[cayugabirds-l] Cerulean Warblers

[John Luther Cisne]

This afternoon Merlin registered Cerulean Warblers in four swampy patches along 
River Road in and south of the Galen Wildlife Management Area in the Marengo 
Marsh.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Club trip to Lindsay Parson's Biodiversity preserve

[John Luther Cisne]

Did I miss an American Goldfinch in there somewhere?  …and maybe a House 
Sparrow?

From: bounce-127433743-77975...@list.cornell.edu 
 on behalf of Paul Anderson 

Date: Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 4:17 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Club trip to Lindsay Parson's Biodiversity preserve

I led a group of about 13 people on a trip in delightful weather through 
Lindsay Parson's this morning. No huge surprises, except for the huge number of 
Wood Ducks (64 in all), and an American Wigeon.

One of the Trashers looked like it was carrying off a fecal sac. Also, one of 
the Tanagers had a strange-colored rump. It was a male, but the rump was a 
distinct greenish yellow.

Ebird list is below...


Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  11
Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)  64 Separate flock of 5 and 20 plus a mother with 9 
ducklings... then three more separate families with babies
American Wigeon (Mareca americana)  1 Flying off pond at close distance,  
distinct white wing patches,  pale belly and rump
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)  3 1 adult female 2 chicks
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)  2
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)  1
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)  2
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)  2
Green Heron (Butorides virescens)  4
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)  1
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)  1
Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius)  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)  2
Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)  2
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)  1
Alder Flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum)  1
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe)  2
Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)  2
Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons)  1
Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)  1
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus)  10
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)  3
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  4
Common Raven (Corvus corax)  1
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)  2
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)  2
Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)  8
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)  2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)  2
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)  1
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)  X
Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)  12
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)  2
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)  3
Veery (Catharus fuscescens)  1
Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)  2
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)  3
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)  5
American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  2
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)  2
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla)  4
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)  8
Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)  1
Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)  2
Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)  3
Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)  5
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)  X
Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater)  1
Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)  X
Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)  3
Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera)  2
Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)  10
Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina)  2
American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)  4
Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia)  1
Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)  8
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)  9
Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor)  3
Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea)  2
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)  2
Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S139645689
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[cayugabirds-l] LONG-TAILED DUCK at Brooktondale gravel pit

[John Luther Cisne]

A male LONG-TAILED DUCK in breeding plumage has been in the pond at 
Brooktondale’s University Sand and Gravel pit for the last week.  I first 
noticed it last Monday the 15th, and I’ve checked every couple of days since 
then, each time expecting not to find it, but finding it there every time, most 
recently about 5:00 PM this afternoon.  I’m surprised all the digging, gravel 
sieving, and other workday disturbances at the pit haven’t scared the bird away.

Maybe the bird will stick around longer.  If you’d like to check, go to the 
Brookton Store, turn south onto Valley Road, proceed uphill to University Sand 
and Gravel’s office, then turn onto Beaver Creek Road and proceed a few hundred 
feet until you get a good look down at the far side of the pond.  Every time 
I’ve seen the duck it’s been just beyond the gravel bar that divides the pond 
in two.  I’d recommend stopping by after working hours

Best wishes,

– John

P.S.  Why no photos or at least an eBird report?  Except for Merlin, I do my 
birding the old-fashioned way, with identification on the fly.


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Shrike in Caroline

[John Luther Cisne]

The Northern Shrike was on Creamery Road about 100 yards south of the ridge 
crest around 3:45 PM, sitting on one fence pole and another between stoops to 
the grass.

Found it very easily.  Beautiful specimen.  Performed beautifully, too, coming 
as close as 50 yards, and turning this way and that to give an all-around view. 
 Never got a better look at one.

From: bounce-127226961-77975...@list.cornell.edu 
 on behalf of Anne Marie Johnson 

Date: Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 11:51 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Northern Shrike in Caroline
For a couple of days there's been a Northern Shrike on Creamery Road in 
Caroline. It's been foraging in fields on the right side of the road, coming 
from 79. This morning it was perching up on an isolated bush in the middle of 
the upper field, the one with an electric fence around it. The shrike was 
active and often out of sight, but it returned to that bush frequently, 
perching on top of the bush in various locations. It also perched on top of 
small fence posts near the bush a couple of times.

Also foraging over the fields was a Northern Harrier, and at least one Eastern 
Meadowlark was active and singing in the field. A resident Common Raven could 
occasionally be heard calling as well.

Anne Marie Johnson
Caroline
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma wildlife drive

[John Luther Cisne]

The single sleeping swan was a Trumpeter.  I woke it up.

From:  on behalf of Colleen 
Richards 
Reply-To: Colleen Richards 
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 11:39 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Montezuma wildlife drive

Quick trip through wildlife drive at Montezuma yesterday. Lots of Blue-winged 
and Green-winged Teal at Visitor Center along with a single pair of Northern 
Pintail.
A single sleeping Swan (sp) and lots of Ring-necked Ducks on the main pool and 
Bennings Marsh pool as well as Northern Shovelers everywhere. A pair of bathing 
Mallards' crazy behaviors flushed an American Bittern along the thruway- first 
time I've seen one in flight.
On the way back along Rt. 20 there were 5 pairs of osprey on nests, poles or 
flying in the air as well as 2 single birds flying in opposite directions with 
fish. The trip along the lake down Rt.. 90 brought 7 additional pairs on 
nesting platforms.

Colleen Richards
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[cayugabirds-l] FW: the volcano heard round the world

[John Luther Cisne]

How might the pressure wave from the Tonga eruption be experienced by birds, 
and how might it affect their behavior, including their dispersal?

The following email comes from Lou Derry, a professor in Earth and Atmospheric  
Sciences.

-
 John Cisne, Professor Emeritus
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
   Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  14853
-



From:  on behalf of "Louis A. 
Derry" 
Reply-To: "Louis A. Derry" 
Date: Monday, January 17, 2022 at 6:09 AM
To: EAS listsev 
Subject: the volcano heard round the world

just for a change of pace ...
You no doubt all saw the satellite imagery of the massive underwater eruption 
near Tonga (-175.382, -20.536) on Saturday Jan 14.  If you didn’t, by all means 
Google it, it’s pretty awesome!  One of the things you see is the shock wave 
propagating. There are nice images out there of the wave moving across the US 
as recorded by atmospheric pressure gauges.  We have an Air Quality Egg 
(they’re made in Ithaca) at the apartment in Paris (2.3184, 48.8498) and sure 
enough, we see two pressure pulses.  The first is the wave coming from the 
east, a total distance of about 16849 km.  The second is the wave coming the 
other way around the world, 23181 km.  The gauge shows an increase in P 
followed by a drop as the wave passes. They arrived 15 hrs 22 mins and 20:57 
(approximately) after the eruption.  That works out to a mean speed of 1101±5 
km/yr, or Mach 0.91 (91% of the nominal speed of sound in air at 0˚C), which 
seems about right.  Pretty amazing to see an inexpensive weather gauge pick up 
a volcanic explosion literally halfway around the world.  The net magnitude of 
the first pulse measured here was about 158 Pa, or  0.047 inches of mercury.  
Not a lot but not too hard for a decent barometer to measure.  Better 
instruments will probably see the wave go around the world more than once.
Lou

[cid:86054151-7FC9-4436-BDEC-F32BDFBD9FFB@numericable.fr]


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[cayugabirds-l] GRAY GYRFALCON at Community Corners around 3:00PM?

[John Luther Cisne]

Not trying to score a record.  Just looking for confirmation.

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[cayugabirds-l] BBWD, anyone?

[John Luther Cisne]

Yesterday afternoon on Van Dyne-Spoor Road I watched as a Balded Eagle flushed 
up a flock of four-to-five dozen ducks, almost all Mallards, but including a 
single Black-bellied Whistling-duck. Since I don’t do eBird, but still want to 
be helpful, thought I’d mention it as something to be looked for.


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Long-tailed ducks at Dryden Lake

[John Luther Cisne]

At 4 PM there were two pairs of Long-tailed Ducks (did the Bald Eagles scare up 
a second one?), plus the Scaup, Ring-necked Ducks, Buffleheads, and some 
dabblers.

Thanks for the heads-up!

– John

-
 John Cisne, Professor Emeritus
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  14853
-


From:  on behalf of Kevin C Packard 

Reply-To: Kevin C Packard 
Date: Friday, March 26, 2021 at 12:28 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Long-tailed ducks at Dryden Lake

Hi everyone,

 This morning I took a walk at Dryden Lake and am happy to say that the lake is 
ice free. I found a flock of ring-necked ducks and scaup, and with them a pair 
of long-tailed ducks.   The flock flew off the lake after one of the local bald 
eagles came too close, but they circled around and were still on the lake when 
I left this morning. There's also three horned grebes and a scattering of 
mergansers, bufflehead, and a few other ducks (wigeon, wood duck, mallards). 
The Jim Schug trail is free of ice and it makes for a pleasant walk. Even heard 
my first eastern phoebe for the year along it.

 Happy birding!


 Kevin


Kevin C Packard
364 Ives Hall East
Department of Social Statistics, ILR School
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-5381



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

[John Luther Cisne]

n mean temperature 
increase, which we find robustly at play in both observations and simulations. 
The use of this relation also has the advantage of removing dependence of a 
projection on a specific scenario. An empirical projection of the ratio of 
record highs to record lows is obtained from the nonlinear relationship in 
observations from 1930 to 2015, thus correcting downward the likely biased 
future projections of the model. For example, for a 3 °C warming in US 
temperatures, the ratio of record highs to lows is projected to be ∼15 ± 8 
compared to the present average ratio of just over 2.”
Chuck Greene — 
https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/charles-h-greene — wrote 
much the same, and included the a non-technical paper that serves well as a 
good introduction to the other two [Charles H. Greene, The winters of our 
discontent, Scientific American, December 2012, 50-55].  The one-sentence 
summary: “Loss of Arctic sea ice is stacking the deck in favor of harsh winter 
weather in the U.S. and Europe.”

I want to thank all who have been following and taking part in the discussion, 
and to express appreciation to all at the Laboratory of Ornithology who have 
been compiling and bringing to bear so much meteorologically and 
climatologically important ornithological data from birders like us.  As the 
case of the Great Auk shows, we amateurs have been piling up climatically 
important evidence as far back as the Neanderthals and their osteological 
collections from the Mediterranean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk


From: "Candace E. Cornell" 
Date: Friday, September 18, 2020 at 8:34 AM
To: John , David Nicosia , 
"atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Please don't take your conversation off line as I find your various points of 
view on this issue fascinating.

Candace Cornell

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:34 PM John Luther Cisne 
mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
If I’m not mistaken, we can all agree that Global Warming isn’t just for the 
birds.

From: 
mailto:bounce-124949961-77975...@list.cornell.edu>>
 on behalf of John mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>>
Reply-To: John mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 11:50 AM
To: david nicosia mailto:daven1...@yahoo.com>>, "Kevin J. 
McGowan" mailto:k...@cornell.edu>>, Peter Saracino 
mailto:petersarac...@gmail.com>>, Jody Enck 
mailto:jodye...@gmail.com>>
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com<mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>" 
mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>>, CAYUGABIRDS-L 
mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Apparently you don’t know that the old Department of Atmospheric Sciences 
merged with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences years ago.  EAS 
continues to offer the former CALS department’s Atmospheric Sciences major.

From: david nicosia mailto:daven1...@yahoo.com>>
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 9:01 PM
To: "Kevin J. McGowan" mailto:k...@cornell.edu>>, Peter 
Saracino mailto:petersarac...@gmail.com>>, Jody Enck 
mailto:jodye...@gmail.com>>, John 
mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>>
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com<mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>" 
mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>>, CAYUGABIRDS-L 
mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Let's get back to birds. This is a birding listserve. I have studied this at 
length and disagree. I do believe in man-made global warming but I don't 
believe it causes record cold. The climate has warmed 1C so we still can see 
record cold with our current climate. The frequency is less though, not more. 
Most meteorologists I know also don't agree that record cold is consistent with 
global warming. Some climatologists do.  If you want to discuss further, please 
direct the emails offline and not on the entire listserve.  I would be happy to 
discuss this issue (again offline) with the Dept Atmospheric Science folks at 
Cornell too if you want. I know most of them well. They are good people and 
also very intelligent.

Best
Dave Nicosia

On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 08:41:37 PM EDT, John Luther Cisne 
mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>> wrote:



Record cold over North America is indeed consistent with global warming.  It is 
a regional consequence of the global phenomenon.



To explain it simply (as I was supposed to do in the elementary course I taught 
of years and years, “Evolution of the Earth and Life”), the principle of the 
thing is that Arctic Basin warms not only by importing warm air from the south, 
mainly over oceans, but also by exporting cold air to the south, mainly over 
continents.  Export of air from the north makes space for import of air from 
the south, so to speak.  For now, at least, the export of cold air from 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Mortality

[John Luther Cisne]

n mean temperature 
increase, which we find robustly at play in both observations and simulations. 
The use of this relation also has the advantage of removing dependence of a 
projection on a specific scenario. An empirical projection of the ratio of 
record highs to record lows is obtained from the nonlinear relationship in 
observations from 1930 to 2015, thus correcting downward the likely biased 
future projections of the model. For example, for a 3 °C warming in US 
temperatures, the ratio of record highs to lows is projected to be ∼15 ± 8 
compared to the present average ratio of just over 2.”
Chuck Greene — 
https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/charles-h-greene — wrote 
much the same, and included the a non-technical paper that serves well as a 
good introduction to the other two [Charles H. Greene, The winters of our 
discontent, Scientific American, December 2012, 50-55].  The one-sentence 
summary: “Loss of Arctic sea ice is stacking the deck in favor of harsh winter 
weather in the U.S. and Europe.”

I want to thank all who have been following and taking part in the discussion, 
and to express appreciation to all at the Laboratory of Ornithology who have 
been compiling and bringing to bear so much meteorologically and 
climatologically important ornithological data from birders like us.  As the 
case of the Great Auk shows, we amateurs have been piling up climatically 
important evidence as far back as the Neanderthals and their osteological 
collections from the Mediterranean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk


From: "Candace E. Cornell" 
Date: Friday, September 18, 2020 at 8:34 AM
To: John , David Nicosia , 
"atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Please don't take your conversation off line as I find your various points of 
view on this issue fascinating.

Candace Cornell

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:34 PM John Luther Cisne 
mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
If I’m not mistaken, we can all agree that Global Warming isn’t just for the 
birds.

From: 
mailto:bounce-124949961-77975...@list.cornell.edu>>
 on behalf of John mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>>
Reply-To: John mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 11:50 AM
To: david nicosia mailto:daven1...@yahoo.com>>, "Kevin J. 
McGowan" mailto:k...@cornell.edu>>, Peter Saracino 
mailto:petersarac...@gmail.com>>, Jody Enck 
mailto:jodye...@gmail.com>>
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com<mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>" 
mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>>, CAYUGABIRDS-L 
mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Apparently you don’t know that the old Department of Atmospheric Sciences 
merged with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences years ago.  EAS 
continues to offer the former CALS department’s Atmospheric Sciences major.

From: david nicosia mailto:daven1...@yahoo.com>>
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 9:01 PM
To: "Kevin J. McGowan" mailto:k...@cornell.edu>>, Peter 
Saracino mailto:petersarac...@gmail.com>>, Jody Enck 
mailto:jodye...@gmail.com>>, John 
mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>>
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com<mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>" 
mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>>, CAYUGABIRDS-L 
mailto:cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>>
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Let's get back to birds. This is a birding listserve. I have studied this at 
length and disagree. I do believe in man-made global warming but I don't 
believe it causes record cold. The climate has warmed 1C so we still can see 
record cold with our current climate. The frequency is less though, not more. 
Most meteorologists I know also don't agree that record cold is consistent with 
global warming. Some climatologists do.  If you want to discuss further, please 
direct the emails offline and not on the entire listserve.  I would be happy to 
discuss this issue (again offline) with the Dept Atmospheric Science folks at 
Cornell too if you want. I know most of them well. They are good people and 
also very intelligent.

Best
Dave Nicosia

On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 08:41:37 PM EDT, John Luther Cisne 
mailto:john.ci...@cornell.edu>> wrote:



Record cold over North America is indeed consistent with global warming.  It is 
a regional consequence of the global phenomenon.



To explain it simply (as I was supposed to do in the elementary course I taught 
of years and years, “Evolution of the Earth and Life”), the principle of the 
thing is that Arctic Basin warms not only by importing warm air from the south, 
mainly over oceans, but also by exporting cold air to the south, mainly over 
continents.  Export of air from the north makes space for import of air from 
the south, so to speak.  For now, at least, the export of cold air from 

[cayugabirds-l] Three Wilson’s Plovers in Clyde, NY

[John Luther Cisne]

Sunday afternoon, three young or female WILSON’S PLOVERS were feeding with two 
KILLDEER on the mudflat on the north side of the swamp bisected by the section 
of Old Route 31 accessible off Benning Road about two miles southeast of Clyde, 
NY.  Pictures taken by iPhone through a spotting scope should be at least 
marginally good enough to confirm the identification.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

[John Luther Cisne]

If I’m not mistaken, we can all agree that Global Warming isn’t just for the 
birds.

From:  on behalf of John 

Reply-To: John 
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 11:50 AM
To: david nicosia , "Kevin J. McGowan" , 
Peter Saracino , Jody Enck 
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Apparently you don’t know that the old Department of Atmospheric Sciences 
merged with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences years ago.  EAS 
continues to offer the former CALS department’s Atmospheric Sciences major.

From: david nicosia 
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 9:01 PM
To: "Kevin J. McGowan" , Peter Saracino 
, Jody Enck , John 

Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Let's get back to birds. This is a birding listserve. I have studied this at 
length and disagree. I do believe in man-made global warming but I don't 
believe it causes record cold. The climate has warmed 1C so we still can see 
record cold with our current climate. The frequency is less though, not more. 
Most meteorologists I know also don't agree that record cold is consistent with 
global warming. Some climatologists do.  If you want to discuss further, please 
direct the emails offline and not on the entire listserve.  I would be happy to 
discuss this issue (again offline) with the Dept Atmospheric Science folks at 
Cornell too if you want. I know most of them well. They are good people and 
also very intelligent.

Best
Dave Nicosia

On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 08:41:37 PM EDT, John Luther Cisne 
 wrote:



Record cold over North America is indeed consistent with global warming.  It is 
a regional consequence of the global phenomenon.



To explain it simply (as I was supposed to do in the elementary course I taught 
of years and years, “Evolution of the Earth and Life”), the principle of the 
thing is that Arctic Basin warms not only by importing warm air from the south, 
mainly over oceans, but also by exporting cold air to the south, mainly over 
continents.  Export of air from the north makes space for import of air from 
the south, so to speak.  For now, at least, the export of cold air from the 
Arctic is concentrated over North America.



Certain of my colleagues in the Department Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will 
be able to give everyone a far better and more detailed explanation.





From:  on behalf of "Kevin J. 
McGowan" 
Reply-To: "Kevin J. McGowan" 
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 8:03 PM
To: david nicosia , Peter Saracino 
, Jody Enck 
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality



“Record cold of this magnitude is not consistent with global warming. “



Why not? Global warming doesn’t mean warming happens all over the globe evenly. 
I’ve been watching our area in the northeast for the last decade, thinking 
mostly about Snowy Owl incursions, and I’ve noticed strange changes in the 
distribution of cold across the arctic, perhaps changes in the “polar vortex” 
that seem to isolate the NE as a cold spot while Alaska warms up. The last ten 
years have shown Ithaca regularly with winter temperatures lower than Nome, 
Alaska. That isn’t right.



Global warming at the poles doesn’t mean every place warms up, it means that 
the consistencies of weather patterns we could count on could be disrupted. 
Colder Ithaca winters and heat waves in Alaska are totally consistent with a 
global warming scenario. Freak arctic blasts into the rockies while the north 
pole melts also points to something freakishly abnormal happening, totally 
consistent with global warming.



Kevin





From: bounce-124948138-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
 On Behalf Of david nicosia
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:46 PM
To: Peter Saracino ; Jody Enck 
Cc: atvaw...@gmail.com; CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality



The western U.S has a history of extreme temperature changes. This event ranks 
number 3 for the biggest temperature swing in history and it occurred during 
fall migration. Most of the other big swings in temperature

occurred in the winter. What is dramatic is how cold it got and the early snows 
that fell. Temperatures in parts of the Rockies fell to 9F with winds over 50 
mph. That is insanely cold for so early in the season. The Arctic high pressure 
that came across the Rockies has denser and heavier air which flows downslope 
into California, and Oregon warming by compression leading to high winds and 
VERY dry conditions. This fuels the tremendous fires.  So in a sense it is the 
brutal unseasonable cold air that is the real cause of the conditions that 
caused the fires. I assume the fires, combined with temperatures in the 80, 90s 
and 100s dropping to the teens 20s and 30s in many areas in the Rockies with 
early snows was too much f

Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

[John Luther Cisne]

Apparently you don’t know that the old Department of Atmospheric Sciences 
merged with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences years ago.  EAS 
continues to offer the former CALS department’s Atmospheric Sciences major.

From: david nicosia 
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 9:01 PM
To: "Kevin J. McGowan" , Peter Saracino 
, Jody Enck , John 

Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

Let's get back to birds. This is a birding listserve. I have studied this at 
length and disagree. I do believe in man-made global warming but I don't 
believe it causes record cold. The climate has warmed 1C so we still can see 
record cold with our current climate. The frequency is less though, not more. 
Most meteorologists I know also don't agree that record cold is consistent with 
global warming. Some climatologists do.  If you want to discuss further, please 
direct the emails offline and not on the entire listserve.  I would be happy to 
discuss this issue (again offline) with the Dept Atmospheric Science folks at 
Cornell too if you want. I know most of them well. They are good people and 
also very intelligent.

Best
Dave Nicosia

On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 08:41:37 PM EDT, John Luther Cisne 
 wrote:



Record cold over North America is indeed consistent with global warming.  It is 
a regional consequence of the global phenomenon.



To explain it simply (as I was supposed to do in the elementary course I taught 
of years and years, “Evolution of the Earth and Life”), the principle of the 
thing is that Arctic Basin warms not only by importing warm air from the south, 
mainly over oceans, but also by exporting cold air to the south, mainly over 
continents.  Export of air from the north makes space for import of air from 
the south, so to speak.  For now, at least, the export of cold air from the 
Arctic is concentrated over North America.



Certain of my colleagues in the Department Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will 
be able to give everyone a far better and more detailed explanation.





From:  on behalf of "Kevin J. 
McGowan" 
Reply-To: "Kevin J. McGowan" 
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 8:03 PM
To: david nicosia , Peter Saracino 
, Jody Enck 
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality



“Record cold of this magnitude is not consistent with global warming. “



Why not? Global warming doesn’t mean warming happens all over the globe evenly. 
I’ve been watching our area in the northeast for the last decade, thinking 
mostly about Snowy Owl incursions, and I’ve noticed strange changes in the 
distribution of cold across the arctic, perhaps changes in the “polar vortex” 
that seem to isolate the NE as a cold spot while Alaska warms up. The last ten 
years have shown Ithaca regularly with winter temperatures lower than Nome, 
Alaska. That isn’t right.



Global warming at the poles doesn’t mean every place warms up, it means that 
the consistencies of weather patterns we could count on could be disrupted. 
Colder Ithaca winters and heat waves in Alaska are totally consistent with a 
global warming scenario. Freak arctic blasts into the rockies while the north 
pole melts also points to something freakishly abnormal happening, totally 
consistent with global warming.



Kevin





From: bounce-124948138-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
 On Behalf Of david nicosia
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:46 PM
To: Peter Saracino ; Jody Enck 
Cc: atvaw...@gmail.com; CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality



The western U.S has a history of extreme temperature changes. This event ranks 
number 3 for the biggest temperature swing in history and it occurred during 
fall migration. Most of the other big swings in temperature

occurred in the winter. What is dramatic is how cold it got and the early snows 
that fell. Temperatures in parts of the Rockies fell to 9F with winds over 50 
mph. That is insanely cold for so early in the season. The Arctic high pressure 
that came across the Rockies has denser and heavier air which flows downslope 
into California, and Oregon warming by compression leading to high winds and 
VERY dry conditions. This fuels the tremendous fires.  So in a sense it is the 
brutal unseasonable cold air that is the real cause of the conditions that 
caused the fires. I assume the fires, combined with temperatures in the 80, 90s 
and 100s dropping to the teens 20s and 30s in many areas in the Rockies with 
early snows was too much for many birds to handle causing the high mortality 
rates. I have read that people are blaming climate change on this. I don't see 
it because it is the intense cold that really fueled the fires in CA and OR and 
probably had a negative effect on the birds. Record cold of this magnitude is 
not consistent with global warming.





On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 05:

Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

[John Luther Cisne]

Record cold over North America is indeed consistent with global warming.  It is 
a regional consequence of the global phenomenon.

To explain it simply (as I was supposed to do in the elementary course I taught 
of years and years, “Evolution of the Earth and Life”), the principle of the 
thing is that Arctic Basin warms not only by importing warm air from the south, 
mainly over oceans, but also by exporting cold air to the south, mainly over 
continents.  Export of air from the north makes space for import of air from 
the south, so to speak.  For now, at least, the export of cold air from the 
Arctic is concentrated over North America.

Certain of my colleagues in the Department Earth and Atmospheric Sciences will 
be able to give everyone a far better and more detailed explanation.


From:  on behalf of "Kevin J. 
McGowan" 
Reply-To: "Kevin J. McGowan" 
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 8:03 PM
To: david nicosia , Peter Saracino 
, Jody Enck 
Cc: "atvaw...@gmail.com" , CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

“Record cold of this magnitude is not consistent with global warming. “

Why not? Global warming doesn’t mean warming happens all over the globe evenly. 
I’ve been watching our area in the northeast for the last decade, thinking 
mostly about Snowy Owl incursions, and I’ve noticed strange changes in the 
distribution of cold across the arctic, perhaps changes in the “polar vortex” 
that seem to isolate the NE as a cold spot while Alaska warms up. The last ten 
years have shown Ithaca regularly with winter temperatures lower than Nome, 
Alaska. That isn’t right.

Global warming at the poles doesn’t mean every place warms up, it means that 
the consistencies of weather patterns we could count on could be disrupted. 
Colder Ithaca winters and heat waves in Alaska are totally consistent with a 
global warming scenario. Freak arctic blasts into the rockies while the north 
pole melts also points to something freakishly abnormal happening, totally 
consistent with global warming.

Kevin


From: bounce-124948138-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
 On Behalf Of david nicosia
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:46 PM
To: Peter Saracino ; Jody Enck 
Cc: atvaw...@gmail.com; CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Mexico Mass Motality

The western U.S has a history of extreme temperature changes. This event ranks 
number 3 for the biggest temperature swing in history and it occurred during 
fall migration. Most of the other big swings in temperature
occurred in the winter. What is dramatic is how cold it got and the early snows 
that fell. Temperatures in parts of the Rockies fell to 9F with winds over 50 
mph. That is insanely cold for so early in the season. The Arctic high pressure 
that came across the Rockies has denser and heavier air which flows downslope 
into California, and Oregon warming by compression leading to high winds and 
VERY dry conditions. This fuels the tremendous fires.  So in a sense it is the 
brutal unseasonable cold air that is the real cause of the conditions that 
caused the fires. I assume the fires, combined with temperatures in the 80, 90s 
and 100s dropping to the teens 20s and 30s in many areas in the Rockies with 
early snows was too much for many birds to handle causing the high mortality 
rates. I have read that people are blaming climate change on this. I don't see 
it because it is the intense cold that really fueled the fires in CA and OR and 
probably had a negative effect on the birds. Record cold of this magnitude is 
not consistent with global warming.


On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 05:18:09 PM EDT, Jody Enck 
mailto:jodye...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Thank, Pete, for passing along the Guardian article.  Additional information 
has been forthcoming recently.  Hypotheses include movements related to smoky 
conditions in some states, coupled with those weird temperature swings recorded 
last week (90 to 100 F one day and below freezing, with snow, the next day).  
Seems less likely to be a nefarious even (e.g., poisoning) than something more 
likely caused by challenging environmental factors.

I hope more information comes out soon.

Jody W. Enck, PhD
Conservation Social Scientist, and
Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network
607-379-5940


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 5:03 PM Peter Saracino 
mailto:petersarac...@gmail.com>> wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/16/birds-falling-out-of-the-sky-in-mass-die-off-in-south-western-us-aoe


On Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 6:47 PM Tom 
mailto:atvaw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I just learned of the mass mortality of migrating birds in New Mexico.  I read 
a CNN report.  Is there any new information on the cause?  They’re talking 
hundreds of thousands, even millions.

Tom V

Sent from my iPhone


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[cayugabirds-l] Worm-eating Warbler at the public boat launch, NW corner of Cayuta Lake

[John Luther Cisne]

This afternoon, about half way along the driveway leading down to Cayuta Lake’s 
public boat launch,  I inadvertently started a “conversation” back and forth 
between one of Merlin’s recordings of a Worm-eating Warbler and something that 
sounded very, very similar, but remained successfully hidden in the bushes 
around a hundred feet way.  It could have been someone playing nearly the same 
recording back at me, but I doubt anyone could have remained  hidden anywhere 
near so well.

The exchange got started as I was playing through similar songs on Merlin 
(Chipping Sparrows’, for instance) in the attempt to narrow the possibilities.  
Only the first of the two Merlin tracks seemed to get results, and either of 
the two repetitions on that track seemed to work.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Albino Green-winged Teal

[John Luther Cisne]

I saw of bird of this description trailing several GW teal in the same location 
last Wednesday.

John

From:  on behalf of Jay McGowan 

Reply-To: Jay McGowan 
Date: Sunday, April 5, 2020 at 12:56 PM
To: "D.M.Kennedy" 
Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Albino Green-winged Teal

I'm looking at this bird now. It is almost the same size as nearby GW Teal, but 
the proportions seem different, and the bill is very yellow. I'm inclined to 
think it's a small domestic Mallard, maybe a call duck.

Jay

On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 11:25 AM Alicia 
mailto:t...@ottcmail.com>> wrote:
Here's the link to Dave's list (in case 
you're like me and didn't know how to use the checklist # to find it!).
On 4/5/2020 11:18 AM, Dave K wrote:
eBird checklist S8446

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

[John Luther Cisne]

At least two woodcocks were peenting about an hour ago over the marsh along 
Landon Road at its intersection with Route 79.

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Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  14853
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From:  on behalf of Tom Hoebbel 

Reply-To: Tom Hoebbel 
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 7:57 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcocks

We are hearing at lest 2 woodcocks penting in the back fields on Burns Rd in 
Brooktondale.



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[cayugabirds-l] Merlin vs. Elf Owls

[John Luther Cisne]

Merlin, the Lab of O’s smartphone app, recently got an Elf Owl’s sincerest form 
of endorsement.


Edward Bulwer-Lytton might have called that July night in Big Bend as black as 
the back of a Common Blackhawk (and verifiably, too, since a pair were nesting 
in the particular campground).   Driving away at the end of my night of owling, 
at least two Elfs set up a commotion in the brush close by as a shape 
resembling a Great Horned Owl’s sailed through my headlights.


Replaying Merlin’s Elf Owl to confirm the ID, I got an immediate answer from a 
rustling in the bushes scarcely an arm’s length away!  Score one for Merlin as 
implemented on the iPhone.


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Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Office Hours: Catch-as-Catch-Can or by arrangement
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