[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park
Just wondering is Ithaca has given up hope for a clean up of the dead wood jammed into the south end of the lake ? Probably not a bird topic , but I did see three shovelers so... Chris Carpist Ludlow, MA -- 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] very likely an Olive-sided Flycatcher, Podell Boardwalk, Sapsucker Woods
Hi everyone, On my way into the Lab of O this morning, I came in via the Podell Boardwalk (the boardwalk that is along the trial system if you exit the Lab's public entrance and head straight south parallel to Sapsucker Woods Rd. One of the birds that I saw was what I'm almost essentially sure (aside from not having a good size reference for comparison) was an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. The bird was actively sallying out and flycatching, always from the tops of dead trees away from the main forest edge and never in the canopy. My attention was first drawn to what I thought was a mid-sized woodpecker perched on a treetop, but once had time to look and then see it through 10X binoculars, it's clearly a Contopus flycatcher: no eye-ring, a vest of darker feathers on either side of its breast with a lighter-coloured line extending vertically through the middle of its breast. In about 5 minutes of watching the bird, I saw no traces of wingbars (although the angle wasn't great). The undertail coverts seemed to be a mottled grey, and the bird's throat was either clear white or perhaps had faint streaks of grey against a dominant white background. The bill was noticeably broad and heavy (relative, say, to an Eastern Pheobe) and either entirely dark or at times I thought with a warmer very base of the lower mandible (viewing distance was too far for me to feel certain of this, though). The bird's tail also appeared to be proportional short for its body relative to the flycatchers that I typically see in Sapsucker Woods. Leg colour, as best I could tell, was black. The lining of the bird's mouth was a bright yellowy-orange, for what it's worth. Oh, and the bird was entirely silent, and didn't have any behavioural ticks (i.e. no tail flicking or suchlike). Why I think that the bird is an Olive-sided Flycatcher (which shouldn't really be here now) and an Eastern Wood-Pewee are the following things: - Size: the bird looks too large to be a wood-pewee, although there were never other birds around that would allow me to do a size comparison. However, within 2 minutes I saw together an Eastern Phoebe and Great Crested Flycatcher that I judged to be about the same distance as the Cantopus. My impression was that the Cantopus that I'd just seen fell somewhere in size between phoebe and Great Crested Flycatcher. - Breast: the bird's breast has a very clear demarcation between the white vertical stripe up the middle and the darker vest on the sides. - Throat: basically white in this bird and not the more off-white/grey that I typically associate with Eastern Wood-Pewee - Wing-bars (or lack thereof): I can usually see faint wingbars on wood-pewees, but not on this bird (although viewing angle was far from idea, being almost directly overhead most of the time) So, in sum, mostly I'm basing my ID on the distinct breast markings and throat that I was able to see clearly for long periods of time. The other traits suggesting Olive-sided Flycatcher, size and lack of wing bars, are things that I think I could see, but which I am not entirely comfortable as saying that there present. Hopefully someone else can wander out and find the bird. Wesley Hochachka -- 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] Stewart Park
The dead wood provides habitat for many species for foraging, and protection. Additionally it prevents the geese from exiting the water at that point. Look at it as a natural feature and enjoy it. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Aug 22, 2013, at 8:39 AM, carpist carp...@charter.net wrote: Just wondering is Ithaca has given up hope for a clean up of the dead wood jammed into the south end of the lake ? Probably not a bird topic , but I did see three shovelers so... Chris Carpist Ludlow, MA -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] definitely an Olive-sided Flycatcher, Podell Boardwalk, Sapsucker Woods
Brad Walker and I relocated the Olive-sided Flycatcher from the south end of the Podell Boardwalk at 9:15. We watched it make a few sallies, then lost it when it headed east (towards Sapsucker Woods Road). It's probably still in the area - Brad and Jay McGowan are trying now to re-relocate it. On my way into the Lab of O this morning, I came in via the Podell Boardwalk (the boardwalk that is along the trial system if you exit the Lab’s public entrance and head straight south parallel to Sapsucker Woods Rd. One of the birds that I saw was what I’m almost essentially sure (aside from not having a good size reference for comparison) was an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER. The bird was actively sallying out and flycatching, always from the tops of dead trees away from the main forest edge and never in the canopy. tss -- Thomas S. Schulenberg Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca NY 14850 http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/home http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist voice: 607.254.1113 email: ts...@cornell.edu, tschulenb...@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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Wo caching food
I have seen Red-headed Woodpeckers caching acorns. At at least one location, they cached food somewhat as I have seen in videos of Acorn Woodpeckers, putting them in shallow, tiny holes in the surface of the tree trunk. This was at Presquille in fall probably a couple decades ago. so you might wonder about the accuracy of the memory. It was a pretty striking occasion with several birds flying over a parking lot to and from the acorn source to the storage trees, so I'm pretty sure that is what they were doing. Cheers, John On 8/20/2013 7:06 PM, Anne Clark wrote: Back in the 80's when I was living in SW Michigan (near Kellogg Biological Station, in Delton, MI), a pair of red-headed woodpeckers brought their fledglings every year to eat mulberries at a productive group of trees. More unusual that they would take them to protein-needy nestlings (albeit very late nestlings). But robins in the same Michigan property fed their nestlings on mulberries. Anne Clark On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Paul wrote: Spent about three hours watching the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May’s Point this morning. Very active until about 10 am. Saw an interesting sequence when a Merlin made a pass at the nest cavity,, actually several passes to which the adult RHW responded with loud calls and some defensive attacks. Thereafter, the pair were on sentry duty, one in an adjacent cavity watching south and the other to the north in a tree along the river. The Merlin was in the area for about 5 minutes. They stayed on alert for about 20 minutes longer before resuming activity. More interesting was a discovery on what they are bringing into the nest cavity. (Have not yet seen chicks at the opening. Has anyone?) While sometimes, I can see that they are bringing insects such as dragonflies, at other times it appeared to be round objects. Did not seem possible to be acorns. Now, I’ve posted some images on my blog (http://birds-n-blooms.blogspot.com/) which show an adult bringing wild grapes to the cavity. There are ripe grapes on the vines in the area. On my first visit (July 24), I recorded an adult picking Woody Nightshade berries from vines at the base of dead trees to the north east of the nest tree. Had not expected woodpeckers to be eating fruit. Paul Schmitt -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://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 eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://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 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/ --attachment: confer.vcf
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] ... Olive-sided Flycatcher, Podell Boardwalk, Sapsucker Woods
Actually the timing is perfect. If you look at eBird's bar chart for species reported in Tompkins County:http://ebird.org/ebird/GuideMe?step=saveChoicesgetLocations=countiesparentState=US-NYbMonth=01bYear=1900eMonth=12eYear=2013reportType=locationcounties=US-NY-109continue.x=46continue.y=8Spring migrants Olive-sided Flycatchers, more rare, have been reported from early May to mid June peaking at the end of May. Fall migrants show up from early August to late September with a broader peak at the end of August and beginning of September.Nice find, Wes, and a great description, too!--Dave NutterOn Aug 22, 2013, at 08:53 AM, "Wesley M. Hochachka" w...@cornell.edu wrote: Why I think that the bird is an Olive-sided Flycatcher (which shouldn’t really be here now) -- 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] Details of August 31 Field Trip to Bell Station
Hey All, The details of the August 31 Field trip to Bell Station are now on the cayugabirdclub.org website and this is the plan. We will meet Paul at the end of Nut Ridge Road which is at the southern border of Cedar View golf course in Lansing. This is a dead end road and is about 25 minutes from the Cornell Lab of O. I propose that those of us who want to carpool meet at the Lab of O Visitors' Center parking lot at 7:30 that morning. There will be others who will want to go directly to Nut Ridge Road and meet up with the rest of us there. Directions to this road can be found at this map link https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8client=firefox-aq=nut+ridge+road+lansingie=UTF-8hq=hnear=0x89d099f8188a7ea1:0x2b6669e221f6f3d4,Nut+Ridge+Rd,+Lansing,+NY+14882gl=usei=SVUWUsOYF9Ky4APF5oH4Awved=0CC4Q8gEwAA This field trip will be more in the nature of a cooperative effort by to find and identify birds. Paul is there to point out all that he knows about the area and will not be expected to be our bird guide. Please get in touch with me if you have any questions about this. Looking forward to seeing people there. Best Linda Orkin President, Cayuga Bird Club On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on a scheduled field trip. Paul Parradine, forester for NYSEG and responsible, together with Robyn Bailey, for the Salt Point Osprey platform, has offered to lead a field trip to an area where only he can take us. This is at the Bell Station, a lake front forest that currently is NYSEG private property. It promises to be a beautiful trip. This will happen on August 31. The time and meeting place are still to be determined, but I just wanted interested people to have time to put this on their calendar. It is a Cayuga Bird Club field trip but as is usually true, it is open to non-members as well. But while you're planning this, I would love it if you would consider becoming a member of the club. We are entering the start of a new year. You can easily join by accessing our website cayugabirdclub.org and paying the $15 annual membership using PayPal. Hope to see you. Linda Orkin President, Cayuga Bird Club -- Don't ask what your bird club can do for you, ask what you can do for your bird club!! ')_,/ -- Don't ask what your bird club can do for you, ask what you can do for your bird club!! ')_,/ -- 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/ --
