[cayugabirds-l] Woodcock Wed. evening: neither snow nor rain...
Despite the steady wet snowfall and the late hour, our local woodcock here behind the Northwood Apts. off Warren Road has been persistently peenting and doing his display flight as of 11PM. -Scott -- 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] American Woodcock
Tonight I attended the first hour of the SFO lecture series (We field trippers were invited to the part about eBird which was well presented by Chris Wood), then I headed in the dusky light over to the other side of the Ithaca airport to look & listen for Woodcocks. When I got there, my friend Earl Rose was already there with his brand new binocs. I rolled down the car window and instantly heard a Woodcock peenting! It was hard to see them, but after Earl left (he was freezing - had been there an hour in the sleet) I walked into the field towards the "peent" and stood still in one spot. Normally, I would sit on the ground, but it was too wet. I was rewarded by seeing a WOODCOCK (faintly) land in the spot where it had been peenting before it took off for the sky. I heard its airborne twittery sounds, too. I saw it zoom by me and land a few times! Too dark to see it on the ground. There was a second one off in the bushes doing its peenting, and twittering in flight, as well. I stayed till it got so dark I could not see him land anymore. Location: Open field at edge of thicket at corner of Mohawk and Etna Roads; there is a little area to park there by the gate that bars access to the part of Mohawk Road that goes to the airport runway area. From Warren Rd. go east down Cherry Road, turn right on Snyder Road, then turn right at the end of Snyder and pull into the gravel area at the corner of Mohawk and Etna Roads. Donna Scott Lansing d...@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] Four miles of blackbirds
I forgot to mention yesterday that Tilden and I also saw a CACKLING GOOSE in one of the small flocks that flew out of Knox-Marsellus Marsh last night. T and I have done some back-of-the-envelope calculations regarding the blackbirds we saw from the Tschache Pool tower last night. Our estimates of total numbers have too much uncertainty to share with confidence, but here's one result that I think is pretty robust. * The biggest flock passed in a line for 120 seconds of spoken counting plus 10 minutes tracked on a wristwatch (I also forgot about the spoken count when I posted yesterday), plus some time even before we started keeping track. * I estimate that this flock was flying about 10 m/sec (20 mph, rounded). -- 12+ minutes (i.e. 0.2 hours) x 20 mph = a flock at least FOUR MILES long. Mark Chao From: Mark Chao [mailto:markc...@imt.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:27 PM To: 'Cayugabirds- L' Subject: Knox-Marsellus and Tschache Pool, Tues 3/26 * Probably the greatest spectacle of birds I've ever seen in the Basin or maybe anywhere - hundreds of thousands of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS and COMMON GRACKLES passing by the tower at Tschache Pool at sunset. Several hundred settled in the trees and marsh grasses right by the parking area, but most flew past May's Point toward the Wildlife Drive. We saw at least ten dense flocks of many hundreds of birds, stretching and folding like some genius animator's abstract inventions. But most impressive was a single line of blackbirds starting from the northwest to the southeast horizons, passing at a rate of at least 100 per second and sometimes bulging to maybe several hundred. This flock passed without pause for at least ten minutes -- we timed it with a watch. The line mostly flowed smoothly like a stream in its channel, but occasionally rose and fell in a resonant wave, as if whip-snapped by a giant hand miles away. I'll sit down and develop a more rigorous calculation before we enter data in eBird, but I am pretty sure that there were several hundred thousand birds, mostly Red-winged Blackbirds. Tilden would like to believe that there were at least a million, and I think even this could well be accurate. -- 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] Yard birds-Sharp-shinned Hawk
I looked out the window at my feeders at about 2:15 to find a Sharp-shinned Hawk sitting on one of our platform feeders about 6 feet from the window. It sat for almost 30 seconds then noticed my movement and flew up into the nearby cedar when I tried to move to a different window. Very cool view! Bill Baker - This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- 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] Robin and Cardinal songs
I was pleased to get up to songs of Am. Robin in my yard and Cardinal who seem to have moved to neighbors house across the road, but can hear him. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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] 70 SNOW GEESE flew north over downtown Ithaca at 5...
70 SNOW GEESE flew north over downtown Ithaca at 5am lit by full moon. --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/ --
