Re: [cayugabirds-l] Migration alert

2021-09-18 Thread Poppy Singer 
Thank you, Laura. That was a cool first for me. I just went out with
binoculars for about 5 minutes and saw 3 birds passing in front of the
moon!

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 4:11 PM Laura Stenzler  wrote:

> Birdcast has a migration alert for tonight and tomorrow night for Ithaca.
> Check it out here.
> https://alert.birdcast.info/birdcast?latLng=42.4439614,-76.5018807=Ithaca,%20NY,%20USA
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> Laura
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Marie P. Read 
OMG that’s amazing. Wish I could have seen it!
Marie
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From: Ingrid Bessette-Center 
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2021 4:03:40 PM
To: Nancy Cusumano 
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

Great observations.

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Nancy Cusumano 
mailto:nancycusuman...@gmail.com>> wrote:
We were at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario this week, camping. We 
estimated there were thousands of Monarchs migrating along the lake shore. We 
counted an average of 12 monarchs every 10 minutes, and those were only the 
ones we could see. They were at all elevations including soaring like a bird 
high above our heads and right down at ground level. We kayaked in Little Sodus 
Bay, and they were crossing the bay where it is narrow.

We surmised they were hugging the lakeshore in order to head south at some 
point, although the angle of the lake shore is SW anyway. It was magical. I've 
never seen anything like it.

Nancy

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:50 AM Marie P. Read 
mailto:m...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
On my walk up Mt Pleasant Rd just now, I greatly enjoyed a sizable movement of 
Monarch butterflies. I counted 20 in about an hour, which might not seem a lot 
but it’s more than I have seen on Mt Pleasant for years. Often they seemed to 
appear in small groups, as if they had just taken flight from the numerous 
clumps of goldenrod and aster in the fields and along the road. Others, though, 
I noted flying up high, helped on their way south by the NW breeze.
During the same walk I witnessed a behavior I hadn’t seen before: a small flock 
of starlings fly-catching from a high dead tree, just like waxwings do. It 
occurred during a period of sunshine, which presumably had stimulated an upward 
flight of insects. (Didn’t see them chasing Monarchs, though.) The starlings 
swooped around high in the sky, sometimes hovering, then flying back to the 
tree to repeat. Once the clouds came over the starlings left.
Ah…nature!
Marie

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[cayugabirds-l] Migration alert

2021-09-18 Thread Laura Stenzler 
Birdcast has a migration alert for tonight and tomorrow night for Ithaca. Check 
it out here. 
https://alert.birdcast.info/birdcast?latLng=42.4439614,-76.5018807=Ithaca,%20NY,%20USA

Laura

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Ingrid Bessette-Center 
Great observations.

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Nancy Cusumano 
wrote:

> We were at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario this week, camping.
> We estimated there were thousands of Monarchs migrating along the lake
> shore. We counted an average of 12 monarchs every 10 minutes, and those
> were only the ones we could see. They were at all elevations including
> soaring like a bird high above our heads and right down at ground level. We
> kayaked in Little Sodus Bay, and they were crossing the bay where it is
> narrow.
>
> We surmised they were hugging the lakeshore in order to head south at some
> point, although the angle of the lake shore is SW anyway. It was magical.
> I've never seen anything like it.
>
> Nancy
>
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:50 AM Marie P. Read  wrote:
>
>> On my walk up Mt Pleasant Rd just now, I greatly enjoyed a sizable
>> movement of Monarch butterflies. I counted 20 in about an hour, which might
>> not seem a lot but it’s more than I have seen on Mt Pleasant for years.
>> Often they seemed to appear in small groups, as if they had just taken
>> flight from the numerous clumps of goldenrod and aster in the fields and
>> along the road. Others, though, I noted flying up high, helped on their way
>> south by the NW breeze.
>> During the same walk I witnessed a behavior I hadn’t seen before: a small
>> flock of starlings fly-catching from a high dead tree, just like
>> waxwings do. It occurred during a period of sunshine, which presumably had
>> stimulated an upward flight of insects. (Didn’t see them chasing Monarchs,
>> though.) The starlings swooped around high in the sky, sometimes hovering,
>> then flying back to the tree to repeat. Once the clouds came over the
>> starlings left.
>> Ah…nature!
>> Marie
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Nancy Cusumano 
We were at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario this week, camping.
We estimated there were thousands of Monarchs migrating along the lake
shore. We counted an average of 12 monarchs every 10 minutes, and those
were only the ones we could see. They were at all elevations including
soaring like a bird high above our heads and right down at ground level. We
kayaked in Little Sodus Bay, and they were crossing the bay where it is
narrow.

We surmised they were hugging the lakeshore in order to head south at some
point, although the angle of the lake shore is SW anyway. It was magical.
I've never seen anything like it.

Nancy

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:50 AM Marie P. Read  wrote:

> On my walk up Mt Pleasant Rd just now, I greatly enjoyed a sizable
> movement of Monarch butterflies. I counted 20 in about an hour, which might
> not seem a lot but it’s more than I have seen on Mt Pleasant for years.
> Often they seemed to appear in small groups, as if they had just taken
> flight from the numerous clumps of goldenrod and aster in the fields and
> along the road. Others, though, I noted flying up high, helped on their way
> south by the NW breeze.
> During the same walk I witnessed a behavior I hadn’t seen before: a small
> flock of starlings fly-catching from a high dead tree, just like waxwings
> do. It occurred during a period of sunshine, which presumably had
> stimulated an upward flight of insects. (Didn’t see them chasing Monarchs,
> though.) The starlings swooped around high in the sky, sometimes hovering,
> then flying back to the tree to repeat. Once the clouds came over the
> starlings left.
> Ah…nature!
> Marie
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[cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Marie P. Read 
On my walk up Mt Pleasant Rd just now, I greatly enjoyed a sizable movement of 
Monarch butterflies. I counted 20 in about an hour, which might not seem a lot 
but it’s more than I have seen on Mt Pleasant for years. Often they seemed to 
appear in small groups, as if they had just taken flight from the numerous 
clumps of goldenrod and aster in the fields and along the road. Others, though, 
I noted flying up high, helped on their way south by the NW breeze.
During the same walk I witnessed a behavior I hadn’t seen before: a small flock 
of starlings fly-catching from a high dead tree, just like waxwings do. It 
occurred during a period of sunshine, which presumably had stimulated an upward 
flight of insects. (Didn’t see them chasing Monarchs, though.) The starlings 
swooped around high in the sky, sometimes hovering, then flying back to the 
tree to repeat. Once the clouds came over the starlings left.
Ah…nature!
Marie

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