[cayugabirds-l] Great night flight calls

2013-05-20 Thread Kenneth V. Rosenberg
One of my best spring listening for night flight calls is happening now - in the past 15 minutes I've heard nearly 50 thrushes (mostly Swainsons), 6 BLACK-BILLED CUCKOOS, AMERICAN BITTERN, SOLITARY and SPOTTED SANDPIPERS, etc. Ken Sent from my iPhone -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.No

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

2013-05-20 Thread Joseph Brin
RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse * May 20, 2013 *  NYSY  05. 20. 13   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): May 13, 2013 - May 20, 2013 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (jus

[cayugabirds-l] Mundy Lunch Walk

2013-05-20 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
Hi all, Today's lunch walk seemed like the usual late spring walk with lots of birds singing. Most residents are back with a few migrants. Regular breeders were AM. Redstart, Chestnut Sided, Common Yellowthroat, Eastern Wood Peewee, Great Crested, Warbling Vireo (2 pairs), Red-eyed Vireo (2 ma

[cayugabirds-l] Prairie Warbler, NE Ithaca

2013-05-20 Thread Kenneth V. Rosenberg
In addition to singing BLACKPOLL, TENNESSEE, and YELLOW-THROATED VIREO on Tareyton Drive in Northeast Ithaca this morning, I found a PRAIRIE WARBLER acting territorial in the open red pine stand east of the Arrowwood Drive medical park, while walking the dog. This habitat patch has always looked

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker Woods

2013-05-20 Thread Jay McGowan
A couple good birds on a quick spin around Wilson Trail North just now, including a singing WILSON'S WARBLER along with Blackpoll, Magnolia, and Canada at the Sherwood Platform, and a singing PHILADELPHIA VIREO over the feeder along the pond. Jay -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastB

[cayugabirds-l] MNWR Glossy Ibis, May 19

2013-05-20 Thread David Suggs
Montezuma NWR. Glossy Ibis, maybe same reported by M & J Tetlow, seen about 9:30 AM Sunday, May 19. Flew into first lagoon east of auto tour road (Larue?), touched down and quickly departed high and southward toward Cayuga lake. A low flying Bald Eagle may have been the reason. David & Debbie Suggs