This morning in our yard we added to the list: Blackburnian Female indigo bunting Black and white Red breasted nuthatch Cedar waxwings
On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 12:02 AM Upstate NY Birding digest < cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Sunday, May 05, 2019. > > 1. Blue-winged warbler > 2. Hummingbird and white-crowned sparrow > 3. Hawthorn poss Phila V > 4. Blackburnian Warblers > 5. Golden-winged Warbler Seneca Co > 6. Sandhill Crane Ithaca > 7. Re: Golden-winged Warbler Seneca Co > 8. Warblers at Brookton Cemetery 8am > 9. warblers > 10. Armitage Rd Prothonotary > 11. Rose breasted grosbeak > 12. Re: Hawthorn - not Phila V > 13. Barn Swallows > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Blue-winged warbler > From: <k...@empacc.net> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 11:15:20 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > Our feeders are so loaded with Pine Siskins, Purple Finch, Rose-breasted > Grosbeaks, Red-breasted Nuthatch,White Throats, Chippies and others that > it almost feels like the ADK. > > Yesterday morning we had a singing Blue-winged Warbler among the new > arrivals. The BWWAs have been breeders here for many years. The RBNUs > for the last few years. > > -- > John and Sue Gregoire > Field Ornithologists > Kestrel Haven Migration Observatory > 5373 Fitzgerald Rd > Burdett, NY 14818 > 42.443508000, -76.758202000 > "Create and Conserve Habitat" > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Hummingbird and white-crowned sparrow > From: anneb.cl...@gmail.com > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 07:35:09 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > An FOY hummingbird carefully (urgently?) foraging along my gooseberry > bushes an hour ago so the FOY feeders are now out. Not sure if male or > female. Distant and watched without binocs. > > Unexpected white-crowned sparrow under the feeders. > > Sent from my iPhone > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Hawthorn poss Phila V > From: Suan Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 09:48:56 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > Brief stop at Hawthorn this morning found the trees hopping with Wilson, > blue wing, chestnut, Nashville; poss vireo sweep with red-eye, warbling, > blue-headed, and a sorta-yellow sorta-warblerish bird high in the tree that > could be a Philadelphia video. May or may not have gotten lousy photos to > check later. > > Suan > _____________________ > Composed by thumb and autocorrect. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Blackburnian Warblers > From: Laura Stenzler <l...@cornell.edu> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:10:48 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 4 > > 3 Blackburnian Warblers singing in the evergreens on Hunt Hill Road, > Dryden this morning. > > Laura > > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Golden-winged Warbler Seneca Co > From: Jared <jaredwdaw...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 12:43:37 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 5 > > After a delightful early morning with Josh Snodgrass and a robust group of > over 20 birders I heard word of a reported GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER at the > intersection of Combs and McCarriger Rds between Lodi and Ovid. Got over > there at 10:45 where the two birders present reported last seeing it at > 10:30. Just after 11 I saw a smallish warbler with a black throat and a > yellowish wing patch. The light was poor and it was a brief look but good > enough for an ID. About 15 minutes later I saw presumably the same bird and > got a good look at a black and white patterned head although the body was > obscured. > I also saw a Black-throated Blue, two Blackburnians, 3 Nashvilles, a > Yellow-rumped, and heard an Ovenbird. > Jared Dawson > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Sandhill Crane Ithaca > From: bob mcguire <bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 12:57:30 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 6 > > I was just about to come in for lunch when I heard the unmistakable > calling of a SANDHILL CRANE. I spotted the bird, almost overhead, flying > NW. When it got over the Ithaca reservoir it circled several times then > disappeared beyond the treeline, still headed NW. First for the yard for me! > > Bob McGuire > Whitted Road (off Snyder Hill Rd) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Golden-winged Warbler Seneca Co > From: Alicia <t...@ottcmail.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 13:22:55 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 7 > > If you go, note that ALL of this property is private. Please bird only > from the road and do not trespass! The folks who own the land are very > private and do not welcome strangers walking on it. Plus there are no > trails to follow and all the land around here is infested with deer > ticks, so staying on the roads makes sense! > > Alicia > > On 5/4/2019 12:43 PM, Jared wrote: > > After a delightful early morning with Josh Snodgrass and a robust group > of over 20 birders I heard word of a reported GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER at the > intersection of Combs and McCarriger Rds between Lodi and Ovid. Got over > there at 10:45 where the two birders present reported last seeing it at > 10:30. Just after 11 I saw a smallish warbler with a black throat and a > yellowish wing patch. The light was poor and it was a brief look but good > enough for an ID. About 15 minutes later I saw presumably the same bird and > got a good look at a black and white patterned head although the body was > obscured. > > I also saw a Black-throated Blue, two Blackburnians, 3 Nashvilles, a > Yellow-rumped, and heard an Ovenbird. > > Jared Dawson > > > > > > -- > > > > 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/ > > > > -- > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Warblers at Brookton Cemetery 8am > From: Susan Henne <susanche...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 15:21:18 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 8 > > After reading so many exciting bird posts in the last few days, I knew I > had to go out looking for warblers this am. Right off of Lounsberry Rd > (Brooktondale) is the Brookton Cemetery which rises above rushing 6 Mile > Creek and is framed by a mature deciduous forest. High up in the maples I > saw 3-4 Golden-winged Warblers, 2 Hooded Warblers and several Yellow-rumped > Warblers. On the way home, along the creek a Scarlet Tanager was feeding. > And to top off my lucky morning, a Cape May warbler was feeding in the > Norway Spruces in my yard. Still is at 3:15pm. > Sue Henne > Town of Caroline > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: warblers > From: Karin Suskin <karinlee...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 16:01:51 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 9 > > In a crazy wave Friday around 6pm in our oak tree in the yard in Ithaca: > Chestnut sided > Black throated green > Ruby crowned kinglet > White eyed vireo > Yellow rumped > Nashville > Elsewhere in yard: > Baltimore oriole > Catbird > Chipping and white crowned sparrows > Pileated Woodpecker at the feeder > Yellow belly sapsucker > Rose breasted grosbeak male > > Karin Susin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Armitage Rd Prothonotary > From: smb4...@aol.com > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 20:38:52 +0000 (UTC) > X-Message-Number: 10 > > Hi All, > We saw the Armitage Rd Prothonotary Warbler with a flock of Yellow Warbler > and Yellow Rump Warblers after lunch today. He sat on the end of a branch > along Armitage Rd. providing excellent views! > Suzanne Broderick, Ithaca > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Rose breasted grosbeak > From: Yvette de Boer <ydeb...@verizon.net> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 18:33:17 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 11 > > Saw a male Rose Breasted grosbeak at my feeder today in Fall Creek - first > time ever! I thanked him for stopping by :~) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Hawthorn - not Phila V > From: Suan Hsi Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 19:59:36 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 12 > > In case anyone is wondering, photo review of my possible philadelphia vireo > turned out to be a northern parula. > > Suan > > > On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 9:48 AM Suan Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Brief stop at Hawthorn this morning found the trees hopping with Wilson, > > blue wing, chestnut, Nashville; poss vireo sweep with red-eye, warbling, > > blue-headed, and a sorta-yellow sorta-warblerish bird high in the tree > that > > could be a Philadelphia video. May or may not have gotten lousy photos to > > check later. > > > > Suan > > _____________________ > > Composed by thumb and autocorrect. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Barn Swallows > From: Bill McAneny <bmcane...@ottcmail.com> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 21:29:59 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 13 > > About 4 Barn Swallows arrived today at their traditional summer home in > our barns. We had begun to worry that we would not see them this year. > > In past years we had taken down the previous year's nests, which did not > seem to make any difference to the birds. This year the old nests are > still up. Let's see what happens. > > > Bill and Shirley McAneny, TBurg > > > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > > -- 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/ --
