Re: [cayugabirds-l] worm eating warblers at Lindsay Parsons
Yeah, gypsy moth caterpillars stripped the slopes around West Danby pretty bare. New leaves are popping now, but I guess any effect the defoliation may have had on this year’s breeding is a done deal. Still, this has happened before. Whatever the effect, I’m counting on the resilience of West Danby’s little population of Worm-eating Warblers. For one thing, they’re not limited to the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, but have been found in comparable habitat over a four mile stretch of the Cayuga Inlet valley wall. During the last twenty-some years individual singing males have also turned up in locations like Michigan Hollow, Hulburt Hollow and Beech Hill Brook, sidetracks just off the target breeding area along the Cayuga Inlet valley. Taken together, all this suggests the local population is well established. One old guesstimate was 25 pairs. That still seems reasonable to me. -Geo > On Jul 7, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Tobias Dean wrote: > > After hiking up to the Pinnacles above the LP Preserve Monday we were a bit > shocked by the more or less complete defoliation by caterpillars [...] -- 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] worm eating warblers at Lindsay Parsons
After hiking up to the Pinnacles above the LP Preserve Monday we were a bit shocked by the more or less complete defoliation by caterpillars on the red oaks and the other oak trees whose name I forgot on the steep slope. It looked like March up there and moths and pupae were everywhere on the bark. There was very little bird activity in the immediate area (the understory temperature was much higher than normal)and I wondered if this would induce the worm eaters to go elsewhere. -- Tobias Dean, Furnituremaker 124 Yaple Rd. Ithaca NY 14850 t...@tobiasdean.com http://www.tobiasdean.com -- 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] Worm-eating Warblers
Right now I have two Worm-eating Warblers exchanging songs near West Danby’s north pinnacle (Danby State Forest / L-P Preserve). Very nice looks at one of them from about 20’ distance. This is the first day it has been dry and windless enough that I thought I could find them. A bit cold up here! -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] Worm-eating Warblers
Worm-eating Watblers are back on their breeding territory (Danby State Forest / L-P BioD Preserve) this morning. I had 3 counter-singing near the northernmost of Thatcher’s triple Pinnacles at about 9:30 AM. -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] Worm-eating Warblers and other Danby breeders
Right now at the north pinnacle (traditional nesting area) I have at least two singing Worm-eating Warblers, 100 yards apart, so I presume the whole "colony" has returned. Last time I checked was on Friday. There were none. I had Yellow-throated Vireos up here that morning (used to surprise me, but it seems to be an annual occurrence). This morning I can hear them down below, in more typical area along the RR corridor. I watched a pair of Blue Jays gathering fine rootlets (easy to obtain on this over-steepened slope) to line a nest. Also spotted a Xylocopa virginica. I guess there's enough dry, durable dead wood up here to offer nest sites, though they usually prefer an eastern exposure. Half an hour ago I was in the open grove of white spruces atop Bald Hill (behind the yellow gate), with its Hooded Warblers, Black-throated Blues, Mourning Warblers, Ruffed Grouse and other regular breeders. Saw two Cooper's Hawks: one sub -canopy and another overhead doing what I interpreted as a territorial over-flight. There used to be a territory down the long-abandoned section of Comfort Road, but recent logging down there may have prompted a shift... -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] Worm-eating Warblers
Near the eastern edge of the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve / Danby State Forest, multiple Worm-eating Warblers began countersinging at 8:50 AM. Probably just arrived this morning. Also Blue-headed Vireos, Blackburnians, Black-throated Greens, Hermit Thrushes, Wood Thrush, Great-crested Flycatcher, Baltimore Oriole, various other birds. Earlier, at the western edge of the preserve I had Yellow-throated Vireo, Nashville Warbler, Black-and-White Warbler, Magnolia warbler, numerous Chestnut-sided Warblers, Hermit Thrush, Wood Thrush, Veery, indigo Bunting, Broad-winged Hawk at nest. Ruby-throated Hummingbird appeared last evening. -Geo Kloppel, West Danby -- 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] Worm-eating Warblers
I found 3 - 4 singing Worm-eating Warblers this morning in the usual location. They were silent until about 8:00 AM, then began countersinging, but gave Iit up after 45 minutes as the clouds darkened and the showers increased. Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Rd Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 -- 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] Worm-eating Warblers
Seeing that we might get a well-timed break of morning sunshine, at 8:15 I drove across the valley to visit Worm-eating Warbler habitat below West Danby's north pinnacle. On the walk through the forest I flushed a couple of Wood Ducks from a tiny vernal pool where frogs and salamanders breed. Hermit Thrushes, Black-throated Green Warblers, Blackburnian Warblers, Blue-headed Vireos, a Scarlet Tanager and other birds were present but not very vocal. When I got to the slopes at 8:45 the Worm-eaters were silent. I sat down and waited. I could easily hear quite distant birds singing down in the L-P Preserve, including a Yellow-throated Vireo. At 9:10 the sun finally climbed above the north pinnacle and began to illuminate the treetops, at which point 4 or 5 Worm-eating Warblers began counter-singing. One perched at eye level directly in front of me. They kept it up strongly for 20 minutes, like a delayed dawn chorus, then the cloud cover returned and they all went quiet. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Rd Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 -- 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] Worm-eating Warblers
Well, the Alpine terrain may be a deterrent to observation for some more daunted than our good Geo, but thanks to him, I will be on the way shortly. Still looking for my first Worm-eater. (Now, where is that static rope?) Asher On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: I stole 45 minutes to cross the valley and make a quick check for the arrival of WORM-EATING WARBLERs in their traditional West Danby breeding habitat. They are present in the nesting area, and singing. To judge from the state of expansion of the chestnut oak leaves (3 - 5 cmm long), the Worm-eaters have perhaps been there for a couple of days already. This species makes an interesting case with regard to first arrival dates. On the one hand, the West Danby location is the end of the line for most of them - birds found singing there are presumably the local breeders -and there are reasons to think the whole colony may arrive more-or-less en masse. On the other hand, their arrival is apt to go unnoticed for some days, unless one or more individuals overshoot the target and get spotted in more frequently birded areas. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOMEhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULEShttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
