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In order to remove your email address from the List, you must do the following: 1. Create a new message, addressed to: [email protected] 1. Type the following text into the body of the new message: LEAVE 1. NOTE: The message must be sent *from* the email address which was originally subscribed to the List. 1. Send your message. You will receive a removal confirmation message shortly. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Chris Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > How do I unsubscribe form this list - I have moved from Ithaca now > unfortunately. > > Thanks > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Upstate NY > Birding digest > Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 12:03 AM > To: cayugabirds-l digest recipients > Subject: cayugabirds-l digest: October 10, 2015 > > CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Saturday, October 10, 2015. > > 1. Re: Prothonotary Warbler, Myers Point 2. Dickcissel - Freese Rd 3. Re: > Cornell Community Gardens - imminent conversion, weekend walks, M-Th recap > 4. =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtjYXl1Z2FiaXJkcy1sXSBDb3JuZWxsIENvbW11bml0eSBHYXJkZW5z?= > =?utf-8?B?IC0gaW1taW5lbnQgY29udmVyc2lvbiwgd2Vla2VuZCB3YWxrcywgTS1UaCBy?= > =?utf-8?B?ZWNhcA==?= > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Prothonotary Warbler, Myers Point > From: Jay McGowan <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:43:10 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > The bird is still present this morning along the southern shore of Salt > Point, working up and down near the creek but often hard to see. > On Oct 9, 2015 5:34 PM, "Jay McGowan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A bright and absurdly late, not to mention just plain rare, > > PROTHONOTARY WARBLER is currently foraging along Salmon Creek at Myers > > Point and just flying across to Salt Point. > > > > Jay > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Dickcissel - Freese Rd > From: Dave Nutter <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:25:17 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > Tom Schulenberg reported a Dickcissel in the NE corner of the Freese Rd > Community Gardens a few minutes ago. Town of Dryden a quarter mile south of > Hanshaw Rd, east side. > > --Dave Nutter > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: Cornell Community Gardens - imminent conversion, weekend > walks, M-Th recap > From: Paul Anderson <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:53:11 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > All: > > The Freese Road gardens situation isn't as dire as it sounds. I have a > plot there so I have received emails about it from the organizers. > Here's a snippet from one: > > > Dear Gardening Friends, > > > > I’m very sorry to tell you that there will be a major change at > > Cornell Garden Plots next year (2016). > > > > The Cornell Agriculture department, who allows us to use the land on > > which we garden, told us that we need to move out of the gardens in > > 2016 so the land can be cover cropped. Apparently we have been using > > the same soil for so long that disease spores have built up and are > > blowing around, which negatively effects nearby research plots. By not > > growing vegetables and by cover cropping instead, we can greatly > > reduce the diseases in our soil. They have agreed to allow us to stay > > at the Freese Road location and garden this year while they look for a > > new location to move us to in 2016. > > > > Once they move us in 2016 we will stay in the new location for a > > couple of years while they cover crop our Freese Road gardens. Then > > we would move back to Freese Road, but we would continue to rotate > > between the two locations every couple of years so that diseases > > don’t build up again. > > > > I’m letting you know about this now since you may be considering > > installing structures or buying perennial plants for your “permanent > > plot†. Unfortunately it will no longer be permanent. > > > > The people in charge of these decisions want us to continue to garden, > > they also need to protect the research projects going on nearby. They > > have been nothing but encouraging and positive in our interactions. > > Overall this will make the gardens better, it will unfortunately mean > > the end of the permanent plots. > > > Unfortunately there has been no success at finding an alternative spot for > us gardeners. A location on Dodge Road was identified, but it needs work > for drainage and a road and there is no money to pay for it, so until we > can return to Freese Road, the club will be on hiatus. > > As a birder and a gardener, I am doubly saddened by the loss of this spot, > but I am hopeful that we might get it back in a couple of years. > And who knows? Maybe it will continue to be a good spot for fall sparrows > regardless. > > Paul > > -- > Paul Anderson, VP of Engineering, GrammaTech, Inc. > 531 Esty St., Ithaca, NY 14850 > Tel: +1 607 273-7340 x118; http://www.grammatech.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: > =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtjYXl1Z2FiaXJkcy1sXSBDb3JuZWxsIENvbW11bml0eSBHYXJkZW5z?= > =?utf-8?B?IC0gaW1taW5lbnQgY29udmVyc2lvbiwgd2Vla2VuZCB3YWxrcywgTS1UaCBy?= > =?utf-8?B?ZWNhcA==?= > From: Dave Nutter <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 02:21:37 +0000 (GMT) > X-Message-Number: 4 > > It's a bit worrisome that there isn't even an alternative site for the > interim. > I wonder what the effect of the hiatus will be. > Will the demand for garden plots dissipate or be filled elsewhere? > Will the Cornell powers that be forget to make Freese Rd available for > gardening again? > Will the weeds be gone during the interim, crowded out by the cover crop > or plowed under with it? > Will the pool of weed seeds be spent during the interim? > Will the birds who know this place forget to look here, and be replaced by > a new and ignorant generation? > Will gardeners return and put up fences and posts that they have had to > store for years? > If the gardens return, I wonder whether they will be as productive for > fall sparrows et al? > Will the gardens be plowed under again before the weeds can build up again? > > --Dave Nutter > > > On Oct 10, 2015, at 11:53 AM, Paul Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > All: > > > > The Freese Road gardens situation isn't as dire as it sounds. I have a > plot there so I have received emails about it from the organizers. Here's a > snippet from one: > > > >> Dear Gardening Friends, > >> > >> I’m very sorry to tell you that there will be a major change at > Cornell Garden Plots next year (2016). > >> > >> The Cornell Agriculture department, who allows us to use the land on > which we garden, told us that we need to move out of the gardens in 2016 so > the land can be cover cropped. Apparently we have been using the same soil > for so long that disease spores have built up and are blowing around, which > negatively effects nearby research plots. By not growing vegetables and by > cover cropping instead, we can greatly reduce the diseases in our soil. > They have agreed to allow us to stay at the Freese Road location and garden > this year while they look for a new location to move us to in 2016. > >> > >> Once they move us in 2016 we will stay in the new location for a > couple of years while they cover crop our Freese Road gardens. Then we > would move back to Freese Road, but we would continue to rotate between the > two locations every couple of years so that diseases don’t build up again. > >> > >> I’m letting you know about this now since you may be considering > installing structures or buying perennial plants for your “permanent > plot†. Unfortunately it will no longer be permanent. > >> > >> The people in charge of these decisions want us to continue to garden, > they also need to protect the research projects going on nearby. They have > been nothing but encouraging and positive in our interactions. Overall > this will make the gardens better, it will unfortunately mean the end of > the permanent plots. > > Unfortunately there has been no success at finding an alternative spot > for us gardeners. A location on Dodge Road was identified, but it needs > work for drainage and a road and there is no money to pay for it, so until > we can return to Freese Road, the club will be on hiatus. > > > > As a birder and a gardener, I am doubly saddened by the loss of this > spot, but I am hopeful that we might get it back in a couple of years. And > who knows? Maybe it will continue to be a good spot for fall sparrows > regardless. > > > > Paul > > -- > > 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! > > -- > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > > > > -- > > 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/[email protected]/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/ > > -- > > -- Veganism is simply the acknowledgment that a replaceable and fleeting pleasure isn't more valuable than someone's life and liberty. ~ Unknown If you permit this evil, what is the good of the good of your life? -Stanley Kunitz... -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
