Being with Ed Hart just made you feel good. What a wonderful man. In the
mid '80s I ran a trail run on the FLT with him and a couple of dozen other
runners from Burdett to Ithaca called 'Ed's Ultra', named after him. We
stopped at lunchtime at the top of Connecticut Hill for a lunch arranged by
A brief story about Dr. Ed Hart with a link to birds of the Cayuga Lake Basin,
however tenuous. I married the summer between my junior and senior years at
Cornell. My wife moved with me to Ithaca in September 1971 and was hired as a
bookkeeper/receptionist at the ophthalmology practice of Drs
On Friday morning at the Cornell Community Gardens on Freese Road, I saw
eight species of sparrow -- Lincoln’s (7+ sightings of probably 2 or 3
individuals), Swamp (similar frequency and estimated numbers), Song,
Savannah, Chipping, Field, White-crowned (1 or 2), and White-throated (2
together) --
I don't remember a Porsche but I do clearly recall a customized van he drove
to spring bird biology field trips, either in "00 or '01. The van was all
wood paneled inside and immaculate. Ever after I would meet him at various
mtgs etc. and sometimes with his bike. In those years he wore an orange
For those getting out for the weekend the Hudsonian Godwit was visible from
East Road but only after a one hour search and after a large flock of Canada
Geese got out of the way. The bird flew back to Puddler's at 5:15 feeding in
the green algae. The other shorebirds listed here were often
