Ay, that's a tough one! Even on the USGS topo I can't tell (see BBA block
3577A).
On Kevin's tennis principle ("the line is IN"), I'd call this inside the basin,
unless the owner declares his/her yard is definitely out.
-Geo
On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Dave Nutter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Many of you know that for several years I have continued the decades-long
> tradition of keeping a list of first annual observations of species of birds
> in the Cayuga Lake Basin. The list can be seen on the Cayuga Bird Club web
> site Resources page here:
> http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records
> The list has criteria, of course, one of which is whether the bird was within
> the Cayuga Lake Basin, which was defined by a couple of botanists in the
> mid-1920s to include not just lands which drain into Cayuga Lake but also
> lands which drain northward or southward into a certain portion of the Seneca
> River and Erie Canal north of Cayuga Lake.
>
> An eBird report (below) has come in of a PINE WARBLER at a feeder along
> NYS-89 in the Wayne County Town of Butler. Pine Warblers occasionally do that
> in winter, so I'm not questioning the report. The problem here is that I
> can't tell from my maps whether the site in question drains to the north via
> Wolcott Creek directly into Lake Ontario and is out of the basin, or whether
> it drains to the south via Butler Creek, Crusoe Lake, and Crusoe Creek into
> the Seneca River and is in the basin. Furthermore the eBird report does not
> give the observer's name, another item which traditionally gets put on the
> annual First Basin Records list. If anyone knows this person or location, or
> can say which way it drains, please let me know. Thanks.
> --Dave Nutter
>
> PS - The 2015 list-to-date was also published in the most recent Cayuga Bird
> Club newsletter but without the dates, locations, or observers. I'd like to
> clarify the caption about the birds being in the order they were found. When
> multiple species are added for the same day, I add them in checklist order.
> Thus the first 102 species, which were all found on January 1st, make it look
> a lot like a checklist and don't reflect the order they were found that day.
> After the last species on the checklist found on New Year's Day, House
> Sparrow, the entries are more reflective of the order species were found on
> subsequent days.
>
>> Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) (1)
>> - Reported Feb 13, 2015 07:30 by Anonymous eBirder
>> - My house, Wayne, New York
>> - Map:
>> http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=43.156379,-76.7735124&ll=43.156379,-76.7735124
>> - Checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21808682
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