[cayugabirds-l] Kestrals .. Union Springs

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

Today a kestral was hunting from the Spring St. power line near us. 
Yesterday Becky & I saw 2 youngsters on another power line nearby. Glad 
to finally see them back in our area.


Bluebirds have a 2nd brood in the hollowed out dead tree limb. Wrens are 
feeding babies. Chimney swifts are obviously feeding young as I have 
seen them go down the chimney & in a couple minutes fly back out.


A walk in the 100 acre field behind us this a.m. yielded NO obvious 
grasshoppers or insects flying up. When that field or the academy lawns 
are mowed I normally see dozens of tree or barn swallows swooping in to 
catch insects. Not this yr.!  I am seeing more milk weed plants than 
last yr. but still, no monarchs.


Fritzie

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[cayugabirds-l] Blue-winged Warbler...

[Kathy]

...singing in my hedgerow as I was picking Blackcaps this evening. 

Kathy Strickland 
Union Springs

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[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA
 
*  New York
*  Syracuse
* July 07, 2014
*  NYSY  07. 07. 14
 
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):

July 01, 2013 - July 07, 2014
to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com
covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),
Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison & Cortland
compiled: July 07 AT 8:30 p.m. (EDT)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
 
 
#400 Monday July 07, 2014
 
Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of 
July 01, 2014
 
Highlights:
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LEAST BITTERN
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
AMERICAN AVOCET
WHIP-POOR-WILL
ORCHARD ORIOLE

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC)


     7/4: At least 5 LEAST BITTERNS were seen flying along the Wildlife Drive 
near the end of Larue’s Lagoon. The two adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were 
observed feeding a fledgling on May’s Point Pool Road. They were seen throught 
the week including today.
     7/5: 2 adult and 2 young SANDHILL CRANES were seen in the marsh on VanDyne 
Spoor Road. 2 LEAST BITTERNS were seen in the marsh on Morgan Road.
     7/7: 4 LEAST BITTERNS were seen in the marsh on Morgan Road. 2 DOWITCHER 
SPECIES were seen distantly. At least 2 LEAST BITTERNS were seen along the 
Wildlife Drive, again at the end of Larue’s Lagoon. 3 BLACK-CROWNED 
NIGHT-HERONS were seen at the Deep Muck Mitigation Marsh near Savannah Spring 
Lake Road.


Onondaga County


     7/5: 3 ORCHARD ORIOLES were spotted at Green Lakes State Park.


Oswego County


     7/2: An AMERICAN AVOCET was seen at the mouth of the Salmon River. 
     7/4: 2 WHIP-POOR-WILLS were heard on Lily Marsh Road in the Town of New 
Haven.

    
         
   

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Joseph Brin
Region 5
Baldwinsville, N.Y.  13027  U.S.A.
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[cayugabirds-l] OT: Help transcribe William Brewster's field notes

[Marty Schlabach]

I'm involved in a funded project called Purposeful gaming and BHL: engaging the 
public in improving and enhancing access to digital texts 
http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Purposeful+Gaming  More info about the project 
can be found at the URL provided, but the core of the project is that a game 
will be developed to allow players to correct words in scanned texts that the 
computer using optical character recognition software (OCR) did not recognize 
correctly.  If the error rate is above a certain threshold on a page, the whole 
page will be transcribed by users.  In addition, users are invited to 
transcribe handwritten text, which is usually not recognizable by OCR software. 
  An example is the hand written field notes of William Brewster (1851-1919), 
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/61138#/summary .

Here is how you can help:

Earlier in the month, the Purposeful Gaming team launched ten digitized volumes 
of William Brewster's field notes on two crowdsourcing transcription websites:

Biodiversity Volunteer Portal (BVP) Biodiversity Volunteer Portal 
(BVP), a collaboration between the Australian 
Museum and the Atlas of Living Australia;

FromThePage http://transcribebhl.mobot.org/ , a transcription tool developed by 
Ben Brumfield.

Try your hand at transcribing Brewster's fascinating field notes on either site 
and enjoy his idyllic writing while helping to unlock his valuable observations 
for the benefit of all!

Learn more: 
http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2014/06/transcribing-field-notes-of-william.html
Following transcription Brewster's field notes will not only be available for 
viewing on the Biodiversity Heritage Library site 
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/61138#/summary , but will also 
be searchable.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and 
botanical libraries 
that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of 
biodiversity held in their 
collections and 
to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part 
of a global "biodiversity commons."

I'd be happy to field any questions that might come up and have fun unlocking 
the field notes of a leading American ornithologist.

Best,
Marty


Marty Schlabach 
m...@cornell.edu
Food & Agriculture Librarian, Mann Library, Ithaca  607-255-6919
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853   Cell 315-521-4315



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Least Bittern and Red-Headed Woodpecker.

[John Confer]

A couple weeks ago, I went around the main dike auto tour route and saw 
two Least Bittern flying by less than 10 yards apart: near the first 
segment of the drive that goes north-South just where the dense cattails 
open up so that you can see several hundred yards of more or less open 
water. I can't remember ever seeing a Least Bittern on the main auto 
tour route before. A week before that I helped with the Black Tern 
survey by pushing my canoe through the cattails for about a quarter of a 
mile(!) at May's Point and scared up one Least Bittern.

That is way above average for me. Maybe it is a great year for Least 
Bittern.

Cheers,
John

On 7/5/2014 10:49 PM, W. Larry Hymes wrote:
> Sara Jane and I went to Montezuma today in hopes of seeing LEAST 
> BITTERN.  We were most fortunate to have one land out in the open at 
> "Jay's Place" across from Larue's Lagoon.  It very kindly posed for us 
> for a whopping 20 seconds or so!!  About that same time we had a 
> fly-by AMERICAN BITTERN.  Later we went to the DEC headquarters on 
> Morgan Road and had another Least Bittern do a nice long fly-by for 
> us, before it literally took a dive into the vegetation.  Based on the 
> recent posts on this species, and our good fortune today, it would 
> appear that the numbers of Least Bittern are significantly higher than 
> in most years.  Is this true??
>
> We also stopped to see the RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS over at Mays. We saw 
> the adults feeding a young bird.   They seemed to take their time 
> coming to the nest hole with food, as though they were trying to coax 
> the young bird into fledging.  At the same time I had the feeling that 
> perhaps the young bird wasn't terribly anxious to go out and look for 
> a "job", preferring instead to stay home where it could have food 
> brought to it in bed!
>
> Larry
>
>


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bald Eagles, Red-headed Woodpeckers, dowitchers

[Ellen Haith]

Re:  Dave's post of last evening, we have seen a juvenile Bald Eagle along
Elm Beach Road since early May. The heavy rains washed a large tree down
one of the creeks, and s/he has been visiting that occasionally. When
finished with his-or-her check of the neighborhood, s/he heads south. We
have seen adult BE's in the trees between Elm Beach and Sheldrake, and have
assumed that the juvenile belongs to that clan.

On another note, I haven't posted about the RTH nest for some weeks. Once
the leaves came out the nest was completely hidden. However, in the last
ten days I've heard what I take to be two individual fledglings ordering up
lunch when I walk the dogs up the hill. Yesterday a solitary adult was also
calling out intermittently.


On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:

> On 3 July I stopped by the Bald Eagle nest along Maplewood Rd in Ulysses
> (north of Glenwood Pines & Ithaca Yacht Club), and it appeared emptly. I
> guess the 2 adult-sized young I saw there awhile back fledged at some
> point. Has anyone else kept an eye on this nest or seen fledged young in
> the area lately?
>
> I watched the Red-headed Woodpecker nest on South Mays Point Rd for awhile
> today. Both adults were feeding a youngster who stuck its head out the
> hole. But even though only one young was visible at a time, I think there
> are at least 3 of them because of different markings. One had a stripe of
> red just below the eyes, 1 had a very narrow line of red just below the
> eyes, 1 or more had just the gray plumage of the rest of the head.
>
> On 3 July I saw a dowitcher in Knox-Marsellus Marsh from East Rd. I
> couldn't get colors on the distant bird but it looked flat-backed as it fed
> (possibly indicating Short-billed). Today (6 July) I saw 2 dowitchers there
> feeding near the resting gulls & terns. Again the distance, lighting &
> shimmer prevented me getting plumage details, although one looked pinkish
> below. Both appeard very fat & hump-backed as they fed, with a pronounced
> concavity between the back and rear end (possibly indicating Long-billed).
>
> --Dave Nutter
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