One more thing, I was pleased to see lot of younger people that included students from many local colleges and universities and also kids and families taking part in it!
I thought Ithaca was under represented in these categories. Where were all the Cornell students? Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf ________________________________ From: bounce-119679677-3493...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-119679677-3493...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Meena Madhav Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 8:18 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Mcukrace 2015 Hi all, Muckrace highlights were a total of 181 species were found in the MWC by 36 teams and 131 participants! The birds included a Connecticut Warbler taking bath in the roadside puddle on Towpath (I believe), a Ross Goose at Mud Lock and Yellow-headed Blackbird at Van Dyne Spoor. Last two species have been seen at the same locations for quite a few weeks now. Our own team had a modest total of 96 species. Highlights included a Phalarope species in the fading light of the evening at Eaton marsh which we finally concluded as Wilson's Phalarope and next day (i.e. Saturday) seeing one more Wilson's at Montezuma Audubon center, thanks to 'Arrogant Bustards' . But the shorebirds at MAC were very easy to see and very plenty in numbers. This was one of my most memorable shre bird viewing in the basin. Low lights were we did not see birds like Chipping Sparrow, Cowbird, Kingbird etc. Overall it was a great fun to do it again. This is my 16 th Muckrace and I have missed only three of them in between. The first ever Muckrace with Cayuga Bird Club as Bard's Sandpiper, when Bard Prentiss was President of the club and Tom Nix was our leader in 1997. It seems so very long ago it all happened. Over the years I have muckraced with so many different people on different teams with different team names! I have enjoyed all of those trips immensely and have life lasting memories of each and every race! Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://www.haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- 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/ --
