Re:[cayugabirds-l] First 2016 Cayuga Lake Basin Records list is updated

[Dave Nutter]

I have just recognized and corrected an error I made on the 2016 CLB First 
Records list. My apologies. The Eastern Whip-poor-will in the town of Virgil is 
OUTSIDE the basin. I am not aware of any Whip-poor-will so far this year in the 
basin. Although the location was correct, Woodchuck Hill Rd near Gridley Creek 
on the north side of NYS-392 east of the hamlet of Virgil, and indeed this rare 
bird has been heard several times, I was mixing up the road name with a 
different road much closer to 'downtown' Virgil, Holler Rd, which is near a 
different stream that is the eastern edge the Cayuga Lake watershed. Gridley 
Creek drains into the Tioughnioga River which goes south.

--Dave Nutter

On May 30, 2016, at 08:06 PM, Dave Nutter  wrote:


I think I have the 2016 Cayuga Lake Basin First Records list up to date again:

http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records





Eastern Whip-poor-will is another odd case. Brad Walker & Jay McGowan saw one 
in their headlights along Bald Hill Road in Danby while doing a basin big day. 
However the location on their eBird report drains into Michigan Hollow where 
topo lines show that valley drains south to the Susquehanna, so it is out of 
the Cayuga Lake Basin. On the other hand Jeffrey Smith reported hearing one in 
Virgil at the very edge of the Basin but along a creek which clearly does drain 
to Cayuga Lake. It's a pretty obvious sound, so I'm not sure why it hasn't been 
confirmed on eBird yet. 





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Re: [cayugabirds-l] First 2016 Cayuga Lake Basin Records list is updated

[Sandy Podulka]

What a lot of careful work, Dave. Thanks so much for continuing to 
carry out this duty so equitably and conscientiously!

Sandy Podulka

At 08:06 PM 5/30/2016, Dave Nutter wrote:
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>I think I have the 2016 Cayuga Lake Basin First Records list up to date again:
>http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/cayuga-lake-basin-first-records
>
>I wasn't intentionally waiting to update the list. I prefer to keep 
>it current, but it got ahead of me.
>
>The expected locally breeding birds are all accounted for, I 
>think.  There are still shorebirds which may show up here on their 
>way north, or we may have to wait till early July when they start 
>south again in larger numbers, lingering longer, and ranging more 
>widely. And of course there are still birds showing up which simply 
>appear to be lost, or to put it more kindly, exploring.
>
>Please let me know of things on the list that look wrong - people, 
>locations, dates, whatever. With this much info and so many birds 
>and birders there's a high probability I've screwed up something, or 
>at least made it appear confusing.
>
>I try to include names of people in parties who independently find a 
>new species on the first day. Parties are not necessarily in any 
>order, but the places are in the same order as the parties.
>
>In the case of Black-bellied Plover the number of observers got very 
>long when a group of a dozen Cornell students on a basin big day 
>found a bird in breeding plumage at Knox-Marsellus in mid-afternoon 
>overlapping in time with several other observers, but in the evening 
>at K-M Ann Mitchell & I found one in non-breeding plumage. So I 
>included everybody, because no single party had clear priority over 
>either bird.
>
>The American Golden-Plovers at K-M that same day are a slightly 
>different story. The only people who appeared to independently 
>identify them were the student group.
>
>The Ruff which the same group reported was not described in enough 
>detail to distinguish it from a large male Pectoral Sandpiper which 
>Jay McGowan found there that evening. If it gets accepted by eBird, 
>I will include it.
>
>Eastern Whip-poor-will is another odd case. Brad Walker & Jay 
>McGowan saw one in their headlights along Bald Hill Road in Danby 
>while doing a basin big day. However the location on their eBird 
>report drains into Michigan Hollow where topo lines show that valley 
>drains south to the Susquehanna, so it is out of the Cayuga Lake 
>Basin. On the other hand Jeffrey Smith reported hearing one in 
>Virgil at the very edge of the Basin but along a creek which clearly 
>does drain to Cayuga Lake. It's a pretty obvious sound, so I'm not 
>sure why it hasn't been confirmed on eBird yet.
>
>White-rumped Sandpiper was reported a few days earlier than shown 
>but I don't know by whom (JF are you out there?). I like to include 
>observers names, not only to give credit, but also so that there's a 
>possibility of discussing more exactly where a bird was, what it was 
>doing, and how it was identified.
>
>Like many great birding spots, Shindagin Hollow is just outside of 
>the basin, so Melissa Groo's Red-headed Woodpecker is simply a 
>fantastic yard bird, and Ethan Chaffee was the first to report one 
>in the now-traditional area along South Mays Point Road in Tyre. 
>There was a vague report earlier which was not accepted by eBird.
>
>Have a great summer. I hope to meet you out birding.
>
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