Date: 10/14/25 4:42 pm From: Lisa Martorana <stellandme20...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Re: Blue/,green Jay
Has anyone heard of a blue Jay and green Jay having off spring? Tried to
get article to come here but I don't think it went through just
curious!?!?! Lisa
On Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 4:02 PM Lisa Martorana <stellandme20...> wrote:
> Has anyone heard of a blue Jay and green Jay having off spring? Tried to
> get article to come here but I don't think it went through just
> curious!?!?! Lisa
>
Date: 10/3/25 3:44 am From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Webster Park - West Trail short walk - 10/2 - more migrants in brush
Webster Park - West Trail, Monroe, New York, US
Oct 2, 2025 11:10 AM - 12:05 PM
Bob Spahn, <rspahn...>: Traveling
0.3 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Another mainly exercise walk, but there were quite a few birds in the thickets, so I kept count. I did some stopping and spishing heading in to the bench at the back of the southern EW part of the West Trail. Sat there for a bit, again spishing and doing a few owl imitations. Again I will attach a list to a post on geneseebirds.
20 species
Canada Goose 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Downy Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Blue Jay 12
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 15
Gray Catbird 2
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Hermit Thrush 15 This number is typical for this species in this and this type of location by this date. Numbers for HETH will increase over the next few weeks after good migration events. The lack of numbers like this in eBird is due to the lack of people who know the species and the call notes bothering to take the time to count in the right places. From working with records locally for many years, I can provide a summary of fall banding at BBBO for a number of species some birders look for, including HETH. This illustrates timing for these species over 10 + years. I can email it to any interested enough to ask for it. [In the past that number of people has been few to none.]
American Robin 7
White-throated Sparrow 34
Song Sparrow 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 4
In case some of you have not heard about this, back on Monday I found a Barnacle Goose on the beach at Kershaw Park, Canandaigua. That was a little before noon. Almost certainly the same one that was seen in Yates County a week or two earlier. Today it was back on the Kershaw beach, this time around 2:20 pm. This just to give you an indication of the times of day it's been on the beach.
Date: 9/28/25 5:49 pm From: James Kimball <kimball...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Sparrow in soy
I spent some time this evening (c. 5:30-6:30) in the farm land and marsh area north of the Geneseo airfield. Of special interest were good numbers of Sparrows in the unharvested soybean fields (some hundreds of acres), adjacent to the hemp pond marsh area - now mostly dried up). Most seem to be Savannah Sparrows, some chasing about and diving into the soy plants - I could only estimate what I was seeing as 20+; in the larger field likely many more. Others included a dozen or so Song Sparrows and at least 3 Swamp Sparrows and 2 Lincoln’s Sparrows. It certainly is a challenge trying to pick out and in some cases trying to photograph sparrows in a soy field field (I got one Lincoln’s in a modest photo).
While was concentrating on the sparrow, flocks of Redwings (300+) were flying into the reed grass to roost.
Date: 9/27/25 1:08 pm From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Hamlin Brach SP - Yanty Creek - 9/27 - first migrant Hermit Thrushes
Hamlin Beach - Yanty Crk Trail short, Monroe, New York, US
Sep 27, 2025 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Bob & SueSpahn, <rspahn...>: Traveling
0.4 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Sue and I drove to Hamlin Beach SP and walked the Yanty Creek Trail to the boardwalk into the marsh, then to the next bench on what would be a counter clockwise loop hike. We spent some time spishing and with a few owl imitations at the two benches and out on the marsh boardwalk. Same as on 9/15. Generally pretty quiet and no warblers. We did have a nice time with a screech owl that came in and called for a bit, then answered again later when we were on the end bench of our walk. Also had calls from all three of the larger number migrant thrushes, with the Hermit Thrushes our first of the fall and on the early end historically.
21 species
Date: 9/26/25 12:54 pm From: ROBERT SPAHN <rspahn...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Quick walk in Webster Park - RCKI, finally
Webster Park - West Trail, Monroe, New York, US
Sep 26, 2025 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM
Bob Spahn, <rspahn...>: Traveling
0.55 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Another walk mainly to keep the creaky knees moving, but there were quite a few birds in the thickets. I did some stopping and spishing heading in to the bench at the back of the southern EW part of the West Trail. Sat there for a bit, again spishing and doing a few owl imitations. A bit quiet, but I will attach a list to a post on geneseebirds. First time on these walks this month that a spished in a few Ruby-crowned Kinglets. It is historically time for their numbers to head up.
14 species
Date: 9/25/25 6:28 am From: Lynn A. Braband <lab45...> Subject: [GeneseeBirds-L] Fw: You’re Invited to a Live Event: Revealing the Hidden World of Birds with Tim & Russell Laman
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