[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant, migrants, 10/10/09
I watched for migrants on the tower side of Mt. Pleasant from 1245 till 1515 (starting just as sky began to clear). Wind = NW (strongish) Monarch butterfly = 5 Canada geese = 66 (3 flocks) Sharp-shinned Hawk = 3 Bald eagle = 1 (adult) Kestrel = 2 Peregrine falcon = 1 (juv.) N. Harrier = 1 Turkey vulture = 136 (one kettle of 75) Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Stray GBHeron
Nari, This is about the time when great blue herons abandon somewhat their traditional frog hunting, as the frogs are headed into the mud. I saw 2 GBH yesterday foraging in hay fields. They are after Microtus p.(a vole). A couple years ago we had a juvenile that spent much of 3-4 days hunting in the tall grass about 40' from our house. There are always some GBH that will hang around until they absolutely have to leave, and then a few winter over near the big lakes. Steve -Original Message- From: bounce-4437663-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-4437663-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Nariman Mistry Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:24 AM To: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stray GBHeron At about 9:45am this morning I noticed an (immature?) GBHERON foraging in the field at the SW corner of GameFarm Rd and Rte 366 intersection. This seems a little out-of-place and late in the season! On another note, yesterday we heard the loud cheery songs of a CAROLINA WREN once more in our yard and I came upon a pair hiding behind our shed. Hope they stay around and come to our suet feeders all winter. Nari Mistry -- Nari B. Mistry, Ithaca, New York For my paintings, see http://www.artbynari.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Weekend birds: Fox sparrow; R.-l. hawk, goshawks
Just to note several recent migrants into the area: I saw a FOX SPARROW in with some WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS and GOLDEN CROWNED KINGLETS this morning during a walk along Salt Rd. in Summerhill SF. Susie and I observed a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK along Harford Rd., south of Dryden Lake, yesterday (10/17). It was a dark phase even. Also yesterday, we got wonderful looks at a juvenile N. GOSHAWK that coasted in low, then proceeded to spiral up and out of sight right over our house in Brooktondale. An adult N. GOSHAWK was seen by us this morning when it flew across Irish Settlement Rd. (town of Dryden) in front of our car. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] MNWR = plovers, cranes
Susie I went up to Lake Ontario today. We stopped this morning at the Mucklands, corner of Rts. 31 and 89 to scan for cranes. We saw none then but found 3 AMER. GOLDEN PLOVERS in the open field there. On our return thru MNWR late this afternoon, we found 7 adult SANDHILL CRANES in a partially harvested cornfield 200 yds. north of the intersection of Rt. 89 and Mays Point Rd. What struck us was the small size of one of the birds. It looked to be roughly 6 shorter standing, with the bill correspondingly smaller (about 2 less in length). The base color of the body feathers was a charcoal gray, much darker than the light gray of the larger birds. We think this was a LESSER SANDHILL. Steve Susie Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] FW: NNYBirds: Early bat sightings(long)?
Bill; This might be useful information about the bat sighting. It doesn't look good. Steve _ From: northern_ny_bi...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:northern_ny_bi...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian J. McAllister Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:25 PM To: northern_ny_bi...@yahoogroups.com Subject: NNYBirds: Early bat sightings(long)? Hello All, This might be a bit OT (from birds) but worthy of all our attention This past weekend several birders/nature-observers witnessed a major increase in bat activity throughout the High Peaks Region and nearby Champlain Valley. This is cause for concern. Most bat activity(feeding/coming out of hibernation) would normally begin later in the spring season(when insect activity is higher). Here's an observation from the Keene Valley regionBut, as we walked down the road when we left the parking area, I first thought I was seeing large moths but they turned out to be bats. This was at 11:00am in full sunlight. We saw several as we hiked in and later on Rt73 driving home. There were 100's along the road, probably 1,000's in the area. I researched a little on the web and found this site http://www.esf. http://www.esf.edu/aec/adks/mammals/littlebrownbat.htm edu/aec/adks/mammals/littlebrownbat.htm that suggest out of the nine types in the ADK's these would be the little brown bat who usually comes out at night...Phil Some one who's intimately involved in this horrible situation gave me this info to post: White nose syndrome is devastating bat populations in New York and New England and is now being reported in nine states. This syndrome is associated with a white fungus which infects the nose and other bare parts of bats including wing membranes. Although this fungus has not yet been identified as the causative agent, the leading theory is that the fungus causes hibernating bats to rouse and groom so often that they burn the fat reserves needed to make it through the winter. Some bats fly out in winter or early spring in a desperate attempt to find food. Healthy bats do not begin to emerge until the third or fourth week of April. Any bat seen before then will not likely find enough to eat or will succumb to freezing temperatures. The course of this disease is killing nearly all bats at infected hibernacula and continuing to kill bats through the summer. Bat biologists suspect that regional extirpation of four or even all six of our common cave bat species is a real possibility if not likely. If current rates of spread and mortality continue, bat populations throughout the east coast and beyond will be threatened. So far hundreds of thousands of bats have died in New York with little brown (Myotis lucifugus) our most common bat being the hardest hit. The USFWS has recently updated their white nose syndrome page with links to reporting mechanisms for some states and the FWS. Please report any bats seen during the day. I would also appreciate being copied on any reports of bats seen in the next few weeks in New York. http://www.fws. http://www.fws.gov/northeast/white_nose.html gov/northeast/white_nose.html Eric Teed New Russia, NY e...@cbsnews. mailto:ekt%40cbsnews.com com Thanks for your time everyone Brian McAllister Saranac Lake __._,_.___ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/message/9009;_ylc=X3oDMTMzc HI3aGQ0BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEbXNnSWQDO TAwOQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawN2dHBjBHN0aW1lAzEyMzgzNDc1MTgEdHBjSWQDOTAwOQ-- Messages in this topic (1) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJvMzJnMmhlB F9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEbXNnSWQDOTAwOQRzZ WMDZnRyBHNsawNycGx5BHN0aW1lAzEyMzgzNDc1MTg-?act=replymessageNum=9009 Reply (via web post) | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJkaXF1cXJ1B F9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDb nRwYwRzdGltZQMxMjM4MzQ3NTE4 Start a new topic Messages http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/messages;_ylc=X3oDMTJkNWVka HFsBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzb GsDbXNncwRzdGltZQMxMjM4MzQ3NTE4 | Files http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/files;_ylc=X3oDMTJldWczcHFj BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsD ZmlsZXMEc3RpbWUDMTIzODM0NzUxOA-- | Photos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/photos;_ylc=X3oDMTJkbmhkdjF lBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGs DcGhvdARzdGltZQMxMjM4MzQ3NTE4 | Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/links;_ylc=X3oDMTJlazBpc2tn BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsD bGlua3MEc3RpbWUDMTIzODM0NzUxOA-- | Database http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Northern_NY_Birds/database;_ylc=X3oDMTJiazZqM zVrBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzQzMTIwMwRncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNjU3ODcEc2VjA2Z0cgRzb GsDZGIEc3RpbWUDMTIzODM0NzUxOA-- | Polls
[cayugabirds-l] Saw-whet
In Hammond Hill SF this evening, I got 2 separate, long, tooting-responses from a SAW-WHET OWL. It was far off, and I have made the assumption that it was the same owl. The number of night-skiing yahoos and barking dogs is increasing dramatically out there. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] OT: bobcats
I have frequently checked the local bobcat highway (location not given) this winter, and have occasionally found one set of tracks; either moving one way or the other. So I was excited today to see two sets of fresh tracks, both headed the same direction. Like domestic cats, the following cat will often step in the prints of the leading one, but not always. Steve Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Rough-legged hawk
On a windy walk late yesterday morning in Brooktondale, I came upon what l was sure was an early turkey vulture-long wings (a bit narrow, though); long, straight tail; very dark above and below; pronounced dihedral to wings; and the characteristic rocking motion. As it flew over me, the head didn't seem right, however; then it drifted over a nearby field and began hover-hunting which gave it away as a very dark morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, the first I've seen in the area this winter. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] turkey vulture Q
There was a recent question about a turkey vulture being early in Vestal. I haven't seen it answered on the general list, so will try to do so. No, not early. A good reference for questions like this at this time of year (or any time) is www.birdcount.org http://www.birdcount.org/ . This gets you to the GBBC site; then hit the Exploring Results box. This gives you 4 choices-go to Map Room (upper left-hand corner). You are then asked what species you want and will have to scroll down a list to turkey vulture. Hit Year 2010, then North America. Once you get that map, you can pick Allegheny from the Region list on the left-hand side to see the distribution of TVs in NY and PA as of mostly last weekend. Some half-hardy species have started moving north, and I suspect that's what was seen. This site is great fun in addition to having a lot of information. I spend a lot of time wandering around in it. Steve fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Fish crows??
On my morning walk, I passed a local creek where I found 2 CROWS (presumably AMERICAN) standing in the middle of it, in 2 of rapidly flowing water, poised like herons. It appeared they were waiting for little fishies to swim by. Unfortunately, they caught sight of me and flew off before I could see an alleged strike. Crows are amazing. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] E. grosbeak
Just noticed a female EVENING GROSBEAK at my feeders in East Brooktondale. Thanks for sending her on, Bill; what do you need?-I'll send something down towards you. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] snow geese
I drove up the east side of Cayuga Lake early this morning, expecting to come upon hordes of snow geese at some point. There were none at the north end of the lake, and I made it to East Rd. before I had 2 SNOW GEESE fly over. Nothing in the Mucklands, but at Carncross Rd., I was just in time to see the hinder parts of a flock of about 150 SNOW GEESE heading north. I spent several hours in the North Montezuma WMA and finally a mess of snows came in from the NNW. I estimated about 2000-2500. Returning to the Potato Bldg., I found to the south, and partially hidden by Phragmites, about the same number of snows in a dense mass, mostly sleeping. With favorable winds, I guess the hordes couldn't wait. Almost nothing on the Lake, but thousands of PINTAILS and hundreds of AMER. WIGEON in the wet fields in the Mucklands. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] woodcocks
I heard 1 WOODCOCK peenting atop Bald Hill south of Brooktondale this evening. Also heard 1 peenting in the big, recently mowed field along Boiceville Rd., along with several sounds that Stokes describes as kakak calls, which indicate aggressive interactions between individuals-so at least 3 WOODCOCK along Boiceville. Check them out, Annette. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Hunt Hill Golden Eagles
I was just outside, raking the lawn, and thinking of Laura's eagles. So I came in to get my binos just in case. Back outside, I had just picked up the rake, and looking up, saw a beautiful juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE!!! gliding low, on a straight line, to the northeast, right over the house. Binos not even needed. Back outside? Me too. Me too. Steve Fast Brooktondale -Original Message- From: bounce-5456414-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-5456414-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Laura Stenzler Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:51 PM To: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Hunt Hill Golden Eagles Hi all, Over Hunt Hill Rd. (east of Ithaca) this beautiful Saturday afternoon (1:30) were two very cooperative, low flying, slowly circling GOLDEN EAGLES, flying over within 10 minutes of each other. Also seen between 12 and 1:30 were 3 TURKEY VULTURES, 2 NORTHERN HARRIERS, 2 KILLDEER, 1 RAVEN, and 2 local RED-TAILED HAWKS. A (the?) pair of RED SHOULDERED HAWKS have been in the area since last weekend. Gotta get back out there! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] phoebes X 2
While continuing my search for golden eagles from my front yard (Susie found a BALD EAGLE to the south, and far off), an E. PHOEBE flew by my head, joining up with another at the far side of the yard, and heading into the soon-to-be sunset. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Field sparrow
I have a single FIELD SPARROW at my feeders this morning. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Snipes are here
On 3/24, I flushed a COMMON (WILSON'S) SNIPE from a ditch in Brooktondale. And this evening, while listening to AMER. WOODCOCK atop Bald Hill, another WILSON'S (COMMON) SNIPE flew by, giving its flight call, and heading for a small pond nestled in a nearby valley. Cold out there. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Yard birds, 3/27/10
On Saturday, Susie I had brief yard visits from our first-of-year YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and NORTHERN SHRIKE. The latter was a bit surprising as I had thought they had all gone north. While working, I watched the sky in the afternoon, but saw only a few locals. Apparently Ken and Derby Hill had a good day, though. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] winter wrens
Susie I spent most of the early morning picking up trash along Leonard and Bald Hill School Rds. in Caroline. We encountered 2 WINTER WRENS on Leonard, one singing. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Shindagin Hollow = B.-h. vireos
On a walk along Shindagin Hollow Rd. this morning, I met with 4 BLUE-HEADED VIREOS. The RED-SHOULDERED HAWK is back, as are 4 BROWN CREEPERS, and 6 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS. YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS abound. 2 RAVENS were seen together, and we saw 2 (the same?) in the field across from our house this afternoon. I am supposing that either the nestlings are large enough to be left alone for a while, or the nest failed. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant--vesper sparrow
I walked along Mt. Pleasant Rd. this morning. Nothing unusual. TURKEY VULTURE, male N. HARRIER, KESTREL. Then a walk through the fields near the towers, where I flushed several SAVANNAH SPARROWS and one VESPER SPARROW. I stopped at the Ringwood Preserve, and except for the Canada geese, it was very quiet. I, too, had a BROWN THRASHER singing from a treetop in my backyard this morning. Must be they have arrived. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Goshawk, mink-muskrat encounter
I started the morning by walking the Baldwin Preserve on Irish Settlement Rd. Going east from the parking lot, on the main trail, I noted that about 90% of the bird singing was coming from the scraggy property just to the north. The FLLT managed property was almost silent. I finally heard a HERMIT THRUSH, and later near 6-Mile Creek heard a voluble WINTER WREN and a distant LA. WATERTHRUSH. I then spent about an hour watching over a wetland near Hammond Hill SF. I heard one call from a VIRGINIA RAIL, and had a pair of WOOD DUCKS swimming about in an abandoned beaver pond there. The highlight was noting a MINK coming to the bank with what looked like a meadow vole, swimming to a small island, and disappearing for 15 minutes. Meanwhile a MUSKRAT swam in and began patrolling the island edges. I was beginning to be concerned for the muskrat as the mink appeared again, but not to worry. Muskrat took out after the mink and chased it down the pond edge. Mink gone, muskrat continued its patrol. Ten minutes later, the mink suddenly erupted from the water, running across a raft of old beaver branches with the muskrat in hot pursuit, teeth clicking. On my way back to the road, I saw a NORTHERN GOSHAWK spiraling slowly overhead doing the tail-flagging display, a courtship display where the feathers at the base of the tail are puffed out showing two broad white patches on either side of the bird's fuselage. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] BAT behavior
For the last 2 days, in the afternoon, I have been working in the woods on Bald Hill, in Caroline. There is a pond there. Yesterday, a warmish, sunny day, I saw a small BAT fluttering over the pond. It dipped down twice to get a drink of water. I noted this, but unfortunately did not pursue it. Today, on the opposite side of the pond, the/a small BAT again appeared. Again, very sunny. It lit on the side of a red oak, about 6' up. I got the binoculars from the truck and approached to 8'. It was not a little brown bat. My bat ID skills are very rudimentary, but it appeared to be an E. PIPISTREL. It suddenly shot off the trunk and nabbed a small tan moth right in front of me, returning to the same spot on the tree immediately, where it proceeded to chew it up. It took a while to chew. It was not a delicate eater, chewing with its mouth open; but this allowed me a fantastic view of pink tongue and tiny, tiny teeth. Moth eaten, it flew out to the pond for a drink. I watched it off and on for the next hour; sometimes it would be chewing, other times just looking out for something to pass by. It reminded me of olive-sided flycatcher foraging behavior. About 1500 hrs., it disappeared. I was initially surprised to observe all this, but thinking about it, decided that this window was the only time that the bugs were going to be out. I noted it selected only large prey. It did not attempt to take any of the myriad black flies swarming about my head. So it probably used sight. I'm also thinking it hung about where I was, as my activities stirred up moths and flies which it then snatched up. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Shiindagin Hollow
It's kind of funny, but I don't go down there anymore-it's too dam crowded. Steve -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Dryden Lake Trail 4/23/10
I spent almost 3 hours combing the Dryden Lake Trail for new migrants this morning. No warblers at all. 41 species total, but nothing new. While watching 2 N. FLICKERS copulate, I saw the female turn her head around toward the back, while the male leaned forward and to the side, and they grasped each other by their bill tips. I thought, anthropomorphically, how romantic. But, then again, maybe it was. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] coot copulation
Susie I walked about at Martens Tract (Northern Montezuma WMA) late this morning. We came upon 2 COOTS in the water. There was some chasing of one by the other, then the chasee grabbed the other by the back of the neck and jumped on its back. At this point, both dove and were underwater for several seconds. When they popped back up, one swam off one way, while the other fluttered about and shook its tail as we have seen female dabblers do just after copulation. Sibley's Guide to Bird Life and Behavior says coots usually copulate on shore, but there wasn't any solid ground in the immediate area. We're thinking this was an underwater copulation, which we've not heard of before in birds. Other stuff: the breeding-plumaged HORNED GREBE was still in the large pool of water at the end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd. A BALTIMORE ORIOLE was heard at Sheldrake, on Cayuga Lake. Steve Susie Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] orioles
We have a pair of RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS and 2 TUFTED TITMICE eating our apple and wild cherry blossoms. I wonder how many other species eat these petals? S. S. Fast Brooktondale -Original Message- From: bounce-5730114-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-5730114-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Barrs Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 7:50 PM To: CayuGABIRDS-L@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] orioles While I was pulling garlic mustard vicinity raspberry bushes, two Baltimore orioles enjoyed the blossoms of our apple tree. Overall, a pleasant evening. Susan Barr Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Whimbrel at Myers, Th 5/6
Maybe, but a brief note would have alerted others that a whimbrel was moving north and may land. It also would have given a general heads-up that there probably are more in the area. To my knowledge, none of the three people involved have rarely, if ever, posted anything, by themselves, to this listserv. Steve Fast Brooktondale -Original Message- From: bounce-5745273-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-5745273-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Medler Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:34 PM To: Cayugabirds-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Whimbrel at Myers, Th 5/6 Hi All, It's my understanding that this bird was an early-morning fly-by. I'm sure that if the bird had landed and stayed put at Myers, the observers would have gotten the word out on Cayugabirds, as Chris and Jessie did last June. Matt Mark Chao wrote: I see on the eBird Google gadget that Marshall Iliff, Brian Sullivan, and Jessie Barry found a WHIMBREL at Myers Park in Lansing some time today. I don't have details about when they saw the bird, nor whether it might still be there. Mark -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Black Vulture - Dryden
Susie saw 2 BLACK VULTURES over K-Mart in Ithaca several days ago. Steve Fast -Original Message- From: bounce-5851644-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-5851644-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 2:04 PM To: cayugabirds Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Black Vulture - Dryden Cayugabirders, Around 10 am today I saw one Black Vulture heading north slowly over the towers on Mount Pleasant (Town of Dryden) while I was checking Tree Swallow boxes. No idea if we have one bird hanging around or if multiple individuals are involved, but I suspect the latter. Cheers, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY t...@cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Star Stanton Hill
I walked up, around, and down Star Stanton Hill this morning, mainly on Trail Y-2. At the top, it was a different experience from what I usually find. The hard freeze of a couple weeks ago killed the newly emerged sugar maple leaves, and it took out most of the leaves of the red oaks as well. Even the trembling aspen had significant leaf die-off. As a consequence, it was bright and airy on the trail; even Dryden Lake was visible. Problem was that the warblers were not there. This is usually a good place for hooded warblers, etc., but I heard only 1 song from 1 CANADA. The RED-EYED VIREOS, VEERYS, ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS, AND SCARLET TANAGERS were there in their usual numbers, however. I'm not sure whether the cold killed the caterpillars and other bugs the warblers feed on, or whether the insects had nothing to eat and succumbed. Maybe there is just not enough cover for the small birds in the treetops. The white ash has leafed out well, but this is probably because their leaves had not yet emerged when the cold hit. It was so quiet at one point coming down that I heard the complete song of a BLACKBURNIAN. My hearing is so bad that this is the first time that I can remember hearing it-I didn't know what it was until I located it foraging. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks
This afternoon I decided to follow Ken's example and, after my obligatory nap, stationed a chair in the front yard with myself in it. Not much the first hour, just the pair of TURKEY VULTURES that breed locally, and 1 CHIMNEY SWIFT. Almost at the point of despair, I finally noted a flock of 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS heading NW over Brooktondale toward presumably the Lake. Thanks for the inspiration, Ken. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sandhill cranes chicks
I spent much time this morning on Carncross Rd. (N. Montezuma Wetlands Complex) watching the 2 adult SANDHILL CRANES and their 2 CHICKS. The chicks are about half grown now, walk like the adults, forage for themselves, and have a good growth of primaries on their long wings. They cannot fly yet, however. I watched a series of behaviors that, to me, indicate the chicks are quite bright. During the first hour of observation, an adult made 2 attempts to demonstrate the mechanics of flight. It took the customary 3-4 steps, flapped its wings and flew low about 125'. One of the chicks soon tried to emulate. There were 3 tries and each was different. All started with extensive wing flapping. In the first case, the chick hopped forward about 6 feet. It did get off the ground by hopping, but only a couple of inches. In the second try, the wing flapping was followed by a rapid run. This looked promising to me, but failed to get the bird in the air. For the third attempt, the chick actually galloped (like a kid playing horsey). I can't remember ever seeing a bird gallop. I think that after each unsuccessful attempt, the chick changed its tactics. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcock family found
On the hayfields I help manage, we have both young turkeys and ruffed grouse in the tall grass. It's good cover and also provides a lot more bugs than the stubble after cutting. We put off cutting until the end of June, but I personally would prefer the middle of July. Steve -Original Message- From: bounce-6031176-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-6031176-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Jacalyn C. Spoon Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:01 AM To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcock family found On Wednesday night 7pm while walking my field I scared up a family of woodcocks. I decided to leave them be for a while but will be looking for them again on Sunday evening. There was definitely a larger one and several smaller ones. The smaller ones didn't fly far from the initial site I scared them from, I assume their nest site. My hay isn't quite ready to cut yet. For next year...What is a good date to cut hay if I know I have woodcocks. Is June 15th still OK? Jacie -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Another Sandhill Crane family, 6/23/10
I spent 3 hours this morning viewing the SANDHILL CRANE family-first from Carncross Rd., then from Morgan Rd. About 1100, I witnessed some really cool aggressive behavior from presumably the male, in defense of his family from a perceived human threat (not me). Anyway, Chuck Gibson dropped by to watch them for a bit, and he mentioned that Frank Morlock, the DEC Wildlife Tech. there had seen another Sandhill Crane family. So in I went to talk to Frank. He showed me where he had recently seen them and said that a friend of his had first spotted them last month. The location was pretty much on my way home. I found 2 ADULT and 2 COLT SANDHILL CRANES in an alfalfa field, Town of Genoa, Cayuga County. They were easily visible to the south from State Route 90 and the south end of E. Venice Rd. Rt. 90 is a busy road, and the shoulders are narrow. I did not attempt to contact the property owner. The 2 colts appear the same size as the Montezuma pair, and are a russet color. The 2 adults, however, still look mostly gray, unlike their Montezuma counterparts. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Summerhill
Susie I got off fairly early today, stopped for a great breakfast at the Dryden Hotel, then continued to Summerhill area. We walked Hoag and Dresser Rds. Highlight was 3 WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS (2 singing). Also encountered were 3 WINTER WRENS, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, several MAGNOLIA AND BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERS, a N. WATERTHRUSH, HERMIT THRUSH, SCARLET TANAGER (Susie's favorite), and Queen-of-the Prairie. I thought the deer flies only mildly annoying, but Susie got a plethora of cuss words off her chest. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Is this a Red-shouldered Hawk I see before me?
This is interesting. Susie I just returned from the Utah Shakespearean Festival where we heard a RAVEN calling right over the outdoor theatre during an evening performance. And a year ago, during the performance of one of the Bard's plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, a RAVEN flew over and called. And further, British researchers have found that exposing dairy cattle to a live performance of Shakespeare (actors in the barnyard) can increase milk production by up to 4%. We will nevermore doubt the intellectual tastes of the lower beasts. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -Original Message- From: bounce-6114324-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-6114324-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Anderson Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:55 PM To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Is this a Red-shouldered Hawk I see before me? At the Ithaca Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth this evening outdoors at the Plantations, (highly recommended: http://ithacashakespeare.org), additional entertainment was furnished by a hawk. It began by calling from among the trees, then flew behind and right above the on-stage action several times. I got a reasonable naked-eye look. The call seemed to be to be that of a Red-shouldered Hawk, and the visual was consistent with that id. Fittingly, birds of prey make several appearances in the script: http://www.twelfth-night.info/clicknotes/macbeth/Birds.html. -Paul -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brooktondale birds
On a walk in Brooktondale this morning I heard a KINGFISHER, saw 2 ROBINS lustily singing from treetops, counted 11 E. MEADOWLARKS in a short, grassy field, and found a DOR (freshly mangled) NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH in the road (a CROW soon carried it off). Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Rafferty Rd.: 2 out of 3
Susie I traveled to southern Cayuga County late this afternoon, scouting for short-eared owls. We managed to achieve 2 out of 3 items on our itinerary. 1. Excellent supper at the BE HAPPY Café in Union Springs, 2. Fabulous orange-red sunset at Aurora, but 3. No owls at Rafferty Rd. and vicinity. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Loons
This morning, Susie had a craving for Triangle Diner chili, while I had a hankering for to see some COMMON LOONS. So we went N. around mid-day and found what we sought. I counted the listed number of loons on the lake at the following locations; most counts fairly accurate-no estimates. 360 Long Point SP-feeding frenzy 100 N. of LPSP 150 Aurora Bluffs south 90Wells Coll. boathouse, looking N. 106 Aurora Bluffs north Total = 806 Notes: The feeding frenzy was just off the point at LPSP and also involved mostly RING-BILLED GULLS (150) and D. C. CORMORANTS (40). I could not determine what they all were after. During the height of the frenzy, I counted 110 loons on a scan. After it was over, and most of the loons were resting on the surface, I scanned the small area and counted 360. I've never seen that many loons in such a small area. These numbers might be useful in estimating total loons in an area where they are actively feeding-twice as many loons being below the surface as on it. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] bluebirds
While at work early this morning in Caroline, I heard a plethora of E. BLUEBIRD call notes. Looking up, I counted about 125 of them, heading south. Largest flock of bluebirds I've ever seen. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant: ruffies
I spent a couple hours on Mt. Pleasant mid-day (11/20) waiting for eagles, to no avail. But I did have 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS sail by-one light morph, and one dark. Also 2 flocks of AMER PIPITS, totaling 27 birds. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Cornell Plantations
Susie I took a walk through the Cornell Plantations this morning early. Highlights included a BOHEMIAN WAXWING among a small flock of CEDAR WAXWINGS, a couple RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES, 2 BROWN CREEPERS, a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, and 2 TURKEY VULTURES. There was a possible N. Shrike at the corner of Turkey Hill and Ellis Hollow Creek Rds. We saw no turkeys anywhere, except for the one in our refrigerator. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [Bulk] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Shrike- Ellis Hollow Cr. Rd
I checked my records and find a shrike at that exact location on Dec. 23, 2002. Looked like the same one to me. Steve Fast Brooktondale _ From: bounce-7489550-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-7489550-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Asher Hockett Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:51 PM To: Laura Stenzler Cc: Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: [Bulk] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Shrike- Ellis Hollow Cr. Rd And that same area had one several years ago, if my memory serves me right. Same one?? On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all There was a Northern Shrike on Ellis Hollow Creek Rd., on the telephone wire just east of the intersection with Turkey Hill Rd. at 12:33 this afternoon (Thursday). I believe somebody reported a possible shrike at that location last week. It was quite visible and active! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- asher -Never play it the same way once. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Lansing Short-eared Owls
I spent some time this evening on Hart Rd., town of Dryden, hoping for an owl or two. Shortly after 1700, I saw an EARED OWL flying towards Hart Rd. from the east (direction of high school). It was relatively high up and showed the somewhat irregular, floppy flight that I've seen in short-ears. The light was dim however, and it then veered off to the south and crossed the valley. I did not notice conspicuous light patches on the wing undersides, and the underneath was quite dark. I am not at all familiar with long-eared owls, but thought this owl might have come from a conifer roost in the direction from which it appeared. Further study may be needed. Steve Fast Brooktondale _ From: bounce-7535674-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-7535674-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin J. McGowan Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 7:36 PM To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Lansing Short-eared Owls I took the long way home this evening and looked for Short-eared Owls in a couple of spots more or less on the way home. I had brief views of one owl far out in the fields south of Burdick Hill Road (along with dozens and dozens of deer). I had better looks at another owl at the airport. I was looking south from Snyder Rd and the owl was hunting over the west and south side of the scrubby vegetation in the middle of the open area north of the terminal. It's been years since I have seen Short-eared Owls at the airport, but it's still wonderful habitat and they've probably been there. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Birdseed-eating rabbit
I scatter birdseed on the ground under my feeders, in the dark, so that the sparrows will have something when they arrive at 0700. Today, at 0710, I noted a RABBIT (EASTERN COTTONTAIL) sitting in the middle of the seed pile and chowing down. Mammals continue to amaze. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls, larks
Susie I found about a dozen COMMON REDPOLLS in the tamaracks at the end of Signal Hill Rd., off Tehan, off Irish Settlement Rd. this morning. Also 49 HORNED LARKS along Red Mill Rd. in the Town of Dryden. And, a DARK-PHASE ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at the north end of George Road. Steve Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Saw Whet Owl
It's really annoying. This has got to stop. I just got home and read Geo's post. I've been out in the Hammond Hill area for 1.5 hours, getting snowed on, wet, cold, disillusioned, all by myself with no warm, friendly hearth just a step away, all for one (1) little rubber-ducky squeak of a purported SAW-WHET, and now I see where he has let his pet owl out of its cage to fly around his yard and make cute vocalizations and primp in fruit trees. Gr-r-r-r. Steve Abominable Snow-man Fast -Original Message- From: bounce-7638828-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-7638828-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 5:49 PM To: Cayugabirds-L L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Saw Whet Owl 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 Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Morning over Buffalo Hill
I was outside this morning clearing a runway for my wife to fire off to work, and had started on my own section, when I noticed the sunrise. There was a golden torch peeking over Buffalo Hill that brightened perceptibly as I shoveled, finally becoming too bright to look at just prior to the sun peeking over the treetops. I had ceased working to watch; then noticed a fine icebow arc, one end of which started at Anne Marie's house. Finally a single RAVEN exploded out of the sunlight, coming straight towards me. As it passed, I clearly heard a two-part vocalization, like wood thrushes do. One part was a guttural chatter, the other a much higher-pitched chatter. The two chatters matched note for note. Clearly a friendly greeting. As it flew off, it signed goodbye with a series of notes identical to a black-billed cuckoo. What gloriousness in the midst of drudgery! Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] OOB: Harlequin duck
Susie I traveled up to Syracuse this morning to see the male HARLEQUIN DUCK that's been all the rage in that area for a while now. I'm just mentioning this as I'm not aware of any notices about this bird posted on this listserv. We watched it for maybe 15 minutes until our eyeballs glazed over with ice. Mostly it slept, but finally roused to give us a good view. It then ducked its head under water, presumably to nibble underwater food of some sort. It doesn't look much like the picture in Sibley; Peterson does a much better job. It was (is) located at the NW corner of Onondaga Lake, in the outlet. To get there from Ithaca, take I-81 north to Syracuse, then get on I-690 west. Get off at Exit #4, John Glenn Blvd., heading NE just a bit, and turn right on Long Branch Rd. In about a mile, this road goes over the outlet on a green, single-lane bridge. Go over the bridge, and quickly turn into a small parking lot of Long Branch Park. Then walk on a plowed path back toward the bridge you just crossed over. The harlequin was with some MALLARDS in open water right under the bridge. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Short eared Owls?
Bard, Susie I stopped at Rafferty Rd. (King Ferry area) late this afternoon and saw 3 SHORT-EARED OWLS. All were easily seen from the road, near the red barn. The first appeared at 1729, the other two, a minute later. We watched them for 10 minutes until the light faded. One was on the south side of the road, the other 2 on the north. The latter 2 had a brief encounter and we heard 1 screechy-hiss. We saw nothing at Dixon Rd.; probably too much snow. Also on Rafferty was 1 AMER. KESTREL. S. S. Fast Brooktondale _ From: bounce-7679766-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-7679766-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Bard Prentiss Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 9:07 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Short eared Owls? Hi, Anyone seeing Short eared Owls? at Rafferty Road, Center Road etc.? Bird Hard, Bard Bard Prentiss P O Box 283 Dryden, NY 13053 607-844-4691 prenti...@frontiernet.net -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant: tree sparrows
On an early afternoon walk along Mt. Pleasant Rd., I came upon a flock of about 70 AMER. TREE SPARROWS. They were feeding on the seeds of Lamb's Quarters (Chenopodium album), a bunch of plants on the north side of the road between Mineah Rd. and the road to the towers. These are the same plants that the snow buntings and common redpolls were feeding on a week or so ago. This plant is regarded as a common weed, an alien, but it's been really a boon to the flocks of these birds. This is the same plant that covered the field to the west of the Observatory and that sustained the huge flock of snow buntings in December. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] bald eagle @ Brooktondale
I had just started my morning walk, when I heard one of the local AMER. CROW clans (Gang of 5) greatly excited about something. Assuming it was one of the local red-tailed hawk pair, I was surprised to see an immature BALD EAGLE lifting off from my neighbor's back yard. It followed Boiceville Creek to the northwest, heading for Cayuga Lake. I suppose this bird took advantage of favorable winds yesterday to migrate this far from the Susquehanna R. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hawk squirrel
At 0800, I was getting ready to head to work, when I saw one of our local RED-TAILED HAWKS swoop through our feeder area. It perched in a large willow nearby, getting nothing. Our yard crows were going ape; then suddenly it got very quiet-crows gone. I thought the hawk was too, but closer inspection showed it staring at a GRAY SQUIRREL in a nearly pignut hickory. Then began a game of cat-and-mouse that lasted 20 minutes. The squirrel was in the central area of the large tree where there were 3 main trunks and many large branches going off. It stayed in this area, I think, because it offered the most cover. The hawk was right in there with it, and was much more clumsy, flying from branch to branch. The squirrel attempted to stay on the far side of a trunk, away from the perched hawk. This led to the hawk's strategy; it perched above the squirrel about 10', then dropped quickly down along one side of the trunk where the squirrel was, hoping, I guess, that the squirrel would at that moment zag out on that side to see where the hawk was. This failed several times. Finally it almost worked, the hawk appearing to graze the squirrel's side. This was enough for the squirrel; it shot down the trunk towards the ground. The hawk dropped like a stone after it-and missed. Squirrel then raced to a nearby hemlock, the hawk calling it a day. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Around Cayuga Lake
Susie I took a leisurely trip around Cayuga Lake today. Lots of waterfowl. Notable for us were 2 RED-NECKED GREBES and 5 LONG-TAILED DUCKS at Sheldrake. I scanned for some time from the observation tower at the Visitor's Center at MNWR. I saw no birds but the view was interesting; many different shades of brown corresponding to the different vegetation types. I hadn't realized there were so many. At the Aurora boathouse, I gave Susie a test when I told her to pick out the EARED GREBE from a line of 4 grebes. She did it, even through the light snow/fog! There were 11 HORNED GREBES thereabouts. There was a NORTHERN HARRIER cruising the shoreline; this was the 4th time I've seen this over the years-not sure what it was hunting for. Maybe the AMER. PIPIT prospecting the shore. In a large tree on the point to the south were 2 adult and 1 immature BALD EAGLES. We saw a total of 7 BALD EAGLES on the trip; 6 were adults. On the Sheldrake side, one of the BALD EAGLES flew out over the lake and then northeastward. On the lake surface, beneath the eagle as it passed overhead, the rafts of ducks flew randomly about, looking almost as if they'd been stirred up by a helicopter; and when the eagle had passed, all was quiet. We also noted an OSPREY NEST on a tall pole next to the salt piles at Portland Point. I don't recall anyone mentioning it before, but probably missed the post. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Dryden birding
I spent a couple hours early this afternoon birding in the Dryden (NY) area. While driving down Cornell Lane (Harford), I was accompanied by a RED-TAILD HAWK coasting about 30' over a white, featureless field with its legs down like an airliner approaching a runway. It never landed, but flew off. This is supposed to be a courtship display, although I saw no other hawk; but then they have better eyes than I do. Manure spreads along this same road had 100+ SNOW BUNTINGS mixed with 30+ HORNED LARKS. I saw 1 LAPLAND LONGSPUR immediately, but could find no others, or even refind this one, in 45 minutes. Viewing is brutal: some of the flock flew often, landing behind a hill, far away, in amongst deep tractor ruts. While waiting for the flock to present itself, I was able to watch a variety of other birdlife incl. AMER. CROWS, PIGEONS, STARLINGS, CANADA GEESE, and MALLARDS. I walked a segment of the Dryden Lake Trail (north of Willow Crossing) and came upon a flock of 12 AMERICAN ROBINS and another of 4 E. BLUEBIRDS. The bluebirds were in sumac bushes, but I could not determine what the robins were about. Maybe just hangin' out. Also there was one wild WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. Dryden Lake held 6 MALLARDS (3 pair), and an extremely compact GREAT BLUE HERON. I flushed 12 SNOW BUNTINGS from a ditch on Ferguson Rd. Finally, I drove up Tehan and Signal Tower. It's a different world up there. About an inch of recent snow covered every branch. It was as if I was driving through the inside of a spider web. At the end of the road, ice had just been deposited on the tamaracks, and all was silent but for the ghostly creaking in the wind. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] song sparrow
On a morning walk, I heard my first SONG SPARROW singing, along Burns Rd. The tone was brave, but a little doubtful. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Green-winged Teal, Dryden Lake
Hi, Around noon today (Monday), I saw a single GREEN-WINGED TEAL in the northeast corner of Dryden Lake. Steve Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Roosting cedar waxwings
I have never given much thought to what birds do at night, except for owls. Yesterday afternoon, I was sitting in our kitchen counting our feeder birds, when something caught my eye. I looked at a 35' black walnut tree standing by itself in the yard about 40' from the house, and saw a couple CEDAR WAXWINGS in what I thought was an odd posture. Looking carefully, I counted 14 total. The oddity was that this didn't look like the typical waxwing flock high in a tree. The birds were somewhat scattered and appeared to have been stuffed into branch crotches. Several were perched on twigs, but only in a spot where their backs were against a limb surface or another twig. Susie remarked next morning that they looked like they had been jammed into these places. The other odd thing was their total immobility. I first noticed them at 1630 and I watched them carefully until 1800 and could detect no movement, not even eye movement, using the scope. At 1735, a jet went over low, but the birds didn't flinch. It was as if they had entered a cataleptic state. At 1800, I went out to the base of the tree to put down food for our yard bunny; no change in any of the birds' posture. Observations with binos at 1815, 2300 (strong moonlight), then 0200, 0450, 0545 this morning revealed absolutely no posture changes. Other birds (doves, crows, sparrows) were flying about the yard from 0630 onward, but made no impression. Susie and I continued to watch these frozen birds until 0700, when one suddenly stretched a wing and a leg, and within 15 seconds all were stretching and moving a bit. Susie grabbed the newspaper and noted that the official sunrise today was at 0700 (overcast here). Coincidence? At 0701, 24 more CEDAR WAXWINGS flew into the tree from the east. The flock now assumed a normal appearance (that is, what I would expect a flock of this size to look like perched high in a bare tree). All now began preening. An AMER. CROW flew into the tree a few minutes later and they left, not returning. I think they are a migrant group, as we have seen no waxwings in the area since last Dec. The catalepsy would certainly be of benefit to birds sleeping in the open, as any movement might be detected by an owl. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Killdeer
I heard a KILLDEER flying over Brooktondale this morning. S. Fast, Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brooktondale--grackles rwbb
Stopped home for lunch and found 15 GRACKLES 25 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS at our feeders. Steve Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] redwings cowbird grackle
This morning at our feeders we have 25 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, 1 BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD, and 1 GRACKLE. Stay tuned for possible exciting updates. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] rusty bb
I have a RUSTY BLACKBIRD (non-breeding male plumage) at our feeders today, along with the other usual blackbirds. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Red-winged blackbirds
In addition to these, the flowing field across from our house has had 3 female RWBB (for those who keep track of such things, like me), 3 KILLDEER, and one each male and female RUSTY BLACKBIRD in breeding (alternate) plumage. No meadowlarks yet, but the day is young. Steve Fast Brooktondale -Original Message- From: bounce-8797390-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-8797390-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of M K Mannella Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 7:11 AM To: Cauyga Birds Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Red-winged blackbirds This morning: About a dozen red-winged blackbirds mixed in with starlings and two robins touched down to feed and splash on the pasture adjacent to our property. Welcome spring! Michele Ovid/interlaken Sent from miPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] GBH's
We just passed the FLLT heron rookery on Irish Settlement Rd. and noted a single GREAT BLUE HERON standing in each of three of the nests there. Do the same herons use the same nests year after year, or is it first-come-first-served? Nests were unoccupied yesterday. S. S. Fast Brooktondale P.s. Contact the Finger Lakes Land Trust if you know not where this is. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Rwbbs
The female RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS are starting to pour in-at my feeders just now = 1 male and 25 females. Go girls! (or is it chicks?) Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Golden Eagle
Derby Hill recorded 7 golden eagles yesterday. They also recorded over 100 chickadees moving. This is interesting, as 2 weeks ago, while at Fair Haven Beach SP, Susie I saw a large group of small birds kettling over a tree along the shore. We thought they were chickadees, but did not believe it, nor report it, as we assumed that chickadees did not migrate.S. S. Fast _ From: bounce-21091426-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-21091426-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Nutter Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 6:38 AM To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Golden Eagle Early Friday afternoon I was driving out NYS-96 toward Trumansburg to pick up a fare. As I approached Agard Rd I noticed a large dark bird with a dihedral soaring low distantly off to my right. I'm not sure what prompted me to stop and turn around for a better look -- was it Ann's report of Golden Eagle the day before in Ithaca? the way this bird flapped occasionally? its steadiness in flight? the darkness of the view of the wings indicating a broader less curved shape? the way it was being harassed by crows? Anyway, I turned around at Halseyville Rd, pulled over, and picked up the binoculars (in that order). Meanwhile the bird had worked its way closer, and I got my best look ever at an immature GOLDEN EAGLE. The tail was long and wedge-shaped, white with a broad dark brown terminal band. The basal part of the underside of the primaries of each wing formed a white patch which did not show above. The wing coverts formed a broad medium brown band extending out from the shoulders. The crown and nape were clearly golden. Otherwise the bird was very dark brown. The wings were quite broad and straight, without the crooks and tapering of Turkey Vulture wings, and the head was more obvious than the neck of a Turkey Vulture. Four American Crows were attending it, one even grabbing at its tail, but they looked puny by comparison. The eagle seemed to ignore the crows as it wandered eastward toward the upper part of Taughannock Falls State Park. I'm wondering if this was the same bird Ann saw, and it's hanging around the area, or whether they are moving through. --Dave Nutter On Apr 21, 2011, at 02:36 PM, Ann Mitchell annmitchel...@gmail.com wrote: While driving on Rte 13 just around the Green Street turn, a GOLDEN EAGLE was soaring above me. I watched it for 30-60 seconds, then it headed south. Great city bird! Best, Ann -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] killdeer
Around 1300, over Brooktondale, in a period of 10 minutes, about 30 KILLDEER flew by the house low. They moved from NW to SE, straight-line flight. There was a group of 10, some smaller groups, and some singles. All the singles called, and in the groups, only one bird of the group called. The calls were very evenly spaced, almost like a mechanical recording. Most likely contact calls. I wonder if the members of a group share who calls and who rests. Is this common in other shorebirds? Weather: low clouds and some drizzle, but pretty good visibility. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] bird sound or frog sound?
Spring (or Fall) Peepers _ From: bounce-38153248-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-38153248-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Bulatek Teresa Wagner Bulatek Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 10:31 AM To: Birding List Subject: [cayugabirds-l] bird sound or frog sound? We keep hearing something during the day and at night, making single chirps or peeps. They chirp once or twice, then stop for a few minutes. This is not much info, but I heard them recently in Massachusetts as well. Any info, or possibilities? Thanks, Teresa Bulatek -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html The Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Surfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ ! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] snipe
Early this evening, Susie I saw a WILSON'S SNIPE fly in front of our car on Boiceville Rd., Town of Caroline. It apparently was looking for a former wetland there which has recently been covered over by a cancerous housing development. Sad. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Hammond Hill Goshawk
On Sunday morning, I too walked around the Star Stanton/Hammond Hill area. Not too many birds. However, along the ridge top, in an area of Norway spruce, I came upon some CROW feathers--11 flight feathers and half a dozen tufts of small body feathers. One of the flight pinions had a dollop of dried (or frozen) blood on it. I checked the area carefully for mammal tracks, finding none. The possible avian predators are 4, but three of them I tentatively eliminated because of prey size and location of attack. Goshawk was my best choice, but I found no other evidence. Thanks, Bob! Steve Fast Brooktondale -Original Message- From: bounce-39065751-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-39065751-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of bob mcguire Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 12:01 PM To: cayugabirdlist Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Hammond Hill Goshawk Last Saturday I decided to explore the north end of Hammond Hill SF, an area I almost never visit. As noted then, my reward was a pair of White-winged Crossbills flying over and stopping for the briefest of moments. Today I walked a different route: north on the ATV track (Star Stanton Road, then left just after it breaks from Hammond Hill Rd), to the end and then back on green trails (G2 and G1) to SS Rd. Bird-wise, it was mostly chickadees, 1 Brown Creeper, and a few Blue Jays - until a large, light-colored (undersides) bird flew through the hemlocks to perch out of sight close by. At first I thought Red- tail, given the size and coloration (and not goshawk because it did not show gray). I played the Red-tail call - no response. Then I played the goshawk call, and it responded immediately! It called several times, and, fortunately, I had my recorder along and got some of it on tape. Blue Jays came in to mob it, and eventually it took off, circling away to the north. At that point I got a better look at the shape, especially the long, narrow tail. Juvenile NORTHERN GOSHAWK. Hammond Hill has about two inches of new snow and makes for a delightful walk. Bob McGuire -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Gary K. and R L hawks
Bill Shirley, Susie I stopped for lunch at Wolffys a couple weeks ago. We concur with your assessment. This is the old Marina's. There is a deck overlooking the lake, and of special interest to the Cornell folks, a full BAR. Service was excellent. S. S. _ From: bounce-39067264-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-39067264-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of B Mcaneny Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:04 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L@Cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Gary K. and R L hawks Shirley and I were driving N on rte 89 about noon today and passed a Rough-leg perched on a power pole near Interlaken. He said he was waiting for Gary, and did we know what was delaying him? We went on to Montezuma which started out quiet and got quieter as the rain started. Saw nothing unusual. Most ducks were Gadwall. Looked like a few GW teal at a distance. Some Coot up close. One Snow Goose among the Canadas. No small Canadas. More Snows visible from East Rd, incl. two blue phase. Maybe 100 total. Two Sandhill Cranes south of rte 31near the farm bldg. More Canadas and about 200 Tundra Swans. We did not spend much time looking, due to the rain. In summary, it seemed that most of the geese must have been lunching in the local cornfields. Probably morning or late afternoon would be more productive. Steve Fast might be interested to know that we ate at Wolffy's restaurant, on the lake right next to Cayuga Lake S.P. Nice atmosphere and good food. Bill and Shirley McAneny, T'Burg -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html The Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Surfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ ! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's hawk in Brooktondale
Hi, Birders, Steve had posted that we had a large Cooper's Hawk in our backyard, 1 mile east of Brooktondale. A friend of ours had left us a chunk of deer carcass, set on top of the brush pile. Crows worked it over for a couple of days, eating, and hiding suet over in the field across the road. And then the hawk took over. Yesterday Steve watched her for over 3 hours (!) as she gorged on suet and meat, till her crop stuck way out and she was puffed out like a chicken! He noted when she cleaned her beak, and how she cleaned her talons, periodically. After feeding, she slipped back into the hemlocks behind the house. This morning, she returned, feeling more comfortable than yesterday. She sunned herself, and at one point lay down for a little rest, on the carcass. The feeder birds and squirrels went about their feeding as usual. About 1:00 PM, the resident Sharp-shinned Hawk shot through the yard. The little birds disappeared, and the CH sat straight up. In a few minutes a male N. Harrier floated low over the field, right over where the crows have been caching. I wondered whether the NH would eat suet as the CH has been doing. Meanwhile, the crows were flying about not happily. S S Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Bohemian Waxwing Cemetary L.
Dave other frantic listers, There was a small flock of CEDAR WAXWINGS along with about 50 ROBINS and 60 STARLINGS feeding on the orn. cherry berries along the big shrubby slope at the Cornell Plantations yesterday. This might be a good place to check; we've found Bohemians (the bird) there in past years. Steve _ From: bounce-39158300-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-39158300-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Nutter Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:24 AM To: cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bohemian Waxwing Cemetary L. As far as I know, no one refound the Bohemian Waxwing nor a waxwing flock in the vicinity Friday or Saturday. Please check all waxwings carefully for Bohemians. If you find a Bohemian, please call me 607-229-2158 or send a message to the CayugaRBA as well as posting promptly to the listserv. Thanks. --Dave Nutter On Jan 20, 2012, at 02:03 PM, Carl Steckler c...@cornell.edu wrote: Just after re-finding the Horned Larks and Longspurs on Elm St. Ext I went down Cemetery Ln. off of Salt Rd. and found a flock of Cedar Waxwings about 1/4 mile East of Salt Rd. I just finished looking at the photos on the computer and one of them is a Bohemian Waxwing. This time I am sure. Two life birds in one day Carl Steckler -- For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirdingcom/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu http://www.mail-archive.com/%3ca%20href= /maillist.html'http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/mailli st.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html The Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Surfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ ! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Purple Finch- Richford
Me too. One singing in Brooktondale this morning.S. Fast _ From: bounce-13035435-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-13035435-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin J. McGowan Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:55 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Purple Finch- Richford I wonder if some just came in. I had a Purple Finch singing outside the Lab when I came in this morning. Kevin From: bounce-13033424-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-13033424-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of David McCartt Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:48 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L; cny-naturalhist...@darkstar.cortland.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Purple Finch- Richford Hi All, We had a single female PURPLE FINCH this morning at the feeders. First one I've seen since last October. Good Birding, David McCartt Tubbs Hill Rd. Richford -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] wood ducks
Speaking of yard birds, we just recorded a hard-to-get species when a pair of WOOD DUCKS flew very low over our yard, just above the feeders. Tick. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] crow nesting
I just looked out in back and saw our pair of yard AMER. CROWS sitting side-by-side on a willow branch, each with its mouth stuffed with the shredded inner bark of a nearby dead willow. What a great missed photo op! They flew off to the west, so apparently are not using their old nest from last year, at the back of the yard. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] OOB: Fair Haven SP
Susie I headed up to Lake Ontario today. First stop was BARB'S DINER in LOCKE for a wonderful way to start the trip. Then on to Fair Haven Beach State Park. On arrival we were surprised to see a veritable mass of TURKEY VULTURES overhead, no flapping, no circling; all in loose formation heading NE. We counted around 150. We then headed to the western breakwater. While I set up the scope at the northern end of the pier, Susie played with rocks for 1.5 hrs.; and came upon a sunning tangle of 8 young garter snakes. Enclosed is a list of birds seen there. Common loon12 Red-throated loon1 (basic plumage) Red-necked grebe 10 (beautiful breeding colors) White-winged scoter 3 Long-tailed duck25 Bufflehead 2 Red-breasted merganser ( too many to count) D.-c. cormorant 1 Killdeer 1 Bonaparte's gull 8 Herring gull1 Great black-backed gull 3 Ring-billed gull 6 Caspian tern 5 We ended the day with a shake cone at PETE'S TREATS IN Union Springs. Steve Susie Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] crow commensalism
This morning, in a field at the corner of Flatiron and Harford Rds., I saw an AMER. CROW with a large tuft of long-dead raccoon fur in its beak. Presumably nesting material. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] brown thrasher
I listened for a while to a BROWN THRASHER on Burns Rd. in Brooktondale this morning. Also FOX SPARROW R.C. KINGLET. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Hammond Hill SF
I figured it was a female on a nest. Approx. location of begging calls: to the NW of the large parking lot at the top of Hammond Hill Rd. There is a private driveway which you encounter, on the left, as you come up Hammond Hill Rd. The driveway is about 30 yds. before you come to the parking lot. There is a large stand of Norway spruce on the west side of this driveway. The calls came from within this stand. As the begging calls were going on, another crow flew out of this stand, heading SW and calling. It crossed H. H. Rd., lit in a tree, and continued calling. There were 3-4 other crows also occasionally calling from the spruces downhill from the single calling crow (male?) It appeared a discussion of some sort was going on; it did not appear heated, nor was there any sign of a hawk, etc. For reference, the loop I walk starts at the base of Star Stanton Hill Rd., about 100' from Irish Settlement Rd., goes up S. S. Hill Rd. to the top of the hill (abandoned section), then south on a woods road (extension of Canaan Rd.) to the junction with Trail Y-1, down Y-1 to the Hammond Hill parking lot, then west to the start. _ From: Kevin J. McGowan [mailto:k...@cornell.edu] Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:30 AM To: Susan Fast; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Hammond Hill SF Steve, what is the loop you walk? Just to clarify, crow begging right now indicates a breeding female on a nest, not fledged young. A couple of our nests should have hatched this weekend, but they were early and most of the 60+ nests we're following are on a later schedule, with fledging in late May or June. Best, Kevin From: bounce-18840425-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-18840425-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Fast Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 9:57 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Hammond Hill SF I took my usual loop walk around Star Stanton and Hammond Hills early this morning. High winds and occasional snow flurries. Very few birds. But a couple highlights: a male PURPLE FINCH sang from the top of a spruce. It sang a continuous odd jumble of notes and short phrases, quite unlike the more typical song. Suddenly the clouds opened and a brilliant blue sky dawned; the effect was more amazing than a Marie Read photo. At the large blow-down area along Trail Y-1, I loitered, hoping for to see my favorite bird. He did not disappoint, as, close by, he woke up, blasted out a complete song, then went back to bed. Hint: WINTER WREN. Lastly, I heard the plaintive begging calls of an AMER CROW from a spruce stand. I thought this was a bit early for up there, but I guess not. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Hammond Hill SF
Susie I spent 1.5 hrs. at the large parking lot at the end of the paved portion of Hammond Hill Rd., hoping for goshawk courtship displays. The goshawks did not show there, but a pair of RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS emerged from the woods. One did a series of steep dives and calls before drifting to the south; the other answered the calls, soaring after the first. Both did several short series of rapid and deep wing flapping which appeared to be part of the displays for this species. During the calling, a BARRED OWL hooted twice apparently in answer (for some reason). Immediately after the hawks disappeared, a BLUE JAY began a good imitation of the hawks' call note. The female AMER. CROW continued her begging cries, a few at roughly 15 minute intervals. There are 3 other CROWS in close attendance. In the woods nearby were 2 E. PHOEBES, a BROWN THRASHER, 2 BROWN CREEPERS, and a singing YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. After coffee and a doughnut from Clark's Market, we walked down Signal Tower Rd. quite a ways, but encountered only 2 RAVENS. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] scarlet tanager
Just arrived in the topmost branches of our tallest maple tree: a SCARLET TANAGER, singing loudly. Hooray for Spring! Susie Fast, Valley Road, Brooktondale, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Bobolink
My wife, poor thing, is confused. Substitute BOBOLINK for B. oriole. I did hear a B. ORIOLE in the yard yesterday, however, which got her very excited. Steve _ From: bounce-24055424-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-24055424-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Fast Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 9:00 AM To: 'CAYUGABIRDS-L' Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Bobolink Good morning, At 0630 we heard, and saw, a male BALTIMORE ORIOLE across the road from our place east of Brooktondale. S S Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Baldwin Preserve: serendipity
After my walk this morning on Mt. Pleasant, where I found no pipits, I had just energy enough to walk around the Baldwin (nee Park) Preserve. Coming in, I heard 4 songs of a PRAIRIE WARBLER, coming from the small pines on the private property just to the north. Did not see it. Continuing, I had great views of 2 NASHVILLE and 1 MAGNOLIA warblers. As I left, I thought I would stop and put a comment in the book at the entrance kiosk. Comment done, name signed, I had just returned the notebook to the box, when I was startled by a PRAIRIE WARBLER song REALLY close. Turning, I saw him staring at me from the old apple tree there. Kind of took my breath away. I have no idea why he was so interested in watching me, as I have it on good authority that I look nothing like a female prairie warbler. Steve Fast Brooktondale. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Sandhills
Correction: while doing up my field notes, it occurred to me that since both male and female sandhill cranes incubate, my designation of the incubating bird as female may have been incorrect. S. Fast _ From: bounce-26402445-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-26402445-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Fast Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 12:20 PM To: 'CAYUGABIRDS-L' Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Sandhills For the record, Susie I have located an active SANDHILL CRANE nest with the female incubating, the male in attendance. As we kept discretely well away, the pair showed no signs of disturbance, unlike the Carncross Rd. pair.This is in Cayuga County. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html The Mail Archive http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Surfbirds http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ ! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mimidae
On my Brooktondale walk this morning, I encountered all three of our local Mimidae within about 200 yds. on Burns Rd. The BROWN THRASHER was lustily belting out its song in about equal 2 and 3 note segments, with even one segment of 4 notes. The MOCKINGBIRD was blasting out the most vocal renditions of its songs that I have ever heard it perform at this location. It sounded like a North Carolina bird. One song was an exact copy of the textbook song of a mourning warbler. I wonder where it picked that up? Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant--raptors
I spent from 1150 until 1400 on the tower side of Mt. Pleasant, practicing my hawk ID skills for the coming season. I didn't expect much, but it turned into a pretty good day, for me. Osprey1 Bald eagle2 (1 adult, 1 2nd year) Kestrel5 (local family) Merlin 1 Turkey vulture 9 Sharp-shinned hawk 6 Red-tailed hawk6 Broad-winged hawk 52 (one kettle of 38) Raven1 Monarch butterfly2 Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant
I took a long walk along Mt. Pleasant Rd. just after lunch. I was hoping for hawks and such, but saw very few. Near a brushy area, however, I stopped to listen to some CHICKADEES, and out pooked a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. It was VERY yellow, even the eyering Then another flitted out, not so bright. Two E. PHOEBES were about-good time for feeding, once the bugs have warmed up. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Shindagin Hollow--a sad day
My daughter and I took a walk through Shindagin Hollow late this morning. We found a WINTER WREN squashed flat in the road. How?? We did hear a live WINTER WREN berating us from the woods, however. We saw 2 HERMIT THRUSHES, and were vocally abused by a RED-TAILED HAWK. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Mt. Pleasant: crows and hawk
I had just parked at the east end of Mt. Pleasant Rd. at 0715 this morning and noted about 50 AMER. CROWS feeding in the just-harvested corn field there. Another 40 or so crows were flying in a slow, loose stream toward the trees to the south where another 20 crows were already perched. I noted an oddity, then saw a RED-TAILED HAWK (juv.) flying at the edge of the stream. I heard no long calls from the crows in the air or on the ground, and saw no aggressive moves by any of the crows the hawk was flying next to. When this segment of the stream reached the trees, both hawk and crows alighted there (same tree), although the hawk was on the edge of the group of perched crows. I am still pondering this. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] WW crossbills
Just reading Matt Y.s post (our computer is slowly dying), reminded me that I saw 2 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS our yard in Brooktondale on Sunday, Nov. 27. They appeared to be first year males. Steve Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Shindagin: purple finches
On a very early morning walk along Shindagin Hollow Rd. today, I had stopped and was conversing with a foraging flock of CHICKADEES, when several suddenly gave warning calls. I saw nothing, but immediately a group of PURPLE FINCHES emerged out of the goldenrod in a clearing. I counted 20. Later, I checked to see if I could determine why they had been there; I found no obvious large seed-bearing plants, but did find a small puddle of water. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Question: Pileated WP
We have a PILEATED WOODPECKER coming daily to our suet feeders. I thought it was a female as it lacked the red cheek stripe. However, the red crest extends forward of the eye to the base of the bill, as Sibley shows for the male. What's happening here? Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma area, etc.: snowy owl
Susie I started the day by going for breakfast at the Meetinghouse Café (Diner) at the corner of Salt Rd. and State Rt. 90 in Summerhill. Friendly folks, reasonable prices. They serve SCRAPPLE. Its not on the menu; you have to ask. Also there is the finest bathroom that we have ever seen in all our visits to U.S. diners. We could not find the Genoa Sandhill crane family. At the Potato Bldg. in the Mucklands at MNWR, there are viewable many thousands of SNOW and CANADA GEESE, hundreds of TUNDRA SWANS, and hundreds of RING-BILLED GULLS. There were about 50 PINTAIL with the MALLARDS. I located 2 groups each of 7-8 SANDHILL CRANES a long ways off. No sign of the 20 reported heading this way from Derby Hill earlier in the week. There was an adult SNOWY OWL due south from the building and about 100 from the road. I did not see it for a long time as I was looking too far out. Susie should have seen it just by looking out the car window; but there was tall grass in the line of view, and anyway, she was crocheting. The NORTHERN SHRIKE at the east end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd. was being its usual photogenic self. We found no rough-legged hawks, but for the day found 4 KESTRELS, 3 N. HARRIERS, and about 12 RED-TAILED HAWKS. Steve Susie Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] spectacular viewing Stewart Park
I guess the other 99+% of the geese are no-good? -Original Message- From: bounce-39017438-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-39017438-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kenneth Victor Rosenberg Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 2:29 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] spectacular viewing Stewart Park If anyone is heading downtown in Ithaca, I recommend a stop at Stewart Park - with the bright sun and calm lake, the thousands of geese, ducks, and gulls, offer an unusually spectacular view. Many of the birds are in very close. Among the thousands of CANADA GEESE, MALLARDS, and the common 3 gulls, were a mixed group of REDHEAD, RING-NECKED DUCKS, with a few SCAUP, CANVASBACK, BUFFLEHEAD, GADWALL, AM WIGEON, COOTS (100 or so), a newly arrived group of 20+ NORTHERN PINTAIL, and a little further out several rafts of HOODED MERGANSERS -- I counted 60 birds, COMMON GOLDENEYE, and COMMON MERGANSERS. I briefly found a (the) 2nd-cycle ICELAND GULL floating with the mergansers -- it likely joined the gulls on the newly formed ice edge and was at the wrong angle for me to pick out the white wing-tips and relocate. I'm sure there is a good goose or two for anyone with enough time and patience to sort through them. This was about noon -- I hope everything is still there and in nice light. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Coopers hawk
Several days before Xmas, a friend of ours brought over the remains of a deer torso he had shot. We threw it on top of a large brushpile in the yard to keep the coyotes from dragging it off. So far it has been a boon to our 4 YARD CROWS who have spent some of their daytime activities pulling strips of meat and chiseling off hunks of suet which they then eat or stash in the neighborhood. Today Susie excitedly called my attention to very large COOPERS HAWK perched on the carcass and biting off suet chunks. It fed for about 10 minutes. It was the largest of this species that either one of us remembers seeing; it appeared the size of a red-tailed hawk. Susie got a picture of it as it flew off which shows why they can move so fast-the amount of extended wing surface appears to dwarf the rest of the bird. Susie Steve Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sat. birding
We drove over to Lilley's Tack Feed north of Dryden late this morning for bird seed. Near TC3 we saw a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK and a GREAT BLUE HERON. There was a SHARP-SHINNED HAWK hunting at the corner of Ferguson and Irish Settlement Rds. At the end of Signal Tower Rd., we watched about 500 SNOW GEESE go over heading south (no small ones). Here at the ranch, the COOPER'S HAWK continues on the deer carcass (5 days now), but a RED-TAILED HAWK was on it when we checked at 1300. I saw 2 RAVENS fly overhead along Bald Hill School Rd. early this morning. (The Shindagin Hollow pair, presumably). S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Eared grebe= Aurora
Susie I saw the/an EARED GREBE from the Wells College boathouse in Aurora earlier today. We assume Bob Co. already saw it as it was in fairly close. We saw no horned grebes, however. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] a few Snow Buntings on Irish Settlement
Hi, On my way home at 1330, I saw about half-dozen SNOW BUNTINGS zing across the north end of Irish Settlement Road where the corn fields are. Don't know if they'll hang around. Susie Fast -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Dryden: longspur, buntings
Susie I happened upon a largish flock of SNOW BUNTINGS, with a few HORNED LARKS, and 1 LAPLAND LONGSPUR along Irish Settlement Rd., between Rt. 13 and Ferguson Rd. just to the west of Dryden this morning. They were pretty flighty. Also, along Elm St. Extension, east of Groton, were 3 HORNED LARKS 1 SNOW BUNTING at a manure spread. Several hundred AMER. CROWS were here too. S. S. Fast Brooktondale -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
