Re: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak

[Kevin C Packard]

For those who are wondering, the blue grosbeak has not been seen since 
Wednesday. Possibly the cold air has made it think of new places to go.

 Many thanks to Tom for his hospitality in welcoming so many birders to admire 
this rarity!

 Cheers,


Kevin Packard




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Folks are welclme to come visit to see the Blue Grosbeak, maybe 8:00 AM to 7:00 
PM.

107 Ross Rd, Lansing.

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM Tom Vawter 
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The Blue Grosbeak is back again this morning.  Earlier it made a number of 
visits to the sunflower seed feeder at the front of the house, but it hasn’t 
been there recently.



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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak

[Tom Vawter]

Folks are welclme to come visit to see the Blue Grosbeak, maybe 8:00 AM to
7:00 PM.

107 Ross Rd, Lansing.

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:08 AM Tom Vawter  wrote:

> The Blue Grosbeak is back again this morning.  Earlier it made a number of
> visits to the sunflower seed feeder at the front of the house, but it
> hasn’t been there recently.
>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue grosbeak

[Asher Hockett]

Congratulations!
On May 8th, 2013 we had a Blue Grosbeak visit a feeder in Danby, south of
Ithaca, so the timing is perfect. 10 minutes and then gone. A lifetime
highlight.
Maybe we will see one here in Albuquerque!
Asher Hockett

On Wed, May 6, 2020, 3:01 PM Johnson, Alyssa 
wrote:

> A lifer for me!
>
> I work at the Montezuma Audubon Center, and earlier today someone sent us
> a picture saying she thinks her husband saw a blue grosbeak at work, which
> is at the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Waterloo. I confirmed the picture ID,
> and made some calls and was able to meet up with the district manager of
> the landfill, as well as the original spotter, Dan. Dan graciously took me
> to the spot where this male blue grosbeak has been observed since Monday
> attacking his reflection in windows and mirrors of the heavy equipment. It
> was certainly a blue grosbeak! I will be posting pictures to the MAC fb
> page later, and have of course reported to eBird.
>
> The location of the bird is literally in the dead center of the landfill.
> It is not easily accessible, and I don’t know if I could find that spot
> again without an escort. I did warn the district manager though that people
> may be contacting them to see for themselves!
>
> Happy birding!
>
>
> Alyssa Johnson
> Environmental Educator
> 315.365.3588
>
> Montezuma Audubon Center
> PO Box 187
> 2295 State Route 89
> Savannah, New York 13146
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RE:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak is present at the Blue Grass lanw

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

Today evening after work, I decided to walk to Blue Grass lane. Luckily for me  
as I walking a bird made some noise in the NE corner of southern corn field, 
may be about 50 feet from the corner. So stopped and looked for the bird but 
did not see. I must confess that then I decided to spish once.  There it popped 
up and sat briefly on the corn where I could get a binocular view of its beak 
and face and for a fraction of a second whole body before it dove into the corn 
again.  I spent some more time in the vicinity. I heard it call twice giving 
calls in about twenty minutes I was there. I reviewed the calls with Peterson's 
Guide on the cell phone app and it sounded like what is described as  the 'pit' 
calls.



Along the marsh of the (ex) Bull Pasture pond,  I heard and saw several  
Red-winged Blackbirds doing "my property", somewhere else two White-throated 
Sparrows were singing in duet "pure sweet Canada Canada". Sunset was awesome! 
If felt like pleasant spring evening except sun was setting earlier!



Meena

PS: Dave Weber and friend - Sorry guys, I could not call you as I did not have 
your phone numbers and for some reasons, I had deleted the RBA messages so I 
did not have the number to post, hence I emailed. I saw the bird just barely 
after 6 or 7 minutes of my meeting you.



Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/


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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 5:37 PM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak is present at the Blue Grass lanw


Just gave me enough time glimpses to identify it.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak continues

[Anne Marie Johnson]

The Blue Grosbeak was out and chipping persistently at 4:45 in the same 
area that Kevin described. (For those like me who aren't great with compass 
directions, it was right by the road, at the corner of the corn field 
across the road from the chain-link-fenced horse pasture.) It chipped and 
sat up for a couple of minutes and then disappeared. A short while later I 
heard persistent chipping from the corn field on the other side of the 
road, beside the fenced area, but much further from the road. I don't know 
if it was the same chipping, though. There are very few chips I can 
distinguish, and this isn't one of them!


Anne Marie Johnson



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak continues in NE Ithaca

[Brad Walker]

The bird is now on the west side of the road, in the north edge of the
southern corn field. It's been out in the open calling for several minutes.
On Oct 14, 2013 1:38 PM, "Kevin J. McGowan"  wrote:

>  The female BLUE GROSBEAK continues on gravel road section of Bluegrass
> Lane, south of Hanshaw, well east of Warren Rd.
>
> ** **
>
> I saw the bird today, 14 Oct 2013, at 12:58 pm, and had it in view about 6
> minutes.  It was in the same spot where it was originally found: in the
> very SW corner of the corn east of the road, just north of the chain-link
> fence.
>
> ** **
>
> I watched it forage in the corn along the edge for several minutes. It
> once flew up and perched high on top of a corn stalk, but spent most of the
> time about chest height in the leaves of corn.  It eventually flew off to
> the SW into the corn patch just west of the road, just north of the last
> barn.  It was calling consistently the whole time (which is how I found it).
> 
>
> ** **
>
> I had walked around those areas for a while before I found it.  I suspect
> the best strategy would be to sit at the NW corner of the fence and watch
> that corner of corn.  The bird seems to be coming back there, so sitting
> and waiting might be best.  Plenty of sparrows to keep your attention while
> you wait (Song, Swamp, White-throated, White-crowned, House).
>
> ** **
>
> Kevin
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
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RE: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

I thought it was a walkable distance to go looking for Blue Grosbeak, so I did 
the walk from Golf Course side via Forest Home Walkway.   Unfortunately, I 
missed the first turn, so I had to go around the woods. But that was good I got 
to see lots of birds. There were three WINTER WRENS pottering around and I got 
good looks at each of them. Like last time I mentioned I seem to be lucky with 
Winter Wrens this year! There were lots of WHITE-TROATED SPARROWS all along the 
hedgerow at the edge of the woods. I saw a few of them eating fruits of 
Buckthorn and a small shrub, which looks like a Vaccinum sp, but had red pointy 
fruits, I need to identify this plant. Several YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS, one 
group was at Golf Course, next two were in the Bluegrass lane woods. Also there 
was a BROWN CREEPER along with a couple of WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCHES.  A 
NORTHEN FLICKER flick flicked for quite sometime.  Quite a few RUBY CROWNED 
KINGLETS also were present.



Finally, there were quite a few sparrows most of them dove into corn when 
disturbed, but one sparrow came out of the corn and sat on a bare branch in the 
hedgerow and gave me a good view! This was a FILED SPARROW.



I spent about 20 minutes looking for the Blue Grosbeak and trying to listen but 
I did not succeed.



Cheers

Meena



Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
http://haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/


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[bounce-108719886-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Jay McGowan 
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Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane


I last saw the bird around 8:34 as it perched up again in the hedgerow west of 
the north side of the horse complex (so along the south edge of the big field 
on the west side of the north leg of Bluegrass Lane.) It was moving west along 
the hedgerow but the habitat gets more forested near the SW corner of the 
field, so it may have gone into the brushy area or doubled back into the corn. 
We have continued to look for it without success. It did not call and was not 
responsive to pishing.

Jay

On Oct 13, 2013 8:10 AM, "Jay McGowan" 
mailto:jw...@cornell.edu>> wrote:

I just had the female BLUE GROSBEAK near where Ken heard it last night. It 
popped up out if the corn just north of where the road goes into the horse barn 
area and sat for a moment up in the shrubs along that hedgerow, then dropped 
down and I have not relocated it so far. It hasn't made a sound.

Jay

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Blue Grosbeak, Bluegrass Lane

[Jay McGowan]

I last saw the bird around 8:34 as it perched up again in the hedgerow west
of the north side of the horse complex (so along the south edge of the big
field on the west side of the north leg of Bluegrass Lane.) It was moving
west along the hedgerow but the habitat gets more forested near the SW
corner of the field, so it may have gone into the brushy area or doubled
back into the corn. We have continued to look for it without success. It
did not call and was not responsive to pishing.

Jay
On Oct 13, 2013 8:10 AM, "Jay McGowan"  wrote:

> I just had the female BLUE GROSBEAK near where Ken heard it last night. It
> popped up out if the corn just north of where the road goes into the horse
> barn area and sat for a moment up in the shrubs along that hedgerow, then
> dropped down and I have not relocated it so far. It hasn't made a sound.
>
> Jay
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue grosbeak on bluegrass lane. Ne ithana

[Jay McGowan]

Tom saw the grosbeak disappear into the corn and no one has refound it to
my knowledge.
On Oct 12, 2013 12:58 PM, "Tom Schulenberg"  wrote:

> Now in corn at edge of chain link fence
>
> tss
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