[cayugabirds-l] Nest News
A pair of Northern Rough-Winged Swallows is building a nest - rather, the presumed female is building a nest - under the LOWER section of our dock. With the past week's water influx the level of the lake is, perhaps, 15 inches below the underside of the 'roof' of her nest site, and the continual movement of the water must make things rather dicey when entering and exiting the premises with nesting material. In fact, she has taken in some fairly sizable bits and has flown about the area several times before entering with them, as if to pluck up her courage. What will befall the offspring is something I'm leery of contemplating. Or is this standard nesting location for these swallows? Experienced NRWS viewers please feel free to wade in with encouraging stories. -- 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] P.S.
Sorry - Northern Rough-Winged Swallows just off Elm Beach Road, Town of Romulus. -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Nest News
Every year for many years we have had swallows nesting under our dock. Some are Barn Swallows, may also have Rough-Winged. Hard to tell as they move so fast. They seem tomanage very well with the water. We are 1/2 mile or so north of Ellen. Blue Heron Point, Town of Romulus Sally Eller On Jun 14, 2015 9:11 AM, Ellen Haith elliehait...@gmail.com wrote: A pair of Northern Rough-Winged Swallows is building a nest - rather, the presumed female is building a nest - under the LOWER section of our dock. With the past week's water influx the level of the lake is, perhaps, 15 inches below the underside of the 'roof' of her nest site, and the continual movement of the water must make things rather dicey when entering and exiting the premises with nesting material. In fact, she has taken in some fairly sizable bits and has flown about the area several times before entering with them, as if to pluck up her courage. What will befall the offspring is something I'm leery of contemplating. Or is this standard nesting location for these swallows? Experienced NRWS viewers please feel free to wade in with encouraging stories. -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- 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] Montezuma Least Bitterns; Howland Island Prothonotaries!
Livia and I drove up to Montezuma this morning with the ultimate goal of kayaking near Howland Island. On the way up, we scoped the breakwall at Union Springs where 9 COMMON TERNS eventually flew in. The Wildlife Drive was very disappointing--mostly dry except for a good amount of water along the northern side, where thousands of carp were thrashing and dead. Lots of Bald Eagles were sitting around eating them, but we saw little else. Knox-Marsellus and Puddlers were similarly unexciting, with high water levels but few waterfowl. The Sandhill Crane family was still out in Knox-Marsellus, but no shorebirds. The first highlight of the day came at the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road, where a softly singing LEAST BITTERN joined the chorus of Common Gallinules, American Coots, and Pied-billed Grebes. Shortly thereafter, we had nice looks at a second LEAST BITTERN in the cattails from the platform at the Deep Muck Unit off of Savannah-Spring Lake Road. Finally, we put in at the bridge on Carncross Road to circle around Howland Island in our new kayaks. Only about half an hour of slow paddling north of the bridge, Livia suggested the habitat looked good for Prothonotary. Sure enough, not 10 seconds later we heard a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER singing from the flooded forest on the west side of the river. I eventually got nice looks at it as it foraged and sang regularly. This was roughly in the northwest quadrant of the loop. On our way down the east side a couple hours later, we heard and quickly located a second PROTHONOTARY WARBLER singing from the east side of the river, in the northeastern quadrant of the loop. Needless to say, this was our target for the paddle and it was very fun to actually find not just one but two birds in the ~9 miles we covered. There is plenty of other good habitat, of course, so there may be many more, but these are the first I have had in this area. We in the birding community regularly cite the Howland Island loop as a good place to check for Prothonotaries, but I don't recall if or when there actually were any found in that area. Photo and location for the first Prothonotary: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23909873 And for the second: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S23909968 Other highlights from the paddle were two Yellow-billed Cuckoos, a Barred Owl, and the expected dozens of Cerulean Warblers. -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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/ --
