[cayugabirds-l] Hummingbird
One of my female hummingbirds was sampling the grape jelly at the Oriole feeder. She seemed to like it since she ate for several minutes. I haven't seen a hummer eat jelly before. 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] bobolinks
A flock of a couple dozen what we think are bobolinks in non-breeding plumage in the field behind our house this morning. Marty === Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell315-521-4315 === -- 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] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Yellow-headed Blackbird at Van Dyne Spoor Rd
I just heard from Mike Tetlow that he and others saw a/the male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD fly south along the power line and drop into the marsh near the pond at the east end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd this evening. --Dave Nutter On Aug 22, 2015, at 03:57 PM, Mamie Weed hockeygirl...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:50 am this morning my husband I found a Yellow-headed Blackbird in the reeds at the end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd. I posted it to Cayuga RBA Text immediately. Unfortunately, the Yellow-headed Blackbird didn't stick around long. It flew away north, over the road, about 20 minutes after we first saw it. Hopefully someone else can spot it before it leaves our area entirely. Links for 3 photos are below. https://flic.kr/p/xED5Tj https://flic.kr/p/xoRZdj https://flic.kr/p/wJAW7a Mamie Weed Moravia, NY -- 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] shorebirds today, trip tomorrow at Montezuma
I was at Larue's Lagoon at first light and stayed for an hour, but it seemed that the Willet, which was found by Jay McGowan early yesterday morning and seen by Gary Kohlenberg in the evening near dusk, departed overnight. At least I didn't find it, although I did see a WILSON'S SNIPE, six juvenile SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS and one adult Dowitcher sp, multiple GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, a flyby SOLITARY SANDPIPER, several LEAST and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS, and a KILLDEER. At Eaton Marsh was a group of 4 molting adult Dowitchers which I think were Long-billed (Mike Tetlow confirmed a couple there later), and there was a SOLITARY SANDPIPER flying in large circles low over the water among a group of swallows, but it didn't appear to have its mouth open. I guess it was just deciding where to touch down, not taking up aerial foraging. Some of these species were repeated other places along the Wildlife Drive. I joined Mike Tetlow's trip onto the dikes at Knox-Marsellus. They arrived at 12:30 having first checked out Larue's where they also did not find the Willet. At Knox-Marsellus, the weeds have mostly been chopped down alongside the dikes allowing easier viewing. However the water is up a bit, perhaps from the torrential rain Thursday evening, and there is almost no exposed mud. The shorebirds which like mud were therefore a bit harder to see among low flooded vegetation. Shorebirds which really like dry mud were not seen. If they were present they were hidden in taller vegetation. Birds which like to wade seemed pretty happy. Although there is a large area of mud in Puddler, I didn't see many shorebirds there in mid-afternoon. Numbers and species were a bit lower than recent trips, but perhaps new birds will show up overnight. Here's what shorebirds I saw (or heard that others saw) at K-M: KILLDEER - 1 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER - 1 near edge of flooded vegetation GREATER YELLOWLEGS - several LESSER YELLOWLEGS - a couple dozen? still most numerous large shorebird but numbers are down STILT SANDPIPER - 1 adult which I noticed on my way out after other observers had left PECTORAL SANDPIPER - 2 or more, often in or near vegetation LEAST SANDPIPER - many in vegetation SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER - some in water, some with Leasts SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER - 20 juveniles in a single flock feeding preening WILSON'S PHALAROPE - 1 juvenile (with a brown-streaked back and a slight dark eye-line), feeding while swimming when I first saw it (more typical behavior of Red-necked) but later feeding while wading and walking on (vegetated) mud, which is what I usually see them doing here. RED-NECKED PHALAROPE - I was told that other people saw one before I arrived, but that it disappeared (I was nearly last in a line of about 30 observers, and a few people started before the main group arrived). Given the possible confusion with the juvenile Wilson's, I'd like to hear more details on this bird. Sorry, folks, I always wonder if the birds I miss don't exist! Tomorrow morning, Sunday 23 August, I'll be leading another shorebird walk onto the dikes at Knox-Marsellus and Puddler marshes. We will start EARLIER than past trips, leaving the Montezuma NWR Visitor Center at 7am, then caravning to East Road where we will convene about 15 minutes later. I hope to avoid heat shimmer, use daylight more efficiently, and maybe find early birds. --Dave Nutter -- 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] Evening at Knox-Marcellus, Montezuma NWR
After a great RBA field trip, which is not my story to tell (but worth waiting for!), I headed to a few spots and ended up at the Knox-Marcellus overlook well after 7 PM for my traditional evening last-call birding. Before too long, I'd picked out a Phalarope that looked much different (SPOILER ALERT) from the Wilson's Phalarope we'd seen earlier. (/SPOILER). This Phalarope was quite dark on the back, always in the water, and fed in constant Crazy Ivan-type spinning motions. The bird was associating with Yellowlegs but was easily picked out with its fine bill, slender neck, dainty build, and unique behavior. I think it was the Red-necked but in that light I really have only behavioral cues to go by. Later in the evening, two Sandhill cranes flew in to Puddlers. They joined the group of 12 already in that marsh. and soon afterwards the family group of three from the near marsh flew over to join in and make up 17 Sandhills. At 8:12, the two Great Egrets that had settled into Puddlers were joined by 15 new birds, mixing in with the Sandhills to form a 50/50 mix and a very impressive grouping, visually.While that group was forming, at least six Black-crowned Night Herons had crept out of the BCNH bush, with six congregating in the corner of Puddler's straight out from the overlook, and one joining the Great Blues on the Knox-Marcellus side. My first Purple Martins of the day came out at dusk, too, vocalizing in their easily-distinguishable way. Common Yellowthroats spit and wichety-ed, and swallows were EVERYwhere, In time, mosquitos were everywhere, too - so despite the lovely cool weather and gorgeous sky, I called it a night before full dark. It takes a fair amount of bug-bite torture to get me to leave my sundown happy place. :) -kimberly -ks...@eznet.net -- 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] Yellow-headed Blackbird at Van Dyne Spoor Rd
At 10:50 am this morning my husband I found a Yellow-headed Blackbird in the reeds at the end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd. I posted it to Cayuga RBA Text immediately. Unfortunately, the Yellow-headed Blackbird didn't stick around long. It flew away north, over the road, about 20 minutes after we first saw it. Hopefully someone else can spot it before it leaves our area entirely. Links for 3 photos are below. https://flic.kr/p/xED5Tj https://flic.kr/p/xoRZdj https://flic.kr/p/wJAW7a Mamie Weed Moravia, NY -- 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] Lindsay-Parsons: Drained lake, mud, and a jungle-gym of stumps snags
Alexa and I stopped by Lindsay-Parsons today midday to investigate the wetlands. We were curious to see if the drained beaver pond held shorebirds, and if water levels had dropped in the larger lake (Coleman Lake). We were successful on both counts -- a group of Killdeer Least Sandpipers were on the drained beaver pond, while Coleman Lake was drastically lower, nearly completely drained itself. The receding water has uncovered a jungle-gym of stumps and snags and left large expanses of mud around the edges. Solitary Sandpipers were numerous active, and we scoped a single snipe foraged. Perhaps the most interesting bird phenomenon was the collection of fish frog eaters that were actively working the shallow waters -- Green Herons Great Blue Herons dotted the exposed lake, and I've never seen so many kingfishers in such a small area. Fun spot! The cause of the mud is that multiple beaver dams by the railroad tracks have failed; without these dams, the (unnamed?) pond Coleman Lake are no longer impounded. We didn't walk into the woods, but did run into a few migrants near the parking area as well. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S24719489 Best, Ben -- Benjamin Freeman Ph.D. candidate Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA benjamingfreeman.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] short notice, but...
The forecast looks great for hearing flight calls of night migrating birds across the region tonight. If anyone is interested in learning some calls, I’ll be up at Mount Pleasant Observatory listening from 8:30-11pm. For directions, google Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory. Park on the side of the road near the observatory. This is peak migration time for Chestnut-sided, Canada, and Mourning Warblers, each with fairly distinctive flight calls. Based on past listening in the area, perhaps 1 in 10 calls tonight may be from Chestnut-sided, 1 in 25 from Canada, 1 in 50 from Mourning and 1 in 100 from Black-and-white Warbler. Also audibly in the mix will be American Redstart (~5%), Common Yellowthroat(5-10%), and lots of Ovenbirds (~25%). Bobolink and Veery calling should be steady, and if lucky we’ll hear one of the remaining few Upland Sandpipers that breed to our north. Bill Evans -- 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/ --
