[cayugabirds-l] Great crested Flycatcher

2015-05-04 Thread Brad Walker
Hi all, A great crested Flycatcher has shown up at Sapsucker Woods, along with a nice contingent of catbirds. Brad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Great Crested Flycatcher

2015-05-04 Thread Stephanie Greenwood
Just appeared in my backyard up at EcoVillage. Stephanie Greenwood Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

[cayugabirds-l] Scarlet tanager

2015-05-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
A scarlet tanager is singing in the sun in our yard. Hunt Hill Rd, Dryden. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Orchard Oriole, Myers Point

2015-05-04 Thread Jay McGowan
The lake off Myers Point was quiet this morning with no sign of grebes or scoters from yesterday, but an ORCHARD ORIOLE was singing near the park entrance. Yesterday in addition to Ben's Red-necked Grebe I found six Horned Grebes south of the marina, but was not able to relocated his suspicious

[cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

2015-05-04 Thread Tom
The first rose-breasted grosbeak of the season--this time a female--just showed up at the feeders here in NW Lansing. Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] More thrushes; Nashville

2015-05-04 Thread Geo Kloppel
A pulse of thrushes arrived in my woods this morning: many Veeries, two Wood Thrushes; also have several Nashville Warblers. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Least flycatcher

2015-05-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
Least flycatcher, Baltimore Oriole and Black throated green warbler in the yard today. Hunt Hill Td, Dryden Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] A pair of grosbeaks

2015-05-04 Thread Tom
The male rose-breasted grosbeak has now joined the female at the feeders. Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] EIRW no migrants yet

2015-05-04 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
No catbirds, no GC Flycatchers yet. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)

[cayugabirds-l] Yard migrants

2015-05-04 Thread Kenneth V. Rosenberg
Singing BLACK THROATED GREEN, OVENBIRD, and RED-EYED VIREO in the Northeast Ithaca backyard this morning, along with sev RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS and a silent WINTER WREN. KEN Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Indigo bunting and rose-breasted grosbeak

2015-05-04 Thread Naomi Brewer
At 7:30 a.m. this morning I watched a male Indigo Bunting at a sunflower seed feeder near my house. He made several trips from nearby bushes. On the other side of house, I soon after saw a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the suet cake and then on a sunflower feeder there. My Carolina Wrens

[cayugabirds-l] Shindagin Hollow

2015-05-04 Thread Susan Fast
Best news is this is a great year for TROUT LILLIES.  All along the road.  I prefer them to the masses of white trilliums which should be out in force by this weekend.  Bird news: other than about 10 OVENBIRDS, I found no other warblers there.  And most activity took place before 0830; very

[cayugabirds-l] Over Hile School Rd-osprey and broad-winged hawk

2015-05-04 Thread Anne Clark
5-4-15 Just now 0945, while an FOY gorgeous male Baltimore Oriole sang and a Yellow Warbler zoomed off, an Osprey and a Broad-winged Hawk soared overhead, drifting-flapping-drifting to the NW. I don't often see osprey over the yard, but there are many smaller waterbodies about, of course.

[cayugabirds-l] Danby Magnolia warbler

2015-05-04 Thread Laura Stenzler
Magnolia warbler in Danby, very SE corner of Tompkins County, off Tallow Hill Rd. Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Lindsay-Parson's Preserve Monday

2015-05-04 Thread bob mcguire
Lindsay-Parson’s Preserve was hopping this morning! As Geo has already noted, the WOOD THRUSHES arrived last night, with two singing intermittently on the fire station side of the preserve. As soon as I got out of the car I was greeted by several OVENBIRDS and a HOODED WARBER, all singing

[cayugabirds-l] ID input appreciated-- fake Purple Finches...

2015-05-04 Thread Caroline Manring
Hi bird detectives, I had two what-I-thought-were-purple-finches this morning, just by passively listening to their background soundtrack, though then I noticed they were consistently doing a pretty short version of a song for a PUFI, and it was a little bit sharper/tinnier sounding (not as

[cayugabirds-l] Clay-colored Sparow Andrew Dreelin

2015-05-04 Thread Gary Kohlenberg
Just in from Andrew Dreelin. Clay-colored Sparrow returned to same spot on Cornell Campus as last year ! Gary -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Ruby-throated Hummingbird!

2015-05-04 Thread Marie P. Read
...a male Ruby-throated Hummingbird at my feeder (Ringwood Road) and checking out the fuchsia just now! Yippee! 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:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Clay-colored Sparow Andrew Dreelin

2015-05-04 Thread Gary Kohlenberg
The CC Sparrow is still favoring the trees/walkways just south of Goldwin Smith Hall and the Klarman Hall construction fence, on the Arts Quad, Cornell University. Singing regularly. On May 4, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote: Just in from Andrew Dreelin.

[cayugabirds-l] Mundy lunch time on Monday

2015-05-04 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
?Hi all, Today's lunchtime walk I saw a quite nice bunch of birds. As I was just arriving at the back of the USDA building I heard a Winter Wren. My first response was to look for my phone in my pocket as I have Winter Wren as my one of the ringtones. Then realized that I have not brought the

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker fight to the finish

2015-05-04 Thread Therese O'Connor
Tonight we witnessed a 3-way Yellow bellied Sapsucker fight which may have been territorial. Three sapsuckers landed on a telephone pole on Meadowlark Rd just across the road where we were sitting on the stoop. A great screeching and squaking fight ensued with three in a fight and two coming out

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

2015-05-04 Thread Joseph Brin
RBA *  New York*  Syracuse* May 04, 2015*  NYSY  05. 04. 15 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird AlertDates(s):April 27, 2015 - May 04, 2015to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just