What a lot of careful work, Dave. Thanks so much for continuing to carry out this duty so equitably and conscientiously!
Sandy Podulka At 08:06 PM 5/30/2016, Dave Nutter wrote: >Content-type: text/html; > charset="US-ASCII" >X-Microsoft-Exchange-Diagnostics: > >1;SN2PR04MB2237;9:Vly5lEhWzNrquB/vRhq/aYluguzijzcz64NiQbYw9KjA89vbW8cjWluIlTkKWU7feLgRvYhDcnzXSjruMB1zkqTKsCaZ5CTw/VBLYG9TNNGshIhsQu+0dnZmI6MH1/rItGyvxeP9wUTQjW81rwDW2tQoRVhj5CBW9idmnbaW/ro= > >I think I have the 2016 Cayuga Lake Basin First Records list up to date again: ><http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records>http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records > >I wasn't intentionally waiting to update the list. I prefer to keep >it current, but it got ahead of me. > >The expected locally breeding birds are all accounted for, I >think. There are still shorebirds which may show up here on their >way north, or we may have to wait till early July when they start >south again in larger numbers, lingering longer, and ranging more >widely. And of course there are still birds showing up which simply >appear to be lost, or to put it more kindly, exploring. > >Please let me know of things on the list that look wrong - people, >locations, dates, whatever. With this much info and so many birds >and birders there's a high probability I've screwed up something, or >at least made it appear confusing. > >I try to include names of people in parties who independently find a >new species on the first day. Parties are not necessarily in any >order, but the places are in the same order as the parties. > >In the case of Black-bellied Plover the number of observers got very >long when a group of a dozen Cornell students on a basin big day >found a bird in breeding plumage at Knox-Marsellus in mid-afternoon >overlapping in time with several other observers, but in the evening >at K-M Ann Mitchell & I found one in non-breeding plumage. So I >included everybody, because no single party had clear priority over >either bird. > >The American Golden-Plovers at K-M that same day are a slightly >different story. The only people who appeared to independently >identify them were the student group. > >The Ruff which the same group reported was not described in enough >detail to distinguish it from a large male Pectoral Sandpiper which >Jay McGowan found there that evening. If it gets accepted by eBird, >I will include it. > >Eastern Whip-poor-will is another odd case. Brad Walker & Jay >McGowan saw one in their headlights along Bald Hill Road in Danby >while doing a basin big day. However the location on their eBird >report drains into Michigan Hollow where topo lines show that valley >drains south to the Susquehanna, so it is out of the Cayuga Lake >Basin. On the other hand Jeffrey Smith reported hearing one in >Virgil at the very edge of the Basin but along a creek which clearly >does drain to Cayuga Lake. It's a pretty obvious sound, so I'm not >sure why it hasn't been confirmed on eBird yet. > >White-rumped Sandpiper was reported a few days earlier than shown >but I don't know by whom (JF are you out there?). I like to include >observers names, not only to give credit, but also so that there's a >possibility of discussing more exactly where a bird was, what it was >doing, and how it was identified. > >Like many great birding spots, Shindagin Hollow is just outside of >the basin, so Melissa Groo's Red-headed Woodpecker is simply a >fantastic yard bird, and Ethan Chaffee was the first to report one >in the now-traditional area along South Mays Point Road in Tyre. >There was a vague report earlier which was not accepted by eBird. > >Have a great summer. I hope to meet you out birding. > >--Dave Nutter-- >Cayugabirds-L List Info: ><http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME>Welcome and Basics ><http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES>Rules and Information ><http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm>Subscribe, > >Configuration and Leave >Archives: ><http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html>The >Mail Archive ><http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds>Surfbirds ><http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html>BirdingOnThe.Net >Please submit your observations to <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>eBird! >-- -- <BR> <BR> Cayugabirds-L List Info: <BR> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME <BR> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES <BR> http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm <BR> <BR> ARCHIVES: <BR> 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html <BR> 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds <BR> 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html <BR> <BR> Please submit your observations to eBird: <BR> http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ <BR> <BR> --
