[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Palm Warbler

[Caroline Manring]

Some Highlights from Sapsucker today included WINTER WREN (East trail),
CAROLINA WREN (northeast side of the pond), YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (near the
90 degree bend in Sapsucker Woods Road), and PALM WARBLER (same place). Also
lots of RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS and two very busy YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS
(serious excavation going on).

(Kevin, I met you on the trail today, and you told me about your son's Palm
Warbler, and fifteen minutes later I blundered right onto it! Nice to meet
you, btw :)

Caroline Manring
Downtown Ithaca, apartment the size of a small sailboat.

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[cayugabirds-l] Cerulean warbler?

[Caroline Manring]

I thought I was hearing a Cerulean warbler in the woods at Stewart Park
today. Is this a place they're known to be?

Caroline Manring

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[cayugabirds-l] Tree-nesting Mallards

[Caroline Manring]

We were walking at Stewart Park, and saw a Mallard couple making a fuss,
circling around a lawn area and landing, then taking off and circling again,
agitating and vocalizing.

We watched for awhile and then heard peeping near a tree. We assumed there
was a duckling in the scrubby growth around the base of the tree somehow
caught or injured, so we looked, but found nothing, and it began to dawn on
us that the peeping was coming from up in the tree.

I combed my overheated brain for an explanation, and it thought maybe a hawk
or crow had made off with the duckling and then dropped it by chance into
the crotch of a tree while being chased by another bird.

Well, there was indeed a Mallard couple's duckling up in the tree, but it
hadn't been dropped there by a predator. There were at least three other
offspring, all in a nest about twenty feet up, which the female finally
landed near and waddled onto, presumably after deciding we didn't pose an
immediate threat.

Then she flew down and circled the tree on foot, vocalizing. Suddenly, a
duckling came tumbling out of the tree, bounced alarmingly high off the
ground after it hit, rolled a little, and then got up and proceeded to
follow mom back and forth in front of the tree as she vocalized to the rest
of the brood. The tree rained ducklings at intervals until three were
following her as she paced. She gave the fourth duckling extra time but
couldn't persuade it, so she headed into the pond with the three ducklings
she had managed to collect, and was joined there by the male.

I'd never heard of Mallards nesting in trees before, but there they were. It
seems they found a suitable solution to the problem of nesting in a park
with lots of foot and dog traffic.

Caroline Manring
Ithaca

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Count week starts Wed 29 Dec, so note any unusual birds

[Caroline Manring]

There was a Field Sparrow at the Lab of O bird garden this afternoon mingled
with a large group of American Tree Sparrows on the open ground. Anyone
who's at Sapsucker should check for him tomorrow and the rest of count week!

Caroline Manring
Ithaca

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:

 The Ithaca Christmas Bird Count will be on New Year's Day as usual,
 but the three days before and after the count day comprise the count week.

 Any species found starting Wednesday 29 December through Tuesday 4
 January will still count toward our total even if it is missed on count
 day.
 So please post to the list any unusual species found within the count
 circle.

 Good examples would be out-of-season birds such as the Red-winged Blackbird

 at Stephanie's feeder if it shows up again, uncommon birds such as Pine
 Siskins,
 or just plain rarities such as the King Eider.  For that matter, now that
 duck-hunting
 has begun, take note of all less-common waterfowl species.  As of a few
 days
 ago there were at least 17 species of waterfowl on the south end of the
 lake,
 but most were in small numbers and may now be hard to find if they survive
 here.

 As another guide for what sort of birds are especially worth noting,
 last year these species were only found during count week:

 Northern Pintail, Ring-necked Duck, White-winged Scoter,
 Ring-necked Pheasant, Bald Eagle, Red-winged Blackbird,
 Common Grackle;

 and these species had a single easy-to-miss individual found on count day:

 American Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Long-tailed Duck,
 Northern Harrier, Northern Goshawk, Red-shouldered Hawk,
 Merlin, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker,
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Gray Catbird, Ovenbird(!),
 Rose-breasted Grosbeak(!), Rusty Blackbird, Common Redpoll.

 A big benefit from posting uncommon birds over the next 3 days is that it
 may help people track them down on count day.

 Another thing to consider is talking to friends with bird feeders, to see
 if
 they would like to note the highest number of each species they see on
 New Year's Day and the total time they spend watching feeders that day,
 and call the Lab of O at 254-2473 between 4pm  6pm that evening.

 What area are we talking about?  Here's a link to the map:

 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/cayugabirdclub/pdf/CBCMap.pdf.

 It's a standard CBC 15-mile diameter circle, in our case centered on
 Mount Pleasant.  It includes nearly all of the Town of Ithaca (including
 all of the City of Ithaca), much of the Town of Dryden (including most
 of the Village of Dryden), considerable chunks of Danby, Caroline, and
 Lansing, and smaller parts of Groton, Newfield and Ulysses (okay,
 it also includes one side of one road in Enfield), and Cayuga Lake north
 past the Ithaca Yacht Club and Portland Point.

 Here's a brief list of what's IN the circle around the edge:

 On the WEST:

 Garrett Road
 Wilkins Road
 Sheffield Road
 part of Lower Treman Park closest to NYS 13

 On the SOUTH:

 parts of Blakeslee Hill, Town Line, Layen,  Jersey Hill Roads
 Comfort Rd south to Gunderman Rd
 Gunderman Rd east of Comfort Rd
 the hamlet of Danby
 Hornbrook Rd
 most of Steam Mill Rd
 Durfee Hill Rd southeast as far as Howard Rd
 Deputron Hollow Rd
 Belle School Rd plus a bit further south on Coddington  White Church Roads
 parts of Bald Hill School, Leonard, Central Chapel, Chestnut, Old 76,
 Bailor, Buffalo  Harford Rds

 On the EAST:

 Hammond Hill Rd south almost to Harford Rd
 Canaan Rd
 part of Star Stanton Hill Rd
 part of Chaffee Rd
 Keith Lane
 Lake Rd north of Keith Lane
 Village of Dryden except northeast corner
 Mott Rd
 Cady Lane

 On the NORTH:

 part of Red Mill Rd
 Hile School Rd
 part of Ed Hill Rd
 Old Peruville Rd
 Sharpsteen Rd
 Pleasant Valley Rd west of Sharpsteen Rd
 part of Buck Rd to west of Van Ostrand Rd
 southern bit of Conlon Rd
 Portland Point Rd

 ...PLUS all the main roads out to the smaller roads listed above.
 Sorry to bore everyone with that description.  I figured someone might
 see their road or a nearby road on the list and think, Hey, I should keep
 my eyes and ears open around here, and let people know what I found.

 --Dave Nutter


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Owl Prowl

[Caroline Manring]

I'll be listening for the Screech Owl who often visits the lot behind us,
off of Buffalo St.

CM

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Bard Prentiss prenti...@frontiernet.netwrote:

 Gina and I will check for screech owls etc in Dryden Village as we have for
 about 20 years.

 Bard

 Bard Prentiss
 P O Box 283
 Dryden, NY 13053
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[cayugabirds-l] Juncos learn new trick, Lab feeder favs

[Caroline Manring]

The Juncos that have frequented my porch floor under the feeder for a few
years have started coming to the feeder perches! These perches are about
shoulder-height on a hanging cylindrical feeder, two floors up on a back
porch downtown. I was very surprised.

I think it might be because the usual cloud of House Sparrows has departed
for somebody else's porch, and with just a few Chickadees and a Titmouse
left, no one's knocking enough seed down onto the floor for the Juncos
anymore.

I'd never seen Juncos come to a hanging feeder, high up, and perch while
they eat. Anybody else's Juncos doing similar tricks?

Also, my mother's Tree Sparrows in Skaneateles have been perching on and
eating from the suet (also hanging shoulder-height).  It seems these
ground birds have more tricks up their sleeves than I thought.

At the Lab bird garden today, some highlights were PURPLE FINCH female, and
our favorite FIELD SPARROW vagabond. Yesterday a pair of COMMON RAVENS flew
over Sapsucker calling to each other.

Caroline Manring
Ithaca downtown

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Cardinal singing!

[Caroline Manring]

Me, too! A downtown Cardinal song, the first I've noticed this year, this
very morning. It seems they all marked their calendars.

Caroline Manring
Ithaca

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:

 Hey,

 I too heard one when I was waiting for the bus at 6.58 AM. I was just
 thinking at that moment that Cardinals should start singing soon and there
 he goes! May be he had telepathic communication from me.
 Meena

 Meena Haribal
 Boyce Thompson Institute
 Ithaca NY 14850
 Phone 607-254-1258
 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
 http://haribal.org/

 http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf

 -Original Message-
 From: bounce-8044351-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:
 bounce-8044351-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Marie P Read
 Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:48 PM
 To: 'CayugaBirds' [cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu]
 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Cardinal singing!

 From high in a snow-covered tree early this morning came the song of a male
 Northern Cardinal. What a delight!

 Marie




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[cayugabirds-l] Sandpiper Smackdown

[Caroline Manring]

Hello all,

Today at the Lab, at about 10:30am, there were two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS having
an altercation-- stiff wings spread wide, up on their tip-toes, batting and
weaving and going at it with their bills, right on the gravel beach of the
pond.

After one of the sandpipers had been chased into the grass, the one that
remained underwent an attack by a Red-winged Blackbird on the shore-- looked
like the blackbird made some hearty contact, and the sandpiper flew off to
the west. Why would a blackbird have a problem with a sandpiper? Because it
moves?

Other highlights for me were PHILADELPHIA VIREO (no song, but a good look,
over on the first East side of the road pond), WILSON'S WARBLER, lots of
RED-EYED VIREO turf fights, more GRAY CATBIRDS apparent than chickadees (!),
and an up-close encounter with a PILEATED WOODPECKER messing around on the
ground on the East trail. Also one Painted Turtle using the West Trail,
somewhat ineffectually, so I moved him/her off to the side near what looked
like some semi-permanent water (what do the turtles do when most of the
woods except near the pond dry up?) and lots of snakes.

Yesterday was BAY-BREASTED WARBLER day, with a total of eight (two were
female) in and about the spruces on the Wilson Trail. Also a TENNESSEE
WARBLER singing, and lots of BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. Also my first really good
listen to ORCHARD ORIOLES, right in the parking lot.

Where are folks finding the Alder Flycatcher? I'd sure like to hear/see him.
Also any of the other flycatchers, other than Least, which I seem to be able
to find no problem. Tips appreciated.

Happy May! And it is! Pesky leaves, coming with June's onset...

Caroline Manring
Ithaca

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[cayugabirds-l] Goshawk??

[Caroline Manring]

I was just walking on Hopkins road near the Medical Center and a large
raptor went over south to north, leaving a large stand of trees to head for
another, bigger one across a field. I had no binoculars, and it was fairly
far off (at least 300 yards at its closest)
--It appeared very dark (the uncensored thought was almost black!) on top
and light underneath (no discernable belly-band)
--the flight seemed accipiter-like to me (what I noticed most prominently
being the apparently perfectly flat configuration of wings between flaps--
no dihedral whatsoever)
--the flight pattern was three or four quick flaps to a fairly long (2-3x
as long as it took to make the flaps), very straight, pretty fast,
purposeful soar
--the bird read as an accipiter but its tail seemed proportionally short
compared to a Cooper's or a Harrier
--I could detect no white rump patch
--I did *think* I noticed something striking about the head coloration (a
vague wisp of the thought why is an Osprey coming out of a woods-edge?
occurred before I got a look at the shape and flight pattern)
--As it made off without my permission, the last two thoughts I had on its
size and shape were that it seemed much like either the biggest Cooper's
Hawk of all time or the smallest Bald Eagle

Is it possible this bird was a Northern Goshawk? Could someone who has NOGO
experience tell me if these impressions sound familiar? There's not much in
Sibley or any of the other books I have about the flight pattern, and I've
never seen one in flight.

My other thought was maybe I saw a Rough-legged Hawk, which could account
for the size and the high contrast in colors above and below, but I simply
didn't get the impression of a buteo at all.

Thanks,
Caroline Manring
NW Ithaca

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[cayugabirds-l] Bluebird interlopers

[Caroline Manring]

There was a pair of chickadees building a nest in a box on my house that
has a camera in it-- for nine days they worked on it, and the last three
nights one of them has been sleeping in it (presumably the female?).

Now two bluebirds want the real estate. They fussed over and around it
yesterday, sometimes getting whacked in the face by a chickadee torpedo
from inside. Last night, it seemed the chickadees had prevailed, since one
slept in the box. Today, so far, the bluebirds seem to be meeting no
resistance from within or without, and often get in the box together and
vocalize.

My grandmother had the exact same thing happen in her nestbox cam last year
with the same two species. In her case, the bluebirds won and the
chickadees moved into a nearby box.

Are bluebirds generally opportunistic?

What will the chickadees do with whatever egg is brewing in the female if
the bluebirds win? It took them nine days to make their first nest...

Caroline Manring
West Hill, Ithaca

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[cayugabirds-l] Cape May Warbler and Clay-colored Sparrow

[Caroline Manring]

Two new species for our West Hill yard, in/under same tree!

Caroline Manring
Ithaca

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[cayugabirds-l] Union Springs Eastern Screech-Owl?

[Caroline Manring]

Has anyone seen a screech-owl in the Union Springs box lately? I'm taking
students on a field trip and passing through there, and am trying to scout
out our chances.

Thanks,

Caroline Manring
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[cayugabirds-l] field trip recommendations?

[Caroline Manring]

Bird enthusiasts,
I'm taking a portion of a class on a birding field trip on Monday morning
to early afternoon, rain or shine. Any recommendations for good locations
and target species this time of year much appreciated. (Anyone seen the
Screech-Owl in Union Springs? What locations at Montezuma are good right
now / is wildlife drive open?)
Thanks,
Caroline
Ithaca

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[cayugabirds-l] White-crowned Sparrow

[Caroline Manring]

At our feeder today, West Hill. A new one for us!

Caroline
Ithaca

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carcass identification-murder most foul

[Caroline Manring]

Has anyone made the revision of Murder most fowl yet? Sorry, sorry, I
know.

--English prof who can't help herself
(Caroline)


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:

  Dave, 

 I guess you have to prove that it was alive in 2013. So need to do
 accurate time of death on this bird even to count for the count week.

 ** **

 Meena 

 ** **

 *From:* bounce-72555400-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:
 bounce-72555400-3493...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *
 nutter.d...@me.com
 *Sent:* Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:16 PM
 *To:* CAYUGABIRDS-L
 *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carcase identification-murder most foul

 ** **

 I meant 2013. Even typing I'm not used to the new year.

 --Dave Nutter


 On Jan 03, 2013, at 01:15 PM, nutter.d...@me.com wrote:

  From this should we assume that there was a live Wood Duck in the count
 circle during count week or in the basin in 2012? 

 --Dave Nutter


 On Jan 03, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Kevin J. McGowan k...@cornell.edu wrote:
 

  That’s a Wood Duck.  Note the yellowish, webbed feet, the shiny patch on
 the top of the wing with a small white line on the feathers below it, the
 tuft of red and yellow near the rump, and, as Ryan pointed out, the
 intricately barred flank feather.  Nothing else has those.  Looks like it
 had bumble foot on its right foot, or is that some kind of object?

  

 We did not have Wood Duck on the Ithaca Christmas Count on Tuesday!

  

  

 Kevin

  

 *From:* bounce-72554624-3493...@list.cornell.edu [
 mailto:bounce-72554624-3493...@list.cornell.edubounce-72554624-3493...@list.cornell.edu]
 *On Behalf Of *Tobias Dean
 *Sent:* Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:39 AM
 *To:* CAYUGABIRDS-L
 *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Carcase identification-murder most foul

  

 Yesterday I found this mostly consumed corpse in the ditch very close to
 our house on South Hill. I can guess at an identification but I am sure the
 group will know.  I saw crow or raven tracks around it in the snow but
 could it have been a car strike or a larger hawk?

  Also, would the Lab of O be interested in this if most of it is
 gone?


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[cayugabirds-l] Cape May Warbler

[Caroline Manring]

...singing at my house on West Hill!!

(in the pines-- same place as last year)

Caroline
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cardinal song?

[Caroline Manring]

I've also heard White-crowned Sparrows do roughly these intervals.


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 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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[cayugabirds-l] Avian irony

[Caroline Manring]

The Brown Thrasher out back now imitates my parrot's alarm call very
nicely. You can imagine how surprised I was to hear Jim suddenly being
angsty right next to me all the way back in the woods.

Caroline
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[cayugabirds-l] Northern Bobwhite (!)

[Caroline Manring]

...calling outside my house up past the hospital. At first I thought it was
a recording it was so clear and loud, that someone was putting me on. But
it moved slowly to the northwest, calling intermittently.



Sadly, I did not see it. By the time I retrieved my binocs, it was already
moving away.

If any of you is out there playing recordings in my yard, that's not nice.

Would someone explain to me what this bird might be doing here?

Caroline
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[cayugabirds-l] Screech-Owl red morph on side of road

[Caroline Manring]

Driving down 96 into town today, there was a suspiciously rusty-colored
snowball on the shoulder. I pulled over and walked back, and sure enough,
there was a red morph Eastern Screech-Owl. It was alive but looking poorly.

By the time I got my coat off to get my sweater off so I had something to
confine it in on the way to the vet, it had started opening its eyes and
looking rather horrified with its predicament. When I bent down to it, it
flew up in that hover-y silent way, though a bit clumsily, and made it over
traffic into some nearby trees. It was likely still addled-- it made an
indecisive landing.

I can't help but think it was a very hungry or even starving bird, with all
this snow to contend with, and now it will have to try to hunt with a
concussion and/or whatever other injuries it might have sustained.

It makes me want to hang mice on a tree in our yard instead of Easter eggs.

Caroline Manring
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[cayugabirds-l] ID input appreciated-- fake Purple Finches...

[Caroline Manring]

Hi bird detectives,

I had two what-I-thought-were-purple-finches this morning, just by
passively listening to their background soundtrack, though then I noticed
they were consistently doing a pretty short version of a song for a PUFI,
and it was a little bit sharper/tinnier sounding (not as syrupy sweet toned
as what I think of as PUFI song), and more tightly organized-- almost no
variation. They flew over together, briefly pausing on a branch directly
above my head. I got binocs on one for about a second and all I got was
clearly streaked flanks on a light belly. No magenta whatsoever. Didn't get
a view of the bill.

So.

Are Fox Sparrow or Lincoln's Sparrow possibilities? I don't know anything
about their migration timing. The habitat here is heartily mixed, lots of
scrub and lots of open space and also mature woods.

Any input, however speculative, would be fun.

Thanks,

Caroline
West Hill, Ithaca

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[cayugabirds-l] The world is finally awake again!

[Caroline Manring]

FINALLY our favorite compatriots are returning. It has been a slow
resurgence here on West Hill, but today brought RED-EYED VIREO, SCARLET
TANAGER, and INDIGO BUNTING back into our yard-lives. Makes tackling the
gardens almost bearable.

The big treat today though is a very vociferous TENNESSEE WARBLER singing
from the low, heavy-blossomed apple tree branches.

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[cayugabirds-l] Yellow Warbler

[Caroline Manring]

Just outside my window on West Hill. How nice on a grey day!

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[cayugabirds-l] West Hill migrants cont'd

[Caroline Manring]

Very birdy in and above our yard today.

Of note:

--tragedy struck three to four half-cooked EASTERN BLUEBIRD babies in the
night; the nest is empty. Anyone wish to hazard a theory? The box has a
good baffle on its post and isn't reachable via nearby structure or tree.
Shall we suspect other birds, then? In the area are nesting HOUSE WRENS,
one other male EABL at least, nesting TREE SWALLOWS, and, perhaps
regrettably, nesting HOUSE SPARROWS. No bodies or body parts were to be
found. If anyone has information leading to the arrest of any of these
species, please contact me directly. Happily, the bluebird family seems to
be starting over in a different box. Watch this space for future tragic
updates. Can I just say SPRING IS A GRISLY, BRUTAL TIME?

--the TREE SWALLOWS who have built a nest in a box mounted on the corner
post of our hobby vineyard fence could not care less that there is lots of
human activity in the vineyard. They're docile and ballsy, true to what
I've known of them to heretofore. Either that or they're savvy to the
meaning of my husband having earbuds in: "dude, I'm busy. Chill."

--surprisingly, the highlight of the day was two BLUE JAYS preening and
feeding each other quite tenderly, it would appear, their standing as basic
(albeit smart and entertaining) thugs in my opinion notwithstanding.

--the BALTIMORE ORIOLES have moved on to orange slices, suet now apparently
being *so *yesterday*.* I sliced open a blood orange, not knowing that's
what it was, and put it out anyway, wondering if they'd care--and then
later wondering, too late, whether I was killing orioles unwittingly--but
they didn't discern, or if they did, they did not file a complaint. Someone
please tell me if I should never do that again, if there's some compound in
blood oranges that makes orioles explode or something.

That's the dispatch from West Hill for now. Condolences on having read this
far.

Caroline

PS Should anyone wish to know, the woodpile belongs to GRAY CATBIRD "A",
and *not* Gray Catbird "B," and this has been made VERY clear via much
fluffing and pumping and hopping and the quintessential embodiment of
abject outrage, at least from where I was sitting.

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[cayugabirds-l] The Problem of the Egg

[Caroline Manring]

Here's a blog entry I've just done that covers an issue I brought up awhile
ago about disappearing bluebirds:

http://www.carolinemanring.com/the-problem-of-the-egg/

Cayugabirds-l makes an appearance!

Cheers,

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West Hill

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks moving tonight

[Caroline Manring]

I just had two go over my house on West Hill!

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Gary Kohlenberg  wrote:

> Menachem Goldstein just reported 3 Common Nighthawks over Cornell's Jessup
> field and I have one flying over my house now at 8pm.
> Cooler weather has at least some birds moving :)
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[cayugabirds-l] Broad-winged Hawks out and about

[Caroline Manring]

I've had two in the past week-- one last week circling over downtown
Watkins Glen (seen), and one today at Shindagin Hollow (heard-- yay!).

Caroline
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[cayugabirds-l] Thorpe road Gyrfalcon

[Caroline Manring]

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!

Caroline

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[cayugabirds-l] Cape May Warbler

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In my pine trees on west hill!

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[cayugabirds-l] Baby nuthatch at greenstar parking lot

[Caroline Manring]

There is a recent fledgling white breasted nuthatch in the hanging plant 
outdoor area at greenstar dodging cars and feet. I have twin infants in my car 
and have to get home but if anyone is rehab-minded or could search for a safer 
place to deposit it nearby I’m sure the little guy/gal would appreciate it. 
It’s making little frog like noises. Likely not safe from cars or well-meaning 
humans who want a pet.

Caroline 

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