[cayugabirds-l] Knox-Marsellus field trip this morning (Sunday 17 Aug)
Shorebirds at Knox-Marsellus today included: AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, 1 in transition from breeding to non-breeding plumage BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 1 in nearly breeding plumage, 1 in nearly non-breeding plumage SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER KILLDEER GREATER YELLOWLEGS, several LESSER YELLOWLEGS, dozens RUDDY TURNSTONE, 1 in non-breeding plumage seen from Towpath Rd before field trip began PECTORAL SANDPIPER, several STILT SANDPIPER, 1 in transition plumage WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, several LEAST SANDPIPER, scores SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, hundreds Also unusual was a single non-breeding BONAPARTE'S GULL. There were lots of CASPIAN TERNS and GREAT EGRETS. I counted 8 SANDHILL CRANES: a pair and a trio flew NW at dawn, a pair stayed all morning, and a single arrived from the north at noon, greeted with hostility by the resident pair and forced to move to a different part of K-M. After others left I saw a female NORTHERN HARRIER overhead and still later Gary Kohlenberg watched a PEREGRINE FALCON circle lazily from the north then stoop directly into the middle of K-M, quickly diving a second time, then flying low across the marsh and disappearing behind vegetation. Maybe it stopped when it caught something out of our view. There were about 30 field trip participants. Next such field trip meets at the Montezuma NWR Visitor Center at ELEVEN O'CLOCK on SATURDAY 23 August. This morning I arrived early to listen (unsuccessfully) for Sedge Wren. --Dave Nutter -- 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] Pheasants and other August birds
Some interesting sightings over the last couple of days-- seems like months since I have been birdwatching! After some absence, I hear white breasted nuthatches and a baltimore oriole singing in my front yard. I wonder have they been around but silent or have they been on the move and back again? I found a cedar waxwing sitting on a nest in a small maple tree, and both she and her mate have been very vocal. On Wycoff road I flushed from the side ditch a female ring-necked pheasant with at least 4 chicks. Our dozen Barn swallows are still here and feeding their second batch of fledglings. I have seen large gatherings of bank swallows on the telephone wires. Northern mockingbirds also feeding their second round. And thanks to everyone who posted about the Gallinule families at MNWR- I was finally able to add them on my life list. I did not expect them to be so beautiful. Be well and keep moving! Michele Interlaken and Ovid -- www.thehaywardhouse.com www.bodyshopwellness.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] Cerulean Warbler at Monkey Run
There is a Cerulean Warbler with a mixed flock of warblers at Monkey Run SE. To look for it park along hwy 13 at fall creek. Walk on south side heading west along trail to where you reach bluff overlooking creek (and is at sunlit edge). Bird is foraging in this area. Female. Cheers, Chris Wood -- Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.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] Raven in my yard croaking
Hi all, There is raven on one of my spruces and croaking merrily! Yesterday in the afternoon, I was looking out of my living room window, when a male GOLDFINCH came and sat on my yew about 3 feet from window. It seemed it was literally shivering. It sat there for a minute or so shivering. Then a female passed by. He soon followed her. After this I went to my backyard door to see what had caused the goldfinch to be so fearful. On the foot step of my backyard door there was woodchuck frozen and intently listening to something. I did not want to disturb the woodchuck, so I waited for the woodchuck to relax. After sometime it seemed relaxed and went on its way feeding. I slowly opened the door to see if I hear anything else. I heard both chickadees and robins both in still alarm mode. So I suspect a hawk in my yard like the other day. It must have chased the goldfinch and that is why it was terrified and escaped but still shivering with fear:-( Beautiful male seemed as an easy target for the hawk? Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4 Dragonfly book sample pages: http://tinyurl.com/ky7acvp -- 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] Jim Shcug trail and a visit to David Kiefer's garden in Dryden
Hi all, I went to visit David Kiefer's garden, which was on display as a natural flora garden and he also wanted me to see his odonates. After that I went on the south trail that part of Dryden Jim Schug trail, which I have never visited in the last 20 years. I have no clue why I have not done this part. It is a great place with beautiful marshes and stream. That should have been one of the locations to visit in my book! In David's garden I saw 10+ species of dragonflies and damselflies, a Rufous throated Hummingbird and a Pileated Woodpecker. On Jim Schug's trail I came across a small migrant or local migrants grouping, consisted of a female SCARLET TANAGER, a female BALTIMORE ORIOLE and a ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK when I first passed the trail. On my return it was more interesting as at the same spot there was a tiny stream where some of the birds were taking bath. They waited patiently till the other finished bath. First it was a BROWN THRASHER, it splashed water well over its body and gave thorough shake several times. After it was done it was a turn of a young male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK's. It also took a several minutes bath. Then it was turn of a CATBIRD. All of them went to the same spot and this I have observed several times for several other species. they all like to take bath in the same spot. I can't imagine why. One thing seems plausible is for the pathogens and mites to spread from one bird to another, though some of them may not go to a different species. Here in the group were also an AMERICAN REDSTART, a MAGNOLIA WARBLER and a fall plumaged CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER along with the RED-EYED VIREO. I also saw a warbler with large white wing-bar and other characters were barely visible because of the sunlight and I think it was a CAPE MAY WARBLER. It did not have a terminal black tail band, which sat on tippy top of a spruce right against the sun. I was wondering if the males will be still in breeding plumage with big white patch at this time of the year. Or it was molting? Then I also had other species like BLETED KINGFISHER, GREAT BLUE HERON, GREEN HERON, CEDAR WAXWINGS, RED-WINGED BALCKBIRDS, COMMON GRACKELs (EATING SOMETHING FROM WATER'S EDGE, MAY BE TENERAL ODONATES), TURKEY VULTURES, and many other local species. I took three hours to walk three and a half miles of the trail! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4 Dragonfly book sample pages: http://tinyurl.com/ky7acvp -- 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/ --
