About 6:25am today I heard a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH from the Giles Street bridge over Six-mile Creek (office bird!). It was downstream in the gorge. Twenty minutes later I re-crossed the bridge but did not hear the bird, nor again later in the day. Wonder why... Did it move on? Was it just luck that I was in the part of the territory it happened to sing in?
On my walk home from work I heard the "pip" note of a YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER alongside Six-mile Creek beside South Titus Avenue, and had a nice naked-eye look at a male a few feed away in a sapling.
I took a walk to the lake after work and saw briefly an OSPREY on the nest platform near at Treman State Marine Park At first it was atop the sticks. Next time I looked it was atop one of the diagonal perch posts. Next time I looked it was gone. I don't know if the presence of people with dogs had an effect. I was pretty distant and using a scope, but I'm more unusual, so for all I know I flushed it. Fifteen minutes later I thought I heard an Osprey but could not locate it. By the way, Suan asked about the sticks on the platform. I think the folks who put up the platform several years ago left a couple stick in it as a sort of suggestion, but I think no people have been up there since. Last spring, when there was so much flooding, there was an Osprey which I met a few times when I waded into Renwick Sanctuary. Maybe it was this bird which people said they saw bringing sticks to the platform. Maybe it never found a mate, or maybe it got spooked when the water went down and people and dogs started using the park again.
Along Cayuga Inlet just north of the mouth of Treman Marina I saw my first-of-year SPOTTED SANDPIPER, properly spotted and doing the appropriate calisthenics.
In the southwest part of the lake I saw what I took to be 2 male and one female LESSER SCAUP, 1 odd-looking female GREATER SCAUP, 1 male RING-NECKED DUCK, and some other more shimmery-distant Aythya. (Sorry, Stuart, I have no idea what you saw.) There were also two female BUFFLEHEADS, but it seemed like most of the migrant waterfowl had moved on. There is still a pair of AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS at Stewart Park. This morning I saw 4 DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS on a log in the lake, but not this evening, when I saw a/the single immature in the marina. Yesterday morning at Stewart Park I saw 3 pairs of GREEN-WINGED TEAL, 2 male and 1 female NORTHERN SHOVELER, and 4 BONAPARTE'S GULLS before I went to Myers Point.
--Dave Nutter
On Apr 16, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Stuart Krasnoff <s...@cornell.edu> wrote:
I made two circles of the Swan Pen this morning looking for warblers but didn't find any. I did see two SPOTTED SANDPIPERS along the shore. Later from the eastern park shore I saw a RED-THROATED LOON and two HORNED GREBES There was also a flock of 9 Scaup I took to be Greater (smooth low head-profiles). If anyone else who sees them thinks they are Lesser please let me know.
Later around home I heard a LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH singing in a small gorge that feeds 6-mile Creek just below 30' dam. The spot is about a 1 minute scramble from where the lower leg of the rail-trail (the old railroad 'spur' which starts at Hillview) bends up to east below the playground by Iacovelli Park. There's a gate you can go through into the woods and then if you start to walk left and clockwise around the hill in front of you you can work your way down to the gorge edge Like Dave Nutter I put in some time trying to find the singing bird but eventually gave up. I was about 30' feet about the gorge at that point and he was above me. I've heard La. Waterthrushes here in past years and also heard them from the Mulholland side of 6-mile where this this gorge meets the main stream.
Best...Stuart.
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