[cayugabirds-l] Western Grebe
One of the Western Grebes is swimming and diving often between the red light house and the pilings, headed towards the east shore, seen from Stewart Park. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Gary Kohlenberg re tower rd
Gary Kohlenberg re tower rd redtail nest: No we are installing a nest cam for the Lab of O ! -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Gary Kohlenberg re tower rd
Cool!! Linda Orkin. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:20 AM, 6072292...@vtext.com wrote: Gary Kohlenberg re tower rd redtail nest: No we are installing a nest cam for the Lab of O ! -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Stewart Park
I scanned the south end of the lake from East Shore Park and Stewart Park at lunch time just now and was not able to refind the Western Grebe seen this morning, so I have nothing to add as to the possibility of its being one of the ones being seen at Union Springs. It would be nice to look for those birds again in the near future, though. I did see a nice pale adult ICELAND GULL on the water and then later on the ice at the east end of Stewart, as well as an adult BALD EAGLE in the trees across from the boathouse. Brad and Tim had a Peregrine Falcon hanging around that area this morning too. Cheers, -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] downtown sharpie
There was a sharp-shinned hawk perching just now on the wires that run between Temple Beth El and the Finger Lakes Land Trust, across N. Tioga Street, downtown Ithaca. He dove low over traffic and then settled on another wire closer to the Planning Department building on Court St. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Western grebe
I too scanned the southern end of Cayuga Lake around mid-day Tue, using a telescope, but saw no Western grebe. Several small flocks of Canada geese took off from the lake and were heading south. Is it normal for the lake to be so low this time of year? Bob GarrisonSpencer, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Western Grebe
A WESTERN GREBE was visible far to the northwest from Stewart Park until at least 10:30am. I wasn't sure if I could see a light loral spot. The flank seemed more uniformly gray than I recall from my previous closer sighting from the southwest corner of the lake, and the only whitish part may have been associated with the bird's leg. The black hind-neck stripe was plenty wide (like Gary's photo). The bill was long and dull yellowish. I don't know if this is a different bird than I saw before.Also present:COMMON LOON - 1 far to northwestRED-THROATED LOON - 2 together middling far to northBALD EAGLE - 1 immature on log where cormorant often restsDOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT - on log only before eagle arrived; later off swimmingunidentified carcass floating belly-up south of piling cluster - possible Canada Goose - large webbed black feet in air; white bellly undertail; gray breast; brown wing/side? ; black bill poking up out of waterI didn't pick out any unusual gulls or ducks.--Dave NutterOn Feb 14, 2012, at 08:51 AM, Brad Walker edgarallenhoo...@gmail.com wrote:One of the Western Grebes is swimming and diving often between the red light house and the pilings, headed towards the east shore, seen from Stewart Park. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Lake water level
RE water level of Cayuga Lake: Every fall/winter the NYS Canal Corporation (under NYS Thruway Authority) lowers Cayuga Lake approximately 3 feet. You can see a weekly graph showing the water level of Cayuga Lake at: http://www.canals.ny.gov/waterlevels/oswego/water-levels.html Seneca Lake is lowered around 6-12 inches in fall/winter and this web address can get you to a graph showing its water level. The lakes are regulated according to long standing Rule Curves. See article embedded below if you care. The Canal Corp. website has more information about all this. Donna Scott The Rule Curve By Joseph Castelli Finger Lakes Ecology Association A rule curve, otherwise known as a regulating diagram, is a graph of water levels to which a particular body of water is regulated. For each day of the year the graph shows the water level or range of water levels to be targeted by the New York State Thruway Authority Canal Corporation (NYSTACC). The rule curve for Seneca Lake calls for a summer level of 446 feet Barge Canal Datum (BCD), with a range of plus or minus three-tenths of a foot. Similarly, in winter the rule curve calls for a level of 445 feet BCD with a range of plus or minus three-tenths of a foot. Cayuga Lake, on the other hand, has a rule curve that varies from a high of 384 feet BCD to a low of 379 feet BCD over the course of the year and a range that can vary from as much as 22 inches to as little as 2.5 inches on a given day. Theoretically, using a rule curve to regulate lake levels results in predictable water levels year after year. In practice, however, the wide range allowed by the rule curve for Cayuga Lake can create very unpredictable water levels. On any September 1st, for example, when the rule curve for Cayuga Lake allows for a high level of 384 feet BCD to a low level of 382.7 BCD, a range of 16 inches exists. One year the lake could be 16 inches higher on that date than the next year and yet both levels would be on target with the rule curve. The Finger Lakes Ecology Association (FLEA) supports the current rule curve for Seneca Lake and lake levels within the rule curve for Cayuga Lake. For example, the NYSTACC currently targets a level of 383.5 feet BCD as a summer level for Cayuga Lake. This is a level within the rule curve, a level which seems to serve most interests on the lake and one which we (FLEA) support. We also support a minimum level of 380 feet BCD for a winter level for Cayuga Lake and would support the maximum levels allowed by the rule curve for the fall. We do not want to change the rule curve, we want to target specific levels within the existing rule curve. As for the regulation of water levels in the late winter to early spring period, we do not believe that there should be any attempts at changing the rule curves or the manner in which the lakes have been regulated for the past several decades. Given the shortcomings of the canal system as a flood control system and the size of its drainage basin, we recognize that there is a potential for flooding during extremely wet springs. To keep the lakes lower than the present rule curve levels in winter in anticipation of extremely wet springs, as some people have proposed, not only opens us up to the potential of water shortages during dry periods, but would also be very disruptive to the littoral zone of the lake (the shallow 10 percent of the lake that produces 90 percent of the lake's life). Following the existing rule curves has allowed for a stabilized ecosystem and socio-economic infrastructure on Cayuga and Seneca Lakes for many decades. The Finger Lakes Ecology Association members ask only that lake levels be managed in a manner and at levels consistent with the past practices and are firmly opposed to any changes or experimentation with the levels of these two lakes. March 2000 - Original Message - From: bob garrison To: cayugabirds-l post Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:49 PM Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Western grebe I too scanned the southern end of Cayuga Lake around mid-day Tue, using a telescope, but saw no Western grebe. Several small flocks of Canada geese took off from the lake and were heading south. Is it normal for the lake to be so low this time of year? Bob GarrisonSpencer, NY -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Red-tail nest
Does anyone know if the university has plans to remove the nest in the light on the athletic field? As my bus proceeded down Tower Rd. this morning I noticed one of those small cranes nearby and a worker looking up at the nest (could be a coincidence). Would it be legal to remove the nest? Michele -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
