[cayugabirds-l] parrots in Ithaca?

I'm enjoying this list immensely. Thank you. I hope you will not take this as a crank submission. It is for real. Last evening we having dinner at friend's house on Willow Ave., near Yates Street. To their bird feeder came a really unusual bird. About 11 inches long. A slim body with a tail

[cayugabirds-l] Forster's Terns, Myers Point

Two FORSTER'S TERNS, one in mostly winter plumage like the one I saw a couple of days ago and the other in more typical summer plumage, are currently flying around and landing on buoys off the spit at Myers Point. No shorebirds to speak of. Jay -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Cuckoo Migration

Good morning! Since I've started recording most favorable nights (late May, on), it would seem that Cuckoo migration is well under way. The biggest push seemed to be the night of 31 May to 1 June. On this night, I recorded 12 distinctly different Black-billed Cuckoos, with the first occurring

[cayugabirds-l] parakeets in Ithaca?

I'll keep this going just a small bit because Dave has said he has an interest in it and Meena suggested that it might be a Monk Parakeet. And it was a bird in the wild. It wasn't a Monk--didn't look like any of the ones on the sites that Meena pointed me to. And there are several things that

[cayugabirds-l] Probable Clay-colored Sparrow, Summerhill

Livia and I just heard a probable CLAY-COLORED SPARROW singing from the Christmas tree farm on Lick Street in Summerhill, just north of Rt. 90 on the west side of the road. We are along the first stretch of this farm, about where the first slightly forested area begins on the east side. The bird

[cayugabirds-l] bald female northern cardinal

Identified, thanks to Sandy Podulka. Almost certainly a bald female northern cardinal (though much slimmer than the one pictured in the Cornell site). http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/BaldBirds.htm Marty Hatch -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Probable Clay-colored Sparrow, Summerhill

I just refound Jay's Clay-colored Sparrow. It is singing profusely in the northeast corner of the southern part of the tree farm in the hedgerow between the north and south stands. I managed to get some mediocre photos. Brent Bomkamp Northport, NY On Sunday, June 2, 2013, Jay McGowan wrote:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] bald birds

For several days I had a very bald red winged blackbird male at my feeders on Lansing Station Road in Lansing. Any ideas on cause of baldness? This blackbird seemed healthy energetic. Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Martin Fellows Hatch m...@cornell.edu wrote:

[cayugabirds-l] Lindsay Parsons mystery song

Visitors to Lindsay Parsons this year may have heard a strange trill from the first field, coming from the trees in the east. Our SFO group had heard this on May 5, during which I said it was probably an odd junco song. This morning's CBC field trip heard the song again. Here's an iPhone

[cayugabirds-l] Ovenbird nocturne

I went to bed last night with my windows open, and at 11:40 I was surprised to hear an ovenbird's evening song -- a complicated melody reminiscent of winter wren with a few teachers thrown in. It kept me awake listening for more, but the bird did not sing again. A group of at least three ravens

[cayugabirds-l] Night Heron

We had our BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON making a ruckus last night, around midnight, intermittantly chiming in with our Green Frogs, Bullfrogs, Am Toads and peepers. No Mink frogs or Grey Tree frogs in the chorus though. -holly On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow Barn trillers and species recognition

Suan's post about the mystery triller at Lindsay Parsons (which I guess to be a Yellow-rumped Warbler) prompts me to relate an experience from this morning along the Signal Mountain road through Yellow Barn Forest. I heard several trilling DARK-EYED JUNCOS along this road, and was keeping

[cayugabirds-l] Speaking of Trillers . . . .

Ken's accounts of birds responding to the calls of other birds reminds me of a time a couple of years ago when I made the trek from Station Road to search for Worm-eating Warbler. From the top of the ridge, after listening for a while to some distant trilling, I played the Worm-eating song. Who

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Speaking of Trillers . . . .

Sounds to me pretty close to a typical Field Sparrow alternate song. Jay On Jun 2, 2013 2:34 PM, bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com wrote: Ken's accounts of birds responding to the calls of other birds reminds me of a time a couple of years ago when I made the trek from Station Road to

[cayugabirds-l] Getting wet at Lindsay Parsons

I led the bird club trip of 8 people this morning to Lindsay Parsons. It started out clear but muggy, but we were rained on towards the end. Nevertheless we had a good day. From the parking lot we had Barn and Tree Swallows, two Kingbirds, a Chestnut-sided Warbler, Common Yellowthroat,

[cayugabirds-l] Van Dyne Spoor Road Black-crowned Night-Heron

Last night I posted the sighting of two juvenile Black-crowned Night-Herons at Van Dyne Spoor Road. John Gregoire correctly pointed out to me that it is early for juvenile Night-Herons. What I should have said was young or first summer. The birds were uniformly tan/light-brown in body and wings

[cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpecker at Mays Point

Had a quick glimpse of a red-headed woodpecker on S. Mays Point Rd (across from fishing access) about 11 AM Sunday. It was getting mobbed by blackbirds and didn’t stay around long. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Speaking of Trillers . . . .

I should add that in all the years I spent scouting for the World Series of Birding in New Jersey, in similar mixed hardwood forests at High Point and Stokes State forest, we couldn't buy a junco! Nearly all the trillers there are Chipping Sparrows, even in the deep forest (apparently due to