Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Roots Cayuga wetland project

2015-11-10 Thread Kenneth V. Rosenberg
Dave et al., Having been outed, along with Suan, as the “others in the birding community,” I’ll just reiterate what Suan has already stated — that the two of us were approached while birding by the teachers from New Roots, that they briefly explained their idea for the student project and exper

RE: [cayugabirds-l] New Roots Cayuga wetland project

2015-11-10 Thread Phillip Bonn
Hello everyone, I usually don’t reply to posts but this one really caught my attention. Cattails are highly invasive and spread by underground runners as well as by seed. They can and will grow in areas you don’t want them and create monocultures…not good for a wetlands project. I sug

Re: [cayugabirds-l] New Roots Cayuga wetland project

2015-11-10 Thread Nancy Cusumano
There already is an active and quite healthy cat tail marsh in Hog's Hole, where water flowing from the creek flows into the lake, thereby being filtered by the cattails (if their logic follows). Might this be a place they could conduct their study without adding cattails to the lake edge? Just a t

RE:[cayugabirds-l] New Roots Cayuga wetland project

2015-11-10 Thread Dave Nutter
I attended the BPW meeting yesterday evening and was able to hear the New Roots presentation and BPW discussion. The description was vague in some ways: it's unclear where the cattails would go. And I think it was erroneous and not well thought out in other ways. The BPW discussion was supportiv

[cayugabirds-l] Raven Croaking in my yard

2015-11-10 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
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