[cayugabirds-l] Purposed birding and nature observation site

[Bard Prentiss]

Hi All, 

Please watch the attached video and message from Bob Beck supporting 
the proposed extension of the Jim Schug trail, from Dryden to the East 
Ithaca Recreation Way.   When complete the trail will provide access to 
many otherwise nearly inaccessible top shelf birding and general nature 
observation sites and opportunities, as well as a safe footpath and bike 
way connecting Dryden to Ithaca and its large network of trails.

You can voice your support for the trail and the many opportunities it will 
provide birders and naturalists by voting once a day until May,12. Please 
do so.  We can use all the help we can get.  $50,000 to $100,000 would 
go a long way towards making this project a reality.

Best,
Bard  

Bard V. Prentiss
27 East Main Street
Dryden, NY 13053
bvanwoer...@gmail.com
607-844-4691




Begin forwarded message:

> From: Robert Beck 
> Subject: Vote for Dryden Rail Trail video
> Date: April 12, 2017 at 3:37:00 PM EDT
> To: 
> 
> Hello Friends of Dryden Rail Trail,
> 
> Help us win $50,000 or $100,000:
> 
> Vote for Dryden Rail Trail video in USA Today’s “A Community Thrives” grant 
> competition.
> 
> Help our rail-trail effort by watching and voting for this short 1 1/2-minute 
> video (Dryden Rail Trail) on USA Today's website. Here’s the link: 
> 
>  http://act.usatoday.com/submit-an-idea/#/gallery/60418376 
> 
> You can even vote once a day for the next month (April 12–May 12; you enter 
> your name, birthdate, email and ZIP code). And you can help by sharing this 
> information and link with all of your friends. Your votes count! (But please 
> be patient with their sometimes slow website.)
> 
> My thanks to Steve Foote and Gordon Beck for producing our little video on 
> very short notice.
> 
> Bob
> 
> Bob Beck, Chair
> Rail-Trail Task Force
> Town of Dryden
> (607) 423-0397 (mobile)
> 
> 
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[cayugabirds-l] Myers swallows

[Jay McGowan]

Still waiting on martin for a swallow sweep, but all the rest were sitting
on the wires and nearby trees between the two marinas at Myers Point
morning. Not much else happening on the lake.

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S35916598

Here at the Lab we just had a nice bright Yellow Palm Warbler, along with a
Field Sparrow and a Winter Wren, along the pond side of the Wilson Trail.

Jay

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[cayugabirds-l] Migrants around home

[Geo Kloppel]

I went out at 5:45 for the pre-dawn chorus. The temperature was 32 degrees F. 
From my place on Tupper Road I walked a few hundred yards over to Beech Hill 
Brook in the Lindsay-Parsons Preserve, hoping for some Hermit Thrushes. On my 
way I passed several Eastern Towhees that were exchanging "chewink" calls. When 
I got to the brink of the ravine, the falls below were making a lot of noise, 
and I couldn't hear any Hermits, but from downstream I caught the distant 
ringing song of a Louisiana Waterthrush, proclaiming in the traditional nesting 
territory. So I walked down that way to enjoy it up close. I was pretty happy 
to find it there, because the flood of 2015 had scoured the gorge severely, and 
I'm not sure that nesting even took place last year. 

I crossed the brook and ascended to "the back stairs" (local nickname for 
steep, narrow Beech Hill Road). There I found a single Yellow-rumped Warbler 
singing in the hemlocks, but no Hermit Thrushes yet. At the second "landing" 
(think stairs again) I turned west, descended to the stream and climbed up the 
other side to reach the Danby/Newfield town line and cross back into my own 
property. In a grove of spruces there I finally heard a Hermit Thrush, and 
found a Ruby-crowned Kinglet too, probably the same one that showed up there 
yesterday.

-Geo


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