[cayugabirds-l] Stewart park

[Karin Suskin]

After 4:30 yesterday, seen between the pond and a little ways passed the
second bridge.


Catbird
Kingbird
Palm warbler
Yellow rumped
Bald Eagle
Hooded merganser

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park clean up is still on!

[Jody Enck]

Hi folks,
Despite the drizzly weather, the clean up effort will happen as scheduled
today from 10am to noon at Stewart Park.

See you there!


Jody W. Enck, PhD
Conservation Social Scientist, and
Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network
607-379-5940

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park clean up tomorow!

[Jody Enck]

Hello birders,

Please don't forget that tomorrow is the annual clean up day in Stewart
Park starting at 10am.  Please come out and help make this popular birding
destination a cleaner place.

If you see me there, ask me about our habitat improvement projects!


  Friends of Stewart Park is hosting our annual spring waterfront cleanup
on Saturday, March 26, from 10am -noon.

Dress for the weather, wear boots, and bring gloves, garbage bags, litter
grabbers or anything else that will help. Together we'll practice good
stewardship of our park and Cayuga Lake=E2=80=99s waterfront.
Meet at the Picnic =E2=80=9CLarge=E2=80=9D Pavilion.

If the weather is terrible, we=E2=80=99ll reschedule to April 2nd.

Please share the event with others who may like to help!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1776036249209964

 or
https://www.friendsofstewartpark.org/events/2022/3/26/annual-waterfront-cle=
anup


Jody W. Enck, PhD
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607-379-5940

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park clean up

[Jody Enck]

Hi All,

Many of us love to go to Stewart Park in Ithaca to enjoy nature, including
the variety of birds that can be seen there.  Each year, the Friends of
Stewart Park hosts a clean up day.  Below is the information for this year's
event.  I hope many of you can help out.

  Friends of Stewart Park is hosting our annual spring waterfront cleanup
on Saturday, March 26, from 10am -noon.

Dress for the weather, wear boots, and bring gloves, garbage bags, litter
grabbers or anything else that will help. Together we'll practice good
stewardship of our park and Cayuga Lake’s waterfront.
Meet at the Picnic “Large” Pavilion.

If the weather is terrible, we’ll reschedule to April 2nd.

Please share the event with others who may like to help!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1776036249209964

 or
https://www.friendsofstewartpark.org/events/2022/3/26/annual-waterfront-cleanup


Love to help in Stewart Park and on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail? Sign up
for the FSP volunteer list and be the first to learn about volunteer
opportunities. https://www.friendsofstewartpark.org/volunteer



Jody W. Enck, PhD
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park cleanup Fwd: Emergency Call for Volunteer Rakers at Stewart Park

[Liisa S. Mobley]

Stewart Park must still be closed.  The Friends of Stewart Park sent out this 
request yesterday to help clean up storm debris for Friday afternoon, 4-6pm, 
and asked to share this message widely.  Please note the DON’T BRING SAWS 
warning!
More info in the email, below.  I am not an organizer of the event, so it would 
best to contact Friends  of Stewart Park for more info.
Thanks,
Liisa

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Janelle Mattson 
Date: June 23, 2021 at 4:02:43 PM EDT
Subject: Emergency Call for Volunteer Rakers at Stewart Park
Reply-To: jane...@friendsofstewartpark.org



Dear Liisa,

As you likely know, Monday afternoon, Stewart Park was hit with a storm that 
caused unbelievable amounts of damage. Trees are uprooted and giant branches 
are all over the ground. Also all over the ground, tons and tons of leaves and 
small branches.

City crews have taken care of hazards and will continue large scale clean up, 
but Stewart Park urgently needs your help. We now have been given the go-ahead 
by the city to call out for volunteers.

The City and Friends of Stewart Park request volunteers bring their work gloves 
and rakes down to the park FRIDAY 4-6 PM to work.


Rake piles of debris out of the lawns over to the closest road's edge so city 
crews can easily pick them up. Small branches can be pulled to the edge of the 
road and lined up with broken ends on one side and leaves on the other, making 
them easier for the city to throw into the chipper. Storm debris can be found 
everywhere in the park, but the areas near the playground footbridges are of 
highest need. Volunteers are asked to just pick a spot that needs to be raked, 
especially on this western end of the park, just rake to the closest road. 
Please handle only small branches and DO NOT BRING OR USE SAWS.

Cleaning up this debris is a huge task, but many hands make light work. Please 
share this so more potential volunteers will see it and we can get Stewart Park 
in time for its 100th birthday party on July 4th.  If you cannot make the 
Friday 4-6, you are invited to come rake on your own time, following the 
instructions above.

Safety note: The City underscores that all volunteers use caution areas that 
have been marked as hazardous and in general around fallen limbs and trees and 
under trees. Only attempt to move small branches, sticks and leaves, and do not 
bring or use saws.

Thank you for helping Stewart Park!

Janelle Alvstad-Mattson
Communications & Administration


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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park ducks

[Laura Stenzler]

Hi,
 A brief (cold) stop at Stewart Park this morning yielded a nice mixed raft of 
ducks, including 4 white-winged scoters.
Here is my ebird list:
Redhead  85
Ring-necked Duck  4
Greater/Lesser Scaup  20 (I think a mix of greater and lesser, but could not be 
sure)
White-winged Scoter  4 (female plummaged)
Bufflehead  12
Ruddy Duck  3

Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park waterfowl

[Jay McGowan]

Highlights this morning include a continuing group of BLACK SCOTERS well
offshore, 19 birds today, as well as at least seven Surf Scoters near the
lighthouses, and a female White-winged Scoter and a Red-necked Grebe in
with the coot and scaup flock just offshore. A single Brant continues on
the red lighthouse jetty as well. Fewer Bufflehead than in recent days, but
a few around.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Black Terns

[Dave Nutter]

This morning just before 9am Jay McGowan sent a text rare bird alert about a 
Black Tern among the swallows off Stewart Park. I arrived a little over an hour 
later. On my first scope scan of the lake I saw plenty of swallows and 
cormorants but no black tern. After an unsuccessful binocular scan, I tried 
another scope scan and found a Black Tern flying low above the lake among the 
many swallows. It was farther away than East Shore Park and initially in the 
direction of Portland Point. It was amazingly agile at short fast dives & turns 
when it went after some hapless airborne insect. After awhile the Black Tern 
began working its way west, passing in front of the piling cluster but beyond 
the Red Lighthouse toward the lakeshore at Treman. It went out of view 
momentarily in the SW corner of the lake, then reappeared flying north, but 
flying straighter and gradually climbing, and with a second Black Tern. They 
continued northbound but separated so much that I could only follow one in my 
scope. I eventually lost it against the sky above the tree line above the 
Ithaca Yacht Club at 1036am. I looked for the second Black Tern but did not 
refind it, so my guess is that it also continued north. But, it’s worth 
scanning the swallows in case the same or another Black Tern joins them.

- - Dave Nutter
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Purple Martins

[Marie P. Read]

At the end of my wanderings for errands this morning, I checked out Stewart 
Park where to my delight four Purple Martins were on and flying around the 
martin house set up by the Cayuga Bird Club. Love their bold songs!

Marie

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park waterfowl

[Jay McGowan]

Nothing unusual but a decent selection of waterfowl at Stewart Park in
Ithaca this morning:

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S6359

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Eagle Show

[Suan Hsi Yong]

For this morning's Stewart Park bird walk, I wasn't expecting to see much
given the strong south winds overnight and line of rain early, and sure
enough, the waterfowl and warbler variety was lacking and nonexistent,
respectively (just mallards and canada geese and a distant common
merganser). But to compensate, a posse of juvenile bald eagles put on quite
the show, flying back and forth as if playing in the wind, one flying in
with a small fish, one starting to "go bald". By the swan pen a belted
kingfisher landed a few branches behind a small streaky brown raptor, a
young merlin, who sat and preened and posed for great looks. Double-crested
cormorants lined the entire length of the red jetty, while the white jetty
hosted ring-billed, herring, and great black-backed gulls. A young green
heron attended the swan pen, while a great blue heron flew overhead. We
later saw at least three great blue herons perched variously below jetty
woods, while juvenile bald eagles perches on several snags above. Another
merlin flew around fall creek before perching for good looks at its whiter
breast: an adult this time.

Later at the second Migration Celebration bird walk around Sapsucker Woods,
things were relatively quiet though with enough "usuals" to keep the
participants happy. There was one fleeting naked-eye look at a
yellow-colored magnolia-ish warbler at Sherwood Platform, and some red-eyed
vireos in the woods, and back at the pergola the woodpeckers put on quite a
show, at one point a downy and hairy perched side-by-side as I reached for
my invisible camera. The best bird of the morning was probably the
Swainson's Thrush who flew first into the larger island then onto the big
GBH snag.

Suan

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park active!

[Laura Stenzler]

There are hundreds of cormorants off Stewart Park at the moment. I estimate 
400. Also 14 Ruddy ducks, 1 canvasback, 3 ring-necked ducks, 10 scaup  
(lesser?), 6 bufflehead, 1 pied-bill grebe. And more
Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Sapsucker Woods, NE Ithaca Th 5/24

[Mark Chao]

I found a satisfying variety of migrants and other birds early on Thursday
morning.



Stewart Park (5:30-6:20 AM)

ORCHARD ORIOLE (one immature male singing and singing from trees near
boathouse – last year an immature male and a female offered very good
viewing here into July, nesting at least until giant music festival)

YELLOW-THROATED VIREO (sang for a long time from one perch atop a tall
cottonwood at northern base of bridge to Renwick Wildwood – beautiful to
hear, somewhat satisfying to watch despite the great height)

BLACKPOLL WARBLER (several, including one male with a surprisingly yellow
bill to go with unsurprisingly yellow legs)

ALDER FLYCATCHER (heard calling – Wee Hao Ng found this bird over on the
golf course)

BALD EAGLE (immature seen flying over near waters, eastbound)



plus fine viewing of common expected species such as Blue-gray
Gnatcatchers, Eastern Kingbirds, etc.



Sapsucker Woods (6:50-7:30 AM)

BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (one male singing from high in an oak near 91
Sapsucker Woods Road)

BLACKPOLL WARBLER (a few singing)

EASTERN BLUEBIRD (male on wire next to knoll with Tree Swallow nest boxes –
very reliable here)

ALDER FLYCATCHER (one singing in Fuller Wetlands)

WOOD DUCK (two males together on pond)

BARRED OWL (heard hooting once, apparently from the southern part of the
Severinghaus Trail loop – not seen)



Simsbury Drive (8:20 AM)

WILSON’S WARBLER (male seen singing and catching insects – a first for our
yard)

LEAST FLYCATCHER (maybe also a first for us here at home – at least I don’t
remember any precedent).



Mark Chao



PS.   The weather forecast for this weekend’s Finger Lakes Land Trust
Spring Bird Quest is less than ideal (heat on Saturday, thunderstorms on
Sunday and Monday).  I will still plan to go to the sites at the appointed
start times no matter what the weather (well, unless there is a tornado
warning or something like that).  But I will also be ready to curtail the
walks if the conditions don’t seem safe or at all enjoyable.  I am still
optimistic that we will have a good time.  If you have any questions,
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park goose?

[Nancy Tonachel Gabriel]

This goose is swimming in the creek & pond near the bat house at the east end / 
Fuertes woods side of Stewart Park, sticking close to a Canada. Ideas?


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bustle

[Dave Nutter]

I was at the Swan Pond at Stewart Park starting about 1:40pm as a fairly 
substantial rain shower was tapering off. 

There were lots of Barn Swallows (I saw 9 perched together during a lull) and 
several Northern Rough-winged Swallows (I saw 4 perched together), and at least 
1 male and one female Tree Swallow.

I did not manage to count the Yellow-rumped Warblers, who were doing a lot of 
flycatching over the pond, but I’m guessing there were at least 10. Nor did I 
manage to count the less conspicuous Palm Warblers, but I think there were at 
least 4, and they also did some flycatching. I was surprised not to find the 
Yellow Warbler I saw there a couple days ago, which I had assumed was on its 
territory there. Maybe it gave up for awhile. 

There was also an Eastern Phoebe and my first-of-year Eastern Kingbird 
flycatching over the pond. 

I agree, it was busy, and beautiful to watch. I stayed there for over an hour. 

- - Dave Nutter

> On Apr 28, 2018, at 9:13 PM, Sandy Wold  wrote:
> 
> This morning 8:30-10am I saw so many birds in my loop through Renwick Woods 
> to the Swan Pond and then through the Golf Course.  
> 
> Here are the highlights and many FOYs for me:
> --flicker kek-kek-keking incessantly near the top of a tree near a snag.  I 
> think it was a she (no mustache)
> --I estimate that there were at least 12 Golden-rumped Warblers.  They were 
> all sitting around the main pond on shrubs or up in trees darting out to snag 
> a bug over the water and back.  This was happening so fast, I could not 
> accurately count them.  The loud music and yelling over with the crew team 
> did not seem to affect them or their calling.
> --By 9:30am, I noticed a second warbler, the Yellow Warbler!  They had more 
> of a swallow-like insect hunting behavior.  At times I thought I saw a third 
> species of warbler and other species of swallow, and then they disappeared.  
> I thought I heard a flycatcher a few times, but never saw it.  The swallows 
> showed up soon thereafter, and I think they sound slightly different.
> --Then by 10am, a huge swarm of swallows arrived, about 30!  They were all 
> over the pond zipping back and forth.  I watched to see if the GRWs stopped.  
> They seemed to break for a minute or two, but then they went back at it.  It 
> was quite the choreography, and they seemed to operate at different heights 
> above the pond. I definitely saw Barn Swallows and think I may have seen one 
> of the other kinds.
> ---As all of this was going on, the bull frogs started up.
> --As I walked across the golf course, the tree frog went at it.
> --Heard but not seen: Kingfisher, Song Sparrow, American Redstart
>  
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bustle

[Sandy Wold]

This morning 8:30-10am I saw so many birds in my loop through Renwick Woods
to the Swan Pond and then through the Golf Course.

Here are the highlights and many FOYs for me:
--flicker kek-kek-keking incessantly near the top of a tree near a snag.  I
think it was a she (no mustache)
--I estimate that there were at least 12 Golden-rumped Warblers.  They were
all sitting around the main pond on shrubs or up in trees darting out to
snag a bug over the water and back.  This was happening so fast, I could
not accurately count them.  The loud music and yelling over with the crew
team did not seem to affect them or their calling.
--By 9:30am, I noticed a second warbler, the Yellow Warbler!  They had more
of a swallow-like insect hunting behavior.  At times I thought I saw a
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slightly different.
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over the pond zipping back and forth.  I watched to see if the GRWs
stopped.  They seemed to break for a minute or two, but then they went back
at it.  It was quite the choreography, and they seemed to operate at
different heights above the pond. I definitely saw Barn Swallows and think
I may have seen one of the other kinds.
*---As all of this was going on, the bull frogs started up.*
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater White-fronted Geese

[Kevin J. McGowan]

It's an understandable mistake. These two geese are marked exactly like Greater 
White-fronted Geese, with white behind the bill and a thin white stripe on the 
side. They differ from the "real" geese by being enormous. They are fat and 
stocky and have a huge rear end. They're as big or larger than Canada Geese. 
Greater White-fronts should be slender and slightly smaller than Canadas.

Kevin

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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater 
White-fronted Geese

I just learned that two domestic geese have been hanging around in Stewart 
Park, and that they were seen this afternoon at the high school playing fields. 
I think I jumped to the wrong conclusion; the geese I saw were sleeping and 
tightly tucked up, so I didn't get to see any patterns on the head. I think it 
is more likely they are the same two domestics seen later.

Sorry if I sent anyone on wild goose chase!


On 12/27/2017 12:02 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote:
> I just tried and failed for Paul's geese. Perhaps the 5 Bald Eagles (3 
> adults, 2 immatures) hunting over the park had something to do with it. The 
> dead goose on the ice looked to be a Canada.
>
> Kevin
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> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater 
> White-fronted Geese
>
> The viewing conditions from the East side of Stewart Park this morning were 
> quite good; it's bright and although it is quite cold, there is very little 
> wind.
>
> The most notable birds were two Greater White-fronted Geese sleeping next to 
> a small group of gulls and easy to find. If these two stick around for the 
> bird count we will have a record. The species has been seen only twice 
> before, and only solo.
>
> I searched in vain for a Glaucous gull, but found none.
>
> The raft of ducks is visible from there, but they are much better seen from 
> East Shore Park. Among them were two Pintail, two Ruddy Ducks, a handful of 
> Lesser Scaup, and a few Ring-necked Ducks. I was surprised to find no 
> Canvasback.
>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater White-fronted Geese

[Paul Anderson]

I just learned that two domestic geese have been hanging around in 
Stewart Park, and that they were seen this afternoon at the high school 
playing fields. I think I jumped to the wrong conclusion; the geese I 
saw were sleeping and tightly tucked up, so I didn't get to see any 
patterns on the head. I think it is more likely they are the same two 
domestics seen later.


Sorry if I sent anyone on wild goose chase!


On 12/27/2017 12:02 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote:

I just tried and failed for Paul's geese. Perhaps the 5 Bald Eagles (3 adults, 
2 immatures) hunting over the park had something to do with it. The dead goose 
on the ice looked to be a Canada.

Kevin

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To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater White-fronted 
Geese

The viewing conditions from the East side of Stewart Park this morning were 
quite good; it's bright and although it is quite cold, there is very little 
wind.

The most notable birds were two Greater White-fronted Geese sleeping next to a 
small group of gulls and easy to find. If these two stick around for the bird 
count we will have a record. The species has been seen only twice before, and 
only solo.

I searched in vain for a Glaucous gull, but found none.

The raft of ducks is visible from there, but they are much better seen from 
East Shore Park. Among them were two Pintail, two Ruddy Ducks, a handful of 
Lesser Scaup, and a few Ring-necked Ducks. I was surprised to find no 
Canvasback.


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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater White-fronted Geese

[Kevin J. McGowan]

I just tried and failed for Paul's geese. Perhaps the 5 Bald Eagles (3 adults, 
2 immatures) hunting over the park had something to do with it. The dead goose 
on the ice looked to be a Canada.

Kevin

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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater White-fronted 
Geese

The viewing conditions from the East side of Stewart Park this morning were 
quite good; it's bright and although it is quite cold, there is very little 
wind.

The most notable birds were two Greater White-fronted Geese sleeping next to a 
small group of gulls and easy to find. If these two stick around for the bird 
count we will have a record. The species has been seen only twice before, and 
only solo.

I searched in vain for a Glaucous gull, but found none.

The raft of ducks is visible from there, but they are much better seen from 
East Shore Park. Among them were two Pintail, two Ruddy Ducks, a handful of 
Lesser Scaup, and a few Ring-necked Ducks. I was surprised to find no 
Canvasback.


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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park this morning - two Greater White-fronted Geese

[Paul Anderson]

The viewing conditions from the East side of Stewart Park this morning 
were quite good; it's bright and although it is quite cold, there is 
very little wind.


The most notable birds were two Greater White-fronted Geese sleeping 
next to a small group of gulls and easy to find. If these two stick 
around for the bird count we will have a record. The species has been 
seen only twice before, and only solo.


I searched in vain for a Glaucous gull, but found none.

The raft of ducks is visible from there, but they are much better seen 
from East Shore Park. Among them were two Pintail, two Ruddy Ducks, a 
handful of Lesser Scaup, and a few Ring-necked Ducks. I was surprised to 
find no Canvasback.



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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park

[Ann Mitchell]

Just heard that the Red Phalarope flew. It still may be around. Anyway, after 
getting good goods at the Phalarope, I started counting Canada Geese. The 4 
Brant were still there and a CACKLING GOOSE was in with the geese flock.
Good Birding,
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Sat 11/4

[Mark Chao]

I believe that I'm watching eight SURF SCOTERS and one WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
off the east side of Stewart Park (8:20 AM, Saturday), not too far away now
but maybe drifting north. Nice viewing too of Buffleheads, Hooded
Mergansers, etc.

Mark Chao

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Brant

[Donna Lee Scott]

Thanks Jay!
The Brants were over on golf course 15 minutes ago.

Donna Scott
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On Oct 15, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Jay McGowan 
> wrote:

Seven BRANT are currently feeding with Canadas on the lawn at the west end of 
Stewart Park.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Brant

[Jay McGowan]

Seven BRANT are currently feeding with Canadas on the lawn at the west end
of Stewart Park.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Sat 6/17

[Mark Chao]

On Saturday morning, I saw the pair of ORCHARD ORIOLES again in the same
lone creekside willow where I reported them on Thursday, just upstream from
the boathouse in Stewart Park.  Gary Kohlenberg and I saw these orioles in
this very tree also on Friday afternoon.  The subadult male is not too hard
to locate because of his rambling song (faster and longer than a Baltimore
Oriole’s, sometimes but not always with a burry note in the middle or at
the end), but he can be hard to see in the foliage.  The female is even
easier to miss, but I’ve seen her all three days in the branches hanging
right over the creek.  (This is Fall Creek, not Cascadilla Creek as I wrote
on Thursday.  Sorry if I confused anyone.)



So breeding seems quite possible in this tree or the immediate vicinity.
But despite some close attention for half an hour this morning, I didn’t
find a nest, nor see anyone carrying food or nest material.



Here is today’s checklist with some photos.



http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37639107



(There is a half-marathon passing right through Stewart Park, indeed right
by the oriole tree, through 11:30 on Saturday morning.  The race caused me
only very minor inconvenience in terms of driving, and essentially none in
terms of watching birds.)



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Th 6/15

[Mark Chao]

At midday on Thursday, I saw two ORCHARD ORIOLES together near the
boathouse and Fuertes Sanctuary (swan pen) in Stewart Park.  A female
offered long views as she foraged low in the willow downstream from the
boathouse, in branches drooping right over Cascadilla Creek.  A subadult
male joined her briefly here, but mostly sang from the trees at the corner
of the big lawn.  This was my first good look at these birds, despite
several attempts and recurrent reports by others since mid-May.  I’m glad I
tried again, and especially glad that I widened my search to that willow.
(From here I also heard a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO singing in the Newman golf
course woods.)



Yesterday I decided to go look for bitterns and rails at Montezuma NWR.  I
didn’t find any, but instead I was abundantly entertained by BLACK TERNS
and families of water birds.  I even learned something kind of
mind-boggling (or maybe relearned what I knew long ago but forgot) –
AMERICAN COOT chicks have bald pink crowns, bright red bills, and wispy yet
flamboyant orange neck-ruffs, while COMMON GALLINULE chicks are similarly
homely but colorful and charming -- bare-pated with a little more yellow on
the bill.



And I got an even better consolation prize on the way up, as a BLACK-BILLED
CUCKOO paused in the open just as I was driving by.



Here are my eBird checklists with some photos:



Lake Road drive-by cuckoo:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37589052



Montezuma NWR Wildlife Drive:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37589209



Stewart Park:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S37605275





Mark Chao

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Osprey

[Elaina M. McCartney]

That may be the same Osprey that left my yard carrying a large stick headed 
toward Hog Hole on Saturday.

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On Jun 5, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Asher Hockett 
> wrote:

While my granddaughter rode her bike around the loop at Stewart Park on 
Saturday afternoon, I was treated to an Osprey hunting the lagoon, hovering and 
diving and successfully catching fish. After disappearing with the catch it (or 
its mate) returned to repeat the show. Later it (they) moved to the lake. Quite 
the beautiful spectacle IMO.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Osprey

[Asher Hockett]

While my granddaughter rode her bike around the loop at Stewart Park on
Saturday afternoon, I was treated to an Osprey hunting the lagoon, hovering
and diving and successfully catching fish. After disappearing with the
catch it (or its mate) returned to repeat the show. Later it (they) moved
to the lake. Quite the beautiful spectacle IMO.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park swan pen Baltimore Oriole nest

[Laura J. Heisey]

Being a semi-noob birder, I'm going to say I'm not 100% sure of what I saw, 
never having watched Orioles do this ...

I think I spotted a Baltimore Oriole nest under construction yesterday. With 
binoculars I was able to follow a male carrying nest material from the lake 
side of the path to the tall maple tree on the swan pen 'island'. He stayed up 
there a while and I was able to see the sack-shaped nest as leaves moved with 
the wind. I gather the female was nearby or busy building. It will likely be 
hidden once the tree finishes leafing out.

The nest is on the north-ish side (facing the lake) of the tallest maple on the 
island, a few feet from the top.

Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Highlights

[Sandy Wold]

Yesterday around 7pm, I saw three sandpipers on the rocky shore of Fall
Creek near the Cascadilla Boat house.  I think they were juvenile Spotted
Sandpipers:  bobbing tails, pink/orange bills with a dark tip on the bill,
thrush-like markings on the upper breast, soft peeping calls, flew off
toward Jetty Woods.  Last year, they hung out on the jetty where the
concrete pebbles are loose.

After that, I watched the 154+ cormorants settling in for the night on the
top of the sycamores over at Jetty woods; I couldn't help but be curious
how a handful of them would suddenly leave their roost, bolting upstream
high above the creek, and then make a sharp u-turn near the bridges, and
then glide back to the roost.  Then another handful would leave and do the
same thing.  This went on for about twenty minutes, and I wondered if it
was just juveniles who did this; but then all of a sudden, the entire tree
load of cormorants (about 116, leaving the dead one which is still in the
tree) took off and did the exact same thing as the previous cormorants.  It
seemed to me that they were enjoying the fun of flying as fast as they
could with the wind (upstream) and then gliding back on the wind.

I couldn't help by see how much that was a bit like the fun that can be had
when kayaking white water, but in reverse:  paddle as hard as you can
against the current, then make a sharp u-turn, and go as fast as you can
with the current.  Or even a bike:  peddle hard up a long windy road, then
coast as fast as you can down the other side.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park / Fall Creek Highlights

[Sandy Wold]

Today, I heard a bluebird in a Sugar Maple outside my window in Fall Creek,
first time!.  I usually see them around Boynton Middle School in years
past, and today I saw a pair today down near the inlet near the fire
practice area with two finches that had a rosy blush on the chest.  They
left before I could get my binoculars on them.

At the Fuertes Sanctuary, I came across a Red-tailed Hawk resting on a log
near the water.  Looked like it had just eaten given blood stains around
its mouth.  I could not see perfectly without a scope, but from the black
and white markings, size, and shapes, it looked like there were many Hooded
Mergansers and possibly four Buffleheads.

Could hear lots of starlings and blackbirds along the inlet, mourning
doves.  I'm finding I am getting lazy when I hear a bird I know the call
of.  I don't even bother to pick up my binoculars any more.  I guess I
should because there might be other species mixed in.  Gorgeous day
nonetheless, hope everyone got to get out or will get out soon!

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Highlights

[Sandy Wold]

I walked through the woods along Fall Creek to the Boat House and along the
shore of Stewart Park.  I saw Common Mergansers and heard a kingfisher
along the creek.  I saw two cormorants out on a log, far out; and then what
I thought might have been two grebes, but they were dabbling far out.  They
came closer, and I could see dark markings as a cap and eyeline, body brown
like a female mallard, tail had black on the upper side, legs orange, lower
mandible yellow.  I'm still not sure what they were.  any suggestions?
juvenile BLACK DUCKS?

There were many geese and gulls, as usual.  Then I had a nice surprise: two
swans very close to shore, bathing, then standing.  They were twice as big
as the Canada geese nearby.  I could not see any yellow lore and their
heads/necks/wings looked very dirty, so I'm thinking juvenile TRUMPETER
SWANS?  If anyone can verify or correct me, that would be great!  Thanks.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Fri 11/18

[Kenneth V. Rosenberg]

Nice shot, Mark!  Looks like the Lesser I saw on the Jetty last weekend.

Ken

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Mark Chao 
> wrote:

I believe that I found four gull species, including a LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 
apparently entering its second winter, all conveniently lined up in order of 
size on a log just off shore near the Fuertes Sanctuary (swan pen) in Stewart 
Park on Friday afternoon.  Here's my eBird checklist with some photos.

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32611892

(If you think that I have somehow botched the ID of this bird, please let me 
know.)

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Fri 11/18

[Mark Chao]

I believe that I found four gull species, including a LESSER BLACK-BACKED
GULL apparently entering its second winter, all conveniently lined up in
order of size on a log just off shore near the Fuertes Sanctuary (swan pen)
in Stewart Park on Friday afternoon.  Here’s my eBird checklist with some
photos.



http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32611892



(If you think that I have somehow botched the ID of this bird, please let
me know.)



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park

[Laura Stenzler]

A group of 35 ruddy ducks at Stewart Park this morning. 

Laura

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Tues 10/18

[Mark Chao]

I looked rather carefully for birds around the pavilion dock area at
Stewart Park on Tuesday morning.  I didn’t find yesterday’s cuckoo, but I
did see at least one, probably two CAPE MAY WARBLERS and a TENNESSEE
WARBLER with many Yellow-rumped Warblers, a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and
a PURPLE FINCH in the tallest willow next to the dock.



I found another Tennessee Warbler by the swan pen, and I think that there
were probably a few other calling non-Yellow-rumped warblers, which I
couldn’t confirm by sight.  I didn’t find any unusual birds on the lake.



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park and Cornell Community Gardens, Mon 10/17

[Mark Chao]

Between 11:35 and noon on Monday, Jay McGowan, Brad Walker, some curious
passersby, and I watched the YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO at various points around
the dock by the Stewart Park pavilion building.  First Jay and Brad pointed
out the bird to me in the tall willow tree right next to the dock.  The
bird was difficult to find at rest, but once I knew generally where to
look, I could pick it out by the broad reddish patch formed by its dropped,
fanned wings.



The bird flew down next to the little tree at the base of the dock, and
then to the dense vegetation right along the shore.  Here it became much
more difficult to find.  It emerged for a couple of minutes and processed a
woolly bear on the ground, but then retreated into the dense plants and
disappeared.  I stayed for 10 minutes after Jay and Brad left, but couldn’t
find the cuckoo again.



Thanks to Tim, Ethan, Brad, and Jay for your help with this fine bird!
(Thanks also to Jay for finding a BRANT on the red lighthouse jetty.)



The Cornell Community Gardens on Freese Road continue to offer very good
birding.  Today I found my first VESPER SPARROW of the season, which flew
up from the northwesternmost plot, flashing white outer tail feathers, and
alighted high in a tree across the road.  I also found a LINCOLN’S SPARROW
yesterday, and several WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS on both days.



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Highlights Today

[Sandy Wold]

Today, Ann Mitchell and I assisted this morning's Lab of O's Bird Sleuth
Summer Educator Retreat bird walk in Stewart Park (7-8:30am).  Participants
included a middle school teacher from Los Angeles who teaches an eighth
grade ornithology elective for 80 students in addition to a birding section
in her 7th grade science class.  Her district supports her in offering this
class, and she got a grant to buy binoculars for the class!  They go out
once a week to bird and four days are spent in class.  She was very excited
to get 23 new life birds on this outing. There were also two Peruvian
Amazonian tour guides among many educators.

It was a gorgeous morning and very bird active along the shore.   Jody
simultaneously met another group out at Cass Park.   Highlights included:
 three Green Herons flying from the Swan Pond and then from willow to
willow down the shoreline and back around to the pond.  They
"chirped/squawked" loudly within the trees.  I don't remember seeing these
guys last year, and I am wondering if they are part of the migration Dave
Nutter announced?

Last year, I recall the American Bittern was hanging out in this pond for
most of the summer. Did it return?

Other highlights for participants:  Blue-headed Vireo, Yellow Warbler,
female or immature Hooded Merganser hanging out with 4 Mallards, Northern
Flicker adult and immature, Fish Crows and American Crows calling, Wood
Frog calling, Cedar Waxwing, DC Cormorants, GB Gull, highly cooperative
Kingfishers, female Wood Duck, 3 Brown-headed Cowbirds, Osprey, kingbirds
begging and being fed by a parent at the pond, ...  I think Jody said we
got about 46 species today compiled.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park goose study

[Dave Nutter]

If my guess is correct that 200 local geese have yellow neck bands, then I've 
found 90% of them so far, overwhelmingly at or next to Stewart Park, where I 
assume they were corralled and collared. This capture was possible because the 
adult geese molt all their flight feathers at once and regrow them while their 
young are also growing up. Having chosen a relatively safe place to spend this 
vulnerable season, it's not surprising that they would mainly stay there. 
Perhaps 10% were miffed enough by the process that they swam to other sites.


Yesterday evening for the first time I saw 2 collared geese away from Stewart 
Park, NY66 & NU53, among a flock of Canada Geese on Cayuga Inlet near the south 
end of the bike path along Floral Avenue (NYS-13A). As it turned out these 2 
were also birds which I had not seen at Stewart Park. Maybe these birds left 
Stewart Park soon after the banding. However, I was still finding additional 
new-to-me collared birds at Stewart Park yesterday morning, so maybe they were 
hidden among birds there and at Newman Golf Course, and went south later. 
Anyway, this evening I saw one those same 2 collared birds (NY66) on Cayuga 
Inlet near Treman Marina, along with 4 collared birds I was not able to see 
well enough using only binoculars in the fading light. Gotta remember to always 
bring a scope when biking!



By the way, a scope comes in handy after dark on clear evenings. That odd 
bright yellow "star" just to the left of the top of Scorpio is Saturn. At 60x 
there's a distinct view of the planet surrounded by the oval of the rings 
tipped fairly high toward us. A few years back the rings were edge-on and 
boringly invisible, dull to look at, like Mars is in my scope, currently to the 
right of Saturn in the southern sky in the evening.

--Dave Nutter

On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:39 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:


Many of the Canada Geese at Stewart Park have recently been banded. The young 
were given a red band on one leg and a standard aluminum band on the other. One 
of these young is dragging an injured wing. Up to 200 adults were given yellow 
neck collars each with a unique black 2-letter, 2-number code. All appear to 
start with either NY or NU. I've seen 162 different collars so far.



This is evidently part of the study of the local goose population, their 
number, where they go, and maybe some demographics. It has to do with the push 
to get rid of the geese which was talked about at a recent club meeting. 
Meanwhile the collars add another dimension to what was already a wonderful 
study opportunity. Not only can you observe behavior up close throughout the 
year, now you can get to know individual birds and some of the geese they spend 
time with. Some pairs have both members collared, and some of these pairs have 
young while others seem not to, but I imagine there could have been many young 
losing track of their parents during the massive round-up and banding & 
collaring operation. 


Today the collared geese and banded young (with many non-collared adults) 
appeared to be all in the part of Stewart Park and Newman Golf Course closest 
to Fall Creek. The only other geese I saw today were a group of 35 adults (none 
with collars, no young) on Cayuga Inlet by the south end of the bike path along 
Floral Avenue, and a single non-collared adult on Cayuga Lake near East Shore 
Park.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park goose study

[Dave Nutter]

Many of the Canada Geese at Stewart Park have recently been banded. The young 
were given a red band on one leg and a standard aluminum band on the other. One 
of these young is dragging an injured wing. Up to 200 adults were given yellow 
neck collars each with a unique black 2-letter, 2-number code. All appear to 
start with either NY or NU. I've seen 162 different collars so far.



This is evidently part of the study of the local goose population, their 
number, where they go, and maybe some demographics. It has to do with the push 
to get rid of the geese which was talked about at a recent club meeting. 
Meanwhile the collars add another dimension to what was already a wonderful 
study opportunity. Not only can you observe behavior up close throughout the 
year, now you can get to know individual birds and some of the geese they spend 
time with. Some pairs have both members collared, and some of these pairs have 
young while others seem not to, but I imagine there could have been many young 
losing track of their parents during the massive round-up and banding & 
collaring operation. 


Today the collared geese and banded young (with many non-collared adults) 
appeared to be all in the part of Stewart Park and Newman Golf Course closest 
to Fall Creek. The only other geese I saw today were a group of 35 adults (none 
with collars, no young) on Cayuga Inlet by the south end of the bike path along 
Floral Avenue, and a single non-collared adult on Cayuga Lake near East Shore 
Park.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park walk

[Dave Nutter]

The sun came out, and the wind died, and about a dozen birders joined me for a 
slow stroll around the Swan Pond. Some beginning birders saw several life 
birds, and we all enjoyed spectacular looks at our breeding ducks. Any place 
that boasts WOOD DUCKS and HOODED MERGANSERS and COMMON MERGANSERS and MALLARDS 
is pretty special. Farther out were a few of our visiting waterfowl - scattered 
BUFFLEHEADS, a flock of SCAUP sp off Treman, about 50 RUDDY DUCKS near East 
Shore Park (including some breeding plumage males, their blue bills hard to 
discern against the water's reflections), and the biggest surprise for me, a 
male COMMON GOLDENEYE. There was also a distant COMMON LOON and a few distant 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS. We had an introduction to immature gull ID. We also 
got great looks at an EASTERN PHOEBE, a BELTED KINGFISHER, and a bold DOWNY 
WOODPECKER. Songbirds included a pair of BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS, males of 
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD and COMMON GRACKLE, SONG SPARROW HOUSE SPARROW, HOUSE 
FINCH, AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, and AMERICAN ROBIN. Several additional species were 
heard. The show stoppers, however, were 2 OSPREYS flying past together, and an 
adult BALD EAGLE first flying south, then perching in Jetty Wood for quite 
awhile, then flying west and soaring high. I want to thank Sandy Wold for 
helping, Will Harrod for sharing his scope and expertise, and Stuart Krasnoff 
for a hot tip on some lake ducks. I think the trip was a great success. I 
cannot do this again for several weekends, but if anyone else would like to do 
lead such a walk, an announcement on CayugaBirds-L and to Friends of Stewart 
Park via Rick Manning  helped get the word out. People 
really appreciate learning about the birds seen in and from this park!

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Mon 4/4

[Mark Chao]

The lake shore at Stewart Park is scattered end to end on Monday morning
with AMERICAN PIPITS.  There are also more than a few around the parking
areas.  I also saw a first-year BALD EAGLE and an OSPREY overhead, as well
as tight flocks of RING-NECKED DUCKS and BUFFLEHEADS offshore.



(Several years ago under very similar conditions in April, a Little Gull
spent the day at Stewart Park with Bonaparte’s Gulls, close to shore.  But
I found no small gulls during my brief visit today.  I think they must be
on the lake somewhere…)



Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Fri 3/25

[Mark Chao]

Bonaparte's Gull on the shore by the pavilion and boardwalk platform at
Stewart Park on Friday morning.  Some visiting birders from Philadelphia
saw a second Bonaparte's before I arrived, but I haven't found it yet
myself.

Mark Chao

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart park this afternoon

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

I wanted to test a lens, so I went to Stewart park in search of subjects.  I 
did find lots of gulls to photograph. But the highlight was three adult Lesser 
Black-backed gulls. Each of them could be distinguished by the amount of black 
on the red spot of their beaks. Two of them were close by and the third one was 
standing separately. In hurry, in anticipation of photography, I forgot even to 
take my binoculars. But the gulls were close enough to the shore and I could 
see their legs clearly through my camera.


I  saw a pair of Common and Hooded mergansers on the Fall Creek.  Also a pair 
of Green-winged Teals that flew across Fall creek.


Near Willow street on route 13 there was a single Tree Swallow floating around!


Cheers

Meena


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Ithaca NY 14850
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Ruddy Ducks

[bob mcguire]

There were two female RUDDY DUCKS just off the ice edge across from the tennis 
counts late this morning - along with a small flock of Redheads, Common 
Mergansers, and a large contingent of Mallards.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Highlights Today and Yesterday

[Sandy Wold]

I hope everyone got to go out and bird today!!!  What a gorgeous day!!!

Today, 12:15-2:15
Downy, Hairy, Red Bellied Woodpeckers at boatyard feeders at inlet
5-10 bluebirds, goldfinches, and possible Purple Finch (have a blurry
picture) in tree with tons of seeds, behind firefighter training area near
wood pile
Common Mergansers all along inlet and south shore of park
35 GBB gulls
1 Snow Goose
1 hybrid Mallard
Bufflehead flotilla
I think I heard Cedar Waxwing multiple times; other birds nearby made it
hard to be certain.

Yesterday 3:30pm- sunset
Common Mergansers (32 female, 5 male)
Bufflehead (13 female, 3 male)
2-3 GBB Gulls
Hybrid Mallard

Near sunset, a massive fish leapt out of the shallow waters.   I was able
to see its entire head and half of its torso. It leapt immediately beside a
Common Merganser raft; they did not flinch for a moment.  I would say it
was about 3x the size of a Common Merganser, so from head to tail it was
about 3+ feet long.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Today

[Sandy Wold]

11-13 female and 2 male Bufflehead (constantly diving so hard to count!) on
the south east side of the park

many, many Canada Geese, Herring Gulls
5 Ring-Billed Gulls being fed bread by people at the inlet
4-5 Black-Backed Gulls
male and female Mallards
3 Turkey Vultures soaring

possible Bald Eagle (flying high and away from me, silhouette seen with
very straight T with wings and body, gliding, slight flip up at the wing
tips)

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park birds, plus OT comments

[Linda K Tuyn]

I appreciate all the information you have posted, and find it eloquently
stated.

Linda Tuyn

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:

> Late this morning I visited Stewart Park with binoculars and observed the
> following birds:
>
> Canada Goose - 27 on the lake near shore
> Mallard - 28 in the lake, both near shore and farther out, some mixed with
> Coots
> Mallard (domestic variety) - 1 continuing brown male with white breast
> Lesser Scaup - 1 female in flight low over lake off Stewart Park after jet
> ski activity
> COMMON GOLDENEYE - 2 females, the first of this species I have seen at the
> south end of the lake this fall
> Bufflehead - 7 males, 17 females, diving frequently. There were several
> times more last Thursday
> Hooded Merganser - 2 females & 1 male together on Fall Creek just upstream
> of suspension bridge
> small duck sp - 65 estimated, flushed from southwest corner of lake by
> person on fast jet ski
> Double-crested Cormorant - 4 immatures on log in lake
> American Coot - 14 in the lake both near shore and farther out near the
> southeast corner
> Ring-billed Gull - dozens spread out on lake, probably more on red
> lighthouse breakwater
> Herring Gull - a few (juveniles) spread out on lake, probably more on red
> lighthouse breakwater
> Great Black-backed Gull - several adults among other gulls on red
> lighthouse breakwater
> Pileated Woodpecker - heard giving intermittent "kek" calls from Jetty
> Woods, maybe upset at Merlin
> MERLIN - perched high in trees along north shore of Jetty Woods, changed
> perch twice
> Blue Jay - 2 heard in separate parts of park
> Black-capped Chickadee - 2 or 3 in vegetation near southwest corner of
> Fuertes Sanctuary pond
> European Starling - 30 etimated in southbound flyover flock
>
> If previous discussions I initiated in the last week or two affected your
> blood pressure, stop here.
>
> I feel more comfortable sharing lists of waterfowl in the south end of
> Cayuga Lake now that the City of Ithaca has declared it will enforce its
> prohibitions on hunting and discharging firearms within the city limits,
> including its portion of the lake. I think some people may use
> CayugaBirds-L and eBird reports to decide where to try to shoot them. The
> south end of Cayuga Lake is a premier place for the public to view a
> diversity of water birds, but that is greatly hampered when the birds are
> deliberately disturbed. I think most readers of this list are aware of the
> birding value of Stewart Park (and Treman Marine State Park), so I didn’t
> feel I needed to add that to an already lengthy post about my encounter a
> week ago. Anyway, for the record, that is why I felt a discussion of what
> happened between myself and a few other people on land was appropriate for
> the CayugaBirds listserv. Since I only mentioned Buffleheads (which were
> closest and most numerous), not the 2 first-of-season male Redheads among
> the Coot flock that day, nor the Common Loon I saw farther out, I concede
> that I probably should have prefaced the subject line with “OT” for "off
> topic", to warn away people who only want to read lists of birds.
>
> On the subject of deliberate disturbance of birds, during my visit today I
> saw someone on a red jet ski drive at high speed out of Cayuga Inlet
> between the lighthouses and into the lake, and shortly afterward also at
> high speed drive into the southwest corner of the lake, flushing an
> estimated 65 waterfowl - small ducks, I believe - northward. After resting
> a couple minutes this same person went back up Cayuga Inlet again at
> considerable speed without having done anything else which caught my eye.
> This activity was within the portion of the lake where the City of Ithaca
> has declared shooting ducks to be illegal. If this was done in order to
> flush waterfowl to where they could be legally shot, I believe it would be
> an illegal act.
>
> To the couple people who said my post last week was political, yes it was.
> It was about government policy, what our laws are, how they are
> interpreted, whether people obey them, and how to get them enforced. That’s
> practically the definition of politics. The particular policy and law i
> brought up affect park users and birding. That’s us. I also sent that post
> to the head of Friends of Stewart Park. Many people on this listserv may
> think duck-hunting is a fine thing to do, but how many also think this is a
> reasonable version: “Let’s go down to the city park and shoot the ducks.” I
> suspect that such a suggestion is not very popular among residents of the
> City of Ithaca, so I support my government making the rules I have
> mentioned, and enforcing them. Now add these twists: "Let’s go shoot ducks
> alongside an afterschool activity, and let’s set up our ambush right next
> to the mouth of Fall Creek where rowers quietly enter the lake.*” That’s
> where I’ve seen those guys set up before, and I have every reason to
> believe 

[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park birds, plus OT comments

[Dave Nutter]

Late this morning I visited Stewart Park with binoculars and observed the 
following birds:

Canada Goose - 27 on the lake near shore
Mallard - 28 in the lake, both near shore and farther out, some mixed with Coots
Mallard (domestic variety) - 1 continuing brown male with white breast 
Lesser Scaup - 1 female in flight low over lake off Stewart Park after jet ski 
activity
COMMON GOLDENEYE - 2 females, the first of this species I have seen at the 
south end of the lake this fall
Bufflehead - 7 males, 17 females, diving frequently. There were several times 
more last Thursday
Hooded Merganser - 2 females & 1 male together on Fall Creek just upstream of 
suspension bridge 
small duck sp - 65 estimated, flushed from southwest corner of lake by person 
on fast jet ski
Double-crested Cormorant - 4 immatures on log in lake
American Coot - 14 in the lake both near shore and farther out near the 
southeast corner
Ring-billed Gull - dozens spread out on lake, probably more on red lighthouse 
breakwater
Herring Gull - a few (juveniles) spread out on lake, probably more on red 
lighthouse breakwater
Great Black-backed Gull - several adults among other gulls on red lighthouse 
breakwater
Pileated Woodpecker - heard giving intermittent "kek" calls from Jetty Woods, 
maybe upset at Merlin
MERLIN - perched high in trees along north shore of Jetty Woods, changed perch 
twice
Blue Jay - 2 heard in separate parts of park
Black-capped Chickadee - 2 or 3 in vegetation near southwest corner of Fuertes 
Sanctuary pond
European Starling - 30 etimated in southbound flyover flock

If previous discussions I initiated in the last week or two affected your blood 
pressure, stop here.

I feel more comfortable sharing lists of waterfowl in the south end of Cayuga 
Lake now that the City of Ithaca has declared it will enforce its prohibitions 
on hunting and discharging firearms within the city limits, including its 
portion of the lake. I think some people may use CayugaBirds-L and eBird 
reports to decide where to try to shoot them. The south end of Cayuga Lake is a 
premier place for the public to view a diversity of water birds, but that is 
greatly hampered when the birds are deliberately disturbed. I think most 
readers of this list are aware of the birding value of Stewart Park (and Treman 
Marine State Park), so I didn’t feel I needed to add that to an already lengthy 
post about my encounter a week ago. Anyway, for the record, that is why I felt 
a discussion of what happened between myself and a few other people on land was 
appropriate for the CayugaBirds listserv. Since I only mentioned Buffleheads 
(which were closest and most numerous), not the 2 first-of-season male Redheads 
among the Coot flock that day, nor the Common Loon I saw farther out, I concede 
that I probably should have prefaced the subject line with “OT” for "off 
topic", to warn away people who only want to read lists of birds.

On the subject of deliberate disturbance of birds, during my visit today I saw 
someone on a red jet ski drive at high speed out of Cayuga Inlet between the 
lighthouses and into the lake, and shortly afterward also at high speed drive 
into the southwest corner of the lake, flushing an estimated 65 waterfowl - 
small ducks, I believe - northward. After resting a couple minutes this same 
person went back up Cayuga Inlet again at considerable speed without having 
done anything else which caught my eye. This activity was within the portion of 
the lake where the City of Ithaca has declared shooting ducks to be illegal. If 
this was done in order to flush waterfowl to where they could be legally shot, 
I believe it would be an illegal act.  

To the couple people who said my post last week was political, yes it was. It 
was about government policy, what our laws are, how they are interpreted, 
whether people obey them, and how to get them enforced. That’s practically the 
definition of politics. The particular policy and law i brought up affect park 
users and birding. That’s us. I also sent that post to the head of Friends of 
Stewart Park. Many people on this listserv may think duck-hunting is a fine 
thing to do, but how many also think this is a reasonable version: “Let’s go 
down to the city park and shoot the ducks.” I suspect that such a suggestion is 
not very popular among residents of the City of Ithaca, so I support my 
government making the rules I have mentioned, and enforcing them. Now add these 
twists: "Let’s go shoot ducks alongside an afterschool activity, and let’s set 
up our ambush right next to the mouth of Fall Creek where rowers quietly enter 
the lake.*” That’s where I’ve seen those guys set up before, and I have every 
reason to believe that’s exactly what they were about to do. If their own 
judgement doesn’t stop them from doing that, I think it’s time for the police 
to do so. As to taking offense at my mention of the kids gathering nearby, 
those were the facts of the situation. Elaina’s photo showed a 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park birds, plus OT comments

[John and Fritzie Blizzard]

Brief & to the point but I agree with Linda Tuyn. I wish I could write 
as well as has Dave.


Fritzie Blizzard.

On 11/19/2015 8:50 PM, Linda K Tuyn wrote:

I appreciate all the information you have posted, and find it eloquently 
stated.



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park boundaries

[Kenneth V. Rosenberg]

Missing from this exchange is the fact that it was DEC's top waterfowl 
biologist, in consultation with the DEC office in Cortland, who recommended 
that the easiest way to resolve the human conflicts was to enforce the already 
existing ordinance passed by the City of Ithaca, but not recently enforced. We 
welcome the mayor and the City to communicate the results of their meetings and 
decisions last winter/ so everyone would stop wondering about what is 
legal/possible and what is not.

Ken

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 15, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Dave Nutter 
> wrote:

As you say, it may be that the City would not succeed in a direct assertion of 
the ban. And maybe there will not be a direct challenge. However, it also may 
be that the City or others can convince the State, on the basis of such 
conflicts as Elaina documented in the most wild and remote corner of the City, 
as well as other factors, such as the reliance of such a large proportion of 
the Redhead population on this area, or the illegal chasing of ducks by 
hunters, that this is not an appropriate activity on this part of the lake.

--Dave Nutter

On Nov 15, 2015, at 07:57 AM, Geo Kloppel 
> wrote:


Afraid not. That's just where the well-established supremacy of the state's 
sole authority to regulate hunting comes in. This is not an issue where home 
rule rights might plausibly be asserted. State-wide regulation of hunting is 
clearly a preemptive "general law" as defined in Article IX of the state 
constitution, and elaborated in the state publication linked below, bottom of 
page 3.

https://www.dos.ny.gov/lg/publications/Adopting_Local_Laws_in_New_York_State.pdf

-Geo


The question is whether the City can enforce its ban on the lake. Some people 
say not. I thought that last year the mayor said he would test it. If 
successful it would make most of the shallows at the south end of the lake into 
a waterfowl sanctuary.

--Dave Nutter

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park boundaries

[Geo Kloppel]

The state has the authority to restrict or ban hunting in any area it 
designates, for any of a variety of reasons, including public safety. And the 
state already has the resources in place to communicate and enforce such 
restrictions. If the city or its citizens want a ban in the waters off Stewart 
Park, the wisest course IMO would be to appeal directly to DEC to impose one, 
rather than challenge the state's authority by attempting to enforce a city 
ordinance of dubious validity.

-Geo 

On Nov 15, 2015, at 8:41 AM, "Kenneth V. Rosenberg"  wrote:

> Missing from this exchange is the fact that it was DEC's top waterfowl 
> biologist, in consultation with the DEC office in Cortland, who recommended 
> that the easiest way to resolve the human conflicts was to enforce the 
> already existing ordinance passed by the City of Ithaca, but not recently 
> enforced. We welcome the mayor and the City to communicate the results of 
> their meetings and decisions last winter/ so everyone would stop wondering 
> about what is legal/possible and what is not. 
> 
> Ken
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Nov 15, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Dave Nutter  wrote:
> 
>> As you say, it may be that the City would not succeed in a direct assertion 
>> of the ban. And maybe there will not be a direct challenge. However, it also 
>> may be that the City or others can convince the State, on the basis of such 
>> conflicts as Elaina documented in the most wild and remote corner of the 
>> City, as well as other factors, such as the reliance of such a large 
>> proportion of the Redhead population on this area, or the illegal chasing of 
>> ducks by hunters, that this is not an appropriate activity on this part of 
>> the lake.
>> --Dave Nutter
>> 
>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 07:57 AM, Geo Kloppel  wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Afraid not. That's just where the well-established supremacy of the state's 
>>> sole authority to regulate hunting comes in. This is not an issue where 
>>> home rule rights might plausibly be asserted. State-wide regulation of 
>>> hunting is clearly a preemptive "general law" as defined in Article IX of 
>>> the state constitution, and elaborated in the state publication linked 
>>> below, bottom of page 3.
>>> 
>>> https://www.dos.ny.gov/lg/publications/Adopting_Local_Laws_in_New_York_State.pdf
>>> 
>>> -Geo 
>>> 
 
 The question is whether the City can enforce its ban on the lake. Some 
 people say not. I thought that last year the mayor said he would test it. 
 If successful it would make most of the shallows at the south end of the 
 lake into a waterfowl sanctuary.
 --Dave Nutter
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park boundaries

[Geo Kloppel]

Afraid not. That's just where the well-established supremacy of the state's 
sole authority to regulate hunting comes in. This is not an issue where home 
rule rights might plausibly be asserted. State-wide regulation of hunting is 
clearly a preemptive "general law" as defined in Article IX of the state 
constitution, and elaborated in the state publication linked below, bottom of 
page 3.

https://www.dos.ny.gov/lg/publications/Adopting_Local_Laws_in_New_York_State.pdf

-Geo 

> 
> The question is whether the City can enforce its ban on the lake. Some people 
> say not. I thought that last year the mayor said he would test it. If 
> successful it would make most of the shallows at the south end of the lake 
> into a waterfowl sanctuary.
> --Dave Nutter

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park student project: wetland restoration

[Suan Hsi Yong]

Ken Rosenberg and I were at Stewart Park last month when three of them
(don't remember names) came by, described the project briefly, and asked
for advice. They initially considered using the central part of the
lakeshore near the pavilion/floating dock, but we suggested instead the
corner of the lakeshore closest to the swan pen. We also suggested they get
in touch with the bird club to possibly arrange to present at the CBC
meeting. I don't know if they followed up (apparently not).

Suan


On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Robyn Bailey <rb...@cornell.edu> wrote:

> Dave,
>
>
>
> Here is what the City of Ithaca forester said about the wetlands project:
>
> “Basically the students will be planting some cattails and sweet flag
> along the waters edge, maybe 50 linear feet.
>
> Then they will do some water sampling through the summer. It's not a big
> project.”
>
>
>
> Sorry I don’t have more details about when and where exactly.
>
>
>
> Robyn Bailey
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* bounce-119864146-15067...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:
> bounce-119864146-15067...@list.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *Dave Nutter
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 05, 2015 6:35 PM
> *To:* CAYUGABIRDS-L; rmann...@twcny.rr.com; Miguel Berrios
> *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park student project: wetland
> restoration
>
>
>
> Students of New Roots charter school propose to do some sort of wetlands
> restoration project somewhere in the western part of Stewart Park. This
> Monday afternoon they will present their idea to the City of Ithaca Board
> of Public Works meeting, which starts at 4:45pm on the 3rd floor of City
> Hall. See item 13B on the agenda below.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know anything more about this project? (Where? How big? Doing
> what for how long? Sponsored by whom with what funding?) Can anyone attend
> the meeting? It would be difficult for me.
>
> --Dave Nutter
>
>
>

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park student project: wetland restoration

[Robyn Bailey]

Dave,

Here is what the City of Ithaca forester said about the wetlands project:
“Basically the students will be planting some cattails and sweet flag along the 
waters edge, maybe 50 linear feet.
Then they will do some water sampling through the summer. It's not a big 
project.”

Sorry I don’t have more details about when and where exactly.

Robyn Bailey


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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park student project: wetland restoration

Students of New Roots charter school propose to do some sort of wetlands 
restoration project somewhere in the western part of Stewart Park. This Monday 
afternoon they will present their idea to the City of Ithaca Board of Public 
Works meeting, which starts at 4:45pm on the 3rd floor of City Hall. See item 
13B on the agenda below.

Does anyone know anything more about this project? (Where? How big? Doing what 
for how long? Sponsored by whom with what funding?) Can anyone attend the 
meeting? It would be difficult for me.

--Dave Nutter

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AMENDED AGENDA
Topic

Voting?

Presenter(s)

Time Allowed


1. Call to Order/Agenda Review

No

Mayor Myrick

5 min.


2. Mayor’s Communications

No

Mayor Myrick




3. Communications and Hearings from Persons Before the Board

No

Public

5-15 min.


4. Response to the Public

No

Commissioners




5. Reports

A. Special Committees of the Board

B. Council Liaison

C.Board Liaisons

D.Superintendent and Staff

No

Various

10 min.


6. New Project Presentation








A. 2015 Accomplishments & 2016 Draft Work Plan

No

Supt. Thorne

10 min.

A list of projects that the City completed in 2015 and a proposed work plan for 
2016 are attached for the Board’s information.


7. Administration & Communications








A. Approval of Meeting Minutes

1. November 10, 2014 Meeting Minutes

2. December 8, 2014 Meeting Minutes

Yes

Mayor Myrick

5 min.


8. Buildings, Properties, Refuse & Transit
















9. Highways, Streets & Sidewalks








A. Proposed Resolution – CEQR – Negative Declaration of Environmental 
Significance for purposes of the Environmental Review of the Discontinuance of 
Northern Portion of Lake Avenue and Eastern Portion of Adams Street

Yes

City Attorney Lavine

5 min.

A public hearing will be held after the Board votes on this resolution.


B. Public Hearing Regarding the Discontinuance of Northern Portion of Lake 
Avenue and Eastern Portion of Adams Street.

Yes

City Attorney Lavine

15 min.

A public hearing to receive public comment..


10.Parking & Traffic
















11.Creeks, Bridges & Parks
















12.Water & Sewer
















13.Discussion Items








A. Appeal of Water Bill for 113 Dryden Road

No

Asst. Supt. Whitney

10 min.

A very large bill was generated after the water meter was replaced and the 
property owner is disputing the amount.  See the enclosed documentation.


B. Request to Use a Portion of Stewart Park for a Cayuga Wetlands 
Restoration Project

No

Jhakeem Haltom, New Roots School

15 min.

New Roots School is requesting approval for their students to use a portion of 
the western end of Stewart Park for a restoration project.  Information will be 
distributed at the meeting.  In addition, two students are planning to make a 
short presentation during the meeting.


C.Street Vending Policy Discussion

No

Exec. Asst. Servoss

15 min.

Two issues have presented themselves to staff:  1) On July 1, 2015, the 
on-street parking rate in the City was changed from $1/hour to $1.50/hour.  
Mobile vending fees are still based on the $1/hour.  Staff would like Board’s 
approval to base the vending fees on the $1.50/hour parking fee.  2) The mobile 
food truck business has been increasing in Ithaca over the past year, and with 
it has come a very high demand for locations wit

[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park student project: wetland restoration

[Dave Nutter]

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park geese, gulls, etc

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Swan Pond report

[Sandy]

Sorry for typos. Am on my phone typing this. From 7-9pm today, I observed the 
following around the Swan Pond. eastern Kingbirds, 9 wood Ducks plus one tiny 
duckling, heard what I think we're Cedar waxwing, 2 or 3 Great Blue herons, 
gulls, mallards, cormorants, and one possible sandpiper. I heard it first, and 
it sounded like the spotted sandpiper on my CD. It was in a mucky spot in the 
lake side and flew away eastward.  I did not see any markings because it was 
too dark and too fast. It was perhaps a bit bigger than a Robin and Mourning 
Dove.  

It was a balmy and breezy gorgeous evening. So much activity in the lake. The 
birds seemed to be enjoying themselves as well despite the huge group of people 
in the park. Lastly, as the sun set, the Canada Geese started honking, and I 
watched them line up in the creek and paddle around the swan pond. I counted 
about 200 of them, and it was amazing to watch, all single file and evenly 
spaced. I was sure they were practicing maneuvers for winter!  There seems to 
be an energy in the air- almost as if they are eager to do the upcoming 
journey. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Swan Pond Highlights and Aspirations

[Sandy Wold]

On my way biking over to the Swan Pond, I saw a Downy Woodpecker gleaning
insects? off of a six foot flowering stalk of the Mullein.  I started
walking around the Swan Pond going clockwise where the west entrance would
be 9:00 to the boat house.

noon: Cedar Waxwing.

1:00:  Looking north, out to the lake, sitting on a log, were four female
Common Mergansers (?).  I did not have my notebook or camera phone with me.


1:00:  Looking south toward the Cascadilla Boat House and the island:
 immature Green Heron (striped nape, orange bill, yellow near the bill,
white stripes under the eye and another beneath that).  Another heron flew
by and into a tree (possibly the adult, but I only saw all grey back).  As
I watched the herons, out paddled six Wood Ducks (one female with her white
eye ring and five immatures, the immatures are starting to differentiate in
marking; and I could see one of the four was definitely going to be a male).

2:00 flycatcher (Eastern Phoebe?) perching high in the trees.

I so love this trail, the bird sanctuary, and the park.  Does anyone know
the status of the boat house?  i don't think having it be a historic center
is the best use of that building.  I would love to get a committee together
to brainstorm ideas for an educational center located upstairs.  Anyone
interested?  I'd love to see a school like New Roots based there in
collaboration with the Lab of Ornithology and offering another great place
to offer bird walks. The Cayuga Bird Club talked about sponsoring signage
there, and I think that is great; but I envision a generous donor giving
money to fully restore the building and installing an awesome scope for the
public!

Did anyone worry about how the birds in Stewart Park were doing during the
4th of July fireworks?



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*Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come ALIVE, for what
the world needs is people who have come ALIVE.  - Dr. Howard Thurman,
American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist (1900-1981) *

Sandra (Sandy) Wold
Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map, Author/Originator/Designer/Publisher,
www.sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park turnstone, Black Tern

[Jay McGowan]

A quick stop at Stewart Park just now yielded a BLACK TERN foraging out
with the swallows and a RUDDY TURNSTONE on the white light lighthouse jetty.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park today

[Dave Bulatek Teresa Wagner Bulatek]

About 1pm, north of the footbridge between the park and the golf course, we saw 
about 8 Bufflehead, along with one pair of Hooded Mergansers, and one pair of 
Redheads.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bird ID Help Needed

[Sandra Wold]

Today after the storm clouds parted around 3pm, the sun came out and Cayuga
Lake at Stewart Park was glorious, and may still be!  Can anyone verify the
following birds at Stewart Park?  They were in the far eastern corner and
then some of them moved westward.
1 Red-throated Loon in winter plumage? gorgeous, elegant, stunning and
looked more like a Western Grebe, which I know is highly unlikely if
impossible.
2 Red-necked Grebes?  but the heads were dark black and bird looked more
like a Double-crested Cormorant but Mallard-size, swimming with 6
domestic(?) Snow Geese (orange beaks, no black feathers).
2 Common Mergansers?  but looked the coot-size!
and there was a Great Blue Heron napping in the muck near the RR tracks!

Thanks in advance for any help!
Sandy

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bird ID Help Needed

[Kevin J. McGowan]

Stewart Park was definitely not glorious when I visited at around 1:30 today! 
Overcast, windy, and rain made viewing conditions hard, and the heat shimmer 
made any far offshore identifications just about impossible.  Close-in I had 
nothing but Mallards and domestics, along with the three expected gulls. I did 
have two juvenile Great Blue Herons jousting over the minnows to be speared in 
the lagoon off the creek, along with a Belted Kingfisher, but that was the 
extent of interesting birds for me. A scan from East Shore Park added only a 
pair of Northern Pintails very far off north into the shimmer.

The small flock of domestic ducks hanging out at the east end of the Stewart 
Park includes some all-white “Pekin” domestic Mallards, some all-dark, glossy 
“Cayuga ducks”, a couple of Indian runner Mallard domestics (they look like 
bowling pins when they walk), and a few mixed others, including a broken-wing 
clean Mallard make that might be a hunting injury looking to hang out with the 
ducks that don’t fly off all the time. As a rule, anything odd with them is 
just an odd domestic mutant individual.

No loons, no grebes, no scoters, no Cackling Geese for me today.

Kevin

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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Bird ID Help Needed

Today after the storm clouds parted around 3pm, the sun came out and Cayuga 
Lake at Stewart Park was glorious, and may still be!  Can anyone verify the 
following birds at Stewart Park?  They were in the far eastern corner and then 
some of them moved westward.
1 Red-throated Loon in winter plumage? gorgeous, elegant, stunning and looked 
more like a Western Grebe, which I know is highly unlikely if impossible.
2 Red-necked Grebes?  but the heads were dark black and bird looked more like a 
Double-crested Cormorant but Mallard-size, swimming with 6 domestic(?) Snow 
Geese (orange beaks, no black feathers).
2 Common Mergansers?  but looked the coot-size!
and there was a Great Blue Heron napping in the muck near the RR tracks!

Thanks in advance for any help!
Sandy
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park geese

[Jay McGowan]

Several apparent ROSS'S GEESE just took off with a flock of 1500+ Snow
Geese that had been on the water to the NW of Stewart Park. At least one
(but surely many more) CACKLING GOOSE with the thousands and thousands of
Canadas.

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park geese

[Jay McGowan]

Now an EARED GREBE with 16+ Horned Grebes, 11 Long-tailed Ducks, and
several White-winged Scoters to north of East Shore Park.

Jay
On Dec 15, 2014 8:17 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote:

 Several apparent ROSS'S GEESE just took off with a flock of 1500+ Snow
 Geese that had been on the water to the NW of Stewart Park. At least one
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park geese

[Geo Kloppel]

Those birds may have to stay near the lake today. The ceiling has dropped to 
ground level out here in the upper inlet valley, and the surrounding highlands 
are thickly enshrouded. This is our first day without big flights of departing 
Snow Geese since last Tuesday before the storm (during the storm itself many 
flocks took advantage of the strong tailwind to exit the basin).
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park waterfowl

[Jay McGowan]

A nice diversity of waterfowl is visible off Stewart Park in Ithaca this
morning, including 150+ Redhead with scaup and Ring-necked Ducks mixed in,
Bufflehead, Ruddy Duck, Common Goldeneye, and three close TUNDRA SWANS.
Several large gull flocks were sleeping on the ice shelf that formed
overnight. I didn't pick out any white-winged gulls, but the continuing
HERRING x GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL HYBRID was out close to East Shore.

Jay

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park: a few autumn birds

[Dave Nutter]

I spent a couple hours (3-5pm) at Stewart Park, mainly scoping the lake  
jetties from the swan pond, wondering if any Cattle Egrets would venture there 
with the gulls. I guess I didn't stay late enough or beat the bushes along the 
lakeshore enough because I found none, nor did I find any among the gulls at 
Treman Marina afterward.

What I did find was:

* a/the GREAT EGRET on the white lighthouse jetty among the gulls (who gave it 
a respectful distance) until an adult BALD EAGLE flew fairly high overhead, and 
the egret  gulls took flight. I saw the egret a couple times in flight, the 
last time going east, but I didn't see it along the shoreline later.

* at least 5 PIED-BILLED GREBES earlier in the SE corner of the lake, one of 
which still had some juvenile striping on the face. I met Gary Kohlenberg who I 
think tallied more. Yesterday there was a group of 9.

* a female RUDDY DUCK flew out to the lake, apparently from the mouth of Fall 
Creek, and alit not far from the swan pond,  a first-of-season for both Gary  
myself

* a small flock of AMERICAN COOTS off the swan pond which in recent days has 
grown from 2 (Sunday) to 5 (yesterday) to 9 (today)

* before Gary's arrival, while scanning the skies over the east side of the 
valley in Lansing I found a long-winged, long-tailed raptor flying into the 
wind, occasionally pausing with a dihedral, and showing white at the base of 
the tail. It turned out to be my first-of-season ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, a light 
morph, and it proceeded to fly west across Cayuga Lake, affording nice scope 
views of the underwing and tail patterns.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park birds

[Gary Kohlenberg]

I made a loop around the park after work today. There still weren’t 
many migrant birds at the swan pen, but I did find one Western Palm Warbler 
with a few Chickadees. There was one vociferous Fish Crow on the peninsula with 
white tag 06. 
Renwick Woods was going to be nothing but a nice walk until I found a 
feeding flock of 5 Chickadees, 4 Red-eyed Vireos, 2 Black-throated Green 
Warblers, Titmouse and 2 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLERS and a Magnolia Warbler. There 
was a small mud puddle in the trail, the flock would alternate feeding / 
chipping and flying down to the puddle to drink. I was able to watch them for 
some time. Unfortunately the OCWA’s seemed to be the sulkiest of the group, but 
they did both appear together from the low brush to the puddle edge. 

happy birding,

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park just before noon

[Michael W. Duttweiler]

Pair of wood ducks in inner basin.
Green heron along backwater off basin. 
Pied-bill grebe in Fall Creek behind boathouse.
Common mergansers on Fall Creek.


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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park: Surf Scoters, Warbling Vireos

[Jay McGowan]

The SURF SCOTER pair was still at the south end of Cayuga Lake this
morning, seen distantly but well from East Shore and more distantly and
less well from Stewart Park. A nice (but also distant) alternate RED-NECKED
GREBE was also out on the lake, next to a Common Loon. Our first WARBLING
VIREOS of the year were singing from Pier Road, Renwick Woods, and Stewart
Park near the bridge. No warblers around the swan pen. Lingering waterfowl
include Bufflehead, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Greater Scaup, Redhead,
and Ruddy Duck.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, Blue Geese, Odd Duck

[Dave Nutter]

I walked to Stewart Park yesterday afternoon. It was a successful quest for Chris T-H's reported LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS (I saw only one on the ice shelf but 2 among RING-BILLED GULLS resting on Newman golf course) and AMERICAN PIPITS (I got a good scope view of 2 on the flotsam field north of the swan pond, but I think there were at least 10 such dickey-birds flying around). As reported in Saturday's balmier weather, I also saw 3 TREE SWALLOWS over the mouth of Fall Creek, and after I returned to watch a large ice floe plough downstream to the lake, a had a brief glimpse of an EASTERN PHOEBE in the streamside brush near the Cascadilla Boathouse. Picking out waterfowl on the roiling muddy lake was nauseating, but on the creeks there were lots of HOODED MERGANSERS, several COMMON MERGANSER pairs, and a few stray Aythya individuals, plus 3 pairs of shy WOOD DUCKS. I tallied 14 each of GREEN-WINGED TEAL and AMERICAN WIGEON, (no Eurasians, at least among the males!) mostly on pools within the golf course, but no Blue-winged Teal for me. On Cayuga Inlet between the golf course and Treman Marina I saw a male BUFFLEHEAD whose left cheek was patterned much like a female, with the white of the auriculars nearly surrounded by the black. Overhead were 3 flocks of 10, 11, and 7 SNOW GEESE, but surprisingly of the 28 birds only 2 were white, the rest were "BLUE" GEESE. Among raptors were a RED-TAILED HAWK on a nest in the golf course while its presumed mate coursed the sky over the parks, a nearly adult BALD EAGLE who went back and forth between the narrow remaining ice shelf of Stewart Park and some attraction at Treman, whose ice appears confined to the marina, a TURKEY VULTURE southbound near Cornell, and an immature PEREGRINE FALCON on the aforementioned flotsam field, but escorted off by a couple of RING-BILLED GULLS before I saw the AMERICAN PIPITS arriving or returning there. Perhaps it had been hunting them. At one point it grabbed and took flight with a stick and appeared to be biting it. The falcon was so gray that I braced my scope against a tree to get a clearer image of the bold, sideburned facial pattern. It was very windy out there. There were plenty of COMMON GRACKLES in the brushy woods places, but no Rusty Blackbirds, nor did I find any Red-wingeds.--Dave Nutter
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park, East Shore and Myers

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Cold Sunday finds at Stewart Park:Hooded MerganserCommon MerganserWood Duck 
(single pair)imm. Bald Eagle on shore4 Great Blue Herons (in single cove behind 
Visitor's Center)aythya rafts (l. and g. scaup, redheads)Herring, Ring-billed, 
Greater Black-backed Gulls East Shore:Common GoldeneyeRed-breasted 
MerganserCommon Merganser Myers:Green-winged TealMallardsNorthern PintailAm. 
WigeonLesser ScaupRedheadBuffleheadAm. CootSharp-shinned Hawk3 intrepid Tree 
Swallows And finally, atop a misty Mt. Pleasant:  Crows and Canada Geese in the 
mist, as well as 3 female Horned Larks

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park and Newman Golf Course, Wed 11/27

[Mark Chao]

On Wednesday morning (10:00-10:50 AM), Tilden and I saw four BALD EAGLES at
the south end of Cayuga Lake.  We had long scope views of a couple of these
eagles at rest.  Better still, we witnessed a spectacular show from these
birds in the air all over Stewart Park and the Newman Golf Course.  One
circled over the ducks on the lake.  One passed right overhead, holding a
small fish in talons balled and rolled back like piano casters.  And for
several stirring minutes, all four rose together over Fall Creek and the
Stewart Park woods, mostly arranged two by two, alternating between seeming
choreographed synchrony and bursts of aggression and tumbling aerobatic
evasion.  At one point the eagles - which included one adult, two third-year
birds, and one dark first-year or second-year bird - ranged far to the south
almost out of view, but then they returned for a while.  We did not see them
during the final 15 minutes of our visit, as we walked back from the golf
course to Stewart Park.  

 

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park and NE Ithaca, Sat 11/16

[Mark Chao]

The immature/female BLACK SCOTER was still present off the east end of
Stewart Park in Ithaca on Saturday morning.  Seeing it among all the RUDDY
DUCKS and BUFFLEHEADS requires patience, discernment, and some luck,
especially because the scoter spends a lot of time under the surface.  For
me, overall shape and size were only somewhat distinctive because of varying
postures among the Ruddy Ducks, including frequent lowering of the tail.
Head shape differences were a bit more helpful (Ruddy Ducks' heads peaked
between central and rear crown, Black Scoter round).  Clearest for me were
differences in the cheek patch.  The male Ruddy Duck has a bright white,
round, and unbroken cheek patch.  The female Ruddy Duck has a dull patch
broken with a horizontal line.  The scoter has a cheek patch that is duller
than the male Ruddy but brighter than the female Ruddy.  The scoter's cheek
patch seems unbroken most of the time, but sometimes actually shows a faint
but very distinctive VERTICAL line through it.  

 

A gray EASTERN SCREECH-OWL remains present in our yard in northeast Ithaca.
Late yesterday afternoon, the owl struggled for at least 10 minutes to cast
a pellet, but retch after heaving retch yielded nothing.  At one point,
through my open window about 40 meters away, I heard the owl issue a wheezy
groaning vraf as it gagged.  After all this, clearly exhausted, the poor
little bird just rested with its eyes closed, deferring its usual twilight
rise to full alertness.  

 

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I saw the owl for just a few seconds early this morning before it retreated
into the box.  A brief search under the tree revealed no cleared pellet.  

 

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,



Today afternoon, Ngampit and I went to Stewart park as Ngampit wanted to show 
me large fruits of Ginko biloba.  So I took the opportunity to scope the lake. 
I did not find any exciting scoters or loons, but we watched about 200 
BUFFLEHEADS in two or three different groups. They seemed to be so happy 
creatures that they kept bobbing up and down (partly because it was very windy) 
and being playful. They seem to be chickadees of the water world, bold and 
happy. I also saw a few Ruddy ducks in East Shore region. It was too windy so 
all the birds were pressed to the edge of the shore along with lots of Canada 
Geese.

As we circled the small pond on the south-east side held a pair of an elegant 
Wood Ducks and three female Buffleheads!

And the usual gulls and large number of cormorants.



At home today I had eight Dark-eyed Juncos feeding on the grass seeds and other 
dropped seeds!



Cheers

Meena



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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park shorebirds

[Jay McGowan]

Not much shaking at Stewart Park this morning in the rain. Ruddy Ducks are
up to 72 birds off the east end, and Buffleheads at least 12, but I wasn't
able to find any scoters offshore (all three species were seen from East
Shore Park yesterday morning.) I did spot a few shorebirds on the red
lighthouse jetty, a yellowlegs and several smaller shorebirds that I
thought might be peeps. Since it's getting late for any of the smaller
shorebirds, I decided to take a very wet jog out to the white lighthouse
for a closer look (this is what I did last week to confirm the Pectoral and
Dunlin on the jetty as well.) Alas, the yellowlegs turned out to be a
GREATER YELLOWLEGS and the smaller birds were only 9 DUNLIN, foraging all
along the jetty. Still, it was cool to see that many shorebirds at the
South End.

-Jay

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park shorebirds

[Kenneth V. Rosenberg]

good work, Jay -- I'm glad somebody's doing that :)


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On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Jay McGowan 
jw...@cornell.edumailto:jw...@cornell.edu
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Not much shaking at Stewart Park this morning in the rain. Ruddy Ducks are up 
to 72 birds off the east end, and Buffleheads at least 12, but I wasn't able to 
find any scoters offshore (all three species were seen from East Shore Park 
yesterday morning.) I did spot a few shorebirds on the red lighthouse jetty, a 
yellowlegs and several smaller shorebirds that I thought might be peeps. Since 
it's getting late for any of the smaller shorebirds, I decided to take a very 
wet jog out to the white lighthouse for a closer look (this is what I did last 
week to confirm the Pectoral and Dunlin on the jetty as well.) Alas, the 
yellowlegs turned out to be a GREATER YELLOWLEGS and the smaller birds were 
only 9 DUNLIN, foraging all along the jetty. Still, it was cool to see that 
many shorebirds at the South End.

-Jay

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Pheasant

[Gary Kohlenberg]

There is a Ring-necked Pheasant at the Swan Pen. Has anyone else seen one here 
? This is definitely a new Ithaca bird for me. 

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Pheasant

[Gary Kohlenberg]

It was Jay that saw a female here a few weeks ago. The female I saw was 
probably the same bird. I can't believe there is more than one here. It was a 
fun sighting as she scooted by the stone platform walkway, next to the pond, 
and into the boathouse brushy trees. They really can run ! 

I also should have mentioned that there is one BRANT still hanging with the 
Canadas in the center field grass by the tennis court. 

Gary



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There is a Ring-necked Pheasant at the Swan Pen. Has anyone else seen one here 
? This is definitely a new Ithaca bird for me. 

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 1:30pm

[Judith W. Jones]

Male wood ducks - 10 in the lagoon, and in the swan pen a juvenile green 
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Friday - Ring-necked Pheasant

[Jay McGowan]

The highlight from a brief check of Stewart Park this morning was an
unexpected female RING-NECKED PHEASANT hiding in the weeds and foraging
along the shoreline just west of the dock in the middle of the park. Lots
of Yellow-rumped Warblers and a Blackpoll Warbler around the swan pen but
not much of note on the lake.

Kevin and I found a few warblers at the Lab at lunch time, mostly along the
woods edge at the north side of the building, including at least four
Tennessees, two Black-throated Green, several Yellow-rumped, and a
Blackpoll and a Nashville.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park

[Jay McGowan]

A nice winter-type FORSTER'S TERN is sitting on a log distantly off the
west end of Stewart Park right now, and one of two male REDHEADS that have
been around for at least a few days is swimming near the east end.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park

[carpist]

Just wondering is Ithaca has given up hope for a clean up of the dead 
wood jammed into the south end of the lake ?  Probably not a bird topic 
, but I did see three shovelers so...


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park

[Linda Orkin]

The dead wood provides habitat for many species for foraging, and protection. 
Additionally it prevents the geese from exiting the water at that point. Look 
at it as a natural feature and enjoy it. 

Linda 

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 Just wondering is Ithaca has given up hope for a clean up of the dead wood 
 jammed into the south end of the lake ?  Probably not a bird topic , but I 
 did see three shovelers so...
 
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Jetty Woods

[Jay McGowan]

Lots of activity at the south end of the lake this morning. The swan pen
was good as always, with Yellow, Palm (two apparent Yellow birds), and
Myrtle and Audubon's Yellow-rumped warblers. A WARBLING VIREO was singing
from the start of the trail into Jetty Woods, and a YELLOW-THROATED VIREO
was singing from Renwick. Probably a lot more around but we didn't have
time to explore more.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park pied starling

[nutter.dave]

Yesterday at Stewart Park I saw a European Starling which I recognized from last year. It has small patches of white feathers distributed fairly evenly over its body, and a large patch of white feathers on the right breast. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this bird.--Dave Nutter
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park warblers

[Jay McGowan]

I didn't find the Nashville Warbler around the swan pen mid-morning today,
but I did have the continuing AUDUBON'S WARBLER, a Western PALM WARBLER,
and a chipping then singing NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH at the east end of the
path.

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park - 4/20

[David Weber]

Hi all,

Stewart Park put on a great show this morning, with the male YELLOW WARBLER
continuing at Swan Pen, at least 6 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, a GREEN HERON at
Renwick, at least 2 BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS, and 10+ YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS.


No terns, catbird, or grebes that I saw, but a decent assemblage of
remaining ducks, including RUDDY DUCKS, REDHEADS, RING-NECKED DUCKS, LESSER
SCAUP, MALLARDS, COMMON MERGANSERS, HOODED MERGANSER, and AMERICAN COOTS.

Also notable were an OSPREY, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED
SWALLOWS, and a BARN SWALLOW.

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Good birding,
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*David Jonas Weber
Cornell University, Class of 2016
Natural Resources, Applied Ecology
*2011 CLO Young Birder
Bird Species Life List: 462

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Swan Pen Saturday 4202013

[William Roberts]

I observed a pair of Yellow-rumped warblers at the Swan Pen between 4:20 p.m. 
and 5:20 p.m. I did not see the Audubon YrW.  In addition I did scope a Yellow 
Warbler(foy) on the east end of the Swan pen and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher on the 
west end. There were also a dozen TVs circling the boat house for a brief 
period of time.

Bill Roberts
Aurora
  
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park 11 AM

[Tobias Dean]

Kind of late I guess but I finally got my visual memory set for Common
Merganser, there were at least 3. Lots of canvas backs, kingfisher,
possible yellow rumped warbler but I am still learning those. I didnt see,
or recognize any terns.
  also, one woodchuck that seems to live under the stones on the
little promontory of the pond where I used to feed wonderbread to a zillion
ducks when I was a kid. ( which eventually poisoned the water)
   there were barn swallows and I think tree swallows there also.
 At home in  North Danby I saw my FOY Phoebe and Tree swallows.
Last year the barn swallows arrived here last weekend, but there isnt much
to eat now.
  Does anyone know anything about the martin house rotting away on
a pole by the old duck pond? (Is that Hogs Hole?) I would consider
rebuilding it if there was any chance Martins would occupy it. I have no
interest in providing dwellings for starlings and house sparrows.

Toby

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park - terns and Red-throated Loon

[Jay McGowan]

Stewart Park was cold and rainy today late morning, as expected. Highlights
were two (and a possible third) COMMON TERNS moving around offering
occasional good looks and an adult RED-THROATED LOON straight out
(eventually moving towards the east shore), looking odd in almost full
winter plumage but with an all-dark bill. Not too many swallows around this
morning, but yesterday morning I had a single BANK SWALLOW in with a the
Tree-Barn-rough-winged flocks headed north from East Shore Park. I also met
Bob McGuire and he said he had a transitional FORSTER'S TERN at Myers this
morning that flew south, but we didn't come across it at Stewart while we
were there. The scaup flock off the east end continues to grow, but I
didn't pick out any other odd waterfowl.

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Macaulay Library
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park shoveler

[Jay McGowan]

Fewer birds but a couple of new arrivals at Stewart Park this morning,
including a male NORTHERN SHOVELER close to shore. No white-fronted goose
in a quick scan.

Jay

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park Blackbirds

[Claire Damaske]

Here in Tyre, I have at least 150 in the trees and under the feeders after
the cracked corn this morning!

Claire Damaske

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote:

  ** **

 I birded around Stewart Park late yesterday afternoon and my heart was
 warmed by a flock of about 50 Red-winged Blackbirds. They flew in from the
 NW and headed over Renwick Woods. Dave Nutter was also checking the area
 and mentioned that he had a flock a little earlier. Spring is good ! 

 ** **

 Gary

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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park PEREGRINE FALCON pair, pictures online (from yesterday)

[Melissa Groo]

Finally had some time to go through my images and choose some pictures of the 
peregrine falcon pair to share with the listserv. As Dave mentioned, I was at 
Stewart Park yesterday morning, had gone there after dropping my daughter off 
at school, as I'd seen Dave's email about the peregrine. I found one sitting on 
a tree in Jetty Woods, across from the boathouse, at about 9:30. After about 20 
minutes, it suddenly took off in hot pursuit of a gull that was flying by. It 
swooped down on the gull which screamed repeatedly and did its best to evade 
the falcon. I realized that there was a third bird in the air and that it was 
another peregrine, also chasing the gull. The three of them took off north and 
rounded the corner there by the Swan Pen and were out of sight. I ran around 
the Swan Pen the other way, camera in hand, and when I got to the point I saw 
them on the ice, quite far out, to the northwest. The gull lay lifeless and the 
considerably larger peregrine of the two, which I'll refer to as the female, 
was busily plucking the gull's feathers while the other rested on a perch 
nearby. After a few minutes, the male approached, making a chirping (begging?) 
sound, and the female allowed him to eat, even offering some of her bites. She 
soon moved away and stood by for a few minutes, and then returned and ate along 
with the male. She repeated this behavior a few times, walking away for a bit, 
then returning and joining in. After a while, the male flew away to a mound at 
the edge of the ice, close to the many geese that had landed there while they'd 
been feeding. He did what looked like a retching action for a while, and may 
have been coughing up a pellet. As you can see in the some of the later 
pictures, their crops were very full. The female flew off soon after, south 
along the inlet and out of my sight. The male began to call and I heard her 
respond. Soon after he took off (though I didn't see in which direction as I 
was looking away). All in all I watched them for about an hour and a half. It 
was a huge thrill for me as it was only the 2nd time I'd ever seen a peregrine 
falcon. And to watch that cooperative hunting and feeding was just fascinating.
I hope someone can identify the hapless gull. I included a couple of pictures 
that show the tail and a wing. I was too dazzled by the action to identify it 
while it was in the air. 
I've put up 32 images in my gallery on the CBC web site, at 
http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/gallery 
I shot the pictures with 700mm (a 500mm lens plus a 1.4x teleconverter), and 
still had to crop pretty heavily, so please excuse the image quality. There was 
not much light and I was handholding. 
I hope people enjoy the pictures. I'm glad to have the opportunity to share the 
experience.

Melissa



Melissa Groo Fine Art Photography
http://melissagroo.com


  
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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park hybrid goose white breast-band

[nutter.dave]

Yesterday afternoon at Stewart Park I saw and heard a/the distinctive Canada X domestic Greylag Goose among Canadas, Mallards, and American Coots in the shallow water and rotting ice at the southeast corner of the lake. This time I also noticed a broad clean white stripe on it between the gray feathers at the bottom of the breast and similar gray feathers on the bird's side  belly. From scope views from shore it appeared to me that this stripe was caused by one or more rows of feathers being completely missing all the way up at least the left side of the bird, such that long white bases of the lower feathers were exposed, rather than white-tipped feathers being present. I'm wondering if others have noticed this pattern on the bird, whether they agree that this is how the stripe is formed, and if so, whether they have an idea why the feathers should be missing so.--Dave Nutter
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