Re: [cayugabirds-l] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014
Thanks for these observations Fritzie. I care. I'm there with you. It's a tragedy. And now we are on the cusp of another horrible pesticide related to Agent Orange being approved. Along with new agent orange ready GMO companion plants. I, too, have silently blooming white clover in my yard. I was thinking how just 20 years ago you could not walk barefoot at this time of year for fear of being stung. Not so now. If people don't wake up now the poisoning of this world, not our world but all beings world, will be entire and complete. And this is an appropriate discussion for a listserv made up of people who love birds, I would think. And gas should cost $100 per gallon. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jul 6, 2014, at 12:19 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard job121...@verizon.net wrote: Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) between Rte. 34 B Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field Rd.. Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house one on the NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 June, Becky I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone to ask about when, or if, they may have been active. In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in out of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have noticed a remarkable lack of barn tree swallows here this summer, compared to previous years. Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring ... eventually people got her message did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of weed-free corn soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee so far, no Monarch butterflies few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is FULL of white clover which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. We still have mosquitoes black flies, insects that need water in which to lay eggs blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water blood. They thrive. We scratch. Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of insecticides, weed killers fungicides by home owners, golf course owners, large small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating that scientists at MD U the USDA have now found evidence that bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder. I wonder ... WHO CARES??? Fritzie, in Union Springs where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014
My garden which I've designed for bees butterflies is also relatively and sadly quiet. Stephanie Greenwood Sent from my iPad On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for these observations Fritzie. I care. I'm there with you. It's a tragedy. And now we are on the cusp of another horrible pesticide related to Agent Orange being approved. Along with new agent orange ready GMO companion plants. I, too, have silently blooming white clover in my yard. I was thinking how just 20 years ago you could not walk barefoot at this time of year for fear of being stung. Not so now. If people don't wake up now the poisoning of this world, not our world but all beings world, will be entire and complete. And this is an appropriate discussion for a listserv made up of people who love birds, I would think. And gas should cost $100 per gallon. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jul 6, 2014, at 12:19 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard job121...@verizon.net wrote: Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) between Rte. 34 B Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field Rd.. Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house one on the NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 June, Becky I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone to ask about when, or if, they may have been active. In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in out of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have noticed a remarkable lack of barn tree swallows here this summer, compared to previous years. Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring ... eventually people got her message did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of weed-free corn soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee so far, no Monarch butterflies few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is FULL of white clover which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. We still have mosquitoes black flies, insects that need water in which to lay eggs blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water blood. They thrive. We scratch. Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of insecticides, weed killers fungicides by home owners, golf course owners, large small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating that scientists at MD U the USDA have now found evidence that bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder. I wonder ... WHO CARES??? Fritzie, in Union Springs where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014
We'll join that observation and sentiment. Lynda, we were just commenting on how safe it is to walk barefoot -not at all a good thing. We've studied all this to death and it's past time for action. Does anyone know where the academic leadership is on this (these) issues? Continually amazed that a major U like CU and CLO aren't out in the forefront of this, FLAP and so many other needed efforts. -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Sun, July 6, 2014 08:25, Stephanie Greenwood wrote: My garden which I've designed for bees butterflies is also relatively and sadly quiet. Stephanie Greenwood Sent from my iPad On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for these observations Fritzie. I care. I'm there with you. It's a tragedy. And now we are on the cusp of another horrible pesticide related to Agent Orange being approved. Along with new agent orange ready GMO companion plants. I, too, have silently blooming white clover in my yard. I was thinking how just 20 years ago you could not walk barefoot at this time of year for fear of being stung. Not so now. If people don't wake up now the poisoning of this world, not our world but all beings world, will be entire and complete. And this is an appropriate discussion for a listserv made up of people who love birds, I would think. And gas should cost $100 per gallon. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jul 6, 2014, at 12:19 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard job121...@verizon.net wrote: Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) between Rte. 34 B Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field Rd.. Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house one on the NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 June, Becky I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone to ask about when, or if, they may have been active. In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in out of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have noticed a remarkable lack of barn tree swallows here this summer, compared to previous years. Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring ... eventually people got her message did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of weed-free corn soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee so far, no Monarch butterflies few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is FULL of white clover which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. We still have mosquitoes black flies, insects that need water in which to lay eggs blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water blood. They thrive. We scratch. Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of insecticides, weed killers fungicides by home owners, golf course owners, large small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating that scientists at MD U the USDA have now found evidence that bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder. I wonder ... WHO CARES??? Fritzie, in Union Springs where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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 List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1)
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014
I agree with sentiments offered.. Here is something refreshing regarding honey bees I recently chanced upon... http://www.bestbees.com/ On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:39 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.net wrote: We'll join that observation and sentiment. Lynda, we were just commenting on how safe it is to walk barefoot -not at all a good thing. We've studied all this to death and it's past time for action. Does anyone know where the academic leadership is on this (these) issues? Continually amazed that a major U like CU and CLO aren't out in the forefront of this, FLAP and so many other needed efforts. -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Sun, July 6, 2014 08:25, Stephanie Greenwood wrote: My garden which I've designed for bees butterflies is also relatively and sadly quiet. Stephanie Greenwood Sent from my iPad On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for these observations Fritzie. I care. I'm there with you. It's a tragedy. And now we are on the cusp of another horrible pesticide related to Agent Orange being approved. Along with new agent orange ready GMO companion plants. I, too, have silently blooming white clover in my yard. I was thinking how just 20 years ago you could not walk barefoot at this time of year for fear of being stung. Not so now. If people don't wake up now the poisoning of this world, not our world but all beings world, will be entire and complete. And this is an appropriate discussion for a listserv made up of people who love birds, I would think. And gas should cost $100 per gallon. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jul 6, 2014, at 12:19 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard job121...@verizon.net wrote: Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) between Rte. 34 B Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field Rd.. Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house one on the NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 June, Becky I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone to ask about when, or if, they may have been active. In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in out of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have noticed a remarkable lack of barn tree swallows here this summer, compared to previous years. Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring ... eventually people got her message did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of weed-free corn soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee so far, no Monarch butterflies few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is FULL of white clover which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. We still have mosquitoes black flies, insects that need water in which to lay eggs blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water blood. They thrive. We scratch. Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of insecticides, weed killers fungicides by home owners, golf course owners, large small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating that scientists at MD U the USDA have now found evidence that bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder. I wonder ... WHO CARES??? Fritzie, in Union Springs where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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)
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014
Linda wrote: And gas should cost $100 per gallon. That would certainly put a crimp in our frivolous birding activity! :-) For anyone whose birding habit is already costing too much at the pump, I'd like to recommend backyard beekeeping; it's truly a wonderful hobby. Ecological degradation is of course nothing new. The worst event the world has ever experienced occurred some 630 million years ago, when the burden of reckless runaway photosynthesis began to load the planet's atmosphere with poisonous oxygen, leading to an explosion of newly-evolved exploiters (animals). The place has never been the same since! -Geo Kloppel -- 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] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014
I wonder how much last winter affected insects. It was hard on me. Glenn Wilson Endicott, NY www.WilsonsWarbler.com On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:39 AM, John and Sue Gregoire k...@empacc.net wrote: We'll join that observation and sentiment. Lynda, we were just commenting on how safe it is to walk barefoot -not at all a good thing. We've studied all this to death and it's past time for action. Does anyone know where the academic leadership is on this (these) issues? Continually amazed that a major U like CU and CLO aren't out in the forefront of this, FLAP and so many other needed efforts. -- John and Sue Gregoire Field Ornithologists Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory 5373 Fitzgerald Road Burdett,NY 14818-9626 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ Conserve and Create Habitat On Sun, July 6, 2014 08:25, Stephanie Greenwood wrote: My garden which I've designed for bees butterflies is also relatively and sadly quiet. Stephanie Greenwood Sent from my iPad On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for these observations Fritzie. I care. I'm there with you. It's a tragedy. And now we are on the cusp of another horrible pesticide related to Agent Orange being approved. Along with new agent orange ready GMO companion plants. I, too, have silently blooming white clover in my yard. I was thinking how just 20 years ago you could not walk barefoot at this time of year for fear of being stung. Not so now. If people don't wake up now the poisoning of this world, not our world but all beings world, will be entire and complete. And this is an appropriate discussion for a listserv made up of people who love birds, I would think. And gas should cost $100 per gallon. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Jul 6, 2014, at 12:19 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard job121...@verizon.net wrote: Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) between Rte. 34 B Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field Rd.. Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house one on the NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 June, Becky I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone to ask about when, or if, they may have been active. In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in out of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have noticed a remarkable lack of barn tree swallows here this summer, compared to previous years. Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring ... eventually people got her message did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of weed-free corn soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee so far, no Monarch butterflies few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is FULL of white clover which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. We still have mosquitoes black flies, insects that need water in which to lay eggs blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water blood. They thrive. We scratch. Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of insecticides, weed killers fungicides by home owners, golf course owners, large small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating that scientists at MD U the USDA have now found evidence that bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder. I wonder ... WHO CARES??? Fritzie, in Union Springs where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- 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] Horned larks, C. swifts today 5 July 2014
Three horned larks were standing on Dublin Hill Rd. (east of Aurora) between Rte. 34 B Black St. which goes north as a continuation of Indian Field Rd.. Here in Union Springs we saw 2 soaring ospreys over our house one on the NYSEG Transfer Station nest on No. One Rd. across the field from us. On 27 June, Becky I found 2 nest starts (new to us) on power poles in the trailer park down Firelane 15 north of Union Springs. We didn't find anyone to ask about when, or if, they may have been active. In the afterglow of sunset tonight I watched chimney swifts going in out of the tall chimney on the girl's dorm at Union Springs Academy. I have noticed a remarkable lack of barn tree swallows here this summer, compared to previous years. Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring ... eventually people got her message did something about it. This evening as we drove by 100s of acres of weed-free corn soybean fields, I thought about seeing only one honey bee so far, no Monarch butterflies few of any kind of butterflies. Our yard is FULL of white clover which normally would be abuzz with honey bees. We still have mosquitoes black flies, insects that need water in which to lay eggs blood of warm blooded bodies on which to live ... water blood. They thrive. We scratch. Honey bees that pollinate 30 BILLON dollars worth of crops in the US are fast disappearing. Thanks to indiscriminate, as well as deliberate use of insecticides, weed killers fungicides by home owners, golf course owners, large small farmers, etc. the honey bee, the one little insect that determines what food crops we may still be able to grow may become in the same ranks as the carrier pigeon. Indeed, it may already be too late. I have included fungicides because I have in hand an article stating that scientists at MD U the USDA have now found evidence that bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides are 3 times as likely to be infected with parasites that cause colony collapse disorder. I wonder ... WHO CARES??? Fritzie, in Union Springs where gas was $3.63.9 on Fri., 4 July 2104 -- 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/ --
