[cayugabirds-l] Veery

going 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 ARCHIVE

[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 Ki

[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 http://www.Northeast

[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: http://www.NortheastBirding

[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 Thr

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" wrote: > Hi Cayugabirders, > > Half an hour ago I was hanging out in the

[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

Re: [cayugabirds-l] East Hill osprey

Apparently the promise of "owning" Beebe Lake as a mostly private fishing reserve outweighs the longish commute! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubs

[cayugabirds-l] Courtship flight

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.NortheastB

[cayugabirds-l] Felafel distraction

I stepped up the bank overlooking my driveway just now to cut some green garlic for a batch of felafel I'm making, and was treated to a distraction display by an adult Mourning Dove. So those fledglings must still be right here somewhere... Oh we'll, back to the frying! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L

[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] 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 occasion

[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 h

[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 http://www.NortheastBi

[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] 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] Hermit chorus

ther on my dog, Sandy. What 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/Cayugabi

Re: [cayugabirds-l] First Broad-wings

rple Finches around today. 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" wrote: > Aft

[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

[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

[cayugabirds-l] Sapsucker

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker is tapping codes just down the hill from my house this morning. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

[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

Re: [cayugabirds-l] HELP PLEASE

First thing I'd try (because it's quick, easy, and cost-free) is to shake the (unspecified) tree vigorously. If you're lucky a lot of the fruit might drop off... -Geo Kloppel On Apr 3, 2014, at 9:55 AM, "Rustici, Marc" wrote: > Our facility has a mirrored

[cayugabirds-l] Phoebe visits nest site

rching familiarly 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 vis

[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 http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.

[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?

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 http://www.NortheastBirdin

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 wrote: > I'm wondering what people's thought are about how many Osprey platforms would > be appropri

[cayugabirds-l] Night flight

Still have flocks of geese (Canadas) passing overhead at 21:15 -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

[cayugabirds-l] More Snow Geese arriving

Several flocks of Snow Geese passing north over West Danby now. Time of arrival suggests they may have come from southern PA, DE, MD etc... -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBi

[cayugabirds-l] Ravens building

I spotted one of my local Ravens carrying nest material in the direction of their traditional nest area this morning. Snow Geese and Canada Geese continue passing overhead. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

[cayugabirds-l] More Snow Geese

More flocks of Snow Geese are moving over West Danby this morning. -Geo -- 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] Goose flight

West Danby had a 20 minute lull, then another big pulse of several thousand Snow Geese. Now it's quiet again -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirdin

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Goose flight

I've seen perhaps 2,000 Snow Geese pass over West Danby in the last 5 minutes in pure flocks. More still coming... -Geo Kloppel On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:49 AM, "Kevin J. McGowan" wrote: > I had a flock of Canada Geese on Dryden Lake this morning, sitting on a bare > pa

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wrens

Hi John and all, Perhaps the answer may be that it's no longer winter for them. The earliest New York State egg date for Carolina Wren is something like April first. -Geo On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:58 PM, John Greenly wrote: > I always have a Carolina Wren singing all winter, and he makes part of

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Additional freezing info

20219.2.1 -Geo Kloppel On Feb 9, 2014, at 11:49 PM, Linda Post Van Buskirk wrote: > I wonder for how long. The lake can skim over with a sharp dip in temp, and > then winds break up the ice. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.North

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Article about great lakes freezing over

My grandmother's photo album contains some photos of the famous 1912 Seneca Lake freeze-over. Hasn't happened again since then. -Geo Kloppel On Feb 9, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Ann Mitchell wrote: > My understanding is that the lake completely froze over was 1912. If someone > has

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Article about great lakes freezing over

The full answer about the reluctance of Cayuga and especially Seneca to completely freeze over is a bit complicated, but a primer on the physical limnology can be read here: http://www.gflrpc.org/Publications/SenecaLakeWMP/chap6a.pdf -Geo Kloppel On Feb 9, 2014, at 7:20 AM, "Liisa S. M

Re: [cayugabirds-l] David Cup again

I think this copy of the original 1995 rules is what you want, Richard: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10/cup_rules.html -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] West Danby Tundras

50 Tundra Swans flew very low over my house just now, heading north, perhaps even back to the Cayuga firing range, as it's snowing hard enough here to frustrate sight navigation. Their whooping was loud enough to draw us outdoors from the breakfast table. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http

[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl near Montezuma Winery

Just found a Snowy Owl on a pole along rte 89 less than one mile north of rtes 5/20. Saw another at Seneca Falls airport. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugab

[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl mucklands

Pat and I couldn't find a Snowy Owl in the farmlands south of Waterloo / Seneca Falls yesterday, so we headed over to the flooded muck along rte 31, and waited around at the Potatoes building until one flew up out of the corn field north of the road to settle on a pole just west of our lookout.

[cayugabirds-l] Round the lake Sunday

After seeing Stuart's email, Pat and I drove over to East Shore Park about 11:00 am to admire the big rafts of Aythya ducks. I guesstimated 3 to 4 thousand milling about on the calm water, mainly Redhead with an admixture of Scaup. On impulse we drove north to Myers Point. A surprisingly stron

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Driveway birding

Steve's thorny driveway story reminded me of this stanza from an old American folk song: "Jaybird and the Mockingbird, they had a little fight together. They fought all round the briar patch and never jerked a feather!" -Geo On Dec 15, 2013, at 12:01 PM, "Susan Fast" wrote: > Directly across

[cayugabirds-l] Spring-like sounds

Out here on Sorry Hunter Hill (West Danby) our heads were in the clouds through midnight at least, and there was nothing to hear when I went out. But this morning in the spruces I was treated to a long series of songs from a recrudescent Swainson's Thrush. A Ruffed Grouse is drumming too.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Mundy during lunch

Hi Meena, you wrote: > I was wondering why there are not so many fall warblers in the Mundy in > recent years. My guess would be that stopping at Mundy Wildflower Garden was a tradition, passed along for a few generations of migrants, but not enforced by any really compelling geography, and no

[cayugabirds-l] Deep Muck site

The "Deep Muck" site is off the Savannah - Spring Lake Road at the edge of the marsh between Morgan Road and Carncross Road, with a view toward the southwest corner of Howland Island. I haven't been there, but the pictures on Facebook by the Friends of Montezuma look really promising. -Geo On

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Why mimic?

I imagine this behavior serves multiple purposes, but one of the most interesting answers to the "why" question about any special exuberance is just that the mothers of those birds chose their mates on that basis. This strikes many people at first as an uninformative explanation, until they real

Re: [cayugabirds-l] meadowlark question

The NY breeding season table in the BBA handbook says 1-2 broods for Eastern Meadowlark, but gives no indication of how common second broods might be. I suppose you could watch the field closely for evidence of a second nesting, but if your goal is to win the cooperation of farmers, then it migh

Re: [cayugabirds-l] meadowlark question

First brood is probably fledged, but Eastern Meadowlarks may raise two broods, and in New York State Meadowlark eggs have been seen as late as August 1st (BBA). So there's no magic date by which -Geo On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Alicia Plotkin wrote: > A meadowlark was singing on territory i

Re: [cayugabirds-l] meadowlark question

(As I was saying) ... so there's no magic date by which you can be sure the nesting is done, and still have time to make good hay. At some point you have to say OK, time to mow! -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/

Re: [cayugabirds-l] FLLT trails and Thatcher's Pinnacles

s with the boundary shown for the preserve, which fails to extend far enough eastward to meet the State Forest, as it should. -Geo Kloppel On Jun 22, 2013, at 9:11 AM, Karen Edelstein wrote: > Note that the boundary of the State Forest is not accurate on this map, at > least according to county

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Lindsay-Parson's--this morning and questions

I have had a similar experience there with Cerulean Warblers, finding them one day at the base of the slope and the next at the top, in the state forest. These were the same individuals, in all likelihood. It's a long way around for us, but very little for the birds! -Geo Kl

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [nfc-l] 2013 Cuckoo Movement

Hi Chris, Fascinating! Since you're getting Doppler shifted call sequences from cuckoos, can you also determine direction of travel? -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] May 19 unidentified call

Yep, that's a Hooded Warbler. There are a number of adjacent Hooded Warbler territories down below my house, and I hear this song all the time. Sometimes it's just one voice in a round of countersinging, sometimes several birds will be singing this song, and I've even watched one bird switch bac

[cayugabirds-l] Cuckoo morning

As the sun climbs above the morning mist down in the Cayuga Inlet Valley, I can hear Black-billed Cuckoos calling from several directions, and now from the gulf comes the Yellow-billed Cuckoo's slow, deep "Kowp... Kowp... Kowp...". Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- Cayugabi

[cayugabirds-l] A few stragglers

Around my yard, the last few days have brought Orioles, Indigo Buntings (at last!), Yellow-throated Vireo, and now this morning several Blackpoll Warblers ("Oh no, don't say that!") Geo Kloppel Tupper Road West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.North

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Common Nighthawk

the parks, the flood control channel, etc. -Geo Kloppel On May 18, 2013, at 10:38 PM, "W. Larry Hymes" wrote: > Yesterday morning around 9:00, as we were driving down State Street just > after turning off Mitchell St., Sara Jane and I had two birds fly over us > from right to

Re: [cayugabirds-l] ravens

away. -Geo Kloppel On May 17, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Michele Mannella wrote: > Where there are usually two ravens in the neighborhood, this morning at 6:30 > a.m. there were 7 flying overhead, with at least two vocalizing. I wonder if > this could be both parents and new fledglings already?

[cayugabirds-l] Black-billed Cuckoo

ioned previously. -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@cornel

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes

s "Renwick Wildwood". If you want the name changed, I think you should petition the Cayuga Bird Club. -Geo Kloppel On May 13, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Christopher Wood wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that > opinions ar

[cayugabirds-l] Parula, Tennessee

A fresh wave of migrants has arrived at my place this morning, including Northern Parula, Tennessee Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Magnolia Warbler... -Geo Tupper Road West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugabi

[cayugabirds-l] Vocal Red-shouldered Hawk

Hollow, the closest Red-shoulder breeding location that I know of. Multiple singing Scarlet Tanagers here this morning. Geo Kloppel West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http

[cayugabirds-l] Nashville still

f them yet. I still have a Brown Thrasher apparently claiming territory. >From the sound of things, the young Ravens will soon be - may already be - out >of their nest. Geo Kloppel West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http:

[cayugabirds-l] Cape May Warbler

Just west of the aforementioned town line, as the sun lit the tops of a spruce thicket, I got a handful of songs from an unseen Cape May Warbler. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.North

[cayugabirds-l] Scarlet Tanager, Woodthrush

At the westernmost edge of the L-P Preserve, which coincides with the Danby/Newfield town line, I've got Scarlet Tanagers and Wood Thrushes singing this morning. -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES

Re:[cayugabirds-l] More warblers around home

severe logging operation two decades ago and hasn't flowered since, is looking unusually lush. Geo Kloppel West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirdin

[cayugabirds-l] More warblers around home

throat (lots) Hooded Warbler (3 or 4) Also: Great-crested Flycatcher Winter Wren (same spot) Sharp-shinned Hawk, visiting my feeder for several days now. The feeder birds don't seem much disturbed. They just take a ten-minute break! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http:/

[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warbler

han half a mile to the north) 42.31610 N 76.50747 W Elevation approximately 1300' (Sorry, no Loran-C): Worm-eating Warbler, several singing, beginning about 8:45 AM -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/C

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Request for this listserve.....

On the iPhone, the Google Earth app lets you copy the coordinates of any location you're viewing (touch OPTIONS and swipe to POSITION to find the copiable coordinates). Then you can paste them into an email or anywhere else you wish. If you paste them into Apple Maps, the mapping app can take y

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Request for this listserve.....

Among all the choice comments I received, one critic complained that I neglected to give the altitude, another asked if I could please render the location in Loran-C, and a third suggested that the description should begin by specifying "Planet Earth". Really, GPS is quite sufficient to identif

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Request for this listserve.....

OK, Tompkins County, Town of Danby, roughly half a mile south of Station Road, 3/4 mile west of Bald Hill Road, 7/8 mile east of NY 34. Latitude & Longitude in decimal degrees: 42.31605N 76.50678W (approximate, per Google Earth; if you prefer another coordinate system you probably already have a

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Request for this listserve.....

I think I'm the one who omitted mention of a location today, so for the benefit of new readers, the one known regular breeding location for Worm-Eating Warblers in the Cayuga Basin is Thatcher's Pinnacles (Danby State Forest, overlooking the upper Cayuga Inlet valley at West Danby). -Geo On

[cayugabirds-l] No WEWAs yet

I did a quick check for Worm-eating Warblers at 10:00. They don't seem to have arrived yet. The chestnut oaks are not yet unfurling their leaves, so on that basis I think it may be a couple more days. I did find quite a few Black-throated Green Warblers and one Black and White Warbler. I also pa

[cayugabirds-l] Chestnut-sided Warbler

Quick walk around home this morning produced a Chestnut-sided Warbler and a few Yellow-rumps, nothing else new... -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubsc

[cayugabirds-l] Pretty quiet!

bats, but any bats are a welcome delight. The shad is just starting to bloom, and the apple blossoms won't be long. That means insects, and they'll mean more warblers, I hope. -Geo Kloppel Jay wrote: > Migrants seem very slow today ( -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.No

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Female Ring-necked Pheasant

This sounds like the behavior of a recently released bird. If you ask around the neighborhood, you might eventually discover a pheasant fancier (usually a hunter) who raises them from chicks and then releases them in the surrounding countryside, hoping they will become established. Or the phea

[cayugabirds-l] Toadsong

Whip surprised me on the same evening that toad song peaked - May 4th, I think it was - and the very next day Whip-poor-wills were reported from the south shore of Lake Ontario! Geo Kloppel West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME

[cayugabirds-l] Hermit Thrushes

At dawn several Hermit Thrushes were singing down in the woods below my house. Also Winter Wren, Blue-headed Vireo, Ovenbird and Louisiana Waterthrush, but I haven't found any other warblers. Geo Kloppel West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWE

[cayugabirds-l] 6:30 AM

6:30 AM; 32 degrees, and I'm dressed for winter, but on a quick walk around home I found many singing birds, including Brown Thrasher, Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, Blue-headed Vireo, Louisiana Waterthrush. No Fox Sparrows this morning; perhaps they've finally cleared out. -G

[cayugabirds-l] Winter Wren

Nothing new in my yard today except a singing Winter Wren. -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.ma

[cayugabirds-l] Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Have a very dandy male Rose-breasted Grosbeak coming to the feeder this morning, along with 8 or 10 Purple Finches. Yesterday's Brown Thrasher continues. Fox Sparrows are still numerous. Eight male Wood Ducks and a pair of Mallards on the pond. Geo Kloppel West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L

[cayugabirds-l] Pileated nest - FLT

I happened to see a Pileated Woodpecker enter a neat round hole in a sycamore this morning. I sat down and watched from a distance for five or ten minutes, to see what might happen. The woodpecker remained inside the entire time, only peeping out occasionally. Looks like a nest hole. Nice to cat

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks????

Woodcock do not breed on my steep hillside overlooking West Danby, but I usually see a few displays in my fields from stopover migrants pumped up on hormones. This suggests that the first individuals to arrive and display in favorable locations might not necessarily be the ones that will be foun

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Redpolls again!

I've had Redpolls non-stop through the winter, never less than about 50 in the neighborhood. Although I suspended feeding them niger several times, they stayed and ate black oil sunflower seed. Multiple Fox Sparrows are singing now. Several Song Sparrows this morning. Wood Ducks have been visit

[cayugabirds-l] Fox Sparrow

Snow all over everything again, but a Fox Sparrow was singing under the bushes here this morning Geo Kloppel West Danby -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about lower lake road

For birders who enjoy maps, the following link opens the official Cayuga and Seneca navigation chart (depths in feet): http://www.canals.ny.gov/navinfo/charts/14786cs1.png -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/Cayugab

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about lower lake road

forage whenever the snow cover does not prevent it. The winter draw-down of lake level makes the shallows even shallower, almost like a tidal area. -Geo Kloppel On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:58 AM, John VanNiel wrote: > There was also an ice shelf there to loaf on... > > -Origina

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about lower lake road

I imagine a number of factors contribute to the attractive power of that area. Here's one: the lake is still broad there, but it's very shallow, mostly 5 - 6 ft. -Geo On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:29 AM, "Barbara B. Eden" wrote: > I am curious why that is the place where the snow geese and tundra s

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bald Eagles in Danby

Hi Kim, Sounds like you're talking about the eagles' nest on a wooded island in the North Spencer Marsh? Yes, this is their fourth year there. -Geo On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Kim Haines-Eitzen wrote: > Yesterday morning (around 9:30am) I saw Bald Eagles apparently working on a > nest at t

[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls - Sibley Scores

method of separating Hoary from Common Redpolls in the field? http://www.sibleyguides.com/2008/01/a-character-index-for-redpoll-identification/ -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hoary or not?

ve us the answer, but at present there may be no fact of the matter. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Hoary or not?

nctions, but somehow I still feel better after reading through that discussion! -Geo Kloppel On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > Hi All, > I found a very interesting article (link below), followed by a discussion, > about the ‘Hoary Redpoll Question” which you might want t

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Evening Grosbeaks

Yesterday I added a sunflower hopper out near the road. It took a day for birds to begin visiting it. But I've had no sight or sound of Evening Grosbeaks today, so for the moment, no joy... -Geo -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.Northeast

[cayugabirds-l] 18 Evening Grosbeaks

...perching in the treetops, looking at my feeders. -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-archi

[cayugabirds-l] Evening Grosbeaks

Evening Grosbeaks continue this morning. They're not coming to my feeders, but hanging out in my neighbor's yard. She has a bigger sunflower operation, but it's not visible from the road. I will try to put up a feeder today, within sight of the road for the benefit of car birders. Will keep you

Re:[cayugabirds-l] Evening Grosbeaks

My Evening Grosbeaks had a quick snack, then disappeared... -Geo Kloppel On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote: > Out walking the dogs in our West Danby woods earlier this morning, I heard > Evening Grosbeaks overhead, and now about six of them are coming to the > sunflow

[cayugabirds-l] 200 Redpolls again

gain. This nervous feed-and-startle cycle repeats for perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes, then they all disappear for a variable interval (from minutes to hours), then they return and do it all again... So perhaps they are both skittish AND twitchy. -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List

[cayugabirds-l] Evening Grosbeaks

Out walking the dogs in our West Danby woods earlier this morning, I heard Evening Grosbeaks overhead, and now about six of them are coming to the sunflower feeder. What a treat! -Geo Kloppel -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http

Re: [cayugabirds-l] 100+ Redpolls-for a minute

Hi Wesley, you wrote: > I'd actually expect the opposite: something that's called a "selfish herd" > effect, where the larger the group, the less likely that you'll be depredated > because by chance alone you're far less likely to be killed by the small > number of predators in the area if you'

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