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).
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back in my shop, drying by the wood fire and picking off the ticks!
-Geo
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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
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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.
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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
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> On Mar 19, 2018, at 4:28 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote:
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> and from the
Just had an adult Peregrine flying north over the Steamboat Landing / Ithaca
Farmers Market.
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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!
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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
West Danby - lots of Snow Geese have been re-entering the basin this morning on
a tail wind out of the south.
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On Feb 12, 2018, at 12:42 PM, John Confer wrote:
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> 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%
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
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
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
Only one PIne Siskin and one Purple Finch here so far, but I’m happy to say “me
too!” from Tupper Road
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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
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 struc
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 coup
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 se
ems now, but my pants legs and socks are _plastered_ with the
sticky seeds of agrimony, avens, cleavers and other hitchhikers!
-Geo
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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
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
conefl
> Best,
>
>
> Kevin
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Kevin
>
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> on behalf of Geo Kloppel
>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 5:08 PM
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> 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 u
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!
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..and here are two young Harriers!
-Geo
> On Jul 31, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote:
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> 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 y
ning my 14' kayak around up here will be tight...
-Geo
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> On Jul 31, 2017, at 8:32 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote:
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> 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 n
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!
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... 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.
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Have 3 Broad-winged Hawks soaring low (c. 100') over the traditional nesting
territory (Maple Ave, West Danby) right now. Vocalizing constantly.
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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.
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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 mov
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!
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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 si
I've got a pair coming regularly to my feeders...
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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
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
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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 breed
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,
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
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
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.
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This morning a Hooded Warbler is back, singing in a traditional nesting area a
couple hundred feet from my house (Tupper Road, West Danby)
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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 al
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.
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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...
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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 D
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> On Apr 28, 2017, at 9:20 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote:
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> 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 befo
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-du
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 Ho
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(?) droppe
After last night's cloudburst, there are 100 Purple Finches in my yard. (This
is not a hard count, just a conservative guesstimate)
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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
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> On Apr 20, 2017, at 10:13
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.
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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
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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 "chew
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
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.
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ute little predator out on the prowl!
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How about migrants wintering deeper into So. America?
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>> 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
>>
x27;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:
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> Folks...I
able without much effort.
>>
>> Wesley
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>> -Original Message-
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>> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017
ecial 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
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 attempt
PM, Geo Kloppel wrote:
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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
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.
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Thousands and thousands of Crows are streaming south over the Fall Creek
neighborhood, heading for a roost on South Hill I guess.
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https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v050n04/p0274-p0285.pdf
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> On Dec 11, 2016, at 3:01 AM, Melanie Uhlir wrote:
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> I was very lucky last evening to catch a Great Horned Owl call from a
> westerly direction while about to ent
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
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
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> On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:36 AM, Marty Schlabach
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
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> Have Prairie Warblers quieted dow
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
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 Mournin
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 wer
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 Rose
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
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Michigan Hollow marsh rang regularly with American Bittern calls this morning
while I was there (5:45 - 6:15).
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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
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.
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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.
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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 vari
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 haml
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 Mou
...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.
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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
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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
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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
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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-breas
I've got a couple of Cape May Warblers foraging in the sunlit spruces across
from my driveway (227 Tupper Road, West Danby)
-Geo
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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
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-throat
I too have a Ruby-throated Zumbador at the feeders today!
-Geo
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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-crow
New this morning around my place: Hooded Warbler and Chestnut-sided Warbler.
-Geo
Tupper Road, West Danby
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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
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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
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...
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
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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
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