Re: [cayugabirds-l] Common Nighthawks
A common sight in Kansas, where we are from. They are fun to watch, and so cool to see them dive to the point of making, what I call "thunder". I would love to see them again! Madonna Stallmann On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 8:41 PM Robyn Bailey wrote: > I saw 3 Common Nighthawks flying over the ball fields at Groton Ave Park > tonight at dusk (8:10pm). I’m often at this park but haven’t seen them here > before. > > Robyn Bailey > -- > > 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] Common Nighthawks
I saw 3 Common Nighthawks flying over the ball fields at Groton Ave Park tonight at dusk (8:10pm). I’m often at this park but haven’t seen them here before. Robyn Bailey -- 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] Common nighthawks at Jennings Pond
Hi everyone, For those who are interested, if you come to Jennings Pond (in Danby) in the evening you should be able to see nighthawks zooming about. I was just there (around 9pm) and had a real nice show, seeing three nighthawks swooping around back and forth over the pond's surface. By standing still, they would fly right by me at very close (< 5 feet) range. Really, this was the best views I've ever had of nighthawks. Happy birding, Kevin -- 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] Common Nighthawks
I missed Jeremey’s alert about the Nighthawks for about an hour, so I went to Stewart Park. After about an hour I saw one, possibly two, flying around and calling. Good Birding, Ann 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] Common Nighthawks Mount Pleasant
This evening I was walking my dog towards the east end of Mt. Pleasant rd. On our way back, at the top of the hill I noticed 2 birds, very erratic flight over the alfalfa field on the north side. They had very pointed wings and were hawking insects. They were fairly high and stayed over the field, but twice came overhead where I was by the road, and I could see the white wing bars on both of them. Very cool watching them in flight, feeding. Good birding, Gladys -- 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] Common Nighthawks
Hi all, I was listening to the radio program 'wait wait don't tell me' while I was roasting whole wet peanuts on the stove. So in between I just looked out of my front door. Between a meter gap of two massive Norway maples, I had glimpses of a bird some 500 ft away in the skyline flying above Six miles Creek upstream. It looked like a possible nighthawk. Then there was no gap in the tree almost till about 400 ft to the left of the first gap above the Six Mile Creek. So I thought if it was a migrating nighthawk I might see it after a few minutes. After a couple of minutes keeping watch in the gap I did see a bird come into view and it did look like a NIGHTHAWK. So I kept looking in that direction. Soon I saw three birds circling in the sky, I was pretty sure they were Nighthawks. In between I had to stir the peanuts so that they would get burnt. So I did that and came out to look still those birds were flying around. Next thing I had to do was to get my binoculars from my car which would take at least a minute. But I took risk and went a got my binoculars. Those birds were still flying. I got very good looks at them with beautiful white wing patch visible. Then the luck got much better. They decided come closer to where I was standing then I realized there were more than three, at least five of them. Then two of them decided fly above my yard and house and return back to the Six Mile valley. This all happened while I was still listening to the radio but not with full attention and occasionally stirring the peanuts. The time between the Nighthawk's first seeing and last sight was two interviews - one of Brooke shields and the other of Rob Lowe and it was almost 16+ minutes!!! It was very enjoyable!!! Then I stood there for another 20 minutes but no more birds. Earlier, the post of Buff-breasted Sandpiper made me take a trip to MNWR. But there were no sandpipers nor any other shorebirds except a small flock of which looked like peeps got disturbed by a low flying female Northern Harrier and they disappeared somewhere and a Killdeer (heard only) at Puddlers. I visited Red-headed Woodpecker's spot at May's Point pool. There was a this year's almost grown up young was busy fly catching, while the parent nervously watched it from a distance. The young behaved in a typical flycatcher manner. I watched it take a large flying insect in midair. Otherwise I saw an oddly paired darner, where the male had released female's head but the female was still attached to his second segment and the male was trying to get free, but could not do so as he was still stuck to the female. Two Monarch butterflies, and a few Wandering Gliders were other sightings of interest. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- 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] Common Nighthawks over Northside Ithaca
This evening I was strolling the Fall Creek neighborhood of Ithaca with my son. My goal was to see Common Nighthawks. His goal was to pleasantly kill time while his laundry dried. The playground at the Fall Creek Elementary School seemed a good spot, with plenty of sky, plus equipment sturdy enough to withstand a young adult with a passion for parkour. It was during the window of time when I'd seen several Common Nighthawks distantly east of Cass Park three evenings ago, so I was optimistic, but not desperate. The closest I'd seen so far this evening was a gull commuting toward the lake, as many do at that time of day, but this gull veered as if hawking an insect. Then I got help from another birder with eyes to the sky. Garrett MacDonald was fueling up at the Mirabito gas station by Purity Ice Cream on NYS-13 when he noticed at least 9 Common Nighthawks foraging, so he sent out a text RBA at 7:17pm. By shifting our vantage to the slight rise at the east end of Queen Street I was able to see them distantly over buildings and between trees, also counting 9. We hustled west, garnering several additional sightings. By the time we passed the Cooperative Extension building at W Lincoln St Willow Av, some were flying directly overhead, and Brendan was able, naked-eye, to discern the white bar across the primaries of one bird. From the grounds of the ScienCenter near Franklin St Alice Miller Way I made my maximum count of 13, all to the south and still in their crazy feeding flight. While I sent out a text RBA at 7:30pm they disappeared. We headed back to the laundromat, where the clothes were dry. --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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Common Nighthawks, Cass Park, Ithaca
I was at Stewart Park the same time Dave was across the inlet. I saw two Nighthawks over the golf course that flew south. My suspicion was they picked up from Renwick Woods to continue their journey, but reading Dave's post makes me think they spent some time feeding the flats as my sighting was slightly past Dave's in time. They may have already been up and flying around when I spotted them. Gary On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.commailto:nutter.d...@me.com wrote: This evening between 7 and 7:21pm from the Cayuga Waterfront Trail in Cass Park I saw at least 3 and possibly as many as 6 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS. The first which I saw, only a few minutes after I began my quest, was distant to my east over the flats of Ithaca. Surprisingly, it was flying directly north with steady wingbeats, which is nominally typical of gulls in the evening, but in the scope I could tell it not only had extremely narrow pointed wings (narrower than a Ring-billed Gull), but it was brown (not immature gull- or Black Tern-colored), it took extremely high and deep wingbeats (unlike gulls or even terns), and it occasionally rolled a bit to one side or the other (which gulls and terns don't do in my experience). I lost track of it when it had gone so far to my left that I had to change my stance. Obviously it was not migrating, which is the usual circumstance I have seen nighthawks flying straight and steady. I figured it must be headed toward the lake or over nearby woods to feed. A few minutes later through binoculars I glimpsed another more distant bird to the east with long, narrow, pointed wings in irregular flight, but I was unable to find it through my scope. This happened again a bit later to the northeast. Several minutes I saw 2 birds to my northeast, but closer, over the Farmers' Market, and I managed to get one in my scope for a more satisfying view of the long notched tail and the white band across the primaries, plus some of the typical extremely erratic foraging flight as it worked its way south past me. When I stepped back from the scope I saw that it's companion still traveled nearby, with the same size, shape, and flight. The last Common Nighthawk I saw, also in the scope less than 3 minutes later, followed a similar southbound path passing somewhat to my east. Even if the first directly-northbound bird completely changed its direction when it found company or food, and if the two poorly seen birds both went north then turned around, I still saw at least 3 Common Nighthawks this evening, because I don't think either of the southbound pair is likely to have snuck north again that quickly. Another unusual sighting for Cass Park was a SCARLET TANAGER atop a willow along the Inlet. It was a male in green and black non-breeding plumage. This evening I only found one OSPREY by Cass Park, perched in a tree along the Farmers' Market, but there were 2 Ospreys perched in a dead tree along Jetty Woods, presumably birds from the nest platform north of Treman Marina. I counted over a hundred DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS perched in the trees of Jetty Woods, and I saw at least 20 CASPIAN TERNS this evening, half of them southbound in groups of 3 and 7, the remainder resting on and near the base of the red lighthouse. --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: 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] Common Nighthawks, Cass Park, Ithaca
This evening between 7 and 7:21pm from the Cayuga Waterfront Trail in Cass Park I saw at least 3 and possibly as many as 6 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS. The first which I saw, only a few minutes after I began my quest, was distant to my east over the flats of Ithaca. Surprisingly, it was flying directly north with steady wingbeats, which is nominally typical of gulls in the evening, but in the scope I could tell it not only had extremely narrow pointed wings (narrower than a Ring-billed Gull), but it was brown (not immature gull- or Black Tern-colored), it took extremely high and deep wingbeats (unlike gulls or even terns), and it occasionally rolled a bit to one side or the other (which gulls and terns don't do in my experience). I lost track of it when it had gone so far to my left that I had to change my stance. Obviously it was not migrating, which is the usual circumstance I have seen nighthawks flying straight and steady. I figured it must be headed toward the lake or over nearby woods to feed. A few minutes later through binoculars I glimpsed another more distant bird to the east with long, narrow, pointed wings in irregular flight, but I was unable to find it through my scope. This happened again a bit later to the northeast. Several minutes I saw 2 birds to my northeast, but closer, over the Farmers' Market, and I managed to get one in my scope for a more satisfying view of the long notched tail and the white band across the primaries, plus some of the typical extremely erratic foraging flight as it worked its way south past me. When I stepped back from the scope I saw that it's companion still traveled nearby, with the same size, shape, and flight. The last Common Nighthawk I saw, also in the scope less than 3 minutes later, followed a similar southbound path passing somewhat to my east. Even if the first directly-northbound bird completely changed its direction when it found company or food, and if the two poorly seen birds both went north then turned around, I still saw at least 3 Common Nighthawks this evening, because I don't think either of the southbound pair is likely to have snuck north again that quickly. Another unusual sighting for Cass Park was a SCARLET TANAGER atop a willow along the Inlet. It was a male in green and black non-breeding plumage. This evening I only found one OSPREY by Cass Park, perched in a tree along the Farmers' Market, but there were 2 Ospreys perched in a dead tree along Jetty Woods, presumably birds from the nest platform north of Treman Marina. I counted over a hundred DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS perched in the trees of Jetty Woods, and I saw at least 20 CASPIAN TERNS this evening, half of them southbound in groups of 3 and 7, the remainder resting on and near the base of the red lighthouse. --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] Common Nighthawks and Olive-sided Flycatcher Lansing
About 45 min ago, we had a group of 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWKs appear over our neighborhood (W Meadow Dr Lansing). I first saw only 4 as I had just turned around from spotting some Cedar Waxwing flyovers, so only got the new group disappearing behind trees, but a good enough view of the white wing mark on two of them to be sure. I've been out for the last two weeks every nice evening waiting/hoping for these guys to reappear as they have the last few Augusts, so was most gratified to have them appear tonight! I waited for a bit, then walked from more enclosed backyard to street view where we picked them up again, wheeling about our and adjacent yards for a few turns. As in my extended observation of a couple years ago, they were again (annoyingly) silent, but still graceful to watch. Another turn around the yard and woods, trying to stay one jump ahead of the black flies (didn't work: I'm a pincushion now) turned up a juvenile BALTIMORE ORIOLE working high branches: I also saw an adult BAOR in wild grapes around 430pm here. I had heard two oriole phrases sung in the much diminished dawn chorus a few days ago, so it was nice to see these guys probably for almost the last time this season. Then just as I was headed in, a glimpse of a flycatcher sallying from a high bare box elder. I thought, ah, that's the Eastern Wood-Pewee I watched on Sunday afternoon, but, like a good birder, never assume anything, so I got the glasses on it and lo and behold, it was my first yard OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER ! Yes! after many years of swing and a miss on Phoebes, this was no doubt OSFL. Especially after the Friday confirmed view of another at SSW, this was no doubt in my mind a more juvenile version of same. The flanks were grayer, but showed slight streaks; the belly and center breast and throat were quite white and clean. Tail relatively short and no wagging. When it dipped it's head, I could see the much darker cap. I got a bunch of pictures from almost directly below and the bird was so obliging at returning to the same perch after multiple sallies that I ran and got the scope and had even better looks. I was amused to stand back and see the scope was nearly vertical but there was just no way to get another viewpoint on this tree, as adjacent trees were just too bushy. ChrisP __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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] Common Nighthawks
5 Common Nighthawks over East Ithaca now! 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 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] Common Nighthawks
I was waiting at the Campus road Bus stop behind BTI for a delayed Rt 50, when I saw bird heading north, first impression was a falcon, but then it started floating in typical nigthhawk manner, as it came closer I could see it clearly without binoculars. It lazily (as nighthawks could be) headed north over Fall Creek! In the afternoon there were a few TV's floating in the sky. Today afternoon in the back BTI lot, I saw a Common Buckeye flitting around. Also watched a migrant Black-saddlebag! ooh sad, I am going to miss the fall migration it looks like :-( Happy fall birding everyone! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ From: bounce-63150349-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-63150349-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes [c...@cornell.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:43 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Common Nighthawks 5 Common Nighthawks over East Ithaca now! 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 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] Common Nighthawks, Sapsucker Woods
Three Common Nighthawks over airport fields visible from middle parking lot at the Lab of Ornithology. Jay McGowan -- 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/ --
