[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane
I just had the female BLUE GROSBEAK near where Ken heard it last night. It popped up out if the corn just north of where the road goes into the horse barn area and sat for a moment up in the shrubs along that hedgerow, then dropped down and I have not relocated it so far. It hasn't made a sound. Jay -- 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] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane
I last saw the bird around 8:34 as it perched up again in the hedgerow west of the north side of the horse complex (so along the south edge of the big field on the west side of the north leg of Bluegrass Lane.) It was moving west along the hedgerow but the habitat gets more forested near the SW corner of the field, so it may have gone into the brushy area or doubled back into the corn. We have continued to look for it without success. It did not call and was not responsive to pishing. Jay On Oct 13, 2013 8:10 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote: I just had the female BLUE GROSBEAK near where Ken heard it last night. It popped up out if the corn just north of where the road goes into the horse barn area and sat for a moment up in the shrubs along that hedgerow, then dropped down and I have not relocated it so far. It hasn't made a sound. Jay -- 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: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane
Hi all, I thought it was a walkable distance to go looking for Blue Grosbeak, so I did the walk from Golf Course side via Forest Home Walkway. Unfortunately, I missed the first turn, so I had to go around the woods. But that was good I got to see lots of birds. There were three WINTER WRENS pottering around and I got good looks at each of them. Like last time I mentioned I seem to be lucky with Winter Wrens this year! There were lots of WHITE-TROATED SPARROWS all along the hedgerow at the edge of the woods. I saw a few of them eating fruits of Buckthorn and a small shrub, which looks like a Vaccinum sp, but had red pointy fruits, I need to identify this plant. Several YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, one group was at Golf Course, next two were in the Bluegrass lane woods. Also there was a BROWN CREEPER along with a couple of WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCHES. A NORTHEN FLICKER flick flicked for quite sometime. Quite a few RUBY CROWNED KINGLETS also were present. Finally, there were quite a few sparrows most of them dove into corn when disturbed, but one sparrow came out of the corn and sat on a bare branch in the hedgerow and gave me a good view! This was a FILED SPARROW. I spent about 20 minutes looking for the Blue Grosbeak and trying to listen but I did not succeed. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ From: bounce-108719886-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-108719886-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Jay McGowan [jw...@cornell.edu] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:26 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane I last saw the bird around 8:34 as it perched up again in the hedgerow west of the north side of the horse complex (so along the south edge of the big field on the west side of the north leg of Bluegrass Lane.) It was moving west along the hedgerow but the habitat gets more forested near the SW corner of the field, so it may have gone into the brushy area or doubled back into the corn. We have continued to look for it without success. It did not call and was not responsive to pishing. Jay On Oct 13, 2013 8:10 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edumailto:jw...@cornell.edu wrote: I just had the female BLUE GROSBEAK near where Ken heard it last night. It popped up out if the corn just north of where the road goes into the horse barn area and sat for a moment up in the shrubs along that hedgerow, then dropped down and I have not relocated it so far. It hasn't made a sound. Jay -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Blue Grosbeak - Yes Sunday evening
After walking around the main field at Bluegrass Lane North for a while without too much success, I checked the corner where Tom originally found the bird (southwest corner of large corn field off Hanshaw, or last corn on your left as you travel south on Blugrass from Hanshaw, just before the chainlink fence begins). It popped out and flew away in response to pishing (or probably just my presence). I watched it in flight as it headed SW, eventually landing right above my car, up on a cornstalk at the edge of the cornfield that is on the west side of the road (so the northeast corner of the patch of corn that runs along the southern half of the large field on the west side of the northern section of Bluegrass Lane south of Hanshaw...some Cardinalid directions for you there!) It sat up in the tops of the corn for a couple of minutes giving its pink call repeatedly, then dropped back and finally down into the corn and out of sight. Gary was just walking back up the road at that point and only got to hear it, but he just texted that it popped back up into view briefly as I left. Anyway, in summary, it seems to be frequently the same stretch, so working that area tomorrow seems pretty likely to be productive, although you probably won't get a very long look. It does have some blue in the wings and tail, but not a lot, it's mostly pale rufous/beige overall. I will post some of my rather distant photos in a few minutes. -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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/ --
