Re: [cayugabirds-l] MNWR Marbled Godwit - request for updates
Our group ran into Greg in Savannah yesterday evening around 7 PM when he informed us of having recently had the godwit fly over at the Visitor's Center. We drove there straight away, checked the Visitor's Center pond and the new shorebird ares along the wildlife drive - to no avail. Hopefully it will be relocated today. Bob McGuire On May 21, 2011, at 11:00 PM, tigge...@aol.com wrote: Greg Lawrence reported a MARBLED GODWIT at MNWR flying toward the new shorebird area on Wildlife Dr. Since tomorrow will be Sunday, any updates on the bird would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps it will stick around another day so those that didn't see it the first time can have a chance. If you can't post updates from the field, feel free to call or text message me at (315) 373-5350 and I will post. David Wheeler. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods, Sun 5/22
The Wilson Trail in Sapsucker Woods today reminds me of Ithaca on the Monday after reunions. The vast majority of visiting revelers have moved on to resume their busy lives. A certain few travelers (female YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER and a couple of singing BLACKPOLL WARBLERS) have stayed behind because of flight delays or maybe just their preference to spend one more unrushed day here. Mostly, though, things have returned to normal - much quieter but still full of wonderful life and diversity among the longtime local citizens, including breeding warblers, thrushes, orioles, sparrows, flycatchers, tanagers, herons, an Eastern Bluebird, plus some new neighbors (YELLOW-THROATED VIREOS and maybe some west-side NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES acting territorial). Or maybe there is a rocking after-party somewhere, but I just didn't find its secret location. Mark Chao -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] settling-in
Not much new around my house this morning, except for one Alder Flycatcher (we-BEE-oh), so I walked over to the Beech Hill ridge in the L-P Preserve. In this breezy location the lady's slippers and even the diminutive fringed polygala were all nodding northward, but from the hemlocks overhead male Blackburnian Warblers were advertising territories, saying No, no, we're staying here! -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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Sun. 11am Aurora
Thanks for alerting everyone about the Red-headed Woodpecker. We easily saw it this morning where described, flying back and forth across the road a few times. It landed deeper in the grove of trees in the south east corner of Rte. 90 and Poplar Ridge Rd., and then more than once flew back across the street into the denser big trees just north of Carpenter's land on the point. -- that area seems more protected and I'd think a good nest sight. (Also, chicken barbecue today at the Aurora Fire Station) Carol Schmitt -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpeckers Aurora
Credit for this discovery goes to Stuart Krasnoff and Paul Anderson. I was only the messenger. They were in the second of 2 cars of birders headed north. In the lead car Bob was driving and I was riding shotgun. As we turned from the north end of Lake Rd back onto NYS-90 entering the Village of Aurora, I was thinking of the gravelly delta of Payne's Creek, where Tom Johnson once conjured up a California Gull (possibly only the first or second Cayuga Lake Basin record) by saying "There ought to be a California Gull here," or words to that effect, and suddenly he found one. So I was staring at the Ring-billed Gulls for any ringers. As we approached the Aurora Boathouse, Bob glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw that Stuart's car had stopped just past the bridge, and Stuart, Paul, and Judy Thoroughman were jumping out and running back. We quickly joined them and saw the reason for the excitement. What intrigues me, though, is the manner of their find. Apparently as they were at the stop sign at the north end of Lake Rd, Paul idly mentioned that he'd like to see a Red-headed Woodpecker as it would be a life bird, and within seconds Stuart saw it. This area around the mouth of Payne's Creek is a mysterious place. I have heard rumors, listened to legends, and chased reports of Red-headed Woodpeckers in the Aurora area, mainly north of town, for years. It was a thrill to finally see one, and furthermore, to hear confirmation of what seemed likely given the date, that this is a breeding territory. --Dave NutterOn May 21, 2011, at 08:00 PM, wroberts wrobe...@wells.edu wrote:I had the good fortune of meeting up with Bob McGuire, Dave Nutter, Susan Danskin, and others as they were tracking the movement of a Red-headed Woodpecker at the corner of Poplar Ridge Rd. and Rt. 90 in Aurora earlier today (Saturday) around 12:20 p.m. The bird was very active flying back and forth in the nearby woods; it was first located on the west side of 90 in a yard immediately north of Paynes Creek. After Bob, Dave and Susan and friends left for Montezuma I continued searching for the bird as it was the first RhW I have observed in Aurora in over twenty years. With the help of a friend I located the RhW in the large Sycamore east of 90 and south of Poplar Ridge. After about 30 minutes I discovered that there were two RhWs moving in the tree tops and flying back and forth over Rt. 90. It seems that this is a breeding pair which adds to the excitement of having this magnificent species finally return to the Aurora area. I did manage to photograph the bird at some distance. Bill Roberts Aurora, N.Y. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html'http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
[cayugabirds-l] Cliff Swallow colony (OOB)
I ate lunch on the deck at the River Rose Cafe in Owego. While eating I watched the CLIFF SWALLOWS flying about beneath the rte 96 bridge over the Susquehanna River. I estimate there are 30 jug nests on the bridge, many of them directly below the sidewalk that crosses it. One can stand at the railing and enjoy a close-up top-side view as the birds enter and leave. -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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Defensive Baltimore Oriole
I'm getting some very different behavior from my resident oriole. I have grape jelly feeders hanging from my deck. I no longer need to start them at the woods and slowly move them to the deck. My House Finches. Catbirds, and Orioles come right to them when they return each spring. The male Oriole is coming to the deck and standing on the back of the furniture and calling a loud 2 note call something like chew- EE. I went through all the Audubon bird sounds for an Oriole and nothing matched.. The furniture he is on, is right in front of the sliding glass door. He jumps down and clings to the bottom of the glass where the screen is. The screen is on the inside. He doesn't peck, he just calls. I'm assuming he sees his reflection in the glass and is trying to drive off another male oriole such as I've heard that cardinals will do. He's been at it for an hour and a half straight. You'd think he'd get hoarse. Should I be concerned? Could this behavior get in the way of his nesting? He nested here successfully last year. They used to bring the babies for jelly. They did have a cowbird baby. I thought cowbirds parasitizedsmaller birds. Anyway, should I just enjoy his craziness, or try to change it? Oh, I don't think he's asking for more jelly since the feeder is full. Carol Keeler Auburn Sent from my iPad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] previous Red-headeds in Aurora
Red-headed Woodpeckers were regularly seen on the Wells College golf course many many years ago, so there is a history of them in the area, for sure. Carol Schmitt -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] MNWR Marbled Godwit - request for updates
Gary Kohlenberg and I were are the new shorebird spot at Montezuma around 1:00-2:00 P.M. (maybe earlier) and did not see the Marbled Godwit. We did see one on 4/23/11. Best, Ann Mitchell On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:00 PM, tigge...@aol.com wrote: Greg Lawrence reported a MARBLED GODWIT at MNWR flying toward the new shorebird area on Wildlife Dr. Since tomorrow will be Sunday, any updates on the bird would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps it will stick around another day so those that didn't see it the first time can have a chance. If you can't post updates from the field, feel free to call or text message me at (315) 373-5350 and I will post. David Wheeler. -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpeckers
Perri and I went up the lake today to take a look at the Red-headed Woodpeckers. We found both birds at the edge of the woodlot on the east side of Rt. 90 just south of Poplar Ridge. One bird was calling frequently and we saw both birds visit a cavity, possibly a nest hole. This hole is in the largest sycamore near the west edge of the lot and more or less centered north-south, in a narrow dead drunk in the middle of the main sycamore trunks. One bird spent several minutes inside but I don't know what it was doing, possibly just prospecting or perhaps they even have an active nest already. We headed up to Montezuma afterwards but didn't see too much of note. The best shorebird habitat by far is at Tschache Pool, where we saw Dunlin, Least and Semipalmated sandpipers, and perhaps 30 Semipalmated Plovers. Good birding. -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Sedge Wren report, just out of basin
This evening on the CayugaRBA text message service Chris Wood Jessie Barry reported a SEDGE WREN at the stream crossing on Hile School Rd This very neat area is just east of NYS-38 northwest of Freeville in the Town of Dryden, and I believe it is a bit outside the Cayuga Lake Basin with the stream flowing north there to Owasco Lake out of a wetland in a saddle on the Cayuga Lake Basin's border. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Woodpeckers Aurora
Two Red-headed Woodpeckers at same location as yesterday. Gary On May 21, 2011, at 11:00 PM, wroberts wrobe...@wells.edu wrote: I had the good fortune of meeting up with Bob McGuire, Dave Nutter, Susan Danskin, and others as they were tracking the movement of a Red-headed Woodpecker at the corner of Poplar Ridge Rd. and Rt. 90 in Aurora earlier today (Saturday) around 12:20 p.m. The bird was very active flying back and forth in the nearby woods; it was first located on the west side of 90 in a yard immediately north of Paynes Creek. After Bob, Dave and Susan and friends left for Montezuma I continued searching for the bird as it was the first RhW I have observed in Aurora in over twenty years. With the help of a friend I located the RhW in the large Sycamore east of 90 and south of Poplar Ridge. After about 30 minutes I discovered that there were two RhWs moving in the tree tops and flying back and forth over Rt. 90. It seems that this is a breeding pair which adds to the excitement of having this magnificent species finally return to the Aurora area. I did manage to photograph the bird at some distance. Bill Roberts Aurora, N.Y. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
