[cayugabirds-l] MNWR Saturday - late post

[Asher Hockett]

An obnoxious wasp at the Montezuma Audubon Center cut a pleasant birding day
short after:

MAC:
E Phoebes
Yellow-rump Warblers
E Bluebirds

Northern MNWR area (nest north from Carncross:
White-crowned Sparrows
Bobolink
TVs
Bald Eagle
GBH

Knox-Marcellus overlook:
Northern Harrier
Trumpeter Swans
DC Cormorants
GBHs
smaller heron sp.

Towpath:
E. Phoebe
Bald Eagle
GBHs

Tscache:
GBHs
DC Cormorants
N Shovelers
Mallards
Black Ducks
Redwing Blackbirds

Loop: dry
Peregrine Falcon
Black Ducks
Tree Swallows

Visitors Center
N Shovelers

Canada Geese, Song Sparrows. E Starlings and unid'ed ducks in most areas.

Asher  Carmen Hockett

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Danby white hawk has died

[Asher Hockett]

Speculation was the bird was well over 20 years old. I last saw it in an
unusual spot, but not far from its normal hunting ground. Other than having
seen it roughly every two weeks since 2000, and that it was seen with young
this last breeding season, I have nothing else, except regrets about its
loss.

Asher Hockett

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Frank Darrow fwdar...@twcny.rr.comwrote:

  The white Red-tailed Hawk that has been seen in the Comfort Road --
 Miller Road area in Danby was found dead in a nearby resident's wood pile
 yesterday. For several days the bird had been reportedly acting strangely,
 allowing itself to be approached more closely than normal and often being on
 or near ground level. The bird has a band and is being taken to the Cornell
 Lab of O -- if anyone there can share information on its history those who
 have regularly observed the bird would be appreciative. We have seen it for
 several years and other nearby residents have said that they have seen a
 white hawk in that area for over 20 years. The development known as White
 Hawk Village with entrance on the Danby Road between Miller Road and
 Gunderman Road was named for the hawk.

 Some area residents believe that there may be more than one white hawk in
 the area so any further sightings will be of great interest.

 Frank and Cathy Darrow



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk

[Asher Hockett]

Since the Ithaca leucistic Red-tail apparently bred successfully last year
one has to wonder about any passing on of aberrant plumage genes. There was
another heavily, but not all-white, leucistic RT which was often sighted in
the vicinity of the King Rd/Rt 96B intersection, and its proximity to the
white one made me curious about it being an offspring.

The cause of increased evidence of leucism could well be environmental. Or
since the RT particularly is known for that aberration and it seems as if
they have continued a population boom which began with interstate highway
system construction, maybe it is simply a reflection of that increase in
population.

Ah, the things we are curious about! Citizen science may bring us answers
someday.

asher

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.netwrote:

 While birding for the GBBC this weekend, we found another completely white
 leucitic
 Red-tailed Hawk on Black Rd, Town of Hector. This makes the 4th completely
 white
 red-tail this winter that we have found or know of. Others were an albino
 near the
 race track (Watkins Glen), one leucistic bird in Candor, one in Whitney
 point and
 this latest one a few miles from home.

 We worked with   eagles and other raptors in the Chesapeake Bay area and
 banded
 thousands at Cape May for several years before arriving here in 1986 and
 had never
 seen such white raptors. In fact, the only leucistic bird in our memory was
  a
 partial on a cardinal in Maryland. Since then, we had seen only a few
 partially
 leucistic passerines in this area and one other leucistic hawk (the Ithaca
 Red-tail
 of a few years ago). Now in one season here are 4! Couple that with the
 several
 reports of leucism in passerines and one begins to wonder...

 We also had a rare pheasant yesterday, a Bald Eagle adult over Ed Gates'
 farm in
 Burdett Saturday afternoon and 190 Snow Buntings on Bergen Rd which is
 about a mile
 from here. During our road trip we also found some 2,900 Redheads and 99
 Horned
 Larks among the many other excellent birds..

 Best,
 John and Sue
 --
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 Field Ornithologists
 Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory
 5373 Fitzgerald Road
 Burdett,NY 14818-9626
  Website: 
 http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/http://www.empacc.net/%7Ekestrelhaven/
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Musicofnature.org

[Asher Hockett]

That site is insanely great. Free entertainment of the best kind. WOW!
Thanks, Bob!
Asher

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:22 PM, bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.comwrote:

 I'd like to bring folk's attention to a new website, musicofnature.org. It
 features nature near at hand and brings together HD video, sound, photos,
 and natural history writing on birds, frogs, insects, mammals, and flowers.
 It is mainly the work of Lang Elliott, with help from Marie Read, Wil
 Hershberger, Carl Gerhadrt, and me (a little bit).

 Recent posts include White-eyed Vireo Portrait, Bluebird Dawn, The
 April Chirper, American Crow Cooing?, Wildflower Play, and Wild Turkey
 Hen Fight.

 Check it out. Let me know what you think.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warblers

[Asher Hockett]

Well, the Alpine terrain may be a deterrent to observation for some more
daunted than our good Geo, but thanks to him, I will be on the way shortly.
Still looking for my first Worm-eater. (Now, where is that static rope?)
Asher

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote:

 I stole 45 minutes to cross the valley and make a quick check for the
 arrival of WORM-EATING WARBLERs in their traditional West Danby breeding
 habitat. They are present in the nesting area, and singing. To judge from
 the state of expansion of the chestnut oak leaves (3 - 5 cmm long), the
 Worm-eaters have perhaps been there for a couple of days already.

 This species makes an interesting case with regard to first arrival dates.
 On the one hand, the West Danby location is the end of the line for most of
 them - birds found singing there are presumably the local breeders -and
 there are reasons to think the whole colony may arrive more-or-less en
 masse. On the other hand, their arrival is apt to go unnoticed for some
 days, unless one or more individuals overshoot the target and get spotted in
 more frequently birded areas.

 -Geo

 Geo Kloppel
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 227 Tupper Road
 Spencer NY 14883

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[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eaters NOT

[Asher Hockett]

On an early morning visit to the upper reaches of Lindsay-Parsons just below
the north pinnacle I was unable to see any Worm-eating Warblers, although I
believe I heard one, once. It was relatively quiet. Present in numbers were
Ovenbird, Wood thrush (but no Hermits, which are usally prevalent there),
Scarlet Tanager, Black-throated Green, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo.

Asher

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[cayugabirds-l] current Shrike likelihood

[Asher Hockett]

In *dim* dusk light tonight I thought I saw a shrike, perched in a treetop.
I could make out a curved stocky bill and an eye mask. It flew into low
thorny cover with red berries.

I think of Northern Shrike as winter visitors, and have not seen one this
time of year, so what are the possibilities? Loggerhead maybe? Or something
else. Size and posture was consistent with shrike. Light colored overall,
with dark wings. Not: mockingbird, bluejay, kestrel. Posture and long
perching (not long enough!) not typical for kingbird.

At corner of Comfort and Lieb Rds, in top of snag near silo on SE corner.

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[cayugabirds-l] English sighting of YBFC (OOB)

[Asher Hockett]

(Really) Out of basin: Passed onto me this morning:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/09/27/hundreds-of-birdwatchers-flock-to-the-norfolk-coast-to-see-rare-yellow-bellied-flycatcher-115875-22590261/
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[cayugabirds-l] Pacific Loon question

[Asher Hockett]

I may have asked this before - recycling questions for me is becoming more
frequent - so forgive if a repeat.

Every year for 6 or so years we've had a Pacific Loon at Sheldrake. I
believe it is likely the same bird, but until one of us gets a lot closer
that will remain speculation. If it isn't then is there something about the
Sheldrake area which is particularly hospitable to errant members of its
species, and is there a set of of conditions which occur when these birds
are departing their summer grounds which is conducive to their going astray
and showing up here?

If it is the same, do the experts figure it has reprogrammed itself to
repeat the set of wrong turns it made originally, now having become
accustomed to whatever landmarks or system of navigation it uses to get
here?

Any hypotheses?

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[cayugabirds-l] sunshiny white throats

[Asher Hockett]

A flurry of activity this morning at home in Danby, as the sun shone for the
first time in days, had a flock of brightly colored White-throated Sparrows
with a few Golden-crowned Kinglets mixed in. There were also a mix of
finches, but no siskins and I tore myself away to go to work already late
w/o id'ing the rest.

Winter is a challenge, going to work and returning in the dark.

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[cayugabirds-l] Danby sector Ithaca Christmas Bird Count

[Asher Hockett]

Seasons Greetings, listmates!

Anyone who would like to participate in counting in Danby on Jan 1st, please
contact me. Your assistance will be appreciated.

-- 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crows?

[Asher Hockett]

Large roosts of crows are famous. A few years ago, Auburn, NY, near the
upper reaches of Cayuga Lake, had to resort to drastic (but non-violent)
measures to rid the city of tens of thousands of them. Maybe Ithaca has a
reputation for being more crow friendly. Here we have our own reverse pied
piper in crow expert Kevin McGowan, who will likely add his educated
perspective to my unscientific babbling.

They are using the slopes of south hill which lead down into 6 Mile Creek
and the neighborhoods bordering the creek area for the roost these days (or
nights, actually).

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Andrew Roe andrew.walker@gmail.comwrote:

 This is only my second winter in Ithaca (I'm a grad student, here from the
 southeast) so I don't really know how normal this is- but there seem to be
 an ENORMOUS number of crows around downtown Ithaca and Cornell- swirling at
 dusk, covering roofs, nearly toppling trees, blotting out the sun, etc.

 Can someone in the know let me know what's going on? Are these all
 birds passing through, or is there some sort of monumental attack on the Lab
 of O in the works?

 Thanks,

 Andrew




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[cayugabirds-l] siskins!

[Asher Hockett]

I took some time out to watch my feeders this afternoon, looking for
Redpolls, and a trio of Pine Siskins parked themselves at the Nyger seed
instead. First in several years. They just sit and feast.

I am sure the Redpolls are not far off.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ithaca CBC: more results info, sort of

[Asher Hockett]

Dave et al,

No Ruby-crowned Kinglet in my sector - VI.

Asher

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:

 About that unofficial count info, I've gotten a bit more information.

 The White-winged Crossbill report has been reluctantly withdrawn.
 Although Linda thinks they sounded more like White-winged Crossbills
 than like the numerous Common Redpolls in the area, she wasn't able
 to get any visual confirmation, and isn't 100% sure.  Too bad.

 The Iceland Gull find should be credited to Dave Nicosia, who pointed
 it out to Gary Kohlenberg and Susan Danskin, who told Ken Rosenberg,
 who still can't understand how he missed it.

 The single Ruby-crowned Kinglet which I heard reported at the tally
 (I have zeros marked for all sectors except #2) has now been attributed
 to Bob McGuire, who said he heard but did not see one on Sheldon Road
 in his Sector 2, AND also attributed by Annette Nadeau to Asher Hockett
 at an unknown location but presumably in his sector which I think was #4,
 AND also attributed by Elaina McCartney to Scott Sutcliffe at the Hog Hole
 in Sector 7.  I think we have a communication problem here, or a memory
 problem, or perhaps several.  That's why those results were unofficial...
 Would Asher or Scott or Bill Baker (Sector 7 leader) mind double-checking
 and getting back to me?  If there were 2 or 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, that's

 wonderful, and Kevin McGowan should be told, if he doesn't know already.
 If more than one party found a species on the CBC I don't need to know
 who found it or where, I just credit the Ithaca CBC generally for finder
 and
 location in my list of first finds of the year in the Cayuga Lake Basin,
 but
 I would like to know whether the number was zero, or one, or more.
 I'd also like to know if I screwed up.  Thanks for your patience.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Saw Whet Owl

[Asher Hockett]

As far as I know - not.
Asher

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote:

 Last night I stood in my driveway and whistled for Northern Saw Whet Owl. I
 got just one rubber ducky squeak in reply.

 This evening I tried again at dusk, and this time a cute little owl flew up
 with a slightly squeaky tew-tew-tew and perched, first in the balsams,
 then right in sight about 12 feet from me in a wild apple tree.  Not wanting
 to create a big disturbance, I turned and walked back toward the house, but
 I couldn't resist whistling one more series of toots before going indoors.
 Again the owl flew right up with a tew-tew-tew, perched briefly in a pear
 tree and then crossed the driveway to a pine.

 I'm five miles outside of the Ithaca count circle, sorry...  but I wonder,
 did anyone try for Saw Whets at the top of West Jersey Hill Rd?

 -Geo

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Crests

[Asher Hockett]

I think some birds may show a crest when the feathers on the head have
been disturbed mechanically - blown by the wind or moved by contact with a
branch or another bird. Crested birds have feathers structured to make the
crest and some can raise or lower it with the underlying musculature. Some
birds won't show a crest ever - like Turkey Vultures!

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.netwrote:

 I have a question.  Are all birds able to raise a crest even though they
 normally do not have one?  Is it something that they do when they are
 agitated, angry, or upset?  I took a picture of an American Tree Sparrow
 with a crest.  I have never seen this before with a bird which doesn't
 have a crest.  Maybe it's not called a crest on birds without them.
 http://www.pbase.com/carol_keeler_photo/image/131804983
 This made me wonder if it is something all birds can do when so motivated.
 Carol Keeler
 Auburn

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Why don't RTHA eat all the pheasants at the game farm?

[Asher Hockett]

It seems like the Game Farm must have been in violation (unless they were
permitted otherwise) of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, as well as the
esteemed professor:

 Establishment of a Federal prohibition, unless permitted by regulations, to
pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture or kill,
possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for
shipment, ship, cause to be shipped, deliver for transportation, transport,
cause to be transported, carry, or cause to be carried by any means
whatever, receive for shipment, transportation or carriage, or export, at
any time, or in any manner, any migratory bird, included in the terms of
this Convention . . . for the protection of migratory birds . . . or any
part, nest, or egg of any such bird. (16 U.S.C. 703)

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:56 PM, John Confer con...@ithaca.edu wrote:

 HI Folks,

 The only state-owned pheasant farm left in NY is our own on Game Farm
 Rd. The immediate factor that led to the close of the next to last game farm
 was budget concerns, (although there may well have been environmental
 reasons to close them.) Our pheasant farm was scheduled for closure, but the
 threat of declining hunting licenses may have kept it open.

 By the way, until about 20 years ago the game farm controlled for hawk
 and owl predation by putting leg traps on the poles and then killing the
 captured raptors, which would have died of a broken leg, anyway.  By the
 way, did you know that Professor Allen wrote a small brochure (It's in the
 archives for the Cayuga Bird Club at Uris Library) about How to Kill the Bad
 Hawks (which meant those that take chickens and birds we like) without
 killing the good hawks that take mice and rats. About 15 years ago, Profesor
 Whittaker, the famous ecologist of the widely-used text, called up the Hawk
 Barn, while it was still in Ithaca, to say that they should come and capture
 the Cooper's Hawk feeding at his bird feeder or he would take care of the
 hawk himself. Yeah, values do change.

 Cheers,

 John Confer


 On 3/3/2011 1:47 PM, Meena Haribal wrote:

  Well, I was thinking Red tailed hawks were “organic feeders”, they want
 free ranging pheasants.



 Anyways, how come pheasants are preferred food? These are non native
 birds.  And are there so many pheasant farms all around US?  May be the
 particular study that found  pheasant are preferred food, happen to have
 been conducted in Ithaca around game farm and does not reflect true
 preferences of RTHA



 Just another query.



 Meena





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 Phone 607-254-1258

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 *To:* Candace Cornell
 *Cc:* cayugabirds-l
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 game farm?



 Hi Folks,

 I have talked with the Game Farm manager. He told me that they try to
 release about 130,000 pheasant each fall, that the captive flock starts in
 fall at about 35,000, and that they loose about 7000 to predation every
 year. Since the potential for the weight of snow and ice on the screen
 prohibit the use of screen on top for about 200 days of the year, that means
 about 35 eaten per day. This winter the count may be higher. There is the
 mega-number of hawks now, but when the first remove the over-the-top screen
 in early fall there aren't as many predators around, and before they but it
 back in spring, there aren't as many hawks then either. So, even though
 there may be more than 35 eaten per day now, an average of 35 per day for
 the entire period of no-screen seems reasonable to me.

 I must admit that I get some satisfaction from seeking hunting license
 dollars going to feed red-tails. After all, we birders loose the pleasure of
 seeing so many things due to hunting, it is nice to have some turn around.

 I wonder how many owls eat there?

 I wonder if juvenile red-tails have a lower efficiency of capture than
 the adults?

 Cheers,

 John




 On 3/3/2011 12:22 PM, Candace Cornell wrote:

 This may be a naive question, but why don’t the large number of Red-tailed
 Hawks (15-60+), which keep vigil at the Ring-necked Pheasant pens on Game
 Farm Road in Ithaca, decimate the pheasant population? According to the
 BNA,  Ring-necked Pheasant is one of their preferred foods and I've seen
 them eating what looks pheasant entrails within the pens.



 Candace Cornell







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[Asher Hockett]

Yes, the latter.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Bill Evans wrev...@clarityconnect.comwrote:

  Has anyone ever seen a hawk take/eat a pheasant at the game farm?




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[cayugabirds-l] Danby Osprey?

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In our Danby Area News a local resident reported sighting 2 Osprey in Danby
on Feb 3rd. Since this is about 7 weeks earlier than then mean spring
arrival date in the Cayuga Bird Club list of same, I question the report's
veracity. The individual claimed to have immediately referred to his field
guide for a positive ID.

I am curioius what other bird he might have seen - perhaps a Rough-leg?

Here is a link to the report - it's on pg. 8 at bottom:
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: NNYBirds: OT-Amazing peregrine hunting video

[Asher Hockett]

Sometimes I wonder why someone thought to introduce starlings to North
America. This jaw-dropping video makes it easier to understand.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:26 PM, joe  Diana whiti...@roadrunner.comwrote:

  It's amazing to watch the fight patterns and the way it must confuse the
 falcon.

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 Hello All,

 Sorry - not our neck-of-the-woods(Netherlands I think) but an amazing
 video

 How does a peregrine falcon take out one starling out of 50,000?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tEFRAI9WSEtracker=FalseNR=1

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] stranded common loon to be rescued Sun.

[Asher Hockett]

I am going to write here what I feel needs to be. Birders! Please resist the
urge to witness the rescue, and potentially compromise the rescue effort. .
Stay away and let the rehab person do her job. Read about it here - LATER!
Please!!

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Glen glen...@frontiernet.net wrote:

  Yes, on second thought I probably should not have posted the time. 'Twas
 not meant as an invitation -- hopefully if anyone gets in the way Victoria
 will let them know! I'll ask my sister to update me and will let the list
 know how it turned out.
 -Kristie

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 *Cc:* Glen glen...@frontiernet.net ; cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
 *Sent:* Saturday, April 16, 2011 9:14 PM
 *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] stranded common loon to be rescued Sun.

 I don't doubt her capabilities one bit. Such people are well trained 
 compassionate. I meant the activity of people who might flock to see the
 capture would traumatize the bird.

 I am relieved to know the name of a re-habber in the area. We apparently no
 longer have one here in our area. She was harrassed by certain people
 who apparently had the mentality ( good intentions) of many of
 PETA members. Things done to her were destructive, mean, cruel 
 thoughtless. Our daughter was a re-habber in Florida for a number of yrs..
 It's often a dangerous  thankless job. At one time she had more  larger
 snakes in her home than did the local zoo.

 Fritzie


 
 For people who don't know. Victoria Campbell is a thoroughly knowledgeable
 and infinitely compassionate Wildlife Rehabber that we are very lucky to
 have in our area. She runs Wild Things Sanctuary off Snyder Hill Road. You
 can bet the loon is in the most gentle, capable and ethical of hands with
 her involvement

 Linda Orkin

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Apr 16, 2011, at 8:23 PM, John and Fritzie Blizzard 
 job121...@verizon.net wrote:

   Hope a lot of people don't converge on the site  traumatize the bird
 more than it probably will be, if it isn't already.

 Keep us updated . thanks!

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Male N. Harrier

[Asher Hockett]

I also had a male Northern Harrier coursing over the fields east of Comfort
Rd on my way home yesterday afternoon.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey All,

 Meant to report this before.  On Thursday, a beautiful male Northern
 Harrier flew over the road into the field across from the airport on Warren
 Road. I have seen a female there at least three times.  Would be neat if
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[cayugabirds-l] Swan Pen Tues. late morning

[Asher Hockett]

Location: SP Swan Pen
Observation date: 4/26/11
Notes: NO Palm Warbler
Number of species: 25

Canada Goose X + a pair doing their necking
American Wigeon 1
Mallard 5
mixed raft offshore of:
Greater/Lesser Scaup X
Bufflehead X
Common Goldeneye X

Hooded Merganser 4
Common Merganser 5
Ring-billed Gull X
Mourning Dove X
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
American Crow 2
Fish Crow 3
Tree Swallow X
Tufted Titmouse 1
American Robin 2
European Starling X
Yellow Warbler 5 - all males
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Song Sparrow 5
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle 5
House Sparrow 9


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[cayugabirds-l] Lindsay Parsons Thurs afternoon

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Yesterday afternoon at 3:30 I hiked for about an hour and a half at the
Lindsay Parsons Biodome. It was sunny/passing clouds and quite windy, which
prpbably accoutns for how quiet it was. Most of what I heard, other than
frogs, a Grey Catbird, and some crows and a bluejay, were chip notes. Most
of the territory I covered was visibly quiet too, but the section of the
blue trail which runs east-west north of the lakes and leads to the tracks
crossing had some birds. There is mostly honeysuckle (or something very
similar) there and the birds were flitting back and forth across the trail.

Location: Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve--Thatcher's Pinnacles
Observation date: 5/5/11
Number of species: 13

Great Blue Heron 1
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Blue Jay 1
Black-capped Chickadee X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin X
American Crow X
Gray Catbird 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
White-throated Sparrow 1


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Fri 5/6

[Asher Hockett]

And why does a crow soak his pizza?

Caws.

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  Miyoko Chu and I walked through Sapsucker Woods together on Friday
 morning (7:55-8:50 AM).  Migrants were widely and rather sparsely
 scattered.  We found BLACK-THROATED GREEN , BLACK-THROATED BLUE, YELLOW,
 YELLOW-RUMPED, and NASHVILLE WARBLERS, a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT, OVENBIRDS, and
 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH, plus a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO, two BALTIMORE ORIOLES,
 and others.  Most of the warblers were on the Dryden side near the long pool
 with the shelter.  The Yellow-throated Vireo was near the intersection of
 the Wilson and West Trails.



 Around noon, I saw a untagged but banded crow (pink over aluminum, left
 leg) fly into our yard, carrying what appeared to be two pizza crusts.  The
 crow dropped them into a birdbath, let them soak for a couple of seconds,
 then removed them and turned them on the grass for a few moments.  It
 repeated this dipping and draining procedure, cawed twice (somehow as if
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Possible Mississippi Kite

[Asher Hockett]

If not mistaken, that area had a report of a mississippi Kite last year.

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:42 AM, grosb...@clarityconnect.com 
grosb...@clarityconnect.com wrote:

 Hello,

 On the way home yesterday I spotted what looked like a very buoyant light
 gray colored raptor flying over
 Fall Creek on Fall Creek Rd near Red Mill Rd --the bridge is out at Red
 Mill Rd. Unfortunately it was one of
 those deals where I'd look up, look at cars in front of me, look up, look
 at cars in front of me. I pulled
 over when I could, and circled back as I did see the bird continue towards
 Freeville along the creek --I
 didn't re-locate the bird. It was not an Osprey or an eagle, and at first
 glance I thought gull. Perhaps it
 was a Harrier or a gull, but neither seemed right to me. Given the range
 expansion of Mississippi Kites
 into the NE the past 3-4 years (and nesting in the state for the first
 time), this species could turn up here
 in summer. I figured I'd at least post this in case anyone wants to follow
 up on it, especially since this area
 is very underbirded. This species could perhaps be the next new basin
 breeder.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead Birds - Mulberry Tree

[Asher Hockett]

A couple of thoughts:

Alcohol poisoning. With the recent very hot spell, coinciding with sugar
development in the berries, fermentation is a good liklihood.

The link posted by Geo refers to mild toxicity. However, that is directed at
us for human consumption. Birds have a lower threshold for most toxins.

Perhaps the combination of the previous two possibilities led to over
consumption due to corrupted judgment on the birds part.

Are deer prevalent there and is there a possibility of e. coli? Are birds
susceptible to that?

Have specimens been collected for a toxicology analysis by the lab? If not
maybe that could be done - with caution exercised by anyone doing it.


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:01 PM, bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.comwrote:

 I just had lunch with a friend who has two mulberry trees on his property.
 This year, shortly after the fruits began to appear (whitish-green when
 unripe, going to reddish-black when ripe), he began to find dead birds under
 the trees: 5 Starlings, 2 male Baltimore Orioles, 1 Gray Catbird so far.
 There is a strong correlation (timewise) between fruiting and the deaths. Is
 anyone familiar with this phenomenon?

 Bob McGuire



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[cayugabirds-l] Cornell pinnacles

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Reading Geo's post got me looking out my office window which faces the
Cornell campus from 6 floors over Green St. I found a handy kettle of about
9 or 10 birds circling over the libe tower, but was only able to tease out
TVs. The kettle eventually disipated and some flew off while some remained,
so I am guessing this may not be migratory behavior.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy

[Asher Hockett]

So maybe we need to consider constructing, w/DEC et al permission, an
artificial snag. We build Osprey platforms, why not a perching snag? Surely
a potential CLO/Citizen Science project.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:19 PM, RICHARD JILL WOOD rwood...@msn.com wrote:

  That's terrible.  I can remember going with Jill to Stewart Park, which
 wasn't far from where we lived at the time on Lake St., and counting the
 Cormorants in that tree.  Many times there were over 50 Cormorants in that
 tree.

 The only things close to it I've ever seen were a tree on the Great Salt
 Lake in Utah in 2005 that had over a dozen Bald Eagles perched in it and a
 tree in western Minnesota that was in the breeding block I was helping to
 survey this past sping.  This tree had several Cormorants in it, including
 some pairs that were building nests.  We watched one pair try to play
 handoff with some stills, but the recipient of the sticks fumbled them.

 I also did see once a Red-tailed Hawk perched in the middle of a tree and
 surrounding him were MANY Great-tailed Grackles.  This was in a tree across
 the street from Mitchell Lake in San Antonio, Texas.

 Richard

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 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 29Sep11 - waterfowl, tragedy
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 To: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu

 Livia and I checked Stewart Park at lunch today. Although it was raining
 steadily, the lake was very calm and ducks were easy to see around the weed
 mats towards the east end of the park. We didn't find anything that hasn't
 been around for a while, but did see the continuing male GREATER SCAUP, 2
 female RING-NECKED DUCKS, female RUDDY DUCK, 3 AMERICAN WIGEON, Hooded
 Merganser, AMERICAN COOT, at least 5 Pied-billed Grebes, multiple American
 Black Ducks, and tons of Mallards.  A MERLIN was perched on the dead tree on
 the swan pen island, an adult BALD EAGLE was in a small dead snag along the
 shore of the swan pen, and an immature BALD EAGLE flew by out of jetty
 woods.

 The most notable sighting, however, was the fact that the famous large snag
 across the channel from the boat house (the
 cormorant/osprey/eagle/Merlin/Peregrine tree) is GONE. I haven't been to
 Stewart Park for a few days, so I don't know when this happened, and I also
 couldn't tell WHAT exactly happened. It looks like it might be broken at the
 base, so perhaps it finally fell over from natural causes and was cleared
 away to keep the channel open. I would be interested to know if anyone has
 more information about this. In any case, I consider this a huge loss to the
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Aurora Bay Aythya raft

[Asher Hockett]

That photo reminds me of those MagicEye images where when you hold it close
and move it slowly away you will be able to see a hidden picture. This one
has Donald Duck, I think.

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 Aurora Bay hosted an enormous raft (actually several) of mostly Redheads
 with some Ring-necked Ducks mixed in this morning. The flock was almost
 directly below the Lake Road bluffs when I arrived around 9:15 am and had
 slowly moved southward farther along the lake when I returned around 10:45
 am. I had a lot of fun shooting still and video, especially the latter,
 watching as the raft slowly changed shape as the mass of birds moved around.
 One still photo, showing just part of the raft, is here:

 http://www.marieread.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=42pos=10

 Anybody want to count 'em???

 Otherwise, Center Road had just a single Horned Lark, but a newly manured
 field just south of the Triangle Diner (on Lake Ridge Road - correct name??)
 had a large flock of possible 200 Horned Larks.
 There were scatted Tundra Swans along the lake, but the closest swans that
 got me all excited along Lake Road turned out to be Mutes!

 A pretty winter day.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawk ID

[Asher Hockett]

Elena,

Well it's one of those! My sense is Sharpie, the tail is fairly square, but
it is kind of big-headed.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Elaina McCartney 
elaina.mccart...@cornell.edu wrote:

 Longish tail, whitish at the tip, smaller than Red-tail, wings not
 particularly long in flight—I was thinking immature Cooper's or
 Sharp-shimmed but could use some guidance on ID.  It was scattering the
 Mourning Doves in the yard the way a Cooper's does.

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 http://www.flickr.com/photos/emccartney/5435248552/in/set-72157594554486980
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 thanks,
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] abbreviations

[Asher Hockett]

First Of Year, NOrthern MOckingbird.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:55 PM, nealda...@aol.com wrote:

 umm - me too please!  what are those abbreviations?



 -Original Message-
 From: Donna Scott d...@cornell.edu
 To: Chris Pelkie chris.pel...@cornell.edu; CAYUGABIRDS-L 
 cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
 Sent: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 7:55 am
 Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] abbreviations

  For the benefit of us non-texters and Trac Fone users, please define FOY
 and NOMO.
 thanks!

 Donna S

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 *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] GBH at SSW

  Mary at the front desk reported it first and several of us went out to
 welcome back the first GBH to the big snag on SSW pond this AM.
 Maybe the same one Sara Jane reported flying over Honness Lane.

 My FOY yard NOMO arrived also this AM in full song. He's been a regular for
 the last several years since the mixed evergreen hedge we planted 17 yrs ago
 have grown to 20' or so making a great habitat for NOMO and house finches,
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dickcissel - 7 October 2011 @ 2:47AM - Etna, NY

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We have had some fairly atypical weather patterns recently - large low
pressure systems which have moved north and northwest and even some moving
west. Those could have picked up migrants and swept them east on their
south-west quadrants. Just speculation from someone who watches the radar a
lot.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Chris Tessaglia-Hymes c...@cornell.eduwrote:

 So, does anyone know what’s up with Dickcissel’s this year? I’ve recorded
 my loudest one yet this season, this morning, on an absolutely dead night
 (migration-wise). This makes the 4th bird over Etna, NY in about a week.**
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 I’ll pull something together later with links to sounds and images of the
 spectrograms.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] CayugaRBA PEREGRINE FALCON atop Holiday

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Thanks for that. I can see it from the 6th floor of the Mental Health
building. Still there.

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[cayugabirds-l] Danby Shrike

[Asher Hockett]

The Northern Shrike posted by Eric Banford is still around. I stopped at
the intersection of E. Miller Rd and Nelson Rd just before 10  this morning
to get some looks. As Eric posted, the bird is frequenting the tops of the
round hay bales. I watched as it caught what appeared to be a caterpillar
or worm-like larvae and flew to the top of a bale, where it flailed it's
prey against the bale a few times before eating it.

This bird is very cooperative, staying in one place for a few minutes at a
time, so would be a good subject for photography. Previous sightings of
shrikes for me have been only brief glimpses as the birds only popped into
sight for moments before disappearing, so this was a great chance for me to
note the field marks and observe its behavior.

It seemed to prefer the second row of bales west of Nelson and north of E
Miller (near second telephone pole S of the intersection), and also the few
well aged bales on the south side of E Miller in line with those others.

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[cayugabirds-l] Western Grebes...

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Jerry Lazarczyk is a very credible seasoned birder who spends much time
verifying RBA sightings for some organization - NYSARC I think. So it would
appear that Matt Medler's query about the presence of 3 Western Grebes on
Cayuga Lake has a positive response.

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[cayugabirds-l] return of the RWBB

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Today our meadow is once again graced with the Red-wings. This is a full
week earlier than any year since I moved to Danby.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] help to ID gray and white bird

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Considering the belly color and where it begins on the flanks, and the dark
eye, I think your guess is a good one.

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:58 AM, M Kardon mk2...@pol.net wrote:

 Could someone help to identify the bird we saw this morning on the ground
 and in the bushes near our feeders?  See the three links below.  We're
 wondering if it could be a leucistic junco. It was significantly larger
 than the goldfinches hopping around near it.  Marsha and Fred Kardon

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawk Mt. trip

[Asher Hockett]

Carl,

While Hawk Mountain is an incredible location, the trip is fairly long and
the spring count is relatively low numbers compared to the count in the
fall. Having been to both Derby Hill and Hawk Mountain, I suggest you'd see
a lot more birds at Derby Hill this time of year.

April counts for both sites can be seen at:
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 On Sat. April, weather permitting, Meg and I are planning to take a day
 trip to Hawk Mountain in Pa. Leave early sat. AM and return later that
 evening.  I will be at the club meeting this coming Monday if anyone wants
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snow Geese at Dusk over muckland

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Jaw dropping, emotionally stirring video, Meena! Thanks!

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:

   Hi all,
 I had an errand to run along the lake, so after the errand (which did not
 work out), I decided to head further north in the hopes of seeing Snow
 Geese. When I arrived, sun had already set and I hardly saw any snow geese.
 Only  a few were visible and a few  were landing behind the vegetation. I
 was disappointed at that and was about head back when I heard the
 swishing noise, looked back there was a huge snow geese cloud rising from
 the muck. They often settle back soon after one such burst and that is
 it.  But this swarm kept circling. I watched for 5 minutes as I did not
 want to miss the show. Then I grabbed my camera and started shooting video.
 I was wearing only T-shirt and it was getting freezing. I thought I might
 miss this action so did not bother to waste time get my jacket. Then this
 went on and on even my hands started shaking due to cold. So stopped and
 grabbed my coat. For nearly half an hour they swirled and circled. They
 waxed and waned, they came in as rising and falling tide. When they
 were heading towards me when I looked up, there was dizzying effect on me
 as the waves and waves flew over me. It was amazing to watch them. With
 shaking hand and steadying hand I managed to get some fifteen minutesvideo. I 
 wish I had mounted the camera on the tripod.



 I am not sure what made them circle so long. Were they thinking of
 heading south as cold is expected to night? Many birds, especially shore
 birds do this kind of flight when they are in hurry to migrate. Or were
 there any hunters on the ground that made them take to wing and
 probably every time a small group landed they got shot at so they took to
 flight again. I hope that was not the case. I hate to think myself as snow
 goose, especially if I the cute Ross's Goose (which I saw many at Bosque
 del Apache) and get continuously shot at by some nasty human when I am
 ready to rest and sleep.



 Here is a video about a minute  at YouTube. As this is a large file,
 takes time to load, I suggest wait for it completely download (watch the
 grey line reach the end) and then watch instead of in snatches. Hope you
 too enjoy it.



 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baXc6u0T8u8



 Cheers

 Meena











 I was glad I was there to watch this scene.


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[cayugabirds-l] Chestnut-sided Warbler?

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I thought I heard a Chestnut-sided Warbler yesterday near the Rockwell
Azalea Garden on Tower Rd. I only heard it once, but it was distinctive.
Considering this is about 10 days earlier than the 4/26 date reported from
2008-11 on the Cayuga Bird Club arrival records page, I think it likely
I misheard, but wanted to alert others to be on the hearout.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Mundy Lunch walk House and Carolina Wrens, Rough-winged Swallows etc.

[Asher Hockett]

Not only is it free, but you find out who's around without even having to
look! Whenever I see folks walking or running this time of year with their
earbuds in, I feel sad for them. The best things on Earth are indeed free.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.netwrote:

 Isn't it a shame that people need to listen to their iPods for music when
 the birds give us beautiful music for free.  I can understand it once the
 birds quiet down late summer, but not now.

 Sent from my iPad

 On Apr 16, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:

  It was awesome outside, but very hot.  Highlight was many migrating Red
 Admiral butterflies with couple of other species.
 Among birds a pair of Red-tailed hawks were displaying and calling while
 display was on over Mundy WG. I met the Tufted titmouse who sings “teacher
 teach” very apt on the campus and we exchanged some conversations.
 There was a Blue Jay sitting in front of me, but when he called, the sound
 was coming from some 30 ft my right. It was amazing how well he did it. And
 I was also proud of myself that I could clearly hear from which direction
 the sound was coming.
 Two species of wrens, A Carolina Wren was calling from a tree, beneath
 him  was a woman blissfully having lunch totally unaware of his presence,
 listening to her own music.  She had no clue probably that someone was
 singing very loudly above her head.  A little further ahead there was HOUSE
 WREN calling. First when I heard him, I thought wow he sounds familiar and
 then it dawned on me it is a House Wren!
 Near the Fall creek water fall, a couple of Rough-winged swallows chirped
 over my head. A pair of Phoebes were excited about nesting along the gorge
 rocks. A fly went past one of the phoebes, you could see he saw it but was
 not ready to chase, you could see his eyes following the fly, and then he
 darted and missed.
 All three trillers, PINE WARBLER, JUNCO and CHIPPING SPARROW were trilling
 at the same time from different directions and locations.
 Lastly there was a pair of COMMON MERGANSERS sitting quite close to each
 other in the calm portion of the Fall Creek with their reflection in the
 water.  It made a very stunning image, but no camera with me, so now it
 will be in my neuronal image library.

 Meena
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[cayugabirds-l] new sightings/hearings

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Put up a new feeder along with the older ones at home in Danby and
immediately had a Chipping Sparrow on one side and  Field Sparrow on the
other. Bluebirds are checking our the box where they were successfull last
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[cayugabirds-l] Male Blue Grosbeak

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Just now (6:45PM) at our feeders in Danby. Life bird and yard bird in one.
We saw the blue and snagged the bins and when it returned (here again right
now} made a positive ID. Blue with some reddish cheek spots (1st year?),
chestnut-red wing bars, an absolutely gorgeous bird!

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halves we put out, and eats the suet too)

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[cayugabirds-l] Oranges

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For the past few years we've put oranges at our feeders. We have a suet
feeder built like a wee house, made of resin/wood composite. I drilled two
holes in the roof and screwed some long exterior screws - the kind you
drive with a phillips screw gun - from the underside so they stick out of
the top. Then half an orange is impaled in each. We did this because I read
somewhere it would attract orioles.

It does. But it also is enjoyed by R-b Grosbeaks, B-h Cowbirds, various
woodpeckers, titmice, chickadees, and even the grackles try to get to it,
but the orioles chase them off. Having the orioles so close is a real
delight, and has afforded us the best looks I've ever had of them.

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[cayugabirds-l] phoebe feeding swallow?

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I was watching our box of tree swallows. One young bird has found it's way
out and to the top of the box where it begs in vain when its mother returns
and feed chicks still in the box. I was wondering if it would get fed when
an Eastern Phoebe appeared, hovered/almost stood on the box and seemed to
feed the young swallow who gaped expectantly. I have continued to watch but
not seen a repeat. Has anyone seen this before? The parent swallow
continues to ignore the rooftop chick while it tends regularly to the ones
inside the opening.

I watch the E Phoebe and it has stuck around - has the brightest yellow
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[cayugabirds-l] swallow fedgelings gone, nest too

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We have been watching our Tree Swallows as they have been preparing to
leave. Yesterday two were poking their heads out and the parent was feeding
them. Today, seeing no activity, we checked, and the nest was gone - only a
few pieces of grass left. I did find parts of the nest on the ground
underneath, We have not seen the birds but will keep looking.

Is it possible some animal snatched the nest and the young? Or that some
other species (House Sparrow has been seen at the box leaving with white
feathers) removed the material for its own nest?

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[cayugabirds-l] swallow follow up

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We have now seen at least two swallows and perhaps 3, so I believe all is
well with the birds which were still in the box yesterday. What happened to
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] MNWR Thursday

[Asher Hockett]

It has only been a few years and now we seem to be taking Peregrines for
granted. Not criticizing, but you know what I mean. Any day with a
Peregrine is a gift!

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:21 PM, tigge...@aol.com wrote:

 I didn't come up with much on the Wildlife Drive other than Merlin and
 Peregrine.  There were a decent number of Semi-p Sandpiper at Benning,
 renewing hope for a Western.  At dusk, Knox-Marsellus had 82 Great Egrets,
 one with an orange wing tag, and 325 Great Blue Herons amidst the other
 birds people have been reporting.

 I'm also including an eBird checklist from August 27th for K-M which
 featured a flyby Whimbrel (it was circling in the K-M airspace for a few
 minutes but never seen on the ground).  Apologies for forgetting to post.

 Dave W.
 tigge...@aol.com

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 Sep 6, 2012 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
 Protocol: Stationary
 Comments: Hot and humid with a light breeze; hoping for something new but
 seemingly the same basic cast of characters; not a careful survey of the
 shorebirds but a scan for something new; listened to Sonic Youth while driving
 to/from MNWR
 45 species

 Canada Goose  20
 Trumpeter Swan  1
 Wood Duck  X
 American Wigeon  X
 American Black Duck  X
 Mallard  X
 Blue-winged Teal  X
 Northern Shoveler  X
 Green-winged Teal  X
 Double-crested Cormorant  1
 Great Blue Heron  325 counted twice, +/- 10 birds
 Great Egret  82 counted twice, +/-3 birds; one bird had orange wing tag
 Osprey  1
 Northern Harrier  1
 Bald Eagle  2
 Sandhill Crane  2
 Black-bellied Plover  X
 American Golden-Plover  1
 Semipalmated Plover  X
 Killdeer  X
 Greater Yellowlegs  X
 Lesser Yellowlegs  X
 Semipalmated Sandpiper  X
 Least Sandpiper  X
 Pectoral Sandpiper  X
 Stilt Sandpiper  X
 Short-billed Dowitcher  X
 Wilson's Phalarope  1
 Red-necked Phalarope  1
 Ring-billed Gull  X
 Herring Gull  1
 Great Black-backed Gull  1
 Caspian Tern  3
 American Crow  1
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow  X
 Purple Martin  X
 Tree Swallow  X
 Bank Swallow  X
 Barn Swallow  X
 Gray Catbird  1
 Common Yellowthroat  2
 Song Sparrow  2
 Bobolink  1
 Red-winged Blackbird  X
 American Goldfinch  X


 Montezuma NWR Knox-Marsellus Marsh, Seneca, US-NY
 Aug 27, 2012 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
 Protocol: Traveling
 0.25 mile(s)
 Comments: With Jim Tarolli; light rain; observing from both Towpath Rd in
 rain and East Rd (no rain)
 32 species (+1 other taxa)

 Canada Goose  20
 Trumpeter Swan  3
 Wood Duck  X
 Mallard  X
 Green-winged Teal  X
 Ring-necked Duck  1 Possibly an eclipse-plumaged male but I don't remember
 Double-crested Cormorant  X
 Great Blue Heron  X
 Great Egret  X
 Black-crowned Night-Heron  4
 Osprey  2
 Northern Harrier  1
 Bald Eagle  1
 Common Gallinule  2
 Sandhill Crane  2
 Black-bellied Plover  3
 Semipalmated Plover  X
 Killdeer  X
 Greater Yellowlegs  3
 Lesser Yellowlegs  X
 Whimbrel  1 Spiraled over K-M marsh for about 5 mins (stayed on it the
 entire time in the scope); eventually joined up with ~15 other (smaller but
 medium-sized) shorebirds and flew to the south; a long-awaited first Whimbrel
 for me at MNWR; possibly put down to the mudflats by rain but I never saw it 
 on
 the ground
 Sanderling  1
 Semipalmated Sandpiper  X
 Least Sandpiper  X
 White-rumped Sandpiper  X
 Pectoral Sandpiper  X
 Stilt Sandpiper  X
 Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher  X
 Wilson's Phalarope  1
 Ring-billed Gull  X
 Herring Gull  X
 Caspian Tern  X
 Black Tern  2


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question

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I am sure this is not a similar report - but last week on Comfort Rd a
bunch of crows  were harrassing a male Ringnecked Pheasant which was
standing in the road. As we approached the crows flew and the pheasant
moved slowly on foot towards the shoulder.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Susan Fast sustf...@yahoo.com wrote:

  I was just looking in the field across the road from our house and noted
 about a dozen crows really going after what I initially thought was another
 crow.  This bird was slightly smaller than the crows, but otherwise looked,
 from a distance, just like them.  The crows forced it to the ground;  2
 crows then stood on either side of it while the rest circled and cawed
 directly overhead and “bombed” it.  It then flew and I noted the under wing
 pattern like a turkey vulture.  The bird was definitely not a vulture.  I
 have not seen crows go after anything with this intensity unless it was a
 great horned owl.  Could it have been a kite of some kind?  They all flew
 rapidly off to the SE before I could get the scope.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] And MORE as I typed previous message!!!!

[Asher Hockett]

And MORE over Ithaca. From the top of the MH building on Green St, skein
after skein, some quite low and others almost too high to see. Thousands
and thousands. Some even flying north.

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote:

 Just passed over my house (West Danby). I guesstimated 8,000 - 10,000,
 more still coming.

 -Geo Kloppel

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  I've never ever seen so many.
 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] AMERICAN ROBIN in crabapple northwest of Johnson A...

[Asher Hockett]

Sector VI had 8 American Robins, ticked off by Bill Evans at Ithaca
College. You have it on your earlier totals.

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 AMERICAN ROBIN in crabapple northwest of Johnson Art Museum 927am. Count
 week bird!
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Swan count for CBC

[Asher Hockett]

Thanks, Jody, for a really excellent post!

Birds have a bad habit of flying! This leads to their having a propensity
for being in two or more places nearly at once. Behind the old NCR building
on 96B, we flushed a Red-tail. A few minutes later we saw another gliding
overhead in the opposite direction. A few minutes after that there was one
flying back and forth over the trees to the south. We surmised it was the
same bird and only counted/reported the one.

In the same spot, at one end of the parking lot we observed 2 Yellow-rumps.
Later, a hundred yards to the north, we observed another. I may
(likely) have been one of the first two, but I thought it looked like a
third and counted it that way. All 3 responded to the chickadee/screech owl
mobbing call recording, so certainly there is a good chance that one of the
earlier Y-rs flew to the new area to see what was going on.

The counters ultimately make choices about how many of what they are
seeing, and the factors which dictate these choices seem to me to be as
variable (and ephemeral) as those which determine which flock of Tundras
was seen and how many times.

And since some of those swans were counted in area VI, why wouldn't I, as
area coordinator, want to have them in the sector total? I mean, it kind of
beats sitting there at the lab during the compilation and saying NONE to
every other species enumerated! Yes, I know that NONE is totally valid
data, but still, we are not machines, we are human beings. (and we want
birds!)
Asher
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Jody W Enck j...@cornell.edu wrote:

  This discussion has been interesting to “watch” as it has unfolded.  I
 certainly understand the desire folks have to make the counts as accurate
 as possible.  Still, I wonder how all this adjusting of the numbers
 after-the-fact for just one species, and for just one year, influences the
 utility of the data for comparative purposes from year to year.  Given the
 year-to-year variability of the weather and its uncertain influence on both
 long-distance migration (e.g., of swans) and local movements (from and to
 feeders), I wonder if it simply makes the most sense to keep doing things
 the way they always have been done -- recognizing and even accepting that
 various species will be more or less likely to be affected in any given
 year with respect to whether they are double or triple counted, or
 undercounted.

 If the purpose of the count (at least one of the major purposes) is to be
 able to examine long-term trends, then it seems that consistency of
 methodology from year-to-year should trump our noble attempts to improve
 within-year accuracy.

 How far do Chickadees and other feeder birds move around on cold, blustery
 days like we had on January 1st?  The 6 feeder watchers in my neighborhood
 probably all had the same individual birds visit their feeders.  Seems
 rather endless to try to figure out how to deal with all the uncertainty in
 the data collection.  I know the inquisitive scientist within me loves the
 challenge of trying to reduce that uncertainty, but a reduction in this
 kind of uncertainty probably will not enhance the utility of the data for
 its intended purpose.  Besides, the discoverer within me loves being out in
 horrible conditions just seeing what I can find, recognize, and learn.  I
 suppose it’s probably the same - to a lesser or greater degree- for
 everyone who looked for birds on the First.

 Have fun,
 Jody

 Jody W. Enck, PhD
 Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
 Cornell Lab of Ornithology

  *From:* Bill Evans
 *Sent:* January 4, 2013 10:05 AM
 *To:* CAYUGABIRDS-L
 *Subject:* Re:[cayugabirds-l] Swan count for CBC

   Last night I made of a Google map of the swan flock information
 reported to the listserv. I updated the trajectories and markers this
 morning adding some deductive/speculative text.
  Cayuga Bird Club 2013 CBC Swan flock 
 maphttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTFmsa=0msid=208086491899212349523.0004d26dc6966e4c7c382(click
  markers to read text – if you have a Google acct and log in you can
 add information to the map)

  The evidence suggests some flocks were double and even triple counted,
 but as Ken pointed out there are still some things that don’t add up. Two
 pieces of information that would help complete the picture would be more
 description on the location and trajectory of the flock of 21 (@ ~2:45pm)
 seen by Marty’s group. I don’t have that flock on the map and it doesn’t
 seem like it could have been the same flock of 19 I had at 2:15 or Ken had
 at 2PM, which were plausibly the same flock. Also, any swan flock
 information from section V (Sandy’s section) would be useful in determining
 whether the 40 seen there were unique flocks or flocks that had already
 been counted.

  Anyone else who saw swan flocks on January 1st, please have a look at
 the map and see if your information matches or suggests additional unique
 flocks.

  As of now there is a fairly solid case for a minimum of 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Basin Highlights of 2012

[Asher Hockett]

Compared to Chris I am barely a birder, and considering the amount of time
spent birding in 2012, I am even less of one.

However, on May 8, at our feeders we had a Blue Grosbeak. Carmen
Hockett spotted it first and she knew it was different. I was so consumed
with eyeballing it that the camera, at hand, stayed unused. Others came to
see it (Stu Kraznoff, Jay McGowan  friends) but it had already fled.

I was so accustomed to errant reports of Blue Grosbeak attributed to
mis-sightings of Indigo Bunting, that my failure to take a photo is even
more embarrassing. However, the large ruffous-brown wing bars, large
silvery bill, and a size almost at large as the Rose-breasted Grosbeak at
the same feeder, were clearly the field marks of the BLGR.  There is no
doubt that my life's most unusual sighting was indeed a Blue Grosbeak,
which happened right at our home feeders.


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[cayugabirds-l] OT - cat tracks

[Asher Hockett]

A friend who lives on Durfee Hill has taken some photos of large cat
tracks, w/ a ruler for scale, and I am wondering who might be willing to
look at them for ID purposes.

Please contact me off-list.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Request for this listserve.....

[Asher Hockett]

*I can tell you from substantial experience that giving the county,
township and road is not nearly enough information to get most birders onto
the birds whose absence I was reporting yesterday.*
Yes, indeed!! It's very hard to get onto them when they are absent!


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[cayugabirds-l] Cardinal song?

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Yesterday I heard a song, a thrice repeated ascending arpeggio, roughly a
musical perfect 4th between each: g c f, g c f, g c f (just to give an
idea). This was downtown, S Albany St a block north of the traffic circle.
They are whistling or piping sounds, quite musical. Fairly easy to imitate
by whistling.

I think this may be a N. Cardinal, but have been unable to find an example
anywhere on the 'net.

Ideas, links?

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cardinal song?

[Asher Hockett]

Pitchwise yes, but the call I heard yesterday featured 3 distinct and
separate and slower tempo tones, not the glissed over middle tone on the
recording you referenced.


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Eben McLane etmcl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Is the song you're describing anything like LNS #107306 at Macaulay
 Library?
 Eben McLane

 On May 17, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Asher Hockett veery...@gmail.com wrote:
  Yesterday I heard a song, a thrice repeated ascending arpeggio, roughly a
  musical perfect 4th between each: g c f, g c f, g c f (just to give an
  idea).

 This may be the Cardinal song I've nicknamed the bugle call, though
 I think that is closer to GCE GCE GCE.
 IIRC I too have had trouble finding it among the song samples in the
 various iPhone apps.

 Suan

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[cayugabirds-l] cardinal song

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Folks have suggested C Wren and B Oriole, but don't think so. This bird was
in the lower branches of a tree I drove under, and the song was 9 evenly
spaced and equal length notes, like the third phrase in Taps ( *From the
lake, from the hills, from the sky*), but more than a major 3rd between the
second and third note of each arpeggio.

Not the typical piping of the oriole, but the C Wren is a possibility.

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[cayugabirds-l] cardinal song

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After listening to a myriad of Macaulay Libarry recordings of Carolina Wren
and Baltimore Oriole, I still think what I heard was a Cardinal. The C Wren
has a much qucker tempo - the song I head was about a second for each
upward arpeggio, or 3 seconds for the whole 9 note song. I am going to
return to the location and try to confirm.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue-gray Gnatcatcher oddness

[Asher Hockett]

Perhaps it is trying to dissapate heat. It is awfully warm today.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Chris Pelkie chris.pel...@cornell.eduwrote:

 I just took a brief lunchtime walk on the northern part of Wilson Trail at
 SSW.
 I saw a small bird flit to a low shrub only 10-12' from me, got on it and
 ID'd it as a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER.

 Then, it flew down to the bark mulch in full sun, spread its wings and
 wing feathers as wide as possible, pressed its belly to the mulch and
 flattened its wings on the mulch, fluffed up all its back feathers, opened
 its mouth wide. Sat there for 15 seconds or so. Hopped up into a bush for
 15 sec or so, then repeated the spreadeagle (spreadgnatcatcher, I guess) in
 a different spot.

 I thought the first time it might be 'anting', the behavior I've heard of
 (correct me if this is an old wive's tale) of some birds letting ants bite
 them to get the formic acid rush which either repels parasites or feels
 better than the parasites themselves.

 But when I walked forward I saw no ants or anthills or holes at the spots
 the bird had just used.

 No other birds obviously nearby so not apparently a display.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Unknown warbler

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My guess is a Ruby-crowned Kinglet - not a warbler, and the crown usually
not seen, http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/ruby-crowned_kinglet/id


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 While in the woods around our house, we saw a warbler very briefly with
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 Small, dumpy body, shorter tail, grayish solid breast, back with hint of
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Rose Breasted Grosbeak

[Asher Hockett]

Melissa Groo reported one yesterday.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.netwrote:

 A friend in Jordan, NY just had a RB Grosbeak at her feeder.  Has anyone
 seen them in the Cayuga bird list area?  I don't remember seeing any
 mentioned.  Any Hummingbirds yet?   Too early for their feeders?  I usually
 put out my Hummingbird or even Oriole feeders out when I read about
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[cayugabirds-l] new yard and new birds

[Asher Hockett]

A recent move to South Danby Road has me hearing different voices. This
morning a B-t Green Warbler was zee zee zee zoo zeeing from the canopy of
the conifers around our new house. Redstarts also abound here in the more
heavily wooded habitat. Neither of these are commonly heard at the Comfort
Rd house which is at a lower elevation and is more broken up by farming.
They are telling me to stop being so busy and to sit down and listen for a
while. Hope I get the chance!
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ravens over Ithaca

[Asher Hockett]

In my (new) neck of the woods on S Danby Rd, ravens are an almost daily
sighting, either at home or on the way down the hill to 96. It is wonderful
to have them around after so many years without them until just a few years
ago.


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Paul Anderson p...@grammatech.com wrote:


 Yesterday I finished Berndt Heinrich's Mind of the Raven, which I can
 highly recommend. Today at about 6pm waiting at the stop light at the Dey
 St. exit from Rt 13, two Ravens flew over in the direction of the farmer's
 market. One was being harassed by a blackbird.

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[cayugabirds-l] Saw Whet calling

[Asher Hockett]

A bit of a late post - sorry. On Sunday afternoon about 5:30, we heard a
few calls from a Saw Whet Owl. Carmen heard it first, and drew my attention
to it. This is not a bird sound I have a lot of experience with, but after
listening we went inside to the computer and listened to the sounds at All
About Birds . The calls we heard were a bit more explosive than I was
familiar with, but the matchup with the calls online were very close. I was
a bit surprised by the loudness of the calls we heard.

After returning outside we heard no more from it. The ravens in our
neighborhood are pretty vocal and make a wide variety of noises and were
active then, but no way were they imitating Saw Whets. Perhaps there are
other birds which do imitate them and we were mistaken. I doubt anyone was
sharpening a saw.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] MNWR Caspian Terns and pedestrians on the Wildlife Drive :(

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And maybe close it to vehicles!! It's a long walk, though.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] MNWR discsussion

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I can remember CARavaning as a Spring Field Ornithology field trip where we
used cellphones, radios, and car horns (attention - there's a Ruddy Duck!)
a few years (10 maybe) ago. No one got out where they were not supposed to
and everyone got to see lots of birds - lifers, even.

I know I suggested a pedestrian wildlife drive (well, walk), but surely I
would never have seen the new birds I did on that day. Yet, I did snowshoe
once to the first corner, and back, and had new and unusual birds then too,
not to mention I could barely walk for weeks afterwards.

I think a blended approach is best: some places to exit and set up scopes
and stretch legs, and others for staying car-fined. Most certainly, better
signage with some explanations - maybe a brochure - would help.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Golden-crowned Kinglet

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I often get them on the Xmas bird count.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Paul Schmitt pschmi...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was out trying to photograph wild turkeys in a friends woods just south
 of Corning. Among the small birds was a golden-crowned kinglet.  It was so
 close, 3 feet, that I could not focus on it. I watched it probe the small
 branches on the hemlock I was next to.   I heard a few seep voices above,
 so I suspect there was at least on other.  Isn't this very late to be
 seeing these?

 No luck on the turkeys, so this softened my disappointment on the turkeys.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Raven inquiry

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In my neighborhood on S Danby Rd, we have a fair number of Ravens. More
often than not we hear them but do not see them, and the range of sounds
they produce is truly staggering. This year I have heard at least 4
vocalizations which were new to me.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Ray Zimmerman r...@cornell.edu wrote:

 Speaking of ravens, few days ago while waiting for the bus along Snyder
 Hill Rd. two ravens flew by. I noticed them when one vocalized, making a
 sound my neighbor described as a Star Wars light saber sort of sound,
 before reverting to the normal raven croaking. Sorry I don’t have a better
 description, but I was wondering if that is one of their known
 vocalizations? I don’t remember ever hearing it before.

  Ray



 On Dec 9, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Clara MacCarald cmm...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm looking for raven stories for an article in the Finger Lakes Community
 Newspapers. I had a nice conversation with Kevin McGowan about the local
 population, but I'd like to include some anecdotes from other birders. If
 you'd like to tell me about ravens, please contact me off list.

 Any help is appreciated. Even if you only ever see crows and hear ravens,
 that would be interesting. Or if you found Kevin's video, Caw vs. Croak,
 helpful.

 Thanks in advance,
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[cayugabirds-l] Danby Christmas counters needed

[Asher Hockett]

This is an appeal for folks to participate in counting birds in the Danby
Sector (VI) of the upcoming Christmas Bird Count on January 1st.

If you have counted for Danby before, or if you are new to the count, we
need you in Danby.

Please respond to veery...@gmail.com, or call me at 342-5074.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Un Sprgs Mill Pond, Scout Project

[Asher Hockett]

I really like idea #2. Planting bird-friendly native plants would be the
perfect way to upgrade the birding opportunities to be found there.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Donna Scott d...@cornell.edu wrote:

 This is great news, Fritzie.



 Now it is up to us to come up with a do-able plan to help the Boy Scout
 with a different project. Those interested could meet in one of the
 eateries in U. Springs and work on this.



 2 thoughts:

 1-  Is there another area in the Village, not by the pond, that could
 use some kind of project that we could help the young man plan and
 implement?

 2-  Besides a modest sign and kiosk about birds  history  the
 nature of the springs themselves at the Mill Pond area, what about having
 the Boy Scout help put in MORE plants, native plants appropriate for the
 habitat there, around the edges of the pond to extend the bushes that now
 exist on the north and south sides?

 Instead of cutting things down, plant more bushes! Dan Segal of Plantsmen
 and perhaps Sharon Anderson at Tompkins CCE could advise on the appropriate
 plants.



 Donna Scott



 *From:* bounce-118641596-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:
 bounce-118641596-15001...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *John and
 Fritzie Blizzard
 *Sent:* Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:38 PM
 *To:* CayugaBirds-L@Cornell.e
 *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Union Springs Mill Pond, Scout Project



 Birding friends,

 Below is an e-mail from the mother of the Scout about whom I wrote that
 wanted to make a path along the south side of Mill Pond.  I have sent her
 copies of e-mails I've received. Today I sent her the last of the many I've
 received over the last few weeks  this is her reply. Now you must step in
  try to help him. At 81, with an 84 yr.old husband not in the best of
 health, I can't do more to lead this project but I'll try to be the
 go-between, if necessary. I have deliberately not revealed *ANY*
 e-addresses so as to protect everyone.

 I am proud of all of you who took time  effort to write to me, the mayor
  village trustees. Kathy has said she  her son are open to suggestions*
 OR* to abandoning the proposal all together. Dave Nutter has offered to
 help, busy as he is. I will try to talk to Kathy soon but perhaps not 'til
 after after Christmas. In the meantime, put on your thinking caps  if you
 are visiting Union Springs, look at the pond surroundings near the street 
 try to picture what might be a project the lad could do. He also will need
 to be looking at things in a different light with time to plan  present
 findings to the village board.

 Thanks to you all for your input. May you all have a very merry, birdy
 Christmas.

 Fritzie Blizzard ( no, I didn't order snow for Christmas!)   ;)

 *Date: *

 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:21:12 -0500

 *From: *

 Kathleen Aguilar



 Hi Fritzie,


  I have been receiving your emails and reading all the notes written by
 your fellow bird enthusiasts. I appreciate their graciousness in
 acknowledging my son's good intentions. I totally understand their worries
 about a path around the pond and how it might negatively affect the bird
 life on the Mill Pond.

 I was hoping maybe we could meet the next time you have a meeting and we
 could talk.

 Several letters had suggestions of some projects that would support bird
 watching on the Mill pond (blinds, kiosk...) We are VERY open to
 suggestions to adjust our original proposal (or even abandon it
 altogether).

 It seems like maybe we could combine my son's enthusiasm to do a service
 project for his hometown with the birding community's knowledge to produce
 something that would enhance the bird life on the pond and the community as
 well. With the Village Board's blessing, maybe we could design something
 new that accomplished both goals.  :)

 Kathy





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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Turkey Vulture

[Asher Hockett]

I have seen TVs in Danby now and then all winter long, and an occasional
one over Rt 13 on the hillside.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:03 PM, W. Larry Hymes w...@cornell.edu wrote:

 About 20 minutes ago I was very surprised to see a TURKEY VULTURE soaring
 about near East Hill Plaza.  Having heard no reports this winter, I'm
 assuming this is an early migrant.   I've often wondered why this bird, and
 the red-wing blackbirds

 Considering the severe weather and heavy snow cover in our area, why would
 this bird, and the RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS that Dave Nutter saw on the 22nd,
 not delay their northward migration until conditions improve considerably?
 As they move north, aren't they taking into account the conditions they are
 encountering and deciding whether to proceed or wait it out?  Any
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[cayugabirds-l] late posted Sandbank Rd dark phase Roughleg

[Asher Hockett]

On Saturday afternoon around 2pm there was Rough-legged Hawk hunting the
fields on either side of upper Sandbank Rd (downhill from the King Rd
intersection. It was the darkest dark-phase Roughie I have ever seen, with
barely a smidgen of white between the wrist and wing tips. I saw no other
light color on this bird, though the flat light may have contributed to
this. Because it was so dark at first I wanted to make it into an eagle or
a TV, but once I saw the wings and realized when it came down that it was
not that big, I decided it was a Roughie.

It hovered several times for around 10 seconds and then dropped to the
ground but came up with nothing.  I returned and found it again about 20
minutes later, bobbing its tail while perched in the small twigs of one of
the single trees near the newly erected fence on the south side, from which
it launched again to hunt on the northern side of the road. No question
once I saw it perched that it was a R-l.

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[cayugabirds-l] birding where I go

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Yesterday morning found me birding the woods after a shopping trip behind
Maines and Walmart (from outside the fence and No Trespassing signs),
where a Baltimore Oriole was singing brightly. There were a half dozen or
more Gray Catbirds, and some audible Yellow Warblers as well.

Then back home a bit later I heard and spotted a Black-throated Green
Warbler, a pair of Northern Flickers, and heard Ovenbirds, Yellow warblers,
Red-bellied WP, Raven, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak. The higher elevations of
South Danby Road are still fairly quiet.

The B-t Green was foraging in the Hemlocks, which do not facilitate a good
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[cayugabirds-l] new arrival

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Our late populating South Danby elevation has an added voice this morning -
a Wood Thrush singing his incredible suite of joy.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hawthorn Orchard: 12 May 2015 - Fantastic!

[Asher Hockett]

That it was close to the ground is another pretty typical Mourning clue.

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote:

 It sounded like typical Mourning Warbler to me, a low-pitched, burry
 chorry-chorry-che-che-chew repeatedly sung. I kept looking for the bird
 as it moved around, but apparently it stayed within 2 feet of the ground in
 thick vegetation. I briefly glimpsed the bird as it crossed the path, but
 got no details other than that it was large, dark, and plain for a warbler,
 very unlike Chestnut-sided. I did hear an odd-to-me rambling Chestnut-sided
 Warbler song several times and was able to repeatedly verify that singer.

 --Dave Nutter


 On May 12, 2015, at 07:00 PM, Brad Walker bm...@cornell.edu wrote:

 Dave, was the Mourning Warbler singing a typical song? Scott and I had a
 Chestnut-sided we would have sworn was a Mourning until we got a look at it
 in that same area.

 - Brad

 On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:50 PM Nancy Cusumano nancycusuman...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 WE are going to try tomorrow morning before work. Will the cooler temp
 (45) slow them down early?

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 On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote:

 I stayed longer than other birders and got drenched by the shower, but
 afterward I heard a persistently singing (but hiding) MOURNING WARBLER low
 in the vegetation in the north central area. Earlier I may have also heard
 a NASHVILLE WARBLER north of the ravine, which others reported. Here's my
 warbler list:

 TENNESSEE WARBLER - many encounters  songs
 MOURNING WARBLER - 1 heard in north central area
 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT - several heard, none seen
 CAPE MAY WARBLER - many encounters with males, females  songs
 MAGNOLIA WARBLER - 3 encounters with a singing male
 BAY-BREASTED WARBLER - many encounters with males, females  songs
 BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER - 1 female
 YELLOW WARBLER - several heard  seen
 CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER - 3 encounters with a singing male - a rambling
 song lacking the emphatic tag
 BLACKPOLL WARBLER - several heard  males seen
 BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER - 1 male heard  seen
 YELLOW-RUMPED (MYRTLE) WARBLER - 1 female  2 males, separate
 CANADA WARBLER - heard  seen in central area

 There were many RED-EYED VIREOS, but I missed the multiply-reported
 PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Over the large field to the SE a pair of EASTERN
 MEADOWLARKS had an extended pursuit, the lead bird being slightly smaller,
 which I interpreted as courtship. I had 2 silent EMPIDONAX encounters.

 --Dave Nutter


 On May 12, 2015, at 01:40 PM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes 
 c...@cornell.edu wrote:

 I was delayed arriving here on such a great morning, but managed to bird
 here for a short while before needing to leave. I know I missed many good
 birds and numbers of birds that others have already posted about, or will
 be posting about. Most notable for me was the amazing quantity of CAPE MAY
 WARBLERS!!! I tallied at least 13 birds, but I suspect I was missing more.
 Of the 13+ there were 4+ females and 9+ males. There were also a solid 12+
 TENNESSEE WARBLERS singing in almost every section of habitat available.

 Here’s my eBird list:

 Comments: This was a fantastic morning, though I only wish I had
 been able to get here sooner and spend much longer here on such a great
 day. Today may possibly have yielded one of the highest number of Cape May
 Warblers I've tallied at this location. It was difficult, due to their
 silence at times. Many observed foraging on the same branches together at
 the same time. Due to my late arrival time, I know I missed lots of good
 birds. Others reported having seen a roving flock of Bay-breasted Warblers
 and Blackburnian Warbler, Canada Warblers, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, among
 others. Great day, following overnight rain storms. Given general
 North-type winds in the forecast, these guys may be returning to the
 Hawthorn Orchard to continue foraging over the next couple of days.

 br /Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.8

 37 species (+1 other taxa)

 Turkey Vulture  2
 Killdeer  1
 Mourning Dove  2
 Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)  1 SE Corner; non-vocal
 Eastern Kingbird  4 Calling flyover group of four birds.
 Red-eyed Vireo  2
 Blue Jay  4
 American Crow  2
 Black-capped Chickadee  2
 House Wren  1
 Swainson's Thrush  1 Singing, middle North section
 Wood Thrush  1
 American Robin  2
 Gray Catbird  17 Several, actively foraging everywhere; I'm sure I'm
 underestimating.
 European Starling  2

 Black-and-white Warbler  2 1 male, 1 female (SE corner, NE corner)
 Tennessee Warbler  12 This may be an underestimate; actively singing
 from every spot. Males.
 Common Yellowthroat  2
 Cape May Warbler  13 This may be an underestimate; Most prevalent
 just inside SE edge; middle Western section; Northeast area; 4+ females, 9+
 males; males singing variety 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Urban Merlin fledgling compressed images

[Asher Hockett]

Since the listowner has been silent on this - The list rules:
http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ask us not to include
images or other attachments. Links to image-containing sites are the
accepted method of sharing such.


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:06 AM, John Confer con...@ithaca.edu wrote:

  HI Folks,


  The fledgling Merlin was ~10-15 m from me as I took images of it. At
 one point it was trying to climb up an immense pine tree trunk using its
 claws, beak, and wings. Not very efficient, but ultimately successful. The
 originals are really nice, but ~8 mb. I tried to send them without
 compressing them and they didn't go through. So, I used the edit command
 for Microsoft Image Viewer to compress them for sending. The result was a
 disaster. I really am a technological troglodyte.


  I thought the images were charming and spoke for themselves, so I added
 no text.


  Sorry to waste your time.


  John


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 *Sent:* Sunday, June 28, 2015 8:37 PM
 *To:* Meena Madhav Haribal
 *Cc:* Peter; John Confer; CAYUGABIRDS-L
 *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Urban Merlin fledgling.

  It had two pictures of a young merlin attached.  I think that, since it
 had no text in the body of the message, save the Cayuga list material, and
 two attachments, some email programs reacted and stripped the attachments.
 That seemed to be what Peter's did.  Mine came through with clearly .jpg
 attachments, which seemed reasonable for the subject line, so I opened
 them.  They may have been sent from a phone, perhaps one like mine, which
 is not very smart and takes low-pixel pictures.

  Anne
  On Jun 28, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote:

  After your question i did not dare to open. So i cant answer your
 question.

 Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

 - Reply message -
 From: Peter psara...@rochester.rr.com
 To: John Confer con...@ithaca.edu, CAYUGABIRDS-L 
 cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu
 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Urban Merlin fledgling.
 Date: Sun, Jun 28, 2015 5:52 pm



 Hi folks.
 Can any out there tell me if this is a legitimate email from John. It is
 very similar to one I received recently from another group member. I don't
 know why she or John would be sending it.
 Many thanks.
 Pete Saracino

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

[Asher Hockett]

Once I tried to persuade to my wife that all creatures have a purpose in
the scheme of nature, and she responded with, "Ticks, even?" I must admit I
was at a loss to reply.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Melanie Uhlir  wrote:

> Eeeew. Ticks are one species I would love to see become extinct.
>
> On 10/22/2015 2:46 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
>
>> A couple of years ago when we had that mild winter, I got a tick on the
>> Christmas Bird Count. Not the FOY species I was hoping for!
>>
>> -Paul
>>
>> On 10/22/2015 2:22 PM, Donna Lee Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Some of my animals and I have all had multiple ticks on us in the last 2
>>> weeks, after a summer of relative freedom from them.
>>> I am a tick magnet and had 3 on my levis yesterday, then one trying to
>>> embed in my thigh, later!  Ick!
>>> Donna
>>>
>>> Lansing Station Road
>>> Lansing, NY
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: bounce-119809930-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:
>>> bounce-119809930-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Melanie Uhlir
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:17 PM
>>> To: Carolyn McMaster ; 'Ann Mitchell' <
>>> annmitchel...@gmail.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>>> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks
>>>
>>> Good grief! Thank you for the heads-up!!
>>>
>>> Melanie
>>>
>>> On 10/22/2015 1:39 PM, Carolyn McMaster wrote:
>>>
 Dr. Carolyn McMaster here,
 Just a note of caution for all you fellow birders.  This is the season
 when ticks are most active.  Even after it freezes, if it goes above
 freezing during the day, the ticks will be foraging for a blood meal.
 Only after continual hard frosts will they go dormant.  Lyme disease
 is becoming more and more common around here.
 Carolyn

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 [mailto:bounce-119808363-47503...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Ann
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 Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:33 AM
 To: cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu
 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

 Just a heads up. I know I am attracted to ticks, or the other way
 around, but they are still with us. I discovered one on me after a
 walk at Roy Park Preserve last evening.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] K-M shorebird walk, meet MNWR VC 7am Saturday

[Asher Hockett]

I looked at the ABA posts taken from CayugaBirds. Dave Nutter's show header
information and the content appears to be lacking. I doubt this has
anything to do with his posting, but rather something which happens when
ABA lifts the CB data.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Peter psara...@rochester.rr.com wrote:

 Dear folks:

 Perhaps there is a misunderstanding due to the word(s) I used in my
 previous email.
 When I go online to the American Birding Association site and choose the
 Birdingnews tab it populates a list of clubs around the country.
 From that list I choose the New York Cayuga entry and it populates, by
 date, posts that folks have made.
 Whenever I try to choose Dave's post it doesn't show any post one can
 read.all that it shows is a whole bunch of unintelligible
 technical-looking words (hence my use of the word computereeze.
 And I am not alone in this problem...a number of others have told me
 they are in the same predicament.
 I'm sure it is nothing Dave is doing on purpose...perhaps there is
 some glitch with his posts. I do not experience this problem with any other
 posts on the site other than Dave's.
 I hope that clarifies the issue for all, and apologize if I caused
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[cayugabirds-l] Danby sector Christmas Bird Counters wanted

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This is my annual appeal for volunteers to help in the Danby sector of the
upcoming 116th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count.

If you are available on New Year's Day and would like to participate in
Danby, please respond to my email: veery...@gmail.com or call me @
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Birders of all experience levels are welcome. The more the merrier.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] CBC Owl Prowl

[Asher Hockett]

John,

Being that's Danby and you added your numbers to our sector count last
year, I not only encourage you to repeat, I will meet you there. I usually
go there a bit later, but as they say, no sacrifice is too small.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:40 PM, John Confer  wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> For a couple decades, I tried a Cayuga Bird Club Christmas Bird Count
> owl prowl (That would be CBC CBC OP) in the higher elevations around
> Hammond Hill on 1 Jan. The results were usually not very good and sometimes
> even dismal and always cold!
>
> Last year I picked an area that is about 1000 ft lower, and 3-7
> degrees warmer, and with considerable less snow cover, all features that I
> guess make it better for owl survival. I tried owling in the area of lower
> Buttermilk Falls SP, Stone Quarry and Sandbank Rds, Land Trust Preserve at
> Lick Brook, Ithaca Beer Drive, lower Treman S.P. and  in the area along Rt
> 34 near the soccer fields and lower Buttermilk Falls SP, and along parts of
> Rt 13A = Floral Ave.
>
> I worked up a very productive route: 17 stops for 12 screech and 1
> great horned.  That is a hustle since it works out to be about 6 minutes
> audio playing per stop and 4 minutes drive between stops starting at 4:00.
>
> If this is the backyard of anyone who is going to try owling, please
> let me know and we can work something out. Don't worry, there are more
> potential stops than there is time.
>
>Otherwise, I would like try the same area again.
>
> My hearing is not as good as it once was. I'm sure I miss some owls
> because I did hear a couple that were just at the very limit of my hearing,
> and I know others can hear better than I.
>
>
>
> * I would love to have someone with young ears join me at Buttermilk Falls
> at the parking lot adjacent to King Rd. at 4:00 AM, Jan 1. Good birding, *John
> Confer
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] CBC Owl Prowl

[Asher Hockett]

I forget to add that my hearing is also compromised  Can two birders with
bad hearing hear more than !?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:40 PM, John Confer  wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> For a couple decades, I tried a Cayuga Bird Club Christmas Bird Count
> owl prowl (That would be CBC CBC OP) in the higher elevations around
> Hammond Hill on 1 Jan. The results were usually not very good and sometimes
> even dismal and always cold!
>
> Last year I picked an area that is about 1000 ft lower, and 3-7
> degrees warmer, and with considerable less snow cover, all features that I
> guess make it better for owl survival. I tried owling in the area of lower
> Buttermilk Falls SP, Stone Quarry and Sandbank Rds, Land Trust Preserve at
> Lick Brook, Ithaca Beer Drive, lower Treman S.P. and  in the area along Rt
> 34 near the soccer fields and lower Buttermilk Falls SP, and along parts of
> Rt 13A = Floral Ave.
>
> I worked up a very productive route: 17 stops for 12 screech and 1
> great horned.  That is a hustle since it works out to be about 6 minutes
> audio playing per stop and 4 minutes drive between stops starting at 4:00.
>
> If this is the backyard of anyone who is going to try owling, please
> let me know and we can work something out. Don't worry, there are more
> potential stops than there is time.
>
>Otherwise, I would like try the same area again.
>
> My hearing is not as good as it once was. I'm sure I miss some owls
> because I did hear a couple that were just at the very limit of my hearing,
> and I know others can hear better than I.
>
>
>
> * I would love to have someone with young ears join me at Buttermilk Falls
> at the parking lot adjacent to King Rd. at 4:00 AM, Jan 1. Good birding, *John
> Confer
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Silent Fireworks for City of Ithaca and campuses?

[Asher Hockett]

Absolutely!!

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Sandy Wold  wrote:

> Would anyone support asking our City/town and local colleges to go with
> silent fireworks such as in this town in Italy?
>
>
> http://travel.excite.co.uk/town-in-italy-starts-using-silent-fireworks-as-a-way-of-respecting-their-animals-N52632.html?utm_source=fb_medium=ed_campaign=Facebook%3A+ExciteUK
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[cayugabirds-l] Pine Siskins

[Asher Hockett]

Our niger sock saw several Pine Siskins this weekend, where the goldfinches
have been regular partakers. I wouldn't have noticed had one not sat facing
me on the  deck railing and its streaky breast caught my eye.

And the wife says she saw a small bird with a red crest, and some Cedar
Waxwings. Not having seen a RC Kinglet at a feeder before I am not sure
what transpired for her.

Our neighborhood Ravens are talking a lot!

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] NOW they show.

[Asher Hockett]

Tree Sparrows winter as for south as the northern part of southern states
like Texas and Alabama, so the bird your saw today may be on its way back
to the northern tundra border where they breed. Or it might have been here
all winter and is just waiting for the right conditions to head north. Too
bad they don't talk!

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Bill Mcaneny  wrote:

> Within the last 10 minutes, while looking out my kitchen window, I saw one
> Tree Sparrow, one WB Nuthatch, and three Ravens. Why is this notable?  We
> did FeederWatch Sunday and Monday and saw NONE of these birds!
>
>
>
> Actually, the Tree Sparrow was a surprise.  Haven’t seen any here for a
> week or more.  Are any more still around?
>
>
>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Etna: House Wren

[Asher Hockett]

I heard a House Wren downtown Friday, on W Buffalo St,

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes <
c...@cornell.edu> wrote:

> Did anyone else notice if House Wren arrived in their neighborhood today?
> One has been bubbling away in our yard all morning, bouncing from territory
> edge to territory edge.
>
> Nice to hear them back.
>
> Good birding!
>
> Sincerely,
> Chris T-H
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[cayugabirds-l] new visitors!

[Asher Hockett]

Yesterday I spent the day at home adding feeding stations. We had a
beautiful Yellow-rumped Warbler eating suet scraps from the deck railing -
he had the brightest and most distinct yellow crown I have ever seen on a
Y-r, not fuzzy at all like Sibley's. The male R-b Grosbeak was parked
alternately at the suet and new mixed seed feeder tray. Both goldfinches
and siskins at the nyger socks, and the usual gang of woodpeckers,
chickadees and nuthatches.

I erected a new pole in the garden with a big black oil sunflower seed
feeder on it. We haven't had a ground level pole since we moved to S Danby
Rd for fear of bears. This morning I found the pole uprooted and on its
side about ten feet from where it had stood, seed feeder empty and nyger
sock ripped up. I think a strong raccoon could have pushed it over with the
gravitational help of the heavy seed feeder, but I doubt that it would have
been dragged so far out of position, so I am guessing we might have a bear.
Tonight in better light I will examine the area for signs. I may re-erect
the pole and try to stay up to see who visits.

Our seed is in tight-lidded galvanized trash cans on the second story deck.
I am a bit concerned that we may be inviting disaster - stairs aren't a big
obstacle.

As much as I'd love to see a bear here, I would rather not.

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[cayugabirds-l] R-b Grosbeak

[Asher Hockett]

The Raven dominated my brain so much that I forgot to mention we also had
our first R-b Grosbeak on Saturday. Nyger socks now shared by goldfinches
and Pine Siskins.

Hummingbird feeders up for nearly two weeks now, but no sign of them.

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[cayugabirds-l] Red Breasted Nuthatches

[Asher Hockett]

Carol's post reminded me that we have had RB Nuthatches visiting our feeder
for most of the summer. Lately it's been two (at least) at a time. These
birds are not flustered in the slightest by my presence near the feeders.
We take them down every night to discourage raccoon visits, and the
nuthatches and chickadees will keep coming for seed even as I am taking the
feeders off the hooks.

My guess is that the RB's like the Hemlock Forest we live in, as they were
a rarity at Comfort Rd only 4 miles away, where we were on the edge of a
mixed hardwood forest with a meadow adjoining.

We also still have Purple Finches and RB Grosbeaks daily, as well as the
usual suspects including the audible local Ravens and Red-shouldered Hawks

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ID help? Whistling at night

[Asher Hockett]

I heard twice a descending call this morning, lower pitched and coarser
than what I associate with E. Screech Owl. It seem to definitely be an owl
- it was still dark with only a few peeps and chirps from other
birds/frogs/insects - and the descending pattern was like that of the E.
SO.  Trying out by youthful voices, I'd guess.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Eva Smith  wrote:

> Thanks to all the feedback and comments. Since the bird was perched rather
> than a flyover, seems like the best fit is a Eastern Screech Owl making (to
> me) an unusual version of its call.
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Jeff Poulin 
> wrote:
>
>> Screech owls whinnying now and the last couple of nights at my house in
>> Endicott.  I haven’t heard them in months.
>>
>>
>>
>> -jeff
>> *-*
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>>
>> *From:* bounce-120816812-14247...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:
>> bounce-120816812-14247...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *Geo Kloppel
>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:03 PM
>>
>> *Cc:* CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] ID help? Whistling at night
>>
>>
>>
>> Night before last, I heard several ascending whistle calls, right outside
>> my door. The local Barred Owls responded with typical hooting, so I think
>> the whistles were (still begging?) calls from their immature youngsters.
>>
>> -Geo
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Marty Schlabach  wrote:
>>
>> I also last night heard a sound right outside of my bedroom window that I
>> didn’t recognize at first.  But, a bit later from the same tree came the
>> more typical screech owl whinny, so am pretty sure it was the same bird.
>> --Marty
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* bounce-120815972-3494...@list.cornell.edu [
>> mailto:bounce-120815972-3494...@list.cornell.edu
>> ] *On Behalf Of *Chris R.
>> Pelkie
>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:19 AM
>> *To:* Eva Smith 
>> *Cc:* CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] ID help? Whistling at night
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ll defer to the experts but would not rule out Screech-owl. I’ve heard
>> that also: clear descending rather than whinny descending but followed by
>> other EASO distinct sounds, so concluded it was the same bird. I’ve been
>> hearing EASO loud whinnies just in the last couple of weeks, first time
>> this year, so I guess I have a male imoving around checking out the
>> territory or advertising once again.
>>
>>
>>
>> ChrisP
>>
>> __
>>
>> Chris Pelkie
>> Information/Data Manager, Application Systems Analyst
>> Bioacoustics Research Program
>> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
>> 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
>> Ithaca, NY 14850
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2016, at 08:32, Eva Smith  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope it's ok to ask for ID help here. Between Sibley and the Lab of O's
>> bird call recordings, I haven't been able to get a decent ID on a bird
>> heard last night.
>>
>>
>>
>> The call was a long (1-2 s) descending *clear* whistle (not a whinny
>> like a typical Eastern Screech Owl), starting on a high note and ending
>> quite low. It was repeated 3-4 times and then followed by a repeated
>> whistle on a single, high note. The timbre was similar to a saw-whet owl,
>> but the tempo was different.
>>
>>
>>
>> It was heard at 1 AM at the border between a field and scrubby forest.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl - Not

[Asher Hockett]

I remember after moving to Danby in 2000 that I mistook the now-deceased
white Red-tail for a Snowy. I had to go home for bins and go back to
discover my error. That bird was whiter than any Snowy I have ever seen. I
saw it so often I felt like we were connected.

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> Just a little clarification.  Seeing this bird at a distance without
> binocs could leave the manager of the farm (a non-birder) with the
> impression that this was indeed a Snowy Owl.  This is especially so, since
> Snowys have shown up on the farm on rare occasions.  I did suggest to him
> that it might be an "albino" Red-tail, but he was reasonably certain in his
> mind that he was seeing a Snowy.  Thus my report to Cayugabirds, and Sara
> Jane's rare bird alert.
>
> I thought this was much too early, but I don't know the earliest first
> arrival date in the fall/early winter of Snowy in the basin.  However, I do
> have a vague recollection of Snowys being seen as early as November.
>
> Larry
>
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[cayugabirds-l] Christmas Bird Count in Danby

[Asher Hockett]

Listers:

Several of the folks who counted birds for Danby last year and the year
before will not be able to participate this year, so this is an appeal for
folks to join us in Danby on Jan 1st. This coming Saturday we will he
hosting a count warm-up session for those interested. Attendance Saturday
is not required to join in the count on New Years Day, so if you can help
during the count please let me know.

Here is our official notice from the Danby Area News:

*Time to Count Birds Again*

*The 117th Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is fast approaching and the
Ithaca CBC will be on January 1 as usual. Danby resident Asher Hockett
coordinates the Danby section of the CBC.*

*The Danby Community Council will be hosting an informational meeting about
the count at Town Hall on Saturday, December 17, at 10am. Asher will
present an overview of the CBC for the first-time participants, and then
we'll review the species found last year and begin planning for the January
1, 2017 count.*

*All bird identification skills welcome; hot beverages and homemade apple
fritters will be served! After the meeting we will go birdwatching around
Town Hall and Dotson Park until at least Noon.*

*For more information about the December 17 event, contact me,
[wev...@danbycc.org <wev...@danbycc.org>]. Contact Asher
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon

[Asher Hockett]

And the photo from Thorpe Rd is? I am confused because it seems very white,
where it isn't spotted, and not gray at all.

Asher not-very-experienced-with Gyrfalcons

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Kevin J. McGowan  wrote:

> I believe that is true.
>
> Kevin
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John and Sue Gregoire [mailto:k...@empacc.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 2:45 PM
> To: Kevin J. McGowan 
> Cc: Caroline Manring ; CAYUGABIRDS-L <
> cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
> Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon
>
> What color phase is the landfill Gyr? Thought it was a gray.
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> 5373 Fitzgerald Road
> Burdett,NY 14818-9626
> N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492'
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> "Conserve and Create Habitat"
>
> On Thu, January 5, 2017 13:42, Kevin J. McGowan wrote:
> > Check the legs for jesses. They use a Gyrfalcon to keep gulls away
> > from the landfill over on Rt 414.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: bounce-121125912-3493...@list.cornell.edu
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> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 1:32 PM
> > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
> > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon
> >
> > Here now, 1:30-- no snowies to be seen but several good long looks at
> > a Gyrfalcon on both sides of the road, both on ground and on telephone
> pole!
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon

[Asher Hockett]

So it is a gray phase, but is not the gray landfill agent, if I read this
correctly.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Kevin J. McGowan <k...@cornell.edu> wrote:

> Gyrfalcons come in a variety of colors, from nearly pure, Snowy Owl white
> with scattered dark feather edging, to nearly all sooty black, usually with
> some light streaking and spotting on the chest and belly. David's bird fits
> cleanly in the middle, with dusky gray back and face and mostly pale
> underside. That is what is currently known as "gray," and is the most
> common form to reach our area. In fact, I've personally never seen anything
> except Gyrfalcons colored like this.
>
>
> I hope it sticks around.
>
>
> Kevin
>
>
> --
> *From:* John and Sue Gregoire <k...@empacc.net>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 6, 2017 7:23 AM
> *To:* Asher Hockett
> *Cc:* Kevin J. McGowan; k...@empacc.net; Caroline Manring; CAYUGABIRDS-L
> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon
>
> Dorsal appearance plays in that call Asher, and I believe from Dave K's
> photo that
> this is a dark phase. All three appear light on the ventral side with the
> beautiful
> white gyr a real eye stopper.
>
> Many years ago (late 70s I think) we enjoyed all three at one time at a
> quarry in SE
> Pennsylvania. Caravans of birders racing through Amish country was
> something the
> locals surely still talk about.
>
> We also remembered one (I think it was a gray) here up at Canoga marsh
> back around
> the time when Andy Farnsworth was a student here and several members of
> the bird
> club were able to see it hunt. Andy's sharp eyes spotted it while the rest
> of us
> stared at blank sky for quite awhile.
>
> John
>
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> N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492'
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> <http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/>
> Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory Burdett New York
> <http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/>
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> Connected with the Finger Lakes National Forest and a large hemlock
> wetland, this 60-acre sanctuary is known as Kestrel Haven Avian Migration
> ...
>
> "Conserve and Create Habitat"
>
> On Thu, January 5, 2017 15:58, Asher Hockett wrote:
> > And the photo from Thorpe Rd is? I am confused because it seems very
> white,
> > where it isn't spotted, and not gray at all.
> >
> > Asher not-very-experienced-with Gyrfalcons
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Kevin J. McGowan <k...@cornell.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I believe that is true.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: John and Sue Gregoire [mailto:k...@empacc.net <k...@empacc.net>]
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 2:45 PM
> >> To: Kevin J. McGowan <k...@cornell.edu>
> >> Cc: Caroline Manring <carolinemanr...@gmail.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L <
> >> cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
> >> Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon
> >>
> >> What color phase is the landfill Gyr? Thought it was a gray.
> >> --
> >> John and Sue Gregoire
> >> Field Ornithologists
> >> Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory
> >> 5373 Fitzgerald Road
> >> Burdett,NY 14818-9626
> >> N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492'
> >>  Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/
> >> "Conserve and Create Habitat"
> >>
> >> On Thu, January 5, 2017 13:42, Kevin J. McGowan wrote:
> >> > Check the legs for jesses. They use a Gyrfalcon to keep gulls away
> >> > from the landfill over on Rt 414.
> >> >
> >> > Kevin
> >> >
> >> > -Original Message-
> >> > From: bounce-121125912-3493...@list.cornell.edu
> >> > [mailto:bounce-121125912-3493...@list.cornell.edu
> <bounce-121125912-3493...@list.cornell.edu>] On Behalf Of
> >> > Caroline Manring
> >> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2017 1:32 PM
> >> > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
> >> > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon
> >> >
> >> > Here now, 1:30-- no snowies to be seen but several good long looks at
> >> > a Gyrfalcon on both sides of the road, both on ground and on telephone
> >> pole!
> >> >
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Beebe Lake Northern Pintail

[Asher Hockett]

That seems like a very unusual spot for that bird.

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Karen Steffy  wrote:

> There is currently (2:30 pm) a Northern Pintail wading in the shallow area
> on the left of the falls/dam on Beebe lake (Cornell University).
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[Asher Hockett]

Hi Matt,

Yes, I think that is very likely, and I probably mis-id'ed this bird. I did
not note the bold markings typical of the female R-b Grosbeak. In my haste
to pin it down I eliminated the House FInch and completely lapsed on the
Purple Finch.

Asher

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Matthew Medler <m...@cornell.edu> wrote:

> Asher,
>
> Is there any chance that the bird you saw this morning might have been a
> similar-looking female Purple Finch? Purple Finch is a classic early April
> migrant here in the Ithaca area, whereas Rose-breasted Grosbeaks typically
> arrive back here in late April or early May. This eBird map for
> Rose-breasted Grosbeak for Mar-Apr 2017 shows that the vast majority of
> records are from Central America:
>
> http://ebird.org/ebird/map/robgro?neg=true=-141.
> 8379045924362=8.949898346376457=-29.
> 33790459243619=52.11981561533453=true=
> true=Z=3-5=3=5=cur=2017=2017
>
> Here's the corresponding Purple Finch map:
>
> http://ebird.org/ebird/map/purfin?neg=true=-141.
> 8379045924362=8.949898346376457=-29.
> 33790459243619=52.11981561533453=true=
> true=Z=3-5=3=5=cur=2017=2017
>
> Good birding,
> Matt Medler
> Ithaca
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> *To:* CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 2, 2017 10:28 AM
> *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak
>
> This morning at our feeders on South Danby Rd, a female Rose-breasted
> Grosbeak. Still not quite sure if in basin. Our drainage goes into Miller
> Creek, and i'm pretty sure into Cayuga Lake.
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[cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[Asher Hockett]

This morning at our feeders on South Danby Rd, a female Rose-breasted
Grosbeak. Still not quite sure if in basin. Our drainage goes into Miller
Creek, and i'm pretty sure into Cayuga Lake.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

[Asher Hockett]

Yep, as confirmed by Geo K. I asked her to fly a bit north.
Asher

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote:

> Very cool bird! As far as I can tell, Miller Creek drains south, and South
> Danby Road is outside the Cayuga Lake Basin. It's exciting to hear what
> birds are just beyond and contemplating migrating beyond the next set of
> hills or through the next saddle as they make their way north.
> --Dave Nutter
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Asher Hockett <veery...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This morning at our feeders on South Danby Rd, a female Rose-breasted
> Grosbeak. Still not quite sure if in basin. Our drainage goes into Miller
> Creek, and i'm pretty sure into Cayuga Lake.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] EBBA 2017 Meeting Highlights

[Asher Hockett]

Thanks, Sandy, for the great report. Sounds like a really worthwhile event.

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Sandy Wold  wrote:

> I'm not a bird bander (yet), but I went to the recent 2017 meeting anyway
> to learn more about it and see if I would want to do the training.   I was
> impressed by the passion and comradry of this group and left with a great
> appreciation for all the people who put in tens of thousands of hours
> laying the foundation of what seems to be our modern day "citizen science."
>  A few of these members had recently passed, and they were honored as were
> living members who made huge contributions.
>
> The speakers list was rich and varied and intense at times with
> back-to-back presentations (4-5 in the morning 4-5 in the afternoon).  Most
> presenters seemed to be leaders of bird banding stations and were sharing
> innovations in banding technique and/or interesting observations or how
> they solved different challenges.
>
> One of the presenters was a couple from the Westchester county who
> described all of the places a saw-whet owl would sleep or hunt.  It was
> fascinating because it would spend a lot of time in places you would not
> expect:  behind a large shopping plaza parking lot, crossing four lane
> expressways nightly, clusters of 3-5 tall evergreen trees, and down in
> tangles where it would wait for a mouse.  I loved seeing how they paid
> attention to the type of tree the bird preferred and percent of time found
> in that tree or perched low on a tangle where there was nothing growing
> making for easy hunting
>
> Another highlight was hearing about the conservation efforts of a Lab of O
> student (Santos) and his work/results tagging a very large Chilean
> woodpecker.  He shared a lot of data and video footage...even footage of a
> woodpecker murdering (yes, murdering) another woodpecker of its own species
> and how those woodpecker manage their territories and locating their
> territories.
>
> I have misplaced my notes from the meeting, but I hope that gives you a
> sense of the meeting.  If you are interested, next year's meeting will be
> in June 2018  in Acadia!  Accommodations sound very affordable, and the
> food there is excellent!
>
>  I have an extra copy of the October to December 2016 North American Bird
> Bander peer-reviewed journal if anyone wants it.  I can bring it to the
> next Monday meeting or arrange for a downtown pick up.
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