[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker

comes back, but the intervals are long and he seems to be in no hurry. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1

[cayugabirds-l] More building

-and-learn mode. Think I'll put out some horse hair for them. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1

[cayugabirds-l] Wood Ducks and Ticks

I took a short walk in the mown fields in the central part of the LP Biodiversity Preserve (West Danby). Ponds are just beginning to open down there, and Wood Ducks were concentrated in the small ice-free areas. I stopped counting at 16... Great Blue Herons were standing in a high nest out in

[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrows

Today we finally lost enough snow up here in the West Danby highlands to expose some habitat for ground foragers, and sure enough, several Fox Sparrows are singing from deep in the thickets. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

[cayugabirds-l] Mucklands

for Shovelers, Blue-winged Teal or any shorebirds. Saw the two Red-necked Grebes on the Union Springs Mill Pond. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Crows, Eagle

A pair of Crows was gathering nest material on the bank outside my kitchen window this morning. Plenty of other Crows around, of course, but one that I saw downtown this afternoon is notable, because it was chasing a first year Bald Eagle over the Unitarian Church. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

[cayugabirds-l] Crows, Eagle

A pair of Crows was gathering nest material on the bank outside my kitchen window this morning. Plenty of other Crows around, of course, but one that I saw downtown this afternoon is worth noting, because it was chasing a first year Bald Eagle over the Unitarian Church. -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Siskins and Purple Finch

New at my feeders are 3 Pine Siskins and a male Purple Finch. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1

[cayugabirds-l] Kettle of Ravens

Snow Geese have been passing over West Danby all day. At 3:00 I heard some remote croaks, and looked up to see a kettle of ten Ravens riding a thermal upward. My local Raven pair is also very active, quite vocal and often flying close together. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Geese!

; their northward advance is noticeably slowed by the strong headwind. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES

[cayugabirds-l] Goose flights

Some northbound flocks of geese entering the basin over West Danby now. Both Canadas and Snows. This morning it was Gulls, moving southward. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Goshawk!

I was sitting at home with a cup of tea just now, gazing across the upper Cayuga Inlet valley toward sunlit Thatcher's Pinnacles, enjoying the thought that in seven or eight weeks this will all look so different, and the Worm-eating Warblers will be back. Suddenly a large whitish bird flew

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Raven courtship

material, as they headed up toward the traditional nest site (north face of Sorry Hunter Hill, 1920' elevation) -Geo Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby On Mar 4, 2015, at 12:53 PM, John Confer con...@ithaca.edu wrote: Spring around our house includes Raven courtship. -- Cayugabirds-L List

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Ladoga Point

This is the spot: 42.53540N, 76.53968W -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

[cayugabirds-l] Butler's Pine warbler within Cayuga Basin?

Here's a link to the locality topo, if anyone wants to see it. The location of interest is along rte 89 in the NW corner of the map, just east of the 524' drumlin summit shown there. http://www.dec.ny.gov/data/dfwmr/bba/pdf/3577a.pdf -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Butler Creek drainage

at that address may drain both ways. -Geo Kloppel On Feb 18, 2015, at 3:23 AM, M Miller mmiller...@hotmail.com wrote: I did a brief review of the waynecountynysoilandwater.org site and found out a couple things. The town of Butler is listed as partly in the Lake Ontario watershed (basin drainage

Re: [cayugabirds-l] RFI: possible first 2015 Cayuga Lake Basin PINE WARBLER

Ay, that's a tough one! Even on the USGS topo I can't tell (see BBA block 3577A). On Kevin's tennis principle (the line is IN), I'd call this inside the basin, unless the owner declares his/her yard is definitely out. -Geo On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@mac.com wrote:

[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls

A couple of Redpolls have joined the 40+ Goldfinches at my feeders this morning. They seem to have replaced the two Pine Siskins that were here for a few days. Although I have a feeder devoted to niger, it's not as popular as my big hopper-style feeder, which I keep filled with the Turek Farm

Re: [cayugabirds-l] bird feeders and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

I wonder if birds might some day soon be drafted to spread the biological control agents that will keep hemlock wooly adelgid in check? -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Siskins and Redpolls

I've also got at least one Pine Siskin at my feeders now (Tupper Road, West Danby), and I've had flyover Redpolls, so I'm hoping they'll drop in too. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Long Point Short Ears

and headed NE, quickly disappearing from view in the gathering darkness. I didn't see any others, but I could hear them barking back down in the vineyard, so I trust the whole group is still present. Not so sure about the Lansing Short-ears... Is anybody still seeing them? -Geo Kloppel

Re: [cayugabirds-l] In My Neighborhood

I too enjoyed a long window session with a Cooper's Hawk this morning. My young bird (a male, I guessed) was definitely hungry, though, and made numerous attempts at feeder birds, who only retreated to the underbranches of the spruce tree behind the feeder. It almost seemed that they could tell

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OOB? Rough-legged

Hi Michelle, I think all of Townsendville Road is IN. -Geo On Jan 22, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Michele Mannella mkmanne...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday and last Saturday I found two ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS on Townsendville Road, south of Covert Road and north of Vesa in Interlaken. They were a joy to

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT : Comet Lovejoy is visible right now

Two clear nights in a row! Green slushball Comet Lovejoy is easy to spot right now, about a hand's breadth (1.5 binocular fields) SW of the Pleiades. Thanks Meena. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Waterfowl hunting regulation

I guess the courts have the final say on the validity of Ithaca's ordinance. Concern about the cost and risks associated with jurisdictional disputes may be explanation enough for the lack of enforcement heretofore. But if the city begins to enforce its No Hunting ordinance, then DEC will have

Re: [cayugabirds-l] City of Ithaca: Raven, non-count-week Gadwall, legal sanctuary at south end of lake

Does the Ithaca Police Dept have a police boat? That seems like it would be essential equipment for enforcing the firearms ban in the portion of Stewart Park that extends 2,000' north over the water. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Waterfowl hunting regulation

://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/40550.html : The State holds the authority to regulate hunting, and no lesser government can usurp that authority. Although No Hunting laws are not valid, they may nonetheless be on the books in some municipalities. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Waterways Jurisdiction

Hi Chris, The city and state jurisdictions apparently overlap in the portion of the lake that lies within the city boundary. State agencies do not enforce the city's hunting ban there, but it seems logical that city police should still have the authority to do so (after all, this area is within

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Belle School Rd - CL Basin or Not?

, which flows into Orinoco in general, but if the precipitation is heavy then it flows into Amazon. Meena Ithaca Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: Well, collectively we're interested in _both_ the 1/1/2015 Ithaca Christmas Bird Count and the Cayuga Basin First Records for 2015

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Belle School Rd - CL Basin or Not?

Jody W. Enck, PhD Program Development and Evaluation Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2471 From: Geo Kloppel Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎January‎ ‎3‎, ‎2015 ‎9‎:‎50‎ ‎AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Sandy is correct. Without testing, it's hard to guess which way the surface water ought to run

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Belle School Rd - CL Basin or Not?

guess fifty acres or more. The ditch along the south side of Belle School Road coming down from the west also drains northward through the same culvert. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park geese

Those birds may have to stay near the lake today. The ceiling has dropped to ground level out here in the upper inlet valley, and the surrounding highlands are thickly enshrouded. This is our first day without big flights of departing Snow Geese since last Tuesday before the storm (during the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird call question

If you can't make chipmunks fit, you night consider Turkey moms and their half-grown poults. They're trading alarm clucks right now. -Geo Kloppel On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Sue Rakow sue.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I know chipmunk chatter quite well so am not sure of this. It is a loud sound

[cayugabirds-l] Screech Owl

began hooting over towards Lindsay-Parsons, and that was that! -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

[cayugabirds-l] Turkey mom

and house cats, but these birds learn to fly when they're still quite small. Nevertheless, mom keeps them close. I can often tell where the little family is from the soft call-and-response music they make as they forage together in the deep undergrowth or out in the tall goldenrod. -Geo Kloppel

[cayugabirds-l] Barred Owls, etc.

At 4:00 am my local Barred Owls were amazingly exuberant; they sounded like a troupe of excited monkeys down at the western edge of the L-P Preserve! I've been awake ever since, and I'm feeling pretty sleepy. Better wake up, I have to drive up to Syracuse this evening. A Sharp-shin or

[cayugabirds-l] Double-brooding

As has been the case for a number of years now, the last warbler still singing on territory in my yard is the Hooded Warbler who owns a patch of shrubby woods just below my workshop. Singing steadily this morning, he went into alarm mode as I walked through. Answering chips indicated that he's

Re: [cayugabirds-l] FW: Migration of Willow Flycatcher

Must have been flying on assist from Tropical Storm Dolly! -Geo On Sep 2, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote: FYI! Wow that is an amazing feat! This came on another list. - Original Message - From: Manuel Grosselet birdin...@gmail.com To:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks

Newman Golf Course, of course, sorry! I wonder if these Nighthawks have been roosting in the same place day after day? Or are they even the same birds? -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks Renwick now

At least nine Common Nighthawks over the Fall Creek estuary / Stewart Park suspension bridges right now! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks

This evening Pat and I were delivering groceries to her 95 year old mother, who's recovering from temporal arteritis. We left her place on Triphammer Road at 7:15, stopped at Sunset Park to see if we could spot any Nighthawks from there, then zipped down to the RTJ golf course. We parked near

Re: [cayugabirds-l] goose poop an issue at interior of Myers Park

Since machines have to be driven all over these lawn areas on a regular basis to keep the grass short, it would probably be acceptable for the goose droppings to get picked up the same way. And sure enough, there are now machines designed for this very purpose. In the not-too-distant future

[cayugabirds-l] Merlin - Southwest End

Driving south on rte 13 at 5:00 this evening, I glimpsed a Merlin zooming NE over the (still-unopened!) bike trail bridge into the Buttermilk Plaza area. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] Cicada surprise

for a picture. A few minutes later it was gone, and shrill singing came down from the treetops. Anyone know what this all-black species is? -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hummingbird Moth

Hi Kathy, Around our area, that's probably Hemaris thysbe. Here's a link to an article with nice photos. Make sure to look at the caterpillars! http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/hthysbe.htm -Geo On Aug 13, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Kathleen Kramer k...@cornell.edu wrote: Although this posting isn't

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Accipiter eating bats

that this accipiter has discovered a bat roost in the area. Might be fun to find out where that is. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Rude awakening

It's sometimes said that hawks are late-risers, so when I heard a thin, feeble pweee at 6:30 this morning, I had three reasons for thinking That must be another imitative Blue Jay. But moments later the yard crows drove a Broad-winged Hawk from its perch in a tree by the pond. Kids! They'll go

[cayugabirds-l] Young Broad-wings

This morning my neighborhood Broad-winged Hawks are out soaring above the forested ravines and calling. I imagine this is encouragement for the fledged youngsters to come up and see the lay of the land. I didn't locate this year's nest. Had a few sights of adults hunting from perches well down

[cayugabirds-l] Owasco Caspian Terns

There were also about 20 Caspian Terns just offshore at Owasco Flats on Saturday. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Off topic: Bats

://www.batcon.org/ -Geo Kloppel On Jul 22, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Richard Tkachuck rictkal...@gmail.com wrote: A couple years ago I wrote about bats living under the plastic siding of our house. At that time there were about 25 or so. Last year fewer. This year by actual count as they left through

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Chat in FLNF

I remember there was a Chat at Art Kopp's place (Town of Reading, Schuyler County) once. Would have been in the late '60s I think, when I was a teenager. -Geo We haven't had a documented Chat in Schuyler County in many years -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014

has never been the same since! -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

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo again

Again this morning there's a bird around my place in West Danby giving slow hollow calls Kowp... ...Kowp... ...Kowp Patricia asked me which cuckoo it was, and I said I would call it Yellow-billed. Having declared, I had to make an effort to confirm. This time I was able to get very nice

[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

Just heard a distant coo-coo-coo, coo-coo-coo, coo-coo-coo coming from the north side of the Maple Avenue ravine in West Danby, in the vicinity of the Danby/Newfield town line. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monk Parakeets nesting in Hector

neighborhood. Now she lives in San Juan PR, just a couple of blocks from another large colony in palm trees along the Paseo de la Princesa. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuta Gulf

Bob's right, the end-Pleistocene origin of the Cayuta Gulf / Hendershot Gulf complex is fascinating. As far as I know, the source account remains The Finger Lakes Region: Its Origin and Nature by Cornell geology professor O D Von Engeln. For those who might want a teaser intro from a different

[cayugabirds-l] Owego Cliff Swallows

Finding myself in Owego this afternoon for the Strawberry Festival, I walked out onto the beautiful Court Street bridge to enjoy the Cliff Swallows. There are about 50 jug nests directly under the sidewalk on the upstream side of the bridge, so the parents were continually coming and going

[cayugabirds-l] Hendershot Gulf

. Rugged going though, climbing over fallen trees and such. I'll be limping for the rest of the day! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Black rat snake

, at 7:29 PM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote: Catbird parents were making quite a fuss just now in a multiflora rose thicket, on account of the big black rat snake raiding their nest! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

[cayugabirds-l] Black rat snake

Catbird parents were making quite a fuss just now in a multiflora rose thicket, on account of the big black rat snake raiding their nest! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Cayuta Outlet Acadian

1,000 meters below the head of the gorge, I found an ACADIAN FLYCATCHER singing, possibly in response to the penetration of sunshine, which doesn't really reach the floor of the shady gorge until 9:00 am. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuta Outlet Acadian

Gulf, a bit further down to the southeast. Outside of those territories, I recall only 2 other sites at Conn Hill where Acadian was known to nest. Bill E -Original Message- From: Geo Kloppel Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 10:29 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuta

[cayugabirds-l] Acadian Flycatcher still

This morning at 6:30 it was just 50 degrees F. in Michigan Hollow, but an Acadian Flycatcher was still singing in the usual spot (42.29919N 76.48335W). The road just there is about 16' above the stream, so the bird is often below you. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http

[cayugabirds-l] Newtown Battlefield SP

During a short visit to the Newtown Battlefield State Park yesterday for unrelated purposes, I noticed some birds in the vicinity of the Sullivan Monument, including Brown Thrasher, Great-crested Flycatcher, and Yellow-throated Vireo. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] still hearing Old Sam Peabody

Another place to find breeding White-throated Sparrows is along Miller Creek in the Danby State Forest. -Geo Kloppel On Jun 15, 2014, at 2:36 PM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote: Uncommon, and typically in the higher forested areas, such as Hammond Hill, Summer Hill, Shindagin Hollow

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Friday the 13th-Blow flies from Bluebird box and other ghoulish breeding season phenomena

Hi Stuart, The heronry on the island in the big beaver pond south of the West Danby Fire Hall is just a few years old. The timing of its origin suggests that it may have been started by refugees from the old heronry that existed on a wooded island in the North Spencer Marsh, which was taken

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo again

around home one summer who sang chuck-wills-widow. I couldn't say _where_ he learned that, but l don't think he made it up! 5. Do mockingbirds make calls of predators like owls or hawks? Yes. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-billed Cuckoo

. -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

[cayugabirds-l] Acadian Flycatcher

Wood Pewee at the easternmost extremity of the L-P Preserve, south of Station Road. There used to be Acadians there, but to the best of my knowledge they disappeared several years ago. When I got home my own pair of Great Crested Flycatchers was very talkative. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L

[cayugabirds-l] Migrants still

Migrants are still moving through. I've been out 5 minutes, just walking around my yard this morning, and I've already got Mourning Warbler and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Nighthawks

Out in the yard just now when I heard the peent and looked up to see a Common Nighthawk high overhead. It moved off to the north, and 3 minutes later another (or the same) went over, also peenting. Made my day! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] playback tapes

Just a minor quibble, but does anyone actually carry old magnetic tapes into the field any more? The field guide apps on my iPhone (I have several) contain the equivalent of a suitcase full of books and tapes. The Audubon app in particular is heavily loaded with songs and other vocalizations.

[cayugabirds-l] Canada Warblers

Canada Warblers must have arrived in force last night. I found them this morning singing in their traditional breeding area at the L-P Preserve (Beech Hill Brook, just over the Danby town line from my yard). -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Crows eating toads

Toads are converging on my pond for their annual get together, which seems to correspond closely with the arrival of Whip-poor-wills in the Cayuga basin. And the Crows are beginning to collect the annual toll of toad-flesh for the privilege of crossing the dike. From the remains, it seems

Re: [cayugabirds-l] question re: feeders and migration

. Soon their favorite foods are plentiful in the wild, and feeders just become less attractive. -Geo Kloppel On May 9, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Eben McLane etmcl...@gmail.com wrote: I am curious if anyone knows about migrating birds that appear regularly at feeders (home, CLO, anywhere bird feeders

[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warbler

Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Hermit Thrushes, Wood Thrush, etcetera. Back in the hemlocks behind me Blackburnian Warblers are numerous, along with Black-throated Green, Overbird, Blue-headed Vireo, etc. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Veery

on. Fun to remember what a hotspot this was in the late '90s! -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

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby Birds

A few more birds have trickled into my yard too: Baltimore Oriole, Common Yellowthroat and Chestnut-sided Warbler. At least one Wood Thrush arrived on Friday. Now there are several around. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Red-eyed Vireo

Took a walk this afternoon around the Fisher Old Growth Forest, which I figured would offer some shelter from the gusty northwest wind. Down at the bottom it was sunny and warm, and some migrants were actively foraging in the trees along the marsh edge. Among the Yellow-rumps and Ruby-crowned

[cayugabirds-l] Around home

May 2nd, and still very slow around my place in West Danby. Yesterday brought my first Ovenbird, a Chipping Sparrow, and two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, but I'm not finding any other new arrivals. Possibly I'm missing a few that are kept quiet by the low temperature... There are lots of Hermit

[cayugabirds-l] Magnolia, etc.

I took another walk around the yard when the temperature hit 50F, and this time I found Black-throated Green Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Nashville Warbler, and Black and White Warbler. Mostly silent, but at least they're moving around. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Common Raven carrying food

Raven nests can get to be pretty noisy places, and you may easily hear the nestlings begging, even from half a mile away. The racket gets louder and deeper day by day! -Geo On Apr 29, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Marie P. Read m...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi Cayugabirders, Half an hour ago I was hanging

[cayugabirds-l] Virginia Rail, West Danby

:00 am a Broad-winged Hawk flew through my yard with nest material. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1

[cayugabirds-l] Courtship flight

. To entertain myself I played a couple of Pine Warbler trills on my iPhone. Immediately a Junco flew in close to investigate. Oops! Sorry... I apologized and moved on. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Broadwings

Nothing new around my West Danby place yet this morning, unless I count a second Broad-winged Hawk in the traditional nesting area overlooking Maple Ave. In the last few days I've only seen the one, but today I found two of them moving around close together within the canopy, vocalizing

[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Cloak

Not a bird, of course, but just saw a Mourning Cloak flying about the yard. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES:

[cayugabirds-l] Fledglings!

Newly fledged Mourning Doves appeared in my driveway this morning. Brown Thrashers are singing again after a few days of silence, and I glimpsed some chasing. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby arrivals

New at my place this morning: Brown Thrasher Blue-headed Vireo Ruby-crowned Kinglet Field Sparrow Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Dueling Thrashers

Two Brown Thrashers are in my yard, holding a singing contest. One does very credible imitations of Great Crested Flycatcher, Chestnut-sided Warbler, and Alder Flycatcher. What a charmer! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit Thrushes

Several Hermit Thrushes are singing this morning along Beech Hill Brook (Lindsay-Parsons Preserve). -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] First Broad-wings

. Also had Golden-crowned Kinglet and Winter Wren, both singing. I might walk down to the brook to hear the chorus of Hermit Thrushes this evening. Yard Woodcock continues. -Geo Kloppel On Apr 12, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu wrote: After scanning the sky off

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit chorus

a beautiful moonrise! I'm looking forward to tomorrow night's lunar eclipse (c.2:00 am) -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[cayugabirds-l] Barred Owls, Woodcock, peepers

...an hour later, and it's now as dark as it's going to get under this nearly-full moon. Barred Owls are talking, as they regularly do here year-around, but tonight spring peepers are singing too, as I imagine they're doing all over the basin. My yard Woodcock is still displaying, thanks to the

[cayugabirds-l] Mars with Woodcock

Mars is a little orange disk in my scope, rising over Thatcher's Pinnacles to the accompaniment of a Woodcock that's displaying in my backyard. I bet there's quite a Woodcock show going on right now down below us at the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http

[cayugabirds-l] Yellowlegs

I spotted a Greater Yellowlegs on mud at the west end of the rte 31 causeway across the mucklands around noon. There was also a large Calidris-type sandpiper, probably Pectoral Sandpiper -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

[cayugabirds-l] Phoebe visits nest site

on branches just beyond the eaves of my workshop this morning seems in all likelihood to be the newly returned owner of this traditional nest site. My pond is still frozen, but the rotting ice is very mushy now, and I trust it will soon vanish, and Wood Ducks will be visiting! -Geo Kloppel

[cayugabirds-l] More Snow Geese arriving

West Danby: more big flocks of Snow Geese entering the basin on this morning's south wind, -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

[cayugabirds-l] More geese from the south

Lots more geese are entering the Cayuga Basin from the south this morning, including flocks of Snow Geese. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] How close to one another will Ospreys nest?

Saturating an area with platforms attractive to Ospreys might be a useful strategy for reducing unwanted nest-building on utility installations. -Geo On Mar 27, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Dave Nutter nutter.d...@me.com wrote: I'm wondering what people's thought are about how many Osprey platforms

Re: [cayugabirds-l] How close to one another will Ospreys nest?

The secluded eastern side of the backwater lagoon in the heart of the Renwick Wildwood (some 200 yards up Fall Creek from the pedestrian bridges) might be a location worth considering. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

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