[cayugabirds-l] 1st Union Springs OSPREY 3/29/18
Coming south on Rte. 90, I saw an osprey on the platform nest by the village water works across from the high school about 4 p.m. Thurs.. Becky got to see it as it flew ... our 1st of 2018! Buffleheads & a Redhead are still on Mill pond. Have seen no Snow geese except a lone one walking in the field behind our house on Wed.. Fritzie -- 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] Around the Lake Today
Diane, Ken, and I drove around the lake today looking for new arrivals. The rain held off until we were almost home. We did have a few good birds! (Aren’t they all?) The south end of the lake was surprisingly empty of most water birds. There were only a few gulls and geese off Stewart Park. The Swan Pen was quiet. We heard no peeps from Renwick Woods (no phoebe, winter wren). Likewise, there were only a few gulls off Myers Park. >From the bluff south of Aurora we scoped some 28 White-winged Scoters and over >a dozen Horned Grebes (no Eared or Red-necked). Here we had our first new bird >of the day - a trio of newly-arrived TREE SWALLOWS. At the Wells College >boathouse we got closer looks at the grebes and watched one pair in a brief >mating dance (the first I had ever seen from this bird). We stopped at Frontenac Park in Union Springs to scope the lake, hoping for Bonaparte’s Gulls and Blue-wing Teal (none). Our first OSPREY flew over as we drove north from Union Springs (the second was on a nest along Rts 5 & 20). The north end of the lake around Mud Lock was likewise almost devoid of water birds. A small flock of Ruddy Ducks remained. The Wildlife Drive remained closed (open this weekend?), but the pond at the Visitor’s Center still hosted numerous Green-winged Teal and the continuing Eurasian GW Teal (good, close looks). Tschache Pool held numerous ducks, mainly GW Teal, Pintail, Gadwall, and Shovelers. The big surprise there was the large number of Great Blue Herons. We counted at least 25 in the pool and another 25+ on nests in the rookery to the west of the tower. eBird had a problem when we tried to enter “50 Great Blue Herons"! Knox-Marcellus still holds a lot of water and many ducks, again mainly GW Teal, Pintail, Gadwall and Shovelers. The best bird there was a flyover GREATER YELLOWLEGS, calling only once (“tew-tew-tew”). I know that this “flyover, calling, yet unseen” yellowlegs sounds a bit sketchy (I had the same experience the other day at Myers). But we considered long and hard the alternatives, and nothing else really matched. There were GW Teal giving occasional “peep” calls, but none in the proper 3-note sequence with the pitch falling off slightly through the sequence. I’d still like to SEE one of those guys this year! We went as far north as Carncross Road & Marten’s Tract, hoping again for shorebirds or Blue-winged Teal (none). We did, however, hear our FOY SWAMP SPARROW singing a slow song from the distant cattails and the single bugling call of a Sand Hill Crane. On a tip from Dave Kennedy we drove Lake Road south from Cayuga Lake State Park and eventually found the three foraging BLUE-WINGED TEAL just short of Woolfy’s. Again, the lake was almost empty of ducks, and the teal stood out beautifully! 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owls - Fingerlakes Airport
Correction, owl is on ground NW (not NE) of northern most buildings. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2018, at 3:33 PM, debilin...@gmail.com wrote: > > At 3:28 pm, one snowy present at the Fingerlakes Airport, NE of northern most > buildings, due east of address 2970 Thorpe. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 28, 2018, at 10:20 PM, Daniel Graham wrote: >> >> 2 Snowy Owls still present this morning at 1030am near Fingerlakes >> Airport. A darker one was on a rooftop in the Lott Farm complex, and a >> light-colored one was W across Rt 414 on a power pole near the wind >> turbine. >> >> -- >> >> 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 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] Snowy Owls - Fingerlakes Airport
At 3:28 pm, one snowy present at the Fingerlakes Airport, NE of northern most buildings, due east of address 2970 Thorpe. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 28, 2018, at 10:20 PM, Daniel Graham wrote: > > 2 Snowy Owls still present this morning at 1030am near Fingerlakes > Airport. A darker one was on a rooftop in the Lott Farm complex, and a > light-colored one was W across Rt 414 on a power pole near the wind > turbine. > > -- > > 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 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] Monday Night Seminar: Bird Sounds Decoded
Hello Everyone, Next week’s Monday Night Seminar at the Cornell Lab features Nathan Pieplow, author of Peterson's Field Guide to Bird Sounds of North America. Join us in person or watch online at http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars. Doors open at 7:00. Free, no registration required. Hope to see you there! Marc -- Bird Sounds Decoded Monday, April 2, 2018 7:30pm Nathan Pieplow, Author, Peterson's Field Guide to Bird Sounds of North America Identifying birds by sound is a crucial skill that can be difficult to learn. Author Nathan Pieplow has devised a system that lets you identify bird sounds without having to memorize them. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds lets you look up sounds, the way you look up words in the dictionary. The key is learning to visualize sounds. Nathan’s clear, practical instructions for visualizing sounds will make you a better listener. You will hear details in sound that you hadn’t noticed before, and you will have the vocabulary to describe those details. Nathan will help you identify birds by their sounds, but he will also help you understand birds by their sounds. For the sounds of birds are a language, carrying messages from one bird to another. To understand the language, and decode the messages, all you need is the right dictionary. Marc Devokaitis Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- 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] spring siskins and more
Hi all, There have been 3 siskins at our feeder over the last three days, along with a few purple finches and loads of goldfinches. Last night we heard barred owl calling from the woods and today we had 2 wood ducks on the pond. Where are the phoebes? Laura Hunt Hill Rd.,, Dryden Laura Stenzler l...@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] Hermit Thrushes
This foggy morning the summits across the valley from me (Thatchers Pinnacles) are lost in the low cloud ceiling. That helps to explain why I’ve got at least three or four singing Hermit Thrushes around my yard! -Geo Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- 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/ --