[cayugabirds-l] Western Tanager - Yes, March 10

[Mike Powers]

The Western Tanager was present outside of Day Hall just after noon today 
(Thursday, March 10). It took a while, but it eventually made an appearance 
with the House Sparrows visiting the seeds on a window ledge on Day Hall, then 
it disappeared into the conifers by the College store.

Thanks to everyone for posting about this bird, it was a treat to see it! 

Good birding,
Mike

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Michael Powers
Horseheads, NY

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[cayugabirds-l] N. Saw-whet in Seneca County

[M Miller]

Northern Saw-whet Owl seen Thu night about 11 PM, off East Lake Rd in Fayette 
(off Rte 96A). Perched in a pine tree in a hedgerow.


Mark Miller (bird 199 for the year )






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[cayugabirds-l] text of City goose hazing memo and feeding ban

[Dave Nutter]

TO: Common Council
FROM: Josephine Martell
DATE: March 3, 2016
RE: No Feeding Geese Ordinance

As part of a city-wide effort to better manage the Canada goose population and 
protect
our wildlife, the City of Ithaca has been working to come up with a humane 
management
plan that addresses the needs of our residents. Ithaca has increasingly 
struggled with a
burgeoning geese population on all habitable lands, which has led to 
considerable
human-wildlife conflict, especially around goose poop on playing fields and 
parklands
where people like to recreate. Geese prefer wide-open, grassy spaces near water 
and
Ithaca has these locations in abundance. Not only relegated to Ithaca, this has 
become
a widespread problem in many states across the U.S.

In the summer of 2015, a small working group was convened, as a sub group of the
Ithaca City Parks Commission, to come up with a set of recommendations for how 
to
address the issue of Canada Geese on city lands. Membership of the group 
included
Josephine Martell, Common Council and Chair; Rick Manning, Friends of Stewart 
Park;
Jim D’Alterio, Director of Cass Park; and Larry Fabbroni, Parks Commission 
member.
The group met two times and had a series of e-mail discussions. After reviewing 
the
literature on Canada Goose management, considering public opinion in Ithaca, 
reaching
out to wildlife and management experts, and examining how other communities have
dealt with this issue, the group proposed a 3-5 year pilot program.

The proposed program consists of a three-prong approach that includes egg 
oiling,
hazing and implementing a no feeding ordinance, as these are the three main
components of any successful, non-lethal management program. This approach is
supported by NY DEC, US FWS, and even The Humane Society of the Unites States.
The primary goal of the program is to deter the geese from staying on City 
lands by
making it unappealing for them and forcing them to go elsewhere. Ithaca cannot 
address
the increasing geese population as a whole across the US, or even NYS, so this 
strategy focuses on keeping them off the City lands where they are causing the 
most human-wildlife conflict. Other management options are still being 
considered but this is the approach we are currently trying as information is 
gathered over the next few years.

The group also held an initial stakeholder meeting in early January, 2016 with 
a variety
of local stakeholders including NY DEC, Cornell Department of Natural Resources,
Friends of Stewart Park, Ithaca College, Ithaca High School, the State Parks, 
Cornell
Plantations, the Parks Commission, the City Forrester (who serves on the Parks
Commission and has been very active in the discussion all along), the Ithaca 
Youth
Bureau and the Director of a national program, Geese Peace. Other local 
stakeholders
including the Lab of Ornithology and the Cayuga Bird Club were also invited, 
and are
part of the discussion, but could not attend the meeting.

As a result of that meeting, the following activities were identified for the 
first year:

1. Create and populate a GIS map of geese nests through volunteer partnerships
2. Draft a geese management plan for the City based on the agreed outcomes
3. Draft and propose a no feeding ordinance City wide. Install signs along our 
waterways
and launch a PR campaign to educate public about the new rule. Parks staff to 
help
educate public.
4. Work with DEC in summer 2016 to band and collar geese within the City to 
better
determine their movements and population
5. Explore the possibility of a student intern for summer 2016 to test some 
hazing
methods and identify key conflict areas, and work with DEC

The No Feeding ordinance (#3) is currently before us for review. DEC strongly
encourages communities to implement a no feeding ordinance as part of a Canada
Geese management plan for a variety of reasons including that feeding water 
fowl leads
to poor nutrition for the birds, encourages unnatural behavior (no fear of 
humans),
causes over crowding, leads to costly management strategies and more. We hope to
bring this ordinance before the May Council meeting as, due to goose biology, 
the bulk
of goslings will hatch during the end of April and early May. If we can have 
signs
installed, staff ready and some well framed media and social media placement on 
the
issue prior to hatching, then we will be in a good position to change public- 
and goose-
behavior on this issue. We hope to communicate to the public how feeding is 
currently
hurting the geese by encouraging them to stay and providing them with poor 
nutrition,
which causes a series of impacts and human conflict. We intend to emphasize 
that by
not feeding geese, and discouraging them from public lands, the public can help 
us
manage the geese population and hopefully decrease it over time. The City 
Forester,
Jeanne Grace, feels that her staff can handle the majority of public education 
in the
parks around this issue.

3/3/16
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[cayugabirds-l] City of Ithaca to haze geese

[Dave Nutter]

On Tuesday I attended part of a City of Ithaca Parks Commission meeting to 
learn about a potential new Osprey platform to be installed in Cass Park near 
my house. I was surprised to walk in on the tail end of a discussion of hazing 
geese and banning waterfowl feeding on all City-owned lands. Over a year ago 
along with Steve Kress I had been invited to a meeting about geese in the 
parks, and it seemed to me that the agreed upon path to reduce goose poop - the 
only actual complaint - was to try habitat modification to move geese out of 
the high priority areas. Since then it appears that a subcommittee of the Parks 
Commission has been quietly taking a far more disruptive tack. A "stakeholders" 
meeting did not include local birders or ornithologists who recognize the 
unique value of Stewart Park for observing waterfowl.

The first step of the plan is to ban waterfowl feeding, which is odd, because 
that doesn't seem to me to occur much, unless you count the vast areas of mown 
grass near water on which the geese dine daily. The few people - usually 
families with small kids - I've seen feeding birds in Stewart Park are getting 
a very positive experience learning about birds and bonding with them. The 
reasons given for banning feeding don't seem credible to me: that grain or 
bread is harmful to them (migratory geese travel hundreds of miles on a diet 
largely of waste grain), that feeding makes the geese come to the lawns (but I 
see geese rest or graze on lawns where I've never seen people feed them), that 
feeding makes geese unnaturally unafraid of people (I think being around people 
who don't harass them has accomplished that), and that feeding causes unhealthy 
crowding (flocks are normal). This is the "education" that will be promoted in 
a PR campaign.

Perhaps the feeding ban is aimed to break any bonds between members of the 
general public and the birds in preparation for the plan to haze the geese - 
deliberately harass them throughout City parks and also in the water, according 
to Common Council member and Parks Commission subcommittee chair Josephine 
Martell. Stewart Park will no longer be a peaceful place to watch birds. 
Getting good looks at Brant, Greater White-fronted Goose, Cackling, and "Blue" 
Goose as we've seen in recent years among the grazing, resting, or nearby 
swimming Canada Geese will be a thing of the past. I am also concerned that any 
disruption of geese in the water will disrupt the easily observed activities of 
Common Mergansers, Hooded Mergansers, Mallards, and shy Wood Ducks which breed 
here. I think we are less likely to see migrant dabblers such as Blue-winged 
Teal and Northern Shoveler along the shore or close rarities such as the King 
Eider if the geese are frightened or constantly harassed. Just after we got 
relief from hunting we are facing a much more concerted disruption within the 
park and the adjacent waters, exactly where hunting was banned. I don't know 
how far out into the lake they intend to harass the birds, so it may affect 
many more species. Anyway it looks to me like it may be a major change to 
waterfowl observation if this goes through.

The memo talks about a "burgeoning geese population on all habitable lands" 
although I suspect the authors have no idea how many geese are involved, where 
they go, whether the number is rising, steady, or falling, the average 
lifespan, the reproduction or recruitment rates. They talk about an attempt to 
learn some of that, but it seems like action before knowledge is the modus 
operandi, and the goal is to get rid of geese entirely.

I will send the memo about the overall plan and the ordinance in a separate 
email. It was just passed for a 1-month "circulation" on Wednesday evening by 
the Planning and Economic Development Committee of Common Council. Their hope 
is to pass it at their next meeting, and then quickly pass it at Common 
Council. If you value the birding experience at Stewart Park, feedback to PEDC 
chair Seph Murtagh , members Cynthia Brock 
, Ducson Nguyen >, Graham Kerslick >, and Josephine Martell 
 and Mayor Svante Myrick 
 may be helpful. 
--Dave Nutter


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Field Trip This Sunday, 8am

[bob mcguire]

Snow Geese: I drove up the lake and around the Montezuma Complex today. The 
only concentration of Snow Geese I found was about 6,000 in a corn field on 
Wiley Road, just west of Rt 89, south of Savannah. None at Mud Lock. None at 
East Road. None in the Mucklands. None on Carncross Road.

Otherwise of note were singing Eastern Meadowlarks on Lake Road, downhill from 
the winery, and three calling Sandhill Cranes that flew into Knox-Marsellus 
Marsh and disappeared in the vegetation.

Good Luck Sunday.

Bob
On Mar 10, 2016, at 6:56 PM, Suan Hsi Yong  wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Just a reminder that I'll be leading a CBC field trip up the lake this Sunday.
> Meet at the lab at 8am, which is earlier than you think due to spring ahead!
> Although scheduled to end at 4pm, I'm aiming to be back earlier than that, 
> unless the snow goose spectacle is still around (are they still around?).
> All levels welcome. Dress for the weather, which may be on the damp side, but 
> warmish.
> We'll make some stops for snacks, probably starting with Dorie's in Aurora.
> If students need a ride from the campus area, please email me by 4pm 
> Saturday, with an indication of whereabouts you could be picked up. If any 
> other drivers planning to attend are willing to pick up students, please drop 
> me a note as well, and I'll let you know by 5pm Saturday whether your 
> services will be needed.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Suan
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[cayugabirds-l] Turkey talk

[Geo Kloppel]

I'm hearing a lot of yelps and gobbles right now from over in the nature 
preserve (the portion of the L-P Preserve west of Beech Hill Road)

-Geo

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

[Gary Kohlenberg]

I know a little more than nothing about molt progression, but I haven't seen 
any changes during the times I've been observing.
Gary


From: bounce-120255067-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-120255067-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Kevin J. McGowan
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:53 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
Subject: RE: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

Nice photos. I see no progression of molt from when I photographed the bird on 
27 Feb: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27850362. Does anyone else 
see any changes?

Kevin

From: 
bounce-120254348-3493...@list.cornell.edu
 [mailto:bounce-120254348-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Elaina M. 
McCartney
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:37 AM
To: Dave Nutter; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

The Western Tanager was enjoying the fruits of a tree in Wee Stinky Glen 
yesterday morning (March 9) shortly after 9 am, on a branch above the path that 
goes by the bench near the upper entrance of the Cornell Store.  A few photos:

https://flic.kr/p/EY3hcB
https://flic.kr/p/EY3j9H
https://flic.kr/p/EY3gEK
https://flic.kr/p/EDDnaL
https://flic.kr/p/F4V9qN
https://flic.kr/p/E9R1n6

When I first noticed it, I was drawn to look up by singing.  The Western 
Tanager was on a branch close to a House Finch.  A set of more photos is at 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/emccartney/albums/72157665124320010

Elaina

From: Dave Nutter >
Reply-To: Dave Nutter >
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 21:42:39 -0500
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

The WESTERN TANAGER is still being reported via eBird daily on Cornell 
University campus in the same area - the alcove at the east entrance to the 
underground Cornell Store (good for sunning and eating fruits of vines on the 
wall), the south and west sides of Day Hall (whose inhabitants put seed on the 
windowsills), the nearby stream known as Wee Stinky Glen and the fruiting trees 
over it, with forays to the south side of Sage Chapel.

Please keep reporting this bird. Also, any photographers or observers of 
detail, please let me know if you believe you are seeing progression of molt. 
I'd love to see the bird with more adult or breeding male characteristics such 
as red around the face or darker back feathers.

--Dave Nutter

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Morning voices

[Chris R. Pelkie]

Before a week ago, I had observed Pileated, Hairy, Downy, Flicker, and 
Sapsuckers at one point or another (in past years) doing the ‘flicka-flicka’ 
type interaction where a pair (sometimes M-F, sometimes M-M) were ascending a 
pole or tree and playing hide-and-seek while doing this vocalization.

Although Red-bellied Woodpeckers abound in our yard, woods, and bark butter 
feeder, it was only a few days ago when I walked out to observe 2 males 
ascending a bare tree, with a female in an adjacent tree, one M doing a loud 
Wukka-Wukka at the other.

New yard bird vocalization for me (yes, I’m reduced to that now….)

ChrisP
__

Chris Pelkie
Information/Data Manager; IT Support
Bioacoustics Research Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

On Mar 10, 2016, at 10:41, Geo Kloppel 
> wrote:

A very light sprinkle, and I'm working with the door open. There sure are lots 
of bird voices around my yard this morning! A Song Sparrow seems to be the only 
new arrival, unless there are newcomers among the Juncos that are trilling from 
all directions. But Cardinals, Robins, Jays, Crows, Ravens, Purple Finches, 
Goldfinches, all the recent regulars seem to have found their more exuberant 
voices. A Barred Owl is day-hooting from down in the direction of the West 
Danby Fire Station, Pileated Woodpeckers are working somewhere quite close, and 
a Red-bellied Woodpecker that hangs out around my shop broke from its usual 
querrs and chatters for a string of slow woika-woika-woika interaction calls - 
perhaps for a mate.

Hundreds of Red-winged Blackbirds have gone over, and a few thousands of Canada 
Geese, all turning west-northwest, rather than continuing north toward Ithaca.

I flushed a Ruffed Grouse from the thickets down in the orchard, and I see the 
Turkeys have been raking the ground aggressively there. No Fox Sparrows yet...

-Geo

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[cayugabirds-l] Morning voices

[Geo Kloppel]

A very light sprinkle, and I'm working with the door open. There sure are lots 
of bird voices around my yard this morning! A Song Sparrow seems to be the only 
new arrival, unless there are newcomers among the Juncos that are trilling from 
all directions. But Cardinals, Robins, Jays, Crows, Ravens, Purple Finches, 
Goldfinches, all the recent regulars seem to have found their more exuberant 
voices. A Barred Owl is day-hooting from down in the direction of the West 
Danby Fire Station, Pileated Woodpeckers are working somewhere quite close, and 
a Red-bellied Woodpecker that hangs out around my shop broke from its usual 
querrs and chatters for a string of slow woika-woika-woika interaction calls - 
perhaps for a mate.

Hundreds of Red-winged Blackbirds have gone over, and a few thousands of Canada 
Geese, all turning west-northwest, rather than continuing north toward Ithaca.

I flushed a Ruffed Grouse from the thickets down in the orchard, and I see the 
Turkeys have been raking the ground aggressively there. No Fox Sparrows yet...

-Geo

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RE: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

[Kevin J. McGowan]

Nice photos. I see no progression of molt from when I photographed the bird on 
27 Feb: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27850362. Does anyone else 
see any changes?

Kevin

From: bounce-120254348-3493...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-120254348-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Elaina M. 
McCartney
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:37 AM
To: Dave Nutter; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

The Western Tanager was enjoying the fruits of a tree in Wee Stinky Glen 
yesterday morning (March 9) shortly after 9 am, on a branch above the path that 
goes by the bench near the upper entrance of the Cornell Store.  A few photos:

https://flic.kr/p/EY3hcB
https://flic.kr/p/EY3j9H
https://flic.kr/p/EY3gEK
https://flic.kr/p/EDDnaL
https://flic.kr/p/F4V9qN
https://flic.kr/p/E9R1n6

When I first noticed it, I was drawn to look up by singing.  The Western 
Tanager was on a branch close to a House Finch.  A set of more photos is at 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/emccartney/albums/72157665124320010

Elaina

From: Dave Nutter >
Reply-To: Dave Nutter >
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 21:42:39 -0500
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

The WESTERN TANAGER is still being reported via eBird daily on Cornell 
University campus in the same area - the alcove at the east entrance to the 
underground Cornell Store (good for sunning and eating fruits of vines on the 
wall), the south and west sides of Day Hall (whose inhabitants put seed on the 
windowsills), the nearby stream known as Wee Stinky Glen and the fruiting trees 
over it, with forays to the south side of Sage Chapel.

Please keep reporting this bird. Also, any photographers or observers of 
detail, please let me know if you believe you are seeing progression of molt. 
I'd love to see the bird with more adult or breeding male characteristics such 
as red around the face or darker back feathers.

--Dave Nutter

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[cayugabirds-l] Ruby-throated Hummingbird

[Elizabeth King]

A friend in Lansing, on East Shore Circle, saw a male hummingbird on Tuesday 
evening. It was looking for the feeder which, of course, hadn't been put out 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

[Elaina M. McCartney]

The Western Tanager was enjoying the fruits of a tree in Wee Stinky Glen 
yesterday morning (March 9) shortly after 9 am, on a branch above the path that 
goes by the bench near the upper entrance of the Cornell Store.  A few photos:

https://flic.kr/p/EY3hcB
https://flic.kr/p/EY3j9H
https://flic.kr/p/EY3gEK
https://flic.kr/p/EDDnaL
https://flic.kr/p/F4V9qN
https://flic.kr/p/E9R1n6

When I first noticed it, I was drawn to look up by singing.  The Western 
Tanager was on a branch close to a House Finch.  A set of more photos is at 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/emccartney/albums/72157665124320010

Elaina

From: Dave Nutter >
Reply-To: Dave Nutter >
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 21:42:39 -0500
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
>
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] please keep reporting Western Tanager

The WESTERN TANAGER is still being reported via eBird daily on Cornell 
University campus in the same area - the alcove at the east entrance to the 
underground Cornell Store (good for sunning and eating fruits of vines on the 
wall), the south and west sides of Day Hall (whose inhabitants put seed on the 
windowsills), the nearby stream known as Wee Stinky Glen and the fruiting trees 
over it, with forays to the south side of Sage Chapel.

Please keep reporting this bird. Also, any photographers or observers of 
detail, please let me know if you believe you are seeing progression of molt. 
I'd love to see the bird with more adult or breeding male characteristics such 
as red around the face or darker back feathers.

--Dave Nutter


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