Collective is a very good word, I think. On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 6:32 AM, Wesley W. Blauvelt < ravenbarnconsult...@gmail.com> wrote:
> According to my handy iBird Pro app, “A group of cranes has many > collective nouns, including a construction, dance, sedge, siege and swoop > of cranes. > > > > On Oct 27, 2017, at 11:08 PM, Lynn Bergmeyer <lynnbergme...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Isn't a group of male cranes called a "bachelor flock". I read that > somewhere > > On Oct 27, 2017 12:04 AM, "Upstate NY Birding digest" < > cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > >> CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Friday, October 27, 2017. >> >> 1. Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> 2. Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> 3. Where are all my feeder birds? >> 4. Native Pagoda Dogwood offer - u dig >> 5. Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> 6. Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> 7. Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> 8. Flock of cormorants >> 9. OT: Farm pond fish needed to feed osprey >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> From: "Chris R. Pelkie" <chris.pel...@cornell.edu> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 11:08:47 +0000 >> X-Message-Number: 1 >> >> Nice. Is ‘cranery’ a word yet? Maybe we should start pushing it! Oxford >> Dictionary, here we come! >> ______________________ >> >> Chris Pelkie >> Information/Data Manager; IT Support >> Bioacoustics Research Program >> Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> 159 Sapsucker Woods Road >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=159+Sapsucker+Woods+Road+%0D+Ithaca,+NY+14850&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Ithaca, NY 14850 >> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/ >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> From: Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:40:33 -0400 >> X-Message-Number: 2 >> >> “Cranery” sounds like a nest colony (they don’t do that) or communal >> roost. Also auto-spell-correct changes cranery to cranberry. How about >> “cranefield” for where a large group feeds? >> - - Dave Nutter >> >> > On Oct 26, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Chris R. Pelkie <chris.pel...@cornell.edu> >> wrote: >> > >> > Nice. Is ‘cranery’ a word yet? Maybe we should start pushing it! Oxford >> Dictionary, here we come! >> > ______________________ >> > >> > Chris Pelkie >> > Information/Data Manager; IT Support >> > Bioacoustics Research Program >> > Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> > 159 Sapsucker Woods Road >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=159+Sapsucker+Woods+Road+%0D+%3E+Ithaca,+NY+14850&entry=gmail&source=g> >> > Ithaca, NY 14850 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=159+Sapsucker+Woods+Road+%0D+%3E+Ithaca,+NY+14850&entry=gmail&source=g> >> > http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/ >> > >> > >> > -- >> > 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! >> > -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Where are all my feeder birds? >> From: Sandy Wold <sandra.w...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:39:15 -0400 >> X-Message-Number: 3 >> >> I was noticing an eerie silence in my garden since this original post but >> did have a few Tufted Titmouses (Titmice?) show up that day at my feeder >> along with a group of chickadees and jays. I think it is cool that feeder >> birds continue to scout and forage for the "good" stuff and then probably >> also communicate with others about it. Isn't the bounty due to the >> amazing >> rains we had this past spring....but I am noticing some growth spurts on >> my >> fruit trees now after the recent rains, when they should be dropping >> leaves >> by now. Freaky. >> >> >> *---Sandy Wold* >> Author/Originator of Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map >> (for sale at Wegmans, Autumn Leaves, Cornell Plantations, and Visitor's >> Bureau) >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-wold-877114a7/ >> *https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/about-author-and-artist >> <https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/about-author-and-artist >> >* >> www.Sandy-Wold.com <http://www.sandy-wold.com/> < >> http://www.sandy-wold.squarespace.com/> >> >> *"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come ALIVE, for what >> the world needs is people who have come ALIVE." **- Dr. Howard Thurman, >> American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist (1900-1981) * >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Native Pagoda Dogwood offer - u dig >> From: Sandy Wold <sandra.w...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:41:46 -0400 >> X-Message-Number: 4 >> >> I have a Native Pagoda Dogwood I need to rehome. It needs more sun than I >> can give it and is supposed to grow about 3ftx3ft, but is growing taller >> and spindly because not enough sun on the west side of my house and partly >> shaded by a mature tree, and I wonder if it was mislabeled and could >> become >> more of an understory tree. I think it would do well on the east side of >> a >> house with no shade. Sunday afternoon would be a good day to come get it. >> I can help dig. It's been there about three years. I am located near >> Hickey's Music, downtown Ithaca. Please contact me off-list. >> >> >> *---Sandy Wold* >> Author/Originator of Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map >> (for sale at Wegmans, Autumn Leaves, Cornell Plantations, and Visitor's >> Bureau) >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-wold-877114a7/ >> *https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/about-author-and-artist >> <https://sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/about-author-and-artist >> >* >> www.Sandy-Wold.com <http://www.sandy-wold.com/> < >> http://www.sandy-wold.squarespace.com/> >> >> *"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come ALIVE, for what >> the world needs is people who have come ALIVE." **- Dr. Howard Thurman, >> American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist (1900-1981) * >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> From: "Johnson, Alyssa" <ajohn...@audubon.org> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:53:49 +0000 >> X-Message-Number: 5 >> >> Sandhill cranes still in the field on Armitage rd as of 9:30 Thursday >> morning. Not sure of exact count, didn't have binoculars with me- is "a >> lot" good enough? :) >> >> Alyssa Johnson >> Environmental Educator >> Montezuma Audubon Center >> 2295 State Route 89 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=2295+State+Route+89&entry=gmail&source=g> >> PO Box 187 >> Savannah, NY 13146 >> ajohn...@audubon.org >> (315) 365-3588 >> >> ________________________________ >> From: bounce-121988717-79436...@list.cornell.edu < >> bounce-121988717-79436...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Dave Nutter < >> nutter.d...@me.com> >> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 8:40:33 AM >> To: CayugaBirds-L b >> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] 65 Sandhill Cranes >> >> “Cranery” sounds like a nest colony (they don’t do that) or communal >> roost. Also auto-spell-correct changes cranery to cranberry. How about >> “cranefield” for where a large group feeds? >> - - Dave Nutter >> >> On Oct 26, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Chris R. Pelkie <chris.pel...@cornell.edu >> <mailto:chris.pel...@cornell.edu>> wrote: >> >> Nice. Is ‘cranery’ a word yet? Maybe we should start pushing it! Oxford >> Dictionary, here we come! >> ______________________ >> >> Chris Pelkie >> Information/Data Manager; IT Support >> Bioacoustics Research Program >> Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> 159 Sapsucker Woods Road >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=159+Sapsucker+Woods+Road+%0D+Ithaca,+NY+14850&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Ithaca, NY 14850 >> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/ >> >> >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> >> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbird >> ing.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell. >> edu/maillist.html> >> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> >> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> >> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >! >> -- >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> >> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbird >> ing.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell. >> edu/maillist.html> >> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> >> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> >> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ >> >! >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> From: Geo Kloppel <geoklop...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:08:30 -0400 >> X-Message-Number: 6 >> >> I’m more interested in what to call these post-breeding assemblages of >> mostly unrelated individuals, which I guess are about sharing the task of >> watching for predators while feeding and roosting. In German the word is >> “gesellungsverband”, if I read aright. “Survival group” seems to be the >> usual translation, but I wonder if something more colorful isn’t hiding >> somewhere in the English language? >> >> -Geo >> >> > On Oct 26, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Chris R. Pelkie <chris.pel...@cornell.edu> >> wrote: >> > >> > Nice. Is ‘cranery’ a word yet? Maybe we should start pushing it! Oxford >> Dictionary, here we come! >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Re: 65 Sandhill Cranes >> From: Ann Mitchell <annmitchel...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:34:23 -0400 >> X-Message-Number: 7 >> >> Sounds good to me! >> Ann >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Oct 26, 2017, at 8:40 AM, Dave Nutter <nutter.d...@me.com> wrote: >> > >> > “Cranery” sounds like a nest colony (they don’t do that) or communal >> roost. Also auto-spell-correct changes cranery to cranberry. How about >> “cranefield” for where a large group feeds? >> > - - Dave Nutter >> > >> >> On Oct 26, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Chris R. Pelkie <chris.pel...@cornell.edu> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Nice. Is ‘cranery’ a word yet? Maybe we should start pushing it! >> Oxford Dictionary, here we come! >> >> ______________________ >> >> >> >> Chris Pelkie >> >> Information/Data Manager; IT Support >> >> Bioacoustics Research Program >> >> Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> >> 159 Sapsucker Woods Road >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=159+Sapsucker+Woods+Road+%0D+%3E%3E+Ithaca,+NY+14850&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> Ithaca, NY 14850 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=159+Sapsucker+Woods+Road+%0D+%3E%3E+Ithaca,+NY+14850&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/ >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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! >> > -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: Flock of cormorants >> From: Nancy Cusumano <nancycusuman...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:46:49 -0400 >> X-Message-Number: 8 >> >> This morning about 9:45 as I was driving Rt 89 along Cass Park, there were >> probably 100+ double crested cormorants in two big flocks. I don't think >> I'd every seen flocks of cormorants before. It seemed like they were >> getting ready to head in a southerly direction. >> The flock was very messy, not at all like a goose flock. From a distance I >> thought they were crows but when I got under I was able to ID better. >> >> Always interesting to see new things on my everyday drive. >> >> Nancy >> >> Cayuga Dog Rescue has saved more than 575! dogs since 2005! >> Learn more at cayugadogrescue.org >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Subject: OT: Farm pond fish needed to feed osprey >> From: Candace Cornell <cec...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:37:23 -0400 >> X-Message-Number: 9 >> >> Does anyone have a farm pond with bass or sunfish? Would you mind if a >> handful of fishermen thinned it out a bit in the next week or so? We are >> urgently collecting fish to freeze and feed to a rehabilitated osprey over >> the winter. It will take hundreds of pounds of fish to insure it survives >> and we’re well on our way. Plus, thinning is good for your pond’s >> ecosystem. The colder the weather gets, however, the harder it is to fish, >> so please reply quickly. >> >> >> >> Many thanks for your kindness and help keeping this osprey (Ms. K) alive. >> >> >> >> Eyes to the sky! >> >> Candace >> >> >> >> --- >> >> END OF DIGEST >> >> -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > > > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- asher -- 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/ --
