I can remember when this was a list "focused on the discussion of birds and birding in the Finger Lakes Region."
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:01 PM, RICHARD WOOD <rwood...@msn.com> wrote: > I can remember a few years back I was doing a breeding bird survey in > southwestern Minnesota with Steve Weston and we made a game out of counting > how many ticks we each had pulled off of ourselves and each other. > > Richard > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:57:02 -0400 > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks > From: mpitzr...@gmail.com > To: anneb.cl...@gmail.com > CC: veery...@gmail.com; mela...@mwmu.com; p...@grammatech.com; > cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu > > > What purpose does it serve for us to judge nature and its parts as being > good, bad or indifferent ... of service to us or otherwise? > > -Mike > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:29 PM, AB Clark <anneb.cl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oxpeckers and such birds on other continents could give us some purposes. > Although apparently the story is muddy: see > http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/2/154.full > > Anne > > > > On Oct 22, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Asher Hockett <veery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Once I tried to persuade to my wife that all creatures have a purpose in > the scheme of nature, and she responded with, "Ticks, even?" I must admit I > was at a loss to reply. > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Melanie Uhlir <mela...@mwmu.com> wrote: > > Eeeew. Ticks are one species I would love to see become extinct. > > On 10/22/2015 2:46 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: > > A couple of years ago when we had that mild winter, I got a tick on the > Christmas Bird Count. Not the FOY species I was hoping for! > > -Paul > > On 10/22/2015 2:22 PM, Donna Lee Scott wrote: > > Some of my animals and I have all had multiple ticks on us in the last 2 > weeks, after a summer of relative freedom from them. > I am a tick magnet and had 3 on my levis yesterday, then one trying to > embed in my thigh, later! Ick! > Donna > > Lansing Station Road > Lansing, NY > > -----Original Message----- > From: bounce-119809930-15001...@list.cornell.edu [mailto: > bounce-119809930-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Melanie Uhlir > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:17 PM > To: Carolyn McMaster <c...@briarpatchvet.com>; 'Ann Mitchell' < > annmitchel...@gmail.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks > > Good grief! Thank you for the heads-up!! > > Melanie > > On 10/22/2015 1:39 PM, Carolyn McMaster wrote: > > Dr. Carolyn McMaster here, > Just a note of caution for all you fellow birders. This is the season > when ticks are most active. Even after it freezes, if it goes above > freezing during the day, the ticks will be foraging for a blood meal. > Only after continual hard frosts will they go dormant. Lyme disease > is becoming more and more common around here. > Carolyn > > -----Original Message----- > From: bounce-119808363-47503...@list.cornell.edu > [mailto:bounce-119808363-47503...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Ann > Mitchell > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 9:33 AM > To: cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu > Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks > > Just a heads up. I know I am attracted to ticks, or the other way > around, but they are still with us. 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