Re: [cayugabirds-l] Birds singing!!

2013-02-05 Thread Linda Orkin 
Well I heard a junco singing today.  It jolted my listening brain awake more so 
than the Titmice have. 

And by the way, the forecast is for quite a warm March. 

Happy Hearing. 

Linda. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 5, 2013, at 7:28 PM, "W. Larry Hymes"  wrote:

> The birds around our place were quite vocal this morning.  Two cardinals were 
> doing a little dueling, and the house finches were singing, as well as a 
> titmouse.  If this portends an earlier spring, please let it be a very 
> gradual warm up.   We certainly don't want a repeat of the unusually warm 
> weather of last March, which resulted in devastation of the apple and cherry 
> crops from the very cold nights that occurred after the trees had blossomed.
> 
> On another note, in response to Bill McAneny's query about junco numbers,  we 
> have had 20+ all winter, and on occasion have topped 30.  We always have good 
> numbers of juncos, but this year has been higher than normal.  We use to 
> "salt" the yard with mixed seed, but this year at our son's suggestion we 
> switched to white millet.  Before this, every time we would throw out mixed 
> seed the deer would come along and lap up most of it.  They don't have much 
> success gleaning the tiny white millet seed, thus leaving most for the juncos 
> and other ground-feeding species.
> 
> Larry
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[cayugabirds-l] Birds singing!!

2013-02-05 Thread W. Larry Hymes 
The birds around our place were quite vocal this morning.  Two cardinals 
were doing a little dueling, and the house finches were singing, as well 
as a titmouse.  If this portends an earlier spring, please let it be a 
very gradual warm up.   We certainly don't want a repeat of the 
unusually warm weather of last March, which resulted in devastation of 
the apple and cherry crops from the very cold nights that occurred after 
the trees had blossomed.


On another note, in response to Bill McAneny's query about junco 
numbers,  we have had 20+ all winter, and on occasion have topped 30.  
We always have good numbers of juncos, but this year has been higher 
than normal.  We use to "salt" the yard with mixed seed, but this year 
at our son's suggestion we switched to white millet.  Before this, every 
time we would throw out mixed seed the deer would come along and lap up 
most of it.  They don't have much success gleaning the tiny white millet 
seed, thus leaving most for the juncos and other ground-feeding species.


Larry

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[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club February Newsletter

2013-02-05 Thread Linda Orkin 
Hello All,

I invite you to peruse our most current edition of the Cayuga Bird Club
Newsletter, for those of you who are not members and may be missing out..
Cyndy and Richard Tkachuck do a great job with this. I especially enjoy the
member profile, this month featuring Carl Steckler.

Enjoy

http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/newsletters

Best
Linda Orkin
President, Cayuga Bird Club



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[cayugabirds-l] Words and Birds lecture

2013-02-05 Thread Michele Mannella 
Some of you may be interested in this upcoming lecture. More details will
be available on the English department website [www.arts.cornell.edu/english]
closer to the event.

 "Les mots et les oiseaux, or Words and Birds: A Natural History of
Poetics"

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 4:30pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium 232 East Ave, Central
Campus

Lawrence Lipking (Professor Emeritus of English, Northwestern University)
is at Cornell this semester as the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting
Professor. He will lecture on the words attributed to birds in poetry and
the work of Michel Foucault.

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Michele Mannella, Graduate Programs Coordinator
Department of English
Cornell University  |  250 Goldwin Smith Hall  |  Ithaca, NY 14853

Office hours:
Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Ph: 607-255-7989
www.arts.cornell.edu/english
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] British bird watchers

2013-02-05 Thread Robin Cisne 
That manly crowd makes me wonder:  if the British have a problem with
football hooligans, are there also birder hooligans?

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:22 AM, John and Fritzie Blizzard <
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> Looks pretty much like a man's world. Must have pretty tolerant employers!!
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> Fritzie
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> *From:* Tobias Dean 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:10 AM
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[cayugabirds-l] Cooper's Hawk meal

2013-02-05 Thread Donna Scott 
My resident Cooper's Hawk just nailed one of my two White Breasted Nuthatches, 
which made me sad for the pair.
A squirrel soon after ran up a branch and approached the hawk, who was busy 
plucking feathers from the Nuthatch body, so the hawk flew off across the road.

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535 Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY 14882
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[cayugabirds-l] sick dead birds?

2013-02-05 Thread Kimberly Bostwick 
Hi Folks, 

One follow-up to the long "dead bird" post about handling dead birds.  We 
rarely know for certain the cause of death for wild birds, or more 
specifically, we can't know if the bird was sick and that made it more 
vulnerable to being caught by a cat, hit by a car, or dying of exposure, 
whatever.  This raises two considerations:

1) Your health: For you own safety assume any dead bird you find may have been 
sick and/or carrying germs of some sort, and treat it accordingly.  (While 
there are a relatively small number of diseases that can pass between birds and 
mammals, there are a handful that can, especially if you are 
immuno-compromised. ) So, for starters, think about how in the kitchen you 
handle all raw chicken as if it has salmonella.  Do the same.  Don't mix 
handling dead birds with drinking, eating, rubbing your eyes or picking your 
nose (I know none of you pick your nose by my son does).  Don't overhandle the 
bird or let it lounge around in your personal space.  Pick it up, bag it, store 
it, wash hands.  If you have reason to think your immune system is compromised 
(pregnant, older, younger, mono) and you are worried, you can just leave it be 
(more then 99.9% of all dead things never make it into a museum 
collections and that is ok too) .  Basic precautions and hand-washing after 
handling should be sufficient.

2) Other bird's health: More likely, if a bird is sick, it could spread disease 
to other birds. I assumed in my post that whoever is salvaging a dead bird is 
not turning around and handling other birds (like mist-netting other birds, 
playing with a pet parrot at home, or snuggling with the family chicken).  If 
this is not true, again, assume the wild bird you handled may have had some 
virus or bacteria that you'd rather not spread to your avian friends (or food), 
and make sure to use standard cleanliness practices.

Gloves never hurt, but most people do not have a pair of rubber gloves hanging 
around for this purpose.

Cheers, 
Kim 


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[cayugabirds-l] British bird watchers

2013-02-05 Thread John and Fritzie Blizzard 
Looks pretty much like a man's world. Must have pretty tolerant employers!!

Fritzie

From: Tobias Dean 
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:10 AM
I found this picture 
amusing.http://www.surfbirds.com/media/Photos/appletonmurrecrowdlarge.jpg


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[cayugabirds-l] British bird watchers

2013-02-05 Thread Tobias Dean 
I found this picture amusing.

they are watching a long-billed murrelet

http://www.surfbirds.com/media/Photos/appletonmurrecrowdlarge.jpg


 could we muster this many at once on Cayuga Lake?

Toby Dean

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