Re: [cayugabirds-l] Where are all my feeder birds

2017-10-25 Thread martin borko 
There is no question about it. It has been a banner year for fruit and cone 
production!!!
marty
> On Oct 25, 2017, at 3:08 PM, t...@fltg.net wrote:
> 
> Our (mostly red) oak trees had a huge mast year two years ago, but last year 
> and this year the acorns have been at more normal production levels. Red oaks 
> have a two year cycle for acorn production - the flowers from this year are 
> next year's acorns - so it could be that 2018 will be another big year for 
> acorns in our woods.
> 
> Cones & other nuts do seem abundant wherever we look, but I assumed it was 
> because this has been the first year in several that we didn't have an 
> ill-timed cold snap or drought during a crucial part of the growing season.  
> On our property we had almost no walnuts last year & I am certain that was 
> b/c of a bad cold snap just after pollination that seemed to kill most of the 
> tiny fruit, followed by an extended period without rain later in the growing 
> season.  There have been a couple of cold/warm/cold/warm periods in early 
> spring during the past five years and several kinds of fruit and nut trees 
> were affected. Perhaps the trees have energy on hand from those years when 
> they couldn't develop fruit, and can pour that energy into extra production 
> this year?  
> 
> While cold snaps & droughts also are connected to climate change, my guess is 
> that this year's abundance had more to do with these factors rather than with 
> warming - it wasn't all that warm in central NYS this summer 
> ,
>  for one thing!
> 
> Alicia
> 
> P.S.  Birders on the Maine bird list have similar complaints about the 
> disappearance of their feeder birds, with similar conclusions that it likely 
> is due to unusual amounts of food in the wild. 
> 
> 
> 
> - Original Message -
> From:
> Betsy Darlington 
> 
> To:
> "Marc Devokaitis" 
> Cc:
> "Barbara B. Eden" , "CAYUGABIRDS-L" 
> 
> Sent:
> Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:47:44 -0400
> Subject:
> Re: [cayugabirds-l] Where are all my feeder birds
> 
> 
> I wonder if all these trees are putting out "stress cones/seeds," caused by 
> the accelerating warming.  Or do they just like being so warm?
> Betsy
> 
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Marc Devokaitis  > wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Re-opening this thread--I thought I'd share with the list a comment from 
> Donald Leopold, Chair of the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology 
> at SUNY-ESF (I was asking him about something else, but this came up.)
> 
> "Not only are conifers producing an extraordinary abundance of cones but I 
> have never seen such an abundance of walnuts, hickories, oak acorns, sugar 
> maple and white ash samaras, and other tree fruits and seeds. Interestingly, 
> I’ve seen this above average production across the Northeast."
> 
> 
> 
> Hopefully this goes a long way to explaining the increase in decreases this 
> year.
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Devokaitis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Barbara B. Eden  > wrote:
> For the past 2 months the resident birds that I daily feed have dropped in 
> population This is the first time this has happened and even those pesky 
> squirrels have left I live in Cayuga Heights and my backyard is a bird 
> friendly habitat
> Any thoughts would be appreciated 
> Thanks
> Barbara Eden
> 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carpool Ithaca to Montezuma CBC Trip tomorrow morning?

2015-07-31 Thread martin borko 
Sandra,

I would be glad to meet at the lab parking lot and carpool up on Sunday am.

marty

On Jul 31, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:

 The first field trip onto Knox-Marsellus dikes is on SUNDAY morning, not 
 tomorrow. 
 Leave from Montezuma NWR Visitor Center at 8am, or meet at East Rd overlook 
 and walk down as a group at 8:20am. 
 --Dave Nutter
 
 On Jul 31, 2015, at 04:39 PM, Sandy Wold sandra.w...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 I am looking for a ride and can pitch in on gas...or could offer to drive. I 
 live in Fall Creek with lots of parking if anyone wants to meet at 6:45am 
 and coordinate.  Let's lower the Carbon footprint!  Thank you! 
  * * * * * * * * *
 Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come ALIVE, for what the 
 world needs is people who have come ALIVE.  - Dr. Howard Thurman, American 
 Theologian, Clergyman and Activist (1900-1981) 
 
 Sandra (Sandy) Wold
 Cayuga Basin Bioregion Map, Author/Originator/Designer/Publisher, 
 www.sites.google.com/site/cayugabioregionmap/
 Sustainability Educator/Artist, 
 www.linkedin.com/pub/sandra-sandy-wold/a7/114/877
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bird call question

2014-09-29 Thread martin borko 
there is a lot of chipmunk chatter at this time of year

marty

On Sep 29, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Mary E. Winston wrote:

 It's a chipmunk
 
 -Original Message-
 From: bounce-118059948-12723...@list.cornell.edu 
 [mailto:bounce-118059948-12723...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sue Rakow
 Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 4:27 PM
 To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
 Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Bird call question
 
 Lately in the woods during the day I have been hearing a call/sound that is 
 like a low clack/ cluck at uneven  intervals. It could be described as 
 horseshoes on pavement. Some older some softer. I can never seem to get near 
 to the sound. Any ideas what it might be from so little information?
 Thanks,
 Sue Rakow
 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Red-headed Wo caching food

2013-08-24 Thread martin borko 
Is there any chance that the fruits are virginia creeper and not wild grape?

Marty

On Aug 22, 2013, at 10:48 AM, John Confer wrote:

 I have seen Red-headed Woodpeckers caching acorns. At at least one location, 
 they cached food somewhat as I have seen in videos of Acorn Woodpeckers, 
 putting them in shallow, tiny holes in the surface of the tree trunk. This 
 was at Presquille in fall probably a couple decades ago. so you might wonder 
 about the accuracy of the memory. It was a pretty striking occasion with 
 several birds flying over a parking lot to and from the acorn source to the 
 storage trees, so I'm pretty sure that is what they were doing.
 
 Cheers,
 
 John
 
 On 8/20/2013 7:06 PM, Anne Clark wrote:
 Back in the 80's when I was living in SW Michigan (near Kellogg Biological 
 Station, in Delton, MI), a pair of red-headed woodpeckers brought their 
 fledglings every year to eat mulberries at a productive group of trees. 
 
 More unusual that they would take them to protein-needy nestlings (albeit 
 very late nestlings).  But robins in the same Michigan property fed their 
 nestlings on mulberries.  
 
 Anne Clark
 
 On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Paul wrote:
 
 Spent about three hours watching the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May’s Point 
 this morning. Very active until about 10 am.  Saw an interesting sequence 
 when a Merlin made a pass at the nest cavity,, actually several passes to 
 which the adult RHW responded with loud calls and some defensive attacks.  
 Thereafter, the pair were on sentry duty, one in an adjacent cavity 
 watching south and the other to the north in a tree along the river.  The 
 Merlin was in the area for about 5 minutes. They stayed on alert for about 
 20 minutes longer before resuming activity.
  
 More interesting was a discovery on what they are bringing into the nest 
 cavity.  (Have not yet seen chicks at the opening. Has anyone?) While 
 sometimes, I can see that they are bringing insects such as dragonflies, at 
 other times it appeared to be round objects.  Did not seem possible to be 
 acorns.  Now, I’ve posted some images on my blog  
 (http://birds-n-blooms.blogspot.com/) which show an adult bringing wild 
 grapes to the cavity. There are ripe grapes on the vines in the area. On my 
 first visit (July 24), I recorded an adult picking Woody Nightshade berries 
 from vines at the base of dead trees to the north east of the nest tree. 
 Had not expected woodpeckers to be eating fruit.
  
 Paul Schmitt
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