[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club habitat project
Hello birders, I will be working on our habitat project in Lighthouse Point Woods Saturday morning, and I welcome anyone who wants to come help. I will be parking at the Newman Golf Course clubhouse at 9am on Saturday and walking in the dirt access road. If you get there after 9 and before bout noon, just walk on in to the woods and you should be able to find me. I'll be doing a bunch of tasks, including fixing fencing around existing plots, weeding of existing plots, mapping (requires very little physical labor, just a brain), and clearing some of the debris from the recent storms. If you come to help or just check it out, please know that (1) there is a lot of poison ivy, (2) there are a lot of mosquitos. (3) There is a lot of mud. This is a seasonally flooded forest after all, and this is the season of flooding! Hope to see some of you there. Jody Jody W. Enck, PhD Conservation Social Scientist, and Founder of the Sister Bird Club Network 607-379-5940 -- 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] worm eating warblers at Lindsay Parsons
Yeah, gypsy moth caterpillars stripped the slopes around West Danby pretty bare. New leaves are popping now, but I guess any effect the defoliation may have had on this year’s breeding is a done deal. Still, this has happened before. Whatever the effect, I’m counting on the resilience of West Danby’s little population of Worm-eating Warblers. For one thing, they’re not limited to the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, but have been found in comparable habitat over a four mile stretch of the Cayuga Inlet valley wall. During the last twenty-some years individual singing males have also turned up in locations like Michigan Hollow, Hulburt Hollow and Beech Hill Brook, sidetracks just off the target breeding area along the Cayuga Inlet valley. Taken together, all this suggests the local population is well established. One old guesstimate was 25 pairs. That still seems reasonable to me. -Geo > On Jul 7, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Tobias Dean wrote: > > After hiking up to the Pinnacles above the LP Preserve Monday we were a bit > shocked by the more or less complete defoliation by caterpillars [...] -- 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/ --
