[cayugabirds-l] Some bird notes for today

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

I did a Mundy lunch walk and saw some nice assorted birds.

I saw two male flickers  displaying to a female and it was quite a show of 
following her and flaring their tail feathers etc.

Then I found a pair of Common Mergansers swimming near Bohm's overlook.

A BLUE-HEADED VIREO was singing near the Plantations Building. In the Hemlock 
grove I found two beautiful male YELLOW_RUPED WARBLERS chasing the same insect. 
Later they sang too.

Two different PINE WARBLERS, one on Plantations and Judd Falls junction and the 
second was in the pine behind DNR building parking lot. Here there was a nice 
comparison between warbler and two CHIPPING SPARROWS songs. It seemed PINE 
WARBLERS song was abrupt.



I also found a Chickadee nesting hole on Plantations road, which is about 100 
yards from the parking lot on that road near green houses. It is on a bad 
curve, but very low.



So in the evening I went there with my camera, but the guys were not there. I 
think either they are still building or the hole is so deep that I could not 
see the incubating bird.



From here I headed to Airport via Arboretum. I was way too early for 
woodcocks, but I was serenaded by an EASTERN MEADOWLARK singing his heart out 
and another challenging him. Meadowlark sang till the woodcock started 
calling, that is almost 45 minutes.



There was also a BROWN THRASHER in the field singing, after some time I found a 
female just across my car, he also saw the bird and came across to where I was 
and sang for ten minutes!  I got some recording.  I could recognize only very 
few real birds in his song. There were Fritzbew, Peter peter and a catbird rest 
I need to listen to them again. He is not as accomplished as Mockingbird, who 
seem to master many more species. May be the Thrasher was singing some songs of 
southern birds.



Finally at 8.13 PM the Woodcock started peenting. Soon two more joined. I spent 
next fifteen minutes to see their dance, but they did not!



Later I stopped at the Lab of Parking lot. Except for spring peepers and 
robins, I did not hear anything else.



Meena







Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
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[cayugabirds-l] Some bird notes

[Meena Haribal]

Hi all,
Good morning!  I was up around  3.47 am to look at the close alliance of  Moon 
and Mars.  They were very pretty to watch. But while watching I listened to 
migrants. Exactly at that time there was a flock of Caspian Terns migrating and 
they were croaking along. I also heard several tseeps and chips. But as per 
Murphy's rule that also happened to be time when the train to Power Plant was 
also passing by. To save humans and animals I guess they honk every few 
seconds.  Though railway line is more than a mile away as crow flies, the sound 
of train honking is heard several miles.

So I decided to get up a little later and listen. I spent some 20 minutes 
listening and try recording, I did hear some tseeps, but very few, but then I 
heard lots of trucks rumbling down 79 and probably traffic from Rt 13.  I 
decided to wind  up. So it is that time of the year to listen to birds go 
south!  Temp was almost freezing!

Yesterday I spent some time in Mundy during lunch time. I saw more birders than 
birds.
Highlights were a Warbling Vireo and  a Magnolia in a chickadee flock.  But the 
best bird was YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER at Kentucky spot.  It was calling and 
flycatching. For those who are new to this area, Kentucky spot is to the south 
side of Plantations Hort Building in Mundy, A path from the south western end 
of the parking lot goes up the edge of the hill towards west with a board walk. 
The Kentucky spot is where this board walk is, there is a marshy seepage  with 
skunk cabbages.  This location is as follows in the Google maps.
http://tiny.cc/snnsc

Yesterday evening on an impulse, I got into the car to go somewhere to look for 
birds. I was deciding between Stewart park and some other locations. I took 
decision by the time I got out of my driveway to go to Six Mile Creeks 
Overlook.  It is such a peaceful location and does not feel that you are in 
town.  Sitting on Edna Clausen bench, I watched several Barn Swallows, one of 
the parent fed an youngster in flight; many waxwings flycatching, a chattering 
Baltimore Oriole, Chimney Swifts, two very cute ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, I think 
they were HY birds, House Wren, a Peewee, Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, 
Red-bellied Woodpeckers (chukchuking)  and more than 50+ robins coming in 
flocks of five to six birds, heading into Poplars.  It is such a nice peaceful 
location, I am glad I went there.

Let's see what the day hold for us!


Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY
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