Anyone have favorite accommodations or recommendations for birding on block
island? Much appreciated.
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> On Aug 17, 2017, at 12:05 AM, Upstate NY Birding digest
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> CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Thursday, August 17, 2017.
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> 1. When to stop feeding hummers AND Orioles
I watched an interesting sequence around 7 am and got some of it in some really
bad pictures. For Basin lovers, all birds in question also use the part of Ed
Hill Road that is within the Basin. Indeed the Kestrel may be one of the young
ones raised in house eaves on Ed Hill Road, and if not, a
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for Migration Celebration!
Migration Celebration at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Saturday, September 16
Join our team of volunteers in the week before the event and from 9:00 am -
4:00 pm on Saturday.
Jobs include:
* Delivering fliers (week before the event)
* Event set-up
Like at Myers, Caspian Terns are hanging out on the mud bars and driftwood at
the mouth of Owasco Inlet, as Patricia and I found while kayaking in the swamps
yesterday evening.
Saw an adult Smooth Green Snake in our yard this afternoon. They've been
breeding here for some years, but we don't se
Today, I rescued a little Garter Snake from the middle of my road. It was
having a rather hard time moving on the smooth surface. Lucky I did. Right
after that, several cars and trucks went by.
Yesterday, I found two tiny red efts dead in different parts of the road. Tsk.
After I helped the sna
I respect that you obviously have much more experience and knowledge in this
area, and that maybe in the long term it is good and necessary, and everything
will be alright. But, this is a huge project that over the 10 years will
greatly change the experience of this 11, 237 acres of land. The S