RE: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread RICHARD WOOD 
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  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  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  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



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Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:17 PM

To: Carolyn McMaster ; 'Ann Mitchell' 
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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



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[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. I discovered one on me after a

walk at Roy Park Preserve last evening.

Good birding,

Ann



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RE: [cayugabirds-l] ALFL

2015-05-12 Thread RICHARD WOOD 
ACFL would be Acadian Flycatcher. :)  Chebek chebek chebek!
Richard

 Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 07:04:55 -0400
 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] ALFL
 From: k...@empacc.net
 To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
 
 Please excuse the finger slip on the tetragraph in my last message. The bird 
 here is
 an Alder Flycatcher. Have yet to see a Willow although they usually arrive 
 together.
 Thanks for catching my big fingers/small keyboard faux pas Chris!
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] ALFL

2015-05-12 Thread RICHARD WOOD 
I know :)  That was meant to be in line with the original post.

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] ALFL
From: scotthab...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 08:30:54 -0400
CC: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
To: rwood...@msn.com

And Che-bek, Che-bek would be Least Flycatcher!



On May 12, 2015, at 8:27 AM, RICHARD WOOD rwood...@msn.com wrote:




ACFL would be Acadian Flycatcher. :)  Chebek chebek chebek!
Richard

 Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 07:04:55 -0400
 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] ALFL
 From: k...@empacc.net
 To: cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu
 
 Please excuse the finger slip on the tetragraph in my last message. The bird 
 here is
 an Alder Flycatcher. Have yet to see a Willow although they usually arrive 
 together.
 Thanks for catching my big fingers/small keyboard faux pas Chris!
 John
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice

2015-02-18 Thread RICHARD WOOD 
The content has expired.
Richard

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Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:17:01 +









This link to the ice article does not seem to work.
 
Donna L. Scott
 
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On Behalf Of Laurie Roe

Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:18 AM

To: John and Sue Gregoire

Cc: Jay McGowan; CAYUGABIRDS-L

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake ice
 


www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/.../Frozen-Cayuga-Seneca-Lakes.pdf


This is a nice history of the freezing of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes...13 pages, 
written by a local historian. I remembered reading it a couple of winters ago 
when we had
 significant freezing..Laurie



 

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.net wrote:

Interesting to read your observations. When you were a young lad we had some 
cold

winters with very extensive icing. I remember one year when we all were chasing

something, a Gyr I think, and the name of the game in the telephonic tree was 
the

location of the northern ice edge which kept creeping southward. Many good birds

lived at that ice edge and many others were found by folks seeking access at the

edge point.



There was less interest and concern about the southern  end. Much the same on 
Seneca

for south ice but there the live stops abruptly a bit offshore where the bottom

drops to 400 feet quickly.



Old timers tell of the years a century or a bit more ago when Seneca froze over

completely and people walked across the lake at several points. Seneca is much

deeper than Cayuga! On Seneca this type weather usually brings a few goodies 
but as

you found out, access is tough.

John

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On Tue, February 17, 2015 16:50, Jay McGowan wrote:

 I checked a couple spots on the southeastern part of Cayuga Lake this

 morning. This is, if not the most frozen I have ever seen the lake, at

 least fairly close. The thick ice extended well beyond the red lighthouse

 and almost to the brown pilings/buoy, and the thinner, newly-formed ice

 extended well beyond this buoy, ending at about the railroad track crossing

 where East Shore Drive heads up hill and slightly away from the lake. Not

 too far north of this open water, however, the lake once again became

 mostly frozen, this time with scattered but extensive thin ice islands,

 like the ones that have been forming overnight on some of the coldest days

 recently, but even more extensive. I wasn't able to get another look at the

 lake until Myers, but the ice off the point and marina was quite extensive

 as well, and the Aythya flock that has been hanging around off Ladoga was

 all but frozen out. Several hundred Redhead, scaup, and Canvasbacks were

 squeezed into a small open water patch a bit to the east of Ladoga. The

 marina was unsurprisingly completely frozen (it had been full of birds

 three or four days ago), and the only ducks I saw out on the open lake

 (both north of East Shore and at Myers) were Common Goldeneye and Common

 Mergansers. The TUNDRA SWAN flock sleeping on the spit between Ladoga and

 the Myers marina has only increased, with at least 80 birds plus another 14

 on the ice west of the marina and at least 12 with a goose flock along the

 shore east of Ladoga.



 I will be interested to see what happens with the ice cover as the

 temperature continues to hover well below freezing over the next few days

 and beyond. I imagine that the Aurora Bay is still open, but we may end up

 getting some pretty interesting concentrations of birds in the areas that

 do manage to stay open.



 Jay









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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Purple Sandpiper, Myers Point

2014-10-22 Thread RICHARD WOOD 
I can still remember getting my legs splashed by the cold Atlantic Ocean while 
I was looking at my first ever Purple Sandpiper in Ocean City, Maryland in 2006.
Richard

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:29:49 -0400
Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Purple Sandpiper, Myers Point
From: jw...@cornell.edu
To: oneidabi...@yahoogroups.com; Cayugabirds-L@cornell.edu

Purple is back on north shore of spit. 
On Oct 22, 2014 8:07 AM, Jay McGowan jw...@cornell.edu wrote:
A few minutes ago a PURPLE SANDPIPER tried to land on the spit at Myers Point 
on Cayuga Lake. It circled a half dozen times as it was harried by airborn 
gulls, finally managed to land at the tip, but was gone a moment later. I'm not 
sure if it headed back out on the lake or might be hiding on one of the beaches 
here, but I am not seeing it at the moment. Checking the jetties at the south 
end of the lake might be a good idea. Nothing else of note so far this morning. 


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