[cayugabirds-l] Cayuga Bird Club meeting, October 8
Next Monday, October 8, will be our monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club. Speaker: Kyle Horton, Ph.D; Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Presentation: Cloudy with a Chance of Migration The notion of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of migratory birds passing in and out of broad geographic areas is of considerable public and ecological interest -- and of conservation concern. Capturing and quantifying these large-scale movements has remained a principle challenge. Kyle will discuss how he uses weather surveillance radar to quantify and forecast migratory movements across the United States. The meeting will be held at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. Doors open at 7:00 pm and there will be cookies and conversation starting at 7:15. Bird club business begins at 7:30 pm followed by the presentation. All are welcome.Members are invited to join Kyle Horton for dinner at Aladdin's in Collegetown just before the meeting at 5:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Colleen Richards at cl...@juno.com by noon Monday so reservations can be made.Have a great weekend. Colleen Richards Cayuga Bird Club Corresponding Secretary 13 States to “Secede� After Supreme Court Debacle? thelegacyreport.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5bb8144184b4914410eacst03duc -- 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] Cornell Community Gardens, Fri 10/5
On Saturday and Sunday, I’ll lead Cayuga Bird Club field trips in search of sparrows and other field birds. We’ll start at 8 AM on both days at the Cornell Community Gardens along Freese Road, and then head over to the Bluegrass Lane fields if we have time. Come prepared to walk through mud and tall, wet grasses and weeds. Although the weather forecast appears a little less than ideal, I expect a lot of fine birding. Today, Diane Morton, Ken Kemphues, and I found a very good variety of sparrows at the community gardens, including two LINCOLN’S SPARROWS, at least five WHITE-CROWNED SPARROWS (2+ juvenile, 3+ adult), one or more WHITE-THROATED SPARROWS, a couple of SWAMP SPARROWS, a FIELD SPARROW, and very many SONG SPARROWS. Later Bob McGuire and I found several SAVANNAH SPARROWS here too, plus what I think was probably a third Lincoln’s Sparrow. Earlier, Diane, Ken, and I went looking for birds, especially Nelson’s Sparrow, in the patches of cattails and goldenrod amid the sea of grass west of Bluegrass Lane just south of Hanshaw Road. We didn’t find Nelson’s, but did get a nice long sunlit view of a Lincoln’s Sparrow, plus another of a beautiful female NORTHERN HARRIER. We also heard an AMERICAN PIPIT or two flying overhead. I hope to see many of you this weekend! Mark Chao PS. Another highlight of the day: two COMMON RAVENS soaring in circles together for 5+ minutes, very high above our home on Simsbury Drive in northeast Ithaca. This is probably the first time I’ve ever seen multiple ravens here at home. -- 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] Sparrows
There appears to have been a significant movement of sparrows overnight, judging by the oodles of various sparrows scattering up from the roadsides this morning. Nelson's Sparrows anyone...? Good luck searching! Sincerely, Chris T-H 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/ --
