>> On May 22, 2021, at 4:02 PM, Maryfaith Miller <merrymilkm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Outside of Cayuga basin, but I had a black billed cuckoo at Lime Hollow >> Nature Center on Wednesday. >> Good birding! >> Maryfaith
Three points: First, the CayugaBirds-L list serve is about birds in the general area. Second, I think most of Lime Hollow is within the Cayuga Basin, draining via Beaver Creek to join Fall Creek near Malloryville, although Stupke Pond is outside the basin, draining via Otter Creek to the Tioghnioga River. Third, many interesting birding areas are in wetlands that formed in saddles at the edge of the Cayuga Basin, and part of the challenge of listing within the Basin is that many of those spots are just outside, in the part of the saddle that drains away from Cayuga Lake: Hile School Rd wetland is at the headwaters of the Owasco Inlet. Just beyond the headwaters of Fall Creek, Bear Swamp Creek drains north to Skaneateles Lake. Goetchius is not far from Six-mile Creek, but it drains east and south into Owego Creek West Branch. Shindagin Hollow, Ridgeway Rd, & Steam Mill Fen all drain south to Catatonk Creek and Owego. Just beyond Jennings Pond, which is the headwaters of Buttermilk Creek, nearly all of Michigan Hollow and its wetlands also drain south. That’s why great birds found in those places don’t end up on the annual Cayuga Basin First Records list that I keep. There are plenty of great places within the Basin, too, of course. My advice is to choose whatever interesting place is closest, where you can spend the most time and get to know its birds. - - Dave Nutter P.S. The north end of the Cayuga Basin, as defined in a 1926 botany textbook, is a bit more complex, and I won’t go into it now. -- 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/ --