Yes, the two Prothonotary Warblers that I heard yesterday are in the same general area that Geo describes below. However, they were not singing from right along the canal, as they did back in the 1990s. Instead, they were a bit west of that, away from the canal. Looking at Google Earth, the coordinates for the gravel parking spot are 43.020880, -76.800188, and the birds were singing 25+ yards west of that (a bit farther west than I estimated below).
Matt ________________________________ From: Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Birding <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontaries -- Yes When I plugged-in the provided coordinates the other day, Google Earth landed me out in the open, hundreds of yards to the east. But Matt Medler's description of the "one-lane green bridge" made it clear that these birds are in just about the same spot where Prothonotary Warblers were found in the late 1990s - i.e. the west end of the high steel bridge over the modern barge canal. -Geo On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote: > This is a strange series of events. Having been a little confused by the > bridges on Armitage Rd myself on Sunday, I wonder if there is the possibility > of these being two separate spots? 3 calling Acadian FCs would seem to be > hard to miss by all the other Prothonotary seekers, and vice versa.... Just > a thought. > > KEN > > > Ken Rosenberg > Director of Conservation Science > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 607-254-2412 > 607-342-4594 (cell) > k...@cornell.edu > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:46 AM, J. Gary Kohlenberg wrote: > >> Yesterday at 6:30 pm I was able to hear and then see both Prothonotary >> warblers. I recorded video of one to have the singing. They are LOUD at >> close range. >> This area is amazingly birdie. >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> >> On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:58 AM, "Matthew Medler" <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: >> >>> There were two Prothonotary Warblers countersinging from opposite sides of >>> Armitage Road at 4:30 pm on Monday afternoon (31 May 2011). These birds >>> were just 10-20 yards west of the little gravel pull-off area on the west >>> side of the one-lane green bridge. No sign of any Acadians at that time, >>> but a singing Northern Waterthrush was a bit of a surprise. Not a surprise, >>> but always nice to hear, were two Cerulean Warblers. Oh, and a distant >>> Black-billed Cuckoo sang for about 30 seconds. >>> >>> Matt Medler >>> Ithaca >>> >>> From: bob mcguire <bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com> >>> To: cayugabirdlist <cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu> >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8:47 AM >>> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Prothontary - no >>> >>> John Confer and I drove up to the north end of the lake yesterday >>> evening to look for some of the recently-sighted birds. From the tower >>> at Tschache Pool we scoped the vast mud flats and found - 3 BLACK- >>> BELLIED PLOVERS and two distant shorebirds that flew in and >>> disappeared behind logs and stumps. No other shorebirds. 3 Red-winged >>> Blackbirds. One of the plovers had a markedly darker cap, making it >>> worth a closer look. However the throat and belly were black while the >>> vent was white, and the bill was relatively short and stubby. So we >>> left it as Black-bellied Plover. >>> >>> From there we drove out Armitage Road, parked just past the green >>> bridge, and spent about a half hour walking up and down the road to >>> the west. We heard several Yellow Warblers, 2 American Redstarts, also >>> Common Yellowthroats, Swamp Sparrows and, surprisingly, 3 ACADIAN >>> FLYCATCHERS. Two of them were on the north side, close to the road. >>> The third was on the south side. Unfortunately for us, no Prothonotary >>> Warblers. 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