[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Wood-Pewee on eastern EIRW
Around 5:15pm Thursday 6 May on the north side of the East Ithaca Rec'way between Game Farm Pine Tree Rd but west of the construction zone I saw a flycatcher which I took to be an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE despite the somewhat atypical habitat and the fact that it did not call. The bird was sallying from exposed perches on medium-sized mostly unleafed or dead trees over a thick shrub cover. There were no taller trees in that immediate area, and they did not form a closed canopy, but the bird was not at the level of the tops of them. I watched it for several minutes with good binocular views, fairly close, nearly at eye-level from various angles, and often with a dark background. The bird was greenish overall, and lacked the dark contrast between the upper and lower part of the head of an Eastern Phoebe. The breast was washed with pale green, not a vest, not yellow. It had whitish wingbars and edgings to the secondaries and tertials. It had gray lores but no eye-ring. The bill was dark above but yellow-orange below. It had a slight peak on the crown, accentuated by the breeze. It seemed larger, a bit slower, and longer-tailed than an Empidonax, of which I had seen several that day, including Leasts calling and foraging at Jetty Woods, and a couple of silent unidentified birds in various places around the Hawthorn Orchard. Although it stuck around for several minutes, it left by the time I was ready to photograph it. Although it was silent, it did fly directly over me after several of my mediocre whistled imitations of an Eastern Wood-Pewee, and that's what I believe it was (but not an imitation) despite the fact that it's a bit early. I saw no other basin records on eBird, nor have I heard of any yet this year, although there are a couple from nearby, so I'm putting this down as a first. --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/ --
RE: [cayugabirds-l] Whimbrel at Myers, Th 5/6
Maybe, but a brief note would have alerted others that a whimbrel was moving north and may land. It also would have given a general heads-up that there probably are more in the area. To my knowledge, none of the three people involved have rarely, if ever, posted anything, by themselves, to this listserv. Steve Fast Brooktondale -Original Message- From: bounce-5745273-9286...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-5745273-9286...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Medler Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:34 PM To: Cayugabirds-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Whimbrel at Myers, Th 5/6 Hi All, It's my understanding that this bird was an early-morning fly-by. I'm sure that if the bird had landed and stayed put at Myers, the observers would have gotten the word out on Cayugabirds, as Chris and Jessie did last June. Matt Mark Chao wrote: I see on the eBird Google gadget that Marshall Iliff, Brian Sullivan, and Jessie Barry found a WHIMBREL at Myers Park in Lansing some time today. I don't have details about when they saw the bird, nor whether it might still be there. Mark -- 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] Hammond Hill -- Friday morning
Trail 1 in Hammond Hill was relatively quiet this morning (at least if a forest teeming with Ovenbirds and Common Yellowthroats can be called quiet), but I found some really nice birds. Most impressive were the 4 CAPE MAY WARBLERS (including one right at the Hammond Hill Rd. parking area), one CANADA WARBLER, and one singing MOURNING WARBLER. The complete eBird list is below. Sydney Penner Location: Hammond Hill SF Observation date: 5/7/10 Notes: Trail 1. Number of species: 38 Ruffed Grouse 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 10 American Crow 2 Barn Swallow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 5 Tufted Titmouse 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 3 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 House Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8 Wood Thrush 2 American Robin 6 Gray Catbird 2 Cedar Waxwing 3 Tennessee Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 5 Cape May Warbler 4 Black-throated Blue Warbler 4 Blackburnian Warbler 1 American Redstart 1 Ovenbird 20 Mourning Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 10 Canada Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 2 Northern Cardinal 2 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 6 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- 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] Meck warblerfest
This morning there were so many warblers singing in our yard, I couldn't decide which ones to chase first. Did have good looks at Cape May, Prairie, Blackpoll, and Chestnut-sided. Many more heard but not confirmed by sight. So many Yellows and C Yellowthroats fighting over territories it's crazy, and a Blue-winged seems to have decided to stay too. Nancy Dickinson Mecklenburg Make a little birdhouse in your soul. -- 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] Hawthorn this morning
When I arrived at 8:00, the orchard was hopping, but I didn't come across anything new. Interestingly, I heard no Black-throated Green Warblers. Most of the activity was along the eastern edge today. Here are the highlights: Yellow-rumped Warblers--still lots of them Northern Waterthrush Nashville Warblers--at least 3 Tennessee Warblers--at least 2 Common Yellowthroats Yellow Warblers Northern Parulas (singing a variety of songs)--at least 2 Black-and-White Warbler--1 American Redstart--1 Magnolia Warbler--1 Black-throated Blue Warbler--1 Blackburnian Warbler--probable, heard only Black-billed Cuckoo--called frequently over the hour I was there Wood Thrush--sang once briefly Anne Marie Johnson -- 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] hawthorn
I had two personal hawthorn firsts this morning - scarlet tanager and black and white warbler. Also three solitary sandpipers, Baltimore oriole, cedar waxwings, common yellow throat, yellow warbler, yellow rumped warbler, redstarts, and brown headed cowbirds doing as much watching as I. Susan Barr Brooktondale -- 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] Cape May W on Hunt Hill
It must be a good spring for Cape May warblers! We had one on our property this morning as a new yard bird! It was at eye level in a tall Larch tree. It was singing a song I was unfamiliar with and took me quite a while to finally see the bird. There were many Ruby-crowned Kinglets in the tree as well and I kept focusing on them instead until I was able to finally get a killer view of the Cape May. It stuck around for 30 minutes in that same tree! Other first of the year birds - Indigo Bunting, Wood duck (a stunning male), Redstart and a calling Blackbilled Cuckoo. Still no Woodthrush. Laura Laura Stenzler Lab Manager Evolutionary Biology Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, New York 14850 Office: (607) 254 2141 Lab:(607) 254 2142 Fax:(607) 254 2486 l...@cornell.edumailto:l...@cornell.edu -- 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] Sapsucker Woods Warblers
I walked the East Trail of Sapsucker woods late this morning. Highlight was a CAPE MAY WARBLER in a massive group of Yellow-rumped Warblers, along with a B-T BLUE WARBLER and a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. There were also quite a number of NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES and a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER near the trailhead, and a group of VEERYS (what is the plural of Veery?) and a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT by one of the ponds. Happy Slope Day! Sarah MacLean -- 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] St. Mary's Syracuse
I took a brief walk this morning (5/7) in St. Mary's Cemetery in Syracuse and had the following birds of interest: Black-throated Blue Warbler (6-7) Yellow-rumped Warbler (many) Black-throated Green Warbler (2) Redstart (2) Blackburnian Warbler (1) Black and White Warbler (2-3) Baltimore Oriole (3) Scarlet Tanager (3-4) Great-crested Flycatcher (1) Least Flycatcher (1) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (2) Good Birding! Alan Belford Syracuse _ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 -- 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] St. Mary's Syracuse Additions
I neglected to mention I also had 2 N. Parulas this morning at St. Mary's. Alan Belford Syracuse _ The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendarocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 -- 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/ --
