Greetings Cayugabirders, Apologies for the lack of field reports the past decade. I'm still trying to understand what happened and where the time went, but I don't recall seeing anything too noteworthy. I remember Ned Brinkley, Cayuga Basin birder extraordinaire in the early 1990s, saying he always got a rare bird when he was depressed or in need, and I love & often reflect upon that sort of interspecial pyschic connection (e.g. presumably as in the nature connection of the native american Cherokee Tribes & their kin).
In my progression away from Basin birding it seemed my calling perhaps was not specifically for rare birds but addressing needless slaughter of birds. I recall posting to this listserv on the issue of bird mortality at communications towers in early 1998 and soon after forming the website towerkill.com with Bernie Guirey of Horseheads, NY. For those interested, we have just updated the maps and data on tower farms in North America at the website www.towerkill.com so you can see the growth in tower numbers according to North American sector's of political meat. Simply stated, the slaughter of night migrating birds continues at TV & communications towers -- but there is some hope via the American Bird Conservancy's (ABC) lawsuit against our government's Federal Communications Commission (which regulates communications towers). It is clear to me over the past decade that ABC is an exemplary North American ornithological organization supporting preservation of our remaining avian populations. Please consider supporting ABC www.abcbirds.org/ to ameliorate a largely unknown millions of bird deaths at communications towers annually. Bill Evans Town of Danby, NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
