[cayugabirds-l] Forgot to mention about Osprey

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

I found one Osprey flying on 89 close to Seneca river Bridge.  Also I saw a 
north-east bound Osprey from near Corson-Mudd Hall on Thursday afternoon around 
2.30 PM.



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[cayugabirds-l] Kids class and some notes

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

Thank you to everyone who sent me information about snow geese, especially to 
Fritizie who called me to report about the lousy weather ahead.  Unfortunately, 
kids did not get to enjoy the birds as we were about to start it started 
pouring in Ithaca.  So we ended up spending time in Stewart Park in Ithaca.  I 
had scoped out the birds before hand and had thought it would be easy to put a 
scope on each species and let the kids see. First bird I wanted to show was an 
American Widgeon, which was fairly close to shore for a scope and further away 
for kids binocular. As it happened the widgeon kept swimming around a pair of 
Canada geese and a pair of mallard. So when I ever I asked the kids to see and 
tell me what they were seeing, they promptly replied Canada Geese and mallards, 
because by the time kids saw through the scope the bird would have swum away. 
It took several tries to finally show them a widgeon.  I could show them five 
species of ducks by the time the weather became so nasty that kids started to 
shiver and wanted to go back to the car. So it was a disaster, but at least one 
of them they learned to recognize five different ducks.  Wow it is hard. I felt 
I should have spent time on gulls. But we did observe one young Great 
Black-backed gull play with a  ball, who would throw it away and run and catch 
it. Once it fell into the water, gull dashed into the water clumsily and seemed 
eager not to let it fall into the water again.



Before the kids were on the scene, while I was scouting I saw several 
Red-Breasted mergansers and Goldeneyes close to East shore. There was also a 
flotilla of Ruddy Ducks one of the ducks was in full breeding plumage with 
lovely blue bill.



Yesterday after work I went to check out on the ducks and geese. Northern part 
of the lake was still frozen with patches of open water.



On the way near Taughannock state park I watched BLACK VULTURE fly over my car.



>From Cayuga Lake State Park I could see a huge long raft of  Snow Geese and 
>many were coming form  the east, seemed closer to Harris's Park. So I decided 
>to head down there. From Harris's park they looked closer to west shore. So 
>basically they were in the middle of the lake.



Then I headed to the Mucklands. As I arrived to the Mucklands, I saw lots of 
snow geese heading to the Mucklands and some tried to land. Then I heard four 
shots that scattered and scared them. so they circled over and went to Rail 
road side and circled around then headed what seemed to be towards the lake.  
Like last year there were several decoys in the field, but the snow geese that 
were trying to land were steering clear of that location. Just then the sun 
came out and the Tundra Swan in the sun were looking very gorgeous! I came 
across several flocks of blackbirds. So I headed towards Montezuma Refuge. I 
waited for some time at the parking lot of North Spring Pool, when I saw some 
congregation occurring down the road. At the time I also saw lots of snow geese 
in the background of grey cloud were lit with sun light they looked like whites 
caps on the lake as the waves of geese moved around.



On the way at the rest area on 89 just north of South Spring Pool parking lot, 
I found hugest congregation of blackbirds. Everyone was chattering in 
excitement. there was stiff wind from west and all the birds were facing west 
and sitting in the breeze. The flocks would lift and move around and settle on 
a next tree. They kept doing this till the whole group would break off and fly  
east towards the final roosting location.  I waited till the last few brave 
ones also left to sleep in the marsh. I am attaching a link to one clip, when 
the birds flew it was probably 1/20 of the flock size. I could watch this 
spectacle many times and year after year that never stops me from wondering in 
awe as to where these birds spend the day time and where are they heading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libmAnsR7eI



And on the way home somewhere near Ovid, I saw a smallish owl take off from the 
field close to the road, I think it was a probably a Screech Owl, but am not 
100% sure. Then also I came across a baby opossum crossing the road. It dilly 
dallied for a few sec as I approached it. I completely came to halt for it to 
cross. After few seconds it became brave and crossed the road. Last few steps 
it actually ran! It was very adorable.  After a I drove away, I realized I 
could have taken some pictures of it. May be next time!



Cheers

Meena



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Eurasian Green-winged Teal

[Jay McGowan]

Indeed, the side stripe stands out dramatically! Just to clarify, that list
with photos was from last weekend up close to Mud Lock. By the time we saw
the one you guys found, it was quite distant, so today's photo was far from
what I would consider nice:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17652294
Great find, though. It's great that people are becoming more aware about
this very rare but apparently regular visitor here. If folks are interested
(and haven't seen them already), here is a photo of the Eurasian Teal Tim
Lenz found a few weeks ago at the south end of Seneca Lake:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17176812
And here are Chris Wood's photos of the one he found at East Shore Park
last weekend:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17546890

And while we're at it, might as well throw in a quick recap of other Common
Teal in the Basin. First I know of, in 2004:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S6205893
Then in 2007, same spot:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S7626536
And 2011:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S7862853
One at Montezuma also in 2011:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S7962765
One at Mud Lock in 2012 (even worse photo than today...):
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S10134994
And finally, an intergrade (similar to today's bird) in 2011:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S7962813


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Diane Morton wrote:

> Thanks, Jay, for checking out this bird.  We were so struck by the
> horizontal white stripe that we had not considered the hybrid. We missed
> the faint vertical stripe that your nice picture shows.
>
> Diane
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Jay McGowan  wrote:
>
>> We are there now. The bird is farther out, with a group of other
>> Green-winged Teal along the edge of the ice in amongst Aythya. It appears
>> to be a EURASIAN X AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL--bold white horizontal
>> shoulder stripe as in Eurasian but with a faint trace of the vertical
>> shoulder stripe, often not visible. Very much like (if not the same bird)
>> Livia and I found last week at the north end:
>> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17555304
>>
>> Jay
>> On Mar 29, 2014 2:33 PM, "Diane Morton"  wrote:
>>
>>>  A wide variety of birds at Frontenac Park in Union Springs, including
>>> one Eurasian Green-winged Teal among the American Green-winged
>>> Teal.  looking north, not too far off shore.
>>>
>>> Diane Morton
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Eurasian Green-winged Teal

[Diane Morton]

Thanks, Jay, for checking out this bird.  We were so struck by the
horizontal white stripe that we had not considered the hybrid. We missed
the faint vertical stripe that your nice picture shows.

Diane


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Jay McGowan  wrote:

> We are there now. The bird is farther out, with a group of other
> Green-winged Teal along the edge of the ice in amongst Aythya. It appears
> to be a EURASIAN X AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL--bold white horizontal
> shoulder stripe as in Eurasian but with a faint trace of the vertical
> shoulder stripe, often not visible. Very much like (if not the same bird)
> Livia and I found last week at the north end:
> http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17555304
>
> Jay
> On Mar 29, 2014 2:33 PM, "Diane Morton"  wrote:
>
>> A wide variety of birds at Frontenac Park in Union Springs, including one
>> Eurasian Green-winged Teal among the American Green-winged Teal.  looking
>> north, not too far off shore.
>>
>> Diane Morton
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[cayugabirds-l] FOY phoebe

[Tobias Dean]

Here at North Danby near Upper Buttermilk.


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sandhill Cranes

[Eben McLane]

The description of where you saw these cranes is consistent with sightings over 
the years. If these birds are returning to an old, familiar nesting site, I may 
be able to pinpoint the location for all who are interested and don’t want to 
drive all the way up to the Montezuma complex to see these beautiful birds: E. 
Venice Rd., the next road east of the Genoa cemetery and Stewarts Corners Rd., 
intersects Rte 90, with a large cornfield on the south side of 90. In the past, 
the adults and their young have stayed mostly in the SW corner of the field, 
away from any traffic on 90. I’m not familiar with the crop rotation scheme on 
this field, but when it’s planted for corn there usually aren’t cranes around, 
as far as I can tell. Not sure why.
Eben McLane

On Mar 29, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Charles Randolph  wrote:

About 2:45 today, two SANDHILL CRANES walking through the large corn field to 
the south of Rte. 90 between Genoa and Locke, more specifically shortly west of 
the farm with mailbox marked no. 10630, between Rte. 34 and the curve on Rte. 
90.  The two birds walked along the edge of the field and down out of sight 
behind a rise with brush on it.  (Credit here goes to my visiting brother Don, 
who first spotted them and is familiar with these birds, which I am not.)

 Randy Ross, Cortland 


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sandhill Cranes

[Susan Fast]

This is, I believe, near East Venice Rd. where it intersects Rt. 90.  There has 
been a pair of cranes nesting there for quite a few years.  The nest used to be 
in a small wetland behind a farmhouse  just to the SW of the south end of E. 
Venice Rd (across Rt. 90).  A group from the Crane Foundation in Wisconsin 
banded a chick there a couple years ago.  This sighting is good news, as I saw 
no activity at this wetland last year (or so far this year either).  The field 
to the east of the wetland used to be alfalfa from which the cranes got lots of 
bugs.  The field was sold 2 years ago, the alfalfa plowed up, and corn planted. 
 I had assumed the cranes had moved on, but apparently not.  Thanks for the 
news, and keep watching.

Steve Fast
Brooktondale (a ways away)
On Saturday, March 29, 2014 4:03 PM, Charles Randolph 
 wrote:
  
About 2:45 today, two SANDHILL CRANES walking through the
large corn field to the south of Rte. 90 between Genoa and Locke, more
specifically shortly west of the farm with mailbox marked no. 10630, between
Rte. 34 and the curve on Rte. 90.  The
two birds walked along the edge of the field and down out of sight behind a
rise with brush on it.  (Credit here goes
to my visiting brother Don, who first spotted them and is familiar with these
birds, which I am not.) 
 Randy Ross, Cortland  
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[cayugabirds-l] Sat afternoon East side of Cayuga

[Chris R. Pelkie]

Martha and I took a quick run up the lake skipping Myers (so missing Carl’s 
osprey!).
A NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD was fluttering its wings on the way so easy to see as we 
drove up 34.

Long Point was barren though I did get my First of Year COMMON LOON off the 
north side in quite quiet water and relatively close.
Other than that, 1 lone LESSER SCAUP M and 3 SCAUP (sp) F, 3 TREE SWALLOWs and 
a few BUFFLEHEAD. There were some dark fowl with light bills way out in the 
lake, so more likely Scoter than Coot but I just could not resolve them well 
enough to decide if they were White-winged, Black, or what.
Otherwise, nothing!

Union Springs big pond was more interesting though the grebes and wood ducks of 
last week were gone or hiding. Pairs of HOODED MERGANSER, RING-NECKED DUCK, 
BUFFLEHEAD, NORTHERN SHOVELER and AMERICAN COOT were seen there.
Did not go down to Frontenac (fool, I).

Then Mud Lock showed the BALD EAGLE on the nest, COMMON GOLDENEYE (pairs), 
TUNDRA SWANs, GADWALL (pairs), PILEATED WOODPECKER (2 flew over us and the lock 
to land on opposite side and called a bit). Water is much more open than last 
week, so many other waterfowl on water, ice floes, and I guess sand bars or 
other debris. We saw a pair of WOOD DUCKs sitting out of the water by 
themselves on some such protrusion.

Harris Park offered distant but still spectacular views of what I think was 
reasonably a quarter million SNOW GEESE sitting mostly out of water, apparently 
on ice, but about 1/4 mi S of the parking lot at Railroad St. so definitely 
scope subjects. Also seen from there were my FOY MUTE SWANs (2 definite, maybe 
more) nearer shore. Across the lake were thousands or tens of thousands of 
mixed ducks, Scaup, Redhead, and Ring-necked identifiable but just too far away 
to spend much time on finding more interesting ones, plus the cold rain had 
just begun.

At the Potato Barn, NORTHERN PINTAILs are still close by and doing a lot of 
chattering while foraging with MALLARDs. Snow Geese in relatively small numbers 
and TUNDRA SWANs were out in the fields or flying about with bouts of CANADA 
GEESE. It was raining harder now so we called it a day.

3 RED-TAILED HAWKs seen en route at different sites but did not spot any 
harriers today though those were seen along this same route last week.

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[cayugabirds-l] Red-breasted Mergansers

[Lois E. Chaplin]

At East Shore Sailing, Harris Park, Mud Hole and at the Montezuma Visitor 
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[cayugabirds-l] Myers, Salt Point

[Carl Steckler]

Meg and I made a quick turn around Salt Point and Myers. The highlights 
were:


Salt Point
The bluest Eastern Bluebird I have ever seen, the photo is going into my 
5 birds folder for the Jan 2015 meeting

Northern Mockingbird
Many American Robins
Red-winged Blackbirds
Several American Wigeon
Several Coots
Lesser Scaup
Redheads

Myers
Two Osprey, one caught a fish by the marina
Many Redheads
Lesser Scaup
several American Wigeon
Many Coots with several on the beach walking about, they really do look 
like chickens on land

Two Blue Heron, adult male
Mallards
Canada Geese
Ring-billed Gulls
one Greater Black-backed Gull juvenile, identified by pink legs

All in all time well spent

Carl

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[cayugabirds-l] Sandhill Cranes

[Charles Randolph]

About 2:45 today, two SANDHILL CRANES walking through the large corn field
to the south of Rte. 90 between Genoa and Locke, more specifically shortly
west of the farm with mailbox marked no. 10630, between Rte. 34 and the
curve on Rte. 90.  The two birds walked along the edge of the field and
down out of sight behind a rise with brush on it.  (Credit here goes to my
visiting brother Don, who first spotted them and is familiar with these
birds, which I am not.)

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[cayugabirds-l] Osprey

[Carol Keeler]

Saw my FOS Osprey on the bridge near Mays Point.  It sat on the cross bar 
probably wondering where its nest had gone.  I went through the wildlife drive 
around noon.  Lots of gulls.  It sounded as if I were at the ocean.  There were 
a few GBHs , one lone Harrier, and a pair of Tundra Swans, some Canada Geese, 
as well as a few muskrats.  In the canal there were a pair of Red Breasted 
Merganzers and a couple of Goldeneye.
I went down Armitage Rd.  and found maybe 50 swans along the road.  Among them 
were two with green wing tags.

The Mucklands held less than the other day.  No Snow Geese, but it was still 
early.  Hunters were also set up.  Quite a few swans were there too.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Eurasian Green-winged Teal

[Jay McGowan]

We are there now. The bird is farther out, with a group of other
Green-winged Teal along the edge of the ice in amongst Aythya. It appears
to be a EURASIAN X AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL--bold white horizontal
shoulder stripe as in Eurasian but with a faint trace of the vertical
shoulder stripe, often not visible. Very much like (if not the same bird)
Livia and I found last week at the north end:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17555304

Jay
On Mar 29, 2014 2:33 PM, "Diane Morton"  wrote:

> A wide variety of birds at Frontenac Park in Union Springs, including one
> Eurasian Green-winged Teal among the American Green-winged Teal.  looking
> north, not too far off shore.
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RE:[cayugabirds-l] Request for information on Snow geese and Waterfowls at north-end of the Cayuga lake

[Lois E. Chaplin]

Much more open water than a week ago up the east side of the lake. Quite a few 
good opportunities to scope ducks at Harris Park and Mud Lock. There were quite 
a few Snow Geese swarming around at Mud Lock and resting, but a ways out. The 
Eagle was on the nest.

Montezuma visitor center was open, as was the wildlife drive. Some open water 
was to be found on either side of the drive. We saw several groups of Northern 
Shovelers, quite a few Great Blue Herons. And many, many muskrat huts.

There were a lot of Snow Geese at Knox Marcellus and again at the Potato 
Fields, landed and swarming. Many Vs off on the horizon, too.  Hundreds of 
Tundra Swans were there as well.

Lois Chaplin
Beam Hill


From: bounce-113739352-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-113739352-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Meena Madhav 
Haribal
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:06 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Request for information on Snow geese and Waterfowls 
at north-end of the Cayuga lake

Hi all,
I am planning to take a bunch of kids of the age 7-9 year olds to see the 
spectacle of snow geese and blackbirds roosting tomorrow evening at Montezuma 
NWR/Mucklands. We plan to leave at 4.00 pm from Ithaca. Today being a warmer 
day Snow geese might take off further north. So I don't want to disappoint the 
kids if the snow geese have already left.
So please post your sightings to Cayugabirds or send me an e-mail at 
m...@cornell.edu or call me at 607 2298710 to let me 
know if you see snow geese and where did you see between today and tomorrow.

Kids and I would appreciate your information!

Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Meena

Dr. Meena Haribal
Boyce Thompson Institute
Ithaca NY 14850
Ph: 607-3011167
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
http://haribal.org/



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[cayugabirds-l] Eurasian Green-winged Teal

[Diane Morton]

A wide variety of birds at Frontenac Park in Union Springs, including one
Eurasian Green-winged Teal among the American Green-winged Teal.  looking
north, not too far off shore.

Diane Morton

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[cayugabirds-l] Tick

[Suan Yong]

After the CBC Stewart Park cleanup this morning, I was surprised to find a tick 
crawling on my fleece. Not the sign of spring I was looking for.

On the way home I stopped by the Stewart Avenue bridge over Fall Creek where a 
redtail was incubating on the nest in the north cliff looking east from the 
bridge.

Suan
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[cayugabirds-l] Dryden Lake & Trail

[Susan Fast]

I got my first-of-the-year usual walk along the Dryden Lake Trail this morning. 
 Found 40 species, which is pretty good for this time of year, and included 15 
types of waterfowl (listed below).
The Trail is mostly soft with some icy spots which can be avoided.  Lake is 
still ice-covered with open areas at both ends and the long pond and 
beaver-flooded area to the west.  Streams are open.

Snow gooselarge V flyover
Canada goose
Wood ducklots
Amer. wigeon 4
Black duck 11+
Mallard
Blue-winged teal 1 pair
Green-winged teal    some
Canvasback 1 pair
Redhead   some
Ring-necked duck  lots
Greater scaup   1
Hooded merganser lots
Common merganser 4
Red-breasted merganser    2 males

Steve Fast
Brooktondale

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[cayugabirds-l] More geese from the south

[Geo Kloppel]

Lots more geese are entering the Cayuga Basin from the south this morning, 
including flocks of Snow Geese.

-Geo Kloppel
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