Re:[cayugabirds-l] Summer movements at Monkey Run

2010-07-29 Thread John and Sue Gregoire 
I'd like to echo Chris' comments and pleas for birders to concentrate on a 
specific
area over the long term. We see many of the same things that Chris is reporting 
and
can add very early appearances of northern species like Yellow-bellied 
Flycatcher.
We start fall banding around 4 July for this very reason. By now, species like
Yellow Warbler are well into migration while others are in a large area 
dispersal
phase. There is so much to learn and, as a group, we know relatively little 
about
the timing and routing of dispersal and migration.

We've been doing daily point counts here, in addition to banding, for 25 years 
now.
The effects of warming and the result of the conversion from small dairy to 
factory
farming with the loss of pasture and concomitant changes in field crop 
practices, as
well as the elimination of hedgerows, has decimated many local breeding 
populations
and flat out extirpated others. We'd never have a handle on any of this without 
the
daily data.

Thanks to Chris and others who take on this relevant way of birding.

John
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Dr. John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory
5373 Fitzgerald Road
Burdett,NY 14818-9626
 Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/
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[cayugabirds-l] Great Egret, Dryden

2010-07-29 Thread Jay McGowan 
This evening on my way home I stopped briefly at the pond on the east side
of Rt. 38 south of Dryden (between Bridle Lane and Crystal Drive) and had a
GREAT EGRET in the back with a few Great Blue Herons.  It was not there when
I returned ten minutes later, however.  The only shorebirds in evidence were
two Solitary Sandpipers along the left edge.

Jay McGowan
Dryden, NY

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