Re: [cayugabirds-l] Muckrace 2022
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 21, 2022, at 10:15 AM, Mike Henry wrote: > > > Is there a reason the muckrace couldn't have been scheduled for the weekend > before the early deer season opened? > > >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022, 10:51 PM wrote: >> The 25th annual Montezuma Muckrace is scheduled for September 9-10th, >> 7pm-7pm. >> >> The Muckrace is a 24 hour birding event in which teams (or individuals) >> search the Montezuma Wetlands Complex trying to see or hear as many species >> as possible. The event is also a fundraiser for the Friends of the Montezuma >> Wetlands Complex. 2021 brought out 35 teams which totaled 187 species seen >> and/or heard and raised over $12,000! >> >> Money raised goes towards bird conservation, wildlife habitat improvement >> and public access in the Montezuma Wetlands complex. Teams pay a >> registration fee and gather donations and/or sponsorships for this >> fundraiser. There are several categories under which a team can register >> including; Competitive, Recreational, Low-Carbon, Family/Mentor, and Photo. >> >> T-shirts will be available for $12 per team member and a pizza dinner >> following the event is included in the registration fee. During the dinner a >> wrap-up of the event will be presented and teams can share their experiences >> and highlights. Camping will also be available at the Montezuma Audubon >> Center in Savannah for Friday night. >> >> Please visit https://friendsofmontezuma.org/projects-programs/muckrace/ for >> information on past Muckrace events and where you’ll be able to register >> your team for this year’s event!. >> >> (Once again there will be an early gun season for deer with opening day on >> 9/9. Hunters were sparse last year but wearing blaze orange is advised, >> especially on Howland Island.) >> >> -- >> 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] Prothonotary
A male prothonotary warbler was checking out the re-installed nestbox on the Wayne co. side of Armitage Rd early this afternoon. Unfortunately the wooded swamp continues to drain however. Also had some warblers including cerulean & blue-winged & a Northern waterthrush on Howland Island (along w/several ticks). Overall pretty quiet there though. Kyle Gage Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Geese on other lakes?
I live on Canandaigua Lake & we can get flocks of several thousand & in fact a sizable flock was around most of this winter. Seneca Lake can also have decent numbers but neither lake has the incredible numbers Cayuga Lake gets. I’m not sure of numbers on the other Finger Lakes but eBird records would give an idea. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 12, 2021, at 12:52 PM, Laura Stenzler wrote: > > Do the other Finger Lakes also attract large numbers of snow geese? > > Laura > > Laura Stenzler > l...@cornell.edu > > -- > > 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Diving Mallard Video
I remember watching mallards diving at a park or water treatment plant in Cortland back in the 1980’s. Water was crystal clear & they would go to the bottom about 10’-15’ down. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 6, 2021, at 8:04 AM, Peter Saracino wrote: > > > Interesting Dave > I wonder how deep the water IS there. Also do you have a sense from your > experience as to how long they can stay under? > Pete Sar > >> On Sat, Mar 6, 2021, 7:30 AM Dave K wrote: >> I've seen Mallards diving along the Cayuga Lake SP shore this season, maybe >> more than usual, maybe not. >> Yesterday I had a chance to watch one diving at Oak Island in Waterloo. >> The Mallard flock gathers around a Hen with a visible, bright speculum (top >> left of video) that is diving for food. >> If diving is a learned behavior the 100 other Mallards aren't getting it and >> she's the only one eating. >> The melee continues until the Domestics move in and break it up. >> Video at >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/105424358@N06/51008681556/in/datetaken/ >> -- >> 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cowbirds
Some other species such as yellow warbler will reject cowbird eggs or build a
new nest over one w/cowbird eggs in it. I have seen a 2 layered nest before (
after the young have fledged) presumably a yellow warblers.
Also, from Cornell’s NestWatch program: “ Those species which accept cowbird
eggs either do not notice the new eggs, or as new evidence suggests, accept
them as a defense against total nest destruction. Cowbirds may “punish”
egg-rejectors by destroying the entire nest, whereas it is possible for
egg-acceptors to raise some of their own young in addition to the cowbird young”
Sent from my iPhone
>> On Apr 11, 2020, at 10:10 AM, Magnus Fiskesjo
>> wrote:
>
> Hi, I would love to know, and I sure wish I could find that article. I
> definitely recall that it said the cowbird chicks that were studied left
> their nest like 3am to go to the field ("party"), and then came back to the
> nest before dawn, to continue to pretend to be their slave parent's child!
>
> Of course later they'll not sit in the nest any more, and wander around while
> being fed, I've seen that. And yes I am sure you are right about most of the
> other things you noted! I maybe should not have said "teenager", -- that was
> my word choice, not that of the scholars whose research was reported in that
> Living Bird magazine article. I used "teenager" because the cowbird nightly
> field party seemed to be a ... teenager's dance party.
>
> Maybe someone else knows the URL for the actual article. I can't find it, I
> must have read it in print only.
>
> This rather memorable article also talked about other astounding discoveries
> such as that the catbird is the only bird that can resist the cowbird's
> trickery. Unlike other birds, it said, the catbird will expel every egg that
> looks different from its first egg. So, the cowbirds can only outsmart it by
> laying their egg in the catbirds' new nest before even mama catbird has laid
> her first egg there. If it can, then the catbird will expel her own eggs, one
> after the other. And if the cowbird scheme fails, it might rip up the nest
> (as revenge).
>
> --yrs.,
> Magnus Fiskesjö
> n...@cornell.edu
>
> From: AB Clark [anneb.cl...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 9:30 AM
> To: Magnus Fiskesjo
> Cc: Michael H. Goldstein; CAYUGABIRDS-L
> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cowbirds
>
> I wonder if there has been some mis-intepretation either in the article or by
> subsequent readers. Cowbird young, like other passerines, leave the nest in
> the care of parents (foster or otherwise) and live outside the nest from then
> on. (OK individuals may hop outside during the day and return at night for
> the day or two over which they fledge.) Care for cowbirds in the fledgling
> stage lasts a similar time to their relatives, red-winged blackbirds and
> other smallish icterids. They should be fed and be following or calling to
> parents over the next 12-14 days, not joining older cowbirds. Teenagers
> would be perhaps yearling cowbirds? It is later, in summer and fall, when
> young cowbirds are independent of parents, that they flock up with other
> cowbirds and blackbirds.
>
> I haven’t heard anything about 3 am gatherings from Meredith or her students.
> Seems pretty dark for any such passerine to be moving. West and King
> studied them in aviaries and it could be that researchers got up at 3 am to
> set up and be there when singing started to happen. But in any case, cowbird
> song learning is a fascinating situation where the basic songs are clearly
> not learned from parents during late nestling or early fledgling periods,
> i.e. develop “innately”, but are socially modified in a number of ways,
> feedback from female cowbirds and from competing male cowbirds both. West
> and King published several really nice overviews in accessible papers,
> Scientific American or American Scientist, I believe.
>
> By the way, there is at least one video-documented report of a hatchling
> cowbird behaving like cuckoos and butting host eggs out of the nest.
>
>
> Anne B Clark
> 147 Hile School Rd
> Freeville, NY 13068
> 607-222-0905
> anneb.cl...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2020, at 9:11 AM, Magnus Fiskesjo
> mailto:magnus.fiske...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
>
> This morning, a male cowbird singing, at Salt Point. Never heard that before.
> A very low volume series of thin crispy notes. No clucking, as in some
> recordings of its song.
>
> The bird sat very close, on top of the little pine/fur tree at the lakeside
> fork of the path to the Bluebird Path.
>
> It refused to leave its perch and continued singing even as I stood right
> under the tree.
>
> Ps. the weirdest cowbird research for me was the Living Bird piece reporting
> on how a cowbird knows it is a cowbird, and not a whatever other bird,
> despite being raised by them as slave
Re: [cayugabirds-l] 2019 Muckrake Report
To update Bob McGuire’s excellent report of this years Muckrace, we had a “wrap-up” Muckrace meeting last week & some final numbers include: 34 teams, 155 participants, & 173 total species tallied. Top teams are as Bob said in his report. To date $9600 has been raised. There is still time to make a donation to help us reach our goal of $10,000! Just go to “friendsofmontezuma.org/projects-programs/muckrace” to make a donation directly to the Friends or your favorite team. Thank you! Kyle Gage Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 19, 2019, at 8:21 AM, bob mcguire wrote: > > The Cayuga Bird Club sponsored two teams in this year’s Montezuma Muckrace, > held over a week ago. The event is a fundraiser for the Friends of the > Montezuma Wetlands Complex. Over the past 23 years it has raised over > $145,000 for projects in the Complex. If you would like to donate you may do > so at https://friendsofmontezuma.org/projects-programs/muckrace/. > > I have prepared a rather lengthy report for our team - the ARROGANT BUSTARDS > (Susan Danskin, Diane Morton, Deirdre Anderson, Dave Nutter, Ken Kemphues, > Gary Kohlenberg, and myself) - for the October CBC newsletter. Several people > have asked, “So, how did you do?”. Here is a brief summary. > > This year some 34 teams (more than 145 participants) over the course of 24 > hours (7pm September 6 - 7pm on the 7th) tallied more than 150 species. The > winning competitive team was From rochester with 119. The winning > recreational team had 130. The high count for photographers was 70 (Suan Yong > and Mark Miller). Both of the CBC-sponsored teams came in with 91! > > Most of the participants agreed that it was an uncommonly slow day this year. > Shorebird habitat was in short supply and for some reason (perhaps the recent > passage of a cold front) forest birds, warblers in particular, were scarce. > The highlights for our team were the gorgeous female Baltimore Oriole > foraging below Tschache Tower, the elusive Mockingbird that Susan spotted as > we sped by, and a spontaneously-calling Barred Owl along Van Dyne Spoor Road > at the end of the day. > -- > 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/ --
