RE: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
Hi all, Now I am curious to know why was it named Renwick Woods? Who was Renwick? Must have done something good to name after him and when was it named? If it was named before Fuertes' death Fuertes must have been in agreement with that naming, Curious about the Ithaca history. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ From: bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com [nutter.d...@me.com] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 10:39 PM To: Christopher Wood Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans and fund-raising for that purpose. Websites are notorious for being inaccurate, and the City of Ithaca website referring to Renwick Wildwood (the name on the concrete arch) as Fuertes Sanctuary is unsubstantiated by any historical record that our historian has found so far. Please use the correct name, not perpetuate the misnomer. If someone sends you a reference to an official renaming of Renwick as Fuertes, please let us know. --Dave Nutter On May 13, 2013, at 05:14 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. It describes this both in text and on the map. Given the huge contributions that Fuertes made, we (eBird) are happy to follow the official City of Ithaca website and go with calling the 55 acres the Fuertes Sanctuary. http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
Perhaps this is the answer to your question. http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm Cathy Cooke On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.eduwrote: Hi all, Now I am curious to know why was it named Renwick Woods? Who was Renwick? Must have done something good to name after him and when was it named? If it was named before Fuertes' death Fuertes must have been in agreement with that naming, Curious about the Ithaca history. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- *From:* bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu [ bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com[ nutter.d...@me.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 13, 2013 10:39 PM *To:* Christopher Wood *Cc:* CAYUGABIRDS-L *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans and fund-raising for that purpose. Websites are notorious for being inaccurate, and the City of Ithaca website referring to Renwick Wildwood (the name on the concrete arch) as Fuertes Sanctuary is unsubstantiated by any historical record that our historian has found so far. Please use the correct name, not perpetuate the misnomer. If someone sends you a reference to an official renaming of Renwick as Fuertes, please let us know. --Dave Nutter On May 13, 2013, at 05:14 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. It describes this both in text and on the map. Given the huge contributions that Fuertes made, we (eBird) are happy to follow the official City of Ithaca website and go with calling the 55 acres the Fuertes Sanctuary. http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.cornell.edu -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
It hardly seems an honor to the memory of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the Cayuga Bird Club's first president, for the eBird team or the city or the authors of the waterfront plan to preempt his club's authority regarding the proper name of the sanctuary that he dedicated on its behalf as Renwick Wildwood. If you want the name changed, I think you should petition the Cayuga Bird Club. -Geo Kloppel On May 13, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. It describes this both in text and on the map. Given the huge contributions that Fuertes made, we (eBird) are happy to follow the official City of Ithaca website and go with calling the 55 acres the Fuertes Sanctuary. http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.cornell.edu -- 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: 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] Renwick versus Fuertes
I have a copy of a booklet called Stewart Park, Its History, Buildings and Plantings, published for Earth Day, 1990. Here is what it says about that tract of land: When the future of the park was uncertain, fifty-five acres immediately to the south were set aside as a bird sanctuary. Sometime in 1913, the land was presented to the City of Ithaca by Renwick descendants-- it was the last significant portion of the 1790 tract to remain in their hands. The sanctuary was christened as the Renwick Wildwood and maintained by the Cayuga Bird Club. The club developed a system of trails and constructed a concrete arch at the southern entrance in 1917. These projects were funded by the city's Board of Public Works, but executed with volunteer labor. The president of the club at the time was the artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. After his death in 1927, the sanctuary was renamed in his honor. So it would seem that either name could be used, with Fuertes Sanctuary dating from 1927. Diane Morton On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.eduwrote: Hi all, Now I am curious to know why was it named Renwick Woods? Who was Renwick? Must have done something good to name after him and when was it named? If it was named before Fuertes' death Fuertes must have been in agreement with that naming, Curious about the Ithaca history. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- *From:* bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu [ bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com[ nutter.d...@me.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 13, 2013 10:39 PM *To:* Christopher Wood *Cc:* CAYUGABIRDS-L *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans and fund-raising for that purpose. Websites are notorious for being inaccurate, and the City of Ithaca website referring to Renwick Wildwood (the name on the concrete arch) as Fuertes Sanctuary is unsubstantiated by any historical record that our historian has found so far. Please use the correct name, not perpetuate the misnomer. If someone sends you a reference to an official renaming of Renwick as Fuertes, please let us know. --Dave Nutter On May 13, 2013, at 05:14 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. It describes this both in text and on the map. Given the huge contributions that Fuertes made, we (eBird) are happy to follow the official City of Ithaca website and go with calling the 55 acres the Fuertes Sanctuary. http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.cornell.edu -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/ !* -- -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
If you follow this link to the Cayuga Bird Club newsletter you will be able to read one of four articles written by bird club historian Jane Graves this year. She has spent considerable time researching and detailing these facts so that the bird club history in Stewart Park could be well understood by us all. http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/about-us/the-renwick-wildwood-inception-1913--1914 And as Dave Nutter has pointed out, in all of this research there is no record or evidence that at any point was a name change from Renwick Wildwood to Fuertes Sanctuary ever either proposed or approved. For insight into the bird Club's involvement with the actual Fuertes Wildlife Sanctuary which we now call the swan pen, read the first of Jane's articles, which you can link to directly from this one. People should perhaps be encouraged to begin calling the swan pen the Fuertes Sanctuary. Best Linda Orkin President, Cayuga Bird Club Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton dianegmor...@gmail.com wrote: I have a copy of a booklet called Stewart Park, Its History, Buildings and Plantings, published for Earth Day, 1990. Here is what it says about that tract of land: When the future of the park was uncertain, fifty-five acres immediately to the south were set aside as a bird sanctuary. Sometime in 1913, the land was presented to the City of Ithaca by Renwick descendants-- it was the last significant portion of the 1790 tract to remain in their hands. The sanctuary was christened as the Renwick Wildwood and maintained by the Cayuga Bird Club. The club developed a system of trails and constructed a concrete arch at the southern entrance in 1917. These projects were funded by the city's Board of Public Works, but executed with volunteer labor. The president of the club at the time was the artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. After his death in 1927, the sanctuary was renamed in his honor. So it would seem that either name could be used, with Fuertes Sanctuary dating from 1927. Diane Morton On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, Now I am curious to know why was it named Renwick Woods? Who was Renwick? Must have done something good to name after him and when was it named? If it was named before Fuertes' death Fuertes must have been in agreement with that naming, Curious about the Ithaca history. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ From: bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com [nutter.d...@me.com] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 10:39 PM To: Christopher Wood Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans and fund-raising for that purpose. Websites are notorious for being inaccurate, and the City of Ithaca website referring to Renwick Wildwood (the name on the concrete arch) as Fuertes Sanctuary is unsubstantiated by any historical record that our historian has found so far. Please use the correct name, not perpetuate the misnomer. If someone sends you a reference to an official renaming of Renwick as Fuertes, please let us know. --Dave Nutter On May 13, 2013, at 05:14 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. It describes this both in text and on the map. Given the huge contributions that Fuertes made, we (eBird) are happy to follow the official City of Ithaca website and go with calling the 55 acres the Fuertes Sanctuary. http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.cornell.edu -- 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! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail
[cayugabirds-l] Ruff at Coot Pond Monday
As a birthday gift to myself, my daughter Kayla, and I went on a RUFF twitch to Howland Island. Her first bird chase I might add. The chase was successful in yielding an absolutely stunning bird with not a mosquito in sight. Dave Wheeler and friend Rose were already on the bird when we arrived so the typical chase anxiety was immediately dissipated and many digiscope photos ensued. At one point a MERLIN put up most of the shorebirds. They circled around and landed back even closer. I could see both YELLOWLEGS, SOLITARY and LEAST SANDPIPERS. In the grass could have been more species. Truthfully I spent most of the time enjoying the Ruff show. The thing I found most interesting was how much this area has changed. There was a new drainage culvert installed with road grading, vegetation removed and in general the place looked great. It's now a terrific wetland with good, if wet and grassy, shorebird habitat. I'll need to explore the island more to see what else is going on there, but it looks like this place will continue to be a favorite of many people, including me. Gary -- 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] Hairy WP on syrup feeder Merlin in Fayetteville, NY
This morning I watched a female Hairy Woodpecker hop from the deck railing to the hummingbird feeder and take several long drinks of syrup. In years past I have had a family of House Finches regularly drink from the feeder, too. This is out of basin. Last week while I was babysitting my grandchildren in Fayetteville, NY, I saw a pair of Merlin. I think they have a nest in one of the large spruce trees near our children's home which is in a neighborhood near the center of Fayetteville. If anyone is interested in directions, contact me off list. Kathy Clements Comfort Road, Danby -- 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] Renwick versus Fuertes
Thanks to everyone for enlightening me about the names. Now I think I would like to vote for a new name and call it “OWL WOODS” which seems more appropriate instead of naming by a human name. They have been owners of the woods for now long time. Meena From: bounce-91566342-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-91566342-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:35 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes It hardly seems an honor to the memory of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the Cayuga Bird Club's first president, for the eBird team or the city or the authors of the waterfront plan to preempt his club's authority regarding the proper name of the sanctuary that he dedicated on its behalf as Renwick Wildwood. If you want the name changed, I think you should petition the Cayuga Bird Club. -Geo Kloppel On May 13, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.edumailto:chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I know this issue has been discussed many times before and I know that opinions are divided. For every email I get that says we should call the woods Renwick, I get three that say we should call it Fuertes. The official website of Ithaca calls the 55 acres south of Stewart Park the Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. It describes this both in text and on the map. Given the huge contributions that Fuertes made, we (eBird) are happy to follow the official City of Ithaca website and go with calling the 55 acres the Fuertes Sanctuary. http://www.ci.ithaca.ny.us/parks/stewartpark.cfm Christopher Wood eBird Project Leader Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://ebird.org http://birds.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://ebird.org/content/ebird/! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basicshttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Informationhttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirdshttp://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Nethttp://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBirdhttp://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] Sapsucker Woods Lincoln's Sparrow
Hi all, Nothing uncommon on my walk this morning, but there was a beautiful LINCOLN'S SPARROW in the woods on the path to the powerline cut from the parking area. Brad -- 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] NE Ithaca, Tues 5/14
Tilden and I found a singing CAPE MAY WARBLER along Winthrop Drive in northeast Ithaca on Tuesday morning, near the path connecting the elementary and middle schools. The bird was so close and well sunlit in a young spruce tree that we could see him much better without binoculars than we saw the Cape May Warbler at Myers on Saturday with them. After T and I parted, I also heard NASHVILLE WARBLER and PINE SISKINS in the neighborhood. Mark Chao -- 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] Imperial Woodpecker talk this Wednesday
In case you missed my Imperial Woodpecker Monday Night Seminar last month at the Lab of Ornithology, I'm presenting an updated version of the talk at the Tompkins County Public Library this Wednesday (May 15) at 6:00 p.m. Details below. -- Tim Gallagher WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013 Library to Host Imperial Dreams Author Tompkins County Public Library will host Tim Gallagher for a reading and signing of his acclaimed book Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker Through the Wild Sierra Madre, May 15 at 6 p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room. An award-winning author and editor of Living Bird magazine at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Gallagher set out for Mexico's Sierra Madre armed only with a dream of locating the world’s rarest bird, the Imperial Woodpecker, and a map of area sightings given to him by a dying friend. Gallagher’s journey through the mysterious and dangerous Sierra Madre Occidental results in encounters with AK-47-armed drug dealers, the discovery of fields of opium poppies and marijuana, burning houses, and fleeing villagers. Imperial Dreams beautifully captures Gallagher’s journey, the people of the Sierra Madre, and the decline of their homeland. Gallagher has also penned the acclaimed The Grail Bird, about the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and Falcon Fever about his lifelong interest in birds of prey. This program is free and open to the public. Copies of Imperial Dreams will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of Buffalo Street Books. For more information, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwhee...@tcpl.orgmailto:cwhee...@tcpl.org. -- 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] Wilson's, Canada, Parula @ Hawthorn
Had a silent but active and easy-to-track WILSON'S WARBLER at Hawthorn this morning, this after meeting two birders (sorry, don't know your names) who directed me towards canada and mourning they'd seen earlier. I found the CANADA WARBLER singing near the NE entrance, eventually got decent looks, but it was winding down its singing and soon stopped altogether. This timing seemed to coincide with the late arrival at 9am of Chris T-H, who said he saw very little in his walk through the woods, even though I'd seen and heard tons of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS (heaviest concentration I'd experienced this year), heard many singing TENNESSEE WARBLERS though they were less inclined to show themselves to me, and one very loud and cooperative NORTHERN PARULA who could be seen shaking its entire body while singing its primary song, before switching to its second song which it could belt out with considerably less body shake. Another curiosity was a GRAY CATBIRD singing killdeer for long stretches at a time -- somewhat confusing when heard coming from a tangle in the woods. The KILLDEER was incubating comfortably surrounded by its new picket fence. Thanks, Melissa! Suan -- 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] Palmer Woods location
Thanks Mark (never heard of it!) KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (wk) 607-254-2412 (cell) 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edu On 5/14/13 10:43 AM, Mark Chao markc...@imt.org wrote: Palmer Woods is on Cornell's campus next to the A Lot along Pleasant Grove Road. http://www.cornellplantations.org/gallery/344/maps Mark -Original Message- From: bounce-91602448-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-91602448-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kenneth V. Rosenberg Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:38 AM To: Gary Kohlenberg; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Palmer Woods RBA just in. Dare I ask -- Where is Palmer Woods!? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (wk) 607-254-2412 (cell) 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edu On 5/14/13 8:18 AM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote: BBarkley: Yellow-throated Warbler singing at Palmer Woods! By the tennis courts...havent heard it for about 5 minutes -- 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 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] Palmer's Woods - Prof. Lawrence Palmer
Dr. E. Lawrence Palmer was a professor of nature study at Cornell, a number of decades ago. One of our famous local people, actually, with a long tenure and many professional books and articles to his name. His son was the shoe-throwing, Attica/Weatherman Robin Palmer! Carol Schmitt -- 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] Palmer Woods RBA just in.
This is a nice patch of woods that extends into Cayuga Heights, with trails going out onto Triphammer (and now a Frisbee golf course). I've banded crows in there for 25 years, and I've only just now heard it referred to as Palmer Woods. It is off of Jessup Road, bordered by Jessup Field, so all I've ever heard before was Jessup Woods. Kevin -Original Message- From: bounce-91604351-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-91604351-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Cornell Mail Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:46 AM To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg Cc: Gary Kohlenberg; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Palmer Woods RBA just in. Dear all, Palmer Woods refers to the wooded area immediately north and west of A-Lot on Cornell's North Campus. In particular, the tennis courts in question are just north of Jessup Road near where it intersects with Triphammer. As for why this area is called Palmer Woods, I cannot say. The area is well known to student birders, so it is likely that one of us came up with the name many years ago. Good birding, Reid Rumelt Cornell University On May 14, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu wrote: Dare I ask -- Where is Palmer Woods!? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (wk) 607-254-2412 (cell) 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edu On 5/14/13 8:18 AM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote: BBarkley: Yellow-throated Warbler singing at Palmer Woods! By the tennis courts...havent heard it for about 5 minutes -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeav e.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 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Palmer Woods RBA just in.
Are we sure it's not called Fuertes Woods? Perhaps someone should look into it. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Kevin J. McGowan k...@cornell.edu wrote: This is a nice patch of woods that extends into Cayuga Heights, with trails going out onto Triphammer (and now a Frisbee golf course). I've banded crows in there for 25 years, and I've only just now heard it referred to as Palmer Woods. It is off of Jessup Road, bordered by Jessup Field, so all I've ever heard before was Jessup Woods. Kevin -Original Message- From: bounce-91604351-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto: bounce-91604351-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Cornell Mail Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:46 AM To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg Cc: Gary Kohlenberg; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Palmer Woods RBA just in. Dear all, Palmer Woods refers to the wooded area immediately north and west of A-Lot on Cornell's North Campus. In particular, the tennis courts in question are just north of Jessup Road near where it intersects with Triphammer. As for why this area is called Palmer Woods, I cannot say. The area is well known to student birders, so it is likely that one of us came up with the name many years ago. Good birding, Reid Rumelt Cornell University On May 14, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg k...@cornell.edu wrote: Dare I ask -- Where is Palmer Woods!? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (wk) 607-254-2412 (cell) 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edu On 5/14/13 8:18 AM, Gary Kohlenberg jg...@cornell.edu wrote: BBarkley: Yellow-throated Warbler singing at Palmer Woods! By the tennis courts...havent heard it for about 5 minutes -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeav e.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 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 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] eBird -- Hawthorn Orchard -- May 14, 2013
Decent morning, but, from the sounds of it, I should have arrived earlier. Highlights: CAPE-MAY WARBLER, Mourning Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, Tennessee Warblers, Pine Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Lincoln's Sparrow. Missed Canada Warbler. Details below. Good birding!! Sincerely, Chris T-H cth4th May 14, 2013 Hawthorn Orchard Traveling 0.75 miles 120 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Clear and cold to start. Mild warming and increasing light breeze. Sunny. Quiet in most areas but hopping with birds in select few spots, mostly mid-Northern and NE corner areas near ravine. Missed the Canada Warbler heard by others. 1 Osprey 1 Cooper's Hawk -- Display flight 10 Ring-billed Gull -- Flock overhead 1 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Least Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 2 Barn Swallow 3 Black-capped Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6 American Robin 5 Gray Catbird 9 European Starling 7 Tennessee Warbler -- Singing vociferously on North side. 3 Nashville Warbler 2 Northern Parula 5 Yellow Warbler 1 Cape May Warbler -- Singing softly and seen well in hawthorns at NE corner 23 Yellow-rumped Warbler -- Two large flocks, mostly in Mid/central northern side. 1 Pine Warbler -- Singing and seen in white pine at NE corner 1 American Redstart 1 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush -- Sang once from area just West of tall oak tree on East side of HO 1 Mourning Warbler -- Occasional singer in ravine on North side 5 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's Warbler -- Seen and heard singing at NE corner, top of ravine edge. 2 Chipping Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow -- Seen well. In with White-throated Sparrows at Mid/central Northern side 9 White-throated Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 8 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Common Grackle 2 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 Baltimore Oriole 4 American Goldfinch 2 House Sparrow -- 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/ --,05/14/2013 ,L122418 ,, ,, ,, ,08:44 ,, ,, ,Traveling ,1 ,120 ,Y ,0.75 ,, ,Clear and cold to start. Mild warming and increasing light breeze. Sunny. Quiet in most areas but hopping with birds in select few spots, mostly mid-Northern and NE corner areas near ravine. Missed the Canada Warbler heard by others. br /Submitted from BirdLog NA for iOS, version 1.5.2 TC001205,1| TC001371,1|Display flight TC002215,10|Flock overhead TC004955,1| TC006233,3| TC006377,1| TC007696,4| TC007761,2| TC008059,2| TC008130,3| TC008185,1| TC008586,1| TC009538,6| TC009980,5| TC010089,9| TC010477,7|Singing vociferously on North side. TC010483,3| TC010493,2| TC010505,5| TC010511,1|Singing softly and seen well in hawthorns at NE corner TC010513,23|Two large flocks, mostly in Mid/central northern side. TC010540,1|Singing and seen in white pine at NE corner TC010557,1| TC010561,1| TC010562,1|Sang once from area just West of tall oak tree on East side of HO TC010567,1|Occasional singer in ravine on North side TC010571,5| TC010587,1|Seen and heard singing at NE corner, top of ravine edge. TC011210,2| TC011267,5| TC011268,1|Seen well. In with White-throated Sparrows at Mid/central Northern side TC011271,9| TC011406,4| TC011453,8| TC011480,4| TC011520,2| TC011569,5| TC011743,4| TC011880,2| Sent from my iPhone
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
Thank you Jeff. I very much appreciate this first hand account and confirmation of what we have researched also. Hope you can come up here and bird again sometime. You could lead a walk at Renwick in celebration of the Cayuga Bird Club's 100 years. Best, Linda Orkin On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Jeff Nulle jnu...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I'm president of the Linnaean Society of New York, and I grew up in Ithaca and started birding with Arthur Allen and the other Cornell bird walk leaders in 1951 in a place that was never called anything other than Renwick Sanctuary. Best, Geoffrey Nulle --- On *Tue, 5/14/13, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes To: Diane Morton dianegmor...@gmail.com Cc: Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu, CAYUGABIRDS-L cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 11:41 AM If you follow this link to the Cayuga Bird Club newsletter you will be able to read one of four articles written by bird club historian Jane Graves this year. She has spent considerable time researching and detailing these facts so that the bird club history in Stewart Park could be well understood by us all. http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/about-us/the-renwick-wildwood-inception-1913--1914 And as Dave Nutter has pointed out, in all of this research there is no record or evidence that at any point was a name change from Renwick Wildwood to Fuertes Sanctuary ever either proposed or approved. For insight into the bird Club's involvement with the actual Fuertes Wildlife Sanctuary which we now call the swan pen, read the first of Jane's articles, which you can link to directly from this one. People should perhaps be encouraged to begin calling the swan pen the Fuertes Sanctuary. Best Linda Orkin President, Cayuga Bird Club Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Diane Morton dianegmor...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=dianegmor...@gmail.com wrote: I have a copy of a booklet called Stewart Park, Its History, Buildings and Plantings, published for Earth Day, 1990. Here is what it says about that tract of land: When the future of the park was uncertain, fifty-five acres immediately to the south were set aside as a bird sanctuary. Sometime in 1913, the land was presented to the City of Ithaca by Renwick descendants-- it was the last significant portion of the 1790 tract to remain in their hands. The sanctuary was christened as the Renwick Wildwood and maintained by the Cayuga Bird Club. The club developed a system of trails and constructed a concrete arch at the southern entrance in 1917. These projects were funded by the city's Board of Public Works, but executed with volunteer labor. The president of the club at the time was the artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. After his death in 1927, the sanctuary was renamed in his honor. So it would seem that either name could be used, with Fuertes Sanctuary dating from 1927. Diane Morton On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.eduhttp://mc/compose?to=m...@cornell.edu wrote: Hi all, Now I am curious to know why was it named Renwick Woods? Who was Renwick? Must have done something good to name after him and when was it named? If it was named before Fuertes' death Fuertes must have been in agreement with that naming, Curious about the Ithaca history. Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- *From:* bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.eduhttp://mc/compose?to=bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu[ bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.eduhttp://mc/compose?to=bounce-91398343-3493...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of nutter.d...@me.com http://mc/compose?to=nutter.d...@me.com[ nutter.d...@me.com http://mc/compose?to=nutter.d...@me.com] *Sent:* Monday, May 13, 2013 10:39 PM *To:* Christopher Wood *Cc:* CAYUGABIRDS-L *Subject:* Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes Yes, Fuertes made great contributions. There's a bronze plaque where a sanctuary was created in his honor shortly after his untimely death - the area now often called the swan pond. Cayuga Bird Club Historian Jane Graves has the documentation of this - contemporary newspaper accounts of the plans and fund-raising for that purpose. Websites are notorious for being inaccurate, and the City of Ithaca website referring to Renwick Wildwood (the name on the concrete arch) as Fuertes Sanctuary is unsubstantiated by any historical record that our historian has found so far. Please use the correct name, not perpetuate the misnomer. If someone sends you a reference to an official renaming of Renwick as Fuertes, please let us know. --Dave Nutter On May 13, 2013, at 05:14 PM, Christopher Wood chris.w...@cornell.eduhttp://mc/compose?to=chris.w...@cornell.edu wrote:
[cayugabirds-l] Blue-wings
Two newly-arrived Blue-winged Warblers are singing on our hillside today. And a Baltimore Oriole is singing the funniest ditty while snacking on various trees around the yard-- since 5:30 am it has been whistling yoo-hoo just like my iPhone does. Over and over and over and over, it makes me laugh. Nancy Dickinson Mecklenburg -- 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] Ruff update and other sightings
Tony Shrimpton reports that the Ruff was at Howland Island this noontime, but was just flushed with yellowlegs by a flyby falcon (probably the Merlin seen yesterday). So far he hasn't seen them come back but of course they may. I would also issue a plea for updates if anyone sees the Tricolored Heron (yes I'm perhaps the only one not to see it). Monday I looked for it on Seneca Trail and from the Rte 5/20 bridge (which offers a great view of the river in that area) but could not find. I know it has been seen on and off at the spot so may not be gone. No Glossy Ibis at Kipp Island or anywhere else that Rose DeNeve and I went. Shorebirds continue on the Main Pool but I could only find Dunlin, Least, and the two yellowlegs sp. Morning light is highly recommended for both Main Pool and Kipp spots unless overcast. Four Lesser Scaup were with 10 Ruddy Ducks at K-M marsh but ran out of light at Puddler's. Photo of the Ruff here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22183060@N08/8739033634/in/photostream Dave Wheeler N. Syracuse, 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] Renwick versus Fuertes
Hi all, Just a quick note to add more context. The City and the private group, The Friends of Stewart Park, have been awarded a grant to make some renovations to the Boat House that would allow limited use of the second floor. Additional grants will likely be applied for to further restore the Boat House. http://www.ithaca.com/news/article_7538462a-5fe9-11e2-84aa-001a4bcf887a.html The Friends may have a long-term plan for further improvements to the Swan Pen. http://friendsofstewartpark.org/ The larger, unkempt Bird Sanctuary is considered a Natural Area by the City and therefore received minimal maintenance as opposed to parkland. Although certainly the trails could be maintained by volunteers like they are in Six Mile Creek or as the Cayuga Trails Club does on other areas around the County. -Chris --- Chris Proulx Alderperson, Fifth Ward City of Ithaca cpro...@cityofithaca.org On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com wrote: If you buy a map of Ithaca, you see those woods clearly marked as Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. However it came to pass, Fuertes is the de facto name of those woods as far as the city and population is concerned. Jane's fine articles and research show that this is erroneous (I assume due to a clerical error or some such), but the truth is irrelevant if we don't do something about it (e.g., make corrections in the city records, publicize the matter more widely, etc.). I think the important question is: do we want to do anything about it? Getting it right may be an uphill battle for minimal gain, causing nothing but confusion along the way. Maybe it's just best and easiest to stick with the wrong name. Speaking pragmatically, one might consider the potential impact on conservation of both the wildwoods and the swan pen. Both places look to many people like messy unkempt places that could benefit from being replaced by nice neat gardens or apartment buildings (I'd like to think this is less true of Ithacans -- but remember the clearing of Salt Point a few years back? It only takes a few ill-informed people in power to make huge mistakes). Does attaching the Fuertes name carry more weight with potential conservation discussions in the future? Which parcel needs it more? The swan pen looks messier, and the boathouse (which I guess was slated to house a birding museum) is in bad disrepair. After reading about this Fuertes Bird Sanctuary last fall, I *ahem* may or may not have snuck upstairs to the balcony of that building, to be amazed by the view it gave of the ponds -- it's a fantastic spot for birding. But the floors are uneven, the wood looks weak and on the verge of collapse, and I assume the boat club blocks off that stairway for safety reasons. (Which is to say -- don't go upstairs; and if you do and fall, don't sue me or the boat club :-D). Sooner or later we'll be faced with having to do something about that building, and that could impact the future state of the swan pen a.k.a. the real Fuertes Bird Sanctuary. Suan -- 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/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Renwick versus Fuertes
What can or should be done to educate the public, now that we know that Fuertes' name was attached to the swan pond area, not the woods south of Stewart Park?* Website: It ought to be easy to get the City of Ithaca Website changed from Fuertes to Renwick.* Arch: As part of the Cayuga Bird Club centennial we could repair or at least paint the arch to cover the graffiti and accentuate the original lettering.* Signage: The Cayuga Waterfront Trail Initiative and Cayuga Bird Club are designing kiosks about birding for Stewart Park and the adjacent woods. Rick Manning, Linda Orkin, Jane Graves, Lynn Leopold, and I have been working on this. Planned locations includeon the boardwalk between the suspension bridges, near the swan pond, and alongthe lakeshore (perhaps more than one spot, or perhaps just one a short distance east of the swan pond).There are apt to be some place names on the panels which will spread the word on what to call them.We plan to include historical information about how these areas were saved, geographical and ecological information about why they are great places for birds and birding, information about and pictures of some of the birds we find there, and information about the habitats they use and need, so that those habitats will be appreciated.Some habitat features which I think are in particular need of appreciation education include:* Thickets: shrubs which reach the ground to meet ground plants below, and fruiting vines above: In the past few years nearly all shrubs in Stewart Park have bottomed out and wood chips put below. The result is a dearth of sparrows in most of the park, and Northern Mockingbirds are pretty much gone. I think the people who view parks as places only for lawn with discrete trees would love to clean up the swan pond area entirely (you may have noticed that the path has been greatly widened and straightened in the last few months), so I want to emphasize its habitat features which give birds cover and food. I think it's worth pointing out that the swan pond area is a bird sanctuary, even though it now serves different species than in the original plan.* Logs along the shore and in the water: Driftwood accumulation is a natural process which has been going on at the head of Cayuga Lake since the last glacier retreated and the first trees returned, and it's not about to stop. The City can spend lots of money and energy fighting it, as they did a few years ago by hauling out and grinding every log they could get ahold of during winter's low water. There are still calls for hauling away logs and weed-whacking the shoreline. Or perhaps more people can be shown to appreciate the beauty and the wildlife they serve. The logs provide (photogenic) resting places for numerous species of water birds along the shore and out in the lake while protecting the shoreline from erosion. And the shoreline plants serve as cover for additional foraging species. Similarly the silt and aquatic plants along the shore can attract some incredible shorebirds in the fall.* Undisturbed shoreline: The more people walk along every stretch of shoreline, the fewer species of birds we have. In recent years the north end of Renwick has had a path formalized, and the shore has been used by more anglers. As a result it's getting harder to see Wood Ducks, Green Herons, and even Great Blue Herons which used to use the lagoon and the Renwick side of its shoreline tolerating people in Stewart Park proper. I think it's important to leave stretches of shoreline planted and less inviting to people walking, while a few access points and viewing areas can serve people's desire for access to the water and the views of birds as well as general beauty.* Snags and nest holes: Not every tree with a hole in it is dangerous, and not every dead tree is in a bad spot. They are worth appreciating and keeping whenever possible. It would be interesting to display a collection of photos of cool birds perched on snags around Stewart Park - Bald Eagles, Peregrine Falcons, Merlins, Ospreys, Double-crested Cormorants... For that matter maybe there should just be a website devoted to photos of birds at Stewart Park so people can get a sense of what we've found here.* Goose habitat: The more lawn for grazing and easy access to the shore, the more the Canada Geese have loved Stewart Park and defecated on it. There used to be more little hedges blocking the march of the geese. I think the resident geese serve an interesting birding function in that they attract rarities in passage and wounded birds after hunting, but I don't think we need so many Canadas. At any rate I think the public should be aware of where the geese came from (the rare midwesternmaximus race now thoroughly saved from extinction) and the habitats which attract them. And I think there are ways to diversify Stewart Park's habitats and bird life which would reduce the goose-crap problem.The Cascadilla Boathouse is owned by the City but used by the Cascadilla
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Palmer Woods RBA just in.
Palmer Woods is just one of many Cornell Plantations natural areas, listed in publications on line. Palmer Woods is great for students living in Ecology House across Triphammer Rd, but difficult for car-dependent people without Cornell parking passes.Anyone who has heard the Yellow-throated Warbler at Palmer, I'm interested in which song it was singing, the typical one in most commercial recordings, a slightly descending series except the final note:teer teer teer teer teer teer tuweeOr the song the Renwick/Newman bird sang last spring and a few days ago, which sounds a bit like a warbler version of a Baltimore Oriole, and only has a couple representations in Macaulay Library:tututu tee-tu tee-tu tee-tu tee-tuAlso has anyone refound the Renwick/Newman bird lately?--Dave NutterOn May 14, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Scott Haber scotthab...@gmail.com wrote:Are we sure it's not called Fuertes Woods? Perhaps someone should look into it.On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Kevin J. McGowan k...@cornell.edu wrote:This is a nice patch of woods that extends into Cayuga Heights, with trails going out onto Triphammer (and now a Frisbee golf course). I've banded crows in there for 25 years, and I've only just now heard it referred to as Palmer Woods. It is off of Jessup Road, bordered by Jessup Field, so all I've ever heard before was Jessup Woods. Kevin-Original Message- From: bounce-91604351-3493...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-91604351-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Cornell Mail Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:46 AM To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg Cc: Gary Kohlenberg; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Palmer Woods RBA just in. Dear all, Palmer Woods refers to the wooded area immediately north and west of A-Lot on Cornell's North Campus. In particular, the tennis courts in question are just north of Jessup Road near where it intersects with Triphammer. As for why this area is called Palmer Woods, I cannot say. The area is well known to student birders, so it is likely that one of us came up with the name many years ago. Good birding, Reid Rumelt Cornell University On May 14, 2013, at 10:38 AM, "Kenneth V. Rosenberg" k...@cornell.edu wrote: Dare I ask -- Where is Palmer Woods!? KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 (wk) 607-254-2412 (cell) 607-342-4594 k...@cornell.edu On 5/14/13 8:18 AM, "Gary Kohlenberg" jg...@cornell.edu wrote: BBarkley: Yellow-throated Warbler singing at Palmer Woods! By the tennis courts...havent heard it for about 5 minutes -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeav e.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 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 List Info:Welcome and BasicsRules and InformationSubscribe, Configuration and LeaveArchives:The Mail ArchiveSurfbirdsBirdingOnThe.NetPlease 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!
[cayugabirds-l] Downy at the Hummingbird feeder
I am curious as to why the downy is after the sugar water. I just changed it yesterday and with the chill in the air I doubt if there are any ants in there. Any ideas? Thanks, Barbara Eden -- 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] Ruff update and other sightings
NO RUFF. Waited for Ruff to return until 5:30 PM Tuesday. No luck. Judy Thurber Liverpool Sent from my iPad On May 14, 2013, at 2:01 PM, tigge...@aol.com wrote: Tony Shrimpton reports that the Ruff was at Howland Island this noontime, but was just flushed with yellowlegs by a flyby falcon (probably the Merlin seen yesterday). So far he hasn't seen them come back but of course they may. I would also issue a plea for updates if anyone sees the Tricolored Heron (yes I'm perhaps the only one not to see it). Monday I looked for it on Seneca Trail and from the Rte 5/20 bridge (which offers a great view of the river in that area) but could not find. I know it has been seen on and off at the spot so may not be gone. No Glossy Ibis at Kipp Island or anywhere else that Rose DeNeve and I went. Shorebirds continue on the Main Pool but I could only find Dunlin, Least, and the two yellowlegs sp. Morning light is highly recommended for both Main Pool and Kipp spots unless overcast. Four Lesser Scaup were with 10 Ruddy Ducks at K-M marsh but ran out of light at Puddler's. Photo of the Ruff here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22183060@N08/8739033634/in/photostream Dave Wheeler N. Syracuse, NY -- 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: 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] Hawthorn Audio Challenge
Hi All, I just posted a clip of about 7 minutes recoding of birds I recorded while standing in one location in Hawthorn Orchard on May 11 2013 around 8.oo AM. Where birds moved around, at least some of them (not catbird) and some sang two different songs for the same species. Also some of them are chip notes and scolding notes too. So see how many can you identify and at what minutes? It is great exercise for brain to see how it does multitasking. There at least 16 species in this recoding that include eight warblers. If anyone can pick some additional birds I would be thrilled. https://soundcloud.com/meena-haribal/hawthorn-orchard-spring You can comment on the Soundcloud or write to me! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ -- 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] eBird -- Hawthorn Orchard -- May 14, 2013
Birded the Hawthorn Orchard this evening from about 6:15 to now. Tons of Yellow-rumped Warblers. 1 silently foraging INDIGO BUNTING. 3 Palm Warblers. Several Baltimore Orioles. All mostly in Northern half of Hawthorn Orchard. Tomorrow could be a good day area-wide. We'll see. Good birding! Sincerely, Chris T-H cth4th May 14, 2013 Hawthorn Orchard Traveling 0.5 miles 84 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes Comments: Very quiet but productive in spots. Tomorrow could be a good day area-wide. 1 American Kestrel 1 Least Flycatcher -- Calling 2 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 4 Gray Catbird 2 Tennessee Warbler -- None vocalizing. Seen only. 2 Nashville Warbler -- None vocalizing seen only. 40 Yellow-rumped Warbler -- At least 40, if not more. Quietly feeding in tight flocks scattered around mid-Northern section 3 Palm Warbler -- Three different pale individuals. No vocalizations. Two in one tree. Mid-Northern section. 1 American Redstart 3 White-throated Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting -- Silently feeding in Hawthorn treetops, mid-NW section 7 Baltimore Oriole -- Several foraging in Hawthorns Northern section Sent from my iPhone -- 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] Lumpy Hooded Warblers?
Hi, Many hooded warblers are sleek little birds, looking much like this http://www.greglasley.net/hoodedwarbler.html. A couple days ago, I was watching the local male signing, and he had a distinct hump on his back, like this http://www.lilibirds.com/gallery2/v/warblers/hooded+warbler_001/hooded+warbler+2.jpg.ht only even a bit more pronounced. It was a warm day, before the weather turned, so there was no thermal reason for him to be fluffing out his back feathers, and it seemed no different in size during or between bursts of song. Photos on the internet show some other males with similar bumps or humps, and some without. So does anyone know what's with the hump? Is this a fat deposit? (This male has been back on territory since May 5th, but I don't know how long it would take him to replenish fat reserves, or if there would be a concentration of fat on his back.) Alicia -- 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] Lumpy Hooded Warblers? - better link!
The link for the lumpy warbler photo isn't working (thanks, Fritzie!) sohere's http://www.avibirds.com/html/Hooded_Warbler.html one that does, and here's http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TCWSQn8YsY8/UALj6WpH8kI/AxA/nRUwfdn2pP8/s1600/BP+Hooded+Warbler+E.jpg another! On 5/14/2013 9:03 PM, Alicia Plotkin wrote: Hi, Many hooded warblers are sleek little birds, looking much like this http://www.greglasley.net/hoodedwarbler.html. A couple days ago, I was watching the local male signing, and he had a distinct hump on his back, like this http://www.lilibirds.com/gallery2/v/warblers/hooded+warbler_001/hooded+warbler+2.jpg.ht only even a bit more pronounced. It was a warm day, before the weather turned, so there was no thermal reason for him to be fluffing out his back feathers, and it seemed no different in size during or between bursts of song. Photos on the internet show some other males with similar bumps or humps, and some without. So does anyone know what's with the hump? Is this a fat deposit? (This male has been back on territory since May 5th, but I don't know how long it would take him to replenish fat reserves, or if there would be a concentration of fat on his back.) Alicia -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net 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] Palmer's Woods - Prof. Lawrence Palmer
Our family knew adored Eph Palmer as well as his wonderful wife, Dr. Katherine Van Winkle Palmer, the director of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) for many yrs.. The Palmers lived on the corner of Oak Hill Rd. sorta' kitty-corner across Triphammer from the area now known as Palmer's Woods. While I don't know if they at one time owned that plot, it's possible. (A note about their brick house it was/is a Sears Roebuck house!!!) Geoffrey Nulle, who wrote to Linda Orkin, might well know if Palmers owned land across Triphammer since he was living in Ith. 10 yrs. before we arrived, when that area was far more wooded than it is now. Eph was a botanist, naturalist, birder .. into all things nature his Cornell Rural School Bulletins are still cherished by many. We will part with ours only when we die!!! Same with his Fieldbook of Natural History. He was a person you wish you had met long before you actually did. Thanks, Carol, for mentioning E. Lawrence Palmer. You beat me to it!! Fritzie Carol Schmitt wrote about Palmer's Woods - Prof. Lawrence Palmer Dr. E. Lawrence Palmer was a professor of nature study at Cornell, a number of decades ago. One of our famous local people, actually, with a long tenure and many professional books and articles to his name. Carol Schmitt -- 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/ --
