[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA
 
*  New York
*  Syracuse
* August 11, 2014
*  NYSY  08. 11. 14
 
Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert
Dates(s):

July 28, 2013 - August 11, 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: August 11 AT 6:00 p.m. (EDT)
compiler: Joseph Brin
Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org
 
 
#405 Monday August 11, 2014
 
Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of 
July 28, 2014
 
Highlights:
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GREAT EGRET
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
LEAST BITTERN
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
WHIMBREL
RUDDY TURNSTONE
STILT SANDPIPER
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
ORCHARD ORIOLE

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


     Shorebirds reported this week were WILSON’S SNIPE, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 
PECTORAL SANDPIPER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, SPOTTED 
SANDPIPER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, BOTH YELLOWLEGS, LEAST SANDPIPER, KILLDEER and 
SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER. All species were seen along the Wildlife Trail or at 
Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Some, but nothing different, were seen at the northern 
complex areas. There was no report of the AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN this week
     8/7: Only one adult RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen on Mays Point Road. 
Again only one was seen today also.
     8/8: A LEAST BITTERN was heard only along the Wildlife Trail.
     8/9: A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Tschache Pool.


Oswego County


     8/6: A RUDDY TURNSTONE and a WHIMBRELL were seen at Oswego Harbor on the 
breakwalls.


Onondaga County


     8/9: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was found at Green Lakes State Park. A GREAT EGRET 
was seen in Dead Creek at the Town of Van Buren  Transportation Department.
     8/11: A juvenile BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen on the Onondaga Creek 
Creekwalk from Spencer Street.


Cayuga County


     8/6: A BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was spotted at the West Barrier Beach area at 
Fairhaven.


Oneida County


     8/7: A GREAT EGRET was found at Utica Marsh.

          

     
   
  
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Joseph Brin
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Baldwinsville, N.Y.  13027  U.S.A.
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[cayugabirds-l] likely Olive-sided Flycatcher north of Bluegrass Lane, on the edge of the natural area just s.w. of Equine Research Center

[Wesley M. Hochachka]

Hi everyone,

   I'm a bit slow in reporting this, because I saw the bird en route to Cornell 
campus from the Lab of O and only recently got back to my office and computer.  
The bird wasn't an in-your-face bird when I saw it, but I stopped at a location 
that I often do when biking to campus from the Lab of O, and noticed it while 
doing a 5-minute eBird count.  Anyway, I saw a bird that I can't argue myself 
out of IDing as an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER in the location mentioned in the 
subject line.  It's a wee bit earlier than expected (although Chris Wood had 
found one in a previous year on 12 August).  For details on the sighting, 
location, and rationale for my ID see the following eBird checklist: 
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19417882

Wesley


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

[Mike Pitzrick]

Howdy,

Birds of North America says that Red-tailed Hawk has been reported as far
south as Venezuela and Colombia.

-Mike




On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Lindsay Goodloe  wrote:

> From what I’ve read, the red-tailed hawk occurs in Central America
> but not in South America. When I was growing up in the 1950s, I was a big
> fan of Disney’s True Life Adventure films, one of which was The Living
> Desert. Though it’s been about 60 years since I’ve seen the film, I have a
> clear memory of a sequence in which a red-tailed hawk dove through a flying
> mass of bats that were either just departing from or returning to the cave
> in which they roosted by day.  As I recall, the red-tail eventually caught
> a bat after repeated failures. I’m sure an accipiter could have done better!
>
> Lindsay Goodloe
>
> I think one of the BBC specials shows red-tailed hawks catching bats.  Big
> bats, in South America...I think.
>
> David Diaz
> Tburg, NY
>
> > On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:51 PM, "Kevin Loope" <*kj...@cornell.edu
> *> wrote:
> >
> > Sitting on my porch at around 8:15 this evening, I noticed a silhouetted
> accipiter (female sharp-shinned or male cooper’s?) atop the utility pole in
> the TCAT parking lot in Varna.  It was pulling apart what I thought was a
> small bird, but when it tossed it off and flew away I found the fresh
> remains of a bat (mostly wings) at the base of the pole, plus the remains
> of at least two more bats that were slightly less fresh.  Do they “hawk”
> the bats in flight??  What a remarkable feat that would be!  Anyone ever
> witnessed it?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin Loope
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

[Lindsay Goodloe]

   From what I've read, the red-tailed hawk occurs in Central America but not 
in South America. When I was growing up in the 1950s, I was a big fan of 
Disney's True Life Adventure films, one of which was The Living Desert. Though 
it's been about 60 years since I've seen the film, I have a clear memory of a 
sequence in which a red-tailed hawk dove through a flying mass of bats that 
were either just departing from or returning to the cave in which they roosted 
by day.  As I recall, the red-tail eventually caught a bat after repeated 
failures. I'm sure an accipiter could have done better!

Lindsay Goodloe

I think one of the BBC specials shows red-tailed hawks catching bats.  Big 
bats, in South America...I think.

David Diaz
Tburg, NY

> On Aug 10, 2014, at 8:51 PM, "Kevin Loope"  wrote:
>
> Sitting on my porch at around 8:15 this evening, I noticed a silhouetted 
> accipiter (female sharp-shinned or male cooper's?) atop the utility pole in 
> the TCAT parking lot in Varna.  It was pulling apart what I thought was a 
> small bird, but when it tossed it off and flew away I found the fresh remains 
> of a bat (mostly wings) at the base of the pole, plus the remains of at least 
> two more bats that were slightly less fresh.  Do they "hawk" the bats in 
> flight??  What a remarkable feat that would be!  Anyone ever witnessed it?
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin Loope

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

[Kevin Loope]

Thanks, everyone, for all the links!  Great stuff!

On Aug 11, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Tim Gallagher  wrote:

> Here's a link to a Naturalist's Notebook column by John Schmitt about 
> observing a Peregrine Falcon catching bats.
> 
> http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=1107
> Naturalist Notebook - Winter 2009 Living Bird
> Use our Bird Guide to identify birds, learn about the life history, listen to 
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> From: bounce-117710864-10557...@list.cornell.edu 
>  on behalf of Geo Kloppel 
> 
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 6:42 AM
> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats
>  
> That's right, on the web you can find videos of Red-tailed Hawks hunting at 
> dusk as vast clouds of bats emerge from their roosting cave. Here's one such:
> 
> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e22_1344450135
> 
> The presence of multiple remains under the pole in the TCAT parking lot 
> suggests that this accipiter has discovered a bat roost in the area. Might be 
> fun to find out where that is.
> 
> -Geo Kloppel
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

[Tim Gallagher]

Here's a link to a Naturalist's Notebook column by John Schmitt about observing 
a Peregrine Falcon catching bats.


http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=1107

Naturalist Notebook - Winter 2009 Living Bird
Use our Bird Guide to identify birds, learn about the life history, listen to 
the sounds, and watch bird behavior on video--the most comprehensive guide to 
North American birds
Read more...

?




Tim Gallagher
Editor-in-Chief
LIVING BIRD
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, New York 14850
(607) 254-2443
t...@cornell.edu

From: bounce-117710864-10557...@list.cornell.edu 
 on behalf of Geo Kloppel 

Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 6:42 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

That's right, on the web you can find videos of Red-tailed Hawks hunting at 
dusk as vast clouds of bats emerge from their roosting cave. Here's one such:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e22_1344450135

The presence of multiple remains under the pole in the TCAT parking lot 
suggests that this accipiter has discovered a bat roost in the area. Might be 
fun to find out where that is.

-Geo Kloppel

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

[Geo Kloppel]

That's right, on the web you can find videos of Red-tailed Hawks hunting at 
dusk as vast clouds of bats emerge from their roosting cave. Here's one such:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e22_1344450135

The presence of multiple remains under the pole in the TCAT parking lot 
suggests that this accipiter has discovered a bat roost in the area. Might be 
fun to find out where that is.

-Geo Kloppel


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