Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Falls light show?

[sarah fern]

My understanding is that all NYS park rangers have degrees in forestry. So
I think they should know better about protecting wildlife. (Although I did
watch a park ranger carry a mushroom-laden log out of a wildlife preserve
and haul it away in his truck.)

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024, 1:24 PM Richard Guthrie 
wrote:

> Parks and Recreation - and DEC - are concerned about the resources that
> they are charged with protecting - if it is not inconvenient and/or if they
> can get some good publicity. Otherwise they will find a way around whatever
> the “problem” is. Look at Upland Sandpipers v. solar farms, or Cerulean
> Warblers v. parking lot. The enablers have a thesaurus full of workaround
> words to justify their schemes.
>
> On Apr 15, 2024, at 12:33 PM, Deb Grantham  wrote:
>
> 
>
> I’ve sent a message to Visit Ithaca so far.
>
>
>
> Deb
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* bounce-128145756-83565...@list.cornell.edu <
> bounce-128145756-83565...@list.cornell.edu> *On Behalf Of *Dave Nutter
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 14, 2024 4:20 PM
> *To:* Geo Kloppel 
> *Cc:* CAYUGABIRDS-L 
> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Taughannock Falls light show?
>
>
>
> I went to the websites for State Parks (NYSOPRHP), Tompkins County Chamber
> of Commerce, and Visit Ithaca, used the Contact Us feature of each, and
> briefly asked them to please not do a light show in the gorge due to
> potential disturbance of the Peregrines and Ravens nesting there.
>
> - - Dave Nutter
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2024, at 12:06 PM, Geo Kloppel  wrote:
>
> Below is the press release for the evening light shows at the great falls
> in Taughannock Falls State Park later this week, which have potential to
> disturb the Peregrine Falcons and Ravens that are currently on nests there).
>
>
>
> Note that the event is jointly hosted by NYS Parks, Visit Ithaca, and also
> the Tompkins Chamber, which is handling online registration for after-dark
> hikes up the gorge trail to the lighted falls.
>
>
>
> 
>
> Go for a hike and view the lights to celebrate 100 years of NYS Parks at
> Taughannock Falls
> 
>
> mytwintiers.com
> 
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2024, at 10:16 AM, Tim Gallagher  wrote:
>
> I heard some disturbing news last night. Apparently Taughannock Falls
> will be brightly illuminated from 8:30 to 10:00 this coming Thursday,
> Friday, and Saturday night (April 18, 19, and 20). I guess it’s some kind
> of PR stunt to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York State Park
> Service, but it couldn’t possibly come at a worse time, with the eggs just
> about to hatch in the Peregrine Falcon eyrie and a pair of Ravens nesting
> right beside the falls—not mention all the other wildlife in the park.
> There certainly should be other, less potentially harmful, ways to
> celebrate the Park Service. You can contact the Taughannock Park office at
> (607) 387-7041. (Photo by Arthur A. Allen)
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] education barred owl

[sarah fern]

Cornell teaches falconry?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 8:00 PM Suzanne A. Horning  wrote:

> Hello!
>
> The Cornell Raptor Program had a barred owl get loose this evening.  She
> was last seen near the intersection of the East Hill Recreation Trail and
> Game Farm Road. She does have gear on including jesses, a swivel and a
> leash (which may have come off).  She is fully flighted.
>
>
>
> Students and volunteers from the program are still out looking for her.
> If you spot her, please call Dr. Heather Huson, Director of the program at
> 907.388.4485 or you can also reach her via-email at h...@cornell.edu.
>
>
>
> Suzanne A. Horning (she/her/hers)
>
> Associate Director, The Cornell Commitment
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> Program Manager, The Cornell Tradition
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> 300 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds/eclipse

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Early in the darkening before the eclipse proper, I saw a changing of
roosting duties by the Mourning Dove pair nesting in a hanging flower pot
on my back porch. I'm pretty sure it was mom who demanded the reluctant dad
to leave his nap so she could take over. She regurgitated some food for the
chicks and then settled down for her nap. Unfortunately I didn't see if
they changed again when the world became brighter again.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 2:44 PM Geo Kloppel  wrote:

>
> > Ithaca, New York (where the skies are very rarely clear during celestial
> events.)
>
> The evening _before_ the eclipse the skies were quite clear. I went up to
> the top of my hill in West Danby with a couple of my neighbors, and we
> enjoyed viewing Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks through binoculars and spotting scope
> for the better part of an hour.
>
> Of course the day of the eclipse was cloudy. My daughter in Ithaca got a
> nice photo of the partly eclipsed sun through a brief hole in the cloud
> cover. No such luck in West Danby. At the darkest point, my feeder birds
> briefly disappeared. But the Raven female across the road began begging
> very loudly and insistently. I saw her partner head off toward the valley
> in the gloom, presumably to find something for her. My chickens did not
> bother going to roost.
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[cayugabirds-l] Mourning Doves

[sarah fern]

are sitting on eggs in a hanging plant pot on my back porch.
Sarah Fern

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Australian populations of threatened bird species fall 60% in past 40 years

[sarah fern]

How does this drop in population compare with N America & other parts of
the world?

Thanks.

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 5:06 PM Regi Teasley  wrote:

> Let’s redouble our efforts to save our biosphere.
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/30/australian-populations-of-threatened-bird-species-fall-60-in-past-40-years-study-says?CMP=share_btn_link
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] A mother's love

[sarah fern]

A MD has found an old hanging plant pot on my back porch & is protected
from the rain. BTW I've read that the males incubate during the day,
switching with the females who take over the night shift. Between broods,
the 2 young huddled by themselves in the nest during one heavy rainstorm
last week. The next day more egg-laying.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 2:18 PM Peter Saracino 
wrote:

> The past few days I've been watching a mourning dove on a nest outside my
> window tending to her newborns.
> As I write it is pouring and mother dove is soaking wet with beads of
> water dripping off her as she sits on her young ones protecting them from
> the rain.
> Sar
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Conservation vs Ecology

[sarah fern]

Have there been any trials of solar farms located over parking lots? Double
benefit: shade for the cars and use of space that otherwise is driving up
global warming.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 12:44 AM Colleen Richards  wrote:

> Thank you Dave for a clear, concise presentation that helps point out the
> multiple problems facing us in choosing how we want to live. Ultimate value
> choices may not be agreed upon by everyone, though. And that has been
> apparent in these posts.
>
> Thanks for being honest about how birds can be affected by each form of
> energy's procurement / usage. That perspective helps to "round out" the
> information needed for each person's decision-making.
>
> In the end, each of us is required to make our own choices, and perhaps to
> enter into the public, or political, arena to stand up for those choices.
> It has been good to voice our thoughts and to encourage one another to keep
> perspective.
>
> For now I am planning to continue to point out the beauties of nature to
> those around me and to educate young people (and older ones, too) to
> appreciate and understand our responsibility to care for and about this
> world that we have been blessed with.
>
> Colleen Richards
>
> -- Original Message --
> From: Dave Nutter 
> To: CayugaBirds-L b 
> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Conservation vs Ecology
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 17:43:26 -0400
>
>
>
>
>
> Carl makes a valid point about the destructiveness to flora and fauna of
> large scale solar arrays. Solar panels which cover huge fields should be
> called mines, not farms. The arrays’ extraction of energy is industrial,
> not biological, and it is done while trying to overcome natural systems, so
> the solar arrays disrupt biology. By contrast, a farm harnesses biology
> using our soil and rain, and it diverts some of the biological products to
> human purposes in a repeatable annual process. When agriculture is
> practiced on the scale of a family farm, it can do so in concert with
> plants and wildlife in hedgerows, along streams, and around ponds, and
> agriculture’s incidental waste products can be more easily absorbed and
> used by nature along all those edges. Factory farms differ from traditional
> farms because with “efficiency†of scale, they eliminate nature and
> nature’s ability to handle agriculture’s side effects. At large scale,
> the waste is no longer incidental and absorbed, it is toxic.
>
> If farm land is abandoned, it can be reclaimed by plants and animals. When
> the solar panels wear out in a couple decades, will the regulations make it
> worth the effort and expense to recycle the old ones and install new ones?
> Or will it be cheaper to abandon those arrays? On my daily walks I see
> metal playground equipment in the woods because the City of Ithaca took it
> from where the Children’s Garden was being built, and chucked it
> alongside the old railroad grade, which became the Black Diamond Trail. I
> imagine hundreds of acres of metal of a big solar array, but overgrown
> among trees, vines and shrubs.
>
> For a solar array to work in our climate, vegetation must suppressed. This
> can be done by pasturing sheep among them, which makes cute advertising
> video, but how often is this practice used? How often is plant suppression
> done instead by covering and/or poisoning the soil? This has effects of
> heating the ground and speeding rain runoff. How often is plant suppression
> among solar arrays done with fossil-fuel powered machinery which also
> wastes the plant material? Maybe folks think that’s no big deal because
> so much land area is already mown, wasting both plants and fossil fuel, but
> I think mowing should be drastically scaled back. A reasonable sized
> personal lawn is the area a person can keep mowed with a reel mower pushed
> by hand without using fossil fuel. It’s not worth adding to the
> destruction of the natural climate, flora, and fauna in order to have a
> bigger lawn than one actually uses.
>
> So, yes, I agree, big solar arrays are poor for plants & animals. I also
> see at least 3 other parts to the equation as we evaluate the harm and
> benefit of solar arrays. What did the solar arrays replace on the
> landscape? What were the solar arrays built instead of for energy? How much
> energy do we need?
>
> In our moist temperate region, the land was mostly forested until being
> cleared for agriculture, which was a big investment. Abandoned agricultural
> land can, through succession, become meadows, shrub fields, and secondary
> forest, all of which harbor a wide variety of birds, but that’s a value
> we take for granted, not one with a price tag on it. People generally like
> and are uplifted by wild birds, and some of us are passionate about them.
> But abandoned farmland is considered “unproductive†by those who tax the
> land, and therefore also by those who own the land, so this habitat is apt
> to be shredded and converted to a large scale solar 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Conservation vs Ecology

[sarah fern]

About that trip to Mars: How can we justify spending $$ on Mars adventures
when we have so much to do to preserve this planet and keep it liveable for
generations of all species in the future? People in this country are dying
because of misspent funds, plus we are causing extinctions constantly.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 3:49 PM Regi Teasley  wrote:

> Dave,
>Thank you for this thoughtful response.  This is a very important
> conversation.
> I wanted to share something I saved from The NY Times,  Oct . 17, 2021 by
> Carin Einhorn.  I think it’s about the conference on Biodiversity (part of
> COP 27?):
>
> The debate underscores a central tension coursing through the biodiversity
> negotiations.
> “If this becomes purely a conservation plan for nature, this is going to
> fail,” said Basil van Havre, a leader, with Mr. Ogwal, of one of the
> convention’s working groups. “What we need is a plan for nature and for
> people.”
>   With the global human population still increasing, scientists say that
> transformational change is required for the planet to be able to sustain us.
> **  “We actually need to see every human endeavor, if you will, through
> the lens of biodiversity and nature,” Dr. Lariguaderie said.  Since
> everyone depends on nature, she noted, “everyone is part of the solution.”
>
> (** my emphasis)
> ———
>
> Frankly, my opinion, if anyone is interested, is that we should be
> very thankful to live on this marvelous planet with its thin film of
> biodiversity.   We should grow up and realize that we are one species among
> so many, and a latecomer at that.  Our myths must change now so that we can
> cooperate and self-restrain rather than foolishly thinking we can dominate
> nature.  Every other species has as much “right” to live here as we do.
> For those who are happy to live with humans on a dead planet, I urge them
> to plan to go to Mars.  That might be possible before too long.  Meanwhile,
> let’s love and cherish our Mother Earth now.  Here I quote a Turkish
> proverb:  “No matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, turn back.”
>
> ‘Nuff said.
> Regi
>
> 
> Creativity is the heart of adaptive evolution.
> Terry Tempest Williams
>
>
>
> On Jun 7, 2023, at 5:43 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:
>
> 
> Carl makes a valid point about the destructiveness to flora and fauna of
> large scale solar arrays. Solar panels which cover huge fields should be
> called mines, not farms. The arrays’ extraction of energy is industrial,
> not biological, and it is done while trying to overcome natural systems, so
> the solar arrays disrupt biology. By contrast, a farm harnesses biology
> using our soil and rain, and it diverts some of the biological products to
> human purposes in a repeatable annual process. When agriculture is
> practiced on the scale of a family farm, it can do so in concert with
> plants and wildlife in hedgerows, along streams, and around ponds, and
> agriculture’s incidental waste products can be more easily absorbed and
> used by nature along all those edges. Factory farms differ from traditional
> farms because with “efficiency” of scale, they eliminate nature and
> nature’s ability to handle agriculture’s side effects. At large scale, the
> waste is no longer incidental and absorbed, it is toxic.
>
> If farm land is abandoned, it can be reclaimed by plants and animals. When
> the solar panels wear out in a couple decades, will the regulations make it
> worth the effort and expense to recycle the old ones and install new ones?
> Or will it be cheaper to abandon those arrays? On my daily walks I see
> metal playground equipment in the woods because the City of Ithaca took it
> from where the Children’s Garden was being built, and chucked it alongside
> the old railroad grade, which became the Black Diamond Trail. I imagine
> hundreds of acres of metal of a big solar array, but overgrown among trees,
> vines and shrubs.
>
> For a solar array to work in our climate, vegetation must suppressed. This
> can be done by pasturing sheep among them, which makes cute advertising
> video, but how often is this practice used? How often is plant suppression
> done instead by covering and/or poisoning the soil? This has effects of
> heating the ground and speeding rain runoff. How often is plant suppression
> among solar arrays done with fossil-fuel powered machinery which also
> wastes the plant material? Maybe folks think that’s no big deal because so
> much land area is already mown, wasting both plants and fossil fuel, but I
> think mowing should be drastically scaled back. A reasonable sized personal
> lawn is the area a person can keep mowed with a reel mower pushed by hand
> without using fossil fuel. It’s not worth adding to the destruction of the
> natural climate, flora, and fauna in order to have a bigger lawn than one
> actually uses.
>
> So, yes, I agree, big solar arrays are poor for plants & animals. I also
> see at least 3 other parts to the equation as we 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about air quality and birds

[sarah fern]

The city performed its useless "street cleaning" on my street at 6 am
today. The air has been noticeably worse since then. I'm having trouble
breathing in the house with my expensive air purifier working very hard.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 10:16 AM Mary Cronk  wrote:

> It is a disaster. You can read more by reading cbc news or other canadian
> news
>
> Mostly they are evacuating and letting it burn
>
>
> Get Outlook for iOS 
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 7, 2023 1:12:01 PM
> *To:* Regi Teasley 
> *Cc:* CAYUGABIRDS-L 
> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Question about air quality and birds
>
> none of the wildlife can get away from it. i am sure they are suffering
> (though i am no expert).
>
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 12:25 PM Regi Teasley  wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how this very bad air quality affects birds?
>
> Regi
>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Conservation vs Ecology

[sarah fern]

Well, there are so many sides to this issue. But no one wants to address
the elephant in the room. The most effective thing we can do is limit our
reproduction. Period.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 1:13 PM Mary Cronk  wrote:

> Hi
> I am finding that solar/wind is another topic and maybe this is not the
> forum?
>
> I am on so many lists for sierra club... i was hoping this was not going
> to be more debating or lobbying.
>
> Mary
>
> But if it is ok with the club, then i can just not read all the posts
> relating to energy.
> But i must say,  oil and gas has not been so great... just saying...
>
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> bounce-127449912-78135...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of John Gregoire <
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> *Sent:* Sunday, June 4, 2023 7:45:02 AM
> *To:* t...@ottcmail.com 
> *Cc:* Carl Steckler ; CAYUGABIRDS-L <
> cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu>
> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Conservation vs Ecology
>
> A few points on this discussion. Firstly, wind turbine siting is not
> governed by law or even regulations. Instead there exist only
> "suggestions". The American Bird Conservancy has been fighting for many
> years to get the government to make the "suggestions" into "law" or
> "requirements". If an Environmental Impact Study is called  for, then this
> is the only recourse and the best way for individuals can comment. There
> are a few wind power farms that have mechanisms in place to
> shut down during heavy migratory flights.
>
> Perhaps activists were too absorbed to suggest safe nuclear power. I have
> never understood why that industry has not hired ex Navy, or followed the
> practices of our Navy which has run nuclear power safely for decades.
>
> Agriculture is no longer small farms where "the farmers are stewards of
> the earth" but huge enterprises working on the principle of Economy of
> Mass. Locally we see this in dairy farms and their manure slurry disposal.
> To me that is a huge human health problem as well as the cause of the
> disappearance of small wetlands, diversion of streams and destruction of
> hedgerows and woodlots, all of which are highly imperiled by the recent
> SCOTUS decision.
>
> I hope that we can have such discussion without attacking each other.
>
> Pax,
> John
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:05 PM  wrote:
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> I see no need for any fire storm, but I do disagree with your premise.  I
> want to be a climate activist precisely *because* I want to be a
> conservationist preserving what we have locally on the planet as a whole.
> Unless we can reduce climate change, it will wipe out many many more plants
> and animals - it already is doing that.  The weather patterns that result,
> including extreme droughts and resulting wildfires, increased summer heat
> in many areas, warming oceans that increase the frequency and severity of
> coastal storms, sea level rise, more intense inland storms due to warmer
> air holding more moisture - all these factors lead to the destruction of
> plant and animal life with dramatic effectiveness.  As you point out, even
> though some animals can move (assuming there is time and opportunity for
> them in a particular situation, and they have habitat to support them in a
> different area), plants often can't.
>
> That doesn't mean that putting a wind turbine in the middle of a known
> migration route and running it during migration is a good decision IMO.
> Similarly, building solar projects without considering the overall needs of
> grassland birds is not good conservation (although at least where I live
> the grasslands are being gobbled up by new vineyards and new housing and
> parking areas rather than solar projects).  People like you who see value
> in conserving what is here can look at the options and help ensure that
> green energy projects are designed and & sited in ways that protect as much
> of the existing ecology as possible.  Only if people who care & are
> knowledgeable about the damage that can be done by poor design or location
> speak up during the permitting process, and also are willing to comment
> during the regulatory process so that better regulations guide green energy
> projects, only then will those projects be undertaken in ways that minimize
> the effects on the local habitat.  This doesn't mean that every grassland
> can be protected, but it could mean that there is protection for enough
> grasslands in enough different areas to ensure plenty of nesting space
> available.
>
> I hope you will take another look at this and see if maybe you don't see a
> role for yourself in ensuring that the long term survival of the plants and
> animals you clearly are devoted to is protected, and that projects are
> designed and sited with sensitivity to the local ecology.
>
> Best wishes -
>
> Alicia Plotkin
>
>
> On 6/3/2023 5:05 PM, Carl Steckler wrote:
>
> Well, let me state right out 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] More bad Avian influenza news

[sarah fern]

I think that an Avian flu vaccine would be effective to help Condors,
unlike any other species. Maybe also some of the raptors' nests where
chicks are banded, too.


On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:43 AM Nancy Cusumano 
wrote:

> After a wave of bird flu, more than 20 California Condors Dead in the
> Southwest.
>
>
> https://www.audubon.org/news/after-wave-bird-flu-more-20-california-condors-dead-southwest
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Not your typical Canada Goose nest

[sarah fern]

Amazing, and especially to think of both species having successful nests on
such a dead lake!

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 11:41 AM Marie P. Read  wrote:

> Starting a decade or so ago, Canada Geese have often usurped Osprey nests
> atop tufa towers at Mono Lake in California. Usually the goslings have
> fledged by the time the Osprey are really serious about nesting, so it’s
> not a long term problem and does not (I think) lead to a decline in Osprey
> reproductive success.
> Marie
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> *From:* bounce-127303629-5851...@list.cornell.edu <
> bounce-127303629-5851...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Candace E.
> Cornell 
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 13, 2023 2:01:45 PM
> *To:* Barbara Bauer Sadovnic 
> *Cc:* sarah fern ; Linda Ann Woodard <
> l...@cornell.edu>; CAYUGABIRDS-L ; Rick
> Lightbody 
> *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Not your typical Canada Goose nest
>
> One sign of Canada Geese overpopulationg an area is that they start
> nesting off the ground... that's when they start nesting on cliffs, Osprey
> platforms, silos, roofs, chimneys, etc.
> Candace
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 1:43 PM Barbara Bauer Sadovnic 
> wrote:
>
> Several years a goose has spent time on top of our silo, trying to
> convince its partner on the ground that it’s a great location. After a long
> conversation they’ve so far always moved on.
>
> On Apr 13, 2023, at 1:07 PM, sarah fern  wrote:
>
> 
> For a few years there have been 2 or 3 geese who like to roost high on the
> cliffs near the dam at Treman Lake in upper Buttermilk  Park. I never saw
> any indication that they intended or tried to nest there. Perhaps they
> enjoyed the view.
>
> Sarah
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 2:59 AM Linda Ann Woodard 
> wrote:
>
> For the past couple of years, I have seen similar behavior on the cliffs
> above Fall Creek along the path next to the Veggie Gardens on Freeze Road.
> As far as I could tell, none of the nests were successful.
> Linda
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> *Sent:* Thursday, April 13, 2023 1:24 AM
> *To:* CAYUGABIRDS-L 
> *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Not your typical Canada Goose nest
>
> A few days ago, Carol and I took a walk on the south rim trail at
> Taughannock S.P.   Not too far from the parking lot off Jacksonville Road,
> she spotted a Canada Goose, nesting in an unexpected location (to put it
> mildly).   Here, have a look:
>
> https://youtu.be/g3dHEyC9qdA
>
>
> So I'm wondering if this bird might have been raised by peregrines.  (Hey,
> if humans can be raised by wolves...)But seriously: Have any of you
> observed similarly maverick nesting behavior in this species?  I'm
> wondering how common this might be.
>
> Rick
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Not your typical Canada Goose nest

[sarah fern]

For a few years there have been 2 or 3 geese who like to roost high on the
cliffs near the dam at Treman Lake in upper Buttermilk  Park. I never saw
any indication that they intended or tried to nest there. Perhaps they
enjoyed the view.

Sarah

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 2:59 AM Linda Ann Woodard  wrote:

> For the past couple of years, I have seen similar behavior on the cliffs
> above Fall Creek along the path next to the Veggie Gardens on Freeze Road.
> As far as I could tell, none of the nests were successful.
> Linda
> --
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> r...@ricklightbody.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 13, 2023 1:24 AM
> *To:* CAYUGABIRDS-L 
> *Subject:* [cayugabirds-l] Not your typical Canada Goose nest
>
> A few days ago, Carol and I took a walk on the south rim trail at
> Taughannock S.P.   Not too far from the parking lot off Jacksonville Road,
> she spotted a Canada Goose, nesting in an unexpected location (to put it
> mildly).   Here, have a look:
>
> https://youtu.be/g3dHEyC9qdA
>
>
> So I'm wondering if this bird might have been raised by peregrines.  (Hey,
> if humans can be raised by wolves...)But seriously: Have any of you
> observed similarly maverick nesting behavior in this species?  I'm
> wondering how common this might be.
>
> Rick
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fwd: Health Alert: Statement Regarding Fall Creek/Newman Golf Course Area Fox Sightings

[sarah fern]

My understanding is that this is the main time when there will be daytime
sightings of both genders of both  of our fox species. Now that the kits
have been born, nocturnal hunting alone is insufficient for feeding them.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 9:43 AM Regi Teasley  wrote:

> Birders,
>Please take note.
> Regi
>
> 
> Creativity is the heart of adaptive evolution.
> Terry Tempest Williams
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From:* Tompkins County NY 
> *Date:* March 24, 2023 at 11:55:05 AM EDT
> *To:* rltcay...@gmail.com
> *Subject:* *Health Alert: Statement Regarding Fall Creek/Newman Golf
> Course Area Fox Sightings*
> *Reply-To:* tompkinscou...@public.govdelivery.com
>
> 
>
> [image: health alert banner]
> *Learn more about local rabies control and prevention online*
> 
> Health Alert: Statement Regarding Fall Creek/Newman Golf Course Area Fox
> Sightings
> 
>
> Tompkins County Whole Health’s Environmental Health division reports there
> have been multiple calls regarding a red fox near Newman Golf Course (10
> Pier Rd. Ithaca), the Ithaca Wastewater Treatment Plant (525 3rd St.,
> Ithaca), and in the downtown Fall Creek area. Residents have stated the fox
> is thin and has a “matted coat”, but has also been observed eating and
> drinking, as well as maintaining distance from people.
>
> Environmental Health (EH) would like to remind the community that this is
> the time of the year when foxes shed their coats. Information gathered from
> the sightings suggest that this fox is more likely to be shedding or
> “blowing” its winter coat, and not suffering from mange. Wild foxes also
> tend to be lean compared with owned dogs and other domestic animals.
> Additionally, it is possible the fox is a female that may have already
> given birth this season and needs to eat enough to support nursing kits.
> Red foxes often choose dens close to human habitation to protect their kits
> from coyote predation.
>
> While callers report the fox has been observed to come within 20 feet of
> residents, additional details shared suggest that the fox has done so only
> to access water or potential food sources, and it will move off when it
> feels threatened. Foxes are more likely to walk or trot than run away, as
> running can trigger a chase response by a perceived threat.
>
> *After evaluating current reports, EH believes these sightings are not
> consistent with a rabid fox.* Residents are advised to avoid contact and
> leave the fox alone. Do not feed, approach, or search for possible dens.
> [image: image of shedding fox; text reads: "I don't have mange and I don't
> need help. I'm just a little scrappy looking while I shed my winter coat."]
>
> Tompkins County Whole Health reminds everyone to:
>
>1. Avoid contact with any unfamiliar cats or dogs and any wild animals.
>2. All cats, dogs and ferrets must have initial rabies vaccinations
>administered no later than four months of age. Keep vaccinations
>current! Learn about our upcoming free clinics in April and May at:
>https://tompkinscountyny.gov/health/rabies#clinics
>
> 
>3. Report the following incidents to Environmental Health at
>607-274-6688:
>
>
>- All animal bites or scratches.
>
>
>- Any human or pet contact with saliva or other potentially infectious
>material (brain tissue, spinal tissue, or cerebro-spinal fluid) of wild
>animals or any animal suspected of having rabies.
>- All bat bites, scratches, or any mere skin contact with a bat, or a
>bat in a room with a child, or sleeping or impaired person.
>
> Further information can be found at: tompkinscountyny.gov/health/eh/rabies
> 
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> Update your 

[cayugabirds-l] (off-topic) hearing aids for birding

[sarah fern]

Hello all,

Does anyone use ordinary hearing aids to help hear birdsong?  Please
ahare your experiences with me. I hope to find a good pair of hearing aids
that can have 2 programs; one enhancing speech and one specifically to help
me hear the birds again.

Please feel free to contact me off-list fernsara...@gmail.com

Thank you very much.

Sarah

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[cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] A ‘Living Shoreline’ Takes Root in New York’s Jamaica Bay - Inside Climate News

[sarah fern]

I wonder what is the status of the lost seaweed which formerly grew in
Jamaica Bay as well as Great South Bay? Or was it a sea grass? I forget.
But I hope there is some effort to restore that as well; I'll bet it would
help against strong sea surges. And I think it could thrive again, now that
there's less pollution there than in my childhood.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 12:39 PM Regi Teasley  wrote:

> Here’s some good news about restoration efforts in Jamaica Bay.
>
>
> https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21062022/jamaica-bay-new-york-living-shoreline/
>
> Regi
> 
> *“There is a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future
> on the planet.” Hans-Otto Partner, co-chair, 2022 IPCC working group*
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Suet question

[sarah fern]

I like to use peanut butter & the birds like it.

Sarah

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 12:01 PM Geo Kloppel  wrote:

> I’m not advocating, but one can buy grass-fed organically produced beef
> suet through the mail. One source that I see online sells it for about $7 /
> lb., which is not more than one might pay for certain brands of organic
> peanut butter (which are typically non-hydrogenated, so no need to wonder
> about the health effects of feeding hydrogenated vegetable oils to birds).
>
> -Geo
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2022, at 9:45 AM, Linda Orkin  wrote:
>
> 
> I have a question for everyone regarding suet. Since we know that
> pesticides and other harmful human chemicals including industrial
> agriculture antibiotics accumulate in the fat of mammals how healthy can
> animal suet from animal agriculture actually be for birds. I have never
> seen anyone mention or consider this. I have tried to look it up but cannot
> find anything. Just going by my own understanding of the food chain and
> bioaccumulation I’m  relying on my common sense. I mix organic peanut
> butter and organic cornmeal and use that.
>
> Linda Orkin
> Ithaca, New York.
>
> On Jan 9, 2022, at 9:39 AM, Peter Saracino 
> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Folks im looking for a suet log/cylinder for a suet holder I have. Just
> suetno embedded seeds. At least 6-7" high and a few inches in diameter.
> Any ideas where I can buy some. No luck at Tractor Supply, Running, Country
> Max or Wild Birds Unlimited, Amazon
> Thanks.
> Pete Sar
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[cayugabirds-l] GC Kinglet, Pine, B T Green & YR warblers, White Throated Sparrows

[sarah fern]

at upper Buttermilk today, late morning

Sarah Fern

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black-throated Green Warbler

[sarah fern]

Northern Waterthrush at  Sapsucker today, singing 1:30-2:30.

Sarah Fern

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 1:22 PM Alicia Plotkin  wrote:

> Just came home from an early morning appt to find my yard (west side of
> Ovid) awash in Yellow Rumped Warblers - had only seen 5 warblers of any
> kind before today, but there were at least 15 singing, chipping &
> gleaning at 12:45.  Still hear some singing now, 30 minutes later.
> Wasn't able to hear or see any other varieties of warbler but last night
> must have brought in some good birds.
>
> Alicia
>
>
> On 4/27/2021 11:56 AM, Ann Mitchell wrote:
> > It’s back at Park Preserve South!
> >
> > Good birding,
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[cayugabirds-l] N Waterthrush at Sapsucker

[sarah fern]

Today at about 1:30, I had wonderful views of a singing N Waterthrush in
its usual place, near the boardwalk near the small pkg lot across the
street from the main woods. Also present were a Phoebe & a pair of Cowbirds

Sarah Fern

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Oddly colored red-winged blackbird

[sarah fern]

This looks to me like the bird has some Oriole genes. Same family.

Sarah Fern

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:32 PM Liz Brown  wrote:

> I had an oddly colored red-winged blackbird at my feeder today. Head,
> breast, and back black like an adult male. Red and yellow epaulets. BUT -
> the black breast ends in a pretty clear line, and below that line, the
> breast is a streaky salmon color. There's also an additional thin white bar
> on each wing, below the epaulet, and lots of white on the tail.
>
> Any ideas about what's going on?
>
> Thanks,
> Liz
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> (Excuse the picture quality - I took them all from inside.)
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds are mysteriously dying in New Mexico in 'frightening' numbers

[sarah fern]

Do the birds migrate at the altitudes in which the western fire smoke is
currently moving eastward? I have already experienced fine particulate ash
fallout here.

Sarah Fern

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 4:05 PM Regi Teasley  wrote:

> Birders,
> A friend of mine in the West sent me this article about birds dying.
>
>
> https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2020/09/12/mass-deaths-migratory-birds-new-mexico-environment/5780282002/
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[cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Don’t underestimate swallows.

[sarah fern]

I had a wonderful experience while sleeping in a field near a friend's
house about 30 yrs ago. Before dawn, I drowsily awoke to the strange
feeling that something was dive-bombing at my face & veering off at the
last second. I was in my mummy bag with only a bit of my face exposed. As
the light slowly increased, I could hear & then see mosquitoes, one at a
time, come buzzing at my face and then be neatly caught by a dive-bombing
barn swallow. It was scary because the birds came fast right up to my face
& veered off with a very narrow miss. I could feel & hear the swish of
their feathers as they turned in the air. They never missed a mosquito & I
was in awe.

Sarah Fern

On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 7:30 PM Peter Saracino 
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> Anne I've had barn swallows nesting in a small shed on my property come
> way up to the house and dive bomb my cat - and the cat was far from the
> nest and no apparent threat! I love it when I'm out to mow and they go
> about wake hunting as they catch the insects my mowing stirs up. It is a
> sad day indeed in late August when I am mowing and the swallows are no
> more. What a gift the natural world.
> Pete Sar
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>> A red-tailed hawk just sailed over my house very low surrounded on all
>> sides by shrieking and Tees-zweeting swallows, both tree and barn and
>> perhaps 20 total. Looked like some slower flying, shorter tailed juv barn
>> swallows in the mix.  They were really really committed to seeing the hawk
>> off. How would a redtail ever grab a swallow?  They clearly thought it
>> possible.
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