[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrow singing
With this afternoon’s bit of sun and slightly warmer temperature, I’ve finally got a _singing_ Fox Sparrow, Danby/ Newfield town line, west of Beech Hill Road and Brook (L-P Preserve). -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Fox Sparrows
A bit disappointed that I hadn’t been hearing any Fox Sparrows around home, I walked down through the shrubby bands of 40 year old spruces near my border with the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, and found two there, silently rummaging in the fallen leaves and needles. I got kind of wet for my trouble, but now I’m back in my shop, drying by the wood fire and picking off the ticks! -Geo Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- 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] Hermit Thrushes
This foggy morning the summits across the valley from me (Thatchers Pinnacles) are lost in the low cloud ceiling. That helps to explain why I’ve got at least three or four singing Hermit Thrushes around my yard! -Geo Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- 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] Tree Swallows
I saw a single Tree Swallow at Tschache Pool on Monday, along with quite a few Rusty Blackbirds. Great Blue Herons we’re visiting their nests west of the tower. -Geo -- 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] Snow Geese Monday
Yes, the shore-to-shore mass of Snow Geese was very impressive even at 2:00 this afternoon. “Raft” seems an inadequate analogy; this was more like a floating assault bridge! -Geo Geo Kloppel g...@cornell.edu > On Mar 19, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > and from the west side of the lake, about a mile south of Cayuga Lake > State Park, there is a solid mass of snow geese stretching from shore to > shore. > > Laura > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > > On Mar 19, 2018, at 3:24 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > >> A huge flock of snow geese is close to shore just north of Aurora today, >> March 19, opposite Gully Rd. The noise is amazing ! 10,000? 3:22 pm. >> >> Laura >> >> Laura Stenzler >> l...@cornell.edu >> >> On Mar 18, 2018, at 7:07 PM, bob mcguire wrote: >> >>> Wasn’t that amazing??? We observed that extended flock - and another one >>> farther south, opposite Aurora - this afternoon. We gave up trying to count >>> (and looking for Ross’s Goose) and made a “questimate” of at least ONE >>> MILLION. I wonder if anyone actually has a count? >>> >>> Bob >>>> On Mar 18, 2018, at 7:01 PM, Candace Cornell wrote: >>>> >>>> I saw thousands of, if not tens of thousands of, snow geese at 330 pm >>>> today off Cayuga State Park on the northwest side of the lake. A dozen or >>>> so swans (sp?), swimming on the periphery of the rafts looked like they >>>> were herding the geese. The gang was wonderfully loud. >>>> Candace >>>> >>>>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Donna Lee Scott >>>>> wrote: >>>>> Yesterday and today, moderate-sized rafts on Cayuga Lake off Lansing >>>>> Station Road, Lansing. >>>>> >>>>> Donna Scott >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> -- >>>>> 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: >>>> 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: >>> 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: >> 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: > 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] Peregrine at Steamboat Landing
Just had an adult Peregrine flying north over the Steamboat Landing / Ithaca Farmers Market. -Geo -- 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] Northern Saw-whet Owl
Lately I’ve been whistling for Saw-whets when I give my dog Sandy her evening walk. Tonight there’s one tooting back at me, right outside my door, and up and down the driveway. Sounds pretty excited! -Geo -- 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] Wood Ducks
This morning at 6:15 a couple of Wood Ducks short-hopped over the ridge behind the West Danby Fire Station to visit my pond. They were about to hit the water, but aborted at the last moment when they spotted me. Turkeys are gobbling. We could see a foot of snow in the next 48 hours. -Geo Kloppel Tupper Road -- 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] Snow Geese
West Danby - lots of Snow Geese have been re-entering the basin this morning on a tail wind out of the south. -Geo -- 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] Raven with nest material
On Feb 12, 2018, at 12:42 PM, John Confer wrote: > > Alright, why is it called Speed Hill and why is the other called Buffalo?) > Hi John and all other interested Cayugabirders. The answer to those questions can be found here: http://www.tompkinscountyny.gov/files2/historian/placenames/kammen%20chap%2003.pdf -Geo -- 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] Ravens
A Raven pair is pretty evident lately around the traditional nesting area in the hemlocks on the steep northern slope of 1,920’ “Sorry Hunter Hill” (not so named on any maps), West Danby. Right now they’re talking: one giving a “krawk krawk krawk” and the other deep and resonant “gronk” calls as they circle in the high airs a few hundred yards out from their lofty situ. -Geo -- 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: Crows and Cooper’s Hawk
I don’t know what would have happened eventually, if they’d been left undisturbed, but after 20 minutes of this unexpected tolerance, my apprentice arrived on the scene. As we walked slowly down to the workshop, the Crows flushed one by one (they know us, and watch for their regular handouts, but they don’t allow us to approach). The hawk was the last to leave, flying off through the trees, strong and agile. Through the entire 20 minutes I never heard anything out of the Crows, though at one point one of them was visibly making some sort of quiet vocalization that did’t penetrate to my living room. The Crows soon returned, and so have all the other feeder birds. -Geo > On Jan 30, 2018, at 11:11 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > Three Crows, regulars at my feeding station, are resting quietly on their > usual perches in an ash tree. They’re about 30 feet up, and the scene looks > just like any other winter day, except that an adult Cooper’s Hawk is perched > about ten feet below them. Been there for 15 minutes! > > The Crows are not making a fuss, and it almost looks like the Coop is > “pretending” to be one of them, using them as cover while waiting for small > birds to return to the sunflower hopper just below. > > A fourth Crow has flown in, and one of the others dropped down toward the > ground feeding area, as if to grab a morsel, but thought better of it, I > guess. > > -Geo > > -- 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] Crows and Cooper’s Hawk
Three Crows, regulars at my feeding station, are resting quietly on their usual perches in an ash tree. They’re about 30 feet up, and the scene looks just like any other winter day, except that an adult Cooper’s Hawk is perched about ten feet below them. Been there for 15 minutes! The Crows are not making a fuss, and it almost looks like the Coop is “pretending” to be one of them, using them as cover while waiting for small birds to return to the sunflower hopper just below. A fourth Crow has flown in, and one of the others dropped down toward the ground feeding area, as if to grab a morsel, but thought better of it, I guess. -Geo -- 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] West Danby PIne Siskin, Purple Finch
Only one PIne Siskin and one Purple Finch here so far, but I’m happy to say “me too!” from Tupper Road -Geo -- 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] 65 Sandhill Cranes
I’m more interested in what to call these post-breeding assemblages of mostly unrelated individuals, which I guess are about sharing the task of watching for predators while feeding and roosting. In German the word is “gesellungsverband”, if I read aright. “Survival group” seems to be the usual translation, but I wonder if something more colorful isn’t hiding somewhere in the English language? -Geo > On Oct 26, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Chris R. Pelkie wrote: > > Nice. Is ‘cranery’ a word yet? Maybe we should start pushing it! Oxford > Dictionary, here we come! -- 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] Ladies
Hi Bard, I tried to determine which species mine were. They had strings of 4 - 5 equal-sized submarginal black spots with blue centers both topside and underside of the hindwings, so I called them painted ladies (Vanessa cardui) rather than American ladies (Vanessa virginiensis). I was struck by how small the individuals in this fall generation are. Earlier in the summer I had some _big_ painted ladies, nearly the size of Great Spangled Fritillary. -Geo > On Sep 24, 2017, at 4:01 PM, Bard Prentiss wrote: > > I could not get close enough to determine which species they were > Painted or American > > Best > Bard -- 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] Wilson's Phalarope, Montezuma Visitor Center
We have lots of Painted Ladies in West Danby right now, nectaring on New England asters Over the past 3 - 4 weeks we've also watched a number of 4th generation wild Monarch caterpillars grow through several molts and pupate. Some chrysalises have now opened and the adults have flown off. A couple more are due to open tomorrow. -Geo > On Sep 23, 2017, at 11:25 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg wrote: > > We also noticed a very large number of painted lady butterflies today – in > Seneca County. Mostly in overgrown fields of goldenrod and aster. Also many > monarchs – migrating and in the fields. > > Ken Rosenberg > Applied Conservation Scientist > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > American Bird Conservancy > k...@cornell.edu > Wk: 607-254-2412 > Cell: 607-342-4594 > > > From: on behalf of Susan Gateley > > Reply-To: Susan Gateley > Date: Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 9:00 PM > To: Jay McGowan > Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Wilson's Phalarope, Montezuma Visitor Center > > not sure if this will go out to list could you forward? Thanks > > not bird related directly (though might relate to food for birds) > have bird watchers noted large numbers of painted lady butterflies moving > around randomly Sat Sept 23? I saw hundreds in an overgrown area with > milkweed today in eastern Wayne Co. Curious as to how widespread this was- > Thanks for any observations > > thank > > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: > The highlight so far at Montezuma this morning was a WILSON'S PHALAROPE at > the visitor center pool, which is very good shorebird habitat at the moment. > I heard a second hand report of a possible Buff-breasted there as well, but > we did not see one. > > Jay > -- > 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: > 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: > 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Terns
Like at Myers, Caspian Terns are hanging out on the mud bars and driftwood at the mouth of Owasco Inlet, as Patricia and I found while kayaking in the swamps yesterday evening. Saw an adult Smooth Green Snake in our yard this afternoon. They've been breeding here for some years, but we don't see them every day. -Geo -- 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] Disturbing the peace
Walking a path through the thickets below my shop a few minutes ago, I heard "smack!" alarms. Stepping in, I found a family group of Brown Thrashers, all raising the alarm. In moments, they were joined by a group of Wood Thrushes, then a family of Blue Jays arrived in the treetops to see what the fuss was about, then there were Flickers, then Hairy Woodpeckers, then a Common Yellowthroat with a big caterpillar in his beak popped up at eye level and chimed in, then a Blue-winged Warbler appeared, then a female Hooded Warbler, and so on. Big commotion, lasted about five minutes, then everybody just melted back into the greenery. All but the little bandito, who had disposed of the caterpillar while I was turning round and round, and continued to "Tschat" and "Teek" at me all the while I remained in the vicinity. Almost like a summer daydream it seems now, but my pants legs and socks are _plastered_ with the sticky seeds of agrimony, avens, cleavers and other hitchhikers! -Geo Geo Kloppel, Tupper Road, West Danby -- 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] Michigan Hollow Marsh
A few days ago I wrote: > Paddling in Michigan Hollow right now. In case anyone is puzzled, this is _not_ the North Spencer Marsh down in Tioga County, it's the big sedge marsh at the _north_ end of Michigan Hollow, centered about 2.5 miles south of the Danby Town Hall. In its present form it's a mile-long beaver impoundment. The dam is about 1/4 mile upstream from the FLT bridge at "Diane's Crossing", familiar to many as the starting point for the Abbott Loop Trail. http://www.cnyhiking.com/FLT-AbbottLoop.htm -Geo -- 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] Hungry youngsters! and song question
Hi Melanie, I'm drawing a blank, unless of course it _was_ a Towhee. They have a number of song types, and I suppose juvenile males will soon be practicing the local repertoire, if they haven't already started... Such great butterfly weather! In the last few days my old fashioned purple coneflowers have attracted Monarch, Painted Lady, Wood Nymph and Great Spangled Fritillary. -Geo > On Aug 2, 2017, at 2:45 PM, Melanie Uhlir wrote:. > > But I have a question. -- 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] Hungry youngsters!
No, 5 am is pretty quiet now. Here's a tally of first voices from 5:00 to 5:30 5:03 Cardinal 5:06 (Bantam Rooster) 5:17 Towhee 5:21 Hermit Thrush 5:22 Veery 5:23 Catbird 5:24 Hooded Warbler, Robin, Wood Thrush 5:28 Mourning Dove 5:30 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, Common Yellowthroat, Blue Jay, (still no Crows) -Geo > On Aug 1, 2017, at 7:37 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: > > Do they call at 5 in the morning? That's what my local crows do. I love > crows, as most people know, but I'd rather they weren't so vocal so early. > > > Just a note on the crow breeding season this year. Good number of breeding > families after a big hit from West Nile virus in 2012&2013. Earliest ever WNV > positive deaths this year, but not much since the first of May. But, now is > the traditional time for WNV to hit hard, the hot days of late summer. We > know that WNV is here, so the state isn't too interested in testing crows or > other birds that you might find dead in your yard (just bury them). But, if > it's a dead tagged or banded crow, please, please do let me know. We (the > Crow Research Group) are still trying to track death and survival of crows as > best we can. > > > We tagged this year's cohort with orange tags with black letters. Some people > seem to be seeing the tags as red, so be open for that. Any sightings would > be most appreciated. > > > Best, > > > Kevin > > > > Best, > > > Kevin > > From: bounce-121694030-3493...@list.cornell.edu > on behalf of Geo Kloppel > > Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 5:08 PM > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Hungry youngsters! > > Lots of hungry young birds around, but I especially feel for this fledgling > Broad-winged Hawk, whose wails are not only piteous (all Broad-wings sound > that way to me) but also right in my ears, because the bird favors the trees > that shade my workshop. > > Most years the Broad-wing fledglings take up begging stations several hundred > yards away, overlooking secluded Maple Avenue, where their parents hunt, but > this year is different for some reason... > > -Geo > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > Cayugabirds-L Subscribe, Configuration, and Leave Instructions > www.northeastbirding.com > Cayugabirds-L – Subscribe, Configuration and Leave . Cayugabirds-L is an > email list (the List) focused on the discussion of birds and birding in the > Finger Lakes ... > > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > cayugabirds-l - The Mail Archive > www.mail-archive.com > cayugabirds-l Thread; Date ; Earlier messages; Messages by Date 2017/07/12 > Re: [cayugabirds-l] Two questions Linda Orkin > > 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/ > > eBird > ebird.org > Everytime we go birding and submit an eBird checklist, we take a tiny > snapshot of bird occurrence in space and time. eBird’s grand vision is to > piece all these tiny ... > > > -- > > -- > 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] Hungry youngsters!
Lots of hungry young birds around, but I especially feel for this fledgling Broad-winged Hawk, whose wails are not only piteous (all Broad-wings sound that way to me) but also right in my ears, because the bird favors the trees that shade my workshop. Most years the Broad-wing fledglings take up begging stations several hundred yards away, overlooking secluded Maple Avenue, where their parents hunt, but this year is different for some reason... -Geo -- 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] Great Crested Flycatcher family
Sounds like I've got a family group of Great Crested Flycatchers down in the orchard. They used to nest in the dead apple tree hollows. Maybe I just missed their nest this year. Anyway, great to have their cheery voices! -Geo -- 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] Michigan Hollow Marsh
..and here are two young Harriers! -Geo > On Jul 31, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > Turns out it's navigable all the way north to the edge of the pine swamps, > about one mile above the beaver dam. I've found a few Wood Ducks and > Mallards, but no Grebes yet. Watched a Green Heron catch and devour a frog, > and flushed a probable Red-shoulder near the north end. > > Turning my 14' kayak around up here will be tight... > > -Geo > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 31, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: >> >> Paddling in Michigan Hollow right now. There's at least half a mile of >> navigable channel up the middle, maybe more. And there's a nice colony of >> Marsh Wrens out here! >> >> -Geo >> >> Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Michigan Hollow Marsh
Turns out it's navigable all the way north to the edge of the pine swamps, about one mile above the beaver dam. I've found a few Wood Ducks and Mallards, but no Grebes yet. Watched a Green Heron catch and devour a frog, and flushed a probable Red-shoulder near the north end. Turning my 14' kayak around up here will be tight... -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > Paddling in Michigan Hollow right now. There's at least half a mile of > navigable channel up the middle, maybe more. And there's a nice colony of > Marsh Wrens out here! > > -Geo > > Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Michigan Hollow Marsh
Paddling in Michigan Hollow right now. There's at least half a mile of navigable channel up the middle, maybe more. And there's a nice colony of Marsh Wrens out here! -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Broad-wings out
... and one of them got mobbed by Blue Jays at about 4:30 this afternoon! The episode was brief, and ended abruptly with the arrival of another Broad-wing. The second hawk had a much more robust voice. -Geo -- 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] Broad-wings out
Have 3 Broad-winged Hawks soaring low (c. 100') over the traditional nesting territory (Maple Ave, West Danby) right now. Vocalizing constantly. -Geo -- 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] local birds
Forgot to mention that one of my nest boxes fledged a brood of Chickadees in June, and then a couple of weeks ago I spotted a pair of Chickadees refurbishing it. Now it contains a full clutch of eggs. -Geo -- 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] local birds
At least one Broad-winged Hawk fledgling has been around my yard for several days, calling to be fed. Species that breed down in the valley below me have begun making (post-breeding) appearances up here: Kingfishers, Great Crested Flycatchers, Yellow-throated Vireo. I've noticed Wood Peewees moving around too. The local Barred Owls are moderately vocal. No bears have visited me this season, so I'm still feeding sunflower seeds, and like others, I have had a flush of young Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Purple Finches (and Towhees), the produce I guess of nests that were situated close just to take advantage of this resource. I got so used to the calls of young RBGBs that their absence was really noticeable when I visited Labrador Pond and Clark Reservation on Wednesday afternoon. No sunflower feeders at either location, that I could see, but the swamp milkweed is really gorgeous now, and monarchs obviously love it! The little Nature Center at Clark Reservation has such a lovely garden that I was sorry there was no one around to compliment. A few days ago I scouted for a practical (if arduous) route by which I could get my kayak out to the open water in Michigan Hollow Marsh. Probably won't yield any surprises, but if I don't do it this year, when the the water is so high, will I _ever_? -Geo > On Jul 29, 2017, at 5:31 PM, Kevin J. McGowan wrote: > . So, get out there and find some birds. And let us know what you find. -- 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] Hummingbird!!!
We have a pair of Ruby-throats in residence this summer, same as always. Haven't seen any youngsters yet, but we've got three hummzingers loaded in anticipation! -Geo -- 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] West Danby Nighthawk
Out working in the garden just now, I heard a Nighhawk! I looked up, and there it was, moving rapidly north, calling out repeatedly and hawking insects at the same time, like a talented juggler who can weave a complicated path through a marching parade while keeping three balls in the air and simultaneously telling a story to the crowd. -Geo -- 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] Ominous
I've got a pair coming regularly to my feeders... -Geo, West Danby -- 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] Danby birds
I made a quick car loop through Michigan Hollow this morning. Highlights were a Virginia Rail at the Hillview Road marsh, Acadian Flycatcher, Canada Warbler and Winter Wren in the hollow, a nice string of Pied-billed Grebe songs from the open water in the middle of the big Michigan Hollow Marsh (but no American Bittern), and two more Virginia Rails, duetting at Jennings Pond. -Geo -- 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] Acadian Flycatcher
On a quick drive through Michigan Hollow this cool morning I found one Acadian Flycatcher, singing in one of the usual locations, familiar since Karl David's day. Approximately: 42.30059°N 76.48253°W -Geo -- 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] best bet for bird bonanza?
I'd give the prize to Hermit Thrush, but really, Melanie, your self-description suggests that instead of the morning you should arrange to be out in suitable habitat in the _evening_, from an hour before sunset until an hour after, and you will likely be treated to all three of our locally breeding thrushes. Hermits will also sing as the sky darkens before a rainstorm. -Geo -- 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] Worm-eating Warblers and other Danby breeders
Right now at the north pinnacle (traditional nesting area) I have at least two singing Worm-eating Warblers, 100 yards apart, so I presume the whole "colony" has returned. Last time I checked was on Friday. There were none. I had Yellow-throated Vireos up here that morning (used to surprise me, but it seems to be an annual occurrence). This morning I can hear them down below, in more typical area along the RR corridor. I watched a pair of Blue Jays gathering fine rootlets (easy to obtain on this over-steepened slope) to line a nest. Also spotted a Xylocopa virginica. I guess there's enough dry, durable dead wood up here to offer nest sites, though they usually prefer an eastern exposure. Half an hour ago I was in the open grove of white spruces atop Bald Hill (behind the yellow gate), with its Hooded Warblers, Black-throated Blues, Mourning Warblers, Ruffed Grouse and other regular breeders. Saw two Cooper's Hawks: one sub -canopy and another overhead doing what I interpreted as a territorial over-flight. There used to be a territory down the long-abandoned section of Comfort Road, but recent logging down there may have prompted a shift... -Geo -- 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] Cold weather
It looks like temperatures are moderating now, but during these last cold days some upland forest habitats around West Danby have actually seemed pretty empty. I didn't even bother trying for Worm-eating Warblers until yesterday, the signs just weren't there. And when I did go it was so cold up there that I wore gloves and a winter hat! Amelanchier blossoming was completely finished, and the fruits set. The few hawthorns were in bud. Chestnut oak leaves were about 1" long. This morning I went again, and saw that things are indeed advancing: the toothwort was in full bloom today, Cypripediums are just poking up their stalkless leaves, and the saxifrages are opening. I saw fringed polygala in bloom. Hawthorns are just blooming now. The chestnut oak leaves are bigger, about 1-1/2" - 2" long. Still very few birds on the slope: Black and White Warbler, Ovenbird, Scarlet Tanager. But I actually saw a couple of black flies, and things look like they're about to pop! The jellied egg masses of spotted salamanders have gotten quite green with algae, and the embryos inside are now 5/8" long. -Geo -- 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-necked Grebes on Dryden Lake
I was visiting a friend's house just north of Dean's Cove about 2:30 this misty afternoon, enjoying the hundreds of swallows circling just inches above the water. The cove stream spilled out a plume of silt-laden rainwater that stretched north toward us along the shore. Out beyond it, Loons were diving here and there, and popping up anywhere else. Then a group of six (!) Red-necked Grebes in various stages of breeding plumage appeared. They were close, only 50' - 100' from shore, fishing and paddling their unhurried way north. Really splendid afternoon! -Geo -- 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] Virginia Rail
West Danby this evening: I found a Virginia Rail as usual in the little marsh on Hillview Road beside the old county landfill. Others are likely to be present nearby, like in the Cayuga Inlet headwater marsh just west of the landfill cap, along abandoned Center Schoolhouse Road. -Geo -- 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] Magnolia too
...and here's a Magnolia Warbler, also in its traditional nesting area. -Geo -- 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] Hooded Warbler
This morning a Hooded Warbler is back, singing in a traditional nesting area a couple hundred feet from my house (Tupper Road, West Danby) -Geo -- 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] Brown Thrasher, and an unexpected reprieve
I'd been thinking there might be no Brown Thrashers nesting at my place this year, but just this morning one took up the usual singing perches, and made himself very noticeable. The toad frenzy ended days ago, and the revelers have all departed from the pond, leaving behind lots of eggs, and also a mystery: there were no corpses this year! Usually after the toads' big pool party the grassy dike looks like a dissection lab emptied for fire drill. But this year the Crows left the toads in peace. Assuming that the Crows seen on the dike at times, poking after moles or something, are members of the same family that has exploited the hapless toads for years, I have to think that because the pool party happened about ten days early this year, the Crows weren't ready to make use of them. -Geo -- 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] Wood Thrushes, Northern Parula
Wood Thrushes are singing from several corners of my "yard" in the woods west of the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve this evening. In the morning I had my first-of-spring Northern Parula just inside the Preserve. Geo -- 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] Blue-winged Warbler
A singing Blue-winged Warbler was the only new arrival I detected in my yard this morning. That put an end to my thought of brush-hogging an area within his territory this spring... -Geo -- 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] Mystery bird revealed!
Oh yeah, I've heard Tufted Titmouse do that! In fact, there's a recording of just such a song in the Audubon Birds app (Tufted Titmouse, Track #3), and it's pitched right on the open E string of the violin. Any violinist would notice the resemblance. -Geo > On Apr 29, 2017, at 9:04 AM, Betsy Darlington > wrote: > > Well, my mystery bird is a Tufted Titmouse! It finally landed on a nearby > branch, continued to toot that same high-ish E, and was soon joined by what > was probably a female, since the singer didn't chase it away. I have never > heard a titmouse make that sound. Must have been pretty appealing to his > lady friend! > Betsy > -- > 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/ --
Re:[cayugabirds-l] New arrivals
Incidentally, there were no disemboweled toads on the dike earlier this morning, but at this moment I'm sitting at the breakfast table looking down toward the pond, and I can see three Crows hopping around in the grass down there, so I imagine they are starting the feast. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 28, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > Newly arrived in my West Danby yard this morning were Gray Catbird, > Chestnut-sided Warbler, > Nashville Warbler and Ovenbird. > > I usually wind up flushing the early morning ducks off my little pond before > I can get close, but this morning I got lucky with a pair of Wood Ducks, and > achieved a one-duck wide binocular field. > > After flushing them, I walked along the dike, counting the toads in the > water. I spotted 136 of them, many in flagrante amplecto. They'd had a big > night: this morning there are lots of egg strings, where yesterday were none! > > -Geo > -- 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] New arrivals
Newly arrived in my West Danby yard this morning were Gray Catbird, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Nashville Warbler and Ovenbird. I usually wind up flushing the early morning ducks off my little pond before I can get close, but this morning I got lucky with a pair of Wood Ducks, and achieved a one-duck wide binocular field. After flushing them, I walked along the dike, counting the toads in the water. I spotted 136 of them, many in flagrante amplecto. They'd had a big night: this morning there are lots of egg strings, where yesterday were none! -Geo -- 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] Birds, bats, toads and snakes
I had a Yellow-rump and a Black and White Warbler along the L-P Preserve's Beech Hill Brook this morning, and a Rose-breasted Grosbeak at my sunflower feeder. Two days ago at dusk a Great Horned Owl perched on a Spruce spire at the bottom of my yard. Four days ago we watched a Chickadee and a House Wren alternately visiting a nest box outside the window. Several boxes by the pond have been lined with green moss. A couple of bats have been flying about the yard lately. The toad-liver feast for Crows will begin soon. I think it typically happens about a week into May, but with this warm weather, toad song is already picking up. Few toads are actually in the pond yet, but I can hear them gathering from all directions, and I think the big event may be early this year. I'm watching daily for the black rat snakes to emerge from the communal hibernaculum that I suspect lies under a century old barn foundation here. A rude unoccupied cabin sits on top, and big 5' -6' skins hang among the rafters. This year I'd like to actually see the snakes basking and shedding in there. In the near future their hibernaculum may be put at risk, so I'm starting to think about building one to replace it. Any advice would be welcome! -Geo -- 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] Broad-wings
Out in the yard pretending to garden, I looked up in response to the call of a Broad-winged Hawk, and saw what I always do at about this time in April. A nice Broad-wing, fairly low, making what I interpret as a territorial flight. After sailing about and calling for several minutes he(?) dropped down into the Maple Avenue ravine (traditional nest area). Five minutes later he was up soaring and calling again, and a second Broad-wing appeared. Maybe a mate, or perhaps a challenger... -Geo -- 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] Purple bonanza
After last night's cloudburst, there are 100 Purple Finches in my yard. (This is not a hard count, just a conservative guesstimate) -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Prairie Warbler???
Hi Karen, Field Sparrow can give that impression, because its song too is delivered in accelerando, sometimes even with a slight rise in pitch. If you have the Audubon Birds app, you can compare Track #3 for both species to see what I mean. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 20, 2017, at 10:13 AM, Karen Steffy wrote: > > I heard the ascending sound of what I think is a prairie warbler this > morning, but it seems early. Is there a bird that has a similar song to a > prairie warbler? > > Karen > > -- > 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] Blue-headed Vireo
We had sun for the Easter egg hunt at Taughannock Falls this morning, but at 3:30, darkling sprinkles have arrived in West Danby, and that has set the birds outside my door to singing. Among the rest I can hear my first-of-spring Blue-headed Vireo. -Geo -- 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] Willow Creek TV shed?
I spotted two Turkey Vultures this afternoon entering a low open shed in trees east of Willow Creek Road, perhaps 1,000' north of the Black Diamond Trail crossing. About here: 42.52957°N 76.59377°W -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Migrants around home
I went out at 5:45 for the pre-dawn chorus. The temperature was 32 degrees F. From my place on Tupper Road I walked a few hundred yards over to Beech Hill Brook in the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, hoping for some Hermit Thrushes. On my way I passed several Eastern Towhees that were exchanging "chewink" calls. When I got to the brink of the ravine, the falls below were making a lot of noise, and I couldn't hear any Hermits, but from downstream I caught the distant ringing song of a Louisiana Waterthrush, proclaiming in the traditional nesting territory. So I walked down that way to enjoy it up close. I was pretty happy to find it there, because the flood of 2015 had scoured the gorge severely, and I'm not sure that nesting even took place last year. I crossed the brook and ascended to "the back stairs" (local nickname for steep, narrow Beech Hill Road). There I found a single Yellow-rumped Warbler singing in the hemlocks, but no Hermit Thrushes yet. At the second "landing" (think stairs again) I turned west, descended to the stream and climbed up the other side to reach the Danby/Newfield town line and cross back into my own property. In a grove of spruces there I finally heard a Hermit Thrush, and found a Ruby-crowned Kinglet too, probably the same one that showed up there yesterday. -Geo -- 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] Rose-breasted Grosbeak
That's right: Miller Creek joins Michigan Creek 1/2 mile south of the Spencer Lake dam. The combined waters are afterwards named Catatonk Creek on USGS maps. It flows south and east, gathering other waters, until it joins with Owego Creek and empties into the Susquehanna. -Geo > On Apr 2, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Dave Nutter wrote: > > Very cool bird! As far as I can tell, Miller Creek drains south, and South > Danby Road is outside the Cayuga Lake Basin. -- 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] Phoebe!
First Phoebe for my yard today too. And arriving yesterday, six Purple Finches: 3 roseating (purplescing?) males and 3 brown streaky basic types. These are the first Purple Finches to visit our feeders in months. They're doing some singing! Also have Wood Ducks visiting our pond. -Geo -- 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] Drumming
The ground is still mostly snow-covered here in the wooded hills above West Danby, but I just heard a Ruffed Grouse drumming down in the ravine below my house. The day before yesterday, while at work in my shop, I heard scrabbling noises under the eaves, lighter than squirrels, and differently patterned than a rummaging titmouse or a Carolina Wren. I looked out the glass in time to see a small weasel (short-tailed female ermine?) come around the corner and up the handrail, to within three feet of me. Tradition says "bad luck", but I was thrilled to see this ferociously cute little predator out on the prowl! -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Migration Video and question
Hi Pete, It's a global cycle, so the farther one goes from the equator in _either_ direction the greater the amplitude becomes. That just increases the salience of the cycling rate of change in photoperiod for any migrants that completely transit the tropics to spend our winter in the temperate or higher south latitudes. -Geo On Mar 20, 2017, at 10:50 AM, Peter wrote: > Thanks Geo. > > How about migrants wintering deeper into So. America? > > Pete -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 20, 2017, at 10:50 AM, Peter wrote: > > Thanks Geo. > > How about migrants wintering deeper into So. America? > > Pete > > >> On 3/20/2017 9:52 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: >> Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas, and northernmost parts of Brazil and >> Ecuador actually lie in the northern hemisphere, where days have been >> lengthening ever since our winter solstice. Right now (at equinox) the rate >> of photoperiod change has reached its maximum, noticeable even in equatorial >> regions. I presume that seasonal migrants are sensitive to that rate, which >> has been accelerating ever since December 21st, reaches its peak today and >> now begins decelerating toward the next (our summer) solstice. The amplitude >> of the cycling rate of change is subdued in the tropics, but it's the very >> same cycle that is so pronounced in the higher latitudes where these >> warblers breed each year, so I doubt that they lose track of it, even if >> they winter at or south of the equator, as some do. >> >> -Geo Kloppel >> >>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Peter wrote: >>> >>> Folks...I have a spring migration question and wonder if anyone out >>> there can help. I understand that the lengthening days ignites hormonal >>> responses in birds and, among other things, encourages "migratory >>> restlessness" - an "itch" to begin their respective journeys north. But >>> how does this mechanism work with respect to neo-tropical warblers? After >>> all, for those spending their "winters" in northern So. America the days >>> will be shortening!!! The "photoperiod" will be decreasing. >>> >>> What, then, is the trigger to get them on the move and heading northward? >>> Thanks for the help. >>> >>> Pete Saracino >> >> - >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2016.0.8007 / Virus Database: 4756/14149 - Release Date: 03/20/17 > -- 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] Migration Video and question
Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas, and northernmost parts of Brazil and Ecuador actually lie in the northern hemisphere, where days have been lengthening ever since our winter solstice. Right now (at equinox) the rate of photoperiod change has reached its maximum, noticeable even in equatorial regions. I presume that seasonal migrants are sensitive to that rate, which has been accelerating ever since December 21st, reaches its peak today and now begins decelerating toward the next (our summer) solstice. The amplitude of the cycling rate of change is subdued in the tropics, but it's the very same cycle that is so pronounced in the higher latitudes where these warblers breed each year, so I doubt that they lose track of it, even if they winter at or south of the equator, as some do. -Geo Kloppel > On Mar 20, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Peter wrote: > > Folks...I have a spring migration question and wonder if anyone out there > can help. I understand that the lengthening days ignites hormonal responses > in birds and, among other things, encourages "migratory restlessness" - an > "itch" to begin their respective journeys north. But how does this mechanism > work with respect to neo-tropical warblers? After all, for those spending > their "winters" in northern So. America the days will be shortening!!! The > "photoperiod" will be decreasing. > > What, then, is the trigger to get them on the move and heading northward? > Thanks for the help. > > Pete Saracino > -- 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] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help
Yep, but the BBA's granularity is very coarse. It will tell you if Cooper's Hawks were recorded breeding somewhere in a given block 5 kilometers square, but it won't tell you if the selective cut you're planning at GPS coordinates ___ goes through the heart of a traditional Cooper's Hawk nesting territory. For that you need more precise location info. -Geo > On Mar 16, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Joshua Snodgrass wrote: > > I was able to use the DEC website for the Breeding Bird Atlas- Maps by > Species to look at color coded maps that show breeding occurrence at specific > locations to come up with my list for the Finger Lakes NF. It may not be as > current as eBird data, and I am not sure how land management entities use > that information, but it is accessible > http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/bba/ > >> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Wesley M. Hochachka >> wrote: >> Hi Geo, >> >>No, breeding-code information is a standard part of the most widely-used >> pre-packaged distribution of eBird data, the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD). You >> can't call up this information on the eBird website, if I'm not mistaken, >> but then I wouldn't recommend using website output to do anything major in >> regard to research or management anyway. Instead, the most appropriate >> thing to do would be to request access (always granted, for free) to the >> pre-bundled data in the EBD. The EBD packages are rather large (i.e. you're >> not going to load it into Excel), but with some fairly basic >> large-data-management experience, one can pull out all of the breeding code >> information that's available without much effort. >> >> Wesley >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu >> [mailto:bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel >> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:24 PM >> To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg >> Cc: Joshua Snodgrass; CAYUGABIRDS-L >> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help >> >> During the last NYS Breeding Bird Atlas period (2000-2005), field workers >> who submitted breeding records for Threatened species or species of Special >> Concern were subsequently asked to provide DEC with additional information >> (locations). >> >> Is it true that eBird has not yet implemented data output for breeding >> records? If so, does this mean that a land management entity like DEC or the >> US Forest Service can't just consult eBird for Confirmed or Probable >> breeding locations of Threatened or Special Concern species that might be >> impacted by management, but instead has to make special requests? Do >> management planners routinely make such requests? >> >> I ask this because in my area (Danby/Newfield) I've seen several recent DEC >> actions that look like they could easily have been modified if location >> information had been available. >> >> -Geo Kloppel >> >> > On Mar 15, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg >> > wrote: >> > >> > Josh, >> > >> > Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds! >> >> -- >> >> 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help
During the last NYS Breeding Bird Atlas period (2000-2005), field workers who submitted breeding records for Threatened species or species of Special Concern were subsequently asked to provide DEC with additional information (locations). Is it true that eBird has not yet implemented data output for breeding records? If so, does this mean that a land management entity like DEC or the US Forest Service can't just consult eBird for Confirmed or Probable breeding locations of Threatened or Special Concern species that might be impacted by management, but instead has to make special requests? Do management planners routinely make such requests? I ask this because in my area (Danby/Newfield) I've seen several recent DEC actions that look like they could easily have been modified if location information had been available. -Geo Kloppel > On Mar 15, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg wrote: > > Josh, > > Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds! -- 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] Deep snow
I'm feeling sorry for Fox Sparrows. Early this morning they were still working the ground under sheltering spruces, rummaging among the snow-dusted leaves, but all that is buried now. Grackles and Red-wings occupied the sunflower feeder, dispossessing some of the smaller birds. A Raven attempted to land at our crow-feeding station, but stiff aerial opposition from the Crows prevented that. -Geo -- 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] Cooper's Hawk takes Red-bellied Woodpecker
...and the answer is: after just half an hour, a bunch of Mourning Doves are already walking around on the kill-site, and smaller feeder birds are grabbing sunflower seeds from the feeder and flitting to the adjacent spruce to shell them. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 8, 2017, at 1:03 PM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > > Feeders are deserted now! I wonder how long this will last? -- 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] Cooper's Hawk takes Red-bellied Woodpecker
Looking out the window just now in response to scream calls out in the yard, I was treated to the stirring sight of a Cooper's Hawk on the ground, wings and tail spread to make a sort of cage, and with a bird in its talons. The screaming lasted less than a minute, and then the immature Coop was able to relax a bit, and soon folded its wings. It continued plucking breast feathers from the prey item for two or three minutes more, then it flew off with the kill, which I saw was a Red-bellied Woodpecker. I'm sorry for the woodpecker, but happy to see that this Cooper's Hawk will not be starving, as I imagine many of the youngsters do. Feeders are deserted now! I wonder how long this will last? -Geo -- 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] Yellow-bellied sapsucker
Hi Laura, It's certainly possible. The Ithaca Christmas Bird Count (held on Jan 1st every year) usually turns up one or two Sapsuckers, sometimes three or four, once even five. -Geo > is it possible that any stuck around? -- 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] Crow roost
Thousands and thousands of Crows are streaming south over the Fall Creek neighborhood, heading for a roost on South Hill I guess. -Geo -- 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] Great-horned Owl chorus
Nice, Melanie! For Great Horned Owls in our area the 6 week season of courtship is near (late December through January), so you may be in for more of the same. Here's an enjoyable historic piece on the subject, full of Tompkins County experiences (it's from Frederick Baumgartner's doctoral thesis): https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v050n04/p0274-p0285.pdf -Geo Kloppel > On Dec 11, 2016, at 3:01 AM, Melanie Uhlir wrote: > > I was very lucky last evening to catch a Great Horned Owl call from a > westerly direction while about to enter my house on Wood Road at about 10:30 > pm (12/10/2016). I put my musical equipment away and noticed that the moon > was very bright on the freshly fallen snow. I went out to enjoy this seasonal > beauty and heard some more owl calls. My partner and I then relaxed with some > Netflix for an hour or so and afterward I decided to go out and listen for > some more owl calls. I was more than rewarded by not only hearing more owl > vocalizations from nearby, but also with seeing two separate dark, silent > figures fly over the house, backlit by the moon -- and more than that! -- > the further thrill of hearing a seemingly convergent group of owls coming > closer and singing in seeming harmony, closing in from the south and west. > > I'm sorry if this is something I should have researched on my own, but do > owls hunt in family groups? I had never before been in the right place at the > right time to have heard so many owl vocalizations in such close proximity! I > feel very fortunate!! > > -- > > 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fox sparrows
I've got Fox Sparrows around my place too, since the day before yesterday. Not sure how many, but at least two, as one actually sang from the bushes while I had another in binocular view. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, West Danby > > There are 3 Fox Sparrows in our yard on Hunt Hill Rd, east of Ithaca. > > Laura -- 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] ID help? Whistling at night
Night before last, I heard several ascending whistle calls, right outside my door. The local Barred Owls responded with typical hooting, so I think the whistles were (still begging?) calls from their immature youngsters. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Marty Schlabach wrote: > > I also last night heard a sound right outside of my bedroom window that I > didn’t recognize at first. But, a bit later from the same tree came the more > typical screech owl whinny, so am pretty sure it was the same bird. --Marty > > From: bounce-120815972-3494...@list.cornell.edu > [mailto:bounce-120815972-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Chris R. > Pelkie > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:19 AM > To: Eva Smith > Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] ID help? Whistling at night > > I’ll defer to the experts but would not rule out Screech-owl. I’ve heard that > also: clear descending rather than whinny descending but followed by other > EASO distinct sounds, so concluded it was the same bird. I’ve been hearing > EASO loud whinnies just in the last couple of weeks, first time this year, so > I guess I have a male imoving around checking out the territory or > advertising once again. > > ChrisP > __ > > Chris Pelkie > Information/Data Manager, Application Systems Analyst > Bioacoustics Research Program > Cornell Lab of Ornithology > 159 Sapsucker Woods Road > Ithaca, NY 14850 > > On Sep 22, 2016, at 08:32, Eva Smith wrote: > > Dear all, > > I hope it's ok to ask for ID help here. Between Sibley and the Lab of O's > bird call recordings, I haven't been able to get a decent ID on a bird heard > last night. > > The call was a long (1-2 s) descending clear whistle (not a whinny like a > typical Eastern Screech Owl), starting on a high note and ending quite low. > It was repeated 3-4 times and then followed by a repeated whistle on a > single, high note. The timbre was similar to a saw-whet owl, but the tempo > was different. > > It was heard at 1 AM at the border between a field and scrubby forest. > > Regards, > Eva > -- > 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: > 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: > 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Prairie Warbler question
So quickly time flies, and spring turns to summer. More and more warblers are feeding nestlings and even fledglings now. Some birds have already begun their second broods. -Geo Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 21, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Betsy Darlington > wrote: > > Have Prairie Warblers quieted down already? Twice recently I haven't heard > them in places in Candor where I had been hearing them. > Betsy > -- > 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] More Danby Breeding Birds
I struck out again yesterday morning on Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, which I still expect to find in the red maple bog beside Walding Lane, as in former years. Will try another day (though the exuberance of the poison sumac in there is really a caution!) Early this morning I watched Baltimore Orioles delivering food to a nest in a giant sugar maple at the edge of a swamp. Swamp Sparrows, Yellow Warblers, Great Crested Flycatchers and an Eastern Kingbird were also catching food and carrying it instead of eating it. The temperature was 45 degrees F! Around noon I found a Louisiana Waterthrush feeding a Cowbird fledgling in the gorge at the north end of Comfort Road, a location which is just inside the Town of Danby. Then I went up into the white spruce grove at the top of Bald Hill Road, behind the new yellow gate with the red STOP sign attached. Walking in, I flushed a Ruffed Grouse with a brood of young, still tiny but old enough to fly a few yards. At the same moment a heard a Mourning Warbler singing (some folks will remember that this has been a Mourning Warbler spot for a number of years now). I soon got a nice close-up view of this singer, and at the same time another Mourning Warbler began singing from across the road. As reported in past years, this spot is just silly with Hooded Warblers, but there are also lots of other birds (Black-throated Blues, for instance). At one point I was startled to see two Blue Jays closely chasing a red squirrel in a spiraling retreat down the trunk of a tall spindly spruce. Nest at the top! I love to bird these local places in the breeding season! -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Mourning Warblers
I needed to find Mourning Warblers this week for the Danby Breeding Bird Survey, so at 5:30 this morning I went down to the West Danby Fire Station, walked up-slope to the town water tank, then south along the Pennsylvania & Sodus Bay RR grade into the Lindsay Parsons Preserve to visit a Mourning Warbler spot on the western wall of the valley. The target area was criss-crossed with dozer cuts (15 years ago, was it?), when it was logged quite heavily. The hillside cuts were soon grown-in with brambles, ferns, roses and red elder. Arriving at the location, I immediately heard several Mourning Warblers singing, and easily got a visual. So, they're still here. In fact the area looks little changed. It will be a long time yet before this canopy closes. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Nice morning for ducklings
I took an early morning walk at the central Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, looking for ducklings. There were none to be seen in the big beaver pond beside the West Danby Fire Station (the Great Blue Heron nestlings are growing fast; an adult Eagle was standing on a log out on the island; Grackles were feeding nestlings). At Coleman Lake were two broods of Mallards and one of Canada Geese. A foraging Green Heron soon flew off with something in its beak. Kingfishers were busy too. On the mud flats in the washed-out beaver pond just below the dike was a family group of Killdeer. Slightly to the north in the beaver pond that's sandwiched between the Norfolk Southern tracks and the long abandoned Ithaca & Athens RR grade, I found a brood of Wood Ducklings just out of the nest. A couple of Hooded Mergansers were in a little pond farther downstream along Brown Road. On my way back I noted a lot of ducks were in the flooded woods at the northern edge of the preserve, but I didn't have time to scan carefully for ducklings there... If you're tick-shy, let me add that I whacked enough bushes and tall grass to pick up plenty of ticks that should have been waiting for me in this famously tick-infested area, but I didn't get a single one! -Geo -- 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] West Danby Nighthawks
Just had NIGHTHAWK pass over my yard. It was quite high, and I might have missed seeing it if it had been silent, but the "peent" gave it away. And now here's another one, also vocalizing! And down in the woods, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo is singing. Heard it yesterday too, and thought of Ken Rosenberg's post about the previous night's migrants. -Geo -- 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] Acadian Flycatchers
Riding my bike through Michigan Hollow this morning, I encountered singing Acadian Flycatchers in two locations: 42.30680°N 76.48124°W 42.31141°N 76.48191°W -Geo -- 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] Thunder-pumper continues
Michigan Hollow marsh rang regularly with American Bittern calls this morning while I was there (5:45 - 6:15). -Geo -- 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] Alder Flycatchers, etc
Several Alder Flycatchers were newly evident in Michigan Hollow today. Least Flycatchers have been singing for a few days in traditional breeding spots there. Likewise Canada Warblers and a Winter Wren. A Northern Waterthrush was still singing from the same swamp woods near the beagle club as on May 12th. Under the bridge at Diane's Crossing is a Phoebe's nest with five eggs, as I easily determined, because the nest is directly beneath a half-inch wide expansion joint between two deck boards. My 6 year-old granddaughter got a thrill out of that, and later she laughed at the funny sound made by a Virginia Rail. -Geo -- 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] Mourning Warblers
I can hear a Mourning Warbler singing just down from my house. Also had one near Diane's Crossing two days ago. And Canada Warblers in their regular breeding area in lower Michigan Hollow. -Geo -- 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] Yard birds
This morning I've got multiple CAPE MAY and BAY-BREASTED WARBLERS (both sexes) in my spruces on Tupper Road (West Danby). Hard to count, but maybe 10-12 individuals between them. Tennessee Warblers continue too. -Geo -- 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] Tupper Road birds
Cold and windy up here, but I've still got little groups of migrants moving about: several more Tennessee Warblers, another Northern Parula (a singing male this time), a Swainson's Thrush, Black-throated Greens and Blackburnians that don't seem to be the local breeders, Yellow Warbler, plus various birds hanging out in their typical breeding areas, including Magnolia, Hooded, Chestnut-sided, Blue-winged, Black and White, American Redstart, Common Yellow-throat, Veery, Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Scarlet Tanager... No Cuckoos yet. -Geo West Danby -- 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] Swainson's Thrush
Hi John, I'm located at about 1350-1400', but the property goes up to a 1920' summit. It's all hillside, some of it glacially oversteepened, of NE aspect, overlooking the upper Cayuga Inlet Valley. It's cut by hemlock ravines running down to the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve and the West Danby hamlet. These clever Crows don't eat the whole toad, nor any of the toxic skin. They just open the toad's belly and take out a little organ - it's the liver, I think. The pool party is about over, only a few die-hard revellers remain in the water. -Geo > On May 14, 2016, at 11:02 AM, John and Sue Gregoire wrote: > > You certainly have the hot spot and are getting much more than we here in the > SW > corner of the basin at 15-1700ft. -- 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] Swainson's Thrush
Not many new arrivals this morning around my place, but a (silent) Least Flycatcher was feeding warbler-like among the apple blossoms, and right now I have a (singing!) Swainson's Thrush down by the brook (Beech Hill area of the L-P Preserve. Canada Warbler too. Oooh! Even as I write this, a Mourning Warbler has begun singing! Hooded Warblers are present in their regular breeding territories. A few minutes ago I surprised a Ruffed Grouse that was dust-bathing behind the sauna. Earlier I had a nice long look at a red fox. Here's a female Scarlet Tanager eating some kind of large bug, while the male is nearby, calling "chik-boings ... chik-boingg". -Geo -- 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] N. Parula
...and now the sun is peeking out, and just below the pond I have an adult female Northern Parula in a heavily flowering apple tree. -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Philadelphia Vireo
Walking around my place during a break in the rain, I've found quite a few actively foraging birds, including newcomers: a PHILADELPHIA VIREO and two singing TENNESSEE WARBLERS. -Geo Kloppel, Tupper Rd, West Danby -- 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] Food for the Crows
Hundreds of toads are having their annual get-together in my pond, while out on the grassy dike certain local Crows are having their annual feast of toad-liver! -Geo -- 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] Danby American Bittern
As usual at this time of year, an AMERICAN BITTERN is calling "oong-KA-chunk" in the Michigan Hollow marsh this morning. Approximately here: 42.32532°N 76.47900°W -Geo -- 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] Danby Rails, Mourning Warbler
Around home this morning, the Cape May Warblers were gone, but my missing Brown Thrasher has suddenly turned up. And, unusual for my yard, I've got a White-crowned Sparrow. After Chris' remarks yesterday about the state of the hawthorn orchard, I couldn't stop dreaming about all those Bay-breasted Warblers that dropped into the hawthorns along the east side of the Michigan Hollow sedge marsh last year. So, there was nothing for it but to drive through the hollow and see how the hawthorn blossoms are coming along. I stopped briefly on Hillview Road to find 3 (!) VIRGINIA RAILS, all on the north side in the usual spot. I skipped stopping in my favorite part of the lower hollow because the road crew was working noisily in that area. But I made other stops, and in addition to the more common birds I found a MOURNING WARBLER about 1/3 mile north of Diane's Crossing. The hawthorn blossoms look like they'll start opening within the next two or three days. In the wooded swamps at the north end of the marsh (more-or-less opposite the beagle club) a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH was singing. -Geo -- 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] Cape May Warblers
I've got a couple of Cape May Warblers foraging in the sunlit spruces across from my driveway (227 Tupper Road, West Danby) -Geo -- 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] Worm-eating Warblers
This morning with Mary Rolland I went to the north pinnacle area (northernmost of the group of three known as "Thatcher's Pinnacles"). We timed our arrival for 9:00 am, when the sun first climbs over the summit to light the treetops on the slopes. The effect is like a second dawn in that morning-shaded habitat, and it prompts the Worm-eating Warblers to sing. Which they did! We had songs from several directions, and eventually a Worm-eater flew into a nearby treetop for viewing. I'm inclined to think they've just arrived, as I've struck out on several previous mornings. -Geo -- 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] eBird Report - Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve (FLLT), May 6, 2016
Hi Laura, I was at Lindsay-Parsons today too. Can't add much to your list: Hermit Thrush, Blue-headed Vireo, Blackburnian Warbler and Louisiana Waterthrush. No Worm-eating yet. From the looks of things, it may be a couple of days yet. One thing that interested me was a very vocal Yellow-throated Vireo up on the shoulder of the north pinnacle. From that height I have often heard this species singing far down below, westward toward the RR and the Inlet where it regularly breeds. I wondered if my bird this morning had just arrived, or if he was a territorial claimant, exuberantly advertising from the highest possible perch... -Geo > On May 6, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > My daughter and I took a stroll around the Lindsay-Parsons Biodiveristy > Preserve this morning, -- 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] New arrivals
I too have a Ruby-throated Zumbador at the feeders today! -Geo -- 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] 203 Tupper
I j ust found a nice little group of migrants feeding in trees around my old house (203 Tupper Rd, just above Maple Ave), including: Chestnut-sided Warbler (male) Nashville Warblers (both sexes) Blue-winged Warbler (male) American Redstart (male) Hooded Warbler (male) Blue-headed Vireos Ruby-crowned Kinglets Scarlet Tanager (a female this time) Baltimore Oriole (male) -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Hooded Warbler
New this morning around my place: Hooded Warbler and Chestnut-sided Warbler. -Geo Tupper Road, West Danby -- 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] More Blackburnians
This morning I've found several Blackburnian Warblers singing in the NE corner of the L-P Preserve (off Station Road), and from the north pinnacle I heard a few distant songs, including Wood Thrushes and a second Scarlet Tanager. -Geo -- 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] Birds around my place
The buds have been stalled for days here in the cold shadow of Beech Hill, Seeley Hill, and 1920' Sorry Hunter Hill, but finally today a warmer start and some new birds: Nashville Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow-throated Vireo, Scarlet Tanager. Ovenbirds galore now (my first was last Thursday). I just located a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak from her "pik" calls. Three males have been at my sunflower feeder for a week. I keep that going through the summer for the pleasure of seeing the parents bring their fledglings in. A Chickadee excavation looks complete, but no lining yet. I should have a couple broods of Tree Swallows at the pond this year. Already there are several eggs in one box. -Geo Tupper Road, West Danby -- 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] Broad-winged Hawk
On Monday afternoon I came across a Broad-winged Hawk on Station Road (West Danby), just below the State Forest / Land Trust boundary. It was perched in a tree above the small stream there, in a typical hunting situation, so I would guess it's a local, newly returned from Veracruz or wherever... -Geo Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Oriole
There was a substantial fallout of Ruby-crowned Kinglets around my place this morning (we saw about 30, and heard more). Didn't seem like there was much else - a few Yellow-rumps - but now we've got a Baltimore Oriole. -Geo -- 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] Winter Wren, Virginia Rail
On a short walk west from Michigan Hollow Road up the south leg of the Abbotts Loop Trail, Pat and I found a Winter Wren singing near a promising nest site (overturned tree roots), a few Blue-headed Vireos, some Ruby-crowned Kinglets, etc. Earlier we stopped at the little marsh in front of the old county landfill, hoping for Virginia Rail, and were not disappointed! I got out of the car and said hello to Meena, who was already there. As we exchanged greetings, a series of grunts came from the cattails on the north side of the causeway. Over the next few minutes we had a nice encounter with a talkative Virginia Rail, who gave "kiddick" calls and a series of grunts, and eventually left its hiding place to walk around in the (comparative) open. Earlier still, we looked in on the heron colony at Sylvan Lane, to find about a dozen Great Blues hanging around the nests, sitting the nests, or fussing with sticks. -Geo -- 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/ --
