[cayugabirds-l] Purple Martin house at Swan Pond, Stewart Park?

2015-08-10 Thread Sandy Wold 
Anyone know the history of the purple martin house at Swan Pond?  Who built
it? Was it ever successful?  would it be a good idea for the Cayuga Bird
Club to build a new one?  I just read that purple martins eat 2000
mosquitoes per day, http://www.purplemartin.org/update/MosCont.html

Maybe there is not enough mosquito habitat at Swan Pond???  definitely more
mosquitoes in the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary, but not the right habitat.  Was
the golf course once a marshland that the purple martins would have thrived
then?  If not feasible at Swan Pond, where else in Ithaca can one see them
(easily?) in spring?  I love seeing the ones at Montezuma.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Purple Martin house at Swan Pond, Stewart Park?

2015-08-10 Thread Geo Kloppel 
Hi Sandy,

I think you mean the Renwick Wildwood. The Fuertes Bird Sanctuary is _just_ the 
so-called swan pond. Confusion about the names has found it's way onto some 
maps, but those are incorrect. For a full explanation, see historian Jane 
Grave's articles on the Cayuga Bird Club website:

http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/history/louis-agassiz-fuertes-memorial-bird-sanctuary-a-chronology-part-1

-Geo 

On Aug 10, 2015, at 8:47 AM, Sandy Wold sandra.w...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 Maybe there is not enough mosquito habitat at Swan Pond???  definitely more 
 mosquitoes in the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary, but not the right habitat.  

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