Re:[cayugabirds-l] Carolina wren 2.17.2014
A year or two ago, I put chicken wire around our double-caged suet-feeder (suet cage inside a bigger feeder cage) to stop the red-squirrel from sitting inside all day and excluding birds from the suet. This frustrated the squirrel all right, and small birds could get in and out. But I noticed that sometimes when trying to get out fast, they could scrape perhaps damage their flight feathers. So I took the chicken wire off. Especially since a Carolina Wren pair loves to come to the suet. (This Feb we have had only one of the pair coming.) Two-inch mesh chicken wire is too large to keep the squirrel out. An interesting observation: the Red-br Nuthatch pair were the first to figure out how to get in through the ch-wire, then chickadees and carolina wrens. But the goldfinches just could never figure out that they had to perch and get in before they could get to the suet. They kept going round and round, never got in. Nari Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd. -- ___ *Nari B. Mistry*, Ithaca, NY To see my paintings, visit http://www.ArtbyNari.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wren 2.17.2014
Hello Nari, Nice post. And here's perhaps an explanation for your Goldfinches, maybe they were just wondering what all the excitement was about. : ) From All About Birds Goldfinches are among the strictest vegetarians in the bird world, selecting an entirely vegetable diet and only inadvertently swallowing an occasional insect. Linda Orkin Muriel Street Ithaca On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nari Mistry n...@cornell.edu wrote: A year or two ago, I put chicken wire around our double-caged suet-feeder (suet cage inside a bigger feeder cage) to stop the red-squirrel from sitting inside all day and excluding birds from the suet. This frustrated the squirrel all right, and small birds could get in and out. But I noticed that sometimes when trying to get out fast, they could scrape perhaps damage their flight feathers. So I took the chicken wire off. Especially since a Carolina Wren pair loves to come to the suet. (This Feb we have had only one of the pair coming.) Two-inch mesh chicken wire is too large to keep the squirrel out. An interesting observation: the Red-br Nuthatch pair were the first to figure out how to get in through the ch-wire, then chickadees and carolina wrens. But the goldfinches just could never figure out that they had to perch and get in before they could get to the suet. They kept going round and round, never got in. Nari Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd. -- ___ *Nari B. Mistry*, Ithaca, NY To see my paintings, visit http://www.ArtbyNari.com -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- Don't ask what your bird club can do for you, ask what you can do for your bird club!! ')_,/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] THURSDAY Night Seminar--Species Interactions in Birds: From Microevolution to Macroecology
Please join us at 7:30 on *February 20th* for the a special Monday *THURSDAY *Night Seminar. As always, these seminars are free and open to the public. The doors open at 7:00. This coming Thursday, we will be streaming the seminar live. Be sure to bookmark http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars for quick access on Monday evening. -- *Joseph Tobias, Oxford University Species Interactions in Birds: From Microevolution to Macroecology* *Host: Mike Webster* Dr. Joseph Tobias of Oxford University will discuss interactions among species competing for the same food resources and how that competition may drive evolution in two directions. Competition could foster small genetic changes resulting in new subspecies or large changes that may result in new groups of birds. Drawing from work on birds and birdsong, Dr. Tobias will show that tracing evolutionary development in species over time challenges common assumptions about the consequence of species interactions, and sheds new light on broad-scale patterns in evolution. -- Hope to see you there! Marc Devokaitis *UPCOMING MONDAY NIGHT SEMINARS* *February 24: Art Opening Denis Defibaugh, artist Afterlifes of Natural History Host: Diane Tessaglia-Hymes *Natural History Museums are depositories of what was once alive. Artist and RIT Professor Denis Defibaugh is interested in the aesthetics and taxonomy of these specimens and feels they combine aspects of both art and science. Defibaugh uses film that is obsolete, allowing it to oxidize and eventually become a black sheet of film. His photographs of specimens are made during the deterioration process, creating moving images of preservation and decay--what he calls a fading memory. *March 3 Rachel Dickinson, author Have Notebook and Camera Will Travel: Confessions of a Travel Writer Who Birds to Travel and Travels to Bird.* *Host: Miyoko Chu* Freelance author and travel writer Rachel Dickinson has spent the past couple of decades roaming the globe in search of stories. Armed with a notebook and a little camera, she's written about far-flung places such as Siberia and the Falklands, and places closer to home including the Erie Canal and her hometown of Freeville. Her work has been published in a number of publications including *Audubon, The Atlantic*, and smithsonian.com. She is a regular contributor to *The Huffington Post* and *Men's Journal* online. *Dickinson's book, Falconer on the Edge: a man, his bird, and the vanishing landscape of the American West (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)* *March 10 Cayuga Bird Club Meeting Kevin McGowan, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Waterfowl ID: The Most Important Things *Do you deem distant ducks disturbingly difficult? Do you find figuring out female fowl frustrating and fraught with failure? This evening is engineered to enlighten, engage, and entertain, while welcoming everyone into the wonderful world of waterfowl. It will introduce the top two tips for telling tricky ID troubles apart: shape and color pattern. Kevin McGowan works in the Education section of the Cornell Lab, and has been creating distance learning courses about bird behavior and identification. He will share highlights from his Waterfowl ID webinar series. *March 17 Tom Stephenson, author; Scott Whittle, photographer The Warbler Guide: The Overlooked ID Points that Make Identifying Warblers Easy Host: Mike Webster* Birder and author Tom Stephenson and photographer Scott Whittle will describe important but often overlooked ID clues for colorful and sometimes elusive warblers: overall contrast, subtle facial features, color impressions, feather edging, rump contrast, as well as foraging style, location, and behavior. Even viewing a warbler from below can reveal identity clues for many species. Stephenson and Whittle will also address some of the most challenging species to identify, compare them to similar species, and illustrate how even partial views can be used to identify warbler species. *Stephenson's and Whittle's book, The Warbler Guide, published by Princeton University Press, will be available for purchase and signing. * *March 24 Sara Kaiser, Cornell Lab Unraveling the Mysteries of Songbird Mating Systems* *Host: TBA *Sara Kaiser is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. She'll discuss how habitat quality affects where and how often the seemingly monogamous Black-throated Blue Warbler mates outside its pair bond. Most male Black-throated Blue Warblers are socially monogamous, meaning they are mated to a single female. However, all is not as it appears: up to 50% of Black-throated Blue Warbler nests have young sired by a male that is not the territory holder. Sara has been studying the mating system of these warblers in the hardwood forests of New Hampshire. *March 31 Margaret Barker, Elissa Wolfson, Chris Willett Building, Placing, and Maintaining Great Homes for Great
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