[cayugabirds-l] 6:30 AM
6:30 AM; 32 degrees, and I'm dressed for winter, but on a quick walk around home I found many singing birds, including Brown Thrasher, Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, Blue-headed Vireo, Louisiana Waterthrush. No Fox Sparrows this morning; perhaps they've finally cleared out. -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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Lingering immature Snow Goose
I've not seen this on the list so thought I'd mention it. There is a lingering immature Snow Goose along Stevenson Rd which has been there for the last couple weeks. It's hanging out with the Canada's in the flooded areas of the horse pasture. Jeff -- Jeff Gerbracht Lead Application Developer Neotropical Birds, Breeding Bird Atlas, eBird Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2117 -- 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] 6:30 AM
I try to notice the first day of spring when I don't notice one of the winter feeder birds. Usually, I'm not very good at that. However, following Geo's comment on no Fox Sparrow, today is the first time in weeks that I haven't heard a Fox Sparrow at our feeder in the 45 minutes it takes to run our dog and fill the feeders. So, maybe 23 April is the end for lingering Fox Sparrow. I'll miss their beautiful song, but hope they are fat and healthy when they leave for the northern limits of the boreal forest. John Confer On 4/23/2013 7:41 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: 6:30 AM; 32 degrees, and I'm dressed for winter, but on a quick walk around home I found many singing birds, including Brown Thrasher, Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, Blue-headed Vireo, Louisiana Waterthrush. No Fox Sparrows this morning; perhaps they've finally cleared out. -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/ -- -- 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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ospreys-- salt point cleanup
Two ospreys sitting on nest tray on Salt Pt pole at 6:30 pm. One eating a fish. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:30 PM, John Greenly j...@cornell.edu wrote: Lots of Osprey activity at the new nest platform on Salt Point. Yesterday there were 4 birds in the area, lots of intense chases. This is clearly very desirable Osprey real estate. Today it appears that one pair has taken possession. They spent a lot of time sitting on the platform, and I saw three attempts at mating: unsuccessful because the female was sitting facing downwind and the male of course approached facing upwind. The male also brought one 2' long stick to the box while I was there. I read that Ospreys head to S. America at the end of their first summer and stay there until three years old, when they return north for the first time. Do I remember correctly that the Portland Point pair first nested three years ago? Could be that one of these are of those chicks, back for a first breeding attempt? Also, I have been asked to post that there is a Salt Point cleanup scheduled for 2-4 pm this Saturday (rain date same time Sunday, but the forecast looks good for Sat.). There will also be a delivery of a number of trees that will need planting. Bring work gloves, help clean up, plant trees, and watch the Ospreys too! --John Greenly -- 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] Some bird notes for today
Hi all, I did a Mundy lunch walk and saw some nice assorted birds. I saw two male flickers displaying to a female and it was quite a show of following her and flaring their tail feathers etc. Then I found a pair of Common Mergansers swimming near Bohm's overlook. A BLUE-HEADED VIREO was singing near the Plantations Building. In the Hemlock grove I found two beautiful male YELLOW_RUPED WARBLERS chasing the same insect. Later they sang too. Two different PINE WARBLERS, one on Plantations and Judd Falls junction and the second was in the pine behind DNR building parking lot. Here there was a nice comparison between warbler and two CHIPPING SPARROWS songs. It seemed PINE WARBLERS song was abrupt. I also found a Chickadee nesting hole on Plantations road, which is about 100 yards from the parking lot on that road near green houses. It is on a bad curve, but very low. So in the evening I went there with my camera, but the guys were not there. I think either they are still building or the hole is so deep that I could not see the incubating bird. From here I headed to Airport via Arboretum. I was way too early for woodcocks, but I was serenaded by an EASTERN MEADOWLARK singing his heart out and another challenging him. Meadowlark sang till the woodcock started calling, that is almost 45 minutes. There was also a BROWN THRASHER in the field singing, after some time I found a female just across my car, he also saw the bird and came across to where I was and sang for ten minutes! I got some recording. I could recognize only very few real birds in his song. There were Fritzbew, Peter peter and a catbird rest I need to listen to them again. He is not as accomplished as Mockingbird, who seem to master many more species. May be the Thrasher was singing some songs of southern birds. Finally at 8.13 PM the Woodcock started peenting. Soon two more joined. I spent next fifteen minutes to see their dance, but they did not! Later I stopped at the Lab of Parking lot. Except for spring peepers and robins, I did not hear anything else. 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/ --
