Great suggestions, Suan. And you make really
good points about the Christmas Bird Count.
I heartily endorse the Finger Lakes Climate
Fun--our family offsets all our travel, heating,
electricity, etc use at the end of each year
(using their handy calculator) with a donation to
this group,
Very engaging discussion about emission-awareness while birding. Let me throw
in a few cents.
Broadening the scope of an outing to include more than birds is definitely a
good idea. In past years, the Lab of O has collaborated with the Botanic
Gardens to have bird walks at the Arboretum and
Thanks for keeping the cranes safe in New York!. Here in New Mexico there
is a proliferate population of Sandhills and there is a hunting season. So
there are a lot of cranes, right? Well there were a lot of Passenger
Pigeons too. We have a very bad habit of assigning value to things only
after it
In light of the recent discussion about limiting out carbon footprint I want to
thank Alyssa and others who are right there keeping us updated on goings on at
the Montezuma complex!! My soul feeds on all the wonderful reports and my joy
is in knowing that they exist in our world. Fly safely
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Original message From: "Johnson, Alyssa"
Date: 12/10/21 9:37 AM (GMT-05:00) To:
CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Cranes
on Armitage
I just spent some good time with the cranes on the corner of Olmstead and
When I was on my front porch yesterday, there was quite a squawking going on
with all the house sparrows and other usual feeder birds.
Then I saw a small hawk zoom by and land in the barberry bush right across from
me and then take off again after some birds!
A Sharp-shinned Hawk flew back &
I just spent some good time with the cranes on the corner of Olmstead and
Armitage. Yesterday afternoons and this mornings view was best from Olmstead.
While I sat my car with the engine off, probably half or more relocated to the
other side of the grassy ridge to the west, best viewed from
I have known Bryan Pfeiffer for years and find him to be conscientious and
caring. I went with him, when he owned Vermont Bird Tours, on three incredible
field trips in the early 2000s, which greatly increased my knowledge as well as
life list. But Bryan's knowledge and experience go far beyond
