[cayugabirds-l] Sunday at MNWR
Hi all, On Sunday Stuart Krasnoff and I spent some time on Rail Road Marsh and other spots of MNWR. Highlights were several calling marsh birds. Moorhens were going nuts! We also heard (only through the telinga mic), both American and Least Bitterns, Sora (just called couple of times in an hour or so), and tons of Marsh Wrens, Swamp Sparrows, Yellow Warblers, Song Sparrows. I saw and heard a Sandhill Crane. We also watched 11+ BLACK TERNS migrating and were calling while migrating. Later we saw a few more from Van Dyne Spoor road. One Marsh Wren was very co-operative and sang in front of us while ducking back and forth into cattail and out of it. At Marten's tract I heard a rattling buzz, that sounded like wren coming from the grassy patch on left of the viewing area. By the time I went to the car, got the mic out he shut up (as usual) and I did see a small wren like bird fly across. I came home and listened to Sedge Wren calls on the internet and at Xeno Canto and some of the rattling calls had some similarities. I wish I had recorded it. But it is heads up for those people who have time to go and check up. On Armitage road we heard a Cerulean, later saw one at the Visitor Center and saw a Tennessee, possibly there was another singing nearby. From the Tschache viewing tower in the distance we watched a pair of terns allo-feeding. After several looks through my scope and Stuart's scope and the male's flight I think they were probably a pair of common terns. We also watched one Osprey being harassed by five Bald Eagles. The Osprey nest near Lock 26 on Rt 89 at May's point seem to have been destroyed. I don't know if it was purposely removed or it fell off in one of the recent windy days. We also saw some other usual birds. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY http://haribal.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] enjoy spring birding? fight to keep it
Fellow birders, Since we are the happy observers of the remarkable return of these winged creatures, let's help them. http://earthsky.org/biodiversity/stuart-butchart-on-world-governments-failure-to-slow-biodiversity-loss Regi -- 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 Orchard 2010 bird pics
I haven't taken too many digi-binoc bird pictures at the Hawthorn Orchard yet this year, but I have put up a tiny handful here: http://picasaweb.google.com/cth4th/2010HawthornOrchardBirds# These include my best shot of the cooperative Blackburnian Warbler that Anne Klingensmith and I saw on the 16th, a foraging Cape May Warbler on the 8th, and video/audio an incessantly singing Tennessee Warbler on the 15th. I also saw this cooperative Raven atop the radio tower hill at Mount Pleasant on the 16th. This flyby shot was just a lucky digi-binoc shot, taken moments after the video clip of the Raven: http://picasaweb.google.com/cth4th/CommonRaven# Fun stuff. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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] FW: Plant Sale of MG plants Thurs. and Sat.
Perennials that were left over from the Master Gardener Plant Sale will be on sale at discounted prices at Cooperative extension on the dates and times listed below. Note these are MG plants only, not all the vendors. Here are the 2 times scheduled: Thurs. 5/20, 4-6:30 pm Sat. 5/22, 10am - 12 noon So please help me get the word out throughout the community. Also, a few of you have volunteered to help sell. If you are ready to commit to one of these times, please let me know now that they are definite. Thanks, Pat -- End of Forwarded Message -- 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] Two indigo buntings this morning
Perhaps a pair. My place in Lansing. Rose Broome -- 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] Orioles and cranes
On Saturday I observed a first-year male Orchard Oriole in the morning before heading for the Stewart Park plant sale, and several times in the afternoon at our house a few hundred yards north of the German Cross Road bridge over Six Mile Creek east of Ithaca. As far as I can tell he sang nearly non-stop throughout the day. On Monday I saw first a female and then an adult male Orchard Oriole in our yard, nectaring on our small patch of eight blueberry bushes. They stayed in the area all day, touring the black and sweet cherry trees and returning to the blueberries. They were later joined at the blueberries by as many as four Baltimore Orioles. Now we have had both blueberries and Baltimore Orioles in the yard for many years, but this is the first time I have seen any bird other than the Catbird pay any attention to the blueberries. I am tempted to think that the Baltimore Orioles learned about them from observing the Orchard Orioles. Much to my delight the pair of Orchard Or! ioles continues today, and I hope that they will nest nearby. Surprisingly, unlike the brash youngster that visited us on Saturday they are mostly silent. I have heard the male sing only once, and then very briefly and softly. Otherwise they make a few double-cheks and occasional single whistled note. Also late yesterday afternoon I was surprised to see two Sandhill Cranes flying very high and roughly parallel to route 79 northwest toward Ithaca. A new yard bird. Tom Nix tom...@earthlink.net -- 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] Osprey 1, fishermen 0
Last Sunday evening I was at Myers for about half an hour and observed two fishermen in kayaks flailing away fruitlessly at the water with their lures. They had just given up and were heading in to shore when an Osprey came gliding in behind them, made the standard spectacular dive, plucked out a fat fish, and flew away. The fishermen didn't even see it. By the way, the Osprey made a big circle over Myers park and headed off in a southward direction with its catch. I wonder where it was going. --John Greenly Ludlowville -- 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/ --
