[cayugabirds-l] CAYUGA BIRD CLUB DISH-TO-PASS

2015-06-11 Thread Laura Stenzler
TONIGHT
Feel free to join even if you are not member!!

DETAILS:
The Cayuga Bird Club Dish-to-Pass and Bird Walk is tonight,
Thursday, June 11  @ 6:30 pm

Here are the details, as a reminder, from our previous announcement:

PLEASE BRING:

a generous dish to share-main dish, appetizer, or dessert.

your own place setting

   something to drink

   binoculars  (there will be a short bird walk after dinner)

We will meet at Pavilion A  @ Myers Park, Lansing   6:30-8:30

Cost for non-Lansing residents is $4/car. (IF THE BOOTH IS STILL MANNED AT THAT 
HOUR)



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] New birds (for me anyway) at Salt Point.

2015-06-11 Thread John Greenly
yes, that Mockingbird is a virtuoso- when he's really geared up , so 
many songs go by so fast that it is bewildering.  And he doesn't only do 
the showy songsters, his Willow Flycatcher imitation is just about 
perfect!  But Marie knows him well, and his Wood Thrush isn't his best 
rendition.


--John

On 6/11/2015 11:40 AM, Gary Kohlenberg wrote:

I had to smile at you hesitance with the Wood Thrush because on May 9th I 
recorded a Northern Mockingbird at Salt Point singing the best series of 
imitations I've ever heard. I actually removed a couple birds from my eBird 
list when I watched the Mockingbird singing perfect renditions. He was doing 
better N. Cardinal songs than the nearby dueling Cardinal.
Gary



On Jun 11, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Marie P. Read m...@cornell.edu wrote:

Hi all,

I'm doing a photo project at Salt Point in Lansing, and have been there most 
mornings for several weeks. It's been interesting to see and hear the changes 
in avifauna and behavior as the breeding season progresses.

Especially interesting this morning were several new (to me) species:

Scarlet Tanager singing male. Finally a good view of a species I thought I saw 
here a couple of weeks ago.
Indigo Bunting singing male.
Biggest surprise was hearing a Wood Thrush singing from near the Osprey tower. 
Didn't see the bird, and only heard once...but unless there's a very good mimic 
in there somewhere, or someone else was doing playbacks, I'm going to count 
it...it's a pretty distinctive song...

Other delights:

Fledgling Baltimore Oriole
Cedar Waxwing pair building a nest.
A whole bevy of orioles, grackles, kingbirds mobbing a crow that (presumably) 
was threatening one of their nests in a cottonwood...
Osprey pair both on the nest, one feeding the other, presumably also feeding 
young—Candace Cornell confirmed yesterday morning that all three (yes?) eggs 
have now hatched. Let the Great Airlift of Fish begin!

On the downside:

The Common Merganser brood, that by Tuesday morning had shrunk from 15-16 to 8, 
was nowhere to be seen.
There was a lot of nasty, unphotogenic debris on the lake.
The high water in Salmon Creek has washed away one of the best log/waterfowl 
perches...PFFFAHHH!!!(Bird photographers have a different agenda...!)

Marie


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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo SSW

2015-06-11 Thread Wesley M. Hochachka
Hi all,

   A (I’m assume the same) YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO was singing this morning at 
about 7:30 AM to the west of the main pond at the Lab of O, somewhere to the 
west of the intersection of Wilson Trail North (just south of where the trail 
meets the side of the pond) and the West Trail (that heads to the Winston Court 
apartments).  The bird was loud enough to be heard from several hundred meters 
away, as I was walking to work through the woods.  The song was as linked from 
the Macaulay Library’s collection.

Wesley Hochachka




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[mailto:bounce-119369312-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Schulenberg
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 9:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed cuckoo SSW



At noon, I heard a YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO do 3 series of 6-8 single coo’s from 
the exclosure area just south of the covered shelter on Wilson.



  Twice this week I've heard a Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Sapsucker Woods, on the 
west side of the road but south of the pond. I heard the same vocalization on 
both occasions, which is much like that of ML 190609

   http://macaulaylibrary.org/audio/190609


tss



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[cayugabirds-l] New birds (for me anyway) at Salt Point.

2015-06-11 Thread Marie P. Read
Hi all,

I'm doing a photo project at Salt Point in Lansing, and have been there most 
mornings for several weeks. It's been interesting to see and hear the changes 
in avifauna and behavior as the breeding season progresses.

Especially interesting this morning were several new (to me) species:

Scarlet Tanager singing male. Finally a good view of a species I thought I saw 
here a couple of weeks ago.
Indigo Bunting singing male.
Biggest surprise was hearing a Wood Thrush singing from near the Osprey tower. 
Didn't see the bird, and only heard once...but unless there's a very good mimic 
in there somewhere, or someone else was doing playbacks, I'm going to count 
it...it's a pretty distinctive song...

Other delights:

Fledgling Baltimore Oriole
Cedar Waxwing pair building a nest.
A whole bevy of orioles, grackles, kingbirds mobbing a crow that (presumably) 
was threatening one of their nests in a cottonwood...
Osprey pair both on the nest, one feeding the other, presumably also feeding 
young—Candace Cornell confirmed yesterday morning that all three (yes?) eggs 
have now hatched. Let the Great Airlift of Fish begin!

On the downside:

The Common Merganser brood, that by Tuesday morning had shrunk from 15-16 to 8, 
was nowhere to be seen.
There was a lot of nasty, unphotogenic debris on the lake.
The high water in Salmon Creek has washed away one of the best log/waterfowl 
perches...PFFFAHHH!!!(Bird photographers have a different agenda...!)

Marie


Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
Freeville NY  13068 USA

Phone  607-539-6608
e-mail   m...@cornell.edu

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Author of Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake BasinAvailable here:

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] injured heron (alleged) was taken to vet's

2015-06-11 Thread Marie P. Read
I'm sure I can speak for all of us when I give a hearty THANK YOU to Kevin for 
his compassion. It's a heartbreaking story, but I am relieved that the poor 
creature is no longer suffering.

Marie

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[bounce-119368264-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Kevin J. McGowan 
[k...@cornell.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:04 PM
To: Laurie Roe
Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] injured heron (alleged) was taken to vet's

I went to check on the bird a bit after four. As I drove there I wondered what 
a heron was doing down in an apartment complex. But when I found building seven 
I looked up and saw the big power lines and I knew what to expect.

Sure enough, when I drove up there was an adult heron lying panting on the 
ground with a horribly broken wing. The wing was pointing the wrong direction, 
and was covered in blood and flies. It was a classic power line strike with 
severely broken wing. It's almost always fatal and undoubtedly extremely painful

I caught the bird quickly with as little stress as possible (for both of us; 
herons are big and potentially dangerous birds).  I took it to the Cornell vet 
school's wildlife clinic where it was examined, anesthetized, and humanely 
euthanized, as I knew it would have to be. The wing was held on only by skin 
and was far beyond repair. The poor bird was in shock and obviously a lot of 
pain.

 I surmise that the heron struck the power lines in the fog in the morning. It 
was apparently flying full speed into the fog because it broke some ribs as 
well as it's wing, poor thing.

I checked its feet and found both back toes present. So, who ever this heron 
was, it was not the male who was breeding on camera at the Lab the last few 
years.

Kevin


Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 10, 2015, at 9:29 PM, Laurie Roe 
roel...@gmail.commailto:roel...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all, I don't have any details but I was emailed that the bird was on the way 
to the vet's sometime this afternoon! Thanks to rescuers! Laurie

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] New birds (for me anyway) at Salt Point.

2015-06-11 Thread Gary Kohlenberg
I had to smile at you hesitance with the Wood Thrush because on May 9th I 
recorded a Northern Mockingbird at Salt Point singing the best series of 
imitations I've ever heard. I actually removed a couple birds from my eBird 
list when I watched the Mockingbird singing perfect renditions. He was doing 
better N. Cardinal songs than the nearby dueling Cardinal. 
Gary 



On Jun 11, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Marie P. Read m...@cornell.edu wrote:

Hi all,

I'm doing a photo project at Salt Point in Lansing, and have been there most 
mornings for several weeks. It's been interesting to see and hear the changes 
in avifauna and behavior as the breeding season progresses.

Especially interesting this morning were several new (to me) species:

Scarlet Tanager singing male. Finally a good view of a species I thought I saw 
here a couple of weeks ago.
Indigo Bunting singing male.
Biggest surprise was hearing a Wood Thrush singing from near the Osprey tower. 
Didn't see the bird, and only heard once...but unless there's a very good mimic 
in there somewhere, or someone else was doing playbacks, I'm going to count 
it...it's a pretty distinctive song...

Other delights:

Fledgling Baltimore Oriole
Cedar Waxwing pair building a nest.
A whole bevy of orioles, grackles, kingbirds mobbing a crow that (presumably) 
was threatening one of their nests in a cottonwood...
Osprey pair both on the nest, one feeding the other, presumably also feeding 
young—Candace Cornell confirmed yesterday morning that all three (yes?) eggs 
have now hatched. Let the Great Airlift of Fish begin!

On the downside:

The Common Merganser brood, that by Tuesday morning had shrunk from 15-16 to 8, 
was nowhere to be seen.
There was a lot of nasty, unphotogenic debris on the lake.
The high water in Salmon Creek has washed away one of the best log/waterfowl 
perches...PFFFAHHH!!!(Bird photographers have a different agenda...!)

Marie


Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
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