The Cayuga Bird Club will be meeting on Monday, December 9, at 7:30 at the
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with cookies and
conversation at 7:15.
The speaker for the evening will be former Club president, Bob McGuire, with a
presentation entitled, The Way West: Birding with a Microphone”.
I spent a summer banding bats in Indiana as part of an undergrad project
from Earlham College. It was supervised by Jim Cope, father of Ed Cope
of our Ithaca community. We banded 10,000in one summer mainly from large
breeding colonies. My first science paper was on the results of that bat
I installed a bat house on the southeast side of my house over a year ago,
but haven't attracted any customers. There aren't any bat lures, are
there? ; )
Robin
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:11 AM, John Confer con...@ithaca.edu wrote:
I spent a summer banding bats in Indiana as part of an
Dave Tetlow just called me to tell me there are 4 Snowy Owls sitting on the
muck lands on the south side of route 31 in Savannah. Also 1 earlier at
Sodus bay. Mike Tetlow
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I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter http://www.spamfighter.com/len
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SPAMfighter has removed 498 of my
Keep your eyes peeled for Snowy Owls in the Finger Lakes region. They should
begin making their way down into the farmlands of the Finger Lakes in the
coming days/weeks. Obviously, with snow on the ground, spotting these birds is
made more difficult against a white backdrop.
A reminder not to
~2PM today, 4 Snowy Owls on the North side of RT 31...easily viewed from
the potato building.
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On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:11 AM, John Confer
con...@ithaca.edumailto:con...@ithaca.edu
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They do poop and pee during the winter, which can leave stains and smells.
Stupid question, but what do they do the rest of the year?
But in all seriousness, thanks for the useful information! I've had
I don't know if it's okay to keep this going, but... We have bats in our
attic and our barn. I'm not really sure if they stay all winter. But we
usually have 3 or 4 come into the living quarters during the summer. I
think it would be a good idea to ban them from the attic, but don't know
how to
Thanks John for identifying our bat. I'm sorry it's gone. A few years ago
we took a birding trip in the UK. The co-leader was Patty Briggs who is a
bat expert in England and she instilled in us a real appreciation of bats.
She told us how some bats hibernate in some of the huge ancient
As noted earlier today, there were four Snowy Owls just to the north of the
Potato Building in the Mucklands this afternoon. One of them was heavily barred
(most likely a 1st year female). One was nearly pure white (most likely an
adult male). The other two showed varying amounts of barring
An interesting article on Snowy Owls:
http://vtecostudies.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/ghosts-from-the-arctic/
Bob McGuire
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What an interesting read. Thanks for finding it for us all!
Judy Thurber
Liverpool
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On Dec 6, 2013, at 6:58 PM, bob mcguire bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com wrote:
An interesting article on Snowy Owls:
http://vtecostudies.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/ghosts-from-the-arctic/
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