in the apple tree between visits.

Thanks so much, Marty and Mary Jean!

(I celebrated with some rufous pumpkin ice cream at the Creamery for lunch..of 
course.)

Nancy Dickinson

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[cayugabirds-l] Durland and East Shore today; more Montezuma notes

[Jay McGowan]

I walked at the Durland Preserve for a little while this morning. The
highlight was probably FOX SPARROWS. I estimated at least a dozen,
outnumbering all other sparrows, giving their high-pitched tseep calls
from almost every hedgerow. At least four different birds were singing
too! Also a flock of 200+ Cedar Waxwings and a flyover GREATER
YELLOWLEGS.

Then I heard from Tim Lenz he had seen a flock of Black Scoters fly
past Myers, so I dropped down to East Shore Park just in time to see a
group of ~50 BLACK SCOTERS (could have been other birds in their as
well but the majority were Blacks) wheel a bit north of East Shore and
head back up the lake. Two WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS followed a few minutes
later, lower to the water. Tim said he had Brant and Long-tailed Duck
at Myers as well.

Yesterday morning I started at Myers, where a group of six (5m1f)
LONG-TAILED DUCKS flew by several times. A few scaup, Ring-necked
Ducks, Green-winged Teal, and Northern Pintail also flew by, and a
small flock of Common, Hooded, and Red-breasted mergansers landed in
the creek.

>From there I continued up the lake. Aurora Bay was full of loons but
not too much else. From Harris Park I had my first-of-the-fall Horned
Grebes and White-winged Scoters. I skipped Montezuma for the time
being (probably should have given the main drive a check first, but oh
well) and took a long, damp walk at the Seneca Meadows Preserve. I was
looking particularly for Nelson's Sparrows, which I have looked for
before here without success but which Chris and Jessie were fortunate
enough to find on Sunday. Despite a lot of searching I was still
unsuccessful with this, but I saw plenty of other cool birds,
including dozens of Song, Swamp, Savannah, White-throated, and
White-crowned sparrows and several Field and AMERICAN TREE sparrows
(the latter of which I saw in many locations subsequently); hundreds
of Mallards and Green-winged Teal flying out of the ponds; 40+
Wilson's Snipe, 50+ Killdeer, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, and a few of each
yellowlegs in the muddy edges of the first two ponds; and a Yellow
Palm Warbler along the woods edge. Also heard some strange sounds
coming from the marsh nearest the oak tree that I tried to convince
myself were coming from a Purple Gallinule, but I was never able to
get any kind of confirmation.

Finally making it to Montezuma I found the goose bonanza I posted
about before. 150+ Brant on the wildlife drive that were joined by a
group of 9 CACKLING GEESE that flew in all together. I was first
alerted to them by their calls while they were still some distance
away, very nasal and high pitched honking. Knox-Marsellus was good as
well, with the aforementioned ROSS'S GEESE sitting with a ridiculously
small group of Snow Geese (6:1, one of the lowest Snow:Ross's ratios
I've ever seen around here!) All the white geese flew away at about
4:50PM, and as I stood on the tower at Tschache at 5:05, the same
group of Snow and Ross's flew right over my head, but Anthony
Collerton tells me that the group returned to Knox-Marsellus about an
hour later, with a few more Snow Geese in tow. Also of note at
Knox-Marsellus were 170 BRANT, which appeared between 3:40 and 4:05PM,
as they were note there when I first arrived. I thought they might be
the same group from the Wildlife Drive, but I talked to Dave Kennedy a
while later, and he said he had just seen the Wildlife Drive group, so
apparently they were different (although when I check the Wildlife
Drive at 5:20, those Brant were gone, so I'm all confused.) Anyway,
one thing IS clear, I was unable to find ANY Greater White-fronted
Geese, quashing my hopes of a six-goose day that I have hoped for for
some time.

Other birds around Montezuma included Pectoral Sandpipers and both
yellowlegs on the drive, Black-bellied Plover and American
Golden-Plover flyovers at Towpath, but NO other shorebirds (Puddlers
was all but deserted). Unfortunate considering we had 11 species on
Saturday (without White-rumped or LB Dowitcher, two of the most likely
lingerers). A huge flock of ~250 American Pipits was at
Knox-Marsellus, and a group of ~35 Snow Buntings on the Wildlife
Drive.

Good birding,
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[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows, singing

[Nancy W Dickinson]

On this spring-like morning I found at least 5 Fox Sparrows on our hill, one of 
them repeating a brightly whistled song, all posing to give me great views.  
Also more Cedar Waxwings than I could count (hundreds), and nearly as many 
robins, all eating the fruits on our "mystery trees" (some kind of hawthorn 
that keeps branches full of small yellow-orange fruits into the winter when 
they are all eaten-- anyone know the name?).  Also singing were flocks of 
Redwing Blackbirds, stopping to rest and o-ker-ee!, as well as many 
White-throated Sparrows piping up.

Carpe diem!

Nancy Dickinson
Mecklenburg

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