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2 Sep GHOW again [Meena Haribal ] 01 Sep Glossy Ibis continues at MNWR, +phalaropes Rte 89 overlook [] 1 Sep Re: Re:Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow [david nicosia ] 1 Sep Re: Re:Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow ["ConserveBirds" ] 1 Sep Durland Olive-sided Flycatcher [bob mcguire ] 1 Sep TVS [Meena Haribal ] 1 Sep Re:Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow [Jay McGowan ] 1 Sep Great Horned Owl - Juniper Drive [Stuart Krasnoff ] 1 Sep Olive-sided Flycatcher, Ellis Hollow [Jay McGowan ] 1 Sep Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow [Jay McGowan ] 31 Aug Re: Eastern Screech-owl [Eric Banford ] 30 Aug light patches ["david" ] 30 Aug Syracuse RBA [Joseph Brin ] 30 Aug Whimbrel, Black-bellied Plover at Myers [Christopher Wood ] 30 Aug RE: re:optics [Chris Pelkie ] 29 Aug East Hill Nighthawks [Matthew Medler ] 29 Aug Buff-breasted Sandpiper nice but far [] 29 Aug Glossy Ibis [] 29 Aug Merlin [Matthew Medler ] 29 Aug Re: Migrants in the morning [Geo Kloppel ] 29 Aug re:Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Knox-Marsellus, Montezuma [Dave Nutter ] 29 Aug Red-shouldered Hawk - a poignant moment...... [Marie P Read ] 29 Aug Migrants in the morning [Meena Haribal ] 28 Aug Shorebird Turnover [bob mcguire ] 28 Aug Re: Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Montezuma [Dave Nutter ] 28 Aug Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Montezuma [Jay McGowan ] 27 Aug Montezuma again [Jay McGowan ] 27 Aug Yellow-headed Blackbird ["grosbeak AT clarityconnect.com" ] 27 Aug Montezuma Phalaropes [Matthew Medler ] 27 Aug Some bird notes [Meena Haribal ] 26 Aug Re: Try Stewart [Dave Nutter ] 26 Aug Long-tailed Jaeger from Myers Point this AM (photos) [Christopher Wood ] 26 Aug Long-tailed Jaeger from Myers Point this AM (photos) [Christopher Wood ] 26 Aug recent banding ["John and Sue Gregoire" ] 26 Aug Eastern Screech-owl [Chris Pelkie ] 26 Aug Try Stewart [Christopher Wood ] 26 Aug Longtailed jarger [Christopher Wood ] 26 Aug Re: Wegman's parking lot Great Egret OT RE: Wegmans Birding ["John and Fritzie Blizzard" ] 25 Aug Re: Species codes [Dave Nutter ] 25 Aug RE: Wegman's parking lot Great Egret OT RE: Wegmans Birding [Jeffery Davis ] 25 Aug Wegman's parking lot Great Egret ["James G. Kohlenberg" ] 25 Aug Re: Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 [Suan Yong ] 25 Aug Mundy on Wednesday at lunch Parula and Ovenbird [Meena Haribal ] 25 Aug Species codes ["John and Sue Gregoire" ] 24 Aug Re: Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 [Dave Nutter ] 24 Aug Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 [] 24 Aug Common nighthawk over titus tower [] 24 Aug Montezuma Muckrace registration deadline August 25! ["Jane Graves" ] 24 Aug Mudny dripping with warblers et al during lunch [Meena Haribal ] 24 Aug Plantations Rd. HOODED WARBLER, etc. [Stuart Krasnoff ] 24 Aug Myers -- Baird's & Upland Sandpiper [Christopher Wood ] 24 Aug Mourning & Canada Warblers--Beebe Lake, etc. [Hope Batcheller ] 23 Aug Montezuma shorebirds 23Aug10 [Jay McGowan ] 23 Aug Red-necked Phalaropes - Montezuma (late report) [] 23 Aug Sanderling, Myers Point [Jay McGowan ] 23 Aug Syracuse RBA [Joseph Brin ] 23 Aug Hudsonian Godwits, Montezuma [Jay McGowan ] 23 Aug ADMIN: List Rules and Info ["Chris Tessaglia-Hymes" ] 23 Aug Western Sandpiper 22 Aug Montezuma--Towpath [Christopher Wood ] 23 Aug Western Sandpiper 22 Aug Montezuma--Towpath [Christopher Wood ] 22 Aug Albino, or partially albino Tree Swallow at Myers [Meena Haribal ] 22 Aug OL - Help nominate key biodiversity actions to save a particular species or ecosystem [Stephanie Greenwood ] 22 Aug Chenango County Cormorants ["Jerry Lazarczyk" ] 22 Aug Chenango County Cormorants ["Jerry Lazarczyk" ] 22 Aug Chenango County Cormorants ["Jerry Lazarczyk" ] 21 Aug Monkey Run yard migrants (Cape May Warbler) [Christopher Wood ] 21 Aug FYI FW: [GeneseeBirds-L] Whimbrel & Phalaropes at Knox-Marsellus [Meena Haribal ] 20 Aug Whimbrel & Phalaropes at Knox-Marsellus ["Gary Chapin" ] 20 Aug Whimbrel & Phalaropes at Knox-Marsellus ["Gary Chapin" ] 20 Aug Cranes near Genoa [Jill Vaughan ] 19 Aug OT:Great anti-fracking turn-out today in Ithaca! [Candace Cornell ] 18 Aug OT: Protest Hydrofracking in Ithaca Tomorrow (Thursday) [Candace Cornell ] 18 Aug Bald eagle Dryden Lake [Nirby ] 18 Aug More Photos of the Willet in Broome County [david nicosia ] 18 Aug Red Crossbills ["grosbeak AT clarityconnect.com" ] 18 Aug Mundy at lunch time; Philadelphia Vireo and Canada Warblers [Meena Haribal ] Subject: GHOW again From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 05:53:12 -0400 Hello all, I woke up again at 4.55 am to the call of Great Horned Owl calling! I dont know if I woke up to his voice or I just woke up and happen to hear him. May be same as Stuart's. We are just across the creek. I have been hearing a single whistle on and off last few days. I presume it is an Eastern Screech Owl taken up residence in nearby area and he just whistles single whistle at a time. Has anyone herad him doing single whistles? Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Glossy Ibis continues at MNWR, +phalaropes Rte 89 overlook From: tigger64 AT aol.com Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:50:51 -0400 The Glossy Ibis continues at Mays Point in the Montezuma NWR. From the overlook on Rte. 89 (or behind the hunter check station), 3-5 phalaropes were seen in the distant mud flat. The closer ones were Red-necked; farther ones I did not have an opinion on given the distance. Plenty of yellowlegs and dabblers. Dave Wheeler -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Re:Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow From: david nicosia <daven1024 AT yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:53:10 -0700 (PDT) I agree. these are nice photos of a hard-to-find bird. GREAT find. ________________________________ From: ConserveBirds To: Jay McGowan ; Cayugabirds-L Sent: Wed, September 1, 2010 9:25:58 PM Subject: Re: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow Lovely... thanks for posting pics of a bird that many of us will never see. Mona Bearor South Glens Falls ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay McGowan To: Cayugabirds-L Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:18 PM Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow I have posted a few pictures of the Lawrence's Warbler from this morning.  Light was pretty low so the aren't incredible, but I think they get the impression across. A distant one of the Olive-sided is also in that album. http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008940157249058 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008950651162178 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008952009585458 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008957520002434 The warbler was still in the area when I left an hour later. It even flew across the path unprompted as I was heading back to the car, giving call notes and flight notes, and then giving a quiet song (sounded like a Blue-winged/Golden-winged "alternate" song, a series of stuttering notes with a buzz at the end). Jay McGowan Dryden, NY On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: I just found (and still have in view) possibly the most beautiful warbler I've ever seen, an adult male LAWRENCE'S WARBLER. It is at the Durland Preserve off Ellis Hollow Creek Road in the first hedgerow on the right after you take the first right at the big field after the entrance path. Brilliant yellow head and body, blue wings with white wingbars, and jet black mask and throat. I will post pictures some time soon. >Jay McGowan >Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Re:Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow From: "ConserveBirds" <conservebirds AT gmail.com> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:25:58 -0400 Lovely... thanks for posting pics of a bird that many of us will never see. Mona Bearor South Glens Falls ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay McGowan To: Cayugabirds-L Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:18 PM Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow I have posted a few pictures of the Lawrence's Warbler from this morning. Light was pretty low so the aren't incredible, but I think they get the impression across. A distant one of the Olive-sided is also in that album. http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008940157249058 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008950651162178 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008952009585458 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008957520002434 The warbler was still in the area when I left an hour later. It even flew across the path unprompted as I was heading back to the car, giving call notes and flight notes, and then giving a quiet song (sounded like a Blue-winged/Golden-winged "alternate" song, a series of stuttering notes with a buzz at the end). Jay McGowan Dryden, NY On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: I just found (and still have in view) possibly the most beautiful warbler I've ever seen, an adult male LAWRENCE'S WARBLER. It is at the Durland Preserve off Ellis Hollow Creek Road in the first hedgerow on the right after you take the first right at the big field after the entrance path. Brilliant yellow head and body, blue wings with white wingbars, and jet black mask and throat. I will post pictures some time soon. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Durland Olive-sided Flycatcher From: bob mcguire <bmcguire AT clarityconnect.com> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:02:26 -0400 Gary Kohlenberg and I observed a juvenile Olive-sided Flycatcher for half an hour this evening from the tower at the Durland Preserve. Much of the time the bird was perched atop a tall, thin snag from which it occasionally sallied out to snag some airborne prey. Much of the time it faced away but gave good glimpses of the white tufts on the sides of its rump. On occasion it would turn to face us, exposing a white belly and contrasting dark "vest". Thanks, Jay, for alerting us to the bird's presence. No sign of the Lawrence's Warbler though. Bob McGuire -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: TVS From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:58:37 -0400 Just now saw 18+ TVs , oops four more coming and I see another kettle of about 10 plus now are heading south west! Looked for black vultures but found none. meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re:Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:18:52 -0400 I have posted a few pictures of the Lawrence's Warbler from this morning. Light was pretty low so the aren't incredible, but I think they get the impression across. A distant one of the Olive-sided is also in that album. http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008940157249058 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008950651162178 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008952009585458 http://picasaweb.google.com/jmcgowan57/Summer2010#5512008957520002434 The warbler was still in the area when I left an hour later. It even flew across the path unprompted as I was heading back to the car, giving call notes and flight notes, and then giving a quiet song (sounded like a Blue-winged/Golden-winged "alternate" song, a series of stuttering notes with a buzz at the end). Jay McGowan Dryden, NY On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: > I just found (and still have in view) possibly the most beautiful warbler > I've ever seen, an adult male LAWRENCE'S WARBLER. It is at the Durland > Preserve off Ellis Hollow Creek Road in the first hedgerow on the right > after you take the first right at the big field after the entrance path. > Brilliant yellow head and body, blue wings with white wingbars, and jet > black mask and throat. I will post pictures some time soon. > > Jay McGowan > Dryden, NY > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Great Horned Owl - Juniper Drive From: Stuart Krasnoff <sbk1 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 10:34:35 -0400 I heard a Great Horned Owl hoot briefly this morning at 0530 h. It was probably in the vicinity of the gate at the end of Juniper where it meets the South Hill rail trail. I have observed much concerted crowing of crows down there over the past 10 days and have wondered if there was a big owl about. There was this morning. I was at Myers and Salt Pt. shortly after 6, saw gulls, mallards, mergansers, spotties, Killdeer, etc., a well-dispersed case of Keystone Light MTs (the devil's brew). Absolutely no connection attributed to the latter but just as a heads-up to the birding community I also observed much concerted deployment of Canada Goose decoys off the points and heard some gunfire from the west shore. A September goose hunting window opened today until until 9/25 (http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/28496.html). Best...Stuart -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Olive-sided Flycatcher, Ellis Hollow From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:49:09 -0400 And now an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER is playing around in the snags off the platform at the Durland Preserve. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Lawrence's Warbler, Ellis Hollow From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:27:25 -0400 I just found (and still have in view) possibly the most beautiful warbler I've ever seen, an adult male LAWRENCE'S WARBLER. It is at the Durland Preserve off Ellis Hollow Creek Road in the first hedgerow on the right after you take the first right at the big field after the entrance path. Brilliant yellow head and body, blue wings with white wingbars, and jet black mask and throat. I will post pictures some time soon. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Eastern Screech-owl From: Eric Banford <brew_bird AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Great account, Chris! And a funny ending. We had a Eastern Screech whinnying outside our window last night, much closer than it's usually been. We all had a good listen, but no stalking attempts here. This morning as I left the house at 7am, a Northern Harrier was cruising the fields at the intersection of E Miller and Nelson Rds in Danby. Bird! Eric ________________________________ From: Chris Pelkie To: CAYUGABIRDS- L Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 8:35:27 AM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Eastern Screech-owl Dave Nutter’s comment about the Eastern Screech-owl reminded me that I had made a futile attempt a couple weeks back to ‘see’ one in the woods behind my house... -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: light patches From: "david" <dolmste1 AT twcny.rr.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:44:54 -0400 Group: Would a Rough Legged Hawk begin to form light patches at its wing "elbows" at this time of year? If you my question is unclear, and you are curious as to what I am inquiring, please contact me directly and I will be more specific. Thank you. David -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Syracuse RBA From: Joseph Brin <brinjoseph AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:12:59 -0700 (PDT) RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 30, 2010 * NYSY 3008.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 23, 2009 - August 30, 2010 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison & Cortland compiled:August 30 AT 2:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #219 -Monday August 30, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 23 , 2010 Highlights: ----------- GLOSSY IBIS SANDHILL CRANE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER WHIMBREL HUDSONIAN GODWIT RUDDY TURNSTONE STILT SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WESTERN SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHE LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER WILSON’S PHALAROPE RED-NECKED PHALAROPE SAW-WHET OWL COMMON NIGHTHAWK CAPE MAY WARBLER YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 8/23: Nineteen species of shorebirds were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh and the Visitor’s Center this day. Before the week was over the list would grow to twenty two. Todays list: BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER KILLDEER GREATER YELLOWLEGS LESSER YELLOWLEGS SOLITARY SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER WHIMBREL HUDSONIAN GODWIT SANDERLING PECTORAL SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER LEAST SANDPIPER STILT SANDPIPER LONGBILLED DOWITCHER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER RED-NECKED PHALAROPE Also seen were PEREGRINE FALCON and SANDHILL CRANE. 8/26: A HUDSONIAN GODWIT was found at Benning Marsh (still off limits to the public). At Knox-Marsellus three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES continue. A WILSON’S PHALAROPE was new to the marsh and a female YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was an unexpected and rare find. 8/27: A WESTERN SANDPIPER was added to the mix at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. 8/28: 2 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were seen in Knox-Marsellus Marsh along with19 other species of shorebird. 8/29: The BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS were again seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. A GLOSSY IBIS was found at May’s Point pool. 8/30: An AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER and 3 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES were seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. The GLOSSY IBIS was again seen at May’s Point Pool. Cayuga County ------------ 8/24: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was seen at Fair Haven State Park. Oswego County ------------ 8/25: 7 species of raptor were seen flying over Bishop Hill Road north of Pulaski. A WILSON’S WARBLER was found in Hastings. 8/26: 6 species of warbler including 2 CAPE MAYS were seen at a private residence in Hastings. 8/27: A JAEGER species too distant to positively ID was seen from Derby Hill. 8/28: A CAPE MAY WARBLER was again seen in Hastings and also a MERLIN. Madison County ------------ 8/25: 6 species of shorebird including a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER were seen at the Turf Farm on Lakeport Road. 8/28: 20 SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER were seen on McGraw Road off of Lakeport Road. Onondaga County ------------ 8/24: A GLOSSY IBIS was seen in the Early Evening at the Erie Village Golf Course on Rt. 290 near East Syracuse. It was found at 1:00 the nest day but was gone by 2:00. 8/27: 4 RUDDY TURNSTONES were found at the outlet of Nine Mile Creek on Onondaga Lake in Syracuse. 1 bird remained through the 29th. 8/29: 4 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen near the soccer fields on Colvin Ave in Syracuse. 2 more were seen near Klien Island near Liverpool. 8/30: A SAW-WHET OWL was heard vocalizing near Rt.31 west of Baldwinsville. Oneida County ------------ 8/25: A RED-HEADED WOODPECKER was found near Skyline Drive in the town of Kirkland. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Whimbrel, Black-bellied Plover at Myers From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:33:51 -0400 Greetings, I spent a couple hours at Myers again this morning. Highlights included fly over WHIMBREL and BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER. Both birds were quite high and I don't think I would have seen them if they had not been calling. In fact, I never could find the plover in the bright blue sky even though it called several (8 - 9?) times. From the sound of it, the plover continued down the lake. The Whimbrel was at least 1000 feet up, circled once high up and then continued to the ESE heading over land. The other highlight was a couple of Red-breasted Nuthatches. Until this fall I had not seen or heard this species form the point itself, and I have now seen three this fall. This along with reports from Long Island, Cape May (Tom Johnson) suggest a nice movement this year. I also had a few Purple Finches, Cedar Waxwings and Bobolinks fly over. Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: RE: re:optics From: Chris Pelkie <chris.pelkie AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:18:48 -0400 ABU ALI HASAN IBN AL-HAITHAM (ALHAZEN) (965 - 1040 AD) This is the man we have to thank for modern optics. He not only invented the scientific method of testing, but among his many accomplishments, determined how light rays focus at a point. Here is one reference: http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/115a/history/alhazen.html _________________________________________________ Chris Pelkie - 607-254-1108 - chris.pelkie AT cornell.edu Research Analyst - Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 From: bounce-6225191-12822243 AT list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-6225191-12822243 AT list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Nutter Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 12:51 PM To: cayugabirds-L AT cornell.edu Subject: re:[cayugabirds-l] Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Knox-Marsellus, Montezuma [crp] [clipped] But more than anything I give thanks every day to the folks who figured out optics enough for people like me to be able to see everyday objects clearly as we pass age 35. Let's hear it for spectacles and their inventors, prescribers, and makers! --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: East Hill Nighthawks From: Matthew Medler <mdm2 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:53:31 -0400 There were two COMMON NIGHTHAWKS flying around over East Hill about 15 minutes ago (7:35 pm, 29 August 2010). I observed them from near the Cornell Vet School parking lots, and while I was watching them, they seemed to be foraging in the area above the Maple Ave. power substation (or whatever that is). It didn't seem like they were actively migrating, but I eventually lost sight of them, so they might have moved southward. Always a nice sight to see on a beautiful late summer evening! Good birding, Matt Medler Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Buff-breasted Sandpiper nice but far From: 6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM Date: 29 Aug 2010 23:31:26 +0000 Buff-breasted Sandpiper nice but far views from East Rd., Ibis seen at Mays Pt pool. --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Glossy Ibis From: leonal AT rochester.rr.com Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:54:57 +0000 Now at Mays Point Pool on right far edge straight out from west corner of platform Found earlier by someone leading a group. L Lauster Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Merlin From: Matthew Medler <mdm2 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:37 -0400 Evan Barrientos, Andy Johnson, Jay McGowan, and I made a brief visit to the Montezuma area yesterday afternoon (28 August 2010), searching in vain for the Buff-breasted Sandpipers. On the way back to Ithaca, Evan, Andy, and I enjoyed great looks at a female-type MERLIN perched in a tree by the farm just south of the Triangle Diner intersection ("Jump Corners" in my DeLorme Atlast). This bird could have been a migrant that just stopped for a rest and maybe some fine fare at the Triangle, but it seems to me like Merlins have been seen in this same spot in previous years. I can't remember if these sightings have all been during migration, or if they have come from different seasons. If they are from different seasons, I wonder if this species is breeding in this specific area. There is certainly a nice food source available in the form of House Sparrows. Good birding, Matt Medler Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Migrants in the morning From: Geo Kloppel <geokloppel AT gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:20:52 -0400 > But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now > I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old > eyes and go closer to see birds! Or look for those birds that are > visible! Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds > that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and > see what others think. Hi Meena, If your competitive urges can be squelched, and you're not feeling left out of the high-definition telescopic fun, you can certainly go back to birding without top optics. It should offer some interesting stalking challenges (though you wouldn't practice at Knox-Marcellus), and I'm sure you could approach the whole thing as a kind of special training. I've heard that at a certain point in Ski Rescue training they take away your poles, and you're sent out day after day to traverse extremely rugged terrain with just the skis (and a pack on your back, of course). -Geo On Aug 29, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Meena Haribal wrote: > Hi all, > > Today morning from 5 to 5.40 am I listened to migrant birds and > recorded some of the calls. Based on the calls and the > spectrogram, there were several groups of VEERIES that flew > overhead. There were also some ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS and at least > one WOOD THRUSH. I also heard something like clicking of bills, > could have been a cuckoo, but did chance to record so cannot confirm. > > Local Great Horned Owl between 5.10 5.20 hooted several times. > There at least six species of night insects all occupied different > frequency levels in the spectrogram. In one species, two or three > insects were calling and initially one would start and then second > would join in and after few seconds the sounds were matched and > sang as one insect but with increased volume! When I was watching > the spectrogram at real time I could see how the frequencies joined > and separated in real time. > > About 17 years ago I bought Ziess 10x42 (before that I used Nikon > 7X25 and previous to that an 8X32 which had double image, though my > brain after some days of use corrected them to a single image) and > went to Stewart park hoping that I would be able to see all the > birds now better from any distance. Scope was not known to people > in India then. I watched the lake and found no birds. Then Kevin > McGowan drove in and set up his scope and declared he seeing all > three species of Scoters. I was little disappointed that my > binoculars were no good to see that far. He let me peek through his > scope and I did see all three species of Scoters. Then my goal was > to get a scope, which I managed to get one and when I spent evening > at May’s point watching shore birds, I used to be frustrated with > distant birds that other people could pick up with their scope. > > Yesterday birds were something like 400 m to 1000 m away from > observation site (I actually checked using google distance > calculator) and everyone is watching Phalaropes, Buff Breasted > Sandpiper and I barely could see them in my scope. Again Kevin > McGowan mentioned, that with his old scope, which was similar to my > current he could not see birds so well, but with current Swaroski > he can see things much better. Oh well, but = since last two years > I have been thinking I need to get better optics, but recently they > seem to have become so very expensive and beyond my reach. I have > been digging in my yard to see if someone has buried any treasure, > but so far have found none L > > But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now > I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old > eyes and go closer to see birds! Or look for those birds that are > visible! Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds > that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and > see what others think. > > Yesterday, on the way back from an errand in Rochester at the > junction of 318 and 414, I saw a huge flock of BROWN-HEAED > COWBIRDS. There may have been more than 1000+ birds and flock was > almost pure cowbirds only. > > Also this did not make it to Cayugabirds. To add to Dave Nutter’s > list of shorebirds at Knox Marcellus, later in the evening while > searching for Buff-Breasted, Mike Tetlow found a Golden Plover from > East Road. Viewing was much better from East Road at this time, I > could actually see RED-NECKED PHALAROPES as red-necked and not just > phalaropes, with the same scope. There were also 7 SANDHILL CRANES > in the marsh. > > Meena > > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY > http://haribal.org/ > http://picasaweb.google.com/ithmoths > http://picasaweb.google.com/mharibal > http://www.flickr.com/photos/91426175 AT N00/ > Geo Kloppel Bowmaker & Restorer 227 Tupper Road Spencer NY 14883 607 564 7026 gek2 AT cornell.edu geokloppel AT gmail.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: re:Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Knox-Marsellus, Montezuma From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT me.com> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:51:26 +0000 (GMT) Thanks, Meena, for the additional species (American Golden-Plover makes at least 16 shorebird species from Knox-Marsellus yesterday), the distance data, and the optics observations. I've been thinking that the Buff-breasted Sandpipers (there may have been more than 2) might be easier to see from East Road south of the overlook in the evening when the light is coming from behind you, and heat shimmers may have subsided. From that raised vantage you would not have to contend so much with the birds being hidden behind other birds, behind the height of the strips of land, or behind some of the weeds. Were they found from East Road in the evening? As for optics, I have shared the frustrations. Really good optics are really expensive. Scope envy is common to many of us. I also envy people who have really good eyes and who know really well where & when to look and also know what to look for when they do find a bird. We are fortunate here in having so many people who are willing to share what they see. But more than anything I give thanks every day to the folks who figured out optics enough for people like me to be able to see everyday objects clearly as we pass age 35. Let's hear it for spectacles and their inventors, prescribers, and makers! I also envy people who are good at getting close to birds without scaring them off. I think an eyes-only list would be a fine thing to keep, even though I try to carry my binoculars at hand whenever I go outside or even near a window. Among other fun lists, Ann Mitchell just started an ID-through-a-rear-view-mirror list yesterday when she saw a Northern Harrier while backing out of a driveway on Rafferty Road. Also Stuart Krasnoff started an ID-from-over-a-mile-away list while wistfully scoping Cayuga Lake from Ithaca College and seeing Double-crested Cormorants and Great Black- backed Gulls but knowing that Chris Wood had seen a Long-tailed Jaeger fly south from Myers Point shortly after Stuart had left there. --Dave Nutter From: Meena Haribal Date: August 29, 2010 8:38:02 AM To: "cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu" Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Migrants in the morning Yesterday birds were something like 400 m to 1000 m away from observation site (I actually checked using google distance calculator) and everyone is watching Phalaropes, Buff Breasted Sandpiper and I barely could see them in my scope. Again Kevin McGowan mentioned, that with his old scope, which was similar to my current he could not see birds so well, but with current Swaroski he can see things much better. Oh well, but = since last two years I have been thinking I need to get better optics, but recently they seem to have become so very expensive and beyond my reach. I have been digging in my yard to see if someone has buried any treasure, but so far have found none L But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old eyes and go closer to see birds! Or look for those birds that are visible! Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and see what others think. Yesterday, on the way back from an errand in Rochester at the junction of 318 and 414, I saw a huge flock of BROWN-HEAED COWBIRDS. There may have been more than 1000+ birds and flock was almost pure cowbirds only. Also this did not make it to Cayugabirds. To add to Dave Nutter’s list of shorebirds at Knox Marcellus, later in the evening while searching for Buff-Breasted, Mike Tetlow found a Golden Plover from East Road. Viewing was much better from East Road at this time, I could actually see RED-NECKED PHALAROPES as red-necked and not just phalaropes, with the same scope. There were also 7 SANDHILL CRANES in the marsh. Meena -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Red-shouldered Hawk - a poignant moment...... From: Marie P Read <mpr5 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:41:15 -0400 Just before noon (Sunday), at the very moment my husband drove off southward to start his long research trip to Central Africa, a Red-shouldered Hawk took off, flew past me, circled into the sky a couple of times, then lazily flapped off in the same direction. I'm not usually one to make much of such things but......... Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail mpr5 AT cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com http://www.agpix.com/mari -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Migrants in the morning From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:38:02 -0400 Hi all, Today morning from 5 to 5.40 am I listened to migrant birds and recorded some of the calls. Based on the calls and the spectrogram, there were several groups of VEERIES that flew overhead. There were also some ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS and at least one WOOD THRUSH. I also heard something like clicking of bills, could have been a cuckoo, but did chance to record so cannot confirm. Local Great Horned Owl between 5.10 5.20 hooted several times. There at least six species of night insects all occupied different frequency levels in the spectrogram. In one species, two or three insects were calling and initially one would start and then second would join in and after few seconds the sounds were matched and sang as one insect but with increased volume! When I was watching the spectrogram at real time I could see how the frequencies joined and separated in real time. About 17 years ago I bought Ziess 10x42 (before that I used Nikon 7X25 and previous to that an 8X32 which had double image, though my brain after some days of use corrected them to a single image) and went to Stewart park hoping that I would be able to see all the birds now better from any distance. Scope was not known to people in India then. I watched the lake and found no birds. Then Kevin McGowan drove in and set up his scope and declared he seeing all three species of Scoters. I was little disappointed that my binoculars were no good to see that far. He let me peek through his scope and I did see all three species of Scoters. Then my goal was to get a scope, which I managed to get one and when I spent evening at May's point watching shore birds, I used to be frustrated with distant birds that other people could pick up with their scope. Yesterday birds were something like 400 m to 1000 m away from observation site (I actually checked using google distance calculator) and everyone is watching Phalaropes, Buff Breasted Sandpiper and I barely could see them in my scope. Again Kevin McGowan mentioned, that with his old scope, which was similar to my current he could not see birds so well, but with current Swaroski he can see things much better. Oh well, but = since last two years I have been thinking I need to get better optics, but recently they seem to have become so very expensive and beyond my reach. I have been digging in my yard to see if someone has buried any treasure, but so far have found none :( But I was musing about how birding and optics have changed. But now I am thinking maybe I should go back bare basics. Just use good old eyes and go closer to see birds! Or look for those birds that are visible! Do we really need to spend so much of money to see birds that far away? Anyway I thought I will share this with others and see what others think. Yesterday, on the way back from an errand in Rochester at the junction of 318 and 414, I saw a huge flock of BROWN-HEAED COWBIRDS. There may have been more than 1000+ birds and flock was almost pure cowbirds only. Also this did not make it to Cayugabirds. To add to Dave Nutter's list of shorebirds at Knox Marcellus, later in the evening while searching for Buff-Breasted, Mike Tetlow found a Golden Plover from East Road. Viewing was much better from East Road at this time, I could actually see RED-NECKED PHALAROPES as red-necked and not just phalaropes, with the same scope. There were also 7 SANDHILL CRANES in the marsh. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY http://haribal.org/ http://picasaweb.google.com/ithmoths http://picasaweb.google.com/mharibal http://www.flickr.com/photos/91426175 AT N00/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Shorebird Turnover From: bob mcguire <bmcguire AT clarityconnect.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:06:06 -0400 It is certainly not news that the mix of migrating shorebirds turns over markedly during a single day. Towpath Road/Knox-Marcellus today is a great case in point. At mid-morning, along with Ann Mitchell, Dave Nutter, Dominic Sheroni and a group from Rochester, I observed several dowitchers, including at least one Long-Billed, Stilt and Pectoral Sandpipers, several Bairds and White-rumped as well as numerous Least and Semi-palmated Sandpipers. Also three Red-necked Phalaropes. A return visit after lunch found Kevin McGowan and Ann (sorry, I missed the last name), Bill Ostrander and a group from Elmira watching a several Wilson's and Red-necked Phalaropes, two Black-bellied Plovers, and two long-awaited BUFF-BFEASTED SANDPIPERS. Between visits to Towpath Rd, I checked some of the spots farther north. The south pond at the MAC is just beginning to show some mud - occupied by a couple of yellowlegs and Killdeer. The Marten's Tract pond is full of water, with a couple of Common Moorhens and Blue- winged Teal. The corn is high on Carncross Rd and at the DEC office on Morgan Rd. Muckrace Flats has only a small amount of water, a couple of Killdeer and yellowlegs. Railroad Rd is nearly dead. The Marsh Wrens seem to have left. Vegetation in the Sandhill Crane Unit on Van Dyne Spur Rd. is high with no waterfowl or shorebirds evident in the open water at the east end. Bob McGuire -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Montezuma From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT me.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:07:22 +0000 (GMT) Shorebirds today (Sat 28 Aug 2010) from Towpath Road (Montezuma NWR, Tyre) included at least these 15 species: Black-bellied Plover Killdeer Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER Pectoral Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope The BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS favored weedy areas one to three strips of land north of where the gulls were resting, and from as far east as many of the gulls to much further west than the gulls, in an area also frequented by foraging Canada Geese. They were at times fairly visible and at other times hidden by vegetation & the slope of the land strips, but did not go to the water or edge. They were active, taking a couple of steps, pecking, a couple more steps, standing up, etc. They hold themselves more vertically than Baird's or Pectoral. The head, neck & breast are like a Mourning Dove in color and shape, but with slightly longer bill. The back is gray and boldly scaly. They were very distant, requiring a scope, and when I left they had not been refound since a major shuffling of birds by a hunting Peregrine Falcon. Thanks to Bob McGuire for finding the Buff-breasted Sandpipers and to him and Kevin McGowan for confirming and keeping track of them until several other observers arrived Best of luck re-finding them! Waterfowl in the area included: Snow Goose - 1 Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan - adults & young, Tschache Pool Tundra Swan - 1, Tschache Wood Duck - Mays American Black Duck - Mays Mallard American Wigeon Northern Shoveler Blue-winged Teal Green-winged Teal Hooded Merganser - Mays Other birds of interest included: Pied-billed Grebe - Mays Double-crested Cormorant - many Great Blue Heron - many Great Egret - several Bald Eagle - several immatures Northern Harrier Osprey - 3 at once over Tschache Common Moorhen - Mays Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Belted Kingfisher - Tschache Great Crested Flycatcher Warbling Vireo - singing Blue-winged Warbler Yellow Warbler - Tschache --Dave Nutter On Aug 28, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Jay McGowan wrote: > Kevin just called to say that he and several others are watching two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS in the grassy area in the middle of Knox-Marsellus Marsh at Montezuma. > > Jay McGowan > Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Buff-breasted Sandpipers, Montezuma From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:53:06 -0400 Kevin just called to say that he and several others are watching two BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS in the grassy area in the middle of Knox-Marsellus Marsh at Montezuma. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Montezuma again From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:41:40 -0400 No time for a detailed post right now, but I spent a long time on Towpath Road today, watching the shorebirds. Numbers seem to be down somewhat from earlier in the week, but there is still plenty to look through. Highlights include continuing 3 Red-necked Phalaropes, multiple Baird's, White-rumped, Stilt, Pectoral, Least, Semipalmated sandpipers, dowitchers, and a (likely) juvenile Western Sandpiper (seen well but briefly and distantly in with the peeps; longer bill than Semipalmateds, apparently larger and longer-legged, rufous stripe on shoulder; probably a different bird than Chris and Jessie found, as this bird didn't have an enormous billl). At least three Sanderlings remain as well. I also checked Benning from the thruway and did not see the godwit that was reported there a few days ago, though the habitat there (and in the newly created openings farther along the drive) looks nice. Van Dyne Spoor continues to have nice marsh and wet field habitat but no shorebirding, and the Mucklands remain unharvested expanses of corn. Finally, the crazy Tundra Swan is still living at Tschache as of this morning, sleeping complacently on a log. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Yellow-headed Blackbird From: "grosbeak AT clarityconnect.com" <grosbeak@clarityconnect.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:05:17 -0400 Hello all, Additionally, while enjoying a very rare Matt-event (Alan Belford's middle was Matthew so he stood in as an honorary Matt for the night), and while Medler was on his phone and Williams was inspecting a sparrow-chip, Alan and I had an ADULT FEMALE YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD fly low over us with a mixed flock of Red-winged Blackbirds. Shorebird numbers weren't crazy high, but in addition to the phalaropes, we did manage 15+ STILT SANDPIPERS, 15+ DOWITCHERS (seemed to be Short-billed but they were at a pretty good distance), 1 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 4 SANDHILL CRANES and much more. I even dusted off my skills and pulled out 2 BAIRD'S SANDPIPERS. A nearly steady stream of migrant BOBOLINKS continued over for what had to be 30-45+ minutes --they were still going over when we left around 7:30. This was all at Knox-Marcellus from Towpath. Evening was topped off with dinner at the Dino in Syracuse. A good time for sure. Young -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Montezuma Phalaropes From: Matthew Medler <mdm2 AT cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:52:32 -0700 (PDT) Matt Williams, Matt Young, and I spent several hours birding the Knox-Marcellus Marsh at Montezuma yesterday (26 August 2010). We spent most of our time viewing from along Towpath Road, where we bumped into a migrant Alan Belford. I don't have time to post complete details now, but did want to let people know that there were three RED-NECKED PHALAROPES and a single WILSON'S PHALAROPE present along with more common shorebirds. I believe that all four of these birds were juveniles. Although they did split up at times, the four phalaropes were often in close proximity to each other (especially the three Red-neckeds). The Red-neckeds spent most of the time sitting on some of the deeper water in the area, often actively spinning around as phalaropes do. We viewed these birds from a rather expansive opening/vantage point along Towpath Road, a little ways before the impoundment wall (coming from East Road). Although I think Young first picked out the Red-necked Phalaropes with his binoculars, a spotting scope is really necessary to enjoy these and other shorebirds present. Good birding, Matt Medler Ithaca -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Some bird notes From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:31:24 -0400 Hi all, Good morning! I was up around 3.47 am to look at the close alliance of Moon and Mars. They were very pretty to watch. But while watching I listened to migrants. Exactly at that time there was a flock of Caspian Terns migrating and they were croaking along. I also heard several tseeps and chips. But as per Murphy's rule that also happened to be time when the train to Power Plant was also passing by. To save humans and animals I guess they honk every few seconds. Though railway line is more than a mile away as crow flies, the sound of train honking is heard several miles. So I decided to get up a little later and listen. I spent some 20 minutes listening and try recording, I did hear some tseeps, but very few, but then I heard lots of trucks rumbling down 79 and probably traffic from Rt 13. I decided to wind up. So it is that time of the year to listen to birds go south! Temp was almost freezing! Yesterday I spent some time in Mundy during lunch time. I saw more birders than birds. Highlights were a Warbling Vireo and a Magnolia in a chickadee flock. But the best bird was YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER at Kentucky spot. It was calling and flycatching. For those who are new to this area, Kentucky spot is to the south side of Plantations Hort Building in Mundy, A path from the south western end of the parking lot goes up the edge of the hill towards west with a board walk. The Kentucky spot is where this board walk is, there is a marshy seepage with skunk cabbages. This location is as follows in the Google maps. http://tiny.cc/snnsc Yesterday evening on an impulse, I got into the car to go somewhere to look for birds. I was deciding between Stewart park and some other locations. I took decision by the time I got out of my driveway to go to Six Mile Creeks Overlook. It is such a peaceful location and does not feel that you are in town. Sitting on "Edna Clausen" bench, I watched several Barn Swallows, one of the parent fed an youngster in flight; many waxwings flycatching, a chattering Baltimore Oriole, Chimney Swifts, two very cute ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, I think they were HY birds, House Wren, a Peewee, Kingfisher, Great Blue Heron, Red-bellied Woodpeckers (chukchuking) and more than 50+ robins coming in flocks of five to six birds, heading into Poplars. It is such a nice peaceful location, I am glad I went there. Let's see what the day hold for us! Meena Haribal Ithaca NY http://haribal.org/ http://picasaweb.google.com/ithmoths http://picasaweb.google.com/mharibal http://www.flickr.com/photos/91426175 AT N00/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Try Stewart From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT me.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Upon receipt of Chris' rare bird alert I grabbed binoculars & scope, and I hoofed it toward the lake but on the Treman Marina side. I had no luck with the Long-tailed Jaeger, but did find the following: Canada Goose Mallard Double-crested Cormorant - scores on the lake and the red lighthouse and piling cluster Turkey Vulture - 2 separate over West Hill Cooper's Hawk - 1 circling over West Hill BROAD-WINGED HAWK - 1 immature circling & southbound over West Hill Red-tailed Hawk - 2 circling & southbound with one of the Turkey Vultures Killdeer - several on infield of northwestern Union Fields Great Black-backed Gull - adults favoring tops of posts & pylons Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull Caspian Tern - just one, over the Inlet well south of the lake Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - a couple with swallows Belted Kingfisher - about 6 in various places along the Inlet Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee - heard Eastern Phoebe - 1 along northwest side of marina Warbling Vireo - heard Blue Jay - heard American Crow Tree Swallow - 1 among Barn Swallows Bank Swallow - 1 among Barn Swallows Barn Swallow - many over/around the marina Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse - family in my yard Cedar Waxwing - several flycatching among the large cottonwoods northeast of marina European Starling Eastern Bluebird - 1 atop Osprey platform American Robin Gray Catbird - heard Song Sparrow American Goldfinch House Sparrow --Dave Nutter On Aug 26, 2010, at 05:26 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: > I would go to Stewart park for jaeger. Bird not visible from myers. > > Chris Wood > Ithaca, New York > http://ebird.org > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Long-tailed Jaeger from Myers Point this AM (photos) From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:26:19 -0400 Hi all, I was wrapping up my morning flight surveys for Benjamin Van Dorn this morning at Myers Point north of Ithaca (Tompkins Co.) when I noticed many gulls that were resting on the lake take flight. I looked over and immediately saw a fairly pale jaeger flying towards me. I quickly identified it as a LONG-TAILED JAEGER through binoculars and then made a couple calls and sent text messages. During this time I lost the bird and doubt started to fill my mind since I had only watched the bird for about 20 seconds and had not photographed it (VERY stupid, but the bird was pretty far away). Luckily about 45 seconds later I saw the jaeger flying toward me and was able to get several photos of the bird in flight as it flew past the spit and continued south. I met Jessie at Portland Point and we saw the bird far to the south toward Stewart Park, but then lost it. I do not think anyone has seen the bird since then, about 8:20am. Several photos can be seen here (all highly cropped but otherwise unmodified or sharpened, taken with Canon Mark IV and 500mm lens): http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinicola/ Since jaeger identification is challenging I'll mention a few things to look at on the photos. 1. Overall shape relatively slim, appearing long-winged and long-tailed. Rather heavy chested for a light bird (relative to Parasitic; more similar to Pomarine) 2. Bill shape is fairly short, rather thick and roughly half black. 3. Overall coloration is grayish brown, with yellowish wash across nape. No rufous coloration typical of most Parasitic Jaegers. Warm morning light makes the bird appear a bit buffier, but still obviously lacking any rufous tones. 4. Only outer two primary shafts (P10, P9) are obviously white from above and contrasting boldly with rest of upper primaries (you can see other primary shafts but they do not stand out at all). 5. Distinctive underwing pattern with dark coming down on inner web of P10 that breaks up the white underwing flash at base of primaries. This poorly illustrated or discussed in most field guides, but typical of juvenile Long-tailed Jaegers. 6. Strongly and distinctly barred undertail coverts and uppertail coverts. 7. Tail shape difficult to see in these photos, but on one I think you can make out that the innermost tail feathers are longer with blunt points. I could see this better when I first saw the bird than I can in these photos. I believe this is only the second Long-tailed Jaeger for Tompkins county. A mummified bird was found on the Ithaca lighthouse breakwater on 8 March 1942, presumably from the previous fall. That specimen is housed at Cornell. NYSARC lists no records. I know folks must be tired of me saying this, but it shows how many interesting birds can be found by consistently checking a local patch. eBird and Benjamin's morning flight surveys have certainly increased my coverage of a few places in Ithaca. As you spend time watching and learning places, you find a lot of interesting birds. While I really like birding Myers, there isn't anything particularly special about it and I think you would have just as much luck at places like Stewart Park, Hog Hole and countless other places in Upstate (or Downstate) New York. The key is to simply check them consistently and take notes while you are there, which forces you to count birds and look much more carefully. And, of course, then enter these notes into eBird. Good birding, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Long-tailed Jaeger from Myers Point this AM (photos) From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:26:19 -0400 Hi all, I was wrapping up my morning flight surveys for Benjamin Van Dorn this morning at Myers Point north of Ithaca (Tompkins Co.) when I noticed many gulls that were resting on the lake take flight. I looked over and immediately saw a fairly pale jaeger flying towards me. I quickly identified it as a LONG-TAILED JAEGER through binoculars and then made a couple calls and sent text messages. During this time I lost the bird and doubt started to fill my mind since I had only watched the bird for about 20 seconds and had not photographed it (VERY stupid, but the bird was pretty far away). Luckily about 45 seconds later I saw the jaeger flying toward me and was able to get several photos of the bird in flight as it flew past the spit and continued south. I met Jessie at Portland Point and we saw the bird far to the south toward Stewart Park, but then lost it. I do not think anyone has seen the bird since then, about 8:20am. Several photos can be seen here (all highly cropped but otherwise unmodified or sharpened, taken with Canon Mark IV and 500mm lens): http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinicola/ Since jaeger identification is challenging I'll mention a few things to look at on the photos. 1. Overall shape relatively slim, appearing long-winged and long-tailed. Rather heavy chested for a light bird (relative to Parasitic; more similar to Pomarine) 2. Bill shape is fairly short, rather thick and roughly half black. 3. Overall coloration is grayish brown, with yellowish wash across nape. No rufous coloration typical of most Parasitic Jaegers. Warm morning light makes the bird appear a bit buffier, but still obviously lacking any rufous tones. 4. Only outer two primary shafts (P10, P9) are obviously white from above and contrasting boldly with rest of upper primaries (you can see other primary shafts but they do not stand out at all). 5. Distinctive underwing pattern with dark coming down on inner web of P10 that breaks up the white underwing flash at base of primaries. This poorly illustrated or discussed in most field guides, but typical of juvenile Long-tailed Jaegers. 6. Strongly and distinctly barred undertail coverts and uppertail coverts. 7. Tail shape difficult to see in these photos, but on one I think you can make out that the innermost tail feathers are longer with blunt points. I could see this better when I first saw the bird than I can in these photos. I believe this is only the second Long-tailed Jaeger for Tompkins county. A mummified bird was found on the Ithaca lighthouse breakwater on 8 March 1942, presumably from the previous fall. That specimen is housed at Cornell. NYSARC lists no records. I know folks must be tired of me saying this, but it shows how many interesting birds can be found by consistently checking a local patch. eBird and Benjamin's morning flight surveys have certainly increased my coverage of a few places in Ithaca. As you spend time watching and learning places, you find a lot of interesting birds. While I really like birding Myers, there isn't anything particularly special about it and I think you would have just as much luck at places like Stewart Park, Hog Hole and countless other places in Upstate (or Downstate) New York. The key is to simply check them consistently and take notes while you are there, which forces you to count birds and look much more carefully. And, of course, then enter these notes into eBird. Good birding, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: recent banding From: "John and Sue Gregoire" <khmo AT empacc.net> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:19:51 -0400 Dave et al, Sure we all use whatever short cuts help us. Once one becomes familiar with the tetranomes for birds commonly reported, the "rules" fall into place and a look up table isn't needed. At least we then are all speaking the same language. Using the full name is of course the clearest form of communication as you point out. In our Odonate work we strive to use the scientific name as common names differ and some folks new to the avocation make up versions as they go along. In all my years of working with birds I've known only two colleagues who spouted scientific names -much to the confusion of others. ;-) That was especially true of the guy, anonymous as he's now a Univ. president, who compounded that sin by speaking soft or "church" Latin - think Accipiter pronounced Akchipitter. It's been busy here the last few days with a great deal of post frontal movement. This morning we are closed due to wind gusts. We had 8 warbler species and Philadelphia Vireo on Monday and seven species of warbler yesterday. This morning we had three warbler species during our very brief attempt after dawn. Among the warblers were Tennessee in abundance, Nashville, Magnolia in mounting numbers, Mourning, Common Yellowthroat in abundance, many Chestnut-sided, American Redstart and Wilson's. We also had a large smattering of Song Sparrows and Gray Catbirds among several other more common spp. Yellows have been gone for some time now. Description and photos of most can be found on our Finger Lakes Natural History listserv at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khamolistserv/ Best, John -- Dr.John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" On Wed, August 25, 2010 21:54, Dave Nutter wrote: > John, > As I tried to indicate in my message, I did not just invent this system. > It was already in use for some time as of the mid-1980s at the Lab of O > in conjunction with other organizations, including federal researchers. > Perhaps they have since abandoned it (I don't know) but I find it very > useful, so I have not. > > I am not trying to confuse anyone, nor to force them to use this system. > I explained it because someone wrote to me confused, but I suspect that > person (& others?) would have been confused by a 4 letter code too. > I have no illusions about changing the habits of bird banders who long > ago went to the trouble to memorize their own 4 letter code and have used > it daily for years or decades to communicate mainly with other bird banders. > I am not so self-centered as to suppose that "my" system is the only one. > > I use it as shorthand when time and space are a higher priority, and as I said, > I try to use the full English name first. The reason I prefer this system is that > I don't have to go to a website to learn it, nor does it involve a great deal of > memorization. That one paragraph of rules which I wrote out (in far more words > than necessary) allows me or anyone to figure out nearly all codes when writing > them or when reading them. I find fewer miscommunications with the 6 letter code > because it involves easy rules instead of (mis)remembering or guessing, and it's > easy to check because it contains more information than the 4 letter code. It also > keeps my notes legible and easy to scan. As for using the same language, I guess > English is best in this forum generally. To that end you will find that I generally > use > complete standard English common names and refrain from ad hoc abbreviations > or cutesy nicknames, which again is somewhat a matter of taste but also a matter > of precision, clarity, and discipline. (Let's see who else I can offend!) > > But enough word games. Tell us what cool birds you've seen or banded out > in Hector so far during this many-faceted fall migration, John! > I don't know if this is related to migration or not, and by now it's old news, > but just after midnight on August 22nd (the day it rained all day, I believe) > I heard an Eastern Screech-Owl in my backyard, a first for the year. > > --Dave Nutter > > > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 06:28 AM, John and Sue Gregoire wrote: > >> Why confuse the issue by inventing yet another coding system? Shorthand is great >> for >> field notes and makes sense for information exchange when we all use the same >> system. The tetranome system accepted by the Bird Banding Lab and the AOU is not >> difficult. A guide can be found at >> http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/manual/aspeclst.htm. >> >> On the west coast a group reinvented the wheel as did Dave's source with five and >> six letter species codes that serve only a small group and inhibit information >> sharing. >> >> It's always easiest when we speak the same language. >> >> John >> -- >> Dr. John and Sue Gregoire >> Field Ornithologists >> Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory >> 5373 Fitzgerald Road >> Burdett,NY 14818-9626 >> Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ >> "Conserve and Create Habitat" >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME >> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES >> >> ARCHIVES: >> 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html >> 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html >> 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds >> >> Please submit your observations to eBird: >> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >> -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Eastern Screech-owl From: Chris Pelkie <chris.pelkie AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:35:27 -0400 Dave Nutter's comment about the Eastern Screech-owl reminded me that I had made a futile attempt a couple weeks back to 'see' one in the woods behind my house. He (or she) was tootling, probably around 9pm, very close by in the trees. It was clear, so I hoped for a silhouette, but no such luck. The owl stopped tootling as soon as it detected me, so I never located it, but was pleased to think I had been at least within 30 or so feet of it for a change. Many times, they've either tootled or screeched in the middle of the night, either while I was out with the telescope or sleeping with the window open, and being a light sleeper, often awakened by them. I've recorded them several times, but never a glimpse or overflight. But last night, I finally got my first visual! He started tootling while there was still about 10 min of light. I heard it through the open living room window, dashed for the binocs, and moved fast across the lawn, then went into 'deer stalking' mode, 2 or 3 slow steps, pause, repeat til I was 20' into the woods, then started scanning the mid-upper story where the sound was. Again, he spotted and/or heard me and shut up, but I crept forward a few more feet, scanned again, and BINGO, got the puffy little guy sitting on a bare, rather steeply inclined branch about 25' up. As this tree was downslope, he was probably about 15' higher than me. He immediately turned sideways to me and horripilated which made him look the size of a small Great Horned. Much bigger than I had anticipated. He stayed silent, so I tried a warbling whistle. Bad idea: he took off like a SHOT. I mean shot from guns: didn't even see a wing-flap and he shot out of view. So don't whistle. For the record, this sighting was 100' south of Asbury Road and about 200' east of Triphammer Rd (i.e., my back woods). _________________________________________________ Chris Pelkie - 607-254-1108 - chris.pelkie AT cornell.edu Research Analyst - Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Try Stewart From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:26:41 -0400 I would go to Stewart park for jaeger. Bird not visible from myers. Chris Wood Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Longtailed jarger From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:14:25 -0400 Jut flew south from Myra. Chris Wood Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Wegman's parking lot Great Egret OT RE: Wegmans Birding From: "John and Fritzie Blizzard" <job121830 AT verizon.net> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:59:24 -0400 Jeff, Makes me wonder. How often does Wegman's build near ponds/swamps/rivers/(Corning)/streams/wet areas?? Great pix! Thanks for sharing!!! Fritzie From: Jeffery Davis To: jgk25 AT cornell.edu ; Cayuga Birds Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:46 PM Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Wegman's parking lot Great Egret OT RE: Wegmans Birding My favorite Wegmans sighting was at our branch here in Downingtown Pa where I found 6 Green Herons hunting around a TINY (maybe 30' in diameter) pond next to the plaza parking lot and right next to busy Lancaster ave. A nice surprise on the way to get my morning coffee. Here are some photos of them, if anyone is interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/3814196159/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/3819283544/ regards, jeff -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Species codes From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT me.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:54:41 -0700 (PDT) John, As I tried to indicate in my message, I did not just invent this system. It was already in use for some time as of the mid-1980s at the Lab of O in conjunction with other organizations, including federal researchers. Perhaps they have since abandoned it (I don't know) but I find it very useful, so I have not. I am not trying to confuse anyone, nor to force them to use this system. I explained it because someone wrote to me confused, but I suspect that person (& others?) would have been confused by a 4 letter code too. I have no illusions about changing the habits of bird banders who long ago went to the trouble to memorize their own 4 letter code and have used it daily for years or decades to communicate mainly with other bird banders. I am not so self-centered as to suppose that "my" system is the only one. I use it as shorthand when time and space are a higher priority, and as I said, I try to use the full English name first. The reason I prefer this system is that I don't have to go to a website to learn it, nor does it involve a great deal of memorization. That one paragraph of rules which I wrote out (in far more words than necessary) allows me or anyone to figure out nearly all codes when writing them or when reading them. I find fewer miscommunications with the 6 letter code because it involves easy rules instead of (mis)remembering or guessing, and it's easy to check because it contains more information than the 4 letter code. It also keeps my notes legible and easy to scan. As for using the same language, I guess English is best in this forum generally. To that end you will find that I generally use complete standard English common names and refrain from ad hoc abbreviations or cutesy nicknames, which again is somewhat a matter of taste but also a matter of precision, clarity, and discipline. (Let's see who else I can offend!) But enough word games. Tell us what cool birds you've seen or banded out in Hector so far during this many-faceted fall migration, John! I don't know if this is related to migration or not, and by now it's old news, but just after midnight on August 22nd (the day it rained all day, I believe) I heard an Eastern Screech-Owl in my backyard, a first for the year. --Dave Nutter On Aug 25, 2010, at 06:28 AM, John and Sue Gregoire wrote: > Why confuse the issue by inventing yet another coding system? Shorthand is great for > field notes and makes sense for information exchange when we all use the same > system. The tetranome system accepted by the Bird Banding Lab and the AOU is not > difficult. A guide can be found at http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/manual/aspeclst.htm. > > On the west coast a group reinvented the wheel as did Dave's source with five and > six letter species codes that serve only a small group and inhibit information > sharing. > > It's always easiest when we speak the same language. > > John > -- > Dr. John and Sue Gregoire > Field Ornithologists > Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory > 5373 Fitzgerald Road > Burdett,NY 14818-9626 > Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ > "Conserve and Create Habitat" > > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: RE: Wegman's parking lot Great Egret OT RE: Wegmans Birding From: Jeffery Davis <jwdjwd67 AT msn.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:46:58 -0400 My favorite Wegmans sighting was at our branch here in Downingtown Pa where I found 6 Green Herons hunting around a TINY (maybe 30' in diameter) pond next to the plaza parking lot and right next to busy Lancaster ave. A nice surprise on the way to get my morning coffee. Here are some photos of them, if anyone is interested. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/3814196159/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/3819283544/ regards, jeff Downingtown, PA Checkout our bird photos at the link below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/ "Birding Like I Have Six Months To Live" > From: jgk25 AT cornell.edu > To: CAYUGABIRDS-L AT cornell.edu > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:25:22 -0400 > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Wegman's parking lot Great Egret > > While in Wegman's parking lot this evening I saw a south bound Great Egret, my first grocery shopping Egret. Two Caspian Terns were following, but they landed in the parking area by Tops. There was a large, about 200, flock of Gulls feeding over Titus Towers area. They were mostly Ring-billed. > > I didn't see any Nighthawks unfortunately. > > Gary > > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Wegman's parking lot Great Egret From: "James G. Kohlenberg" <jgk25 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:25:22 -0400 While in Wegman's parking lot this evening I saw a south bound Great Egret, my first grocery shopping Egret. Two Caspian Terns were following, but they landed in the parking area by Tops. There was a large, about 200, flock of Gulls feeding over Titus Towers area. They were mostly Ring-billed. I didn't see any Nighthawks unfortunately. Gary -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 From: Suan Yong <suan.yong AT gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:19:06 -0400 Thanks for the alert, Dave, without which I would not have kept my eyes to the sky and sighted the eight or so nighthawks working over my place in Commonlands this evening at 7:30, a couple low enough to discern the white wing patch with the naked eye. They presently made their way SE, more or less following the course of six-mile creek. Suan On Aug 24, 2010, at 6:22 PM, 6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM wrote: > Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 still over tops 6:20pm > --Dave Nutter > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Mundy on Wednesday at lunch Parula and Ovenbird From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:24 -0400 Hi all, I managed to another lunch time at Mundy. I did come across the flock in Pawpaw grove area. They stayed pretty much ± 100 ft radius. This seemed a smaller group still about 25+ birds. I am not sure if yesterday's group left and new arrived or some of them left and others arrived. Group composition was different. Unfortunately I forgot bring my regular binocs so had to use 8x25 old Nikon pairs and birds seemed so tiny. It took some time to get adjusted to sizes of the birds Mostly consisted of Magnolias (many, once three of them in same binocular view) Chestnut-sided (many) Redstarts (at least three 1 male and two female or juvenile plumage, could have been more too as I kept seeing them all the time) Northern Parula (Seen twice at different locations but could be the same) Ovenbird (jumped up to a tree branch from the ground and was surprise that it has been disturbed!) And other usual birds. The local Red-eyed Vireo is feeding the hungry cowbird, which keeps begging for more food. Today morning when I came to work and was booting up the computer, a Pileated Woodpecker seemed to have gotten lost, flew over USDA building, Vet school and flew around bit in a circle, finally headed back to Mundy. Nice office bird. I am still seeing Chimney Swifts in front of my office window. meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Species codes From: "John and Sue Gregoire" <khmo AT empacc.net> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:28:39 -0400 Why confuse the issue by inventing yet another coding system? Shorthand is great for field notes and makes sense for information exchange when we all use the same system. The tetranome system accepted by the Bird Banding Lab and the AOU is not difficult. A guide can be found at http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbl/manual/aspeclst.htm. On the west coast a group reinvented the wheel as did Dave's source with five and six letter species codes that serve only a small group and inhibit information sharing. It's always easiest when we speak the same language. John -- Dr. John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ "Conserve and Create Habitat" -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT me.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:31:26 -0700 (PDT) I saw at least 17 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS this evening during my walk home from work. The first was relatively low over the neighborhood east of Titus Tower in the southern part of the City of Ithaca. As it seemed to be working its way west, so did I, and from Wood Street Park across South Meadow Street (NYS 13) from Tops I watched first one, then two, then a flock of a dozen foraging, which soon gathered and worked their way southwest, up Inlet Valley. They were all pretty high and hard to see without binoculars, but with binoculars could be distinguished easily from the few gulls and numerous CHIMNEY SWIFTS. After the dozen departed I was still able to find a total of 5 COMNIG foraging over Tops til about 6:30pm. Thus I saw at least 17, I think the most I've seen at a time in years. For the person(s) I confused with my second report, the six-letter codes I use (usually after using the full common name) have a formula. If a bird name consists of a single word, use the first 6 letters if there are that many (MALLAR, OSPREY, VEERY, SORA). If the common name has 2 words, use the first 3 letters of each, thus COMNIG for Common Nighthawk, and AMEROB for American Robin. If the common name has 3 words use the first 2 of the first word, the first 1 of the second and the first 3 of the third (White-breasted Nuthatch becomes WHBNUT, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker becomes YEBSAP. And if the common name has 4 words use the first 1 letter of the first 3 words and the first 3 letters of the last (GBBGUL = Great Black-backed Gull; YCNHER = Yellow-crowned Night-Heron) Because the last word is usually the most general & useful, that gets 3 letters. There a few words which have different abbreviations to avoid ambiguities: Black is BLK, BK, or K Blue is BLU, BU or U Green is GRN, GN or N Gray is GRY, GY or Y Great is GRT, GT or G After all this there are only a handful of current or former ambiguous species codes for North American birds, and I won't bore you with them now. I use the codes because they save space and, especially when texting when I want to keep looking at the bird, time. I picked up this 6-letter system when inputting data at the Lab of O years ago. I find it easier to use and translate than the 4 letter codes some folks use. --Dave Nutter  On Aug 24, 2010, at 03:22 PM, 6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM wrote: > Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 still over tops 6:20pm > --Dave Nutter > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 From: 6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:22:57 -0400 Dozen COMNIG flew south, 4 still over tops 6:20pm --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Common nighthawk over titus tower From: 6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:53:24 -0400 (EDT) Common nighthawk over titus tower ithaca 5:50pm --Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Montezuma Muckrace registration deadline August 25! From: "Jane Graves" <jgraves AT skidmore.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:46:52 -0400 Hello, Cayugabirders - If you have been thinking about participating in this year's Muckrace, now is the time to do something about it! The registration deadline is tomorrow! You can easily register by going to http://muckrace.dojiggy.com and either pay by credit card or send me a check. For those who are interested in such matters, Cayuga Lake Creamery will be coming up to the Montezuma Audubon Center for the end-of-the-day festivities. No, we will not be giving away ice cream, but it will be available for starving birders! Jane -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Mudny dripping with warblers et al during lunch From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:33:22 -0400 Hi all, I spent from 12.30 pm to 1.15 pm at Mundy Wildlfower Garden. I stood most of the time and may be moved a step here or there to get better view. Birds came where I was. It was hard to decide which bird to look at. There could be more than 50+ birds (very conservative number I think). Birds included the following Chestnut-sided as Hope noted numerous Black-throated blue Black-throated Green Tennessee Warbler Blackburnian Canada Warblers (2 in a view at same time) Magnolia (numerous) Nashville (one) Redstart Black and Whites (at least three) A masked warbler but barely got the view through the leaf and lost it. Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireos (also watched one being fed by a parent) And many other birds. Did not have enough time to look at them as I spent some time talking to Todd and gave him my binoculars to see a Canada Warbler which he said had not seen in last 10 years or more! All the birds were between the Plantations office (hort office) in the Mundy and Fall creek if anyone wants to go look for them. I was hoping for Hooded, Morning and Capemay but no luck! Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Plantations Rd. HOODED WARBLER, etc. From: Stuart Krasnoff <sbk1 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:25:38 -0400 > I also birded the greater Fall Creek Gorge area on CU campus from 0900-0930 h this morning mostly standing in one place looking down into Mundy from the K-permitted area on Plantations Rd. behind the Plant Pathology greenhouses. There was a flurry of activity as the sun flushed the area below with Robins and Waxwings dominating the action with a Pewee and Carolina Wren singing. Visual highlights were an Ovenbird, a Scarlet Tanager male showing irregular patches of scarlet on the mostly greenish-yellow breast and a bright male Hooded Warbler seen just below the rock wall. In addition, I watched a warbler I couldn't definitively identify foraging farther down--olive-yellow above, yellow breast and belly, noticeable white on tail visible from above, no eye ring or wing-bars - swayed by the presence of a male I am guessing female Hooded Warbler. > Number of species: 20 > > Rock Pigeon - Columba livia 10 > Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 1 > Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 2 > Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 1 > American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos X > Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus 1 > American Robin - Turdus migratorius 10 > Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 3 > European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 5 > Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum 15 > American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla 1 > Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla 1 > Hooded Warbler - Wilsonia citrina 1 > Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina 4 > Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis 2 > Scarlet Tanager - Piranga olivacea 2 > Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 2 > House Finch - Carpodacus mexicanus 2 > American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis 5 > House Sparrow - Passer domesticus 10 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Myers -- Baird's & Upland Sandpiper From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:04:13 -0400 Hi all, I spent a couple hours at Myers this morning and had a nice selection of birds. None remained at the point for more than a few minutes and most didn't even land. Highlights included a high flyover calling Upland Sandpiper and a Baird's Sandpiper that flew down toward a group of Least Sandpipers on the spit. Instead of landing the Leasts took off and all departed to the southeast. There were seven Blue-winged Teal early in the morning and two that came in about 7:30 with a single Green-winged Teal. There was also a nice movement of Bobolinks, with at over 300 total. Other landbird highlights included Red-breasted Nuthatch, 8 Purple Finches, Northern Waterthrush, Chestnut-sided Warbler and Blackpoll Warbler. Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Mourning & Canada Warblers--Beebe Lake, etc. From: Hope Batcheller <hope.batcheller AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:59:24 -0400 Hi all, Evan Barrientos, Tim Healy, and I birded Beebe Lake and the Mundy Wildflower Garden this morning. The highlights were a Canada and Morning Warbler, both on the southeast side of Beebe Lake. The full list follows. Observation date: 8/24/10 Number of species: 37 Canada Goose 1 Mallard 7 Great Blue Heron 2 Osprey 1 Ring-billed Gull 9 Rock Pigeon 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Red-eyed Vireo (Red-eyed) 1 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 5 Black-capped Chickadee 12 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 2 Carolina Wren 2 American Robin 2 Gray Catbird 7 Cedar Waxwing 1 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 6 Many at the Mundy Wildflower Garden. Magnolia Warbler 2 Mundy Wildflower Garden. Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 Mundy Wildflower Garden. Mourning Warbler 1 On south side of Beebe Lake. Jumped into tree from patch of goldenrod. Common Yellowthroat 1 Canada Warbler 1 Same location as Morning Warbler. Very faint streaking on chest. Song Sparrow 8 Northern Cardinal 7 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Heard fledgling begging vocs. Baltimore Oriole 1 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 10 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Good birding! --Hope Batcheller Petersburgh/Ithaca, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Montezuma shorebirds 23Aug10 From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:12:00 -0400 I met Andrew VanNorstrand at Montezuma this afternoon. We spent most of the time on Towpath Road sifting through the shorebirds in the Knox-Marsellus Marsh. Although plenty of birds were there when we arrived, I got the impression a few birds continued to drop in over the course of the afternoon, perhaps in the wake of the front that passed midday. Knox-Marsellus was very active, with several hundred peeps, mostly LEAST and SEMIPALMATED, ~5 PECTORAL, at least 5 WHITE-RUMPED, ~15 BAIRD'S (including one flock of 11 in one scope view!), 1 SOLITARY, 1 SPOTTED, ~25 STILT, ~40 DOWITCHERS (apparently mostly SHORT-BILLED, at least two juvenile LONG-BILLED), 2 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS (mostly flying around calling), ~30 SEMIPALMATED PLOVERS, and the continuing 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. Interestingly, 5 SANDERLINGS (3 adult, 2 juveniles) were among the shorebirds. A good amount of reshuffling occurred several times when two juvenile PEREGRINE FALCONS decided to team up and hunt shorebirds in flight. While most birds were in the air, two mostly basic-plumaged adult HUDSONIAN GODWITS joined the rest of the flying birds. They landed out with the dowitchers for a while, then on the mud in the next pond over, then were flushed by the Peregrines (ultimately joined by a third juvenile Peregrine) and disappeared. While we were scanning, I heard a WHIMBREL call twice not far off, but I was never able to locate it. It may have been flying by or it may have been in the taller vegetation, but in any case, keep an eye out for it in the area. Also on the flats were 5 SANDHILL CRANES and the resident Snow Goose. Habitat around Montezuma headquarters is somewhat limited, but the part of the visitors center pond closest to 5&20 had ~30 Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpipers, and several Least Sandpipers. I checked Myers Point on the way up and on the way back. On the way up, a Lesser Yellowlegs shared the spit with several Killdeer, Spotted Sandpipers, and a Solitary Sandpiper. I also heard a Semipalmated Plover call several times from out towards the lake. On the way home, an adult SANDERLING was also present on the spit, the bird I was actually hoping to discover both times. Jay McGowan Dryden, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Red-necked Phalaropes - Montezuma (late report) From: Tigger64 AT aol.com Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:55:33 EDT Apologies for the lateness of this report. Two Red-necked Phalaropes were at the mud-flat visible from behind the hunter's check-in station on Rte. 89, and also visible from the overlook pull-off just north. Seen Saturday afternoon by Dave Wheeler, Jim Pawlicki, Jay Powell, and Mike Klimeczko. They were in the closest part of the flat along with many peeps and Lesser Yellowlegs. I haven't seen any reports and it is possible they are still there. Dave W. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Sanderling, Myers Point From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:08:27 -0400 An adult SANDERLING is on the spit at Myers Point right now, along with a Lesser Yellowlegs. Jay McGowan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Syracuse RBA From: Joseph Brin <brinjoseph AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:31:05 -0700 (PDT) RBA * New York * Syracuse * August 23, 2010 * NYSY 2308.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): August 16, 2009 - August 23, 2010 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) (just outside Cayuga County), Onondaga, Oswego, Lewis, Jefferson, Oneida, Herkimer, Madison & Cortland compiled:August 23 AT 4:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #218 -Monday August 23, 2010 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of August 16 , 2010 Highlights: ----------- LEAST BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK (Extralimital) MISSISSIPPI KITE (Extralimital) NORTHERN GOSHAWK SANDHILL CRANE BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER HUDSONIAN GODWIT UPLAND SANDPIPER WHIMBREL STILT SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER WESTERN SANDPIPER WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER RED-NECKED PHALAROPE BLACK TERN COMMON RAVEN COMMON NIGHTHAWK SWAINSON’S THRUSH Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 8/17: Seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh from East Road and Towpath Road. AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER. 8/20: Seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. A WHIMBREL, 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES, and 2 BAIRD’S SANDPIPERS. Black-bellied and Golden Plovers seemed to be gone. 8/22: Seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh. The WHIMBREL was relocated as were the 2 RED-NECKED PHALAROPES. New shorebirds are BAIRD’S SANDPIPER, WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER and a rare WESTERN SANDPIPER. 2 SANDHILL CRANES were found also. A BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen at Tschache Pool. 8/23: 2 HUDSONIAN GODDWITS just seen at Knox-Marsellus Marsh Madison County ---------- 8/16: At the turf farn on Lakeport Road BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, LEAST SANDPIPER, and LESSER YELLOWLEGS were all found 8/23: At the turf farm 6 STILT SANDPIPERS and a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER were found but no Plovers were found. Oswego County ---------- 8/18: At Sandy Pond SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, GREATER YELLOWLEGS, SANDERLING, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, LEAST SANDPIPER, and BAIRD’S SANDPIPER were all found. Also seen were 4 BLACK TERNS. 8/20: 5 COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were seen in the vacinity of Co. Rt. 49 and Island Road. At the wetland on Co. Rt. 6 a LEAST BITTERN and a TRUMPETER SWAN were seen as well as good numbers of COMMON MOORHEN and GREEN HERON. Also 20 COMMON RAVENS were seen flying to roost. Shorebirds seen were LEAST SANDPIPER and WILSON’S SNIPE. Onondaga County --------------- 8/19: An UPLAND SANDPIPER was seen at the upper parking lot at the State Fair. 8/20: At the mouth of Nine Male Creek at Onondaga Lake a STILT SANDPIPER was seen. Also found were GREATER and LESSER YELLOWLEGS, SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER, SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER, SPOTTED SANDPIPER, and LEAST SANDPIPER. Waterfowl seen included GREEN-WING TEAL, BLUE-WINGED TEAL, and NORTHERN SHOVELER. At Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville a NORTHERN GOSHAWK, and a SWAINSON;S THRUSH were found. Extralimital ------------ 8/21: Successful breeding of the MISSISSIPPI KITES was confirmed at th Town of Root location in Montgomery County south of Canajoharie. The birds are best viewed near the intersection of Mapleton and Donato Roads. It is urged that you stay on the roads and do not trespass. 8/22: The BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING DUCK at the Tonawanda WMA is still present. Directions to the last sighting are: DIRECTIONS: The BBWD was on NY 77, in a roadside marsh about 200 yards northwest of the Cayuga Pool Overlook (Iroquois NWR). NY 77 is a north-south highway that travels NW in the area of the refuge. Thus, the reason for the sometimes confusing directions. In any case, if you are heading north on Rt 77, Iroquois NWR and Cayuga Pool overlook are on your right and Tonawanda WMA is on your left. Note that there is an exit for Rt 77 from the NYS Thruway. The duck was on the Tonawanda WMA side of the road and likes to stay hidden in the cattails. Good birding and stay safe out there. The trucks and cars really move through the area. --end transcript -- Joseph Brin Region 5 Baldwinsville, N.Y. 13027 U.S.A. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Hudsonian Godwits, Montezuma From: Jay McGowan <jwm57 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:12:52 -0400 We aren't finished yet, but Andrew VanNorstrand and I are at Towpath Road, where two basic-plumaged Hudsonian Godwits just dropped into the marsh, but then disappeared when two Peregrines started hunting. Lots of other shorebirds too! Jay McGowan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: ADMIN: List Rules and Info From: "Chris Tessaglia-Hymes" <cth4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:13:34 -0400 Good afternoon! I am posting this message as a reminder for subscribers to remain cognizant of the rules of the list. Please make certain that your postings are appropriate for this list. If you are at all uncertain about the pertinence of your message to this list, please contact me off-list. Be aware that each posting is distributed to at least 590 subscribed email addresses. 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Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Chris Tessaglia-Hymes Listowner, Cayugabirds-L Ithaca, New York cth4 AT cornell.edu http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Western Sandpiper 22 Aug Montezuma--Towpath From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:25:59 -0400 Jessie Barry, Jim Barry and I decided to head up to Towpath Road at Montezuma NWR yesterday in hopes that the rain would drop something interesting. There was considerable change from two days earlier (Friday) with many more Semipalmated and Stilt Sandpipers, but otherwise species were similar to Friday with BAIRD'S, WHITE-RUMPED and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. The highlight was a juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER. Here are some notes from my eBird submission. Probably a female based on VERY long bill--not quite as long as Dunlin but on the long end for WESA. Shape very similar to SESA perhaps slightly larger bodied (breasted). Most obvious difference in structure from SESA was much longer bill with very fine tip and appeared to droop slighly. First noted by paler head and particularly bright and rufous edges to upper scapulars and some mantle feathers (mantle feathers not as obviously bright). This was in direct comparison to many SESA foraging in the same area. At least a couple scapulars appeared to have been replaced as well as a couple mantle feathers, each of which was grayish. The bird was fairly close (150m) in with the closest group of peeps. It fed at the interface of mud and water, never deeper than ca. 1 cm of water. The refuge staff have done an amazing and commendable job of managing the two impoundments north of Towpath Road for shorebirds this season. These are the best conditions that I have ever seen at the refuge. I know that I'll happily be supporting a team during the Muckrace to show that birders are willing to donate to improve habitat--particularly when refuge staff demonstrate their skill at managing the refuge as they have this year (despite a chronic lack of funding for National Wildlife Refuges). To all those at the Montezuma NWR and the Friends of the Montezuma NWR, well done. Thanks, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Western Sandpiper 22 Aug Montezuma--Towpath From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:25:59 -0400 Jessie Barry, Jim Barry and I decided to head up to Towpath Road at Montezuma NWR yesterday in hopes that the rain would drop something interesting. There was considerable change from two days earlier (Friday) with many more Semipalmated and Stilt Sandpipers, but otherwise species were similar to Friday with BAIRD'S, WHITE-RUMPED and RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. The highlight was a juvenile WESTERN SANDPIPER. Here are some notes from my eBird submission. Probably a female based on VERY long bill--not quite as long as Dunlin but on the long end for WESA. Shape very similar to SESA perhaps slightly larger bodied (breasted). Most obvious difference in structure from SESA was much longer bill with very fine tip and appeared to droop slighly. First noted by paler head and particularly bright and rufous edges to upper scapulars and some mantle feathers (mantle feathers not as obviously bright). This was in direct comparison to many SESA foraging in the same area. At least a couple scapulars appeared to have been replaced as well as a couple mantle feathers, each of which was grayish. The bird was fairly close (150m) in with the closest group of peeps. It fed at the interface of mud and water, never deeper than ca. 1 cm of water. The refuge staff have done an amazing and commendable job of managing the two impoundments north of Towpath Road for shorebirds this season. These are the best conditions that I have ever seen at the refuge. I know that I'll happily be supporting a team during the Muckrace to show that birders are willing to donate to improve habitat--particularly when refuge staff demonstrate their skill at managing the refuge as they have this year (despite a chronic lack of funding for National Wildlife Refuges). To all those at the Montezuma NWR and the Friends of the Montezuma NWR, well done. Thanks, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu Senior Leader, WINGS Birding Tours http://wingsbirds.com _______________________________________________ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - GeneseeBirds-L AT geneseo.edu http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l Subject: Albino, or partially albino Tree Swallow at Myers From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:44:18 -0400 Hi all, I went to Myers to check out is something would show up on this bleak day. There were about 2 to 3 hundred swallows over the spit and the first bird I saw was a CLIFF SWALLOW, I think I looked it because it looked different from the tree swallows. There were BANK, ROUGH-WINGED and BARN swallows mixed in. There were a few Killdeer, five caspian terns, THREE hooded mergansers. As I was heading out a partially albino, mostly grayish looking Tree Swallow flew in front of my car. Yesterday evening, a friend from NJ wanted to see blackbirds in the marsh. So we took a drive to MNWR, though we did not see any many birds as I had seen last week, but we did see a few hundreds and for her that was also exciting view. We stopped at East Road for a very short time in the hopes of Cranes, but did not get enough time to scan shorebirds. We only had a good look at the No. Harrier flying very close to us. While at North Spring Pool and East Road, we saw hundreds of BOBOLINKS flying overhead. I think at least must have seen more than 2000 birds. I also saw Common Night Hawk over May's Marsh. Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: OL - Help nominate key biodiversity actions to save a particular species or ecosystem From: Stephanie Greenwood <stgreenwood AT ev.ithaca.ny.us> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:59:07 -0400 I decided to send this as it is so important and of such relevance to many of you on this list. If you have expertise in this area please read and contribute by end of August http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/08/13/words-fail-us/ The link to the form is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/13/biodiversity-100-form Stephanie -- Stephanie Greenwood Ecovillage at Ithaca 221 Rachel Carson Way Ithaca, NY 14850 607 273 1179 607 280 1050 cell -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Chenango County Cormorants From: "Jerry Lazarczyk" <lazarcg1 AT netzero.net> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:23:53 GMT On 8/19/10 I saw two DC Cormorants in a putrid looking large marsh across County Road 39 from Sipple's Farm at 1245 County Road 39 in Afton. It is not often that Cormorants are seen in southern tier counties and I wonder if these might be a first recording for the county. This marsh might be the result of high water from the Susquehanna River. Jerry Lazarczyk Grand Island NY ____________________________________________________________ Notre Dame Certificates 100% Online Programs in Negotiation Leadership and Mgmt. Enroll Today! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3241/4c7125018b9e47d1e62st03duc _______________________________________________ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - GeneseeBirds-L AT geneseo.edu http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l Subject: Chenango County Cormorants From: "Jerry Lazarczyk" <lazarcg1 AT netzero.net> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:23:53 GMT On 8/19/10 I saw two DC Cormorants in a putrid looking large marsh across County Road 39 from Sipple's Farm at 1245 County Road 39 in Afton. It is not often that Cormorants are seen in southern tier counties and I wonder if these might be a first recording for the county. This marsh might be the result of high water from the Susquehanna River. Jerry Lazarczyk Grand Island NY ____________________________________________________________ Notre Dame Certificates 100% Online Programs in Negotiation Leadership and Mgmt. Enroll Today! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3241/4c7125018a2b724071bst06duc -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Chenango County Cormorants From: "Jerry Lazarczyk" <lazarcg1 AT netzero.net> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:23:53 GMT On 8/19/10 I saw two DC Cormorants in a putrid looking large marsh across County Road 39 from Sipple's Farm at 1245 County Road 39 in Afton. It is not often that Cormorants are seen in southern tier counties and I wonder if these might be a first recording for the county. This marsh might be the result of high water from the Susquehanna River. Jerry Lazarczyk Grand Island NY ____________________________________________________________ Notre Dame Certificates 100% Online Programs in Negotiation Leadership and Mgmt. Enroll Today! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3241/4c7125018a4047f188fst02duc -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Monkey Run yard migrants (Cape May Warbler) From: Christopher Wood <pinicola AT gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:38:42 -0400 Hi all, Jessie and I have had a few migrants coming through the yard today including an adult male CAPE MAY WARBLER that spent about ten minutes in the spruces and black cherries. We also had our first YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and ALDER FLYCATCHER--this brings our yard list up to 136 for the year (72 for the month). I suspect there are quite a few other landbirds around today too. Cheers, Chris Wood eBird & Neotropical Birds Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York http://ebird.org http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: FYI FW: [GeneseeBirds-L] Whimbrel & Phalaropes at Knox-Marsellus From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:31:52 -0400 Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ ________________________________________ From: geneseebirds-l-bounces AT geneseo.edu [geneseebirds-l-bounces AT geneseo.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Chapin [gchapin1 AT rochester.rr.com] Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 9:43 PM To: Cayuga Birds; Geneseebirds Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Whimbrel & Phalaropes at Knox-Marsellus As I exited my car this evening at the Knox-Marsellus overlook at Montezuma NWR, I heard a WHIMBREL calling and moments later it flew up from the marsh. It flew off to the east but eventually circled to the north before dropping into one of the ditches in between the fields of corn across the road and west of the potato building along route 31. Also this evening at Knox-Marsellus were; 4 Sandhill Cranes Semipalmated Plovers Killdeer Both Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper 2 Baird's Sandpipers (both seen from Towpath Road in what I believe used to be referred to as Potter's Marsh, the next pond to the east of Knox-Marsellus) Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Both Dowitchers 2 Red necked Phalaropes (seen in Knox-Marsellus from Towpath Road. The birds were together) Gary Chapin Victor, NY _______________________________________________ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - GeneseeBirds-L AT geneseo.edu http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Whimbrel & Phalaropes at Knox-Marsellus From: "Gary Chapin" <gchapin1 AT rochester.rr.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:43:05 -0400 As I exited my car this evening at the Knox-Marsellus overlook at Montezuma NWR, I heard a WHIMBREL calling and moments later it flew up from the marsh. It flew off to the east but eventually circled to the north before dropping into one of the ditches in between the fields of corn across the road and west of the potato building along route 31. Also this evening at Knox-Marsellus were; 4 Sandhill Cranes Semipalmated Plovers Killdeer Both Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper 2 Baird's Sandpipers (both seen from Towpath Road in what I believe used to be referred to as Potter's Marsh, the next pond to the east of Knox-Marsellus) Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Both Dowitchers 2 Red necked Phalaropes (seen in Knox-Marsellus from Towpath Road. The birds were together) Gary Chapin Victor, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Whimbrel & Phalaropes at Knox-Marsellus From: "Gary Chapin" <gchapin1 AT rochester.rr.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:43:05 -0400 As I exited my car this evening at the Knox-Marsellus overlook at Montezuma NWR, I heard a WHIMBREL calling and moments later it flew up from the marsh. It flew off to the east but eventually circled to the north before dropping into one of the ditches in between the fields of corn across the road and west of the potato building along route 31. Also this evening at Knox-Marsellus were; 4 Sandhill Cranes Semipalmated Plovers Killdeer Both Yellowlegs Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper 2 Baird's Sandpipers (both seen from Towpath Road in what I believe used to be referred to as Potter's Marsh, the next pond to the east of Knox-Marsellus) Pectoral Sandpiper Stilt Sandpiper Both Dowitchers 2 Red necked Phalaropes (seen in Knox-Marsellus from Towpath Road. The birds were together) Gary Chapin Victor, NY _______________________________________________ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - GeneseeBirds-L AT geneseo.edu http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l Subject: Cranes near Genoa From: Jill Vaughan <jilvau AT gmail.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:16:44 -0400 There were only three cranes at the East Venice Road/Route 90 intersection this morning, noted at 7:45 and again at 8:45. Jill Vaughan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: OT:Great anti-fracking turn-out today in Ithaca! From: Candace Cornell <cec222 AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:49:12 -0400 Over 200 people from across Tompkins Co. and beyond attended today's protest and Andrew Cuomo's stump event, to convey that we don't want hydraulic fracturing to damage our local environment and to demand a new environmental impact study from the DEC. TV reporters came from Binghamton, Elmira, Syracuse, and New York City so there should be a plenty of local and state-wide press coverage. Read the *Ithaca Journal*'s report at: http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20100819/NEWS01/8190360/Candidate-Cuomo-drives-into-Ithaca . Apparently, Cuomo told his family that "people [in Ithaca] like to question authority." You bet we do, especially when something as blatantly risky as the Marcellus Shale horizontal hydrofracking process is proposed in our area. We must keep up this effort to stop the proposed drilling as it threatens our watersheds and environment, including important area bird habitats. Find out more about hydro-fracking the MarcellusShale and what * you* can do to prevent it at:http://www.toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale . * * *THANK YOU ALL!* * * Candace -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: OT: Protest Hydrofracking in Ithaca Tomorrow (Thursday) From: Candace Cornell <cec222 AT gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:30:04 -0400 ** * RALLY with Your Anti-gas Drilling Neighbors TOMORROW Against the Marcellus Shale Horizontal Hydrofracking Thursday, August 19th at 10:15 AM Pavilion at the intersection of State and North Cayuga (West end of the Ithaca Commons) * Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo will be speaking at Women's Community Building, 100 W. Seneca St., at 11:00 AM. Cuomo supports extraction of Marcellus Shale Gas in New York. He *must be* greeted by huge anti-fracking crowds at *every campaign stop* and convinced to *withdrawal* his support of the draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS). * * * * * * * Greetings, After resolving a host of public safety concerns, we have a permit to gather tomorrow (8/19/10) in Ithaca at 10:15 AM. We will join forces at the west end of the Ithaca Commons and march to the Women's Community Building on Seneca. Many thanks to Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson, the Ithaca Police Department, Ithaca City Attorney Dan Hoffman, and the Office of the City Clerk for their willingness to extend every courtesy and grant us a permit to allow our event to go forward. We got front-page coverage yesterday in the *Ithaca Journal* and radio coverage this morning. We generated intense press coverage when Cuomo spoke last week in Binghamton. See this frontpage: http://toxicstargeting.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/Press_and_Sun_Aug_5_2010.pdf . Hope to see you tomorrow. Walter Hang http://www.toxicstargeting.com/news/2010-08-16/fracking-foes-target-cuomo-visit http://toxicstargeting.com/MarcellusShale/podcasts/whcu_cuomo_visit *Candidate Andrew Cuomo's Campaign Schedule:* *Thursday, August 19th* Tompkins County: Ithaca Women's Community Building, 100 West Seneca 11:00 AM Schuyler County: Montour Falls 12:30 PM Montour House, Main Street Yates County: Penn Yan 6:30PM – 8:00PM Milly’s Pantry Café Next Door, Main Street *Friday, August 20th* Hornell Knights of Columbus** 11:00 AM * * -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Bald eagle Dryden Lake From: Nirby <nirby AT mac.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:03:52 -0400 There is a bald eagle on SW shore of Dryden Lake, approximate 500' east of main Park parking lot, on snag. Lovely. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: More Photos of the Willet in Broome County From: david nicosia <daven1024 AT yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:49:26 -0700 (PDT) I uploaded the rest of the photos I took of the Willet on Monday in Broome County for anyone interested. If there are a few key field marks for western vs eastern races that you can see in these photos, I would appreciate anyone's input. You can email me offline. The photos can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davenicosia/sets/72157624630596087/ Unfortunately the bird has not been refound yesterday or today as far as I know. And sorry for all these out of basin reports! Take care and good birding to all!! Dave Nicosia Johnson City, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Red Crossbills From: "grosbeak AT clarityconnect.com" <grosbeak@clarityconnect.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:31:20 -0400 Hello all, For those chaser and Basin Cuppers, I know in the last week there's been RED CROSSBILL sighted at Summerhill near beginning state forest on Salt Rd and on Hammond Hill near clearing next to conifer plantation. See ebird for better details. cheers, Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Mundy at lunch time; Philadelphia Vireo and Canada Warblers From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:26:43 -0400 Hi all, I spent time having lunch and walk in Mundy Wildflower garden. I came across a small group chickadee associates that consisted of a male and a female CANADA WABRLERS, and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Philadelphia Vireo was feeding right above my head may be six or seven feet high and picking green caterpillars (third or fourth instars) and feeding on them. I could have even got a picture with 100 mm lens, but I did not have a camera:( I watched his underside for quite some time while he was feeding:-) I also saw and heard, RED-EYED VIREOS, E. PEEWEES, BALTIMORE ORIOLES, E. PHOEBES and RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER, probably all residents yet. There were a couple of Pantala flavescens (Wandering Glider) and an Ajax junius (Green Darner. Monarchs have started heading south, I have seen several of them today. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 Phone 607-254-1258 http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.org/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --