[cayugabirds-l] Wilson's Snipe
Sunday afternoon we returned to MWR to get more views of the Marbled Godwit, even though we had plenty of photos from Saturday. We did not find the Marbled Godwit, but did see 3 Wilson's Snipe along the mudflats near the edge of the drive at the new shorebird area. Suzanne B Ithaca -- 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] female redwing
I don't recall any postings of female REDWINGED BLACKBIRDS but we had our first this season on our feeder this morning. Nice to see her again. Bill McAneny, TBurg -- 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] female redwing
Yes, I saw my first two last Thurs. (22nd) feeding at my daughter's just up the way on Ridge Rd., east of Union Springs. Fritzie Monday, April 25, 2011 9:49 AM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] female redwing I don't recall any postings of female REDWINGED BLACKBIRDS but we had our first this season on our feeder this morning. Nice to see her again. Bill McAneny, TBurg -- 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] Swan Pen/Jetty Woods
On a walk around the Swan Pen and then through Jetty Woods this morning I came up with a few good birds. Both Yellow Warblers and Yellow-rumped Warblers were singing on the trail around the Pen, giving me a good chance to listen to the differences between their songs - which at times sounded quite similar. 4 Yellow Warblers, 4 Yellow-rumps, and 2 (eastern) Palm Warblers. Over in Jetty Woods there was a pair of Rusty Blackbirds, just in from the pumphouse. The male was displaying to the female. Ringing out over all was a Carolina Wren. And moving from log to log in the wet channel just across from the Rustys was a Green Heron. Bob McGuire -- 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] Female Redwings
Yes, we have quite a few up here at EcoVillage now. This seems to be Red-wing Blackbird heaven. However, I reported to the list our first 2 females on 6th April this year. Stephanie -- Stephanie Greenwood Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 273 1179 607 280 1050 cell -- 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] Blackburnian Warbler
Bob Horn saw a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER at his house this morning. It was mixed in with a flock of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS. Ann -- 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] COMMON TERN, Stewart Pk on
COMMON TERN, Stewart Pk on flotsam between red lighthouse piling cluster. 340pm --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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Black Vulture?
Hello all, Can anyone give me the dates when the Black Vulture was in the Ithaca area? thanks, Matt mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web -- 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] Syracuse RBA
RBA * New York * Syracuse * April 25, 2011 * NYSY 2504.11 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): April 11, 2010 - April 25, 2011 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison Cortland compiled:April 25 AT 5:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #252 -Monday April 25, 2011 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of April 18 , 2010 Highlights: --- RED-THROATED LOON RED-NECKED GREBE NORTHERN GOSHAWK SWAINSON’S HAWK MERLIN COMON MOORHEN BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS UPLAND SANDPIPER MARBLED GODWIT DUNLIN NORTHERN SHRIKE FISH CROW Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) 4/21: A FOS AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER was spotted on Carncross Road. 4/23: A MARBLED GODWIT was found at the new shorebird area along the Wildlife Drive. It was not relocated the next day or today. Other shorebirds seen this week were GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, DUNLIN, WILSON’S SNIPE, and KILLDEER. Derby Hill Mostly it was a great week at Derby. 4/22, 4/23, and 4/25 had 1,000 plus flights of BROADWING HAWKS. On 4/18 a FOS BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was spotted. On 4/22 there were 15 species of raptor highlighted by a juvenile light phase SWAINSON’S HAWK. On 4/25 7 SANDHILL CRANES flew by. The weekly total was 7,360 raptors counted. Oswego County 4/19: 2 RED-NECKED GREBES were found at various locations on Pneida Lake. A COMMON MOORHEN was found in the Rt.6 wetland north of Rt.3 in the Town of Volnay. 4/21: A FOS COMMON TERN was seen from Phillips Point on Oneida Lake. 2 MERLINS were also seen 4/22: A FOS UPLAND SANDPIPER was found at it’s usual location at the Oswego County Airport. 4/24: A late NORTHERN SHRIKE was found along Rt.3 just north of Port Ontario. 16 species of migrating birds were seen from Phillips Point on Oneida Lake. Highlights were SURF SCOTER, WHITE-WINGED SCOTER, RED-THROATED LOON, and RED-NECKED GREBE. Onondaga County 4/19: 2 RED-NECKED GREBES and a FISH CROW were found at the marina on Onondaga Lake near Liverpool. 4/21: A NORTHERN GOSHAWK was spotted on Indin Hill Road in the southern part of the county. 4/24: A FOS NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH was found in a wetland in the Town of Elbridge near Half Moon. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- 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] Female RWBB
I saw my first female RWBB yesterday at Boland Pond near Binghamton. Stephen R Hill Johnson CIty, NY -- 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] Sunday at MWR
Sorry about the late post - just a quick run down on some sightings Sunday morning: No Marbled Godwit on the auto route but did have a Sandhill Crane pass over the shorebird unit and a few Dunlin. A few ducks around; N. Shovelers, BW GW Teal, Mallards, Redhead, Ring-neck, Gadwall, N. Pintail, Wood Ducks, for a few. Several Common Moorhens at the end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd. Lesser Yellowlegs, Pectoral Sandpipers, and a very well camouflaged American Bittern about 10' from the shoulder along Carncross Rd. On Morgan Rd (at the end) had a pair of Am. Kestrels and 3 Bald Eagles (1 mature, 2 imm. (one of which had a very white front). Final note, a single Snow Goose was near the potato shed (north side of rte 31). -- 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] North Monkey Run Birds
On a walk through North Monkey Run late this afternoon I came across a singing Blue-headed Vireo at the top of the bank, then a Black and White Warbler with several Ruby-crowned Kinglets next to the water, and finally a singing Pine Warbler across the creek. Bob McGuire -- 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] FYI, crow with a white wing band (?) N of Spencer
I have seen a lot of crows around but this was the first I saw one with what might be a tag outside of Ithaca. I was heading into Spencer this morning just north of the turn onto Fisher Settlement Rd, ~08:30. There was a crow flying off the road to the left, Northeast, with what appeared to be a white rectangle on its left wing. There might also have been a white rectangular mark on the left side of the body. Nigel
[cayugabirds-l] Lunch walk: visual Northern Waterthrush
Highlight (and last bird seen before coming back in from a quick lunch walk): NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH (close long observation, 30' from gate to back door of Lab, foraging at pond edge) yellowish-white breast, heavy streaking on breast and sides; distinct white eyebrow, characteristic slight but constant tail-bobbing, silent, foraging, 10-20' from me and tolerant as I stood still or moved forward slowly; legs did not seem as long as the first one I saw some years ago which at the time I thought was a small mutant Robin with freakishly long legs! YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERs (numerous, foraging and landing on sticks in back pond, landed on shrubs and sang at end of platform about 8' from me) RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDs COMMON GRACKLE YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERs (2 fighting aerial grapple, others flying to perches along the path) MALLARD pair CANADA GOOSEs PIED-BILLED GREBEs (2 on pond near each other) COMMON MERGANSER M flyover AMERICAN ROBINs EUROPEAN STARLINGs NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWs (several over pond from platform) TREE SWALLOWs (hunting with RWSW) BELTED KINGFISHER F (landed quite close to me, so great observation, crest erected, rattling) WHITE-THROATED SPARROWs (numerous) AMERICAN TREE SPARROW (one foraging in ground weeds) NORTHERN CARDINAL GREAT BLUE HERON (on big snag) BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE HOUSE FINCH RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER NORTHERN FLICKER TUFTED TITMOUSE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD AMERICAN CROW No Kinglets today at platform, many yesterday. Another birder (coming from South Wilson) reported a single Hermit Thrush and Veery, Yellow Warbler and more Yellow-rumped but I didn't have time to take the 'long' road back. In which case I would not have got the Waterthrush! __ Chris Pelkie Research Analyst Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- 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] Red-bellied threesome
Day before yesterday, my nieces and I watched a nest occupied by a male at Sapsucker Woods. We had very interesting behavioral observations. Male would call and then go inside the nest and drum, sound was rather lower than their usual drumming but audible. I was wondering what that inform. May tells the female how deep he has dug?? We tried to record and recorder was under my nieces' control and I hope she recorded it. When a female came to visit there was so much of excitement among two, finally she left and he was back in his hole or just outside the hole calling incessantly. Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -Original Message- From: bounce-21580430-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-21580430-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of John Confer Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 10:33 AM To: geoklop...@gmail.com Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Red-bellied threesome Geo mentioned 3 Red-bellied Woodpeckers making a commotion around his house. We have had four RBWO being very noise at out house for over a month. This activity peaked Sunday, at the same time that Geo observed the same behavior at his house. On Sunday, we had two females, one chasing the other, for over an hour. Very noisy. The male hung around part of the time and then left, perhaps hoping that both females would become reconciled to each other and one would excavate a new hole nearby. Our pair has excavated a hole that can be watched from our kitchen sink and window, much more fun than washing dishes (both male and female shared in excavating). On Sunday, after about an hour of nearly constant pursuit, one of the female RBWO went into the nest cavity. For the next several minutes, the two femals had a billing duel. One inside the hole kept poking at the one outside and visa versa. Really interesting wing flashing, bobbing, calling and beak thrusting. The two females have not been at it since that I have seen. John Confer On 4/24/2011 9:24 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: Around my yard this morning: lots of gobbling tom Turkeys, Ruffed Grouse thumping from various directions, several Hermit Thrushes, numerous Ruby-crowned Kinglets, one Blue-headed Vireo, one Black and White Warbler, one Louisiana Waterthrush, several Field Sparrows, at least six Fox Sparrows (peaking here now!), numerous Eastern Towhees, a few Purple Finches... Several days ago all my feeder birds vanished for a few minutes while an immature Cooper's Hawk ambushed the deserted feeders. For five minutes I watched a pair (!) of Cowbirds attend very purposefully to the movements of the Phoebes nesting under my eaves. I thought this kind of scouting was just the responsibility of the female Cowbird, but apparently not. Maybe female scouting just looks irresistibly attractive to the male? A Red-bellied Woodpecker threesome made quite a commotion in the big maple tree over my porch. -Geo Geo Kloppel Bowmaker Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 g...@cornell.edu geoklop...@gmail.com -- 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 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] Stewart Park
At Stewart Park on Sunday around 2:00 pm there was a bald eagle in one of the dead trees across from the boathouse. -- 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/ --
