[cayugabirds-l] hydrofracking and recreation

Thanks, Dave, for your note on the Nov. 1 forum on hydrofracking and recreation to be held 7-9 pm at Lansing Middle School. Here are a few more details from another posting. --Mark ANNOUNCING Lessons from Pennsylvania: Impact of Marcellus Shale Gas Development on Rivers, Streams and Forests

[cayugabirds-l] peregrine

Hi, Yesterday (Sunday), while standing at the boat house in Aurora around noon with Fritzi Blizzard and her family, we watched a Peregrine fly south down the middle of the lake. A few minutes later an immature Bald Eagle followed. Without a scope, I saw 6 Common Loons at Myers, another 9 at

[cayugabirds-l] Evening Grosbeaks

Hi all, I was surprised and very excited to find a flock of at least 13 EVENING GROSBEAKS (5 M, 8 F) in our yard on Beam Hill Rd on Sat AM. They seemed to split their time between eating at our feeders and feeding in deciduous trees (mostly beech, I believe). We have been in this house since

[cayugabirds-l] Gender Patterns in Bird-related Recreation in the USA and UK

Cooper, C. B., and J. A. Smith. 2010. Gender patterns in bird-related recreation in the USA and UK. Ecology and Society 15(4): 4. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art4/ From the paper's abstract: Observing birds encompassed both a recreational hobby, bird watching,

[cayugabirds-l] LOONS continue

A GULLOON line formed across from the Wells College boathouse this morning with hundreds of gulls and loons congregated in a North-South line. There was a gull feeding frenzy off Long Point, but it did not reach the Sunday (October 24) numbers, and there were far more gulls than loons off the

[cayugabirds-l] Yellow-Rumped Warblers

Yesterday my yard was alive with birds twittering and flying everywhere! It actually felt like a warm spring day. When looking out a window, I discovered I had a Yellow-rumped Warbler, so I went outside to see if I could photograph it. I actually had about 5 of them. They were

[cayugabirds-l] Syracuse RBA

RBA * New York * Syracuse * October 25, 2010 * NYSY 2510.10 Hotline: Syracuse Rare bird Alert Dates(s): October 18, 2009 - October 25, 2010 to report by e-mail: brinjoseph AT yahoo.com covering upstate NY counties: Cayuga, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge and Montezuma Wetlands Complex

Re: [cayugabirds-l] How do they know?

Hey, Not only are they watching, they have a phone tree to let each other know. Well, ok, it's just a theory. S. == Stefan Hames, PhD Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 607-254-2496 Office 607-254-2104