Chris,
In case you have not already checked there, sightings like these may have been
noted in the Cayuga Bird Club newsletter.
The library at the Lab of O has a significant run in the collection.
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/4544118
There is a Cayuga Bird Club collection
I’m still digging, but here’s a historical Harlequin Duck sighting from 1968,
thanks to Matt Medler for this!
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n8jhxfva0peosb5/AAAFh4tEd1QTCI0ns7g4PkWka?dl=0
Dorothy McIlroy Sighting Notecard:
“Harlequin Duck - Histrionicus histrionicus - Accidental - Female 5/7-9/68
Hi Everyone,
This is a plea to everyone currently subscribed to Cayugabirds-L, however, I’m
mostly trying to reach those who may have been subscribed to Cayugabirds at any
time between approximately 1993 or 1994 and late 1998, and who still have
access to any of those original emails posted to
Newby here. Where exactly is East Shore Park?
Madonna Stallmann
On Tue, Dec 6, 2022, 3:59 PM Jay McGowan wrote:
> All set, Chris, these should show up in eBird now.
>
> And in the interest of keeping this relevant to current sightings, the
> East Shore Park Harlequin was still present as of
All set, Chris, these should show up in eBird now.
And in the interest of keeping this relevant to current sightings, the East
Shore Park Harlequin was still present as of early afternoon today, still
hanging with Mallards and Buffleheads on the north side of the park,
sometimes quite close to
"Kingbird,v45n3 1995 p193. Region 3 "Harlequin Duck: one Union Springs 24 Mar
(BP,NYSARC).
Jane Graves
Sent from my iPad
On Dec 6, 2022, at 11:25 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
wrote:
I’m still digging, but here’s a historical Harlequin Duck sighting from 1968,
thanks to Matt Medler
Excellent find, Jane, thank you very much!!
I’ve added a screen shot from that 1995 Kingbird page to the dropbox link below.
It would be great to figure out a way to enter these sightings into eBird as
historical Cayuga Lake Basin records…all original observers of both historical
sightings are
Thanks, Jay. Appreciate you doing this!
Sincerely,
Chris
On Dec 6, 2022, at 3:59 PM, Jay McGowan
mailto:jw...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
All set, Chris, these should show up in eBird now.
And in the interest of keeping this relevant to current sightings, the East
Shore Park Harlequin was still
Hi Madonna,
East Shore Park is located just north of Stewart Park up the east side of
Cayuga Lake. It’s not very far up East Shore Drive. The Park is to the north of
the Merrill Family Sailing Center, located at 1000 E Shore Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850.
The female Harlequin Duck has been associating
Thank you very much, Marty, this is really good to know!
Glad we were able to collectively chase down these historical Harlequin Duck
records and get them entered into eBird.
I know there are *many* other historical records that are absent from eBird, as
it takes a tremendous amount of effort
Since we've been having so much discussion about the East Shore Harlequin,
I thought it was worth mentioning here that it seems to be a *first-year
male* rather than a female. I figured there was a good chance of that
anyway, but some better looks today showed the beginnings of a white
shoulder
At one point late this morning the Harlequin Duck moved well south of the
sailing center and all the associated buoys, into the bay at the SE corner of
the lake, still associating with Mallards and Bufflehead in shallow water. The
view from Stewart Park or the RR tracks behind the Ithaca
East Shore Park is a very small Town of Ithaca park located a half mile north
of Stewart Park on East Shore Drive (NYS-34) opposite the large concrete
building which houses the pumps for Cornell’s Lake Source Cooling system. The
driveway for East Shore Park crosses the railroad tracks directly
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