[cayugabirds-l] Montezuma area birding

2020-12-14 Thread Matthew Medler
To celebrate the start of the Christmas Bird Count season, I spent the day today (14 Dec 2020) birding at various spots in the Montezuma CBC circle. I was joined at different times by Tim Lenz, Jay McGowan, and Drew Weber for socially-distanced birding. In a testament to the incredible birding

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse area RBA

2020-12-14 Thread Joseph Brin
RBA   *  New York *  Syracuse * December 14, 2020 *  NYSY  12. 14. 20   Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): December 07 to December 14, 2020 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Wisdom...the world's oldest wild bird...here's the link!

2020-12-14 Thread John Gregoire
Much too political and divisive a site and the article on Wisdom fails to give credit to the most accomplished ornithologist of our time. Wisdom was originally banded and her band replaced many times as it became worn by Chandler Robbins, an ornithologist with the USF and my beloved mentor. Chan