Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead sharpie for donation

[Maryfaith Miller]

I didn't mention it sooner because it seems like a long way to travel...
But if the frozen bird can get a ride to Lime Hollow Nature Center in
Cortland, NY, I would use it for education in the preschool. What a rare
opportunity to examine a wonderful bird up close.
Maryfaith Decker
646-369-2653
Director, Lime Hollow Forest Preschool

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024, 5:31 PM Peter Saracino  wrote:

> My friend has  a window strike victim in the form of a Sharpe-shinned hawk
> (I think, vs Coopers). He'd like to see it get used for educational or
> research purposes. Any thoughts of a good contact person at the lab or
> somewhere else? He can transport it. Just needs a destination.
> Many thanks.
> Sar
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Tick disease other than Lyme.

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Paywall 

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 8:58 PM Peter Saracino 
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/health/babesiosis-tick-disease-northeast.html
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Not the birds please

[Maryfaith Miller]

This is a huge list, with lots of different people on it. It is so
unprofessional to use it to soapbox your personal political bent. I hope I
never read another email like that on here again.
Maryfaith

On Sat, Jun 5, 2021, 5:26 PM Carl Steckler  wrote:

> First it was statues, then military bases.
> Now the target of the woke crowd are birds.
> The American Ornithological Society is thinking about changing the names
> of some birds because they have a past that some call racist.
>
> Common people there is no room for political correctness in bird watching,
>
> Or did I just miss the memo?
>
> Please don’t let this hysteria ruin our hobby.
>
> There may be scientific reasons to change the name but unit for political
> reasons.
>
> Birding is and should be open and available to every person, period.
> What is next, ABA verses Audubon?
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Black billed cuckoo

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Outside of Cayuga basin, but I had a black billed cuckoo at Lime Hollow
Nature Center on Wednesday.
Good birding!
Maryfaith

On Sat, May 22, 2021, 3:00 PM Jared Dawson  wrote:

> I was just wondering about the BB Cuckoos this morning. On Thursday I
> heard one, possibly two, at the Blueberry Patch Campground in the Finger
> Lakes NF. Friday, a good look at one in a tree at Lindsay-Parsons, and this
> morning heard one briefly on Waterburg Rd south of Trumansburg where I live.
> In other news, the two Merlins are still in evidence around the upper
> village, but I have not yet found their nesting location, if there is one.
> I was just giving up on the Red-headed WP which has bred successfully close
> to my house for two years running, but Mark Devokaitis kindly informed me
> that he had one not far away in the vicinity of Congress and Seneca Sts a
> couple of evenings ago. Gotta find it (or better, them).
> Cheers, Jared Dawson
> Trumansburg
>
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 1:01 PM John Gregoire <
> johnandsuegrego...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We have had both cuckoos singing ( if you can call a rain crow a
>> songster)for over a week. Alder and Willow flycatchers yesterday and today
>> and Eastern Wood Pewee three days back. Oddly, our usually dependent Green
>> Heron nesters are absent for the first time in years as are House Wrens.
>>
>> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 10:29 AM Suan Yong  wrote:
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>>> Black billed cuckoo also heard singing at lower Treman state park, heard
>>> distant singing approx from direction of the campgrounds.
>>>
>>> Seems like a banner spring for BBCU?
>>>
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[cayugabirds-l] Mud Lock bird/broken wing

[Maryfaith Miller]

Forgive me if this has already been reported: there is a white duck or
goose, domestic I suppose, with one wing hanging at Mud Lock, north end of
Cayuga Lake. I was paddling by so can't be too sure.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Angry birds (Am robins!)

[Maryfaith Miller]

I have used pokeweed berries in my forest kindergarten class to dye wool an
intensely beautiful shade of purple. 5-6-7 year olds, harvested, crushed,
boiled over a campfire and stirred the pot full of wool roving and pokeweed
berries. My students love knowing which plants are deadly poisonous. I have
taught them a lot about mushrooms, and all of them can identify a
destroying angel, jack o'lanterns, etc. Knowledge is power, and children
love having this knowledge. They know where all the pokeweed plants are at
Lime Hollow and love to inform people about them.

 But this is a bird list, and the question is about bird behavior...I'd
love to hear about the OP's question re American Robin aggression if anyone
knows more about that.
Maryfaith Decker Miller

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:38 AM  wrote:

> And I am living proof that eating young pokeweed is not deadly. We didn’t
> use 3 waters either, although drained it.
> But I am NOT suggesting everyone try it. Young spinach causes less panic.
> Or try lambs quarters.
> Anne
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Oct 26, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Regi Teasley  wrote:
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> I understand Pokeweed is poisonous to humans.  Your thoughts on keeping
> these plants?
>
> Regi
>
>
> *What good is a house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it in?
> Henry David Thoreau*
>
> On Oct 26, 2019, at 9:01 AM, anneb.cl...@gmail.com wrote:
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> 
> This morning I have a large number of robins all age/sexes foraging on my
> productive pokeweed berries and scratching leaves AND chasing each other
> hard and long.  More athletic long chases than I am used to associating
> with robins.
>
> They are not just chasing around the berries although I watched some head
> lowered face offs ( before a chase) on the fence near pokeweed.
>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Swallows eating mushrooms

[Maryfaith Miller]

Alyssa,
I know I have to fight the insects for my share of the mushrooms I like to
eat, and it makes me wonder if the birds know how mushrooms can be loaded
with bugs. Did you get the sense that the birds were consuming the
mushrooms, or rummaging through them for insects? Very interesting behavior!
Maryfaith


On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 9:25 AM Johnson, Alyssa  wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I observed something so strange this morning. There are several dozen
> juvenile tree swallows all over the back lawn at the Montezuma Audubon
> Center (presumably staging?) fluttering in the air and landing on the
> ground. I watched multiples feeding on these small white mushrooms, which
> iNaturalist tells me are milky conecap. I have a picture of the mushroom
> with feeding marks on it if anyone wants to see. I am trying to get a
> picture of the swallows actually feeding on the mushrooms but they won’t
> hold still!
>
> Thoughts?!
>
> Alyssa Johnson
> Environmental Educator
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> 2295 State Route 89
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> (315) 365-3588
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] ? Barn owl

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It's not unheard of. We have an established barn owl breeding on Owasco
Lake. We have heard it and seen it's shape, heard begging babies and two
owls calling at the same time during summer nights for at least 8 years. If
there is successful nesting going on so close, it seems reasonable that the
birds are also in the Cayuga basin.
Just my two cents.
Maryfaith

On Feb 23, 2018 12:24 PM, "Fredric Kardon"  wrote:

> I go out to fill our bird feeders after dark every day.  Sometimes I
> hear the call of a great horned owl, barred owl, or screech owl.
> Wednesday night I think I heard a barn owl scream--a very even trill
> lasting 2-4 seconds, repeated every minute or so about 6 times. I
> never heard this call before.   Reports of barn owls in this area are
> very rare on Ebird, and I wonder if I should be thinking of something
> else.
>
> Fred Kardon
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[cayugabirds-l] Sandhills in Genoa

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Two Sandhill Cranes at E. Venice Rd and Rt 90.

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[cayugabirds-l] Kestrals (Lots!)

[Maryfaith Miller]

Just drove up Harrison Rd, off of Rt 90, in Summerhill. There was a Kestral
on the telephone wire, and then another, and another, until there were
either 5 or 7 (they were really moving around!) I can only imagine that
they are a family group of parents and fledglings. They were leapfrogging
from pole to pole and down into the cornfields and back up. Then they
regrouped in a stand of pines by the cemetery by rt 90 where they were very
concerning to some robins.

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[cayugabirds-l] First of...Ever!

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Heard some strange high pitched calls and crow drama...looked up to see two
adult Bald Eagles in the snag by the lowest cow pasture. Never seen them
here at home before! Took photos to prove to husband. (Miller Farm, Hinman
Rd, Summerhill) we only have a trickle of a creek, don't know what they
could be interested in. We aren't far from Fall Creek, where they are known
to frequent. Shouldn't one of them be on a nest? Baffled and delighted,
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] First of...Ever!

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As I watched more and more birds arrived. At one point there were a dozen
TVs, a raven, masses of crows, a Red-Tailed Hawk and the one remaining Bald
Eagle. They were alternating dipping into the pasture where a calf was born
yesterday. The Bald Eagle flew off with the lions share of a gob of
placenta.
Just walked up to make sure it really was afterbirth, and got to watch a
male and female Bobolink up in a flowering apple tree. Three Orioles, two
Cowbirds and a Northern Kingbird rounded out a nice day of not working.
Maryfaith

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On May 17, 2014 3:35 PM, Maryfaith Miller merrymilkm...@gmail.com wrote:


 Heard some strange high pitched calls and crow drama...looked up to see
 two adult Bald Eagles in the snag by the lowest cow pasture. Never seen
 them here at home before! Took photos to prove to husband. (Miller Farm,
 Hinman Rd, Summerhill) we only have a trickle of a creek, don't know what
 they could be interested in. We aren't far from Fall Creek, where they are
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[cayugabirds-l] FOY Bobolinks

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In the cow pastures again. (We delay mowing) Summerhill.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Redo-breasted Grosebeaks

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I have a male this morning, Summerhill. (At the feeder)

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[cayugabirds-l] Galveston oil spill

[Maryfaith Miller]

Hello Good Birders,
  Has anyone out there ever de-oiled a bird? Is anyone considering heading
to Texas to help with recovery? I can't seem to get it off my mind. I left
my name with Houston Audubon, although they are only utilizing licensed
wildlife rehabbers and experienced de-oilers right now.
Maryfaith

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[cayugabirds-l] Horned Larks

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On Groton City Road, where farmers have been spreading manure, there are
loads of Horned Larks.  Also, a nice, large, roundish hawk up in a tree
with it's back to me. Did not have a red tail. I was too late for work
(again) to wait for it too move for identification. Also saw a Northern
Harrier which required pulling over to observe (even later to work). If you
head over to Groton City Road, which is a left off of 222 coming from
Groton, be sure to continue on to Hinman Rd. Hinman is the right turn at
the end of Groton City Road. A Short Eared Owl was spotted in the pastures
on the left 100yrds before the junction with rt 90. As you scan those
fields, you'll be treated to the Cardinal's loud clear tunes. Makes it
worth freezing your knuckles off. Good birding, Maryfaith

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[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owls?

[Maryfaith Miller]

Hi, I have friends visiting today. Where should I take them to hopefully
find a Snowy to see? Are they still present at Hancock? The Freeville Owl
location confuses me...there are Cornell barns on 366, also in Dryden. I
dont know of any in Freeville. Can anyone give a street crossing that would
help us? Thanks very much. Maryfaith

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[cayugabirds-l] Snowy Owl

[Maryfaith Miller]

Cortland County Rt 90, Tamarack Estates. 8:00 am Snowy Owl standing in
development lots. Coming from Homer on Rt 90, Tamarack Estates is a few
miles from 281, and on the right. Drive up into the development and the
bird is in the fields to the right. Thanks to tip from Sophia and Natalia,
young birders (maybe 3rd and 5th graders?) who first found this owl with
their dad.
Happy Birding, Maryfaith Miller

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[cayugabirds-l] Snowy at employee parking lot

[Maryfaith Miller]

Female snowy, 1:45 pm

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[cayugabirds-l] My current location

[Maryfaith Miller]

Here is a link to my current location:
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[cayugabirds-l] Summerhill

[maryfaith miller]

Hi folks, Hattfield Rd is quickly becoming my favorite place to bird.
Starting this spring when I found my first ever N. Shrike there, and
continuing through this morning (and most mornings when I stop there).
Along the side of the road is an old orchard where many birds must find
good habitat. I've decided birding while driving is just plain dangerous
and I have to stop, but the compromise is I still can listen for birds
while driving. So a loud clear song had me hit the brakes this morning...
The lovely song belonged to a Rufous-Sided Towhee, then found a Catbird.
There was a Red-Tail perched on the power pole calling and calling, then it
would do a small circle or two, land in the same place, and call and call
again. It repeated this the whole time I was there. What was this behavior?
It would seem I would be too low for it to be worried about my presence...
Also heard an Eastern Meadowlark.
But my treat was a calling Wood Thrush, way off in the woods.
Have a good-birding day, Maryfaith

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[cayugabirds-l] Fwd: [GDACC] Comment Today on Seneca Lake Industriaization

[maryfaith miller]

Hi Birders, I hope this isn't too off topic. I noticed in the paragraph
about shoreline construction a note about bird habitat. I am not that
knowledgeable about shorebirds. If anyone feels they can speak about how
this project could affect shore birds, habitat or migrations, please submit
your comment using the link. If you are not comfortable commenting directly
and would like to share your insights, I can craft it into a comment.
Thanks for your help, Maryfaith
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Date: Mar 26, 2013 9:41 AM
Subject: [GDACC] Comment Today on Seneca Lake Industriaization
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Dear Thirty Day commentators,

*Dust off your public commenting skills. They are needed right away—before
5 pm on Tuesday (tomorrow)*. In Watkins Glen, the oil and gas industry is
seeking to turn two empty, underground salt mines on the tranquil shores of
Seneca Lake into receptacles for the storage of natural gas that is fracked
out of the ground in other states. With this project come a compressor
station, pipeline, and debrining facility—along with the industrialization
of New York’s largest and deepest lake: the one named Seneca, a source of
drinking water for 100,000 people.

Right in the heart of New York’s wine country.

The company’s name is Inergy. It’s seeking a fast-track approval of its
project from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which would
allow it to bypass federal environmental review.

What do you think about that? Until the public comment period closes at 5
pm on Tuesday, March 26, you can submit your opinion on this idea directly
to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, using FERC’s direct on-line
form.http://nyagainstfracking.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9691e612c7b1b9a9a04bf1f41id=0fe4c87928e=435afd51a0
(The
easiest way to make your comment is to compose it in Word and then copy and
paste it into the comment field.) Make sure you data your comment and
indicate the docket number

You can submit as many individual comments as you like, but it’s important
that they all be substantive and unique.

Specifically, we are asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
to deny the application of the Inergy subsidy called Arlington Storage
Company, LLC, which seeks a Certificate of Public Necessity and Convenience
to allow for expansion of its natural gas storage facilities on the shores
of Seneca Lake.

In other words, Inergy’s Arlington wants FERC to skip a pesky environmental
review and just give its permission for a massive increase gas storage via
salt cavern by July 1—less than four months from now—and we’re saying (all
together now), “not so fast.”

Then you should clearly identify yourself and describe your connection to
this region. Be as personal as you like. (Have you ever vacationed in the
Finger Lakes? Do you enjoy New York wines? Do you like to fish?)

Next, explain why you believe FERC should deny this application. Here are a
few reasons to choose from. You may have others:

1) Aids and abets fracking. The company’s claim that the project is needed
to satisfy the Northeast’s growing demand for natural gas storage services
will only encourage the natural gas industry to ramp up shale gas
extraction further.

2) Economics. This project poses a significant threat to the economy of the
local community, which is built around the climate, tranquility, and beauty
of Seneca Lake. The financial viability of local wineries, hotels, and
recreation facilities hinges on the ability to attract tourists to the
area. Transforming a scenic and peaceful lakeside community into an
industrial gas storage zone will drives away tourists (maybe you yourself?)
and undermine the current local economy.

3) Public health. This project is a menace. Compressor stations, which
exert high pressure to squeeze the vaporous gases into liquids, generate
air pollution and 24/7 noise pollution. Arlington claims that it is not
subject to new performance standards for air pollutants.

4) Public safety. Of the ten catastrophic accidents involving gas storage
between 1972-2004, all involved salt caverns. In Hutchinson, Kansas,
natural gas leaking from a salt cavern triggered a series of explosions,
killed two people, and forced the evacuation of hundreds.

5) Migratory birds. Shoreline construction and industrialization will
interfere with them.

6) Secrecy. The public cannot offer its informed consent because Arlington
is keeping secret significant portions of its application by filing it as
“Critical Energy Infrastructure Information or Privileged Information.”
This includes basic geologic information about 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] redpolls

[maryfaith miller]

We have three! Nice Christmas gift for me, Maryfaith
On Dec 25, 2012 12:38 PM, Bill Mcaneny bmcane...@fltg.net wrote:

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 Our redpoll count just doubled from yesterday:  we now have TWO.  Ta Da!

 About 17 siskins on niger feeders.  When they left, the resident
 goldfinches returned, about 18 of them.  Hard to count 'em when they
 outnumber the perches on the feeders.

 The snow here (1 to2 inches) has made this a very birdy morning.  We must
 have been very good this year, to be so rewarded.

 Bill and Shirley McAneny, tburg
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