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20 Nov CBC Owl trip tomorrow (Sat 21) correct location : Tops parking lot on Meadow St (rt 13 south) [Meena Haribal ] 20 Nov Myers [Ryan Douglas ] 19 Nov Common Loons, etc. [Dave Nutter ] 19 Nov just checking [Barbara LeGendre ] 19 Nov Fwd: Carl Leopold [Meena Haribal ] 19 Nov Owasco Canvasbacks [Eben McLane ] 19 Nov Odd mallard at Stewart Park [Paul Anderson ] 19 Nov Coopers Hawk and Red-shouldered Hawk [Stephanie Greenwood ] 18 Nov Gulls [] 18 Nov American Tree Sparrow- Sapsucker Woods [David McCartt ] 18 Nov Carolina Wren [Meena Haribal ] 17 Nov Cooper's and Red-Tailed Hawks [Pete Marchetto ] 17 Nov Re: sharp-shinned hawk on UDSA building [Gary Kohlenberg ] 17 Nov sharp-shinned hawk on UDSA building [Meena Haribal ] 17 Nov Re: Montezuma Complex Place Names ["Marie P Read" ] 17 Nov Montezuma Complex Place Names ["John and Sue Gregoire" ] 16 Nov Syracuse RBA [Joseph Brin ] 16 Nov Snow buntings [Marty Schlabach ] 16 Nov Loons and geese [Meena Haribal ] 16 Nov MNWR on Sunday ["John and Sue Gregoire" ] 15 Nov grackles [Regi Teasley ] 15 Nov FW: eBird Report - Montezuma East Road , 11/15/09 ["Joe & Carol Slattery" ] 15 Nov Sunday Birds [] 15 Nov raptors on E. Hill Rec. Way ["Annette Finney" ] 15 Nov Hunting--MNWR ["Susan Fast" ] 15 Nov Re: Sapsucker Woods [Meena Haribal ] 15 Nov Sapsucker Woods [Ryan Douglas ] 15 Nov Hunting season-thanks! ["Susan Norvell" ] 15 Nov Hunting seasons? [Linda Orkin ] 15 Nov Re: Hunting seasons? [David Ruppert ] 15 Nov Hunting seasons? ["Susan Norvell" ] 13 Nov Pacific Loon Sheldrake Friday Nov 13th [david nicosia ] 12 Nov NE Ithaca, Th 11/12 ["Mark Chao" ] 12 Nov no Thayer's, no Brant, but other stuff [Dave Nutter ] 12 Nov Bald eagles over Beebe Lake [Dick Feldman ] 12 Nov Screech Owl in our nest box [] 12 Nov Re: Myers Snow Buntings, Stewart Park Thayer's Gull ["Jerry Lazarczyk" ] 11 Nov Myers Snow Buntings, Stewart Park Thayer's Gull [Dave Nutter ] 11 Nov golden eagle ["Susan Fast" ] 11 Nov Least Flycatcher in Lansing - no [Tom Johnson ] 11 Nov Albino Red-tailed Hawk ["John and Sue Gregoire" ] 10 Nov Thayer's Gull continues [Tom Johnson ] 10 Nov Bald Eagle Flying on the Cornell Arts Quad ["Barbara B. Eden" ] 10 Nov re:Rough-winged Swallows, Southern v Northern [Meena Haribal ] 10 Nov re:Rough-winged Swallows, Southern v Northern [Dave Nutter ] 9 Nov Re: Thayer's Gull - photos [Ken Rosenberg ] 9 Nov Re: [Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Cave Swallows - Hamlin Beach] [Ken Rosenberg ] 9 Nov Syracuse RBA [Joseph Brin ] 9 Nov Thayer's Gull - photos [Tom Johnson ] 09 Nov [Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Cave Swallows - Hamlin Beach] [Chris Tessaglia-Hymes ] 9 Nov Thayer's Gull - docks at Hog Hole [Tom Johnson ] 9 Nov thousands of Loons [] 09 Nov a few birds of interest Sunday 8 Nov [Dave Nutter ] 8 Nov Re: STFC food ["Julie Lisk" ] 08 Nov Sunday Birds [] 08 Nov Sunday birds [Kevin McGowan ] 08 Nov STFC food [Julie Horton ] 8 Nov Thayer's Gull at Stewart Park, Sun. Evening ["Shawn Matthew Billerman" ] 8 Nov Least Flycatcher - Lansing, Thayer's Gull - Ithaca ["Michael G. Harvey" ] 7 Nov MNWR/Wetlands Saturday [Kathy Strickland ] 7 Nov Around the lake (Ross's Goose, Blue-headed Vireo, etc.) ["Michael G. Harvey" ] 7 Nov Thayer's Gull - Ithaca [Tom Johnson ] 07 Nov Thayer's Gull at Stewart Park Right Now [Matthew Medler ] 7 Nov Late Chipping Sparrow, Jetty Woods [France ] 06 Nov [Fwd: [hawkcast] 46 Golden Eagles at Franklin Mt. today] [Gary Kohlenberg ] 6 Nov RE: Thayer's Gull, Barn Swallow - Sheldrake ["Susan Fast" ] 6 Nov Thayer's Gull, Barn Swallow - Sheldrake [Tom Johnson ] 5 Nov RE: Pacific Loon, many Commons, retraction of Red-throated ["James G. Kohlenberg" ] 05 Nov Pacific Loon, many Commons, retraction of Red-throated [Dave Nutter ] 5 Nov Cayuga Bird Club meeting and speaker dinner [] 5 Nov Mt. Pleasant am ["Marie P Read" ] 5 Nov pacific loon close to sheldrake [] 5 Nov Glaucous Gull - Ithaca [Tom Johnson ] 5 Nov Red-throated Loons on Cayuga Lake; west shore Ithaca [Stuart Krasnoff ] 5 Nov 10 a.m. walk [Kathy Strickland ] 5 Nov Loons on Cayuga Lake ["John and Sue Gregoire" ] Subject: CBC Owl trip tomorrow (Sat 21) correct location : Tops parking lot on Meadow St (rt 13 south) From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:09 -0500 Hello all, Tomorrow I am leading a trip for listening to local owls. We hope we will hear at least some. There was mistake in location for pre trip meeting in one of the local news paper last week as Lab of O. Please note that we are meeting at Top's Parking lot on South meadow street between the Tops Gas station and Tops Grocery at 7.00 pm on Saturday 21 Nov 2009. Hope to see you there! Meena Meena Haribal Boyce Thompson Institute Ithaca NY 14850 phone 607 2541258 webpage: http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Myers From: Ryan Douglas <rnd4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:00 -0500 I was at Myers from about 12:15-12:35pm this afternoon. Not much diversity. 19 COMMON LOONS, lots of HERRING, RING-BILLED and GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULLS, ~30 MALLARDS, 5 TURKEY VULTURES, 3 RED-TAILED HAWKS Good birding, Ryan -- Ryan Douglas rnd4 AT cornell.edu Dept. of Plant Biology 142 Emerson Hall Cornell University, 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Common Loons, etc. From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT mac.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:04:48 -0800 A quick trip up the west side of the lake late this afternoon (19 Nov) under calm conditions with some distant shimmer revealed: COMMON LOONS mainly on the southern part of the lake. Although I only saw 4 from the southwest corner of the lake, I saw 166 from the Ithaca Yacht Club, 48 to the south from Taughannock (with some possible overlap), and 80 to the north from Taughannock, in all those cases including resting flocks in the middle of the lake, yet I only found a handful of them in the entire several miles around Sheldrake, and all of them were single and close to the west shore. TUNDRA SWANS, at least that's what I presume they were in the dusk, off the Seneca Falls / Fayette town line just south of Lower Lake Road. There were over a hundred of them I think, including many juveniles. RUDDY DUCKS, SCAUP, and AMERICAN WiGEON in a large flock north of the boat ramp at Cayuga Lake State Park, much as I saw on a previous trip. A handful of BUFFLEHEADS along Wyers Point Road, a few AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS scattered along the lake from the Sheldrake area north, a female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER and a couple of PIED-BILLED GREBES I forget where. Plus the usual MALLARDS. I didn't check Elm Beach, Dean's Cove, or anywhere else. --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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: just checking From: Barbara LeGendre <bl17 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:59:34 -0500 Just checking the listserve -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Fwd: Carl Leopold From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:41:43 -0500 For those who knew Carl >I hate to be the one to announce bad news, but Carl Leopold died last >night. Carl was a >wonderful person, an active participant in local and national affairs, >dedicated to science >and universally admired. The Institute has lost a fine person and an >outstanding scientist. > >Len 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Owasco Canvasbacks From: Eben McLane <ebenmclane AT clarityconnect.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:13:00 -0500 Saw a small raft of Canvasbacks off west shore of Owasco Lake; also Broad-winged Hawk seen almost daily for 4 months in wooded slopes above Owasco Lake has been gone for about a week now--been keeping an eye on this one, which showed up in July, very noisy, without mate. Eben McLane -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Odd mallard at Stewart Park From: Paul Anderson <paul AT grammatech.com> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:30:00 -0500 I stopped by Stewart Park this morning. I found nothing of much interest except for this unusual mallard. I presume it is a light morph rather than a hybrid: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/HDQAOH5xkoYC40mWowomEA?feat=directlink -- Paul Anderson. GrammaTech, Inc. Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x18 mailto:paul AT grammatech.com http://www.grammatech.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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Coopers Hawk and Red-shouldered Hawk From: Stephanie Greenwood <stgreenwood AT ev.ithaca.ny.us> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:29:36 -0500 Coopers Hawk is back up here at EcoVillage hunting - dove at a flock of HSPs in backyard this morning and gave them a fright - yippee! - didn't catch one though - pooh! ;-) Also, forgot to report excellent view of a Red-shouldered Hawk that was perched for some time in top of tree in south field on Tuesday. 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Gulls From: Alm9413 AT aol.com Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:43:51 EST Hi All, While driving to work on Pleasant Grove Road in Ithaca around 7:15 A.M., I saw at least a couple hundred gulls flying towards the compost piles on Game Farm Road. Activity is picking up in that area. Best, Ann Mitchell -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: American Tree Sparrow- Sapsucker Woods From: David McCartt <mccartt55 AT yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:13:13 -0800 (PST) Hi All, Saw my first American Tree Sparrow of the season this morning, just south of the lab at the forest edge. 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Carolina Wren From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:23:13 -0500 While having lunch on the shores of Beebe lake, I listened to a chirpy Carolina Wren sing. There were a few Common Mergansers, GB backed Gulls along with other usual commons. I was hoping for some migrating hawks but saw none. 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Cooper's and Red-Tailed Hawks From: Pete Marchetto <pmm223 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:54:07 -0500 I was just biking over to the Lab of O from Langmuir Lab, and saw a Cooper's Hawk chase a Red-Tailed Hawk out of its territory over by Kip's Barn on Sapsucker Woods Rd. -Pete _________________________________________ Pete Marchetto Engineer, BRP Cornell Lab of Ornithology 1.607.254.6281 "Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch, who watches over you. Make a little birdhouse in your soul." -- Linnell and Flansburgh, 1990 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: sharp-shinned hawk on UDSA building From: Gary Kohlenberg <jgk25 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:41:40 -0500 Yesterday there was a Sharp-shinned Hawk and a Red-tail catching a thermal above Schuman Hall while I was on the roof. Maybe he's a local. Gary Meena Haribal wrote: > A couple of minutes ago a Sharp-shinned Hawk landed on the south east > corner of USDA building on Cornell Campus (visible from my office window) > and surveyed the surrounding for a couple of minutes before taking off! > > Meena > BTI > 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: sharp-shinned hawk on UDSA building From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:15:22 -0500 A couple of minutes ago a Sharp-shinned Hawk landed on the south east corner of USDA building on Cornell Campus (visible from my office window) and surveyed the surrounding for a couple of minutes before taking off! Meena BTI 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Montezuma Complex Place Names From: "Marie P Read" <mpr5 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:13:00 -0500 (EST) The Gregoires wrote: > While birding on Sunday we also saw what appeared to be a private F-150 > driving the dikes at Knox-Marcellus impoundment. One wonders if this was abuse or an > official visit of some kind? Or a private individual who has obtained permission to do so? It is quite possible for individuals to apply for permits to enter the restricted areas for special projects, just as I did in spring/summer 2007 to photograph Black Terns. 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Montezuma Complex Place Names From: "John and Sue Gregoire" <khmo AT empacc.net> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:51:59 -0500 Does anyone have a comprehensive list/map of the Montezuma Complex place names that could be easily shared with the group? I ask after receiving several inquiries as to the location of Black Pond following our last post. This of course was the sole remaining vestige of the Montezuma wetlands around 1937. Today, it and other lesser known named features can be seen from the pullover on Rte 89 where a plaque identifies the locations. The restoration started in the Black Pond area and that pond now joins with the Main Pool. To my knowledge, the Rte 89 overlook is the only place where one can get a look into this pond. While birding on Sunday we also saw what appeared to be a private F-150 driving the dikes at Knox-Marcellus impoundment. One wonders if this was abuse or an official visit of some kind? J&S -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Syracuse RBA From: Joseph Brin <brinjoseph AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:34:32 -0800 (PST) RBA * New York * Syracuse * November 16, 2009 * NYSY 1611.09 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): November 09, 2009 - November 16, 2009 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:November 16 AT 8:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #180 -Monday November 16, 2009 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 09 , 2009 Highlights: ----------- RED-THROATED LOON RED-NECKED GREBE TUNDRA SWAN GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE WHITE-WINGED SCOTER BLACK SCOTER SANDHILL CRANE GOLDEN EAGLE GOSHAWK ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK GLAUCOUS GULL NORTHERN SHRIKE CAROLINA WREN FOX SPARROW EVENING GROSBEAK Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 11/15: 13 SANDHILL CRANES were seen from East Road. Cayuga County ------------ 11/10: At Fairhaven State Park 1 RED-NECKED GREBE, 3 RED-THROATED LOONS, and BLACK and WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS were found. 11/14: At Fairhaven 2 RED-THROATED LOONS were seen. Onondaga County ------------- 11/10: A GOLDEN EAGLE was seen flying over the intersection of Tater Road and Rt. 370 in westernmost Onondaga County. 11/12: A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was found in Van Buren Park south of Baldwinsville. As of today (11/16) the bird is still being seen at the same location. 11/15: At least 6 FOX SPARROWS were found on Kellog Road near 60 Road in Three Rivers WMA. A CAROLONA WREN was seen on the south side of Syracuse. Oneida County ------------ 11/11: An EVENING GROSBEAK was seen at a feeder in Camden. 11/14: NORTHERN SHRIKES were seen in Waterville and the Erie Canal Village in Rome. Oswego County ------------ 11/11: 9 Raptor species were seen at Bishop Road north of Pukaski. Highlights were 2 GOSHAWKS, 3 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS, and 1 GOLDEN EAGLE. Also seen were SNOW BUNTINGS, HORNED LARKS, and PIPPITS. 11/14: 47 TUNDRA SWANS were seen at Bernhard’s Bay on the north shore of Oneida Lake. Madison County ------------ 11/14: A PINE SISKIN was seen on Coon Tree Lane in DeRuyter. 2 CACKLING GEESE were seen on Woodman Pond. A possible BARROW’S GOLDENEYE was spotted on Hatch Lake but identification could be made definate. 11/15: A juvenile GLAUCOUS GULL was seen at the Madison County landfill on Buyea Road. --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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Snow buntings From: Marty Schlabach <mls5 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:53:19 -0500 Several (6-8) Snow Buntings were sighted on Hickok Rd, Interlaken, this morning. Hickok Rd. is off Rt. 89 just a short distance south of Cayuga Creamery. Best, Marty Marty Schlabach 8407 Powell Rd. Interlaken, NY 14847 607-532-3467 (home) 315-521-4315 (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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Loons and geese From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:07:08 -0500 Good morning! Today as I stepped out for bus, I saw first a group of eight Common loons, which were a little later followed by two more loons, before my bus arrived (in about two minutes). Later between Maple Wood and BTI EIRW, three flocks of migrating C. Geese, my usual Mockingbird and Chickadees were observed. 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: MNWR on Sunday From: "John and Sue Gregoire" <khmo AT empacc.net> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:03:55 -0500 We made the trip up the west side of Cayuga and saw basically nothing but blacks and mallards until we reached the area just north of the state park where we found a very large mixed raft of ducks and geese. Best in this pack were over 100 Ruddy Ducks. Montezuma main pool was host to an incredibly huge number of Pintails. They were right alongside the auto route and joined by seven other species including large numbers of Green-winged Teal, Northern Shovelers and Ring-necked ducks. A young harrier was hunting that area as well. We didn't find a Great Blue until Knox-Marcellus where we also found many Snow Geese; tundra Swans were on Black Pond. It's almost easier to list the ducks that we didn't see - largely seas ducks and early migrants like Blue-winged Teal and Woodies. It was a tremendous waterfowl day. On the Odonata front we had many Sympetrum vicinum and a single Anax junius. J&S PS. On the hunting dates. Anyone birding in Schuyler County should take into account that, in its infinite wisdom, the legislature has allowed rifles to be used this year. This greatly increases the danger range from yards to miles. -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: grackles From: Regi Teasley <rltcayuga AT earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:36:20 -0500 Two Grackles were eating seeds at a tray feeder in my yard on West Hill today. Regi -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: FW: eBird Report - Montezuma East Road , 11/15/09 From: "Joe & Carol Slattery" <jslattery2 AT rochester.rr.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:07:42 -0500 Location: Montezuma East Road Observation date: 11/15/09 Notes: Sandhill Cranes in flight 3:00 pm Number of species: 4 Snow Goose X Canada Goose X Great Blue Heron 5 Sandhill Crane 13 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/ny) Joe & Carol -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Sunday Birds From: jpackard AT clarityconnect.com Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:41:35 -0500 I birded the lower part of Fillmore Glen today. Highlights were three woodpecker species (HAIRY, RED-BELLIED, and PILEATED), and a BROWN CREEPER hanging out with chickadees. Driving home, I thought I saw a flock of snow geese in a field. When I turned around and drove back, I discovered it was a flock of domestic geese! Bruce Packard Groton -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: raptors on E. Hill Rec. Way From: "Annette Finney" <afinney AT hospicare.org> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:20:56 -0500 This afternoon while walking east down the E. Hill Rec. Way from Maple Avenue, an adult BALD EAGLE was flying in the opposite direction, not very high. Farther down the trail toward Game Farm Road, a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was calling. Annette Annette Finney Director of Support Services Hospicare & Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County, Inc. 172 E. King Road Ithaca, NY 14850 607-272-0212 afinney AT hospicare.org www.hospicare.org P Please think of the environment before printing this email. Thank you! -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Hunting--MNWR From: "Susan Fast" <sustfast AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:48:51 -0500 There is an article on hunting at Montezuma NWR in today's (Sunday) Syracuse Post-Standard. Good stuff and some interesting numbers. Steve Fast Brooktondale -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Sapsucker Woods From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:05:57 -0500 Just a couple of days ago, I was wondering if the Red-shouldered has returned. Ryan thanks for reporting his/her (Tom Corrlan had determined the sex but now I forget) return. When everything is quiet in woods, it is great to hear this hawk and the jays imitating! Meena At 12:55 PM 11/15/2009, Ryan Douglas wrote: >Around noon today a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was flying around and calling in >the Lansing portion of Sapsucker Woods. Other birds: PILEATED WOODPECKER, >BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD, etc. > >A little six-point buck WHITE-TAILED DEER was chasing a doe back and forth >across Brown Rd. just across Rt. 13. > >Good birding, >Ryan > >-- >Ryan Douglas >rnd4 AT cornell.edu >Dept. of Plant Biology >142 Emerson Hall >Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 webpage: http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Sapsucker Woods From: Ryan Douglas <rnd4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:55:46 -0500 Around noon today a RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was flying around and calling in the Lansing portion of Sapsucker Woods. Other birds: PILEATED WOODPECKER, BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD, etc. A little six-point buck WHITE-TAILED DEER was chasing a doe back and forth across Brown Rd. just across Rt. 13. Good birding, Ryan -- Ryan Douglas rnd4 AT cornell.edu Dept. of Plant Biology 142 Emerson Hall Cornell University, 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Hunting season-thanks! From: "Susan Norvell" <snorvell AT twcny.rr.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:34:38 -0500 I appreciate the information. Thank you all! -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Hunting seasons? From: Linda Orkin <wingmagic16 AT gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:14:43 -0500 I sent the following website to Susan which is a Hunting Guide that can be downloaded in whole or part and has all the info inclusive. http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/37136.html Linda Orkin Linda On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Linda Orkin wrote: > Susan > > I  just checked the DEC NYS website,  there is a hunting guide you can > download entirely or in parts for this info. The waterbirds is at a > separate URL that is given there also. You should be able to find > everything you want (or don't want) here. > > Have a good day. > > Linda Orkin > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Susan Norvell wrote: >> I want to find a list of dates for hunting seasons for this fall and winter. >> Does a comprehensive list exist? A good site? Are the dates the same from >> one county to another? >> >> Thanks for the help, >> Sue Norvell > -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Hunting seasons? From: David Ruppert <dr24 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:08:43 -0500 Since this may be of general interest, I am replying to the list. The DEC web site has this information: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/hunting.html You need to search this site for the information you want. Deer seasons are at: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/10003.html There is a map of deer hunting zones and seasons: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/28605.html The regular deer season in our zone is Nov 21 to Dec 13. Right now we are in bow season. David Susan Norvell wrote: > I want to find a list of dates for hunting seasons for this fall and > winter. Does a comprehensive list exist? A good site? Are the dates the > same from one county to another? > > Thanks for the help, > Sue Norvell -- David Ruppert Andrew Schultz, Jr., Professor of Engineering Professor of Statistical Science email: dr24 AT cornell.edu WWW: http://people.orie.cornell.edu/~davidr/ office hours: http://people.orie.cornell.edu/~davidr/officehours.html Mailing Address: 1170 Comstock Hall, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 607 255-0845 (1170 Comstock Hall) and 607 255-9136 (225 Rhodes Hall) 607 255-9129 (FAX) -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Hunting seasons? From: "Susan Norvell" <snorvell AT twcny.rr.com> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:59:49 -0500 I want to find a list of dates for hunting seasons for this fall and winter. Does a comprehensive list exist? A good site? Are the dates the same from one county to another? Thanks for the help, Sue Norvell -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Pacific Loon Sheldrake Friday Nov 13th From: david nicosia <daven1024 AT yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:54:33 -0800 (PST) Took a trip up the west side of Cayuga Lake today on the way to Montezuma with Dan Watkins. We had a what we believe was the PACIFIC LOON at Sheldrake. This bird was close to the red channel marker and seen very well with great lighting from the gravel driveway/turnaround. There were several common loons around and this bird was smaller, and thinner billed. The bill was held in a straight profile as we watched for quite some time. The head was rounded. The bird was brown, with a finely barred back. Sides of neck were extensively brown much more so than the red-throated loon with a sharp contrast to white in front. The bird had small brown spurs at the base of the neck. From the crown to around the eyes was dusky brown/gray becoming a more solid brown from behind the eyes down the sides of the neck in almost a straight line contrasting with the bright white in front. The throat was clean white and did not appear to have the "chin-straps". Dave Nutter's Pacific Loon had chin straps according to his post Nov 5th so this would be a different bird. We ruled out the red-throated loon given the darker brown color, straight bill profile (bill was also thicker than what I recall of a red-throated loon), more rounded head, and the extent of brown on the neck. I have seen quite a few red-throated loons and this was not one. The common loons were very plentiful at sheldrake. We saw this bird with commons nearby and it was easily apparent that it was smaller and thinner billed. This is a new bird for me. Dan has seen many in Alaska but in breeding plumage. Other birds seen today...turning into Montezuma had a male northern harrier. Montezuma Visitors Center ...shorebirds gone or not readily apparent. Mostly canada geese with some pintail mixed in. The main pool continues to be loaded with waterfowl. Most of the ducks were ring necked ducks and pintail. It was difficult to find other species among the loads of ring-necked, canada geese and pintail. With persistence, we found...lesser scaup, canvasback, redhead, gadwall, american widgeon, 1 ruddy duck close to the road, northern shoveler, bufflehead, mallards, black ducks, american coots and green-winged teal. near the first bend on wildlife drive...in the willow where I had the rough-legged hawk last week... was a red-tailed hawk this time. After the bend, there were several more green-winged teal and mallards. At Tschache pool, there were still the same group of american widgeon, with several gadwall, bufflehead, and pied-billed grebe. There was also a double crested cormorant., immature bald eagle on the mounds, and several gulls. At May's point, lighting was awful. there was a nice raft of american widgeon. We also had 13 tundra swan fly over May's which was neat. East road had thousands of canada and snow geese. several great blue herons. no cranes this time. Pond on the right of route 90 in Union Springs- several redhead, 1 gadwall. Factory Street pond Union Springs, no screech owl, 2 gadwall. Aurora boathouse- 4 HORNED GREBES, numerous common loons, flock of scoters way out. We had 3 scoters closer in and were able to identify 1 BLACK SCOTER and 2 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER. Long point- ~ 25 scoters way out. too far for specific id. Myer's- lots of ringed billed and herring gulls. other usuals mallards, black ducks, canada geese. also 3 graylag domestic geese...where did these guys come from? Stewart Park... 6 lesser scaup, several bufflehead, numerous american coots. not much else other than the usuals. 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: NE Ithaca, Th 11/12 From: "Mark Chao" <markchao AT imt.org> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:40:43 -0500 I was wondering if Carol Schmitt's sighting might mean an empty box in our yard today (we live less than a mile apart), but again this evening a gray-morph EASTERN SCREECH-OWL appeared as usual just before dusk. The owl has roosted here for seventeen days in a row. Normally, the owl perches with its head and fluffled-up body completely filling the round nest box hole, with its feet unseen on the lip of the opening. Today, as two squirrels squabbled on a branch a few feet away, the owl maintained its perch on the lip, but leaned backward so that its face was an inch or two behind the hole. I don't know why the owl didn't just drop back into the box as it usually does when there's any commotion nearby. The owl's posture must have been something like that of a woodpecker on a vertical trunk; presumably the owl's tarsi, knees, and/or tail were braced on the inner front wall of the box. Mark Chao -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: no Thayer's, no Brant, but other stuff From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT mac.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:16:42 -0800 Ithaca birds of interest today (12 Nov '09): (Brant) - ZERO. The flock of 16 grazing on Cass Park's Union Fields through 10 Nov was not found. (Thayer's Gull) - ZERO. Not found among Treman Marina gulls mid or late morning nor late afternoon, nor found in a cursory look at Stewart Park late afternoon. Mid morning there was a flock of gulls well out on Cayuga Lake amid shimmer & mirages, so it could easily still be around. Northern Shoveler - 1 female in lagoon, Stewart Park late afternoon near a dozen Mallards Common Goldeneye - 2 males off Stewart Park, mid morning. First I've seen this fall at this end of the lake. Red-throated Loon - circled over Treman Marina & headed back north, late morning, ID by Andrew Van Norstrand Bald Eaglle - 1 adult perched & flying near Jetty Woods mid & late morning Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult, Treman Marina, late morning American Pipit - 2 in cornstubble field along Poole Road on Ithaca's West Hill mid afternoon. --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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Bald eagles over Beebe Lake From: Dick Feldman <rf10 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:39:58 -0500 At 2:20 we saw two BALD EAGLES cruising above Beebe Lake. They went off toward the southeast. Dick Feldman, Director Language Resource Center Noyes Lodge -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Screech Owl in our nest box From: CFSchmitt AT aol.com Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:46:09 EST I'm delighted to report that we were awakened early this morning by a tremolo outside our bedroom window -- a Screech Owl was in one of our "squirrel boxes". The face of a gray-phase was peering from the hole in the box facing our house, just 10 feet away. Finally! Our own Cayuga Heights 'Schreechie'! I've hoped for years, and have heard them in the yard often enough, but until now have only had squirrels using the boxes we built a long time ago, fashioned with larger holes for the squirrels to snuggle into together during the winter. Hope this guy signs a long-term lease. Carol Schmitt -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Myers Snow Buntings, Stewart Park Thayer's Gull From: "Jerry Lazarczyk" <lazarcg1 AT netzero.net> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:18:45 GMT On Monday Dick Rosche and I missed the Thayer's Gull at the compost piles. Today (Veteran's Day) we scoped the docks at Treman Marina (per David Nutter's suggestion) until sundown, also to no avail. Jerry Lazarczyk Grand Island NY I took a very brief swing through Myers Point Park today (11/11), noting a handful of SNOW BUNTINGS cryptically foraging in short weeds at the base of the spit, numerous RING-BILLED GULLS on the beach around the spit and on gravel bars off Salt Point, and a DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANT swimming off shore. I also believe I saw the juvenile THAYER'S GULL today at Stewart Park on the dock being photographed perhaps by Tom Johnson. Yesterday I believe I saw it on the docks at Treman Marina, but the day before I was not able to pick it out there, perhaps because it was among a cloud of gulls which left for Stewart Park as I was still approaching from a distance. --Dave Nutter ____________________________________________________________ Medical Insurance Quotes Compare medical insurance companies and save money now. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/c?cp=Gb6xxujbFmXfREAJvrMTugAAJ1G1RmBYriwnjtqv26gxJqDOAAQAAAAFAAAAALwVpj4AAAMlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAiWIAAAAAA= -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Myers Snow Buntings, Stewart Park Thayer's Gull From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT mac.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:37:55 -0800 I took a very brief swing through Myers Point Park today (11/11), noting a handful of SNOW BUNTINGS cryptically foraging in short weeds at the base of the spit, numerous RING-BILLED GULLS on the beach around the spit and on gravel bars off Salt Point, and a DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANT swimming off shore. I also believe I saw the juvenile THAYER'S GULL today at Stewart Park on the dock being photographed perhaps by Tom Johnson. Yesterday I believe I saw it on the docks at Treman Marina, but the day before I was not able to pick it out there, perhaps because it was among a cloud of gulls which left for Stewart Park as I was still approaching from a distance. --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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: golden eagle From: "Susan Fast" <sustfast AT yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:47:15 -0500 This morning, about 1100, Susie & I were gassing up at the Kwik-Fill on Elmira Rd., preparatory to zipping up to the Colonial Lodge for fresh lake perch and an afternoon touring Bear Swamp, when we espied an adult GOLDEN EAGLE slowly circling with a southward drift in the direction of Ithaca College. At Bear Swamp, we saw a juvenile BALD EAGLE over the large wetland area along the dirt road leading east from the Colonial Lodge. And quite a few RAVENS about-2 observed in tandem flight maneuvers, which they broke off to mildly harass the eagle. And almost home, we found a MERLIN perched in a tree along Boiceville Rd., in Brooktondale. S. & S. Fast Brooktondale -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Least Flycatcher in Lansing - no From: Tom Johnson <tbj4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:42:22 -0500 Cayuga birders, Prompted by Mike Harvey's photos of the very late Least Flycatcher he found on Sunday, I looked for the bird yesterday (Twin Glens Rd. in Lansing) but did not relocate it. Further sightings would be of interest. Thanks, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Albino Red-tailed Hawk From: "John and Sue Gregoire" <khmo AT empacc.net> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:49:43 -0500 An albino Red-tailed Hawk was found on Sunday and relocated yesterday in an area near the Schuyler County 4H Youth Fair site at the corner of Schuyler Rte 16 and Meads Hill Rd. This is just south of the race track. Habitat throughout that hilltop is terrfic for raptors. We were able to discern a pink eye and the overall plumage was amazingly white, almost ghostlike. When we relocated this bird it was in a hedgerow over a stream just west of the 4H site and several hundred meters in from the road behind 2325 Meads Hill Rd. Please let us know the when and where should you relocate this bird. This is a first for the county; the complete county list is available on our website. John -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Thayer's Gull continues From: Tom Johnson <tbj4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:44:01 -0500 The Thayer's Gull looked very happy loafing at the Hog Hole docks (Allan H. Treman State Marine Park) earlier this morning. A probable Herring x Glaucous Gull hybrid (juv) was there as well; I doubt it is an F1 hybrid but it has much of the pale crispness, size, and bill structure of Glaucous Gull that is atypical for a normal Herring. Cheers, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Bald Eagle Flying on the Cornell Arts Quad From: "Barbara B. Eden" <beb1 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:45:54 -0500 On Monday 11/09/09, a bald eagle was clearly seen from the 7th floor of Olin Library. It was a highlight to a library meeting!! Sorry for the delayed post. ~Barbara -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: re:Rough-winged Swallows, Southern v Northern From: Meena Haribal <mmh3 AT cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:27:28 -0500 Hi all, I would suggest also to be aware of other kinds of swallows too (that could be seen only in dreams). I saw three swallows, size of Alpine swifts, long wide forked tail, overall light greyish (neutral grey), underside of the tails had large round white spots. When I first saw one in some distance, I thought it was a barn swallow, but as they came closer they looked different. Next thought was may be they are Cave Swallows. Then they landed on some sort of structures meant for chandeliers on Cornell university property, a theater of some kind, which overlooked Cayuga Lake. I watched them for sometime and then I wished I had got my camera with me! Later I met Jay McGowan and I mentioned him to about theses birds and asked home go look for them (in dream as well). Well, I may call them long-tailed greyish swift swallows! But they were beautiful birds! I dreamt about these birds Saturday morning, and that was the only bird worth mentioning for Saturday. Apart from dream, during day time, yesterday morning on my walk to work, hundreds of Robins were all along East Ithaca recreation path and near my house. They were very noisy, chattering and chasing each other. A couple of them were singing. I think warm weather made them get excited and sing! My regular Mockingbird along the path was somewhere else, but landed right in front of me on his bush as passed it and watched me. I did my regular greeting imitations. I am getting interested in this bird's behavior is he really recognizing me or just all these occurrences are by chance. I will keep track of my daily encounters in future provided I walk. I also saw several ( a dozen) TV's migrating against the wind in south easterly direction. One of the TV's came so very close to the window, I could see his eye! I also saw one Darner, and a Colias sp.(sulphur) butterfly heading south! It was beautiful warm day. Meena t 04:48 AM 11/10/2009, Dave Nutter wrote: >It seems to me that the chances of _Southern_ Rough-winged Swallow moving >through here is far more slim, because unlike Cave Swallows, they are >non-migratory and don't breed in the U.S., their range only reaching as >far north as Honduras in Central American and Trinidad on the north coast >of South America according to my admittedly old and limited >information. FWIW, if you see a Rough-wing with a conspicuously pale >grayish rump, a cinnamon throat, whose undertail coverts are thickly >speckled black, and perhaps having a yellowish tinge to the belly, you >have a candidate for Southern Rough-winged Swallow. Otherwise, like >Northerns, Southerns are small swallows (slightly smaller) with a >moderately notched tail, brown above other than the lighter rump, dusky on >the breast and sides, and lighter on the belly. Have they been found in >the U.S.? Recently? >--Dave Nutter > >On Monday, November 09, 2009, at 07:47PM, "Ken Rosenberg" > wrote: > >I would add that any Rough-winged Swallows should be very carefully > scrutinized as there is a Southern Rough-winged Swallow that moves around > South America as well. > >maybe tomorrow, > >KEN > >At 3:03 PM -0500 11/9/09, Chris Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: >>Keep your eyes open! >> >>I know several of you have been watching and have been checking various >>likely spots, but this is just a reminder to verify the ID on each and >>every swallow (or martin) you see flying by or overhead. >> >>Good birding! >> >>Sincerely, >>Chris T-H >> >>-------- Original Message -------- >>Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Cave Swallows - Hamlin Beach Date: Mon, 9 Nov >>2009 14:15:56 -0500 From: Andy Guthrie >> To: >>geneseebirds-l AT geneseo.edu >> >> >> >>There has been a nice movement of Cave Swallows at Hamlin Beach so far >>today. Dave Tetlow called me a little before 10 am to say two had >>passed going east. As of noon when I arrived they were up to 8. >>Between about 12:40 and 1:30, several flocks went by, totaling another >>47 birds. All of the latter birds were moving west, a fair ways in >>from the shoreline, and getting pretty high at times. There was also >>a lone Northern Rough-winged Swallow moving east earlier in the >>morning, not associated with any Cave Swallows. >> >>Cheers, >>Andy Guthrie >>Hamlin, NY >> >>_______________________________________________ >>GeneseeBirds-L mailing >>list - GeneseeBirds-L AT geneseo.edu >>http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l >> >>-- >>============================================= >>Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes >>TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer >>Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology >>159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 >>Voice: 607-254-2418, FAX: 607-254-2460 >>http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp >>mailto:cth4 AT cornell.edu >>============================================= > > > >-- >**************************************** >Ken Rosenberg >Director, Conservation Science Program >Cornell Lab of Ornithology >159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, >Ithaca, NY 14850 >(607) 254-2412 >kvr2 AT cornell.edu >**************************************** Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 webpage: http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/http://www.geocities.com/asiootusloe/mothsofithaca.htmlhttp://haribal.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/wildwest+trip+August+2007+.pdf Current Loc: 42o 25' 44.48" N, 76o 28' 16.90" W Elev 816 ft or 248.7 m Formerly: 19o 0' 41,65" N, 72o 51' 13.02" E Elev 33 ft or 10m -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: re:Rough-winged Swallows, Southern v Northern From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT mac.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:48:36 -0800 It seems to me that the chances of _Southern_ Rough-winged Swallow moving through here is far more slim, because unlike Cave Swallows, they are non-migratory and don't breed in the U.S., their range only reaching as far north as Honduras in Central American and Trinidad on the north coast of South America according to my admittedly old and limited information. FWIW, if you see a Rough-wing with a conspicuously pale grayish rump, a cinnamon throat, whose undertail coverts are thickly speckled black, and perhaps having a yellowish tinge to the belly, you have a candidate for Southern Rough-winged Swallow. Otherwise, like Northerns, Southerns are small swallows (slightly smaller) with a moderately notched tail, brown above other than the lighter rump, dusky on the breast and sides, and lighter on the belly. Have they been found in the U.S.? Recently? --Dave Nutter On Monday, November 09, 2009, at 07:47PM, "Ken Rosenberg" wrote: > -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: Thayer's Gull - photos From: Ken Rosenberg <kvr2 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:59:18 -0500 Nice photos! Almost makes Thayer's Gull i.d. look easy.... KEN At 4:00 PM -0500 11/9/09, Tom Johnson wrote: >Cayuga birders, >I have uploaded some better photos (better than the post-sunset ones >from Saturday) of the Ithaca Thayer's Gull here: > http://picasaweb.google.com/jaegermaster/ThayerSGullIthacaNY >Cheers, >Tom > > >-- >Thomas Brodie Johnson >Ithaca, NY >tbj4 AT cornell.edu >mobile: 717.991.5727 -- **************************************** Ken Rosenberg Director, Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-2412 kvr2 AT 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: [Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Cave Swallows - Hamlin Beach] From: Ken Rosenberg <kvr2 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:47:54 -0500 I would add that any Rough-winged Swallows should be very carefully scrutinized as there is a Southern Rough-winged Swallow that moves around South America as well. maybe tomorrow, KEN At 3:03 PM -0500 11/9/09, Chris Tessaglia-Hymes wrote: >Keep your eyes open! > >I know several of you have been watching and have been checking >various likely spots, but this is just a reminder to verify the ID >on each and every swallow (or martin) you see flying by or overhead. > >Good birding! > >Sincerely, >Chris T-H > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Cave Swallows - Hamlin Beach Date: Mon, 9 >Nov 2009 14:15:56 -0500 From: Andy Guthrie > To: >geneseebirds-l AT geneseo.edu > > > >There has been a nice movement of Cave Swallows at Hamlin Beach so far >today. Dave Tetlow called me a little before 10 am to say two had >passed going east. As of noon when I arrived they were up to 8. >Between about 12:40 and 1:30, several flocks went by, totaling another >47 birds. All of the latter birds were moving west, a fair ways in >from the shoreline, and getting pretty high at times. There was also >a lone Northern Rough-winged Swallow moving east earlier in the >morning, not associated with any Cave Swallows. > >Cheers, >Andy Guthrie >Hamlin, NY > >_______________________________________________ >GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - >GeneseeBirds-L AT geneseo.edu >http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l > > >-- >============================================= >Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes >TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer >Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology >159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 >Voice: 607-254-2418, FAX: 607-254-2460 >http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp >mailto:cth4 AT cornell.edu >============================================= -- **************************************** Ken Rosenberg Director, Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-2412 kvr2 AT 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Syracuse RBA From: Joseph Brin <brinjoseph AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:10:23 -0800 (PST) RBA * New York * Syracuse * November 09, 2009 * NYSY 0911.09 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): November 02, 2009 - November 09, 2009 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:November 09 AT 7:00 p.m. (EST) compiler: Joseph Brin Onondaga Audubon Homepage: www.onondagaaudubon.org #179 -Monday November 09, 2009 Greetings! This is the Syracuse Area Rare Bird Alert for the week of November 02 , 2009 Highlights: ----------- TRUMPETER SWAN CACKLING GOOSE GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE ROSS’S GOOSE GOLDEN EAGLE SANDHILL CRANE NORTHERN SHRIKE PALM WARBLER FOX SPARROW EASTERN MEADOWLARK Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) and Montezuma Wetlands Complex (MWC) ------------ 11/7: 1 CACKLING GOOSE and at least 1 ROSS’S GOOSE were seen from East Road. At Van Dyne Spoor Road and Armitage Road a total of 31 TRUMPETER SWANS were counted. Also at Van Dyne Spoor Road 2 SANDHILL CRANES were spotted. 11/9: A GREATER YELLOWLEGS was seen at the Visitor’s Center and a NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen at East Road. Onondaga County ------------ 11/4: A NORTHERN SHRIKE was found at Three Rivers WMA north of Baldwinsville. 11/5: At Green Lakes State Park 3 FOS SPARROWS and 1 PALM WARBLER were found among a number of birds. 11/6: 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARKS were seen in Tully. 11/8: A CACKLING GOOSE was seen in with the many Canadas in Van Buren Park in Baldwinsville. Madison County ------------ 11/5: 2 CACKLING GEESE were found among 13 species of waterowl on Woodman Pond. AGOLDEN EAGLE was seen near Erieville. Oneida County ------------ 11/5: A juvenile NORTHERN SHRIKE was observed hunting in Durhamville. Cayuga County ------------ 11/8: A GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE was found in a pond along Rt.370 east of Meridian near the Sunoco gas station. --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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Thayer's Gull - photos From: Tom Johnson <tbj4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:00:28 -0500 Cayuga birders, I have uploaded some better photos (better than the post-sunset ones from Saturday) of the Ithaca Thayer's Gull here: http://picasaweb.google.com/jaegermaster/ThayerSGullIthacaNY Cheers, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: [Fwd: [GeneseeBirds-L] Cave Swallows - Hamlin Beach] From: Chris Tessaglia-Hymes <cth4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:03:54 -0500 Keep your eyes open! I know several of you have been watching and have been checking various likely spots, but this is just a reminder to verify the ID on each and every swallow (or martin) you see flying by or overhead. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Cave Swallows - Hamlin Beach Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:15:56 -0500 From: Andy Guthrie To: geneseebirds-l AT geneseo.edu There has been a nice movement of Cave Swallows at Hamlin Beach so far today. Dave Tetlow called me a little before 10 am to say two had passed going east. As of noon when I arrived they were up to 8. Between about 12:40 and 1:30, several flocks went by, totaling another 47 birds. All of the latter birds were moving west, a fair ways in from the shoreline, and getting pretty high at times. There was also a lone Northern Rough-winged Swallow moving east earlier in the morning, not associated with any Cave Swallows. Cheers, Andy Guthrie Hamlin, NY _______________________________________________ GeneseeBirds-L mailing list - GeneseeBirds-L AT geneseo.edu http://mail.geneseo.edu/mailman/listinfo/geneseebirds-l -- ============================================= Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes TARU Product Line Manager and Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 Voice: 607-254-2418, FAX: 607-254-2460 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp mailto:cth4 AT 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Thayer's Gull - docks at Hog Hole From: Tom Johnson <tbj4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:56:12 -0500 The juv THGU was loafing on the docks at Hog Hole/ Treman Marine State Park late morning today. Cheers, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: thousands of Loons From: CFSchmitt AT aol.com Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:56:08 EST There were amazing numbers of Loons on the lake yesterday afternoon, in the section from Aurora to Long Point and south. They seemed to continue north past Aurora, so it must have been the northern half of the lake, for I know they weren't apparent in those numbers back down at Myers. No one seems to have mentioned this on the listserve. I could truly count hundreds in each scope view, and the air was filled with their musical piping and yodeling. Some were diving close to our shore, but they reached all across the lake into the shimmer of the western shore. It was quite a spectacle and I've never seen them on the water in these numbers before. Carol Schmitt -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: a few birds of interest Sunday 8 Nov From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT mac.com> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:11:02 -0800 Yesterday (Sun 8 Nov) I went up the west side of the lake and to the Montezuma area. Despite seeing many mostly distant COMMON LOONS I was unable to convince myself that any were other species despite meeting a party from Syracuse in the Sheldrake area who said that just a few minutes earlier they had seen a/the Pacific Loon. In that same area Bob McGuire mentioned having a poor look at a swallow flying away across the lake, which may have been a/the Barn Swallow. Unusual birds which I saw included: 16 BRANT grazing on Union Fields in Cass Park 1 adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL at Dean's Cove 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at the Montezuma NWR Visitors' Center 1 adult NORTHERN SHRIKE on East Road --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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Re: STFC food From: "Julie Lisk" <jalisk AT charter.net> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:15:13 -0500 We think it may be an ichneumon wasp http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/113090697 Julie Lisk Groton, Ma ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Horton" To: "cayugabirds-L AT cornell.edu" Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 5:37 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] STFC food > Hi Everyone, > Here is a link to a photo of the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher with a bug in > its beak Anyone know what it is? At another point the STFC flew up to the > wire with a big fat Grasshopper. > > Fred Bertram > Canandaigua > > > > http://www.pbase.com/fjbertram/birds > > -- > > 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 > > 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Sunday Birds From: jpackard AT clarityconnect.com Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:56:07 -0500 I birded around the lake this afternoon. At Stewart Park, I saw several LESSER SCAUP, BUFFLEHEADS, and COOTS mixed in with the geese and seagulls. Next, I went to Cass Park. There were six RUDDY DUCKS cruising on the inlet, along with lots of COMMON MERGANSERS. I saw four woodpecker species, including a SAPSUCKER. I thought I saw a TREE SPARROW at Hog Hole, but wasn't 100% sure. Finally, I went to Taughannock and saw three close up COMMON LOONS, and a BROWN CREEPER. Bruce Packard Groton -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Sunday birds From: Kevin McGowan <kjm2 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:42:39 -0500 Upon entering the Stevenson compost compound to census crows today, I was greeted by the juvenile THAYER'S GULL and an adult LESSER-BLACK BACKED GULL. (Smooth, clean, chocolaty dark chest, all dark bill, intermediately sloped forehead, frosty white under the wingtips, and not-quite-dark-enough upper wingtips made it jump out of the background of young Herring Gulls. By "jump" I mean, like, flinch when you cast your eyes over a crowd when you have a frown on your face; if it wasn't your spouse or child, you never would have noticed.) Unfortunately I was quickly distracted and never saw either again in the next 2 hours. I should say that last weekend I saw 2 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls at the compost; one that appears to have been there for several weeks that has nearly no white spotting on the wingtips, and another with large white spots who had a huge molt gap with p8 and p7 (?) not visible. I don't know which was there today, if it was either of those two. My distraction cleared the piles, but soon some crows and gulls came back. After a while of watching crows, a pale first cycle ICELAND GULL showed up on the piles. Eventually I realized that 2 pale first cycle Iceland Gulls were present. I never saw them together, but I found it unusually easy to refind the "one" Iceland Gull, and then when I was taking a photograph of one the image showed up on the screen and it had in addition to the main subject the pure white wingtip of a 2nd Iceland. Too many hawks and too many people eventually led to the complete desertion of the compost, with the crows hiding uphill for more than a half hour and the gulls circling higher and higher until they drifted out of sight. I thought that they appeared to head off SE, but an hour or so later from Mt. Pleasant I still saw a large group of circling gulls over Ithaca. Mt. Pleasant had little to offer but quiet and solitude. I did see one local Rough-legged Hawk and a few Red-tailed Hawks and Turkey Vultures. Most interesting was a kettle of circling COMMON RAVENS far off to the east. I found them through binoculars as large circling birds and expected to find them to be vultures or hawks when I got the scope on them. But, no, they were six ravens! I've seen very large congregations of ravens in the West, and I've run into juvenile bands of up to 35 in New York, but this was my first experience with what appeared to be a "migrating" group, using thermals to gain altitude and head south. I have no idea who they were or what they were doing, but if it was early September instead of November you couldn't have told them from a group of Broad-tailed Hawks by behavior alone. The only other birds of note today were single males of Common Goldeneye and Bufflehead on Dryden Lake, along with some Common and Hooded mergansers. Oddly, these ducks were seeking refuge from the hunters at the south end of they lake by hugging the shore on the north end, amongst the goose and duck decoys tethered there. Kevin -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: STFC food From: Julie Horton <jhorton8 AT rochester.rr.com> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:37:52 -0500 Hi Everyone, Here is a link to a photo of the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher with a bug in its beak Anyone know what it is? At another point the STFC flew up to the wire with a big fat Grasshopper. Fred Bertram Canandaigua http://www.pbase.com/fjbertram/birds -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Thayer's Gull at Stewart Park, Sun. Evening From: "Shawn Matthew Billerman" <smb223 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:33:03 -0500 (EST) Hi all, Mike Harvey just called to say the THAYERS GULL is being seen now from Stewart Park on the water. Good birding, Shawn -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Least Flycatcher - Lansing, Thayer's Gull - Ithaca From: "Michael G. Harvey" <mgh27 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:38:51 -0500 I saw a LEAST FLYCATCHER near the end of Twin Glens Road off of Cayuga Heights Road in Lansing from 8:55-9:20 AM today (11/8). I first saw it only briefly and at a distance, and my poor views combined with the date raised the possibility of something very interesting. Several minutes later I refound the bird and was able to see its entirely orange mandible, sharply contrasting white wing bars and edgings, bold eye ring flared at the rear, pale lores, and peaked crown. It started calling sporadically ("whit"), further confirming the ID. It was on the right side of Twin Glens Rd in junipers and dense shrubbery between the last driveway on the right and the very end of the road. At 11:00 AM, I stopped by the compost piles on Stevenson Road in Dryden, and watched the first-cycle THAYER'S GULL found yesterday by Tom Johnson and Carolyn Sedgwick. Also present was a near-adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. Neither bird, however, was in view when I left, and a pair of RED-TAILED HAWKS was repeatedly flushing the gulls that were present. I have photos of both gulls and the flycatcher, but unfortunately no way to download them from my camera at the moment. I'll try to post them later today. Mike Harvey mgh27 AT 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: MNWR/Wetlands Saturday From: Kathy Strickland <carkatstr1ck AT hotmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:34:00 -0500 Just a few highlights of the birding trip I was on with the Eaton group today. Many of the same things Tom and friends found, including an abundance of raptors--Redtails, Rough-leggeds, Harriers, Bald Eagles. Chuck Gibson spotted two Sandhill Cranes out at the VanDyne Spoor section. On our way back through Knox-Marsellus there were 14 Sandhills at the near edge, but they flew and landed on one of the roadways out on the muck. On the Wildlife Drive, a Snow Bunting was picking along the roadside opposite LaRue's Lagoon. We missed the Dunlins at the VC but Lynn spotted one in that newly-bulldozed area before the curve. After the group left I had another hour so I made another trip around the Wildlife Drive. The Snow Bunting was still pecking along in the same place--two hours later! I came upon a vehicle whose occupant was studying a bird in a tree on the far side of the river so I stopped to look, too. A Peregrine Falcon (he had seen it land) apparently having enjoyed a good meal, was preening, stretching its wings. We watched for some time before heading on down the drive, and a few minutes later I saw it flying over my car and out over the marsh. Back on RT89 I stopped at that east-facing overlook and saw over 70 swans on "Black Lake"--couldn't ID them with just binoculars. Someone with better optics might want to check them out. -----Kathy Strickland, Union Springs _________________________________________________________________ Find the right PC with Windows 7 and Windows Live. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/pc-scout/laptop-set-criteria.aspx?cbid=wl&filt=200,2400,10,19,1,3,1,7,50,650,2,12,0,1000&cat=1,2,3,4,5,6&brands=5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16&addf=4,5,9&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen2:112009 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Around the lake (Ross's Goose, Blue-headed Vireo, etc.) From: "Michael G. Harvey" <mgh27 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:22:24 -0500 Carolyn Sedgwick, Maria Stager, Matt Medler, Tom Johnson, and I spent today braving the chilly southerly breeze to circle the lake in search of birds. We started off at Stewart Park, where 2 "RICHARDSON'S" CACKLING GEESE performed at close range with the other waterfowl right along the shore. After a short time, 2 BRANT flew in from up the lake and landed in the same area. Drake Road was surprisingly productive, highlighted by the local pigmentally-challenged "BROWN" AMERICAN CROW, a late BLUE-HEADED VIREO, and a late GRAY CATBIRD. Myers Point was slow, except for a single female-plumaged SURF SCOTER winging its way down the lake. Aurora was rather slow, but there were a fair number of COMMON LOONS some distance out on the lake off the bluffs south of town. The EASTERN SCREECH-OWL was in the duck box in the pond on Factory Street in Union Springs. At Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, duck numbers seemed a bit lower than last weekend, but the raft of RING-NECKED DUCKS is increasingly infiltrated with numbers of REDHEADS, CANVASBACKS, and LESSER SCAUPS. 4 DUNLIN were in the Montezuma Visitor's Center impoundment. At East Road, 1 CACKLING GOOSE and at least 1 (likely 2) ROSS'S GOOSE were present among thousands of SNOW GEESE. The Montezuma mucklands were generally wind-swept and quiet, but Van Dyne Spoor hosted 21 TRUMPETER SWANS (with 4 TUNDRA SWANS mixed in) and 2 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWKS (1 light, 1 dark). We found an additional 10 TRUMPETER SWANS and a single DUNLIN at Armitage Road. Our total of 31 TRUMPETER SWANS beats my previous personal high count of 25 (all at Armitage Road, last week), and may be among the highest counts in the state. Of particular note, one of the swans had a red neck-collar, and it will be interesting to hear back about the provenance of this bird. In Seneca Falls, we located some delicious, well-portioned sandwiches and soups and good coffee at ZuZu Cafe, which was upscale but not over-priced. We worked a few areas on the west side of the lake on the way south, but we did not hit any big concentrations of feeding loons and gulls. In fact, most of the loons we did see were well away from shore, and their distance combined with the onshore wind made observation difficult. A flock of BRANT was feeding on the grass in Cass Park on our way into Ithaca. The arguable highlight of the day came following Matt, Maria, and my departure from Stewart Park (see Tom's previous post). Luckily, Matt and I managed to get back to see the handsome first-cycle THAYER'S GULL initially spotted by Tom and Carolyn. This is a handsome bird, between its fresh plumage and fine markings, and it is certainly one of the better examples of "Thayer's" I have seen in the Northeast. Mike Harvey mgh27 AT 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Thayer's Gull - Ithaca From: Tom Johnson <tbj4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:34:11 -0500 Cayuga birders, Carolyn Sedgwick and I found a juvenile Thayer's Gull at Stewart Park this evening at around 3:50 pm. We were actually getting ready to head home after a long day of birding throughout the Cayuga Lake basin (see Mike Harvey's post coming soon to a listserv near you) when I glanced up over the car and saw a large, very pale brown gull circling low overhead before disappearing towards the city (happily not before I got photos though). After a group of birders assembled and the bird thankfully reappeared to roost just off the dock at Stewart. The bird swam around a bit before climbing up onto a tire protruding from the water about 100 feet offshore. The bird was still present at dark (and is presumably roosting there). Morning updates would likely be appreciated. Given the overall appearance of the bird, the rather early date, and the rarity of Thayer's Gull in the Finger Lakes region, I think it is very likely this is the same individual that I photographed yesterday afternoon at Sheldrake Point, 17.9 miles northwest of Stewart Park. Photos of the juvenile Thayer's Gull in flight and on the water will be here soon: http://picasaweb.google.com/jaegermaster/ThayerSGullIthacaNY# Important ID points supporting this bird being the enigmatic Thayer's Gull include the overall pale brown-ness, brown primaries crisply edged with silver/ pale-ness, pale underwings with dark primary tips from below, dark-centered (but pale-tipped/ fringed) tertials, a solid brown tail band, black bill, pink legs, an overall "cute" appearance to the head, and a darkish eye mask. See photos for more details. If the gull isn't at Stewart Park tomorrow morning, the compost piles on Stevenson Road in Dryden are a good bet. Cheers, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Thayer's Gull at Stewart Park Right Now From: Matthew Medler <mdm2 AT cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:46:22 -0500 See you there! -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Late Chipping Sparrow, Jetty Woods From: France <birdbum AT gmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:21:12 -0500 I had a Chipping Sparrow bopping around in the grass next to the gate to the Jetty Woods this afternoon. Seems a bit late for this bird. -France -- France Dewaghe Ithaca, NY www.pbase.com/birdbum -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: [Fwd: [hawkcast] 46 Golden Eagles at Franklin Mt. today] From: Gary Kohlenberg <jgk25 AT cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:32:43 -0500 I thought some might be interested in this days count in Oneonta. 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- I had just sent out a note advising of relatively poor migration conditions expected this weekend at the Franklin Mt. Hawkwatch, when today's numbers came in. Steve Hall had 46 Golden Eagles, half of which passed between noon and 2 p.m. This is the third highest single day count for Goldens at the site. Andy Mason __._,_.___ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ Andrew Mason 1039 Peck St. Jefferson, NY 12093 (607) 652-2162 AndyMason AT earthling.net Subject: RE: Thayer's Gull, Barn Swallow - Sheldrake From: "Susan Fast" <sustfast AT yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:02:51 -0500 Interesting. I got a late start and didn't get to Taughannock SP until 1100, where I counted 99 COMMON LOONS and 1 RED-NECKED GREBE. I then drove to Sheldrake, driving the lake road there. This was about noon. I found only a handful of C. LOONS, and I don't recall seeing any gulls. There were 4 BUFFLEHEAD and the female LONG-TAILED DUCK. Dean's Cove was almost devoid of birds. There was a small flock of COMMON GOLDENEYE off Cayuga Lake SP. At the Mucklands, CANADA and SNOW GEESE, but not many. Much corn still not harvested. Long Point SP = 2 C. LOONS only. Aurora boathouse = a vast expanse of gray water untrammeled by waterfowl. Myers Point = Gulls were here; hundreds; sun was low and in my face; 98% of gulls were RING-BILLED. There was an odd darkish gull that may have been the Thayers, but I could not see it well. Steve Fast _____ From: bounce-4541171-9286980 AT list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-4541171-9286980 AT list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 5:18 PM To: cayugabirds Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Thayer's Gull, Barn Swallow - Sheldrake Cayuga birders, I enjoyed a good afternoon of birding along the southwest shore of Cayuga Lake from Ithaca to Sheldrake Point. Highlights included Thayer's Gull, Barn Swallow, Red-throated Loon, Red-necked Grebe, and Brant. Cass Park, Ithaca 16 Brant - feeding on Union Fields (present in varying numbers here for 2 weeks now) Taughannock Falls State Park 1 Red-throated Loon ~58 Common Loon Sheldrake Point 1 Thayer's Gull - *very rare - classic juvenile, photographed 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2nd cycle 1 Barn Swallow - *late - on utility wire at Sheldrake Point Winery, photographed 2 Red-necked Grebes 240 Common Loon (includes loon sp. presumed Common) - no Pacific seen today, but it seems likely that it is still present The Thayer's Gull was originally on the water straight out from the parking area at Sheldrake Point park, but flew north of the point to join a massive feeding frenzy of gulls and loons. It was overall light brown and crisply marked with a completely black bill, darker brown eye patch on a paler face, medium brown primaries edged in pale whitish, solidly dark tertials, a dark tail band, and silvery undersides to the primaries with a thin dark tip. I will put some documentation-quality photos online here in a few minutes: http://picasaweb.google.com/jaegermaster/ThayerSGullSheldrakeNY# The number of birds at Sheldrake is downright impressive right now, with thousands of gulls and hundreds of loons - I would highly recommend birding the site this weekend. See you out there! Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Thayer's Gull, Barn Swallow - Sheldrake From: Tom Johnson <tbj4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:17:39 -0500 Cayuga birders, I enjoyed a good afternoon of birding along the southwest shore of Cayuga Lake from Ithaca to Sheldrake Point. Highlights included Thayer's Gull, Barn Swallow, Red-throated Loon, Red-necked Grebe, and Brant. Cass Park, Ithaca 16 Brant - feeding on Union Fields (present in varying numbers here for 2 weeks now) Taughannock Falls State Park 1 Red-throated Loon ~58 Common Loon Sheldrake Point 1 Thayer's Gull - *very rare - classic juvenile, photographed 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2nd cycle 1 Barn Swallow - *late - on utility wire at Sheldrake Point Winery, photographed 2 Red-necked Grebes 240 Common Loon (includes loon sp. presumed Common) - no Pacific seen today, but it seems likely that it is still present The Thayer's Gull was originally on the water straight out from the parking area at Sheldrake Point park, but flew north of the point to join a massive feeding frenzy of gulls and loons. It was overall light brown and crisply marked with a completely black bill, darker brown eye patch on a paler face, medium brown primaries edged in pale whitish, solidly dark tertials, a dark tail band, and silvery undersides to the primaries with a thin dark tip. I will put some documentation-quality photos online here in a few minutes: http://picasaweb.google.com/jaegermaster/ThayerSGullSheldrakeNY# The number of birds at Sheldrake is downright impressive right now, with thousands of gulls and hundreds of loons - I would highly recommend birding the site this weekend. See you out there! Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: RE: Pacific Loon, many Commons, retraction of Red-throated From: "James G. Kohlenberg" <jgk25 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:57:32 -0500 I stopped after work to try and see the Pacific Loon. I didn't have any luck refinding it, but many Loons were in the distance. With the clouds it got very dark quickly. I did see my first Long-tailed Duck of the fall, at Sheldrake point exactly were she seems to hangout the last few years. Gary ________________________________________ From: bounce-4537207-3493999 AT list.cornell.edu [bounce-4537207-3493999 AT list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Nutter [nutter.dave AT mac.com] Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 6:07 PM To: cayugabirds-l AT cornell.edu Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Pacific Loon, many Commons, retraction of Red-throated I saw lots of loons today. The PACIFIC LOON at Sheldrake I saw very well, initially quite close, and even took some adequate photos (available on request) showing the thin bill, slim head not much thicker than the neck giving a somewhat snaky appearance when extended, smooth light gray hood extending from the crown far down the nape, dark area extending from the lores and eye back over a restricted light patch on the face and forming a broad dark stripe down the side of the neck between the gray to the rear and white on the front of the neck, and narrow dark chinstrap. I was mostly viewing the Pacific Loon from the small gravelly park with a loop road at the very end of County Road 139 at the actual point formed by the delta of Sheldrake Creek. The bird was diving frequently and moving as were several COMMON LOONS in the same area. The Pacific worked its way north past the red channel marker, and was lost to view around the point for awhile. I refound it by going north on Wyers Point road a very short distance to the 90 degree bend to the left overlooking docks. After awhile the Pacific worked its way back south, and my original viewing site was better. The Pacific Loon preened some, and when I left at 1:30pm it was swimming away approximately northeast or slightly left of directly across the lake in the company of a couple of Common Loons. For those wishing to refind it, I recommend checking all vantages within a couple of miles of there. Assuming it's the same bird we've seen in the area for several years now, it's been seen regularly from 153 & 141 to the bay north of Sheldrake Point and occasionally from the east side at Long Point and elsewhere. Earlier I had talked to Stuart Krasnoff a couple times. He called mid-morning about a possible Red-throated Loon showing lots of white on the face. It was far northwest from Stewart Park and headed north. He sent me some photos which I looked at this evening, but they are too small/distant for me to ID. It was late morning before I got to the lake, and I found no loons from a couple of private docks along the west shore to which I have access. When I got to the Ithaca Yacht Club I found my first 3 loons, fairly far to the northeast across the lake in a bit of heat shimmer. When I first saw them during a binocular scan their bright white breast/neck/face caught my eye and I expected the scope to reveal gulls. I spent a long time looking at them as they interacted. A Herring Gull that was next to them for awhile seemed similar in overall length and with a larger head (Sibley lists both species' length as 25"). At times I could see the dark eye of a loon within the white of the face. I did not see any blockiness or angularity to the heads, nor a distinct forehead. The whitish face seemed to extend up through the lores. However the crown was definitely dark and substantial, and when they faced away no white showed at all. Although the front of the neck was bright white I could see some irregularity in the pattern of white foreneck and dark hindneck, especially near the base, not just a straight line dividing the two. The bills appeared somewhat small and pointed slightly above horizontal. I could see some white speckling on the back. After staring a long time and consulting Sibley, I called Stuart and he correctly reported my assessment that I was seeing 3 Red-throated Loons. When I got to the Sheldrake area and made my first stop at the corner of County Roads 141 & 153, I saw scores of distant loons, many appearing similarly bright white on the face and fairly small-billed, some which were closer and were irrefutably COMMON LOONS, and some in the mid-distance whose identity seemed to shift with the direction they faced. Head-on they looked very white-faced, but from the side or the rear they no longer looked like Red-throated Loon candidates. On my return trip I stopped again at the Ithaca Yacht Club but this time I found about a dozen COMMON LOONS which shared some of the characteristics I had seen on the first 3 birds. I now suspect that I may have been mistaken in my ID of Red-throated Loons. Perhaps the heat shimmer and the dark background may have made the dark parts of the head and the bill appear smaller, while the light parts appeared larger. Maybe they were Red-throated, but now my doubts outweigh my confidence. I think perhaps Red-throated Loons, which I've never seen more than one at a time, would have appeared snakier with less distinct of a head, and I might have had more trouble seeing the bill at all in that situation of mediocre light, distance and moderate heat shimmer. I got as far north as Bridgeport, the community near the northwest corner of Cayuga Lake in the Town of Seneca Falls. From the boat ramp of Cayuga Lake State Park I saw about a dozen COMMON GOLDENEYES and a female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER to the east, and several mixed flocks, totalling several hundred ducks to the north, mainly LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCKS with some GREATER SCAUP and a couple AMERICAN WIGEON. Also scattered about the north half of the lake were more COMMON LOONS, BUFFLEHEADS, MALLARD, AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, a handful of PIED-BILLED GREBES and the 3 usual gulls. --Dave Nutter On Thursday, November 05, 2009, at 09:45AM, <6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM> wrote: > pacific loon close to sheldrake point park 1240 5 nov -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 > >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 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Pacific Loon, many Commons, retraction of Red-throated From: Dave Nutter <nutter.dave AT mac.com> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:07:57 -0800 I saw lots of loons today. The PACIFIC LOON at Sheldrake I saw very well, initially quite close, and even took some adequate photos (available on request) showing the thin bill, slim head not much thicker than the neck giving a somewhat snaky appearance when extended, smooth light gray hood extending from the crown far down the nape, dark area extending from the lores and eye back over a restricted light patch on the face and forming a broad dark stripe down the side of the neck between the gray to the rear and white on the front of the neck, and narrow dark chinstrap. I was mostly viewing the Pacific Loon from the small gravelly park with a loop road at the very end of County Road 139 at the actual point formed by the delta of Sheldrake Creek. The bird was diving frequently and moving as were several COMMON LOONS in the same area. The Pacific worked its way north past the red channel marker, and was lost to view around the point for awhile. I refound it by going north on Wyers Point road a very short distance to the 90 degree bend to the left overlooking docks. After awhile the Pacific worked its way back south, and my original viewing site was better. The Pacific Loon preened some, and when I left at 1:30pm it was swimming away approximately northeast or slightly left of directly across the lake in the company of a couple of Common Loons. For those wishing to refind it, I recommend checking all vantages within a couple of miles of there. Assuming it's the same bird we've seen in the area for several years now, it's been seen regularly from 153 & 141 to the bay north of Sheldrake Point and occasionally from the east side at Long Point and elsewhere. Earlier I had talked to Stuart Krasnoff a couple times. He called mid-morning about a possible Red-throated Loon showing lots of white on the face. It was far northwest from Stewart Park and headed north. He sent me some photos which I looked at this evening, but they are too small/distant for me to ID. It was late morning before I got to the lake, and I found no loons from a couple of private docks along the west shore to which I have access. When I got to the Ithaca Yacht Club I found my first 3 loons, fairly far to the northeast across the lake in a bit of heat shimmer. When I first saw them during a binocular scan their bright white breast/neck/face caught my eye and I expected the scope to reveal gulls. I spent a long time looking at them as they interacted. A Herring Gull that was next to them for awhile seemed similar in overall length and with a larger head (Sibley lists both species' length as 25"). At times I could see the dark eye of a loon within the white of the face. I did not see any blockiness or angularity to the heads, nor a distinct forehead. The whitish face seemed to extend up through the lores. However the crown was definitely dark and substantial, and when they faced away no white showed at all. Although the front of the neck was bright white I could see some irregularity in the pattern of white foreneck and dark hindneck, especially near the base, not just a straight line dividing the two. The bills appeared somewhat small and pointed slightly above horizontal. I could see some white speckling on the back. After staring a long time and consulting Sibley, I called Stuart and he correctly reported my assessment that I was seeing 3 Red-throated Loons. When I got to the Sheldrake area and made my first stop at the corner of County Roads 141 & 153, I saw scores of distant loons, many appearing similarly bright white on the face and fairly small-billed, some which were closer and were irrefutably COMMON LOONS, and some in the mid-distance whose identity seemed to shift with the direction they faced. Head-on they looked very white-faced, but from the side or the rear they no longer looked like Red-throated Loon candidates. On my return trip I stopped again at the Ithaca Yacht Club but this time I found about a dozen COMMON LOONS which shared some of the characteristics I had seen on the first 3 birds. I now suspect that I may have been mistaken in my ID of Red-throated Loons. Perhaps the heat shimmer and the dark background may have made the dark parts of the head and the bill appear smaller, while the light parts appeared larger. Maybe they were Red-throated, but now my doubts outweigh my confidence. I think perhaps Red-throated Loons, which I've never seen more than one at a time, would have appeared snakier with less distinct of a head, and I might have had more trouble seeing the bill at all in that situation of mediocre light, distance and moderate heat shimmer. I got as far north as Bridgeport, the community near the northwest corner of Cayuga Lake in the Town of Seneca Falls. From the boat ramp of Cayuga Lake State Park I saw about a dozen COMMON GOLDENEYES and a female RED-BREASTED MERGANSER to the east, and several mixed flocks, totalling several hundred ducks to the north, mainly LESSER SCAUP and RUDDY DUCKS with some GREATER SCAUP and a couple AMERICAN WIGEON. Also scattered about the north half of the lake were more COMMON LOONS, BUFFLEHEADS, MALLARD, AMERICAN BLACK DUCKS, a handful of PIED-BILLED GREBES and the 3 usual gulls. --Dave Nutter On Thursday, November 05, 2009, at 09:45AM, <6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM> wrote: > pacific loon close to sheldrake point park 1240 5 nov -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 > >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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Cayuga Bird Club meeting and speaker dinner From: clr82 AT juno.com Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:37:24 -0500 The Cayuga Bird Club is pleased to welcome Matt Carling as guest speaker at our monthly meeting on Monday, November 9 at 7:30 pm at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. In his presentation, "Bird Speciation: Insights from Lazuli and Indigo Buntings", Matt will discuss what we can learn about the processes of speciation from the study of these buntings. The Club will be hosting Matt and his wife for dinner at Taste of Thai Express ( AT 526 W. State St.) at 5:30 pm prior to the meeting. This is an opportunity for members to meet Matt and socialize with other members while enjoying some great food. If you would like to join us for dinner, please rsvp to clr82 AT juno.com by Sunday evening so that reservations can be made. Hope to see you Monday night, Colleen Richards ____________________________________________________________ Compare Health Plans Compare quotes online and save money on health insurance. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=ZRpiwz_G41tffJPjdwvfMQAAJ1C1RmBYriwnjtqv26gxJqDOAAQAAAAFAAAAAGv_8z4AAANSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAkQdAAAAAA= -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Mt. Pleasant am From: "Marie P Read" <mpr5 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:36:30 -0500 (EST) Hi all, Driving over Mt Pleasant around 8:00 this morning on my hunt for waxwings, I stopped to watch a flock of around 40 American Pipits that came in to land in the field opposite the observatory. 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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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: pacific loon close to sheldrake From: 6072292158 AT VTEXT.COM Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:45:58 -0500 (EST) pacific loon close to sheldrake point park 1240 5 nov -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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Glaucous Gull - Ithaca From: Tom Johnson <tbj4 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:52:43 -0500 Cayuga birders, During lunch, I saw 1 Glaucous Gull (first cycle, fairly early) on the red lighthouse jetty in Cayuga Lake from Stewart Park, Ithaca. Other notable birds at Stewart Park included a distant Red-throated Loon, an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, and a Winter Wren at the Swan Pen. A Red-tailed Hawk circling over the "Lansing Ridge" east of Cayuga Lake had a number of white upperwing coverts that gave it a very unusual appearance at a distance. Cheers, Tom -- Thomas Brodie Johnson Ithaca, NY tbj4 AT cornell.edu mobile: 717.991.5727 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Red-throated Loons on Cayuga Lake; west shore Ithaca From: Stuart Krasnoff <sbk1 AT cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:56:02 -0500 There was a single Red-throated Loon visible from Stewart Park this morning at ca. 0845 h. Du ring the 30 minutes I was there it moved from about 500 to about 800 yds up the west lake side a few hundred yards out from shore. At 1115 h Dave Nutter called to report 3 Red- throated Loons out from the Yacht Club. -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: 10 a.m. walk From: Kathy Strickland <carkatstr1ck AT hotmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:45:14 -0500 Walked up the road (Waldron) about a mile-and-a-half from my house and sat down facing south by Tom Kimble's little bait pond (my kids used to call it the "frog pond") on Spring St (between Waldron and Davis) for a bit to see what might be around. Redwings. A Turkey Vulture swinging above a field looking for breakfast, not migrating. Then very emphatic screams from two Redtail Hawks and they flew up out of the woods along with another larger bird. No binoculars (forgot them!) but it looked like it might have been a Great-horned Owl that the hawks had spooked. They continued to scream and swoop about for some time but the object of their displeasure had dropped back into the woods and I didn't see it again. Also seen/heard along the way: Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Chickadees, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Starlings, a Robin. -------Kathy Strickland, Union Springs area P.S. Red dragonfly in Fritzie's post was seen on Towpath, not Oxbow Trail (Sunday afternoon). _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9690331&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009 -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- Subject: Loons on Cayuga Lake From: "John and Sue Gregoire" <khmo AT empacc.net> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:43:34 -0500 At 1000-1100 this morning we watched many Common Loons from the North Point of Taughannock State Park. The numbers and closeness were amazing. At one point with a simple bino sweep of those close to shore, we counted 47 with at least that many again in the distance! These birds were surfacing as close as 20 feet to the cement casement. Most of the birds were adults in various stages of molt. While watching loons we also saw 6 DC Cormorants fly by and the usual three spp of gull. No ducks or other loon species, seen. It was quite a nifty and moving experience. J&S -- 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 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --