Kevin ( all),
Some neat birds were found Saturday that didn't get posted on Cayugabirds-L or
texted to the rare bird alert but did get shared by cell phone among several
people in the field. There was a Sanderling which Bob McGuire Gary Kohlenberg
( Stuart Krasnoff?) found at Myers Point early this morning, and was later
seen by at least Ann Mitchell and myself. And there was an Orange-crowned
Warbler which Nate Senner found at Freese Road which was later seen by Gary
Kohlenberg and Ann Mitchell. Neither was a first of year observation nor a
bird which is unexpected, but both are tough basin birds which few people have
seen this year. Should such observations be put on the RBA? Should observers
ensure that such observations get posted on Cayugabirds-L? I admit that when
Ann called me a second time saying she didn't know how to do an RBA, I chose to
look for the Orange-crowned Warbler during my limited opportunity rather than
spend the time typing out an RBA, but I told her so and thought she was going
to have someone else do it. As for the Sanderling, I was driving for the first
45 minutes after I heard about it, and I never was at my computer again till
well after I saw it, so I didn't realize it didn't get posted till mid
afternoon. At noon when I saw it I was about to text that it was still there,
but called Ann first because I knew Sanderling had been on her list of missing
species, and then I got distracted by looking for the Orange-crowned Warbler
until I had other obligations. Sorry about that.
--Dave Nutter
On Saturday, October 17, 2009, at 06:55PM, Kevin McGowan k...@cornell.edu
wrote:
Did I miss something? What Orange-crowned Warbler?
k
At 06:27 PM 10/17/2009, Gary Kohlenberg wrote:
This afternoon I was able to re-find the Orange-crowned Warbler that
Nathan Senner discovered while birding with Ann Mitchell. A quick call to
Ann gave her a second chance to see it as she wasn't quite tall enough to
see over the goldenrod. It made me think that sparrow-ing in the fall
would be more productive wearing short stilts. That may have given me just
the edge I needed to see the Henslow's sparrow I missed at Hog Hole.
Gary
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