[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sat 5/10
Last night's winds seem to have dispersed and turned over yesterday's fallout birds, but there is still plenty to see today in Sapsucker Woods. I had six CAPE MAY WARBLER sightings on my circuit of the Wilson Trail (6:00-7:00 AM) - two males and a female together by the footbridge over the outlet stream, a female at the Wilson/West intersection, and a male and female together near Ruth Davis's arbor south of the feeder garden. Cape May was the most abundant warbler species of my walk!! (If you are new to this species and want to find it, focus especially on spruces and flowering trees - especially the pair near the footbridge cited above.) Chestnut-sided, Blackburnian, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Northern Parula, passage-migrant Northern Waterthrush, and other warblers are still around. I also heard a BROWN THRASHER singing in the power line cut. Mark Chao PS. Yesterday Jay McGowan found 98 species of birds in Sapsucker Woods! One of these, a Prairie Warbler, brought yesterday's warbler tally to 24 species for the sanctuary. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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/ --
RE:[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sat 5/10
Again I was a little overheated when I posted just now. Cape May was the SECOND most abundant warbler species of my walk today, after Yellow-Rumped. I'll try to be more deliberate in upcoming posts (but I can't promise you that I'll succeed if the birding continues like this). Mark From: Mark Chao [mailto:markc...@imt.org] Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 7:42 AM To: 'Cayugabirds- L' Subject: Sapsucker Woods, Sat 5/10 Last night's winds seem to have dispersed and turned over yesterday's fallout birds, but there is still plenty to see today in Sapsucker Woods. I had six CAPE MAY WARBLER sightings on my circuit of the Wilson Trail (6:00-7:00 AM) - two males and a female together by the footbridge over the outlet stream, a female at the Wilson/West intersection, and a male and female together near Ruth Davis's arbor south of the feeder garden. Cape May was the most abundant warbler species of my walk!! (If you are new to this species and want to find it, focus especially on spruces and flowering trees - especially the pair near the footbridge cited above.) Chestnut-sided, Blackburnian, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Green, Northern Parula, passage-migrant Northern Waterthrush, and other warblers are still around. I also heard a BROWN THRASHER singing in the power line cut. Mark Chao PS. Yesterday Jay McGowan found 98 species of birds in Sapsucker Woods! One of these, a Prairie Warbler, brought yesterday's warbler tally to 24 species for the sanctuary. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.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] Am Bittern Wilson North
Am Bittern by benches west of Sherwood platform Carl -- 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] YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT: Hawthorn Orchard
There is a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT being seen and heard in the Northeast corner of the Hawthorn Orchard, East Ithaca, behind Reis Tennis Center. Sincerely, Chris T-H Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Snowy Owl Montezuma
I am currently looking at a Snowy Owl perched on a white trailer next to an old gray building where Armitage Rd meets 31 France -- 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] Confusing vireo song
The other day when birding around Treman Lake at Upper Buttermilk, I came upon a vireo singing. As I listened, I was fairly confident it was a BLUE-HEADED. A bit later I heard the bird again, but this time I decided I must have been wrong, as it sounded more like a RED-EYED. The only problem was the bird was only singing once in awhile, not continuously as is often the case with the RED-EYED VIREO. I kept hearing the bird sing off and on for some time, and I continued to vacillate between the two species. I decided I had to see the bird to be sure, and eventually found a RED-EYED. With my confidence shaken, I resigned myself to the fact that I must have been mistaken in thinking I had heard a BLUE-HEADED, and was in dire need of more practice. Just about that time I caught sight of another bird within 5-10 feet of the RED-EYED. Lo and behold it was a BLUE-HEADED VIREO! It was then I realized that I had indeed been hearing the two singing near each other, _but only one at a time_. Is it possible that two closely related species might engage in counter singing, or was this just a very unusual coincidence??? Larry -- W. Larry Hymes 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (H) 607-277-0759, w...@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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Confusing vireo song
I just made an observation that recalls Larry's story... I was inside my house when I thought I heard a Cape May Warbler, and naturally went outside to try to find it. Alas, I then only heard a different warbler singing, one that sounded a bit like a Cape May at times but was clearly different. Upon tracking down the source of the song I was a bit disappointed to find a Chestnut-sided Warbler. I too was questioning my auditory abilities, but then saw there was a Cape May Warbler next to the Chestnut-sided; turns out the Chestnut-sided and Cape May were singing simultaneously while foraging in close proximity. I couldn't tell which bird initiated singing but they were clearly synchronized for four or five bouts before the Chestnut-sided took off and the Cape May was left to sing its song in isolation. Alexa and I had a brief but great walk around Lindsay-Parsons this morning. Highlights were 14 species of warblers, including many stunning Prairie Warblers, two distant otters on Coleman Lake, and a family of raccoons clambering around a big old oak full of cavities. Plus a smattering of ticks eager to crawl up our legs. Ben On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:42 AM, W. Larry Hymes w...@cornell.edu wrote: The other day when birding around Treman Lake at Upper Buttermilk, I came upon a vireo singing. As I listened, I was fairly confident it was a BLUE-HEADED. A bit later I heard the bird again, but this time I decided I must have been wrong, as it sounded more like a RED-EYED. The only problem was the bird was only singing once in awhile, not continuously as is often the case with the RED-EYED VIREO. I kept hearing the bird sing off and on for some time, and I continued to vacillate between the two species. I decided I had to see the bird to be sure, and eventually found a RED-EYED. With my confidence shaken, I resigned myself to the fact that I must have been mistaken in thinking I had heard a BLUE-HEADED, and was in dire need of more practice. Just about that time I caught sight of another bird within 5-10 feet of the RED-EYED. Lo and behold it was a BLUE-HEADED VIREO! It was then I realized that I had indeed been hearing the two singing near each other, *but only one at a time*. Is it possible that two closely related species might engage in counter singing, or was this just a very unusual coincidence??? Larry -- W. Larry Hymes 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (H) 607-277-0759, w...@cornell.edu -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://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 Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- Benjamin Freeman Ph.D. candidate Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA benjamingfreeman.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] Thrushes at SSW
At about 9:30 this morning there were at least 3 thrushes along the portion of the East Trail that parallels Sapsucker Woods Road (on the east side of the road heading south from the traihead). The first I got a good look at was a SWAINSON'S THRUSH--clearly buffy eye ring, spectacle, and lower cheek. The next one was a VEERY--essentially no spots, brown back. Then a third thrush came in, and all the thrushes chased around. One thrush landed on the path and foraged for quite awhile, giving me a chance to observe all sides from 15 to 20 ft away. The back was evenly dark gray/olive, tail to cap. The cheek was a lighter gray/olive under the eye but no contrast in shade. There were no face markings. I believe this last thrush was a GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. The AMERICAN BITTERN was still near the Sherwood Platform, but while we were there, it flew from the little area to the right of the two benches west of the boardwalk. It landed along the edge of the pond north of the platform but still in full view from the two benches. I arrived at Sapsucker Woods late this morning and didn't see much in the way of warblers. There was a PALM WARBLER near the Sherwood Platform, and several BLACK-THROATED GREEN warblers along the southwest portion of the Wilson Trail. Still lots of Yellow-rumps and Ruby-crowned Kinglets around. Anne Marie Johnson -- 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] Bird club field trip today
I had planned to lead the field trip today to Lindsay Parsons, but only two people showed up and because so much had been going on locally we decided to change our plans and went to the Hawthorn Orchards instead. We immediately ran into Chris Tessaglia-Hymes who was listening to the Yellow-breasted Chat. We heard it too and before long it made itself visible. In that same spot was a pair of Scarlet Tanagers, a Wilson's Warbler, a Nashville, Common Yellowthroat, a flyover Indigo Bunting or two and an Ovenbird. We spent about an hour in that spot enjoying the Chat as it came and went. The walk through the Orchards was rewarding, but it wasn't nearly as busy as I had hoped. The full eBird list is below. Green Heron 1 Killdeer X Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) X Mourning Dove X Downy Woodpecker 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay X American Crow X Barn Swallow X Black-capped Chickadee X Tufted Titmouse X White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin X Gray Catbird X European Starling X Ovenbird 1 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 3 American Redstart 2 Magnolia Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow X Scarlet Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal X Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch X House Sparrow X -- Paul Anderson, VP of Engineering, GrammaTech, Inc. 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x118; http://www.grammatech.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] warblers, Ithaca South Hill
male and female Blackburnian warbler male and female Yellow-rumped warbler Both pairs of birds were really working on the catkins of the river birch near our deck. One went briefly to the mixed-seed feeder on the deck but left as soon as a goldfinch arrived. We have not seen these before, though, of course, they may have been here many times. That's always an interesting question we have - is a first for us also a first for the birds visiting our yard? We assume we've just never found them before. Teresa -- 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] Thrushes at SSW
Hi Anne Marie, Way cool to hear this as I, too, saw a Gray-cheeked Thrush in my side yard this morning (I live very near the intersection of Sapsucker Woods Road and Hanshaw Road. The bird I saw in the shadowy shrubby back of my yard was exactly as you described: Gray olive above from head to tail, including wings. Face essentially uncolored (certainly nothing close to buffy of Swainson's). Two-toned bill. White chin edged with small spots on both sides. Smallish spots on upper breast. I have no idea why, but when I saw this bird, my brain immediately took me back to a trip to Mexico I took several years ago. I saw many Clay-colored Robins in similar habitat (none of which actually looked clay-colored to me!). But alas, I watched this bird for 5 minutes from about 15 feet away and could not make it into a Clay-colored Robin no matter how hard I tried ?!. Lots of warblers, vireos, Baltimore Orioles, Scarlet Tanagers (a pair patiently looking for insects only six feet from me!), and other thrushes too. fun morning. Jody Jody W. Enck, PhD Program Development and Evaluation Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2169 From: Anne Marie Johnsonmailto:annemariejohn...@frontiernet.net Sent: ?Saturday?, ?May? ?10?, ?2014 ?11?:?20? ?AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-Lmailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu At about 9:30 this morning there were at least 3 thrushes along the portion of the East Trail that parallels Sapsucker Woods Road (on the east side of the road heading south from the traihead). The first I got a good look at was a SWAINSON'S THRUSH--clearly buffy eye ring, spectacle, and lower cheek. The next one was a VEERY--essentially no spots, brown back. Then a third thrush came in, and all the thrushes chased around. One thrush landed on the path and foraged for quite awhile, giving me a chance to observe all sides from 15 to 20 ft away. The back was evenly dark gray/olive, tail to cap. The cheek was a lighter gray/olive under the eye but no contrast in shade. There were no face markings. I believe this last thrush was a GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. The AMERICAN BITTERN was still near the Sherwood Platform, but while we were there, it flew from the little area to the right of the two benches west of the boardwalk. It landed along the edge of the pond north of the platform but still in full view from the two benches. I arrived at Sapsucker Woods late this morning and didn't see much in the way of warblers. There was a PALM WARBLER near the Sherwood Platform, and several BLACK-THROATED GREEN warblers along the southwest portion of the Wilson Trail. Still lots of Yellow-rumps and Ruby-crowned Kinglets around. Anne Marie Johnson -- 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] Wood Pewee
Birded Upper Buttermilk and heard my first of year WOOD PEWEE. I've been looking forward to again hearing its wonderful peew song. Seems like this bird arrives later than others, and from my experience also seems to be one of the later ones to depart in the fall. Also, should mention that I'm fairly certain that the LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH are nesting in the shrubs overhanging the retaining wall at the low water crossing on the road between the two parking lots. Larry -- W. Larry Hymes 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 (H) 607-277-0759, w...@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] Hathorn Orchard in the morning
I spent about 2.5 hours in the HO. Main orchard itself did not have many birds, but both ends I encountered some warblers. Right on strawberry circle, I found two NAHSVILLE WARBLERS feeding on crab apples. I go a photo of one with its beak open containing a tiny caterpillar. Later I encountered another 10 or so. Most of them were to the Southwest side in the willows. Here I also saw several CHESTNUT-SIDEDS, MAGNOLIA, YELLOW-RUMPED, COMMON YELLOWTHROATS, YELLOW WARBLERS, REDSTARTS AND RED-EYED VIREO, A PHILADELPHIA VIREO AND two WARBLING VIREO. Further in the middle of the orchard one NORTHERN PARULA, a few more Nashvilles and Common Yellowthroats and LEAST FYCATHCHERS (at least five) were heard or seen. Then in its usual location was the BLUE-WINGED WARBLER singing at the end of the orchard in the ravine. Then I met Sara Jane and she told me about the Chat, but I went to a wrong location, but it was worth going there. Here I encountered another pocket of warblers consisting of several CHESTNUT- SIDEDS, TWO BLACK AND WHITE, ONE BAY BREASTED, ONE CAPE MAY, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, FILED SPARROW, GREAT CRESTED FLYCATHCER and other usual birds. Also I saw three different BROWN THRASHER. One of the thrashers when it started calling in the NE corner, I was excited thinking I may be listening to a CHAT, but on locating the bird I found out it was a thrasher, still it was worth looking at the bird. Overall it was very slow in the orchard. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 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] Red-headed @ Mays Point
Don't remember it having been reported, but a red-headed woodpecker is back at Mays Point, excavating a cavity towards the west side of the snag stands east of Mays Point Pool, 20 feet from the road, great viewing angle. Look for a barkless tree with a 2-foot-high girdle of bark about 20 feet high; the hole is within this girdle. Thanks to a tip from Phil Bonn. Suan _ http://suan-yong.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] Brown thrasher at home
I just had a new yard bird: Brown Thrasher! Three orioles, a hummingbird, and a Great-crested Flycatcher have also graced our yard again. Robyn Bailey Lansing Sent from my iPhone -- 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] indigo bunting, brooktondale
A beautiful Indigo Bunting is gleaning food under our feeders on Burns Rd in B-dale. Beautiful bird. ...Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. ~Warren Buffett Thomas Hoebbel Photo~Video www.TH-Photo.com http://www.th-photo.com/ 607-539-6121 -- 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] Avian irony
The Brown Thrasher out back now imitates my parrot's alarm call very nicely. You can imagine how surprised I was to hear Jim suddenly being angsty right next to me all the way back in the woods. Caroline West Hill -- 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] Snowy owl...
...still at mucklands on Rt 31, near Rt 89 intersection. Initially sitting on ground but flew up; now perched atop equipment on south side of highway. Kathy Strickland Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Ptarmigan in VT
Hi, There seems to be Willow Ptarmigan in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. It would be interesting if it could be determined as the same bird as we had seen in NY last month. Of the other bird notes at East Hill, a Raven was being constantly attacked by an American Crow for about five minutes, though Raven tried variety of techniques to avoid the crow. Later I went to Sapsucker Woods. I saw a few warblers but most interesting was the sighting of American Bittern near Sherwood platform marsh. The bittern seemed to be so very confident of its camouflage that it ignored me. I saw it getting interested in something in the water as it slowly put its head towards it goal, I knew it was on to something. Shortly, it caught a golden fish and turned it around such that its head went in first and gulped it. After gulping I could see the fish's passage through its gullet. Then I went to look for the Barred Owl, which was photographed a few minutes earlier by my colleague. By the time I went there, the owl had moved to some other location. But still it was a great place as I saw beautiful Scarlet Tanager, three Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, which were going to a fork in the tree and probably getting something like ants or some kind of insects. I could not see what they were eating as a branch covered the location for me. Also there was a Veery feeding on another noctuid caterpillar. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 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] Big Day Bust or Great?
From 3:30 to 8:00 I say the lowest number of species that I can remember in decades. Still early with many regulars not back. That's not good. But, how can you call a day a bust when you get to see/hear: Barred Owls calling before you are out of your car at 3:40. I knew that was too easy and that I would have to pay. It was an hour before I got the second species, a screech owl. Then, of course, I only found one other species in the May Day count, which did happen to be a Snowy Owl!! (Spotted by Karen Allaben-Confer far from original, posted location!!)Too bad we got only three species of owls. Two flocks of Black Tern: Main Pool and Tschache Pond. A pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers excavating a hole in the same stand of dead trees as last year near May's Point Pond. Hole on north side of road and facing the road in single-stem, dead elm with a little piece of bark around the trunk and hole in the middle of bark. Birds appeared totally oblivious to hoards of observers. Eurasian Wigeon: opposite pole 291 as reported on Van Dyne Spoor Rd. Trumpeter Swans: seen from Carncross Rd. Prothonatory Warbler on Armitage Rd building nest about 100 m north of bridge. The best view in my life of a Bay-breasted Warbler perched in conifer tree for at least 30 seconds, with full exposure to rising sun, above a play-back of a mobbing tape. A Sora Rail, but no Virginia Rail. Who would have thought 15 years ago that you would see more Osprey and more Bald Eagles than Red-tailed Hawks and Am. Kestrel summed together? Was this a bust day with few species for the effort and time of year, or a great day? Birding is unpredictably fun John Confer -- 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] Montezuma this afternoon
Sorry for the cross-posting - this post might be of interest to either group, though. If anyone in either group can take the run-on sentences, fragmented sentences, and mangled syntax, that is. My apologies in advance. After the Rochester Birding Association's joint field trip with Eaton Birding Society to Ontario Pathways where I heard, for the first time, the phrase just another Cape May (report to come, RBA people, never fear), I read the report of a Snowy Owl at Montezuma. I have not seen a Snowy since April 2nd and so this Owl would bring me to seven consecutive months of Snowy sightings, which is just insane, so I knew I had to go. Sure enough, the Snowy Owl was perched on a fuel tank in the middle of the muck to the south of 31, plain as day: he then flew down to the ground not far away as nearby construction equipment revved up. I was able to pick him out just fine scoping from the Potatoes Building, even. I ogled for a while, then departed for the southern complex and a drive around the loop which yielded great views of 17 Black Terns flying over the water before the spillway. After that, it was off to East Road (quiet) and Van Dyne Spoor, which was a bit dull at the watery end, but in the woods….magnificent. The Cerulean Warblers were singing, and I caught sight of a stunning male. A few Yellow-throated Vireos rasped their three-ay refrain. A Scarlet Tanager popped into view in between trees, a stunning red patch on the gray sky background. A Least Flycatcher chbecked (took me a few tries to get that past spellcheck, btw). Best of all, though, was the lovely Yellow-billed Cuckoo at the eastern edge of the woods - this bird hopped along the front branches of a nearby tree, at times hanging from slender twigs or posing against the leaves. After I watched it for a while, it sang! I can't hear that sound often enough to suit me. I saw no real rarities on my trip, but did enjoy the Ruddy Duck and Sandhill Crane at Knox-Marcellus, a lone Snow Goose at the Visitor's Center, a Solitary Sandpiper on the main pool, and the Willow Flycatcher at Tschache. Add that to a spectacular morning at the Pathways trail in Phelps, plus a hearty brunch at the Blue Ribbon diner, and this was a nearly perfect day. :) -kimberly sucy -ks...@eznet.net -- 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/ --
