[cayugabirds-l] FOY birds (for me, at least)
FOY Osprey yard bird - one just flew nearby by my yard (giles st in Ithaca) going towards Six Mile Creek. Saw others at Salt Point and Myer's earlier, and a couple around the Ithaca area in recent days, but this is the first time this year I've seen the one (more than one?) that frequents my neighborhood. Gray Catbird made a noisy return to my backyard today, enjoying the birdbath. Yellow-rumped warbler at Salt Point in lansing. Indigo Bunting female on wire, also at Salt Point - drab brown bird, with pale throat and bunting bill - didn't recognize it at first, but fit the descriptions of drabbest bird (but beautiful in its own way!) OOB - well, way, way out of basin, but a couple of weeks ago I was at the Grand Canyon, and saw a California Condor as Steve and I hiked up the Bright Angel Trail :-). Very close in, tagged on both wings, but I couldn't read the tags. Soared nearby for a couple of minutes. Of course, my camera was in my pack, but I savored the sight with my binoculars. Snapped a couple of pictures with the phone before it disappeared into the distance. Definitely a lifer. -liisa Liisa Mobley 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] SFO Trip Report to Braddock Bay Area from Saturday
Seven of us carpooled and caravaning up to Braddock Bay Banding station and surrounding spots. Dave Nutter was our leader, and the following are highlights of that trip, which was yesterday 8am-4pm. NEAR GAS STATION AT THE JUNCTION OF 318 EAST OF 414 We saw a GREATER AND LESSER YELLOW LEGS in the same flooded corn field (seasonal pond?). They stood close to each other a few times; so we got good looks and were able to compare and contrast the two birds nicely. There were also times when a ROBIN dropped by and a pair of GREEN-WINGED TEALS, so we also got to size these yellow legs as well, relative to the visitors. BANDING STATION, 10:00 am-11:00am We watch the banding of two BLUEJAYS (juvenile one and an older one) plus a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. Around the property, we saw a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK out in the fields, CORMORANT FLOCKS FLYING NORTH, BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS, YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER. At the end of Ontario Road, we saw 3 HORNED GREBES, 6+ WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS, 2 LONG-TAILED DUCKS, 1 CASPIAN TERN, COMMON LOON. BAYVIEW AVENUE, BREAKERS, 11:30-12:00 2 BONAPARTE GULLS, 3 MUTE SWANS (one displaying), 10+CASPIAN TERNS. OWL WOODS, 12:15-1pm PILEATED WOODPECKER, COOPERS HAWK, YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER, AMERICAN KESTREL, 2 BALD EAGLES, TURKEY VULTURE, COWBIRD, BROAD-WINGED HAWK, BARN SWALLOW, PURPLE MARTIN. No owl's nest found. BRADDOCK BAY HAWK WATCH SITE, 1:07pm 10+ BUFFLEHEAD, 6+ CORMORANT LOTT FARM, 3:30-4:30 pm SAVANNAH SPARROW (near the chain link edge on the grass and up in the chain link near the above-ground cistern) - a first for many of us. Some of us were getting leg and back cramps from sitting in the back seat for two hours up there and two hours back (never again!). We did not realize sitting in the back seat would do this! On our way out, our fearless leader found 2 UPLAND SANDPIPER foraging in the farm field near the main road, between the big white farm building and the main house. We moved up closer with the cars and got a better look with the scope, but were spooked by something (us?) and went out of sight behind a berm. Around the same time, we spotted a EASTERN MEADOWLARK in the field. The sun was full and the yellows were incredibly yellow. * * * * * * * * * *Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come ALIVE, for what the world needs is people who have come ALIVE. - Dr. Howard Thurman, American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist (1900-1981) * Sandra (Sandy) Wold Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map, Author, Originator, Designer, and Publisher, www.sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ Interdisciplinary Artist/Educator, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-sandy-wold/a7/114/877 NYS Certified Math/Science Teacher and Tutor, *www.sites.google.com/site/fallcreektutoringservices/home http://www.sites.google.com/site/fallcreektutoringservices/home* -- 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] Connecticut Hills in the evening
?After reading geo's post about Ovenbirds and thrushes in Danby area, I decided to try my hand at recording evening chorus. Unfortunately, I did not find any ovenbirds or Hermit thrushes. I did find a pair of Raven's croaking, several Song Sparrows but not as numerous as in the past, lots of Am. Goldfinches and Robins singing, a yellow-bellied Sapsucker and a Wood Thrush. But not otherwise many birds. I spent just a couple of hours late in the evening. On Friday morning, I took a walk In the Hawthorn Orchard. Everything was quiet except for a couple of Ruby-crowned Kinglets and it seems the East Hill Merlins have returned. This the second time I have heard them from Mitchell street end. I believe the sound was coming form a Pine tree, which was across the house next to East Hill cemetery on Mitchell street. I investigated this location a little later from a closer location, but I did not see the birds nor did I hear them again. I also think I have found a Hairy woodpecker's nest and a White-breasted Nuthatch nest too. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- 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] Black-throated Blue Warbler
Heard only while I was walking in the northern end of Shindagin Hollow State Forest. -- 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] FOY Birds
While recording Brown Thrasher in the FLNF this morning (pre-dawn), heard my first VEERY singing. CHIMNEY SWIFTS (50) were in the air at the corner of N Tioga Court Streets, Ithaca. There was also a MERLIN calling intermittently to the NE of that corner. I suspect there may be a nest in a tall spruce there. A WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW is currently foraging under our feeder. Bob McGuire -- 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] Yard birds
On my morning walk along the westernmost edge of the L-P Preserve, which is also the eastern edge of my property and the boundary between the towns of Newfield and Danby, I found plenty of Ovenbirds, the resident Louisiana Waterthrush, several Common Yellowthroats, a Blackburnian Warbler, a Black-and-White Warbler and a Chestnut-sided Warbler, along with the usual Hermit Thrushes, Blue-headed Vireos, etc. -Geo Kloppel -- 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 Thrush and others
New arrivals this weekend at Lansing Station Rd, Lansing (FOY): BALTIMORE ORIOLE YELLOW WARBLER GRAY CATBIRDS (2) And just this morning for 1st time, I heard my usual WOOD THRUSH singing at dawn in my woods across the road from house. C. LOONS still calling on lake, and yesterday a BROWN THRASHER was again singing its mimicked songs from atop a tall tree, while the CATBIRD did its songs in a bush below. Donna scott Donna L. Scott 535 Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY -- 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] probable Black Scoter Red-necked Grebe at Salt Point
Just back from a quick walk around Salt Point with Lynn Leopold. An Osprey was present on the nest platform- the female on the nest perked up a bit when her mate flew over and also when a grackle tried to take a stick from just underneath her beak. Also present was a Baltimore Oriole, Eastern Kingbirds, Gnatcatchers and singing Yellow Warblers. On the lake off the N end of Salt Point were several loons and one distant Red-necked Grebe. A bit to the south was a single male scoter. It had noticeable orange on the bill, and we did not see any white on it. This probable Black Scoter is likely also visible from Myers Point. -- 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] Goetchius Preserve new birds - Sunday
Laura Erickson and I took a walk around the Goetchius Preserve in Caroline this morning. Joining the increasing avian lineup in the wet areas were 2 Lesser Yellowlegs and a Solitary Sandpiper. And two Eastern Kingbirds in a hedgerow. Also seen: Spotted Sandpiper Killdeer Eastern Meadowlarks Chipping, Savannah, and Song Sparrows etc. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake BasinAvailable here: http://marieread.photoshelter.com/gallery/Sierra-Wings-Birds-of-the-Mono-Lake-Basin/GNlCxX37uTzE/CBPFGij6nLfE -- 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] Night time singer
Hi All, When I couldn't sleep last night I got up to read a little after three. At about 4:15 a House Finch started singing for all its worth. I'm guessing it was the light from the window because it stopped right after I turned off the light in about fifteen minutes. It started up again about an hour later at the edge of first light. The House Wrens returned Wed. and my husband saw a Rose-breasted Grosbeak this morning. I have had White-throated Sparrows all week. A pair of Purple Finches and a Chipping Sparrow have also been here most of the week. It certainly feels like spring finally! Diana Whiting Diana Whiting dianawhitingphotography.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] New arrivals
I had my FOS White Crown Sparrow, female RB Grosbeak, and House Wren today. The White Crowns usually arrive when the Serviceberry blooms. They're not quite open yet, but close. Now I need the Orioles , Catbirds, and Yellow Warblers to show up. Carol Keeler Auburn Sent from my iPad -- 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/ --
