Re: [cayugabirds-l] Eaton Marsh
I agree with Judy. It's nice to know of the contributions of Professor Eaton and it gives meaning to the name change. Sent from my iPad On Nov 13, 2014, at 7:04 AM, Judith Thurber jathur...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you so much for writing this for those of us who did not know of this amazing man's contributions! I found it most enlightening and had wondered about the reason for the change from the first mention of it in Montezuma NWR posts. Judy Thurber Liverpool Sent from my iPad On Nov 12, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Charlie Rouse caro...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Hi All, Recently, at Montezuma NWR, what used to be known as Shorebird Flats was dedicated in memory of Elon Howard Eaton, and is now known as Eaton Marsh. To familiarize the subscribers to Cayugabirds as to who Eaton was, I have included a short biography below. Professor Eaton truly was a pioneer figure in the ornithological history of New York State and well deserves the posthumous recognition. Charlie Rouse Secretary, Eaton Birding Society - Elon Howard Eaton Elon Howard Eaton was born in Springville, New York, on October 8, 1866. He spent his early years there enjoying the outdoors, which was the basis for his life’s work. He was graduated with an B.A. degree from the University of Rochester in 1890, having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received an M.A. degree in 1893. While still an undergraduate he was an instructor of science at the Canandaigua Union School, and after graduation returned there as vice-principal and science instructor until 1895. From then until 1907, he was a Master of Science at the Bradstreet School in Rochester. During this time he was working on his first book, Birds of Western New York, which was published in 1901. Professor Eaton joined the faculty at Hobart William Smith colleges in 1908 and taught for 26 years. He established and was head of the biology department, teaching classes in biology, ornithology and physiology, among others. From 1908 to 1914, he served as State Ornithologist for the New York Museum and acted as Curator. It was at that time where he was selected to write Birds of New York. (Volume I, 1910; Volume II, 1914). This two volume treatise was the first complete study of birds of Northeastern North America, and is still considered the standard authority. Professor Eaton was instrumental in the establishment of Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, and for many years tried in vain to save Potter Swamp in Yates County- ultimately succumbing to the advancement of agriculture. In its day, Potter Swamp was a place where Big Day counts would exceed of 150 species. Much of Professor Eaton’s time was spent in original research in ornithology, ecology, genetics, migration and conservation. He presented papers on his investigations before the American Ornithologist Union - and in 1927 was selected to head the Biological Survey of the Finger Lakes. His prodigious efforts set a standard for work of this sort, being recognized as the most complete investigation of its kind ever conducted. A short time later he was appointed to the Advisory Council of the New York State Conservation Department, where he helped formulate policy. Accolades to Professor Eaton include: Two honorary degrees from the University of Rochester. M. Sc. degree in 1911 - and a D.Sc. degree in 1925. Naming of the H WS Colleges science building Eaton Hall in his honor in 1961, and was the Inaugural Recipient of the HWS Distinguished Faculty Award in 1992. In 1932, a group of ardent birders in the Geneva area established the Geneva Bird Club under the guidance of Professor Eaton, and upon his death, renamed the club the Eaton Birding Society in his honor. Professor Eaton died at home in Geneva on March 27, 1934. -- 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! -- -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Monday Night Seminar: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin
Hello all, Please join us at *7:30 on November 17th* for the next Monday Night Seminar--featuring Cayuga Bird Club member and wildlife photographer extraordinaire Marie Read. As always, these seminars are free and open to the public. The doors open at 7:00. This coming Monday, we will be streaming the seminar live. Be sure to bookmark http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars for quick access on Monday evening. And if you missed them, you can also watch the archived versions http://blog.allaboutbirds.org/2014/02/28/our-free-viewable-archive-of-livestreamed-seminars/ of the previous live-streamed lectures. Hope to see you there, Marc *Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin (seminar and book signing)* *Speaker: Marie Read, photographer* *Host: Miyoko Chu* Nationally known bird photographer Marie Read takes us on a journey exploring the birdlife of Mono Lake and its surrounding basin, located in California¹s Eastern Sierra. Marie’s stunning photography, now featured in her newly released book Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin, reveals the fascinating lives of the birds that breed or migrate through this spectacular birding hotspot, famous for bizarre tufa towers and highly saline and alkaline water. Enjoy Read's stories from the field and learn how she obtained some of the behavior and action shots in the book. Books will be available for purchase and signing. *UPCOMING MONDAY NIGHT SEMINARS:* *December 08* *Enchanting Bolivia Lake Titicaca* *Cayuga Bird Club Meeting* *Speaker: Meena Haribal, naturalist* Cayuga Bird Club members Kathy Strickland and Meena Haribal traveled to Bolivia in December 2013 to visit Lake Titicaca and other locations such as the Amazonas, Andes and Zongo regions, in search of birds, butterflies, and plants. Meena will talk about their trip, using slides and sounds to show the creatures they found. Meena photographed more than 100 species of butterflies and several species of birds and recorded hours of sound. She will share the best of this material to whet your appetite for travel to Bolivia. -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Avocet MNWR
Avocet still at Eaton Marsh despite snow -- 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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Golden-crowned Kinglet
I was out trying to photograph wild turkeys in a friends woods just south of Corning. Among the small birds was a golden-crowned kinglet. It was so close, 3 feet, that I could not focus on it. I watched it probe the small branches on the hemlock I was next to. I heard a few seep voices above, so I suspect there was at least on other. Isn't this very late to be seeing these? No luck on the turkeys, so this softened my disappointment on the turkeys. Paul Schmitt -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Golden-crowned Kinglet
I often get them on the Xmas bird count. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Paul Schmitt pschmi...@gmail.com wrote: I was out trying to photograph wild turkeys in a friends woods just south of Corning. Among the small birds was a golden-crowned kinglet. It was so close, 3 feet, that I could not focus on it. I watched it probe the small branches on the hemlock I was next to. I heard a few seep voices above, so I suspect there was at least on other. Isn't this very late to be seeing these? No luck on the turkeys, so this softened my disappointment on the turkeys. Paul Schmitt -- *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/ --
[cayugabirds-l] C Loons on lake
Approximately 150 COMMON LOONS up down, offshore, in Cayuga Lake off Lansing Station Rd in Lansing, many nearer west shore. Accompanied by several gulls trying to steal food. Also 10 BLACK DUCKS, 5 MALLARDS 1 HORNED GREBE that was close to my beach for a good look. At least 1 FOX SPARROW still in front yard under spruce tree along with 8 Juncos, 4 BLUE JAYS 4 A. CROWS. One Crow had white areas on rear part of folded wings, rather as if its feathers had been scraped down to structures underneath the black parts. Donna Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] C Loons on lake
Loons, ducks, grebe, etc. all wonderful! But about that crow: I suspect from your description that it has crow droppings smeared down its primaries, acquired as it perched directly below another crow in a communal roost. I get reports during the winter of tagged crows, always seen with white tags. When there are pictures, it is always a smear of feces. Kids, don't walk under a roost at home. On Nov 13, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Donna Scott wrote: Approximately 150 COMMON LOONS up down, offshore, in Cayuga Lake off Lansing Station Rd in Lansing, many nearer west shore. Accompanied by several gulls trying to steal food. Also 10 BLACK DUCKS, 5 MALLARDS 1 HORNED GREBE that was close to my beach for a good look. At least 1 FOX SPARROW still in front yard under spruce tree along with 8 Juncos, 4 BLUE JAYS 4 A. CROWS. One Crow had white areas on rear part of folded wings, rather as if its feathers had been scraped down to structures underneath the black parts. Donna Sent from my iPhone Donna Scott -- 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/ -- -- 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/ --
