RE: [cayugabirds-l] Terns /snake & sparrows
Today, I rescued a little Garter Snake from the middle of my road. It was having a rather hard time moving on the smooth surface. Lucky I did. Right after that, several cars and trucks went by. Yesterday, I found two tiny red efts dead in different parts of the road. Tsk. After I helped the snake across road, I saw a stripey-breasted baby Chipping Sparrow begging near its parents! Charming. Also saw 2 young, spotty Robins. Donna L. Scott 535 Lansing Station Road Lansing, NY 14882 -Original Message- From: bounce-121732046-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-121732046-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 5:17 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Terns Like at Myers, Caspian Terns are hanging out on the mud bars and driftwood at the mouth of Owasco Inlet, as Patricia and I found while kayaking in the swamps yesterday evening. Saw an adult Smooth Green Snake in our yard this afternoon. They've been breeding here for some years, but we don't see them every day. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Terns
Like at Myers, Caspian Terns are hanging out on the mud bars and driftwood at the mouth of Owasco Inlet, as Patricia and I found while kayaking in the swamps yesterday evening. Saw an adult Smooth Green Snake in our yard this afternoon. They've been breeding here for some years, but we don't see them every day. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Terns
Can anyone help? For the second evening I have spotted about a dozen terns at Myers Park on the little spit just to the left of the northern most pavilion. They are mixed in with a few gulls and ducks. I can't make a positive ID. They are crested and some have bright orange-red bills with completely black heads while the others (probably juveniles) have spotted wing plumage with dark feathers not completely covering their heads. All legs are dark. Lots of feeding on the soft shore with occasional popping up high to plunge back down to the sand. I have seen Elegant and Royal Terns on San Diego's beaches in the winter and these guys at Myers seem to look a lot like them but my books don't say they ever come to our neck of the woods. Thanks for your help! Sue Henne -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Terns Frontenoc Marina
Nice concentration of mainly COMMON , counted at least 44. I found just 1 FORSTERs. Most were loafing on dock. Dave Nicosia Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] terns, gulls, & ducks
At 5:30 this morning I was driving people to the Ithaca Airport through darkness and dense fog, a cloud whose bottom intersected with NYS-13 between the Cayuga Heights Rd and Triphammer Rd exits, entirely enveloping Warren Rd and making my work uncomfortable. I don't know if my passengers' plane(s) took off, but it made sense to me for them to stay grounded. During the day I noticed some migrant birds who decided it wasn't worth traveling further in fog, afternoon showers, and later a headwind. Shortly before 8am I stopped at Stewart Park and noted a single CASPIAN TERN. But at 9:15 as I waited at the traffic light at Seneca and Fulton Streets I saw 2 CASPIAN TERNS following Cayuga Inlet north. About a quarter of 10 I stopped again at Stewart Park and noticed 16 CASPIAN TERNS on the red lighthouse breakwater, and another 2 who may have been different seen later from a different vantage. Around 11am from East Shore Park I saw that there were now several much smaller whitish birds among the Caspian Terns, so I returned to Stewart Park for a closer view. While most of those smaller birds turned out to be BONAPARTE'S GULLS, and I counted 9 in flight together as they circled and landed there, there was one standing bird I was able to pick out, despite distance and heat shimmer, as being similar in size to the Bonaparte's Gulls but with a black cap, orange bill, and body uniformly pale gray above and below, which I took to be a COMMON TERN. After I walked home from work amid showers in the evening I took advantage of a lull to bike to the lakeshore. I found 11 CASPIAN TERNS on the red lighthouse breakwater, but only one fly-by BONAPARTE'S GULL, the rest having moved on, along with the Common Tern.In Cass Park I also found a couple of paler birds among a group of SONG SPARROWS - my first-of-year SAVANNAH and VESPER SPARROWS, which were a special treat in that location. And inside Treman marina was an unusual flock of 22 BUFFLEHEADS sheltering from the now-rough lake water. And harking back to Dave Nicosia's report, I also saw 6 LONG-TAILED DUCKS during that late-morning visit to East Shore Park.--Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] terns north from Myers Point, etc
A little after 4pm today (May 14), I saw two Forster's Terns at Stewart Park. They flew over without much pause, headed south. Sydney Penner > This afternoon (Friday 14 May) during a brief break in a busy taxi day > I stopped at Myers Point. On the spit I found only ~20 immature > HERRING GULLS. As I was leaving, something with narrow white wings > caught my eye far to the north. Scoping revealed 7 terns sitting on the > water together considerably north of Salt Point. Everytime one got up > to move it showed the gleaming white upper primaries of FORSTER'S > TERNS. When they all took flight I found that all were Forster's, but > their number had increased to 14. Another scan and I counted 22 terns, > not all of which I could ID, but two of which were COMMON TERNS. > They worked their way north into the shimmer and faded from view, > which was easier to explain than their appearance. > > On a walk at Stewart Park after work I found a female WOOD DUCK > and her family in the swan pond - a tight crowd of ~10 tiny ducklings > with yellow cheeks split by a dark line, plus the last two in line with > entirely reddish brown fluffy heads - MERGANSERLINGS - not sure > which species. > > About yesterday evening's COMMON NIGHTHAWK sighting, sorry > about the ambiguity of my brief text message. When an afternoon of > distracted sky scanning while gardening and lawn-mowing revealed > no migrating Nighthawks despite the southish winds, I decided I needed > to leave my yard. I climbed the nearby bridge of NYS 89 across Ithaca's > Fllood Control Channel (technically I believe the Cayuga Inlet is on the > opposite side of Inlet Island). I scanned the skies without luck until I > saw the appropriate irregular and somewhat floppy movement for a > feeding Common NIghthawk low against the sky far to my north. My > scope at 60X gave it the right shape, but I never saw the white stripes > in the wings even though I could tell it was dark overall. The bird was > probably over Renwick Sanctuary. I lost track of it when it dipped below > the treeline for me. The only birds I saw going north were individual > gulls, > but a handful of BARN SWALLOWS and a CHIMNEY SWIFT headed south. > --Dave Nutter > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] terns north from Myers Point, etc
This afternoon (Friday 14 May) during a brief break in a busy taxi day I stopped at Myers Point. On the spit I found only ~20 immature HERRING GULLS. As I was leaving, something with narrow white wings caught my eye far to the north. Scoping revealed 7 terns sitting on the water together considerably north of Salt Point. Everytime one got up to move it showed the gleaming white upper primaries of FORSTER'S TERNS. When they all took flight I found that all were Forster's, but their number had increased to 14. Another scan and I counted 22 terns, not all of which I could ID, but two of which were COMMON TERNS. They worked their way north into the shimmer and faded from view, which was easier to explain than their appearance. On a walk at Stewart Park after work I found a female WOOD DUCK and her family in the swan pond - a tight crowd of ~10 tiny ducklings with yellow cheeks split by a dark line, plus the last two in line with entirely reddish brown fluffy heads - MERGANSERLINGS - not sure which species. About yesterday evening's COMMON NIGHTHAWK sighting, sorry about the ambiguity of my brief text message. When an afternoon of distracted sky scanning while gardening and lawn-mowing revealed no migrating Nighthawks despite the southish winds, I decided I needed to leave my yard. I climbed the nearby bridge of NYS 89 across Ithaca's Fllood Control Channel (technically I believe the Cayuga Inlet is on the opposite side of Inlet Island). I scanned the skies without luck until I saw the appropriate irregular and somewhat floppy movement for a feeding Common NIghthawk low against the sky far to my north. My scope at 60X gave it the right shape, but I never saw the white stripes in the wings even though I could tell it was dark overall. The bird was probably over Renwick Sanctuary. I lost track of it when it dipped below the treeline for me. The only birds I saw going north were individual gulls, but a handful of BARN SWALLOWS and a CHIMNEY SWIFT headed south. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
