[cayugabirds-l] Sandhill cranes at Montezuma
There are 12 very tan Sandhill cranes in the southeast corner of the Sandhill crane unit, visible from Vandyne Spoor Road. Very active, flying up and down. Would these be last year’s young? Only one appeared gray. 5:20 pm, Sunday. Laura 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] Hawthorn Orchard: Sunday Morning
Late yesterday, Todd Bittner (Director of the Cornell Botanical Gardens Natural Areas) and I made a last-minute decision to meet up for birding at the Hawthorn Orchard this morning. We birded the area for about 3-1/2 hours this morning. Best birds, but not terribly rewarding, were two Yellow-bellied Flycatchers (one seen, one singing) in the Northeast corner area in the Hawthorn Orchard. I managed a weak audio recording of the more distant softly-singing bird and included that in the eBird checklist with notes. The singer was doing the soft “che-bunk” song instead of the “chew-wee” song/calls I’m used to hearing. Also, an extremely cooperative male Scarlet Tanager was singing persistently from the oaks near the tall white pines in the north ravine. We heard this bird singing almost throughout the entire duration there. Early in the morning, a very excited Great Crested Flycatcher was frequenting the tallest oak tree along the easternmost edge. From our vantage point, we initially thought there were two birds counter-singing, but we quickly realized that the second bird was an echo of the single loud bird, bouncing off the tennis building behind us. Another nice find was a male Canada Warbler that was singing persistently from one of the olive bush thickets (I forget the specific name) in the northeast clearing. Despite being in such a small thicket, and walking all around it, we only briefly saw the bird a couple of times. The Canada Warbler was mostly whisper-singing the entire time. It was odd, because I usually encounter this either down in dense ravine bushes or in the denser section of the Hawthorn Orchard near the north ravine edge. All in all it was a good morning to be outdoors! Here’s our complete eBird checklist with the audio of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher: https://ebird.org/checklist/S88837491 Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Chris Tessaglia-Hymes PO Box 488 8 Etna Lane Etna, NY 13062 607-351-5740 -- 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] Hawthorn Orchard: Saturday Morning
Saturday morning (5/22), Scott Anthony and I birded the Hawthorn Orchard for about 2-1/2 hours. The best bird was probably the worst seen: an extremely distant Great Egret in flight over the valley, headed South. It turns out this was a new species seen from this location, which brings the total species recorded for the Hawthorn Orchard and East Ithaca Rec. Way eBird hotspot to 177 cumulatively reported over the years by many eBirders since 2000; and 149 for me, here, spanning the same 21/22 years/seasons. Other birds of interest included a pretty scrappy-looking Broad-winged Hawk (photos), a couple of Eastern Wood-Pewees (photos), a possible Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (head-only view, briefly, Northeast corner), a single Swainson’s Thrush (ravine edge, mid-canopy), several flyby Cedar Waxwing flocks, three Tennessee Warblers (including one female), and a fairly cooperative bunch of about four Blackpoll Warblers (audio). We missed Stephanie Herrick’s Blackburnian Warbler, though, which was helpfully identified using the BirdNet App. Here’s the complete checklist with some media: https://ebird.org/checklist/S88728858 Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Chris Tessaglia-Hymes PO Box 488 8 Etna Lane Etna, NY 13062 607-351-5740 -- 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] Black billed cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo singing at Charles O Dickerson high school tennis courts in Tburg this morning. Sent from my iPhone > On May 22, 2021, at 4:03 PM, Maryfaith Miller wrote: > > > Outside of Cayuga basin, but I had a black billed cuckoo at Lime Hollow > Nature Center on Wednesday. > Good birding! > Maryfaith > >> On Sat, May 22, 2021, 3:00 PM Jared Dawson wrote: >> I was just wondering about the BB Cuckoos this morning. On Thursday I heard >> one, possibly two, at the Blueberry Patch Campground in the Finger Lakes NF. >> Friday, a good look at one in a tree at Lindsay-Parsons, and this morning >> heard one briefly on Waterburg Rd south of Trumansburg where I live. >> In other news, the two Merlins are still in evidence around the upper >> village, but I have not yet found their nesting location, if there is one. I >> was just giving up on the Red-headed WP which has bred successfully close to >> my house for two years running, but Mark Devokaitis kindly informed me that >> he had one not far away in the vicinity of Congress and Seneca Sts a couple >> of evenings ago. Gotta find it (or better, them). >> Cheers, Jared Dawson >> Trumansburg >> >>> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 1:01 PM John Gregoire >>> wrote: >>> We have had both cuckoos singing ( if you can call a rain crow a >>> songster)for over a week. Alder and Willow flycatchers yesterday and today >>> and Eastern Wood Pewee three days back. Oddly, our usually dependent Green >>> Heron nesters are absent for the first time in years as are House Wrens. >>> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 10:29 AM Suan Yong wrote: Black billed cuckoo also heard singing at lower Treman state park, heard distant singing approx from direction of the campgrounds. Seems like a banner spring for BBCU? Suan -- 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: >>> Welcome and Basics >>> Rules and Information >>> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >>> Archives: >>> The Mail Archive >>> Surfbirds >>> BirdingOnThe.Net >>> Please submit your observations to eBird! >>> -- >> >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> BirdingOnThe.Net >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to 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/ --
