Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

[John Luther Cisne]

At least two woodcocks were peenting about an hour ago over the marsh along 
Landon Road at its intersection with Route 79.

-
 John Cisne, Professor Emeritus
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  14853
   john.ci...@cornell.edu
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From:  on behalf of Tom Hoebbel 

Reply-To: Tom Hoebbel 
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 7:57 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

We are hearing at lest 2 woodcocks penting in the back fields on Burns Rd in 
Brooktondale.



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

[Therese O'Connor]

2 barred owls hooting and hollerin' outside my window last night on
Meadowlark Rd near Sapsucker woods.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 7:45 PM Leigh Stivers 
wrote:

> I am finally hearing Woodcocks tonight! I thought I heard them last night
> but it was very windy. Spring is almost here!
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

[bob mcguire]

Woodcocks here, too. 5 of them. Began peenting at 7:28 pm.

Bob
> On Mar 15, 2019, at 7:45 PM, Leigh Stivers  wrote:
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> I am finally hearing Woodcocks tonight! I thought I heard them last night but 
> it was very windy. Spring is almost here!
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

[Melanie Uhlir]

After reading the description of Woodcock lek habitat (am I using the 
term correctly??), it occurred to me that they might be present in the 
field next to and behind my house so I stomped out through my marshy 
backyard and through the little woodlot to the edge. Sure enough, I 
heard peenting! Didn't dare venture farther since a) I had foolishly 
neglected to bring a flashlight with which to find my way back; and b) I 
didn't want to risk disturbing the birds.


On Monday evening at the airport I heard peenting but could not get a 
visual. Tonight I tried again and heard both peenting and the whistling 
audio of the display but again could not find a bird with my binoculars. 
Also heard what sounded like a Great Horned Owl from somewhere in the 
woods east of Mohawk Road.


On 4/13/2015 6:10 PM, Carol Keeler wrote:

Does weather effect the Woodcock's sky dance?  Do they stay down when it's 
windy like today?  Or do hormones dictate their behavior and weather has no 
effect.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

[Geo Kloppel]

I'm not sure what they'd do in a really ferocious windstorm, but normal windy 
conditions shouldn't stop them. After all, the display is a show of fitness.

But wind might well make it harder for you to hear and observe them.

-Geo 

On Apr 13, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Carol Keeler carolk...@adelphia.net wrote:

 Does weather effect the Woodcock's sky dance?  Do they stay down when it's 
 windy like today?  Or do hormones dictate their behavior and weather has no 
 effect.
 
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Re: Arctic Sea Ice - Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks????

[david nicosia]

The cool spring weather so far really hasn't been that cool relative to normal. 
In Ithaca
the average March temperature was only 1.9 degrees below the long term average.
Compared to last year, it was very cold since last March was 12.8 degrees above 
average!!!
How soon we forget that we live in a cold climate!!!  

The jet stream patterns are exactly as described below, much farther south, 
related to
the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) which is in its negative or cold phase 
this spring so far. 

See http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao.shtml

for information on the NAO   

Last year, the NAO was positive and hence the eastern U.S was warm! The NAO 
varies rapidly
from week to week but can be predominately in one phase for a prolong time 
period... i.e this
past March/early April. The NAO has been dropping recently in the long term 
mean and some 
have tied this to the loss of sea ice in the Arctic. My personal  professional 
opinion (not NOAA's!!) is 
that it is premature to be making this kind of cause and effect.  The NAO was 
predominately in a 
negative/cold phase in the 1960s and 1970s, returned to a positive/warm phase 
in the 1980s, 
peaking in the 1990s and has been falling ever since the 1990s peak. It is 
cyclical. 

see 
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/JFM_season_nao_index.shtml

I also remember in the 1990s climate scientists were blaming the positive/warm 
phase of the NAO on anthropogenic
global warming! Now they are blaming the cold phase on global warming? What 
about the 1960s and 1970s
when the NAO was in the cool/negative phase?? Sea ice was much higher. I think 
the jury is still out
on this one. 

What is interesting is that even with a negative NAO, it was only slightly 
below normal temperature-wise
in March. In the past, a strongly negative NAO usually yielded MUCH colder 
temperatures, like March 1960
which was 10 degrees below normal with a negative NAO. That might be related to 
a global warming
signal...negative NAO patterns don't yield the kind of cold they used to. 

As far as woodcocks go, maybe they don't display as much when it is colder and 
windy so they are
not detected as much? Plus, are they as many people out on cold nights? These 
are just things to consider
also... 

Dave Nicosia    

From: Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes c...@cornell.edu
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu 
Sent: Friday, April 5, 2013 9:49 AM
Subject: Arctic Sea Ice - Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks
 

Bob, 

I suspect the cool weather has a lot to do with it. I believe that we are 
having a significantly cooler-than-normal spring, due to the Jet Stream being 
slightly farther south or much broader than usual. This, as I understand it, is 
directly correlated to the reduction in sea ice in the arctic which in turn 
creates a weakened pressure differential north of the Jet Stream, allowing the 
cold arctic air to spill much farther south than normal.

The following quote of text is from: 
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/06/arctic-ice-melt-sets-stage-cold-weather:

A diminished latitudinal pressure gradient is linked to a weakening of the 
winds associated with the polar vortex and jet stream. Since the polar vortex 
normally retains the cold Arctic air masses up above the Arctic Circle, its 
weakening allows the cold air to invade lower latitudes.

More links:

http://climatecrocks.com/2012/06/08/more-evidence-arctic-warming-effect-on-jet-stream-more-extremes/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss

I'm sure there are persons much more familiar with these weather changes, who 
can pipe up on this conversation... :-)

Sincerely,
Chris T-H



On Apr 5, 2013, at 9:11 AM, bob mcguire wrote:

Has anyone been hearing/seeing woodcocks in the past few days?

Back at the beginning of March we had several here on Whitted Rd (Snyder 
Hill). And in years past we have had up to seven in our and neighboring 
fields. I went out last night around 8 pm to survey and could not find a one. 
It was relatively mild and I did hear
 an occasional peeper. It doesn't seem reasonable that they would have taken a 
step back south. Are this year's numbers down? Does anyone have any idea?

Bob McGuire



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks????

[Geo Kloppel]

Woodcock do not breed on my steep hillside overlooking West Danby, but I 
usually see a few displays in my fields from stopover migrants pumped up on 
hormones. This suggests that the first individuals to arrive and display in 
favorable locations might not necessarily be the ones that will be found 
breeding there a few weeks later...

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks????

[Nancy W. Dickinson]

I saw and heard 3 woodcocks last evening.  But the first chorus of peepers was 
even more exciting!

On Apr 5, 2013, at 9:11 AM, bob mcguire wrote:

Has anyone been hearing/seeing woodcocks in the past few days?

Back at the beginning of March we had several here on Whitted Rd (Snyder Hill). 
And in years past we have had up to seven in our and neighboring fields. I went 
out last night around 8 pm to survey and could not find a one. It was 
relatively mild and I did hear an occasional peeper. It doesn't seem reasonable 
that they would have taken a step back south. Are this year's numbers down? 
Does anyone have any idea?

Bob McGuire



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Arctic Sea Ice - Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks????

[Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes]

Bob,

I suspect the cool weather has a lot to do with it. I believe that we are 
having a significantly cooler-than-normal spring, due to the Jet Stream being 
slightly farther south or much broader than usual. This, as I understand it, is 
directly correlated to the reduction in sea ice in the arctic which in turn 
creates a weakened pressure differential north of the Jet Stream, allowing the 
cold arctic air to spill much farther south than normal.

The following quote of text is from: 
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/06/arctic-ice-melt-sets-stage-cold-weather:

A diminished latitudinal pressure gradient is linked to a weakening of the 
winds associated with the polar vortex and jet stream. Since the polar vortex 
normally retains the cold Arctic air masses up above the Arctic Circle, its 
weakening allows the cold air to invade lower latitudes.

More links:

http://climatecrocks.com/2012/06/08/more-evidence-arctic-warming-effect-on-jet-stream-more-extremes/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/25/frozen-spring-arctic-sea-ice-loss

I'm sure there are persons much more familiar with these weather changes, who 
can pipe up on this conversation... :-)

Sincerely,
Chris T-H


On Apr 5, 2013, at 9:11 AM, bob mcguire wrote:

Has anyone been hearing/seeing woodcocks in the past few days?

Back at the beginning of March we had several here on Whitted Rd (Snyder Hill). 
And in years past we have had up to seven in our and neighboring fields. I went 
out last night around 8 pm to survey and could not find a one. It was 
relatively mild and I did hear an occasional peeper. It doesn't seem reasonable 
that they would have taken a step back south. Are this year's numbers down? 
Does anyone have any idea?

Bob McGuire



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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks????

[Dimitri William Ponirakis]

Hi Bob

I'm pretty sure I saw a Woodcock out the back of my house on Cosmos Hill west 
of Homer at about 6pm last night (Thursday 4th).  I was walking in an area 
between a field and scrub, and it just shot up in from of me.

Dimitri Ponirakis

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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 9:12 AM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

Has anyone been hearing/seeing woodcocks in the past few days?

Back at the beginning of March we had several here on Whitted Rd (Snyder Hill). 
And in years past we have had up to seven in our and neighboring fields. I went 
out last night around 8 pm to survey and could not find a one. It was 
relatively mild and I did hear an occasional peeper. It doesn't seem reasonable 
that they would have taken a step back south. Are this year's numbers down? 
Does anyone have any idea?

Bob McGuire



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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks???? and Owls

[bilbaker]

Ann Mitchell and I went out looking for owls yesterday evening,  stating
early enough to heard Woodcocks as well.  We found what I will confidently
say were at least 5 individual Woodcock behind the airport near where
Snyder  and Mohawk meet. We were in the vicinity till well after 9 but
could not raise a hoot in terms of owls (tried for Saw-whet, Screech and
Barred in that order in various spots along Mohawk and Neimi Rds.)
Afterwards we stopped on Sapsucker Woods Rd at the trail crossing, only
trying for Barred, with  the same result...

I have not heard any Woodcock at home,  but have only been listening in a
cursory manner as our upper fields, where we regularly have them,  are
still snow covered...

Bill
Baker

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