[cayugabirds-l] Ospreys, wren

[Dave Nutter]

Following up on an Osprey report from Stewart Park today I bike there on the 
Cayuga Waterfront Trail. On my way, looking across Cayuga Inlet towards Union 
Fields in Cass Park, I saw that the nest platform atop one of the light poles 
had a new profile: an Osprey was standing in the middle of the nest. 

As I neared the end of Pier Road and was about to cross the suspension bridges 
to Renwick Wildwood and Stewart Park, I saw a large bird flying away northwest 
at tree top height. It was another Osprey who broke a branch off a tree, 
turned, flew to the platform not far from me, and added it to the pile of 
sticks. I'm not sure it can be called a nest yet because I think the previous 
sticks were put there by people as a starter. I don't recall that nest being 
used by Ospreys before. 

In other nesting news, this morning on Ithaca's West Hill I saw a Carolina Wren 
carrying a green strand of what looked like moss. I assume its nest is ready 
for a lining. 

--Dave Nutter
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[cayugabirds-l] Monday Night Seminar: A World of Sound with Juan Pablo Culasso

[Marc Devokaitis]

Hi Everyone:

Please join us for the next Monday Night Seminar, on April 3rd. As always,
the seminars are held in the auditorium at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology,
and are free and open to the public. The doors open at 7:00,

We will be streaming this seminar live. Bookmark
http://dl.allaboutbirds.org/cornelllab-monday-night-seminars for quick
access on Monday evening.  Hope to see you there!

-Marc





*Monday, April 3*

*7:30pm*



*Juan Pablo Culasso*

*A World of Sound*



A blind birdwatcher from Uruguay proves you don’t need sight to see.
Through the sounds of nature he is able to envision the world that
surrounds him. Juan Pablo Culasso is one of the best birdwatchers in the
Americas by using his ears, not his eyes. He was born blind and as a child
learned to identify the feathered creatures by their voices. As an adult,
his career is recording the sounds of nature. Last year, he had the
opportunity, as a guest of the Uruguayan government, to travel to
Antarctica to learn the landscape of the world’s last wilderness through
its sounds. Join us to hear from Juan Pablo about his travels to this
remote place and what he discovered there.



*You can watch any of our past live-streamed seminars via the free video
seminar archive  on our website.*







Upcoming Monday Night Seminars:

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May 1, 2017

Dr. Christine Sheppard, Bird Collisions Campaign Manager, American Bird
Conservancy



*Bird Mortality From Collisions With Glass: What we’ve learned, what we
need to know, what you can do*



You probably think that you can see glass – but long ago, you learned a
concept – glass is an invisible barrier or reflective illusion – that birds
never understand. As many as a billion birds die each year in the U.S.,
nearly half of them on home windows. In the last decade, many scientists
have contributed pieces to the puzzle of how birds really see the world.
This has established a basis for developing new solutions for existing
glass, as well as materials and design strategies for creating new,
bird-friendly buildings. Most architects, urban planners – most people –
don’t understand why birds are important and how big the collisions problem
is. Virtually everyone has seen or heard a bird hit glass, but think of it
as a rare occurrence. Dr. Christine Sheppard will discuss the tools we have
to solve the problem and the big job ahead getting those solutions
implemented. However, this is one conservation issue where individuals can
take immediate action and see immediate results.











Marc Devokaitis

Cornell Lab of Ornitology

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[cayugabirds-l] meeting re Dodge/Dryden solar project 4/4 7 PM

[Donna Lee Scott]

Notice of meeting regarding proposed solar installation at Dryden and Dodge & 
Stevenson Roads: Tuesday, April 4 at 7 PM, at Lansing Community Library, 29 
Auburn Rd. (Rts. 34/34B) in South Lansing. Lower level large meeting room, 
enter west side, ground level off parking lot. Library is older brick bldg. in 
front of newer Town Hall.

My neighbor, Bert Bland, Director of Cornell's Environmental Health, is the 
Cornell U. contact for this project and offered to help set up an information 
meeting for birders and others interested in finding out more about this work. 
Bharath Srinivasan, who runs the development group at Distributed Sun - the 
firm proposing the solar arrays in Dryden, and others will be present to 
provide info and to ask for any input and concerns people have.

Mr. Srinivasan provided this description of the proposed projects:

The proposed Ellis Tract community solar project includes leasing approximately 
110 acres of Cornell land in the Town of Dryden, currently managed by the 
Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine for agricultural research to a 
developer (SUN8) for the purpose of constructing three community-scale solar 
farms to generate power for sale to local residents through the new NYS 
Community Distribution Generation program. The project locations include 9MW on 
the Ellis Tract north of Stevenson Rd, 5MW on Dodge Rd, and 4MW on Turkey Hill 
Rd south of Stevenson Rd. As part of the project costs, multi-million dollar 
upgrades will be made to several miles of the local distribution grid.

The projects proposed do not anticipate grading, using concrete or any other 
chemicals to construct or operate. The projects will have corridors for 
wild-life along the fencing to allow for easy movement between one-side to 
another. The arrays will be screened from neighboring properties using native 
plantings (eg. Along Dodge Road and Turkey Hill Road). The projects are 
expected to bring discounts to energy purchasers and incremental property tax 
revenue to Tompkins County, Town of Dryden and the Dryden Central School 
District, while generating clean, carbon-free electricity.

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Donna

Donna L. Scott
Lansing Station Road
Lansing, NY
d...@cornell.edu


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