Re: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma babies or future babies

2015-06-22 Thread Dave Nutter
Add a family of VIRGINIA RAILS along the channel on the opposite side of the 
Wildlife Drive from Larue's Lagoon. I saw at least 2 downy black chicks with 2 
adults. I was alerted by persistent 'pip-pip' calls.

The WOOD DUCK family at Larue's had 10 babies on Sunday. On Thursday I counted 
14.

On Van Dyne Spoor Rd Sunday I saw a family of 2 adult and 6 downy young 
AMERICAN COOTS.

A distant pair of adult TRUMPETER SWANS in the SW part of Van Dyne Spoor Rd 
marsh may have been at a nest. There was also a pair of adult TRUMPETER SWANS 
swimming by the Deep Muck platform on Thursday.

I saw at least 2 and possibly as many as 6 adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS 
south of Van Dyne Spoor Rd on Sunday morning. They were resting on 1 leg, 
preening, standing beside water as if hunting, flying from one part of the 
marsh to another, or seemingly circling randomly over the marsh, but I missed 
any evidence of pairing or breeding.

Of 6 distant GREAT EGRETS south of Van Dyne Spoor Rd, 2 perched close to each 
other on a small dead tree and had plumes on their backs, but I saw no other 
evidence of breeding.

Other observations of interest (to me at least) included:
 a WEASEL at Eaton Marsh, seen well for about a second as it scooted across the 
Wildlife Drive: brown above, white below, black-tipped brown narrow tail about 
half the body length, very short legs, round head about the same diameter as 
the narrow body, fast as hell.
a MONARCH BUTTERFLY (first of year for me) apparently heading north on the 
south breeze Thursday and pausing to feed at blooming Milkweed in front of the 
Deep Muck Platfrom off Savannah-Spring Lake Rd.
two RED-TAILED HAWKS on the empty Osprey platform  perch just south of Dean's 
Cove on NYS-89 as I drove north Sunday but gone when I went south hours later. 
That pole isn't vertical, and I wonder if the tipped platform makes it less 
appealing.
an AMERICAN BITTERN called many times throughout the morning from the middle of 
Van Dyne Spoor Rd marsh, but I did not find any Least Bittern.
from the platform at Mays Point Pool I finally saw one of those noisy MARSH 
WRENS that I've heard so many places at Montezuma.

PS- Oddly, apparently I did not receive the original CayugaBirds-L message from 
Mike Tetlow. I wonder what else I've missed.

--Dave Nutter


On Jun 21, 2015, at 09:30 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:

 Nice observations Mike and Joanne! I was thinking of swinging in in the 
 afternoon on the way back form Sterling Nature Center.


 Meena Haribal
 Ithaca NY 14850

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 This afternoon a trip through the refuge brought nothing rare but higher 
 water on the main pool diluted the smell of rotting carp and last week’s 
 congregation of 20+ eagles had moved on. Here are some family highlights of 
 the day;

 - The winner of the cutest babies contest was a family of 3 tiny baby 
 Spotted Sandpipers with parent on the main pool edge opposite Benning Marsh. 
 They were very difficult to find as their peeping sounded like it was 30 feet 
 away from where they were.

 - The family of Wood Ducks continues at Larue lagoon and a small family 
 with only 3 young was at the last pool at the very end of the wildlife drive.

  - 4 teenage Hooded Mergansers were on a log in the same pond.

  - Common Gallinules had 3 brand new babies at the south end of Eaton 
 Marsh and a dense clump at the north end held a Gallinule on the nest.

  - Pied-billed Grebes had a teenager at Eaton Marsh and one on a nest 
 near the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road.

  - Trumpeter Swans with young were on Tschasche pool with 1 Common Tern 
 feeding around them.

  - We had no luck with the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May’s Point and 
 although, hopefully wrong, Starlings were all around the previously contested 
 nest hole.

  - Sandhill Cranes with their colt were still reported at Knox-Marcellus 
 marsh but not seen by us.

  - A Horned Lark took a  mouthful of insects into the grass along East 
 Road and fed a tailless barely feathered fledgling.

  - 2 Black-crowned Night Herons were seen at Van Dyne Spoor Road with one 
 carrying a long stick out to about the middle of the marsh.

  -Black Terns were represented at every cattail marsh with one carrying 
 food at both the main pool and Van Dyne Spoor Road.

 Mike and Joann Tetlow  
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[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma babies or future babies

2015-06-21 Thread Michael Tetlow
This afternoon a trip through the refuge brought nothing rare but higher
water on the main pool diluted the smell of rotting carp and last week's
congregation of 20+ eagles had moved on. Here are some family highlights of
the day;

- The winner of the cutest babies contest was a family of 3 tiny baby
Spotted Sandpipers with parent on the main pool edge opposite Benning Marsh.
They were very difficult to find as their peeping sounded like it was 30
feet away from where they were.

- The family of Wood Ducks continues at Larue lagoon and a small family
with only 3 young was at the last pool at the very end of the wildlife
drive.

 - 4 teenage Hooded Mergansers were on a log in the same pond.

 - Common Gallinules had 3 brand new babies at the south end of Eaton
Marsh and a dense clump at the north end held a Gallinule on the nest.

 - Pied-billed Grebes had a teenager at Eaton Marsh and one on a nest
near the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road.

 - Trumpeter Swans with young were on Tschasche pool with 1 Common Tern
feeding around them.

 - We had no luck with the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May's Point and
although, hopefully wrong, Starlings were all around the previously
contested nest hole. 

 - Sandhill Cranes with their colt were still reported at Knox-Marcellus
marsh but not seen by us.

 - A Horned Lark took a  mouthful of insects into the grass along East
Road and fed a tailless barely feathered fledgling.

 - 2 Black-crowned Night Herons were seen at Van Dyne Spoor Road with
one carrying a long stick out to about the middle of the marsh.

 -Black Terns were represented at every cattail marsh with one carrying
food at both the main pool and Van Dyne Spoor Road.

Mike and Joann Tetlow  


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma babies or future babies

2015-06-21 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
Nice observations Mike and Joanne! I was thinking of swinging in in the 
afternoon on the way back form Sterling Nature Center.


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






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bounce-119394628-3493...@list.cornell.edu on behalf of Michael Tetlow 
mjtet...@frontiernet.net
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 9:16 PM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma babies or future babies


This afternoon a trip through the refuge brought nothing rare but higher water 
on the main pool diluted the smell of rotting carp and last week's congregation 
of 20+ eagles had moved on. Here are some family highlights of the day;

- The winner of the cutest babies contest was a family of 3 tiny baby 
Spotted Sandpipers with parent on the main pool edge opposite Benning Marsh. 
They were very difficult to find as their peeping sounded like it was 30 feet 
away from where they were.

- The family of Wood Ducks continues at Larue lagoon and a small family 
with only 3 young was at the last pool at the very end of the wildlife drive.

 - 4 teenage Hooded Mergansers were on a log in the same pond.

 - Common Gallinules had 3 brand new babies at the south end of Eaton Marsh 
and a dense clump at the north end held a Gallinule on the nest.

 - Pied-billed Grebes had a teenager at Eaton Marsh and one on a nest near 
the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road.

 - Trumpeter Swans with young were on Tschasche pool with 1 Common Tern 
feeding around them.

 - We had no luck with the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May's Point and 
although, hopefully wrong, Starlings were all around the previously contested 
nest hole.

 - Sandhill Cranes with their colt were still reported at Knox-Marcellus 
marsh but not seen by us.

 - A Horned Lark took a  mouthful of insects into the grass along East Road 
and fed a tailless barely feathered fledgling.

 - 2 Black-crowned Night Herons were seen at Van Dyne Spoor Road with one 
carrying a long stick out to about the middle of the marsh.

 -Black Terns were represented at every cattail marsh with one carrying 
food at both the main pool and Van Dyne Spoor Road.

Mike and Joann Tetlow

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