[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods migrants
Hi all, There were a few migrants in Sapsucker Woods, mostly around the Sherwood Platform. There was a mixed flock of BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, RED-EYED VIREO, WARBLING VIREO, HOUSE WREN and COMMON YELLOWTHROATS. There were also a few BALTIMORE ORIOLES hanging around. - Brad -- 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] Knox-Marsellus Sunday, part II
I'll add to Dave's highlight...I showed up late as the fog was lifting, about 9:30am. I arrived as three SAND HILL CRANES flew from behind me, calling loudly, and over me, exhilarating but too fast for me to get my camera in position! I then saw 10 LESSER DOWITCHERS and yellowlegs. I watched swallows and saw a flock fly under a bank out of view and then heard what sounded like sandpipers peeping from under the bank. Then I asked the swallows to cooperate and let me get a good picture of one of them. Shortly thereafter, a swallow started circling me about five feet away. It was so close I could barely shoot it, but by the fifth time it circled me I did get two shots that confirmed a Bank Swallow by the neck marks and non-pointy tail. I finally caught up to Dave Nutter's group, about nine of us, including three visitors from NYC (a dad and two sons, Asher and Isaiah, who made a special trip to Montezuma at Isaiah's request). Isaiah, age 15, is a serious long-time birder who told me (I asked) it was a photo of the Scarlet Tananger that got him into birding at age 9. I hope to meet up with him to bird Central Park in September. Anyway, the highlights for me were seeing the feeding behaviors of the RED-NECKED and WILSON'S PTHALAROPE (skimming for insects) vs. the yellow legs and dowitcher and seeing the STILT SANDPIPER with its head in the water more of the time than out of the water. Lastly, we saw about eight GREEN-WINGED TEAL fly in. It was a great day!!! Thanks again, Dave! * * * * * * * * * *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/Publisher, www.sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ Sustainability Educator/Artist, www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-sandy-wold/a7/114/877 International Host/Landlord, www.airbnb.com/rooms/446114 Math/Science Tutor, 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Knox-Marsellus Sunday, part II - correction
Correction: I meant SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, not Lesser.Is it obvious that I misspoke? If I had said LESSER YELLOWLEGS but meant SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, then I think a correction is necessary; but if it is a mis-speak, then what is the listserve protocol: post a correction or let it go? Corrections always appreciated nevertheless! On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Sandy Wold sandra.w...@gmail.com wrote: I'll add to Dave's highlight...I showed up late as the fog was lifting, about 9:30am. I arrived as three SAND HILL CRANES flew from behind me, calling loudly, and over me, exhilarating but too fast for me to get my camera in position! I then saw 10 LESSER DOWITCHERS and yellowlegs. I watched swallows and saw a flock fly under a bank out of view and then heard what sounded like sandpipers peeping from under the bank. Then I asked the swallows to cooperate and let me get a good picture of one of them. Shortly thereafter, a swallow started circling me about five feet away. It was so close I could barely shoot it, but by the fifth time it circled me I did get two shots that confirmed a Bank Swallow by the neck marks and non-pointy tail. I finally caught up to Dave Nutter's group, about nine of us, including three visitors from NYC (a dad and two sons, Asher and Isaiah, who made a special trip to Montezuma at Isaiah's request). Isaiah, age 15, is a serious long-time birder who told me (I asked) it was a photo of the Scarlet Tananger that got him into birding at age 9. I hope to meet up with him to bird Central Park in September. Anyway, the highlights for me were seeing the feeding behaviors of the RED-NECKED and WILSON'S PTHALAROPE (skimming for insects) vs. the yellow legs and dowitcher and seeing the STILT SANDPIPER with its head in the water more of the time than out of the water. Lastly, we saw about eight GREEN-WINGED TEAL fly in. It was a great day!!! Thanks again, Dave! * * * * * * * * * *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/Publisher, www.sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/ Sustainability Educator/Artist, www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-sandy-wold/a7/114/877 International Host/Landlord, www.airbnb.com/rooms/446114 Math/Science Tutor, 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] Sapsucker Woods warblers
There were several Common Yellowthroats, a Black-and -White Warbler, and a Blackburnian Warbler in Sapsucker this morning. 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Walk report from Sapsucker Woods Cornell Lab of O
Diane Morton's very nice report from the Sunday, August 23 bird walk that she ledenjoy and come next time! And thank to Diane and all the other volunteers who do this each weekend throughout the year. Eight people attended this morning’s bird walk, 2 from Boston, 2 from Syracuse and 4 Ithacans. Ken also came along, helping to lead and to get the spotting scope on birds that we found. Right away we saw a Green Heron and Great Blue Heron on the pond and a small raptor perched in a tree (more on that bird at the end)—a great start for this enthusiastic group. At the Owens platform we watched four young Eastern Phoebes sallying out to catch insects. This seemed to be the day when young birds were learning how to feed themselves, in the company of adult birds. We had great views of five Green Herons on the pond at once! They were accompanied by a Belted Kingfisher family of three actively fishing. At the Sherwood platform we saw one female Wood Duck and one juvenile. Grackles, Red-winged Blackbirds and Northern Cardinals also gave us a chance to look at both adults and immature birds. A Pileated Woodpecker was a popular bird—heard first and then spotted through the trees. When we had circled around the pond back to the spot where we began, the young raptor was still perched in a tree. We had some discussion about whether this was an immature Cooper’s Hawk or Merlin, and leaned toward Merlin. However, Ken and I looked at more images when we got home, and concluded that it was, instead, a young Cooper’s Hawk, based on the head markings, eye, and relative size to nearby birds. Still learning! -- Veganism is simply the acknowledgment that a replaceable and fleeting pleasure isn't more valuable than someone's life and liberty. ~ Unknown If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York* Syracuse* August 24 2015* NYSY 08. 24. 15 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird AlertDates(s):August 17, 2015 - August 24, 2015to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County),Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortlandcompiled: August 24 AT 4:00 p.m. (DST)compiler: Joseph BrinOnondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #456 Monday August 24, 2015 Greetings. This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 17, 2015 Highlights:--- BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERAMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERWILLET (WESTERN)WHIMBRELBUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERSTILT SANDPIPERLONG-BILLED DOWITCHERSHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERWILSON’S PHALAROPERED-NECKED PHALAROPEFORSTER’S TERNCOMMON NIGHTHAWKRED-HEADED WOODPECKERYELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHERCAPE MAY WARBLERWILSON’S WARBLER Montezuma National Wildlife Complex (MNWC) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) Again this week nineteen species of Shorebirds were reported from the complex. 8/21: Thirteen species of shorebirds were found along the Wildlife Drive. A WILLET was seen for most of the day at LaRue’s Lagoon. A BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER was seen at the second Thruway Pond. Unfortunately neither of these birds were seen the next day. 8/22: Nine species of shorebirds were found at Knox-Marsellus and Puddler’s Marshes. Highlights were both WILSON’S and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. A YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was seen in the morning and again in the evening at VanDyne Spoor Marsh. 8/23: Both PHALAROPES were relocated at Knox-Marsellus Pond. 2 adult and 1 juvenile RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen at the nesting site on Mays Point Road. The YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was again seen at VanDyne Spoor Marsh Onondaga County 8/22: A YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER was seen at the South Meadow Nature Area in Tully. 8/23: 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen from Jamesville Ave. in Syracuse. 8/24: 8 species of Warblers including a WILSON’S were seen at the confluence of the Oneida and Seneca Rivers on River Road south of Phoenix. Oswego County 8/22: A CAPE MAY WARBLER was seen in Hastings. Madison County 8/23: 16 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen in flight over the village of Hamilton. Oneida county 8/22: Six species of Shorebirds including two SANDERLINGS were seen at Delta Lake. Herkimer County 8/17: 2 BLUE-WINGED TEAL were seen at the McKoons Wetland south of Richfield Springs. Cayuga County 8/21: A FORSTER’S TERN was seen at Fair Haven State Park. 2 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS were seen going to a nest at West Barrier Beach in Fair Haven. 8/22: A WHIMBREL was seen in flight at Fair Haven State Park. -- end report Joseph BrinRegion 5Baldw -- 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] Sanderlings, Myers Point
Two juvenile SANDERLINGS are currently on the spit at Myers Point, along with a Least Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, and two Blue-winged Teal. Jay -- 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/ --
