[cayugabirds-l] Western Tanager still there?

[Donna Lee Scott]

Please post to list if you have seen the Western Tanager at Day Hall/Cornell 
Store today (3/16/16) or yesterday.
A friend from Syracuse wants to come see it.

Thanks,
Donna

Donna L. Scott
535 Lansing Station Road
Lansing


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Fields

[Geo Kloppel]

An additional wrinkle that may affect a rural homeowner's plans to keep an 
abandoned field open through infrequent mowing is that certain shrub and tree 
species respond very aggressively to cutting, and in a single season can put up 
enough new woody growth to overwhelm the available machinery, forcing you to 
resort to chainsaws and treat stumps with herbicides. If you've already got 
species like black locust or autumn olive present, you could be setting 
yourself up for a real struggle.

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RE:[cayugabirds-l] Western Tanager still there?

[Laura J. Heisey]

I saw it alongside Day Hall on its usual window sill and on the ground below at 
7:40 this morning.

From: bounce-120277227-68441...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-120277227-68441...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Lee Scott
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 2:46 PM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Western Tanager still there?

Please post to list if you have seen the Western Tanager at Day Hall/Cornell 
Store today (3/16/16) or yesterday.
A friend from Syracuse wants to come see it.

Thanks,
Donna

Donna L. Scott
535 Lansing Station Road
Lansing

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[cayugabirds-l] Volunteer Flier.pdf

[Linda Orkin (via Google Drive)]

I've shared an item with you:

Volunteer Flier.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_sdGQy0CnzAT0Vubi1FNkROSi1CMkRZQTN5T0w3STB0OWxV/view?usp=sharing=CJqRu28=56eb0f73

It's not an attachment -- it's stored online. To open this item, just click  
the link above.

Some of you may be interested in this program.  Contact Lisa Kopp as noted.

Linda

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Western tanager still here

[Alicia Plotkin]

Thanks to Liisa, at 10:25 this morning I was able to spot him in the two 
smallish trees just west of the benches in Wee Stinky Glen.  He was 
eating some of the dessicated fruit in one tree (crab apple?), then went 
down to the water to get a drink, then flew back up and spent quite 
awhile in the tree with small yellow flowers (cornellian cherry?) 
preening and sunning himself.  When he isn't moving, he can be 
surprisingly hard to spot - only his breast is brightly colored - but he 
is completely lovely!


Thanks also to Vanessa Ng who posted such a great description of the 
pattern of his movements a week or two ago - he must have read her post, 
he followed it to a 'T'.


Alicia

On 3/17/2016 12:50 PM, Liisa S. Mobley wrote:

At 10:15 am, the bird was sitting in the little tree in the courtyard by the 
back entrance to the Cornell store, in the sunshine.  I seem to find him most 
often in sunny areas; I don't know if he's just easier to spot, as the yellow 
feathers glow more brightly, or if he likes to sun himself.
-Liisa




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[cayugabirds-l] Stewart park this afternoon

[Meena Madhav Haribal]

Hi all,

I wanted to test a lens, so I went to Stewart park in search of subjects.  I 
did find lots of gulls to photograph. But the highlight was three adult Lesser 
Black-backed gulls. Each of them could be distinguished by the amount of black 
on the red spot of their beaks. Two of them were close by and the third one was 
standing separately. In hurry, in anticipation of photography, I forgot even to 
take my binoculars. But the gulls were close enough to the shore and I could 
see their legs clearly through my camera.


I  saw a pair of Common and Hooded mergansers on the Fall Creek.  Also a pair 
of Green-winged Teals that flew across Fall creek.


Near Willow street on route 13 there was a single Tree Swallow floating around!


Cheers

Meena


Meena Haribal
Ithaca NY 14850
42.429007,-76.47111
http://www.haribal.org/
http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts
Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf




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[cayugabirds-l] Quiet Ravens

[Geo Kloppel]

The Tupper Road Ravens seem to have gone quiet, perhaps indicating that 
incubation is underway?

-Geo
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[cayugabirds-l] Western tanager present

[Michael O. Engle]

Near the base of the east wall outside the usual Campus Store entrance at 3pm.

Michael Engle
Reference/Instruction/Collection Development 
106 Olin Library
Cornell University

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] Fields

[John Confer]

I have published over a dozen 10 professional articles on shrublands, including 
extensive surveys of birds nesting in different stages of early succession from 
abandoned field up to sapling forest. I have had several grants about 
management for Golden-winged Warblers and I am going to a conference on 
shrubland management for GW this weekend. This is my thing.


I'll try to be brief. There is no one-stage-of-succession or 
frequency-of-mowing that is best for all bird species. Some species like fields 
with practically no woody stems and others like over 75% cover by woody plants 
(Confer, J. L. and S. M. Pascoe. 2003. “The avian community on utility 
rights-of-ways and other managed shrublands in northeastern United States”. 
Forest Ecology and Management  85:193-206.). Hay fields might best be mowed in 
mid-July allowing second broods of, e.g,  meadowlark and bobolinks, a chance to 
fledge and allowing grasses to produce seed heads that might feed winter birds, 
or even mice and then raptors. My surveys in the Finger Lakes National Forest 
showed that maximum diversity of shrubland birds is probably obtained at about 
50% cover by vegetation growing from woody stems. Mowing a field cuts woody 
stems, but usually does not kill them. This leads to regrowth from the 
established roots of woody stems making the field gradually more woody, and 
less herbaceous. In time, perhaps 20 years, a repeatedly mowed field is all 
woody stems. At this point an occasional plowing that allows reestablishment of 
herbaceous plants is good. There are some grassland species that won't nest 
unless the acreage is really large. On the other hand, there are some shrubland 
species that use or even like or require forest edge and 5 acres is quite fine, 
depending on the vegetation growing on the perimeter.


John Confer





From: bounce-120273450-25065...@list.cornell.edu 
 on behalf of Michele Emerick Brown 

Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 4:14 PM
To: Michael O. Engle; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Fields


The mowing information/resource is very interesting. It seems to be directed to 
people with 15 acres or more. I have a 5 acre field that used to be in hay, but 
which is slowly going to scrub (right now it’s mainly goldenrod) because we 
stopped having it cut. Could someone direct me to information to help me figure 
out what would be best for birds? Should I get it cut, leave it alone, plant it 
with something else? I think Red-winged blackbirds usually nest in it.



I live out in Caroline so there are a lot of other fields being rotated between 
corn and hay.



Thanks,

Michele



From: bounce-120268837-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-120268837-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Michael O. Engle
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 4:03 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: RE:[cayugabirds-l] help determining the time to mow fields



I’m fine with the discussion taking place on the list. I think it would be 
good, in the end, if one person could work directly with the livestock guy I 
talked with to advise/train/support him over time. It’s certainly a useful kind 
of knowledge for livestock producers who manage fields for hay. I wonder if the 
county extension folks are a useful resource to help out and provide support 
with this topic.



Michael



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Michael Engle,

Reference and Instruction Librarian

Selector, Olin/Uris Reference and Anglo-American News

106 Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: m...@cornell.edu; Telephone: (607) 255-1884



From: Donna Lee Scott
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 3:39 PM
To: Michael O. Engle >; CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>
Subject: RE: help determining the time to mow fields



While I can understand why Michael wants to keep the conversation with the 
livestock person off the list, I think it would benefit many of us if we knew 
what are the recommendations are for when is the best time to mow hay or grass 
fields with regard to protecting nesting grassland birds and their offspring.



I would like this information to be posted on the list.

I often toy with the idea of trying to convince some local landowners here in 
Lansing to mow large grass expanses in later summer, but I don’t know what the 
cut-off date is.



Donna L. Scott

Lansing Station Road

Lansing, NY



From: 
bounce-120268126-15001...@list.cornell.edu
 [mailto:bounce-120268126-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Michael O. 
Engle
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:24 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] help determining the time to mow fields



Hi,



I had a chat with a local livestock 

[cayugabirds-l] Spring birds around Savannah

[M Miller]

S is for Spring - and for Swans (Trumpeter), Shovelers, Sandhill Cranes, 
Swallows (Tree), Song Sparrows, & Savannah Sparrow. All were seen around 
Savannah (Carncross & Armitage Rds) along with GW Teal, Wood Ducks, N. Pintail, 
A. Wigeon, Gadwall, Ring-necked, Canvasback, Mallards, & Black Ducks.


Mark Miller






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[cayugabirds-l] OOB meadowlark

[David Diaz]

Out of basin but I was excited to see a eastern meadowlark singing in the grass 
at Lamoreaux Landing Wine Cellars (Lodi, NY).

David Diaz
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[cayugabirds-l] Rough-leg

[Geo Kloppel]

Helpless to resist today's cumulus-studded sky, I took my lunch out in the yard 
with scope from 12:30 to 1:45, hoping a few raptors would be migrating across 
the strong west wind.  My entire tally: 1 Rough-legged Hawk

-Geo Kloppel
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Western tanager still here

[Donna Lee Scott]

At 4 PM yesterday (thur.) Dave Fitch (from Liverpool) and I found the WESTERN 
TANAGER in a tall Wee Stinky Glen tree close to the sidewalk that runs between 
the creek and the berm over the campus store. It was eating a lot of dull 
orange dried fruit in the tree. I don't think that tall a tree could be a crab 
apple, so I don't know what kind of tree it is. (But I am no tree expert).
I agree with Alicia, that the bird is hard to spot and ID when he is sitting 
still.
We got good looks by standing on top of the berm over the underground Cornell 
Store.

Donna Scott
Lansing


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[mailto:bounce-120282457-15001...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Alicia Plotkin
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 8:57 PM
To: Liisa S. Mobley ; CAYUGABIRDS-L 

Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Western tanager still here

Thanks to Liisa, at 10:25 this morning I was able to spot him in the two 
smallish trees just west of the benches in Wee Stinky Glen.  He was eating some 
of the dessicated fruit in one tree (crab apple?), then went down to the water 
to get a drink, then flew back up and spent quite awhile in the tree with small 
yellow flowers (cornellian cherry?) preening and sunning himself.  When he 
isn't moving, he can be surprisingly hard to spot - only his breast is brightly 
colored - but he is completely lovely!

Thanks also to Vanessa Ng who posted such a great description of the pattern of 
his movements a week or two ago - he must have read her post, he followed it to 
a 'T'.

Alicia

On 3/17/2016 12:50 PM, Liisa S. Mobley wrote:
> At 10:15 am, the bird was sitting in the little tree in the courtyard by the 
> back entrance to the Cornell store, in the sunshine.  I seem to find him most 
> often in sunny areas; I don't know if he's just easier to spot, as the yellow 
> feathers glow more brightly, or if he likes to sun himself.
> -Liisa
>


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