That’s the spirit we’re after! Martha
Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Karen <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2025 6:32:29 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <[email protected]>; Marie P. Read <[email protected]> Cc: Nicholas J. Vail <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] There is hope! (Milkweeds and mowing) I, too, walk that path, although no where near as fre3quently as Marie. I have noted an exceptional concentration of American Kestrel along that route, occasionally up to 14 birds. They are eating grasshoppers. The grasshoppers are growing on the roadside grasses that are not cut. My sentiments, exactly. John Confer On Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 02:20:26 PM EDT, Marie P. Read <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Cayugabirders, My almost daily walks take me up Mt Pleasant Rd, Ithaca/Dryden, and along the dirt road toward the communication towers. Recently I've been enjoying checking out the numerous small milkweed plants along the dirt road for signs of Monarch caterpillars (found a few) and watching the few Monarch adults flitting about. But in the last couple of days the roadsides up here are being mowed, so I was in a royal snit yesterday since it looked from a distance that the dirt road edges had been mowed along with that precious caterpillar nursery. Today I took a closer look, though, and to my delight the mower had studiously avoided mowing the milkweeds, instead swerving in and out to mow just the grass! That's a wonderful surprise and evidence that someone has a heart and maybe there is a glimmer of hope for the natural world. THANK YOU to whoever that thoughtful and caring mower was. Marie Marie Read 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA http://www.marieread.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> ABA<https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> ABA<https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
