[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

[Joseph Brin]

RBA *  New York*  Syracuse* June 22 2015*  NYSY  06. 22. 15 Hotline: Syracuse 
Rare bird AlertDates(s):June 15, 2015 - June 22, 2015to report by e-mail: 
brinjoseph AT yahoo.comcovering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National 
Wildlife Refugeand Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga 
County),Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer,  Madison & 
Cortlandcompiled: June 22  AT 5:00 p.m. (DST)compiler: Joseph BrinOnondaga 
Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org  #447 Monday June 22, 2015 Greetings. 
This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of June 15, 2014 
Highlights:---LEAST BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERONBLACK 
SCOTERSANDHILL CRANEUPLAND SANDPIPERRED-HEADED WOODPECKERACADIAN 
FLYCATCHERHENSLOW’S SPARROWORCHARD ORIOLEPINE SISKIN


Montezuma National Wildlife Complex (MNWC) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex 
(MWC)
     6/16: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was found along the Wildlife Trail. One RED-HEADED 
WOODPECKER was seen on Mays Point Road. A single bird was seen also on the 
20th.     6/19: Tow adult and one young SANDHILL CRANES continue to be seen 
from the Knox-Marsellus overlook on East Road.     6/21: 2 or possibly more 
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS were seen from Van-Dyne Spoor Road in the marsh. A 
LEAST BITTERN was seen in Tschache Pool.

Onondaga county
     6/17: A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was again seen at Three Rivers WMA north of 
Baldwinsville.     6/19: An ORCHARD ORIOLE was seen at Green Lakes State Park. 
A PINE SISKIN was seen in the Onondaga Hill area.
     Oswego County
     6/20: A PINE SISKIN was found at Derby Hill. A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER made 
a brief appearance in Constantia.

Madison County
     6/21: A BLACK SCOTER was seen and well photographed in Bradley Brook 
Reservoir.

Oneida County
     6/16: 2 UPLAND SANDPIPERS and a GRASSHOPPER SPARROW were seen in a field 
from Harris Road south of Poland.

Cauyga County
     6/19: An ACADIAN FLYCATCHER was found nesting at the Sterling Nature 
Center.

Jefferson County
     6/17: 3 HENSLOW’S SPARROWS were seen from Dog Hill Road at the Perch River 
WMA.
    

 --  end report


Joseph BrinRegion 5Baldwinsville, N.Y.  13027  U.S.A.  

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[cayugabirds-l] Red Headed Woodpecker Hamlin Beach State Park June 22 2015

[david nicosia]

Red headed woodpecker was calling by snackbar between area 1 and 2. Also had an 
almost adult COMMON LOON. There were plenty of CASPIAN TERNS. There were many 
COMMON TERNS too, one that had almost an entirely red bill. There was a small 
touch of gray at the very tip but only from the right side of bird. When the 
bird looked left it was all red!!! I got great looks at this bird as it was on 
a buoy. Its legs were the same size as the other commons, wing pattern similar 
when it flew, plus body was gray like wings so I am going with COTE. I could 
see how this can be a difficult id and confused with ARCTIC TERN. I presume the 
amount of black on the end of the bill of the COTE varies


Dave Nicosia


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Great Horned Owl

[Donna Scott]

That is so cool you can see the outline of the owl in the top of the Spruce 
Tree in your image!

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donna Scott

> On Jun 22, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Suan Hsi Yong  wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal  
>> wrote:
>> PS: Yesterday around 5.00 am there was a Great Horned Owl calling from 
>> Strawberry Hills woods.
>> 
> On Friday night when I got home at 10:30pm, a Great Horned Owl was hooting 
> away atop a spruce tree right outside my house in Commonland. I got some 
> video with my infrared camera (including two bouts of hooting in the audio):
> 
>   https://www.flickr.com/photos/50094151@N03/18867923880/
> 
> Remarkably, even though it was pretty cool then (felt around 60, airport 
> reading 55), the bird did not register warmer than the spruce tree! ... 
> except for the facial disc and undertail area.
> 
> It was dark and I could not see it visually, despite its proximity. The owl 
> seemed confident in its invisibility and paid me no heed, that is until I 
> started making squeaky noises to get it to look down at me. It finally took 
> off when I sneezed.
> 
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[cayugabirds-l] Great Horned Owl

[Suan Hsi Yong]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal 
wrote:

>  PS: Yesterday around 5.00 am there was a Great Horned Owl calling from
> Strawberry Hills woods.
>
>
On Friday night when I got home at 10:30pm, a Great Horned Owl was hooting
away atop a spruce tree right outside my house in Commonland. I got some
video with my infrared camera (including two bouts of hooting in the audio):

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/50094151@N03/18867923880/

Remarkably, even though it was pretty cool then (felt around 60, airport
reading 55), the bird did not register warmer than the spruce tree! ...
except for the facial disc and undertail area.

It was dark and I could not see it visually, despite its proximity. The owl
seemed confident in its invisibility and paid me no heed, that is until I
started making squeaky noises to get it to look down at me. It finally took
off when I sneezed.

Suan

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[cayugabirds-l] Osprey

[Donna Scott]

Flying w fish towards south, Salt Point, presumably. 
( seen from cayuga lake shore in NW Lansing)

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[cayugabirds-l] Morning birds

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Today when I got out of house to walk to work, first thing I heard was a 
Scarlet Tanager singing from my yard. Along the EIRW, there was Common 
Yellowthroat in his usual location. He sang and kept on eye on me while I 
walked past him. Further little down along the way right on the edge of the 
path was an enthusiastic Wood Thrush singing.

That made my day for today!

Cheers
Meena
PS: Yesterday around 5.00 am there was a Great Horned Owl calling from 
Strawberry Hills woods.



Dr. Meena Haribal
409, Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI)
Ithaca NY 14853 USA
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[cayugabirds-l] Birds by lake

[Donna Scott]

Hearing several different beautiful songs of a common loon on the water at 
8:30, I decided to go eat breakfast at my beach. 
It is very quiet and serene down here this time of day. 
No Loon seen yet, but Caspian tern flew by uttering its sounds, a common 
merganser female just swam by doing little clucking sounds, Northern Roughed 
Winged Swallows careening around over the water, with their Barn cousins, while 
a Ring Billed Gull sits quietly on water way out. 

I can hear the great crested Flycatcher calling up in my yard, along with E. 
phoebe, E Wood Pewee, Tufted titmouse & a robin. 

I can also hear the faint sounds of water from several rain-swollen little 
streams flowing down into the lake. 
Lovely!
-Donna

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma babies or future babies

[Dave Nutter]

Add a family of VIRGINIA RAILS along the channel on the opposite side of the 
Wildlife Drive from Larue's Lagoon. I saw at least 2 downy black chicks with 2 
adults. I was alerted by persistent 'pip-pip' calls.

The WOOD DUCK family at Larue's had 10 babies on Sunday. On Thursday I counted 
14.

On Van Dyne Spoor Rd Sunday I saw a family of 2 adult and 6 downy young 
AMERICAN COOTS.

A distant pair of adult TRUMPETER SWANS in the SW part of Van Dyne Spoor Rd 
marsh may have been at a nest. There was also a pair of adult TRUMPETER SWANS 
swimming by the Deep Muck platform on Thursday.

I saw at least 2 and possibly as many as 6 adult BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS 
south of Van Dyne Spoor Rd on Sunday morning. They were resting on 1 leg, 
preening, standing beside water as if hunting, flying from one part of the 
marsh to another, or seemingly circling randomly over the marsh, but I missed 
any evidence of pairing or breeding.

Of 6 distant GREAT EGRETS south of Van Dyne Spoor Rd, 2 perched close to each 
other on a small dead tree and had plumes on their backs, but I saw no other 
evidence of breeding.

Other observations of interest (to me at least) included:
 a WEASEL at Eaton Marsh, seen well for about a second as it scooted across the 
Wildlife Drive: brown above, white below, black-tipped brown narrow tail about 
half the body length, very short legs, round head about the same diameter as 
the narrow body, fast as hell.
a MONARCH BUTTERFLY (first of year for me) apparently heading north on the 
south breeze Thursday and pausing to feed at blooming Milkweed in front of the 
Deep Muck Platfrom off Savannah-Spring Lake Rd.
two RED-TAILED HAWKS on the empty Osprey platform & perch just south of Dean's 
Cove on NYS-89 as I drove north Sunday but gone when I went south hours later. 
That pole isn't vertical, and I wonder if the tipped platform makes it less 
appealing.
an AMERICAN BITTERN called many times throughout the morning from the middle of 
Van Dyne Spoor Rd marsh, but I did not find any Least Bittern.
from the platform at Mays Point Pool I finally saw one of those noisy MARSH 
WRENS that I've heard so many places at Montezuma.

PS- Oddly, apparently I did not receive the original CayugaBirds-L message from 
Mike Tetlow. I wonder what else I've missed.

--Dave Nutter


On Jun 21, 2015, at 09:30 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal  wrote:

> Nice observations Mike and Joanne! I was thinking of swinging in in the 
> afternoon on the way back form Sterling Nature Center.
>
>
> Meena Haribal
> Ithaca NY 14850
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> From: bounce-119394628-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
>  on behalf of Michael Tetlow 
> 
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 9:16 PM
> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma babies or future babies
>  
>
> This afternoon a trip through the refuge brought nothing rare but higher 
> water on the main pool diluted the smell of rotting carp and last week’s 
> congregation of 20+ eagles had moved on. Here are some family highlights of 
> the day;
>
> - The winner of the cutest babies contest was a family of 3 tiny baby 
> Spotted Sandpipers with parent on the main pool edge opposite Benning Marsh. 
> They were very difficult to find as their peeping sounded like it was 30 feet 
> away from where they were.
>
> - The family of Wood Ducks continues at Larue lagoon and a small family 
> with only 3 young was at the last pool at the very end of the wildlife drive.
>
>  - 4 teenage Hooded Mergansers were on a log in the same pond.
>
>  - Common Gallinules had 3 brand new babies at the south end of Eaton 
> Marsh and a dense clump at the north end held a Gallinule on the nest.
>
>  - Pied-billed Grebes had a teenager at Eaton Marsh and one on a nest 
> near the end of Van Dyne Spoor Road.
>
>  - Trumpeter Swans with young were on Tschasche pool with 1 Common Tern 
> feeding around them.
>
>  - We had no luck with the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May’s Point and 
> although, hopefully wrong, Starlings were all around the previously contested 
> nest hole.
>
>  - Sandhill Cranes with their colt were still reported at Knox-Marcellus 
> marsh but not seen by us.
>
>  - A Horned Lark took a  mouthful of insects into the grass along East 
> Road and fed a tailless barely feathered fledgling.
>
>  - 2 Black-crowned Night Herons were seen at Van Dyne Spoor Road with one 
> carrying a long stick out to about the middle of the marsh.
>
>  -Black Terns were represented at every cattail marsh with one carrying 
> food at both the main pool and Van Dyne Spoor Road.
>
> Mike and Joann Tetlow  
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Caspian Terns Cayuga Inlet/ Stewart Park

[Dave Nutter]

I saw 4 CASPIAN TERNS foraging at Van Dyne Spoor Rd on Sunday. They were 
distant but I thought they were adults and that it would be too early for any 
juveniles flying. In Ithaca I've assumed adults at this time of year to have 
had an early nest failure. It's not far for them from breeding grounds in Lake 
Ontario.

--Dave Nutter


On Jun 21, 2015, at 09:44 PM, david nicosia  wrote:

> Went kayaking today through the Cayuga Inlet to the red lighthouse and
> there were 6 CASPIAN TERNS next to the lighthouse. They were all adults.
> I presume they are non-breeders since it is a bit early for fall migration??
>
> Dave Nicosia
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