Re: [cayugabirds-l] Radar showing diurnal migration...
Very interesting Dave. I went out in my backyard (the dog has needs) at about 10 PM and midnight last night, and I heard Canada Geese almost continuously both times. Amazing to think of how many geese are really migrating! KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:24 AM, david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.commailto:daven1...@yahoo.com wrote: There was a massive nocturnal migratory movement last night to follow yesterday's great day. South winds will continue today and the radar continues to show widespread bird echoes persisting well after sunrise. It was interesting as around sunrise the echoes decreased for a while...and now they have pick up again. A transition from nocturnal to diurnal migrants??? Although we know the geese just keep going all day and night. Could be another great day. Good luck out there... Dave Nicosia -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Hammond Hill State Forest migration watch
It's interesting to think that our coverage was so good in the Ithaca area that multiple groups were encountering the same birds. At Mount Pleasant, we had 2 NORTHERN PINTAIL in a large Canada flock shortly after 1 PM, and these were likely the same birds that passed over Hammond at 12:50. Then, there were 3 CACKLING GEESE together in another flock about 15 minutes later, so again possibly one of the same flocks. Definitely no good finches or shrikes, though! KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Mar 10, 2013, at 10:33 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edumailto:chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote: I spent three hours at Hammond Hill State Forest east of Ithaca this afternoon (starting at 12:10pm) watching migrants. As others have noted, there was an amazing flight of waterfowl throughout Tompkins County and beyond. This flight was strongly dominated by Canada Geese. I was curious how much of a concentrating effect Cayuga Lake had for the geese Would there still be some out to the east or if were they headed toward Cayuga Lake. The numbers of geese were just as high at Hammond Hill as Jessie and I had seen from Monkey Run earlier in the day. In comparing numbers with Luke Seitz and others watching from Cornell campus, it seemed that we recorded very close to the same number of birds. While some of these birds may have been the same, the great majority were probably different suggesting a very broad front given others reported similar numbers in Trumansburg. It would be fun to organize several different stations in the Finger Lakes (and beyond) the next time we have such a flight on a weekend. Jessie Barry and Jeff Gerbracht joined me for part of the time I was here and helped me find much more than I would have done on my own. Highlights included 8 Golden Eagles, 1 PINE GROSBEAK, 1 Northern Shrike, 1 White-winged Crossbill and at least 24 Evening Grosbeaks. Waterfowl made up the bulk of the show: 297 Snow Goose, 26575 Canada Geese, 13 Cackling Geese, 1 Tundra Swan, 1 Wood Duck, 2 Northern Pintail A complete checklist with some photos can be found at the link below. I broke counts of Canadas into 20 minute segments for anyone interested (which may just be me!) http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13354236 Good birding, Chris Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.orghttp://ebird.org/ http://birds.cornell.eduhttp://birds.cornell.edu/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Massive Geese migration north
Here too in Northeast Ithaca. Over 7,000 CANADA'S in a 1 hour skywatch with 3 CACKLINGS picked out. Also a nice low ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, 3 PINE SISKINS and thousands of blackbirds. With the first raptors, I'll be heading up to mt Pleasant soon. Ken Rosenberg Sent from my iPhone On Mar 10, 2013, at 11:13 AM, david nicosia daven1...@yahoo.commailto:daven1...@yahoo.com wrote: Over Johnson City, NY at present the sky is literally filled with flock after flock of CANADA and SNOW GEESE heading north. estimated 2000-3000 CANADA's and 500 SNOWS in the last 20 minutes. pretty much non-stop... all heading toward Ithaca and the Finger Lakes. also large diurnal blackbird movement too. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Sunset Park Migrants
Thanks Brad and Tim for spotting and RBAing the G White-fronted Goose -- made for some spectacular viewing at Stewart Park in the mid-afternoon, with (besides great looks at the goose) a 2nd cycle and adult ICELAND GULL and a remarkable 7 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS (all adult or 3rd-cycle) in a single scan. An 8th (2nd-cycle) Lesser was seen before I got there. And thanks to Mark and Tilden (T) Chao for chauffeuring me down to Stewart Park from Mount Pleasant (where I was stranded car-less) -- It was fun to share such great birds, including good looks at a GOLDEN EAGLE, with young Tilden who already has a remarkable ability to spot and identify birds! Back at home, skywatching produced similar high numbers of geese, including 3 CACKLING GEESE, plus low circling ROUGH-LEGGED and RED-SHOULDERED HAWKS. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Mar 10, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Brad Walker edgarallenhoo...@gmail.commailto:edgarallenhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Tim Lenz and I watched migrants from Sunset Park today from about 10:30am-2pm. We had about 45,000 CANADA GEESE in total with 7 CACKLING GEESE and 19 SNOW GEESE mixed in. Towards the end of the count, Tim spotted a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE landing at the Swan Pen with two Canada Geese. This is most likely the same bird that Jay later saw at Stewart Park. (We went to Stewart Park at about 4 and had the Greater White-fronted Goose for about 20 minutes before it mysteriously disappeared. None of the 5 or so people present could re-find it after about a 5 minute gap). At Sunset Park we also had TUNDRA SWANS and NORTHER PINTAILS migrating withe Canada Geese. There were also raptors moving through including 2 SHARP-SHINNED HAWKS, RED-SHOULDERED HAWK, 3 NORTHERN HARRIER, 4 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS and 3 GOLDEN-EAGLES. Here's the link for the full list: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13353256 -- Brad Walker -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Great Black-backed Gull at compost banded in Maine last year
ah, but if it was banded in July 2011, can it still be a first-cycle?? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Mar 4, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Kevin J. McGowan k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu wrote: I took some photos of a banded first cycle Great Black-backed Gull at the Stevenson Road compost on Saturday, 2 March 2013. Turns out it was banded on Appledore Island, on the Isles of Shoals, Maine, where Cornell has a biological station, on 9 July 2011. This is the first banded Great Black-backed Gull I have seen in Ithaca. I have a photo athttps://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/Winter20122013#5851565656137461138. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Sunday morning longspur, shrike, pintails
Tom Schulenberg and I birded up to Triangle Diner area this morning, and like others, found a single LAPLAND LONGSPUR with HORNED LARKS on Lake Ridge Road -- a dull streaky bird feeding very close to the barn on the west side of the road (not with most of the larks and SNOW BUNTINGS further south). At Myer's Point, the highlights were an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL sleeping on the north gravel spit (my first one this year), a calling AMERICAN PIPIT, and a raft of over 180 NORTHERN PINTAIL to the south off the marina. We stopped by Cayuga Vista Rd. in Lansing and the NORTHERN SHRIKE was obligingly on the wire (11:30 AM). Back at home earlier in the morning, a flock of 25 RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS flew over, and a lone male COMMON REDPOLL was looking a bit sick under my feeders. 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] Airport Shrike, Rough-legged Hawks
This afternoon, I drove around some open-country areas near Ithaca and Dryden, hoping to pick up some field birds. I was rewarded right away by a NORTHERN SHRIKE behind the Ithaca Airport -- the bird (a crisp and frosty adult) was on top of a thin tree on Snyder Rd. directly across from the wrecked cars inside the airport fence. It flew off to the north. A nice light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was hunting over the airport fields. I then headed over to Purvis Rd. and Cornell Lane south of Dryden. On Cornell Lane, a large manure spread was visible and a flock of 200± HORNED LARKS was feeding far out from the road. In the horizontal snow squall I could not pick out any longspurs (should have headed up to Triangle Diner instead :( ). Another light-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was hunting over these fields. On my way back, I drove down Lake Rd. and a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK flew over the road. I then checked fields around George Rd. and Scoffield Rd. for Short-eared Owls between 5 and 5:30, without success. Earlier in the day, I scanned the gulls on the ice at Stewart Park, and as with every other visit this winter, failed to find anything other than the usual 3 species. 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] Sunday nw corner of Cayuga Lake.
Sorry for the late post (seems to be more the norm), but yesterday I ventured up the west side of Cayuga Lake to where the ice edge lingers just south of Lower Lake Road. From a single vantage point, I spent more than 2 hours counting all the waterfowl and coming up with some spectacular totals: 200 TUNDRA SWANS, 11,200 REDHEAD, 1,600 CANVASBACK, 1,645 COMMON MERGANSERS (carefully counted), and 32 NORTHERN PINTAIL were among the highlights. I also counted 17 BALD EAGLES on the ice edge in a single scan. All the birds were pretty far away and I kept my scope on 60X to make all my counts — but the lake was smooth and visibility was excellent. Several hundred COMMON GOLDENEYE were further south off Parker Rd., where in past years a Barrow's Goldeneye was regularly seen, but I couldn't pick one out. An island of SNOW GEESE was off Dean's Cove, with many flocks still moving inland around noon. Nothing rare, but I recommend a trip to up to the ice edge to witness this late winter waterfowl spectacle. KEN -- 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] Lots of redpolls
Hi all, Although this is not a happy way to acquire such information, if folks are finding dead or dying redpolls (as often happens late in the winter during invasion years), all of these specimens would be very valuable additions to the Cornell collection, and ultimately could help (though genetic or feather analyses) with the understanding of variation and origins that have been discussed so much on this list. I'm afraid I am not up on the exact latest protocols for donating those specimens -- or dealing with possible diseased birds -- but I'm sure someone could clarify these. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu From: bounce-72651303-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-72651303-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Bill Mcaneny [bmcane...@fltg.net] Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 12:15 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Lots of redpolls We can't lay claim to a flock of 200. More like a private party of 6. One is pale halfway up the back and noticeably fatter but it also appears to be puffed up, perhaps like Laura's. I could not see under the rump. The flanks appeared to have light striping and the face profile did not appear dished, so I have to go with Common R. On another unsatisfactory note, there was a dead redpoll under the feeders this a.m. The cleanliness gods are telling me some housekeeping may be in order. BTW, I have seen only one report here of an increase in the Junco yard count. We have had 10 to 12 consistently for the past 2 months. That is twice our count from previous winters. Have others seen higher counts than normal? Bill McAneny, T'burg -Original Message- From: bounce-72649768-7495...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-72649768-7495...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Laura Stenzler Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 9:35 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Cc: K A Schat Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Lots of redpolls Hi all We have a flock of around 200 Redpolls at our feeders thus morning, maybe more. They are very active, flying up every couple of minutes, then raining back down to the feeders and the ground. I've noted at least one that appears to be much larger than the rest, but I'm not sure if it is just more puffed up. And one possible Hoary, but it does not sit still long enough to be sure, yet. They are fascinating to watch! Laura Laura Stenzler l...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L 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] Tufted?
We're there any searches for the Tufted Duck today - successful or otherwise? I'd like to hear about any leads on Aythya flocks to look through. Thanks Ken Sent from my iPhone -- 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] CayugaRBA EARED GREBE East Shore Dr near Ithaca-La...
Eared Grebe now nicely visible from East Shore Park. 1:45 pm Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2013, at 12:48 PM, 6072292...@vtext.com 6072292...@vtext.com wrote: CayugaRBA EARED GREBE East Shore Dr near Ithaca-Lansing line. --Dave Nutter -- 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] N Saw Whet Owl in yard
At about 9:00, I heard some soft spontaneous whistled barking from an owl coming from the spruces in my Northeast Ithaca backyard. It didn't sound immediately familiar and I whistled a few imitations. It answered a couple of times, and then broke into a fast tooting trill, almost as fast as a Screech Owl -- but the trill slowed down into a classic N. Saw Whet tooting. Jay McGowan is listening for it now -- as of a few minutes ago it hadn't answered our tooting attempts. I've whistled for this species dozens of times in my yard this winter -- it must just sit there and laugh at me. 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] Fwd: (Long comment) Exempt part of Cayuga Lake from hunting diving ducks
Hi all, Not to belabor these points, but I posed the specific question to Mike Burger of Audubon NY and he spoke with Bryan Swift, NY DEC's top waterfowl management guy -- below is Mike's response. A bit technical, but very informative. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu Begin forwarded message: From: Mike Burger mbur...@cornell.edumailto:mbur...@cornell.edu Date: January 7, 2013 12:48:10 PM EST To: Kenneth Victor Rosenberg k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu Subject: RE: (Long comment) Exempt part of Cayuga Lake from hunting diving ducks Ken, I don’t have time to get into this issue in a thorough way, but I’ll share my initial reactions on the question of whether or not this is a conservation issue. It would be difficult to make the case for a biological need to ban duck hunting from any portion of Cayuga Lake. The evidence suggests this is not a conservation issue. Waterfowl management is far more complex than John Confer’s message below suggests. In fact, it’s wrong to assert that hunting regulates duck populations. From what I have heard from Bryan Swift, DEC’s rep on the flyway council technical section, which sets the waterfowl seasons, hunting is sometimes an additive mortality factor and sometimes not. For species whose populations we want to increase (per the North American Waterfowl Management Plan), the objective in setting hunting seasons and bag limits is generally to keep the mortality from hunting below the level at which it becomes additive. (It has been difficult to increase mortality from hunting of Snow Geese up to the point where it is additive.) The availability of wetland breeding habitat (primarily in the prairie pothole region for many species) is a hugely important factor in the demographic models used to set hunting seasons. Reproduction is highly influenced by the number and size of wetlands, which is driven primarily by precipitation and farming practices (which are addressed by Farm Bill programs). In general, breeding habitat is the limiting factor; only so many ducks will get to reproduce. Keeping hunting mortality in the compensatory range helps keep the populations such that they can make use of any available habitat. Banding studies indicate that overall hunter harvest rates on diving ducks are very low, probably on the order of 5-10%, and not likely to be adversely affecting any populations. The USFWS does spend a lot of money flying breeding (to survey wetlands as well as ducks) and wintering areas, surveying hunters, banding ducks, etc. to feed their models, but even so, there are limits to what can be concluded about impacts of weather, predation, hunting, and other factors, especially at the local level. Ducks are managed at the flyway and continental level, and hunting seasons and bag limits are coordinated among countries and states. Determining impacts of local hunting activities on continental populations would be difficult, and it’s probably not necessary as long as big-picture populations are faring well. It would be even more difficult to determine impacts of local hunting on local wintering populations because the birds are so mobile and may shift wintering areas from one year to the next depending on weather conditions and other factors. The “hunting season” variables that are manipulated are the number of days when hunting is allowed, when those days occur on the calendar, and how many of each species are allowed to be taken each day and possessed at any one time, but these variables have multiple and interacting effects on the populations. Related to these variables are several impacts other than direct, legal take, including crippling, poaching, and even disturbance - and all of these impacts essentially are factored into the models. That is, the length and timing of hunting seasons brings into the models the related effects of non-lethal impacts such as disturbance, and those are taken into consideration when setting the seasons. If I follow the biological component of the argument that has been presented, it is that large proportions of diving duck populations use the Finger Lakes in the winter and disturbing those birds from their preferred habitat during the hunting season must be detrimental to their survival and therefore to their populations. But, because the length and timing of the hunting season is selected on the basis that the models indicate the overall impact will not result in additive mortality for the populations, and the populations continue to increase (e.g., Redheads), that seems to suggest that the argument is wrong. I fully understand that this issue has complex societal aspects as well and personally I support those who are calling for tolerance and accommodation, but I thought it would be helpful to address the biological aspects
[cayugabirds-l] N Shrike at Lab of O Woods feeders
Yes, back to the birds (sorry for perpetuating a thread folks were tired of... but correct information is our most powerful tool) Yet another NORTHERN SHRIKE appeared briefly at the Lab of Ornithology's north feeders just before noon today -- possibly nabbing a bird and disappearing into a dense conifer, and then chasing a flock of finches over the Lab building to the south. Also a few PINE SISKINS and at least 1 COMMON REDPOLL in the area -- probably more at the Lab's main feeder garden out front. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] (Long comment) Exempt part of Cayuga Lake from hunting diving ducks
Hi all, This discussion threatens to escalate quickly and I hesitate to weigh in but here are a few comments for everyone to consider: 1. One of John Confer's main points is that making the direct connection between hunting pressure on Cayuga Lake and overall waterfowl populations is extremely difficult or impossible. This is true, so we need to be very careful not to then turn around and claim that local hunting is detrimental to duck populations. The truth is that waterfowl populations are managed and monitored at continental scales and factors such as rainfall on the breeding grounds and invasions of zebra mussels have a far greater effect on overall numbers and distributions than local hunting pressure. Most duck species (including Redhead) have long-term stable or increasing populations, primarily due to successful hunting-based waterfowl and wetland management in North America over the past 30 years. I have not looked at our local (or statewide) waterfowl survey data (coming from the counts we do in late January after hunting has stopped), but I believe that many duck species, and especially Redhead, have continued to increase as wintering birds on Cayuga Lake. The massive flocks of diving ducks have become and continue to be a spectacle to enjoy on many parts of the lake in mid- and late winter – i.e. the birds are not driven from vital feeding and resting areas long-term by hunting. In short, I would be very surprised if a biological argument could be made against legal and regulated hunting on any part of Cayuga Lake. 2. So that leaves the societal issues, which John and Dave and others have alluded to at the end of their posts: I would prefer not to hear gunshots I would prefer to watch the birds feeding, courting, preening, and resting. These of course are valid concerns, but I think we need to very careful to separate these personal-choice and societal issues from the biological. It may indeed be time to have a conversation about the justification for allowing hunting along the populated and popular shoreline within the Town of Ithaca -- but this is primarily a conversation about human conflict of interest and not biology. Like all human-conflict issues, it promises to be complex, contentious, and even potentially nasty. 3. I urge everyone to carefully consider Jody Enck's remarks, in light of our big-picture goals -- i.e. keeping bird and wildlife populations healthy and stemming the cancer of rampant development and habitat loss. if Birders and Hunters cannot reconcile our relatively minor differences to present a unified front against the much-larger forces threatening our shared resource, the future for birds and their habitats will be much dimmer. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jan 6, 2013, at 11:24 AM, nutter.d...@me.commailto:nutter.d...@me.com nutter.d...@me.commailto:nutter.d...@me.com wrote: I agree with John Confer and others. I think his arguments should be more clearly and succinctly stated in order to be clear to others and effective to those who make decisions. I'm not volunteering or attempting to do so here, just adding some observations. The number and variety of waterfowl throughout Cayuga Lake in the winter are directly and obviously related to when the ponds at the adjacent Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge are frozen. Large numbers of birds rely on the lake as they do on the refuge. Duck shooting still occurs along the shore of Treman Marine Park despite bans by the City and/or the park. The loophole is that firing initially happens from a shallow-draft boat, while chairs, supplies, and carcasses are piled a few feet away on the shore. Gunners step into the ankle-deep water or wade up to their knees to shoot repeatedly at wounded birds. It's surprising how many shots it takes to kill a sitting duck. Yesterday morning a large raft of Redheads was in the southeast corner of the lake. Two guys from near Treman in the southwest corner of the lake, where we had heard gunfire, drove over in their boat, flushed the raft, and returned to the southwest corner. It looked like a deliberate disturbance of the birds in hopes that they would settle near the ambush. Thousands of Redheads flew north instead, but maybe some did settle in the southwest and get shot. I have also seen this practice of flushing birds on the water within the southwest part of the lake when birds are settled outside the range of their guns. I would prefer not to hear gunshots, as I did throughout my New Year's Day walk all over the streets of West Hill in the City of Ithaca. Rather than see birds being harassed, maimed, and killed by guys with guns and big motor boats, I would prefer to watch the birds feeding, courting, preening, and resting. Truly the bird life on Cayuga Lake is a spectacle worth publicizing and
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Redpolls
I can finally join the redpolls finally club, as a flock of 10 or so descended on my paltry feeders in Northeast Ithaca. I've had none in my yard so far and none downtown on the CBC on the 1st -- they seem to finally be entering the more urban areas. My birds sampled the black oil sunflower seeds for a little while, and never even tried the niger. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Jan 5, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: They're eating black oil sunflower seed too, but they spill a lot of that on the ground, possibly through rummaging for the smallest seeds. I expect the standard sanitization advice is still to wash feeders thoroughly with a 10% bleach solution once a week, paying special attention to crevices where disease organisms may accumulate. Move feeders to new ground occasionally if you can, and stop feeding if you begin to see sick birds. Google bird feeder hygiene for lots more on this topic. -Geo -- 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] Ruby-crowned Kinglet at Swan Penn
Wow -- nice find . Another bird I missed on the CBC -- undoubtedly hunkered down somewhere in the area and not responding to my pishing in the wind.. Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jan 5, 2013, at 2:17 PM, France wrote: Picking thru the hedges around the pond right now France -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] white-winged, but not a scoter, poor thing
Just FYI, the White-winged Scoter I saw on the CBC Jan 1st was an adult male with a flock of goldeneye far to the north of the red jetty not apparent today. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jan 5, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: I stopped at East Shore Park today in hopes of seeing the reported White-winged Scoter. Instead, I found a lone female Lesser Scaup with a fishing lure in her mouth and apparently fishing line wrapped around her wing exposing the white at the bases of her secondaries. I have put a few photos athttp://picasaweb.google.com/KevinJ.McGowan/Winter20122013#5830074707828587666 and the following images. I don’t know if this is the same bird that has been reported as a White-winged Scoter, but I wouldn’t be surprised. It had me fooled for a while. It is a dark duck showing a distinct white patch in the wing, a white spot behind a scooped bill, and a dirty paler area near the nape. Luckily I saw only the head for the moments of my first identification try, and the white in the face was solid scaup. When it finally turned and the white in the wing showed I went back and tried to make it a scoter, but it just wasn’t. As can be seen from the photos, the bird has a large white belly and white wing linings. An immature scoter can have a white patch on the belly, but not a clearly defined dark chest line nor any white under the wing. With a bit of overexposure the head can be seen to be brown, not blackish and whitish. The large red lure dangling from its bill didn’t fit any field marks of any species, but it did make me think for a while that it was holding its bill open exposing a pink lining. The bird was actively swimming past the park, going south. It dived once when a Ring-billed Gull made a pass. I can imagine that having a gull pull on the lure, trying to steal the “fish” would not be fun, and the scaup didn’t let the gull get close. As someone commented to me, it’s good Bald Eagle bait. Personally I hope an eagle gets it soon. Its quality of life looks pretty miserable. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Stewart Park, East Shore Sat PM
The viewing conditions were excellent this afternoon from East Shore Park and Stewart Park. Although waterfowl diversity seemed lower today, it was a good day for picking out non-waterfowl waterbirds. Highlights included two RED-THROATED LOONS far to the northwest -- I wasn't sure if I was seeing the same bird moving, but eventually saw both birds on a single scan. Also 2 COMMON LOONS, 3 HORNED GREBES, (the) 1 RED-NECKED GREBE (close to the red jetty; also nicely visible from Stewart Park), 1 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT (hanging with the tight flock of COOTS), and a single GREAT BLUE HERON on the ice with gulls. Unlike on Tuesday, large numbers of gulls came in to loaf on the ice and nearshore water before heading out to the lake -- despite counting 620 HERRING and 115 GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS, I could not find anything even semi-unusual in the flocks. The Redhead, etc flock was not present in the southwest corner of the lake, but a small number of REDHEAD were among the still-very-large numbers of MALLARDs off Stewart Park. A single female NORTHERN PINTAIL was the only different duck I saw. Oh, a single SNOW GOOSE was way up the west side of the lake -- probably injured. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] More CBC birds for 2013
Hi all, Thank you Donna for correctly surmising that my quick late night email did not convey the message I had intended. I indeed was one of the counters who slogged through the day counting common birds (and looking for unusual species) -- albeit in the howling winds on the lakeshore rather than in the snowy woods (I had only 9 chickadees for the day!). So of course the real value of the CBC is in the numbers of common birds and how they vary from year to year, and this requires the hard work of all the counters. But I do believe another aspect of the CBC is the quest for variety, and I think a valuable strategy on any CBC might be to have a floater spot-checking important areas throughout the day to pick up species that could otherwise be missed (I'm the one, after all, who missed all of Chris's rare water birds). My real intent was just to alert people that these birds were around and that the CBC total was even higher than we had thought and indeed probably set a count record -- I do think that is pretty cool. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Donna Scott wrote: I am sure Ken did not mean to dismiss the efforts of the regular counters on New Year's Day. Email can be too terse quick, sometimes, may not say quite what we want it to. Chris's sightings WERE pretty neat to read about. Donna Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Marie P Read m...@cornell.edu wrote: I agree with Kevin and Donna...and especially so since my first Mt Pleasant bird on Jan 1st was a decidedly not-commonplace Common Raven!! All our counters are important. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 From: bounce-72554644-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-72554644-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Donna Scott [d...@cornell.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:43 AM To: Kevin J. McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] More CBC birds for 2013 I agree with your reply to Ken. Also, our so-called boring areas sometimes give us quite a thrill, as when I found the Barred Owl first thing January 1! Donna Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Kevin J. McGowan k...@cornell.edu wrote: -- 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 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] Carcass identification-murder most foul
Nice! Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jan 3, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Teresa Pegan wrote: Maybe it was an aix murder. Whoever is re-sponsa-ble should be brought to justice. Okay that was really bad haha. Sorry. On Jan 3, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Pete Marchetto wrote: I think we should all duck and cover, as the raft of bad puns are taking over this thread. -Pete _ Pete Marchetto Engineering Physicist, CLO/BRP Grad Student, BEE 1.607.254.6281 Got a brand new shipment of electrical equipment, it's addressed to the bottom of the sea. -- Linnell and Flansburgh, 2007 On Jan 3, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Chris Pelkie chris.pel...@cornell.edumailto:chris.pel...@cornell.edu wrote: I don't think murder has been proven yet. Maybe it was suffering and someone gave it the coop de gräce. ChrisP (OK, going to wash my hands now) On Jan 3, 2013, at 13:35 , Caroline Manring wrote: Has anyone made the revision of Murder most fowl yet? Sorry, sorry, I know. --English prof who can't help herself (Caroline) On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu wrote: Dave, I guess you have to prove that it was alive in 2013. So need to do accurate time of death on this bird even to count for the count week. Meena From: bounce-72555400-3493...@list.cornell.edumailto:bounce-72555400-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-72555400-3493...@list.cornell.edumailto:bounce-72555400-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of nutter.d...@me.commailto:nutter.d...@me.com Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:16 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carcase identification-murder most foul I meant 2013. Even typing I'm not used to the new year. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] More CBC birds for 2013
In talking to Chris Wood some more today, I realized that he had seen several other species yesterday that were not found by official counters of the CBC -- really shows what kind of diversity a top birder can find when they are covering the whole area looking for target birds instead of walking all over counting chickadees and juncos. In addition to the Surd Scoter, Long-tailed Diuck, Glaucous Gull, N. Goshawk, and N. Saw Whet Owl, Chris also had numbers of CANVASBACK from Hog Hole in the afternoon, a HORNED GREBE near the lighthouse, and a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW with Tree Sparrows somewhere near Drake Rd. That would bump our 2013 total to 98, a new Ithaca high count, PLUS Chris saw Green-winged Teal, N. Shoverler, and Lesser black-backed Gull all juist north of the circle at Myer's Point. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] HUGE Snow Geese movement
At dusk I stopped by Stewart park - the churning lakeshore was pretty bird less, but then I noticed the western sky filled with SNOW GEESE pouring in from the south. The skeins were flying north but drifting east over the lake, flying very strongly into the stiff wind. I'm sure I missed the beginning of this return flight, but I counted 5,300 birds. They seemed to be dropping onto the lake somewhere up near myer's. So it seems not all (any?) of the snows left the cayuga lake basin today. Ken Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Bill Mcaneny bmcane...@fltg.net wrote: Interesting to hear that they were still streaming at 2:30. I was digging out my driveway at about 12:15 when I heard the Snows and saw them heading south. I wondered whether they were going to the corn fields because the Canadas fly in the same direction in the morning and back to the lake later in the day. When the good folks south of us started to report the flights, it was obvious the destination was not the corn fields, at least, not the local ones. I think the early reports started coming in about 12:30, just a few minutes after my first sightings. The timing and direction were perfect for an escape to the south. I think Geo's count was accurate. While I watched for just a few minutes, I saw perhaps 1000 to 2000 birds. I wonder what Geo's final tally was. Too bad the birds couldn't have waited until the census day next week. Bill McAneny, Tburg -Original Message- From: bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-72547128-7495...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:38 PM To: Stephanie Greenwood Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] HUGE Snow Geese movement Still streaming out the south gates of the Cayuga Basin at 2:30! -Geo -- 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 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] N Saw Whet Owl northeast Ithaca
After whistling hopefully off an on in my yard since October, I finally got a response from a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL this evening around 11:45 PM. The snow had stopped and it was extremely quiet -- the distant reverberating toots were coming from the direction of Muriel St., possibly further to the west. I will try to make that my first bird of 2013, as I start the Ithaca Christmas Bird Count on Jan. 1. KEN (just returning from eastern Massachusetts, where I was lucky to see the long-lingering Northern Lapwing in Bridgewater) 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Townsend's Solitaire continues at Sampson State Pa...
And still there at noon. I was extremely lucky as it was the first bird I saw as I drove up and noticed a group of people looking up in a tree! thanks to Tim Lenz for checking this middle of nowhere spot and finding such a great bird! KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Dec 14, 2012, at 9:00 AM, 6072292...@vtext.com 6072292...@vtext.com wrote: Townsend's Solitaire continues at Sampson State Park says Jessie Barry. --Dave Nutter -- 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] Meadowlark, sapsucker
A couple more late lingering birds today - an EASTERN MEADOWLARK on King Rd and a calling Sapsucker at home this morning in NE Ithaca. Also a light phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK on King Rd. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Cackling Geese
To continue my string of late-lingering December birds, the RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET is hanging in there for another week at the swan pen at Stewart Park. I also saw at least 3 CACKLING GEESE among the 1000+ CANADAs -- these may have been different from Jay's birds this morning, as mine were all off the middle part of the park, and I know that 3 were seen again in the afternoon at the east end. Two DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS on the lighthouse jetty would also have been exceptional December bird just a few years back. 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] snipe, Savannah Sparrows
Late this afternoon, while walking the dog in the fields west of Bluegrass Lane in Northeast Ithaca, we flushed a WILSON'S SNIPE from a wet grassy area, and at least 2 (possibly 4 or more) SAVANNAH SPARROWS from the remaining patches of taller dry grass. These would be exceptional birds on the Ithaca CBC, if they were to stick around a few more weeks. 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] Black Scoter, Ruby-cr Kinglet Stewart Park
Highlight today at Stewart Park was a single adult male BLACK SCOTER fairly far off the center of the park, and a late RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET with chickadees at the swan pen. 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] Interesting gull at compost
There was an interesting full at the compost piles off Stevenson rd this morning. I suppose it is a first cycle LESSER. BLACK-BACKED GULL but it seemed to be a bit larger and bulkier than nearby Herrings, which would not be right. I was fooled by one last year at Stewart park that looked big to me but was just a lesser. Might be wort. A look by others though. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Stewart Park scoters, etc.
Sorry for the late post... An afternoon (3:30-5) check of Stewart Park produced a single male WHITE-WINGED SCOTER and 4 female-plumaged BLACK SCOTERS on the white-capped lake among the 130+ RUDDY DUCKS and smaller numbers of BUFFLEHEAD, LESSER and GREATER SCAUP, AMERICAN WIGEON, GADWALL, AM BLACK DUCKS, COOTS, and 21 PIED-BILLED GREBES. A PEREGRINE circled high overhead with a kettle of TURKEY VULTURES; 5 HOODED MERGANSERS, 3 WOOD DUCKS, 2 YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, a MOCKINGBIRD, and a KINGFISHER were at the Swan Pen. 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/ --
[nfc-l] nocturnal crow
At 10:30 this evening, I heard a single AMERICAN CROW flying over my house, calling -- very strange to hear one at night! I suppose it was a bird disturbed off its roost, but it was flying north to south against a fairly illuminated overcast sky. Is there any evidence of true nocturnal movements in crows? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Brant in the sky
I just heard a flock of BRANT migrating over Tareyton Drive in Northeast Ithaca -- 1:52 AM -- while taking out the garbage and recycling. Like so many barking dogs in the sky.. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Nelson's Sparrow (Clay-colored continues)
Jay remains one step ahead of most of us, but the CLAY-COLORED SPARROW continues to show itself into the late afternoon at Stewart Park -- in the weedy patch off the central pavilion. At least 2 WHITE-CROWNs are in this patch as well, and a LINCOLNs found by Tim Lenz. A single SURF SCOTER has drifted over to join a flock of RUDDY DUCKS off the east of Stewart Park. A single female REDHEAD is in the COOT flock -- a bit early according to eBird. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Oct 14, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Jay McGowan wrote: A NELSON'S SPARROW remains in the short grass (now with large mown parts) at Hogs Hole. Not a lot else but many many White-crowned Sparrows. Jay -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Saturday birds (so far)
With the passage of this strong front, I headed to Cayuga Lake today around noon and watched from East Shore Park and then Stewart Park. Not much to report, actually -- the only possibly new arrivals were a flock of 7 male RUDDY DUCKS off the east side of Stewart Park. Still 30+ PIED-BILLED GREBES scattered about, but they've been there for awhile. Although no longer an unusual bird around here, it was nice to see a minimum of 4 (and possibly 6) BALD EAGLES flying around, including two adults in a dog-fight above the west side of the lake, an immature carrying a fish over the jetties, and several more single adults and immatures that may have been the same or different birds. 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] Orange-crowned Warbler; Marsh Wren still at Sapsucker Woods
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER at far parking lot at Cornell Lab of Ornithology -- just beyond chain fence -- abut 10:15 this morning. MARSH WREN apparently still around (near staff entrance) as well. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Oct 1, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Tom Schulenberg wrote: Ken Rosenberg heard and saw the Marsh Wren again this morning in the cattails by the staff entrance at the Lab (at the northeast corner of the building). It seems to calling less now (an hour after Ken had it), but it's still there. tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113tel:607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edumailto:ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@gmail.commailto:tschulenb...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] lunch hour migrants (+Common Tern)
I enjoyed a late lunch hour on my back deck (1-2 PM) today -- birds were definitely moving on the north winds. I saw at least 6 high-streaming BROAD-WINGED HAWKS (I'm sure I missed many), plus a migrating AM KESTREL, a low imm. BALD EAGLE, and a very high v of 30 CANADA GEESE. Anyone at Mount Pleasant today?? Also in the yard were 2 WINTER WRENS, 2 YELLOW-RUMPED and 1 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. Yesterday morning, an imm. COMMON TERN was flying around and landed on the red lighthouse jetty off Stewart Park -- sorry for this late post. 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] Olive-sided Fly at sapsucker woods
Olive-sidedFlycatcher on snag right off Sherwood Platform on Wilson Trail at Sapsucker Woods. 9 am Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Olive-sided Fly at sapsucker woods, etc.
Hi all, In addition to the close OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, there was a good scattering of migrants around Sapsucker Woods this morning. Aside from multiple (5) MAGNOLIA WARBLERS, I has singles of other migrants: LEAST FLYCATCHER, PHILADELPHIA VIREO, LINCOLN'S SPARROW, YELLOW-RUMPED, BLACK-THROATED GREEN, BLACKBURNIAN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, and WILSON'S WARBLERS. At Stewart Park yesterday between storms, there was a minor fallout of PIED-BILLED GREBES (counted 28), plus 4 RING-NECKED DUCKS, and a 2nd-3rd cyclish LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. A single, very greenish imm. YELLOW WARBLER and 2 WARBLING VIREOS were among the 20+ YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS around the swan pen. A WINTER WREN and BROWN CREEPER in my backyard yesterday gave a latish-fall feel to the day. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Sep 23, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: Olive-sidedFlycatcher on snag right off Sherwood Platform on Wilson Trail at Sapsucker Woods. 9 am Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Cattle egret avocet godwits etc at Montezuma now
Cattle egret is on top of round low tree at back edge of Puddlers marsh 9:45 am. Also 4 Hudsonian godwits 1 avocet, 1 red-necked phalarope very distant from towpath. Ken Sent from my iPhone -- 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 shorebird Sunday
A quick mid-day report from towpath rd. where I spent most of the morning. Not a tremendous number of birds in the distant shallow flats, but light and viewing were good. Highlights we're single BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPIER, 4 RED-NECKED and 1 WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 2 BAIRDS SP, 4 AM GOLDEN PLOVERS, 4 STILT SP, and other common species. Also PHILADELPHIA VIREO in warbler flock. Heading for Wildlife Drive Sent from my iPhone -- 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] 7 WILLETS on white lighthouse jetty! --D...
They are still there at 4:15 PM. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 5, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edumailto:jw...@cornell.edu wrote: The seven juvenile Western Willets were still on the white lighthouse jetty at 10:30. Also, two Forster's Terms were flying around and perched on some buoys off Stewart Park when the heavy rain came. Semipalmated and Least sandpipers along the shore of Hogs Hole too. Myers point has several Semipalmated Sandpipers but nothing else of note so far. Jay On Aug 5, 2012 8:16 AM, 6072292...@vtext.commailto:6072292...@vtext.com wrote: CayugaRBA 7 WILLETS on white lighthouse jetty! --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Myer's sandpipers Fri eve.
I headed to Myer's yesterday evening, hoping for more unusual shorebird migrants. With a backdrop of one of the more spectacular sunsets I've seen in Ithaca, complete with double rainbow and light rain drifting over the lake, I counted more shorebirds than I think I've seen there before -- but low diversity and nothing unusual. My highest counts were 18 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 16 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS (about half adults and half juveniles, accumulating the whole time I was there), 2 adult SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, and 3 KILLDEER. Several PURPLE MARTINS were flying around with other swallows, calling, a single CASPIAN TERN was with the gulls, and a group of 8 HOODED MERGANSERS drifted in the mouth of Salmon Creek. 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] [nfc-l] migrating cuckoos
Hi all, I just heard a YELLOW-BILLED CI|UCKOO high over my house at 10:50 this evening -- giving the long K'OW K'OW call series. thanks for all the info and anecdotes on mid-summer calling in cuckoos, I am aware of the odd mid-summer calling and I have heard (mostly BBCU} on warm summer nights. I also hear a scattering of calls from both cuckoos, along with few thrushes and other migrants) consistently through the first week of June. The birds I heard were high in the sky and appeared to be moving (but it is certainly possible that I m wrong. KEN. Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jun 7, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Bill Evans wrote: There’s a delightful old paper by Gerald Thayer describing the mid-summer, mid-night, mid-sky gyrations of the Black-billed Cuckoo, as noted by my father and me for three consecutive seasons in the southwestern corner of New Hampshire: ”Several years before we discovered the nocturnal-flight phenomenon, we began to be puzzled by the extreme frequency of Cuckoo calls on summer nights. ***They uttered both the cow-row notes and the rolling guttural call; but the guttural was much the commoner of the two, except on dark, foggy nights, when the case was usually reversed. ***The birds were often so far up as to be only faintly audible when directly overhead, with no obstructions interposed; and this on a still night would seem to mean an elevation of at least a hundred and fifty yards. They sometimes flew lower, however, and on cloudy nights often moved about barely above the tree-tops.” “On the evening of July 11-a pitch-dark evening with a thundershower lowering,-they were remarkably noisy, both sitting in trees and flying high in air. The seated ones, of which I heard only two, made the Cowcow notes, while all the flying ones made the liquid gurgle. I heard this note overhead between thirty and forty times in the course of about three hours, during half of which time I was afoot on the road.” -- Thayer, G. H. 1903. The Mystery of the Black-billed Cuckoo. Bird Lore 5:143-145. In a big nocturnal flight I heard moving up the St. Croix River (MN/WI) in late May of 1985, I estimated a rate of passage of Black-billed Cuckoos in the range of 100 per hour for at least a few hours in the middle of the night. This was not a call total but a rate of vocal birds estimated by following multiple calls from apparently the same individual, and it was clear that these birds were migrants heading northbound. In 1988-1990 I began recording nocturnal flight calls each fall migration period in early July around Ithaca, NY and was surprised that in each season the highest rate of BBCU calling was in July through early August. There seemed to be a lot of variability in the number of calls I recorded between proximal nights, which could be a function of weather/wind and microphone pickup dynamics or that the birds tended to prefer some nights over others. In the big passerine push from mid –August through mid-September across central NY, BBCU flight calls are less common than one might expect. Using a Sennheiser shotgun mic back in those days, my rates of BBCU nocturnal flight call detection in the latter half of August were in the 1-2 per hour range (averaged over whole night). In the first half of September rates dropped to the range of one call every four hours. Whereas in July through early August it was common to record sustained rate through the night of 4-5 per hour. But as I mentioned there was a lot of variability from night to night. I haven’t recorded much in June in central NY, but my impression has been that the breeding ground flight calling, the “mid-summer, mid-night, mid-sky, gyrations”, is a phenomenon that increases in July. Bill E -- 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] migrating cuckoos
I was surprised to step out in my driveway (Ithaca NY) this evening and hear 4 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS in 15 minutes (3 in the first 5 minutes). Maybe caught the tail end of a migration burst, but at least some mysterious migrants are continuing to move at night. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] a few Sunday birds
There was at least 1 CERULEAN on River Rd. near Mud Lock last year, although I did not hear one last weekend. They seem to still be numerous in all the traditional spots around Montezuma Refuge, though the refuge staff have noted their disappearance from the forest south of Rt. 5/20 west of Mud Lock, for some unexplained reason. Cerulean Warblers are often patchily distributed, even in suitable habitat, and are known to shift their population areas from year to year. Still, the complete disappearance of a healthy population along Salmon Creek (including on the adjacent slopes) -- Chris's long-standing road-paving theory aside -- is a complete mystery. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jun 4, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Kathy Strickland wrote: Speaking of Ceruleans, I can remember hearing many singing along River Road (Mud Lock) back in the mid-90's as well, but it's been years since I've heard even one there. Disappointing. Kathy Strickland From: k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu To: cayugabird...@list.cornell.edumailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] a few Sunday birds Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 02:10:25 + I was surprised to hear a PINE SISKIN over my house this morning -- further evidence perhaps that a few might be breeding in the area. At Myer's Point, there was a single SEMILPALMATED SANDPIPER on the lakeshore, and an ORCHARD ORIOLE singing by the park entrance. I birded up along Salmon Creek for several hours in the steady light rain, mostly listening for singing birds out the car window. Lots of common local breeders, but I could find no Cerulean Warblers in any of the formerly traditional spots (there used to be 30+ singing males along Salmon Creek in the mid 1990s). I also checked several side streams and could not find Acadian Flycatchers. Saw a silent LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH along one stream. Back at home, the YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS just fledged from their nest in a partially dead willow, and they were noisily feeding around the yard. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto: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] a few Sunday birds
I was surprised to hear a PINE SISKIN over my house this morning -- further evidence perhaps that a few might be breeding in the area. At Myer's Point, there was a single SEMILPALMATED SANDPIPER on the lakeshore, and an ORCHARD ORIOLE singing by the park entrance. I birded up along Salmon Creek for several hours in the steady light rain, mostly listening for singing birds out the car window. Lots of common local breeders, but I could find no Cerulean Warblers in any of the formerly traditional spots (there used to be 30+ singing males along Salmon Creek in the mid 1990s). I also checked several side streams and could not find Acadian Flycatchers. Saw a silent LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH along one stream. Back at home, the YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS just fledged from their nest in a partially dead willow, and they were noisily feeding around the yard. 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] Prothonotary still at Myers.
Still there at 9 am, back and forth from willows between camping area and point across to Salt Point willows. Singing sporadically and softly. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Grasshoppers Sparrow Cherry rd. Lansiing
GRASSHOPPER SPARROW singing loudly fairly close to Cherry Rd. just west of Ithaca airport. 9:30 am. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] more night migrants
I guess I was too tired to type last night -- sorry about that :) (gotta love those thrushees) KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On May 30, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: Quite a bit of birds are still moving overhead tonight. In 30 minutes beginning at 11:30, I counted 44 Swainson's Thrushees and 6 Gray-Cheekd Thrushrs over my hose in Northeast Ithaca. 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] more night migrants
Quite a bit of birds are still moving overhead tonight. In 30 minutes beginning at 11:30, I counted 44 Swainson's Thrushees and 6 Gray-Cheekd Thrushrs over my hose in Northeast Ithaca. 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] Hudsonian godwit etc MNWR
HHUDSONIAN GODWIT at Benning Marsh early. Apparently not relocated. Lots of shorebirds at Towpath. Excellent viewing. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Hudsonian godwit etc MNWR
Here are a few more details of my fine morning at Montezuma -- surprisingly cool and clear during the time I was there (until 11 AM). On the drive up in the early morning I stopped to listen for Jay's GRASSHOPPER SPARROW on Rt. 90 near Lake Rd., having missed them at several stops nearby last weekend. I was rewarded by 2 singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROWS (one very close to the road, one further back) exactly where Jay described -- then a third one singing in the large field just to the north of Lake Rd. on the west side of Rt. 90. Lots of good habitat around there. As I entered Montezuma Refuge at 6:30, I was greeted by a calling VIRGINIA RAIL at the beginning of the entrance rd. Along the Wildlife Drive, lots of song (I counted 14 WILLOW FLYCATCHERS, 3 CERULEAN WARBLERS, 1 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO on the drive), and a few shorebirds at the Flats including LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER and SANDPIPERS. The highlight, though, was the only shorebird at Benning Marsh -- a beautiful male HUDSONIAN GODWIT, which fed, preened, and slept fairly close to the road. While I was watching the godwit a commotion of Red-winged Blackbirds across the road alerted me to 2 AMERICAN BITTERNS, which flushed from the marsh like brown owls and flew off across the Main Pool. At Puddler's Marsh on Towpath Rd., the shorebird habitat was excellent and birds were much closer than last weekend. Among the closest birds were 2 SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS, 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, many DUNLIN and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, and 2-3 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS. Further out were many more DUNLIN, SEMI-SANDPIPERS, LEAST SANDPIPERS, 1 male WILSON'S PHALAROPE, 1 PECTORAL SANDPIPER, a few more WHITE-RUMPS, and a few SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and both YELLOWLEGS. 12 species of shorebirds for the morning. Also heard 2 more CERULEAN WARBLERS and a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO along Towpath. 3 TRUMPETER SWANS very close, lots of calling COMMON GALLINULE, MARSH WRENS, and SWAMP SPARROWS. An EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE is singing in my backyard at 7:45 PM -- a new migrant for the year. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On May 28, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: HHUDSONIAN GODWIT at Benning Marsh early. Apparently not relocated. Lots of shorebirds at Towpath. Excellent viewing. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Yellow- bellied Flycatcher In backyard
A Yellow- bellied Flycatcher calling 'chu-wee' from the spruces in my backyard at 1 pm. Also singing Blackburnian W. all morning. Still migrants moving through. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] more yard birds
Some more yard birds in my backyard in Northeast Ithaca so far today. The male BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (still singing) was chasing another warbler, which turned out to be a female BLACKPOLL WARBLER. A few raptors are apparently migrating over -- a subadult BROAD-WINGED HAWK and a high circling female AMERICAN KESTREL which I wouldn't have seen if I wasn't watching the Broad-wing; then a ratty immature RED-TAILED HAWK, and then 2 TURKEY VULTURES flying high in straight line to the north. A SWAINSON'S THRUSH was singing in the yard at 2 PM. 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] Yellow-throated warbler PAIR
In sycamores at Ithaca city golf course. Same spot. More details later. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Yellow-throated Warbler PAIR at Ithaca City Golf Course
8th time's a charm! With a brief window in downtown Ithaca before an appointment, I decided to give a listen at the sycamores by the 3rd tee of Ithaca city golf course (Pier Rd). Arriving at 8:20, I immediately heard the double-noted song of a YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER out my car window -- it was among the loudest bird songs there and easily heard over the noisy grass-cutters and other truck noise in the area. I spotted the bird mid-height in the sycamore closest to Fall Creek, and then it flew up very high in the sycamores over the 3rd tee, continuing to sing. While I was following the singing bird, I heard a loud chip closer by and was surprised to see a SECOND YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER foraging lower in the sycamore. I followed the second bird for awhile as the first bird sang -- it (she?) flew from cluster to cluster of newly opening sycamore leaves, working its way higher in the trees. Then, I briefly saw the singing bird fly to the second bird and they had a brief (seemingly nonagressive) interaction partially hidden from view -- this was possibly a brief copulation. The two birds then took off to the north, flying towards or over the fire-training building area. No more songs were heard in the 10 minutes I remained in the area. These birds behaved exactly as a breeding pair would be expected to behave, which is not that surprising given the longevity and irregular appearance of the singing male (probably using a larger home range), the perfectly suitable habitat, northward expansion of many species, and global warming in general. Others hopefully will be able to document and confirm this breeding activity in the coming weeks. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] at least one migrant left
There are still migrants passing through my yard, so at least some birds are still moving. Yesterday I heard a singing YELLOW-THROATED VIREO (third one this spring), and today I had singing MAGNOLIA WARBLER, SCARLET TANAGER, and RED-EYED VIREO (none of these nest in my neighborhood). Last night I heard several SWAINSON'S and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, and a loud CANADA WARBLER flight call. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On May 22, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: On a short walk around the Wilson trail loop north of the Lab pond at lunch time I found a silently foraging PHILADELPHIA VIREO in the willow at the pond outflow. Everything else seemed to be the normal breeders. (But, where are the redstarts?) A Gray Catbird just outside the staff gate was singing a complex song that included a nearly perfect Alder Flycatcher song. I was fooled for a while until I realized the flycatcher only sang when the catbird did, and it was in the wrong habitat. I watched it sing and confirmed that it was the catbird. Very strange tonal shift in the middle of the song. I tried to get a video. I have the vocals, but not the visuals, I think. Kevin -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Fairground clarification
Yes sorry about that. Empire farm days. I don't know why an early learned name - even if incorrect - is so easy to stick. Sent from my iPhone On May 21, 2012, at 8:59 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard job121...@verizon.netmailto:job121...@verizon.net wrote: Thank you, Mark, for the clarification. Again! Because the well-known Lott Farm is the long-time home of the Empire Farm Days activities it's easy to see why some folks would assume it is also a fairgrounds. It is a working farm the rest of the year! Fritzie ** Mark Millermailto:mmiller...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Just hoping to avoid confusion, and I assume the Seneca Co Fairground post was actually the Lott Farm (aka Empire Farm Days site). The Lott farm is located near the Finger Lakes airport (originally Seneca Falls airport) on Martin Rd and route 414 just south of the (former) village of Seneca Falls. The Seneca County Fairground is an entirely fenced in area inside the village of Waterloo on the corners of North St, Swift St, Inslee St, and Wright Ave. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] 4 Wilson's Phaleropes at Puddlers
4 WILSON'S PHALEROPESare together at Puddlers Marsh Montezuma. 2 males 2 females. Otherwise same shorebirds as reported yesterday. KEN Sent from my iPhone -- 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] other Montezuma highlights
Besides the 4 WILSON'S PHALAROPES (spelled correctly this time), here are some other highlights from my trip to the Montezuma area today. Shorebird habitat is the best I've seen it in spring, although it is a shame that viewing conditions are always too awful - 60X, heat waves, bad light -- to really enjoy the shorebirds. Puddler's Marsh along Towpath Rd. had about 60 DUNLIN, 4 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 40 LEAST SANDPIPERS, 10 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, and a few SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS and PLOVERS. May's Point pool was also in excellent shorebird condition -- I counted 125 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS and 60 LEAST SANDPIPERS among the stubble on the mudflats. there is still some shorebird habitat at the Visitors Center, Larue's, Shorebird Flats, Benning, and North Spring Pool (which I didn't check) -- shorebird migration is yet to peak, so I predict a good showing around Montezuma. I heard the PROTHONOTARY WARBLER on Armitage Rd., and CERULEANS on Armitage, Towpath, May's Point, and Visitor's Center. BLACKPOLL WARBLERS seemed to be everywhere today, including around my yard this morning, at the Ithaca Golf Course (where I missed the alleged Yellow-throated Warbler for the 7th time), along Lake Rd. near Long Point, Mud Lock, Armitage, Towpath and May's Point. WILLOW FLYCATCHERS were singing in many areas as well. BALD EAGLES ready to fledge at Mud Lock. No Black Terns anywhere. I finished up at the Seneca Co. Fairgrounds, where I was dismayed to find them mowing nearly the entire grounds over a month earlier than usual -- a reminder that even some of the best habitat around (as at George Rd.) is really just an accident of convenience and doesn't really represent purposeful conservation. In the northeastern corner, in an area that had been mowed earlier and was growing back, I found a group of 5 UPLAND SANDPIPERS, and BOBOLINKS and MEADOWLARKS were present in the unmowed patches. Maybe the mosaic of patches will allow the birds to produce a few young this year. 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] Mourning Warbler, etc.
Thanks for all the tips on finding a Mourning Warbler for our out-of-region guests (Department of Defense Partners in Flight group). Given our time constraints, I went with 8-yr old intel from my Atlasing days, and headed up to the top of Tehan Rd. at the edge of Yellow Barn State Forest. Sure enough, a MOURNING WARBLER was singing along the power-line cut as soon as we got out of the van. With just a little coaxing from my iPhone, the warbler flew up into a small tree and sang in the open -- a life bird for folks as far away as Arizona and Alaska. On a short walk into Yellow Barn on Signal Tower Rd. we had other common forest breeders, but many things are still not in -- no Wood Pewees, only 1 Veery,etc. Yesterday evening, we took the group up to the top of Mt. Pleasant to listen for night flight calls, and although it was surprisingly quiet after dusk, we did hear 2 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS and a nice AMERICAN BITTERN that called 4 times as it flew directly overhead. Back at home later in the evening, I heard a few thrushes and 2 SOLITARY SANDPIPERS in 30 minutes of listening. 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] Barred Owl in Sapsucker Woods?
Hi all, Another intel question -- has anyone still been seeing the roosting BARRED OWL in Sapsucker Woods during the past few days? We were not able to see it during Migration Celebration bird walks on Saturday, and will full leaf out, it is harder to see into the pines from the trail. If anyone has a recent sighting with exact location, please let me know. thanks, 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] Mourning Warbler territories?
Enough about ticks and rashes! Does anyone know the locality of any easily accessible Mourning Warbler territories in the Hammond Hill/Yellow Barn SF areas? There used to be an easy one at the power line cut at the top of Tehan Rd. and another along the south stretch of Yellow Barn Rd. I know they've been found at Hammond Hill this spring, but not sure exactly where. We have a group visiting from outside the region and this is one of their most wanted target species. thanks! 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler territories?
Thanks Mark - but since it will only be May 16, I think we should try the high country. Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Mark Chao markc...@imt.org wrote: Hi Ken and everyone, If the sporting/listing aspect of birding is the goal, rather than witnessing actual breeding behavior, then I might suggest trying the Wilson Trail North in Sapsucker Woods between 7 and 8 AM on May 17. Three of the past four years, I've found one right there at that very time. Last year I also found a second Mourning Warbler on May 17 on the Dryden side. Seeing Mourning Warblers in Sapsucker Woods may be a little harder than seeing them on territories on Beam Hill and in our nearby state forests, but I'm not sure to what extent. With patience, I had excellent views of two of the four Mourning Warblers in Sapsucker Woods, as well as a frustrating glimpse of a third. One remained out of my sight. Mark Chao -Original Message- From: bounce-58388044-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-58388044-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kenneth Victor Rosenberg Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:27 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Mourning Warbler territories? Enough about ticks and rashes! Does anyone know the locality of any easily accessible Mourning Warbler territories in the Hammond Hill/Yellow Barn SF areas? There used to be an easy one at the power line cut at the top of Tehan Rd. and another along the south stretch of Yellow Barn Rd. I know they've been found at Hammond Hill this spring, but not sure exactly where. We have a group visiting from outside the region and this is one of their most wanted target species. thanks! 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 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] Sapsucker Woods, Fri 5/11
I had a lone PINE SISKIN flying north over my house this morning, so maybe that's the one Mark saw. There were still the remnants of a migrant flock on Tareyton Drive near my house this morning -- 6-8 YELLOW-RUMPS, 1 AMERICAN REDSTART, 1 NASHVILLE, 1 YELLOW WARBLER, 1 singing RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET, 1 LEAST FLYCATCHER. Yesterday morning, these were joined by a silent BLUE-HEADED VIREO, a singing NORTHERN PARULA, singing BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, a Western PALM WARBLER, and a SWAINSON'S THRUSH. Single NASHVILLE and MAGNOLIA WARBLER in my backyard both mornings as well. I've tried for the Yellow-throated Warbler 4 times already without success, although it was either raining, foggy, or late afternoon on all of my tries. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On May 11, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Mark Chao wrote: I found a PINE SISKIN in a flock of goldfinches by the Podell Boardwalk in Sapsucker Woods on Friday morning. Otherwise, I found very few migrants, none at all unusual. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] no Yellow-throated but yes Cerulean at Renwick woods
When I got down to the Ithaca City golf course this evening (6:30-7:15), it was raining lightly but steadily, and I could not locate the Yellow-throated Warbler by sight or song. A loose group of 10+ YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, with several singing, were moving around the sycamores and foraging in the rain over Fall Creek. I did hear several distinct songs from a CERULEAN WARBLER, though, coming from Renwick Woods across the creek. A silent Western PALM WARBLER appeared with the Yellow-rumps, and an AMERICAN REDSTART and WOOD THRUSH were also audible from Renwick. 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] Cape May etc. in yard
A quick walk around my yard and close neighborhood this morning turned up 2 male CAPE MAY WARBLERS (not singing but giving continuous high zeeep flight calls), a singing BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER, BLUE-HEADED VIREO, SCARLET TANAGER, and several WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS, in addition to yesterday's arriving GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER and BALTIMORE ORIOLES. I don't think it's been posted here, but on Wednesday morning there was an adult FORSTER'S TERN (found by Stuart Krasnoff) along with 20+ BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and also the lingering ICELAND GULL and RED-THROATED LOON (fairly close on east side of park) --I wonder if these out-of-season winter birds are attempting to over-summer? 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] Iceland Gull on red jetty
This afternoon I studied a first cycle ICELAND GULL on the red lighthouse jetty. I was at 829 Taughannock blvd (89) so the gulls were in excellent sunlight although quite distant. It is very late for this species, and although all the gulls are worn and bleached this time of year, the Iceland was in typical but worn plumage with white wingtips and black bill. There were 2 CASPIAN TERNS and 7 BONAPARTES GULLS there as well. Otherwise a pretty slow weekend with highlights being a flyover OSPREY and first of year GRAY CATBIRDS around my neighborhood. KEN Sent from my iPhone -- 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] (playback)Has birding ethics changed?
Hi all, Although this discussion has gone on for awhile and is in danger of getting too heated for this List, I feel compelled to jump in. I want to thank those who brought scientific experience and reasoning to the debate, and especially to Lee Ann for the links to deeper discussion and actual studies on this topic. Bottom line is that the scientific evidence (sparse as it is) does not support the often strongly negative views that some birders have towards the use of playback to lure birds into view or get them to pose for photographs. As with most ethical questions, then, this issue comes down to people's personal opinions and choices. So here is my (hopefully somewhat professional and reasoned) personal opinion: I have been a professional ornithologist for 35 years and have spent much of the past 15 years trying to help conserve threatened and declining bird populations; I am also a lifelong birder, bird-tour leader and teacher. I have used playback in a wide variety of situations ranging from scientific protocols to purely recreational -- I frequently use an owl-mobbing playback during birding, in order to get a more thorough count of the species in a given area. I am not aware of any situation in which a population of birds was adversely affected by use of playback by birders or researchers. Even in the most famous and hotly debated cases (Arizona trogons) no effects on nesting success could be shown, and after 40+ years of using playback and imitating calls (the same thing really) in many Arizona canyons, none of the highly sought species have disappeared from those areas -- in fact most have expanded their distribution and populations in the general region. I know of many, many cases where bird tour leaders at tropical locations return year after year to the same rare bird territories, using playback successfully to show these amazing birds to successive groups of people. The primary negative effect of excessive use of playback (certainly a subjective term) is that the birds quickly habituate to the sound and stop responding -- very often a bird continues to sing on its territory but simply does not respond to the playback (guides use the expression taped out to describe such birds). Even around here I have found that chickadees will not respond to the owl-mobbing playback if I go to the same area within a short timeframe. In my experience the adverse effects of excessive playback is mostly on the birders and not on the birds. In certain locations, such as the tropical lodge discussed in the posts at Lee Ann's link, or South Fork of Cave Creek Canyon, guidelines for regulating use of playback (but not banning) might be necessary -- but again, mostly to preserve the experiences of other birders. I think the ABA Code of Birder Ethics has this issue well covered, and Sibley's guidelines are very sensible and even offer tips for improving the effectiveness of playback while birding. And John Confer -- among the most cautious and respectful bird people I have known -- summarized well the biological perspective – that even regular (daily) use of playback, even during the breeding season (not to mention the subsequent capture, handling, and blood-sampling of individual birds), had minimal if any effect on breeding success or population status. Certainly compared with virtually every other form of anthropogenic disturbance or threat to habitats that birds face everywhere and all the time, the use of playback by birders, from a conservation perspective, is simply a non-issue. If one's personal birding ethics do not include playback or pishing because of the perceived temporary stress to individual birds, that is fine, but please don't question the integrity of other birders or SFO leaders that choose to use these tools to enhance the birding experience. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Apr 8, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Lee Ann van Leer wrote: I've heard this debated by many birders at many levels. Many pros and cons have been argued. It is worthy of more research in to what if any negative or positive impact playback has on individual birds, bird populations, bird conservation funding. Ecotourism in general has pros and cons but researchers have to be willing to do the research to find out what human impacts have on wildlife. Certainly one should adhere to some kind of guidelines regarding playback. I'm including links to several articles that outline this debate and propose such guidelines. I know playback has been used as a teaching tool for decades. Mobbing chickadee tapes in addition to a stuffed owl were used on most of the graduate level Ornithology (in North Carolina) field trips when I was a student in 1990. Instructors usually give playback guidelines. As far as SFO (Spring Field Ornithology) playback is used very
[cayugabirds-l] a few bad weather weekend birds
I was only out a little on both days, but here are a few weekend highlights: On Saturday mid-day, there were a lot of birds evident off Stewart Park, although I only had about 30 minutes to scan. Over 100 BUFFLEHEAD were in scattered rafts very far out -- there may well have been other ducks among them that I missed (no Long-tailed Ducks for me). A small pod of HORNED GREBES were near the jetties and at least 5 breeding-plumaged COMMON LOONS were widely scattered. Four AMERICAN WIGEON were very vocal near the shore. A tight flock of 40+ TREE SWALLOWS zig-zagging over the inlet had at least 1 NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOW among them. On Sunday, I was surprised to see a dark-morph ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK flying north over Hanshaw Rd. at Bluegrass Lane in the afternoon -- the bird was fairly high and the wind was out of the south at that time, so this could have been a migrant. There was also a male AMERICAN KESTREL in the fields and a CHIPPING SPARROW among JUNCOs along the field edge. Excited by the reported fallout on Dryden Lake, I did another afternoon scan of Cayuga Lake from East Shore Park, and was disappointed to find a mostly empty lake. None of the rafts of ducks from yesterday were evident and I only saw a single LOON. Two sleeping male RUDDY DUCKS were the only apparent fallout candidates. 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] Very interesting gull at Stewart Park
Hi all, I know it is late, but there is a very interesting gull at Stewart Park Sunday afternoon. I will post photos later this evening. Very quick description for now: It is a medium-dark-mantled gull, slightly larger and more massive than nearby Herrings; 3rd cycle plumage with slaty gray mantle and mixed gary and worn brownish wing coverts; partially molted black and white tail; bill large, smudgy blackish with paler at base; legs and feet pinkish gray (not bright pink). It was very close for awhile, then sitting on the mud bar offshore. Quite active, picking up stuff, flying around dropping and catching items with its bill, lots of chasing other gulls. I took many photos and Jay McGowan got additional photos especially in flight. Very curious what others think. It is either a hybrid Great Black-backed X Herring Gull (but several features do not seem right for that) or something better, like an odd Slaty-backed Gull, or (very unlikely but sure looks like one) a Western Gull. more later with links to photos, 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Very interesting gull at Stewart Park
Hi again, Here is a link to some of the photos I took of an interesting gull this afternoon at Stewart Park, Ithaca. (I hope this link works) http://www.flickr.com/photos/kvr2/sets/72157629303609192/ Chris Wood arrived at Stewart Park a little later and believes he relocated this bird -- and he believes it is a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. There were apparently 4 other LBBGUs in various plumages for comparison, as gulls came in to roost. The plumage was certainly right for a Lesser Black-backed, but I was thrown off (?) by the structure and apparent size, as this bird appeared to me to be slightly larger, shorter winged, and larger-billed than nearby Herring Gulls -- all features in the opposite direction than expected. At times this bird looked long-legged, pot-bellied, and big-chested, and did not give the impression of being long and low which is my search image for Lesser. Perhaps a bird in this plumage with a dark bill and pinkish legs will give a very different impression. If others with more experience than me concur that this is a Lesser Black-backed, I will consider it yet another humbling lesson in variable gulls. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Mar 25, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: Hi all, I know it is late, but there is a very interesting gull at Stewart Park Sunday afternoon. I will post photos later this evening. Very quick description for now: It is a medium-dark-mantled gull, slightly larger and more massive than nearby Herrings; 3rd cycle plumage with slaty gray mantle and mixed gary and worn brownish wing coverts; partially molted black and white tail; bill large, smudgy blackish with paler at base; legs and feet pinkish gray (not bright pink). It was very close for awhile, then sitting on the mud bar offshore. Quite active, picking up stuff, flying around dropping and catching items with its bill, lots of chasing other gulls. I took many photos and Jay McGowan got additional photos especially in flight. Very curious what others think. It is either a hybrid Great Black-backed X Herring Gull (but several features do not seem right for that) or something better, like an odd Slaty-backed Gull, or (very unlikely but sure looks like one) a Western Gull. more later with links to photos, 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Saw-whet Owl
Hmmm. On Friday evening, since I had to drop my daughters for the midnight opening show of Hunger Games, I decided to take advantage of another warm, calm night t try for the owls. I was at the Park Preserve parking area at about 11:30 for about 30 minutes. After much silence and someLong-eared hooting imitations, a BARRED OWL finally started calling to the east -- first single hoots then the long call -- actually this one did 7 notes repeatedly, first 3 notes, then 4. I then whistle Saw-owl calls for quite a while but got no response. Then I went up on Hammond Hill and tried at several spots on Hammond and Star Stanton Rds, where I had heard them in previous Marches. I whistled and whistled -- it was so silent (no cars, wind, insects, or frogs) and my whistles echoed through the trees, but again the only response was a lone BARRED OWL. I was sorry to strike out on such a perfect nigh, but maybe time of night was a factor? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Ann Mitchell wrote: This evening around 7:30 Susan and I met at the Park Preserve and tried our luck at hearing the migrant Long-earred Owl. We stood just inside the gate and played the Northern Saw-whet tooting call. We did not hear the LE Owl, but clearly heard a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL. It was still light enough so we walked along the main trail for a bit. We heard and saw at least 2 actively displaying WOODCOCK, one on either side of the Park Preserve. They flew high enough so we were able to see them. There were at least 2 pairs. Good Birding, Ann -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] SWANS and geese over Sapsucker Woods
I'l surprised Jay McGowan didn't post this, but around noon, as the tens of thousands of geese were passing over Mt. Sapsucker: on the slope above the Fuller Wetlands, a group of 19 TUNDRA SWANS passed overhead in a flock of geese. I believe these were my first ever at Sapsucker Woods. In the brief period I watched, we had a single CACKLING GOOSE, and only 3 SNOW GEESE, plus a flock of COMMON GRACKLES -- I'm sure Jay had much more. 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] west side Cayuga Lake Sunday
I had a great afternoon trip up the west side of Cayuga Lake today with Rick Bonney and Judy Burrill. We started at Hogs Hole at 12:45, and as others reported were not able to locate the Western Grebe. We did see the 2 RED-THROATED LOONS together -- an adult and a juvenile, solving a two bird theory mystery from the Christmas Bird Count. Judy spotted the male WOOD DUCK walking on the gravel beach right below Rt. 89. Next stop was Poplar Beach, where a HORNED GREBE was very close in (with a Common Loon), and 4 LONG-TAILED DUCKS out in the middle of the lake, near an ISLAND of several thousand SNOW GEESE. The light was spectacular and I could make out quite a lot of details on the geese through the scope. I counted about 10 Blue Geese and another dark goose turned out to be a Canada-type, but was smaller than the surrounding Snows - most likely a CACKLING GOOSE. (a separate raft of large Canada Geese was nearby). While we were there, an adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL flew by close to shore, heading north to it's regular hangout at Dean's Cove. Along Lower Shore Rd. to Cayuga Lake State Park, spent a lot of time looking for Eurasian Wigeon (not successful). Did find 4 close and very obvious CACKLING GEESE in the large Canada flock, pretty good numbers of AMERICAN WIGEON and GADWALL, with 5 NORTHERN PINTAILS, 2 pairs of RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, and an impressive count of 640 COMMON MERGANSER. (No Redhead or other aythea seen on the lake today). We then headed up to the Chiropractic College to look for the SNOWY OWL. Our first scans of the soccer field and adjacent areas came up empty, as did an attempt to scan the fields to the west from Bayard Rd. Then as we came back through the campus, there was the OWL perched on a treetop at the west edge of the soccer field. After allowing great scope views and a few digiscopes, the owl flew directly towards us and then banked higher and flew by to the north, looking back over it's shoulder at us. It seemed to keep going, fairly high over the campus, and looked like it was heading all the way to the lakeshore. On the way home we stopped along Wycoff Rd. in Ovid and got a clear but distant look at a single SHORT-EARED OWL to the west of Rock River Rd. at about 5:15 PM. A good afternoon, indeed. 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] Western Grebe, Shrike, White-winged TV
Some incidental birding today produced some excellent birds. At 12:30, in between errands, I decided to to a quick check from the first pullout on Rt. 89 (#829) above Hogs Hole. I could see only 4 birds in the SW sector of the lake -- 3 LESSER SCAUP and a WESTERN GREBE. The grebe was fairly close and gave excellent scope views in the emerging sunlight, and some fair digiscoping chances. A little later, I drove behind the Ithaca airport hoping for a shrike, and found crisp adult NORTHERN SHRIKE on Neimi Rd -- just at the west edge of the ponds. Two TURKEY VULTURES flew over, one of them the striking partially white-winged individual that has been around this winter -- actually the first time I've seen it. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Golden Eagle, Stewart Park
Thanks Jay for posting my sighting so promptly. Here are a few more details. After getting fairly views of the WESTERN GREBE at East Shore Park (thanks everyone for the RBA posts), I headed around to Stewart Park to do an additional scan. While pointing out the grebe to two visiting birders (Richard and Cindy, I think), all the gulls went up in a frenzied flock and then flocks of noisy geese came across from the golf course area. I immediately thought eagle and we stepped back from under the willows to see more sky. Cindy spotted the bird cruising fairly high directly overhead, but when I looked at it I realized that it was an immature GOLDEN EAGLE -- much more unusual for the time and place. It appeared as an all-black (i.e. no mottling on underparts or underwing coverts, very large raptor with striking and distinctive white patches at the base of the primaries (about 2/3 out on the wing) and a sharply demarcated white base to the tail. Shape was right for Golden, with non-wedge-shaped tail slightly shorter than projection of neck and head; wings were very broad and warped into a slight dihedral with wingtips held closed and slightly turned up. As it banked in profile (never circled above), I caught a goldish sheen to the neck and head in the bright sun and could see the yellow cere on the bill. The bird continued to cruise toward the southeast, out of sight in the direction of the High School and Cornell campus. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: Ken Rosenberg just called to say he just had an immature GOLDEN EAGLE fly over Stewart Park and head towards campus. -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@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] Orange-cr. Warbler Ithaca Community Garden
I'm sorry for not posting the details on this bird earlier, but yesterday during the Ithaca CBC, I found a fairly bright ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER in the Community Garden south of Farmer's Market in Ithaca. I flushed it initially with a flock of juncos from the south end of the garden on the east side of the entrance road -- the garden still is (was) pretty green with vegetable leaves and weeds. The bird sat up in the brush pile just south of the garden boundary, and then flew off to the south. Later in the afternoon, Tim Lenz relocated the warbler along the weedy edge of the field to the south of the garden, closer to the CITGO station. This was a first record for the long-running Ithaca CBC, but exactly the kind of bird I was hoping to find with the lingering warm weather and greenery. Good luck to anyone hoping to re-find this bird, especially as the first cold blast of winter weather is approaching 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ross's Geese (Red-thr. Loon at Stewart)
Actually, at 9:54, he was still sleeping, if you can believe that. But later in the day he was sorting through geese as well -- at Stewart Park in preparation for tomorrow's CBC. Not much to be found, and very low numbers and diversity of waterfowl -- not boding too well for tomorrow. The lake was very calm however, and I did pick up 4 distant LOONS, one of which was a nice RED-THROATED -- these were along the west shore, north of the channel marker. Whoever is counting along the SW shore of Cayuga Lake tomorrow should watch for this bird -- I will be scanning from the lighthouse jetty and Stewart Pard, so we shoulc coordinate numbers. Good luck to all tomorrow, and Happy New Year, KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Dec 31, 2011, at 9:54 AM, bob mcguire wrote: Many thousands of Snow Geese just passed low over our house on Whitted Rd (Snyder Hill area) headed south. I was able to pick out at least two candidates for Ross's Goose. Smaller body, short neck, shorter thinner wings. Where was Ken Rosenberg when I needed him?! 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Tundra Swans at Stewart Park
In addition to the large numbers of waterfowl at Stewart Park already reported by Laura and Ton, there were 6 TUNDRA SWANS near the east end of the park late this afternoon. 500-600 gulls were loafing on the water offshore, but I couldn't find anything other than the usual 3 species. 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] 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] CayugRBA SNOWY OWL far south
Another (or the same?) SNOWY OWL was just reported flying across Tschache Pool at Montezuma NWR. They're coming Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Dec 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, 6072292...@vtext.com 6072292...@vtext.com wrote: CayugRBA SNOWY OWL far south of NYS-31 in mucklands, Montezuma 340pm --Dave Nutter -- 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] Barred Owl in yard
At about 9:30 this evening as I let our dog out in the backyard, I saw a ghost-like shape rise up off the ground and cross the yard. With a flashlight I was able to spot a BARRED OWL hunting actively from the low branches of some trees. I have heard Barred Owl calling from the yard on only 2 or 3 occasions -- in April and October. We are about 1/2 mile from Sapsucker Woods, where they are year-round residents. 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Thayer's Gull
Yes, what could be a better way to spend a sunny December Saturday than sorting through immature gulls on piles of steaming garbage. The THAYER'S was surprisingly easy to pick out and keep track of, thanks to the excellent photos posted by Chris Wood on eBird that formed our search image. After other folks left, I picked out an interesting second-cycle KUMLEIN'S ICELAND GULL very close to the Thayer's. Scoping the choppy lake in icy north wind for a wayward grebe was not nearly as fun. Plenty of coots and Bufflehead to hang out, but I guess they didn't rate. As the Christmas Bird Counr approaches, lingering species such as 2 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT, 2 RUDDY DUCKS, and a female Am WIGEON become more interesting. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Lee Ann van Leer wrote: 1st year Thayer's Gull still being seen at Compost Pile as we left 1:09pm. Seen by many observers. Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Bluegrass Lane pipits
Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon, while we were walking our dog along the fields off Bluegrass Lane, there were few sparrows, but a flock of at least 200 AMERICAN PIPITS came by -- passing overhead in a loose, constantly calling flock from west to east. A river of pipits as Anne called it. KEN p.s. I might see Yellowish Pipit tomorrow -- can you guess where I am? 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: [Free Outdoors] Aurora now
Darn, I saw these emails way too late -- when I went out at 10:45 it had mostly clouded over to the north and west and couldn't make out any aurora from the city glow. I did see about the brightest shooting star I've ever seen, though -- at 10:56 in the eastern sky -- it was so big and bright orange, then it turned green for a second before disappearing. Very low. Anyone else see that? should have put the Aurora on the RBA. Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Riko Stan wrote: We are right on lake Ontario and it is dark red. On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Meena Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote: FYI Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ From: cornell-boun...@freeoutingclubs.org [cornell-boun...@freeoutingclubs.org] on behalf of Don Barry [d...@isc.astro.cornell.edu] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 9:23 PM To: corn...@freeoutingclubs.org Subject: [Free Outdoors] Aurora now From dark skies an obvious green band of aurora is on the northern horizon right now. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- 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] Myer's, late migrants, Bluegrass Nelson's
I started out this morning at Myer's Point. The lake was surprisingly quiet, although a small flock of BRANT finally came down the lake about an hour after I arrived. A BONAPARTE'S GULL circling around the spit and single female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER and GREEN-WINGED TEAL were about the only other water birds of interest. Salt Point was very active, however, especially the fruiting trees and shrubs near the tip. Best bird there (eating berries) was a very late female BALTIMORE ORIOLE, among the many CEDAR WAXWINGS and ROBINS, 15-20 EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, and 2 NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRDS. In the shrubs and goldenrods were 2 BLACKPOLL WARBLERS, 4 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, sev. YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, and a mixed flock of CHIPPING and FIELD SPARROWS. As I was leaving, I scanned a flock of 150 or so CANADA GEESE heading south and with them were a group of 4 CACKLING GEESE that stayed together but kept separating from the main flock. Back home in the late morning, I was very surprised to see a RED-EYED VIREO in the locust tree in my backyard -- also a WINTER WREN (not in the locust tree). In the late afternoon, I walked the dog in the fields off Bluegrass Lane, and went right to the spot where Tom had found the NELSON'S SPARROW -- in the wet area (w some cattails) on the south side of the tall switchgrass field. As I approached on the lane through the middle of the switchgrass, the NELSON's popped up and did the classic Nelson's 1-minute sit (in the bright afternoon sun) before flying up and diving back into the grass -- showing off it's sharp tail feathers in flight. The bright orange face, but blurry, uncrisp streaking on the breast suggested the race alterus, which breeds around James Bay. We also flushed a SNIPE along the lane through the switchgrass. In the grassy field and along the goldenroddy edge of the woods to the east, I saw sev. FIELD, and SAVANNAH, 1 WHITE-CROWNED, 1 SWAMP, and many SONG SPARROWS. I was surprised that no pipits were flying. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto: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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] northeast notes: NESP on Bluegrass Lane, northeast Ithaca
Awesome Tom. I walked my dog there yesterday, but had to avoid the wetter spots. I had 2 VESPER SPARROWs in the dry area just to the west of the taller switchgrass. flyover PURPLE FINCH, PINE SISKIN, BLUEBIRD, as well as calling WINTER WREN and visual HERMIT THRUSH in my yard this morning. Ah, October! KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Oct 22, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Tom Schulenberg wrote: This morning while walking the dog I found a Nelson's Sparrow somewhere other than Hog Hole. I doubt if the bird can be relocated, but then, who knows what else may be in the same location? There is a field of tall grass (switchgrass?) along the west side of the northern portion of Bluegrass Lane (that is, Bluegrass just south of Hanshaw). I discovered this morning that there is an unpaved track that runs north/south through the middle of the switchgrass. The northern portion of this track is more or less dry, but the southern (lower) portion is quite damp. As I was walking through the switchgrass along this track, I flushed many sparrows, mostly Song and Savannah, but also the one Nelson's. The Nelson's was, not surprisingly, at the southern (wetter) end, and not too far from the edge of the patch of switchgrass. It popped up and perched near the top of the grass for about a minute, semi-concealed but with a decent view of the breast and facial pattern, and then dropped down again. Good birding, tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edumailto:ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@gmail.commailto:tschulenb...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Pine Siskins are like potato chips...except in Sapsucker Woods today
I'm glad Wes beat me to the punch, but this morning I had at least two PINE SISKINS flying over my house calling -- I heard them several times and had the impression they were local birds moving about rather than multiples migrating overhead, but could have been wrong. So, at least there were several in the neighborhood today. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Wesley M Hochachka wrote: Hi everyone, On my way in to work this morning, I was surprised to see a single PINE SISKIN sitting atop one of the snags on the west end of the main pond in Sapsucker Woods…surprised for two reasons: (1)It seemed rather early for siskins to appear, although there was a little burst of eBird records in mid-September with none between then and now, and (2)In my experience “siskins” is almost invariably plural…like potato chips. I was puzzled as to how a single Pine Siskin could end up so early and so alone…and apparently with no other reports in the immediate area and date range. I think I know what happened now, thanks to Dave Bonter pointing out today’s blog entry from Braddock Bay: roughly 350 Pine Siskins hit the nets in Braddock Bay yesterday without any warning of a lead-up trickle over the previous days. So, it appears that there was a big movement of siskins into this general region, and I presume that the lone bird that I saw was either navigationally or socially challenged and overshot the main movement. Wesley Hochachka -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Another Dickcissel!! - 5 October 2011 - Etna, NY
When I finally got outside last night around 11 PM, birds were coming over, but they were high and faint. In 40 minutes, I counted about 45 thrush calls -- only 3-4 WOOD THRUSH and the rest SWAINSON's; no Gray-cheeked -- and about 60 zeeet notes. I believe I identified several each of Common Yellowthroat, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Savannah Sparrow, and White-throated Sparrow -- most were Blackpoll-type buzzy zeet notes. One of my last birds, though, was a clear AMERICAN BITTERN, which gave 3 distinctive wark notes about 15 seconds apart as it headed due south. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: I got up to begin browsing through some of last night's audio data (visually, using Raven Pro), while still listening to what's going on outside, real-time. As I was listening real-time, I heard another distinct frappy, flatulant-sounding DICKCISSEL call. This one had a total of 5 distinct notes within the call, with a sixth fainter note at the tail of the call. Very neat! This bird called at about 6:29:30. Sincerely, Chris T-H On Oct 4, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: There's a pretty steady stream of birds overhead tonight. One vocally active flock of Green Herons went over. And, to my surprise, another frappy DICKCISSEL called at 21:58 (9:58pm). A handful of White-throated Sparrows, a Solitary Sandpiper, Swainson's Thrushes and Gray-cheeked Thrushes, several warblers (Black-throated Blues plus other zeeps), Savannah Sparrows, and more to come. More Green Herons, a Great Blue, and a White-throated Sparrow are going over as I type this. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] [nfc-l] another large flight over Ithaca
The flight continues over Ithaca, albeit in lower densities, or at least higher altitude and fainter calls as the low overcast clears off. My second 30 minute count yielded 220 thrush calls, nearly all SWAINSON'S, with 12 GRAY-CHEEKED, and about 15 WOOD THRUSH. Very few warblers (only about 10), but I did hear the distinctive double tsip-tsip of a BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. now to sleep. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Michael Lanzone wrote: I just came inside after listening for over an hour in Somerset, PA and pretty much the same heavy calling here. Huge flight, sometimes at about 100 calls per minute. Many thrushes here, but unlike in Ithaca, I predominately heard warblers and sparrows. Can't wait to look at the file in the am! Best, Mike Michael Lanzone mlanz...@gmail.com On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:23 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, Yet another massive flight over Ithaca tonight -- in fact one of the largest flight I can remember over my house. I did a 30 minute count BETWEEN 10:30 AND 11, and it was almost too overwhelming for my naked ear. I counted 390 thrush calls, with often a layering of multiple calls on top of each other as wave after wave of thrushes passed over nearly continuously. A pretty careful count of 22 GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSHES, about 40 WOOD THRUSH, about 20 calls inflected enough to be ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK (I'm never real confident with those), and only 2 that I'd call VEERY -- the rest were SWAINSON'S THRUSHES. Not as many warbler/sparrow notes as the other night, and interestingly almost none of the short tsip notes I was hearing then -- but rather more high, slightly buzzy zeeep notes I associate with Cape May Warbler. One long, high ssep was a good candidate for Grasshopper/Nelson's Sparrow. That's about all I could do by ear -- disappointed to hear no cuckoos, herons, or shorebirds in the mix. Hopefully the recorders did a better job of documenting tonight's flight. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.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] [nfc-l] big night flight tonight
Thanks Bill. I did hear a few typical Lincoln's/Swamp sparrow dts but was not confident enough to report. If there were that few Black-throated Blues, I'm curious what most of the abrupt tsip notes might have been? There were certainly way fewer of what I would consider typical buzzy Dendroica-type zeet notes than what I'm used to hearing on most nights. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Bill Evans wrote: Ken appears to have tuned into one of the biggest calling night of the season so far in central NY. The acoustic station at Alfred Station, NY logged its season high number (988) of warbler and sparrow flight calls last night between 8:30PM-5:30AM. Based on spectrographic analysis roughly 4 out of 100 were Common Yellowthroat, 2 out of 100 were Black-throated Blue, and 2 out of 100 were Chestnut-sided. Also notably in the mix were good numbers of presumed Lincoln's Sparrow calls. Bill E -- NFC-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_WELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC_RULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NFCL.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] Willet at Fair Haven, Sunday, July 3rd
I had a very similar experience on Saturday evening, July 2, but over in Presque Isle SP on Lake Erie -- while vacationing with my family I spotted a WILLET with some Ring-billed Gulls on one of the swimming beaches. I'm pretty sure mine was an adult bird, so not the same individual but part of the same early fall movement. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jul 4, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Mickey Scilingo wrote: While spending the day with my family at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario in Cayuga County, I had the good fortune of spotting a WILLET flying with a group of Ring-billed Gulls that had just been flushed off the swimming beach at around 6:30. The group of birds flew around over the water for a few minutes before settling back down on the beach. Unfortunately, a group of small children were chasing the gulls around, causing them to flush repeatedly, and sometime during the ensuing confusion, the Willet disappeared. As we were leaving just before 8 PM, the WILLET was back on the beach foraging near the waters edge. This time I was able to see that it was an immature plumaged bird. I did snap a few photos of it through my binoculars, but they came out worse than I expected. The Willet was still at the water's edge when we left. Mickey Scilingo Constantia Oswego County, NY mickey.scili...@gte.netmailto:mickey.scili...@gte.net 315-679-6299 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Prothontaries -- Yes
This is a strange series of events. Having been a little confused by the bridges on Armitage Rd myself on Sunday, I wonder if there is the possibility of these being two separate spots? 3 calling Acadian FCs would seem to be hard to miss by all the other Prothonotary seekers, and vice versa Just a thought. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:46 AM, J. Gary Kohlenberg wrote: Yesterday at 6:30 pm I was able to hear and then see both Prothonotary warblers. I recorded video of one to have the singing. They are LOUD at close range. This area is amazingly birdie. Gary On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Matthew Medler m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu wrote: There were two Prothonotary Warblers countersinging from opposite sides of Armitage Road at 4:30 pm on Monday afternoon (31 May 2011). These birds were just 10-20 yards west of the little gravel pull-off area on the west side of the one-lane green bridge. No sign of any Acadians at that time, but a singing Northern Waterthrush was a bit of a surprise. Not a surprise, but always nice to hear, were two Cerulean Warblers. Oh, and a distant Black-billed Cuckoo sang for about 30 seconds. Matt Medler Ithaca From: bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.commailto:bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com To: cayugabirdlist cayugabirds-L@cornell.edumailto:cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8:47 AM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontary - no John Confer and I drove up to the north end of the lake yesterday evening to look for some of the recently-sighted birds. From the tower at Tschache Pool we scoped the vast mud flats and found - 3 BLACK- BELLIED PLOVERS and two distant shorebirds that flew in and disappeared behind logs and stumps. No other shorebirds. 3 Red-winged Blackbirds. One of the plovers had a markedly darker cap, making it worth a closer look. However the throat and belly were black while the vent was white, and the bill was relatively short and stubby. So we left it as Black-bellied Plover. From there we drove out Armitage Road, parked just past the green bridge, and spent about a half hour walking up and down the road to the west. We heard several Yellow Warblers, 2 American Redstarts, also Common Yellowthroats, Swamp Sparrows and, surprisingly, 3 ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS. Two of them were on the north side, close to the road. The third was on the south side. Unfortunately for us, no Prothonotary Warblers. We left at sunset. 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: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Prothonotary Warblers
I should add that we did observe the north-side male entering a cavity in a rotted stump about 30 ft. in from the road (and sing from the top of this snag), so they are definitely thinking about breeding -- of course it will take a prospecting female to make this happen. Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On May 30, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Julie Bertram wrote: Hi, Today at 11:00AM the Protonotarys were about 300 feet west of the bridge on the north side. At times they would come to within 15 feet of the road. Fred Bertram -- www.pbase.com/fjbertramhttp://www.pbase.com/fjbertram -- 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] Myer's flyby Whimbrels, Turnstones, etc.
It seeming a perfect morning for migrating shorebirds, I got out to Myer's Point at 5:45. The nice and clean gravel spit provides very little cover for birds now, and nothing of interest was among the sorry-looking over-summering gulls. I decided to stay and do a watch on the lake, however, and walked out to the lighthouse -- about 10 minutes later I heard the very distinctive, ringing, tu-tu-tu-tu-tu of a WHIMBREL. I scanned high and low but could not find the bird (or birds?), undoubtedly migrating up the lake. When I looked back at the spit to see if anything circled in and landed, I was surprised to see a breeding-plumaged RUDDY TURNSTONE standing at the tip. A few minutes later, there were 2 RUDDY TURNSTONES together -- at about 6:15 the two took off and flew north up the lake. Then, about 6:25 I spotted 3 large dark shorebirds flying above the horizon, quite a ways across the lake. I followed them for several minutes until they disappeared to the north, and although I did not get very many field marks, I am sure that these were 3 more WHIMBRELS. A little while later, I watched two medium-sized, stocky shorebirds flying rapidly over the lake fairly high -- I think these were probably also RUDDY TURNSTONES, but they potentially could have been Red Knots, or Sanderlings, or something else. Finally, as I was getting ready to leave, I saw that 2 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS were on the gravel spit -- I had not seen them fly in. These birds were very skittish and flew off and returned several times, before finally settling a bit and beginning to feed on the north side of the spit. They were still there when I left at 7 AM. No migrants or Orchard Orioles were in evidence near the park entrance. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] 9 Whimbrels MNWR
I guess that means there were 3 or 4 in the flock that I only heard coming over Myer's. Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu On May 27, 2011, at 11:22 AM, D.M.Kennedy wrote: 10:45 New AutoLoop Shorebird Flat. The ninth flew in as I was watching 8. -- 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] Nighthawks, Pewee
This evening I drove around behind the Ithaca airport in hopes of seeing COMMON NIGHTHAWK -- between 8:50 and 9 PM I observed at least 3 calling and feeding birds over the ponds on Neimi Road. Success! Back at home today, a singing EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, and still 1 singing BLACKPOLL WARBLER, along with a female BLACKPOLL moving with a family of chickadees, and probably the same female AMERICAN REDSTART as yesterday. KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Sandpiper Smackdown
Hi Caroline, First, Orchard Oriole is a good bird at Sapsucker Woods, although there have been other sightings in recent years -- was this a pair of birds that you encountered? Both Alder and Willow Flycatchers breed in the shrubby areas behind the Ithaca airport, and up towards Lansing and West Dryden in general. Caswell Road is good for both, too. there only a few around so far, but more will be in by the end of May. It is possible to hear both Alder and Willow calling from the same spot, with Alders preferring the wetter areas and Willows more in the dryer shrubs surrounded by grass. There are a couple of breeding spots for Acadian Flycatcher, and I'm sure these will get posted if someone finds one -- pretty rare though. Yellow-bellied is strictly a migrant, with most records in late may and late August. All of these are best found and identified by various vocalizations, so study up! KEN Ken Rosenberg Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edumailto:k...@cornell.edu On May 21, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Caroline Manring wrote: Hello all, Today at the Lab, at about 10:30am, there were two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS having an altercation-- stiff wings spread wide, up on their tip-toes, batting and weaving and going at it with their bills, right on the gravel beach of the pond. After one of the sandpipers had been chased into the grass, the one that remained underwent an attack by a Red-winged Blackbird on the shore-- looked like the blackbird made some hearty contact, and the sandpiper flew off to the west. Why would a blackbird have a problem with a sandpiper? Because it moves? Other highlights for me were PHILADELPHIA VIREO (no song, but a good look, over on the first East side of the road pond), WILSON'S WARBLER, lots of RED-EYED VIREO turf fights, more GRAY CATBIRDS apparent than chickadees (!), and an up-close encounter with a PILEATED WOODPECKER messing around on the ground on the East trail. Also one Painted Turtle using the West Trail, somewhat ineffectually, so I moved him/her off to the side near what looked like some semi-permanent water (what do the turtles do when most of the woods except near the pond dry up?) and lots of snakes. Yesterday was BAY-BREASTED WARBLER day, with a total of eight (two were female) in and about the spruces on the Wilson Trail. Also a TENNESSEE WARBLER singing, and lots of BLACKPOLL WARBLERS. Also my first really good listen to ORCHARD ORIOLES, right in the parking lot. Where are folks finding the Alder Flycatcher? I'd sure like to hear/see him. Also any of the other flycatchers, other than Least, which I seem to be able to find no problem. Tips appreciated. Happy May! And it is! Pesky leaves, coming with June's onset... Caroline Manring Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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/ --