[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2023-04-22 Thread Regi Teasley
Hey, “our” Catbird is back!

Regi
Cliff Park Rd
Ithaca


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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird fun

2022-06-03 Thread Geo Kloppel
I’ve got a Catbird in the yard who does imitations of Bobwhite and 
Whip-poor-will :-)

-Geo

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2022-04-24 Thread Regi Teasley
Catbird at the suet feeder this evening.  I thought I had heard it this morning!
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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird!

2021-05-02 Thread Barbara B. Eden
Instead of my first Oriole, I had my first catbird of the season eating grape 
jelly at my feeder in Cayuga Heights

Happy Spring!
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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2020-10-03 Thread Regi Teasley
At 1:40 we had a handsome Catbird taking a thorough bath in our backyard 
birdbath.
That made my day.
Regi
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City of Ithaca


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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2019-11-21 Thread Carol Keeler
I just had a Gray Catbird out back.  Isn’t it rather late for them?

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2019-04-22 Thread Regi Teasley
My dear Catbird has arrived!

Regi
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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2018-05-03 Thread Laura Stenzler
This mornings new birds- catbird and Oriole.
Hunt Hill Rd, Dryden

Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2017-04-30 Thread W. Larry Hymes
Had our first of year CATBIRD this afternoon.  This is earlier than most 
years.


Larry

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2017-04-28 Thread Donna Lee Scott
FOY GREY CATBIRDs in my yard this morning.

Donna Scott
Lansing
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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2016-05-06 Thread Donna Scott
The first of (I hope) many local GRAY CATBIRDS was singing a nice series of 
mimicked calls in my yard this morning!
Donna Scott

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2016-04-29 Thread david nicosia
Mine came back too!!! 

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My Catbird is back.  It just came to the jelly feeder.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2016-04-29 Thread Sue Norvell
"Our" catbird arrived this morning too - repeatedly enjoyed suet from the 
feeder throughout the day.

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2016-04-29 Thread Carol Keeler
My Catbird is back.  It just came to the jelly feeder.

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird woes and the added newest woe

2015-07-15 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
Hi all,

Yesterday morning I was out at 5.10 am trying to record some bird songs as a 
Mourning Dove seem to be singing very close by. To my ear it seemed very close 
and loud. But it the recording its sound is drowned by the neighbors pet and 
the Robin. So I was wondering if the frequencies of Mourning dove are soothing 
to me so my brain really appreciated it while drowning the surrounding sound.


But I as I was recording my catbird came for his/her morning meal. I was as 
close at four feet from him and he complained and complained rather annoyingly 
at my tactics of scaring the moth away from the sheet before his arrival. He 
meowed in my face and not afraid of me.


Today morning there were two Ravens one I believe is the parent other a young 
both flew back and forth over my yard several times.


And lastly several of you had come to the Robert Treman Moth night. Here is the 
link to the photos of that night. Some of them are identified and others need 
yet to be identified. But so far at least three of the moths are New York State 
records.  So I decided to check the last years pictures and I found two of them 
were seen last year too and one of them I had identified at that time but just 
did not know that they were new to New York!


https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipOmsuDNhElL6qaJMDVrKLrDFHWpM2WJALU5egJW

It is lot fun to sit and try identifying them but also painful on the 
forefinger as you keep scrolling down the moth photographers group photos (MPG) 
species by species.

Cheers
Meena

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Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts
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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2015-05-01 Thread Geo Kloppel
A dawn chorus walk around my "yard" (5:35, 40 degrees F) produced a Gray 
Catbird and a Common Yellowthroat.

-Geo 
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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird and Catocala incidnece

2013-08-05 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
Hi all,

Yesterday night around 12.00 AM I had this beautiful moth visit moth sheet. It 
was there till 2.30 AM as I was still awake at this time. Then I fell asleep 
sometime after 3.00 am. By the time I woke up it was 5.58 am. It was quite 
bright outside. I stumbled out of the bed to make sure the catbird did not get 
him. But as it happened I was late by a few minutes. I did not see the moth, so 
I was presuming it flew away, but catbird was furiously mewing from the spruce.



Next second catbird was just about 2 feet from my feet and chasing the Penitent 
Catocala, which I had not seen. The caotcala flip-flopped. Meaning it was 
showing off its underwing and closing it as it fluttered on wing close to the 
ground but very much alive. I stepped down to look at it. The catbird flew away 
mewing madly at me.  I tried to catch the moth, it gave me quite a time, 
finally I caught it and released it among the greenery, when catbird was away 
from my sight.  I hope it survived!



Here are the two pictures, first one taken around midnight and the second one 
taken in the morning after the attack. You can see at least three beak marks!



Before the catbird attack.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/118047473426099383469/albums/5907700059485657345/5908590493496285602?pid=5908590493496285602&oid=118047473426099383469



After the catbird attack.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/118047473426099383469/albums/5907700059485657345/5908590513588286226?pid=5908590513588286226&oid=118047473426099383469



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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2013-04-19 Thread Ann Mitchell
At Swan Pen.

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird does toad imitations

2012-05-05 Thread geokloppel
Last spring I had a Catbird doing a pretty good Chuck-wills-widow song, which 
he must have picked up in the south. This year's entry is a local sound: he's 
doing toad imitations! Not the loud mating song, but a soft vocalization that 
the migrating toads make as they advance through the grass.

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2012-04-12 Thread Sara Jane Hymes

I saw my FOY GRAY CATBIRD on East Hill Recway (Honness Lane end) just now.

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird!

2010-05-13 Thread Meena Haribal
Last few days I have been anxiously waiting for the Catbird to come home. One 
day I heard some soft catbirds sounds but it turned out he was not from my area.

Today as I walked into my backyard, I was thrilled to hear him, he is back! He 
is hiding in the rose bushes and singing with gusto.  I will have to start 
competing with him for moths early mornings. I have to scare them off before he 
wakes up to have a hearty breakfast.

I was seeing catbirds all around and mine had not returned, so i was wondering 
if he lost his way in the hurricanes and tornados.

What a reliefe!

I look forward to his songs, hopefully he has added a few more phrases to his 
vocabulary!

Meena

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird

2010-05-01 Thread Laura Stenzler
Not a huge fallout by any means in our yard today, but we do have our year's 
first CATBIRD and Barn Swallow. 
Laura


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[cayugabirds-l] catbird

2010-04-23 Thread Carol Keeler
I was at my friend's house on Skaneateles Lake and heard my first  
catbird of the year. Now I'm waiting for mine to appear.  She also had  
a pair of red-breasted nuthatches.   At home I heard a rufous sided  
towhee singing "Drink your te".  I've had white throated sparrows  
for several days now.

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[cayugabirds-l] Catbird and other musings

2009-10-22 Thread Meena Haribal
Today evening after I got back from work, I was doing some work in the yard 
and I heard a familiar "meow" , I was not sure if I really heard it. As I 
was putting my ladder again the wall, the Catbird flushed from the thickets 
flew away telling me that he annoyed!

Last few days I have been seeing regularly Am. Robin on the perch where my 
regular resident Robins spends his evening. He also gave a few bars of song 
a couple of days ago.

So now I am not sure if these (both catbird and robin)  are my yard 
residents, but had just quit to greener pasture after their babies fledged 
and occasionally come and claim their territory or they are visitors and 
happen to occupy the same perches because it is one of the best perch.

Today morning while walking to work, I saw several hundred crows in groups 
and they looked like migrants. One group was larger than 100 birds, they 
kept coming.

On my to work,  on East Ithaca Recreation way, there is resident mocking 
bird that hangs around on a hawthorn bush along the path. He or she is so 
tame when I pass less than four or five feet from her/him, he/she just 
blinks and looks away.

In the evening walk from Pine Tree Rd where bus drops me off, on Honness 
Lane, everyday, I enjoy watching bunch of Starlings sitting and vocalizing. 
I have heard them mimic like Meadowlarks, just nobody, cheerful somebody, 
redwing black birds and common grackles.  When I heard grackles for the 
first time I tried to locate them among the starlings, but then I realized 
there were none. I think they are most cheerful birds with lots of time to 
kill on their hand. I dont know when they feed. Most of the time they are 
sitting on a wire or a tree and gurgling or mimicking.  Wonder what they 
feed on and how often they feed. I would love to have a their life!

Weather outside is so balmy. right now. I left the moth light on and I 
found five species of moths at the light. A beautiful Amphyrinae, 
Eupithecea, Dart, Swallow and a totricid.   Hope I will find a few more as 
the night progresses.

Cheers
  Meena




Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
webpage:

http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/

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Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m
Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m

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