[cayugabirds-l] New Cayuga Bird Club website.
All: As was discussed at the December meeting of the club, I have been giving the web site a complete overhaul, with the goal of making it a much more useful resource for members. A key aspect of this was to make it easy for members to contribute content. To accomplish this, I acquired the domain cayugabirdclub.org, created a new site hosted by Google, moved most of the existing content over, and created a number of useful new pages. See http://cayugabirdclub.org. The Calendar is now a Google calendar. This means that it is very convenient to update, and anyone who already uses Google calendars at work or at home can easily integrate with it. One of the new features I hope will be popular is the Gallery. This is intended for members to share their photos and videos. I already have four photo albums up there, and have been soliciting others to contribute. Instructions for how to share photos are at the bottom of that page. I will probably also create a "Rarities" album and a "Photo of the month" feature on that page too. I created a new Where to Bird section. That page boasts an amazing interactive Google map that shows dozens of birding sites in the Finger Lakes area. I can't take credit for it though; the map was created collaboratively by Mike Harvey and several other local birders. It has been incredibly useful to those of us who have heard about good sites, but didn't know exactly where they were. This page also lists the fourteen sites that were described on the old website. Each site now has its own page with a "season rating" (based on my own impressions), a map, a slideshow, and a link to the eBird report for that site. I have kept the original description for now. I am hoping to recruit volunteers to give these a refresh and to write new descriptions for the sites that have none yet. To encourage visitors to get the most out of their time here, I have created a Trip Recommendations page and wrote up a few suggestions for places to go depending on the season and the amount of time available. I also created a Field Trips page that I hope to keep populated with reports from our club trips. See the report for the 11/19 trip for a model. I encourage everyone to check this out at http://cayugabirdclub.org. Please let me know if I made any errors and give me feedback on what works and what doesn't. I am more than happy to give edit permissions to any member who wants to contribute. It is very easy to create and edit pages, and no-one who does so should be worried about accidentally breaking it. I will keep an eye on things to keep it in order and can revert to a previous version with little effort. Just email me: p...@grammatech.com. - Paul Anderson PS. Note that at the time of writing the old site is still active and Google searches will favor that site. I will change it to redirect to the new site soon. -- Paul Anderson, VP of Engineering, GrammaTech, Inc. 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850 Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x118; http://www.grammatech.com -- 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] NE Ithaca, Fri 12/16
At about 7:45 on Friday morning I counted 20 TURKEY VULTURES kiting into the west wind over Simsbury Drive in Ithaca. The sighting was surprising, but not quite as exciting as getting the coveted eBird confirm prompt a few minutes later. Mark Chao -- 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] Snow Geese
Several thousand Snow Geese in field east of NY 414 2 miles north of Fayette . That wold be about 1-1/2 miles north of Swedish Hill. Thought SG had mostly gone south by now. Montezuma quiet except one imm Bald Eagle at visitor center and two adults across pool at nest tree. Paul Schmitt Sent from my iPhone -- 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] NE Ithaca, Fri 12/16
Yesterday afternoon about 2:45pm from the NYS-89 bridge over the Flood Control Channel I saw to the north, around Stewart Park, a kettle of 14 TURKEY VULTURES, also contending with considerable wind. After a minute or so the kettle was strewn sideways, and they seemed to be working their way back towards Cornell or Cayuga Heights, but not particularly migrating. I have yet to eBird them, but I expect I'll also get a "confirm"prompt, because I got that from a group of 12 a couple weeks ago.--Dave NutterOn Dec 16, 2011, at 09:10 AM, Mark Chao markc...@imt.org wrote:At about 7:45 on Friday morning I counted 20 TURKEY VULTURES kiting into the west wind over Simsbury Drive in Ithaca. The sighting was surprising, but not quite as exciting as getting the coveted eBird “confirm” prompt a few minutes later.Mark Chao -- 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] Pileateds and Hoodies
I had a very fine pair of Pileated Woodpeckers at my home this morning (new yard bird), working the dead trees in our woodlot. I also just had a good look at a male and female Hooded Merganser on Sapsucker Woods pond just now (10:30am), visible from Staff Lounge. Happy Friday to all, Robyn Bailey Lansing, NY (recently) -- 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] Pileateds and Hoodies
I had a very fine pair of Pileated Woodpeckers at my home this morning (new yard bird), working the dead trees in our woodlot. I also just had a good look at a male and female Hooded Merganser on Sapsucker Woods pond just now (10:30am). Happy Friday to all, Robyn Bailey recently of Lansing, NY -- 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] Montezuma area, etc.: snowy owl
Susie I started the day by going for breakfast at the Meetinghouse Café (Diner) at the corner of Salt Rd. and State Rt. 90 in Summerhill. Friendly folks, reasonable prices. They serve SCRAPPLE. Its not on the menu; you have to ask. Also there is the finest bathroom that we have ever seen in all our visits to U.S. diners. We could not find the Genoa Sandhill crane family. At the Potato Bldg. in the Mucklands at MNWR, there are viewable many thousands of SNOW and CANADA GEESE, hundreds of TUNDRA SWANS, and hundreds of RING-BILLED GULLS. There were about 50 PINTAIL with the MALLARDS. I located 2 groups each of 7-8 SANDHILL CRANES a long ways off. No sign of the 20 reported heading this way from Derby Hill earlier in the week. There was an adult SNOWY OWL due south from the building and about 100 from the road. I did not see it for a long time as I was looking too far out. Susie should have seen it just by looking out the car window; but there was tall grass in the line of view, and anyway, she was crocheting. The NORTHERN SHRIKE at the east end of Van Dyne Spoor Rd. was being its usual photogenic self. We found no rough-legged hawks, but for the day found 4 KESTRELS, 3 N. HARRIERS, and about 12 RED-TAILED HAWKS. Steve Susie Fast Brooktondale -- 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/ --
