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Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 6, 2017, at 12:02 AM, Upstate NY Birding digest > <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> wrote: > > CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Thursday, July 06, 2017. > > 1. Eagles > 2. slightly off-topic - 18th century maps of Montezuma and Cayuga Lake > 3. MNWR highlights today > 4. Indigo buntings > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Eagles > From: Bard Prentiss <bvanwoer...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:43:50 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > Has anybody seen eagles lately? > Juveniles? at Dryden lake > > Sent from my iPhone > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: slightly off-topic - 18th century maps of Montezuma and Cayuga Lake > From: "Liisa S. Mobley" <ls...@cornell.edu> > Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 19:15:43 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 2 > > Hi everyone- > I've been out of town, so I hope I am not duplicating anyone's previous email > - I know there are some other library people on this list. > > I thought people might enjoy this tidbit from the Cornell University Library > - historic maps of NYS, including one which describes the area we know of as > the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge as ""Resort of gees and ducks of all sorts all > the year." > > http://www.newyorkupstate.com/ithaca/2017/07/cornell_buys_rare_map_showing_upstate_ny_before_revolutionary_war.html > > If you click on the image at the top, the gallery will open; images number 3 > and 7 show the Montezuma area, and number 9 shows where there was a "tarry" > or canoe ferry to take people across the north end of the lake. This would > be useful for those days when you see an interesting bird on the lake, and > the bird somehow always seems closer to the other shore. > > -Liisa > > > Liisa Mobley > Electronic Resources Unit Supervisor, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY > 14853 > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: MNWR highlights today > From: <k...@empacc.net> > Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 22:41:15 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > While doing odonate surveys today we had a lovely run of seldom seens. > At Tschache we had 2 each of Virginia rail, Dora and Least Bittern. > Counted a minimum of 20 Black Tern individuals including three newly > fledged birds. Later at the Sandhill Crane unit we had an American > Bittern fly across Van Dyne Spoor just at the beginning of the wetlands. > > > Lots of other birds around to disturb the concentration on bugs! Never > did see the reported pelican. Saw three new Bald Eagles and two adults. > > John and Sue > > -- > John and Sue Gregoire > Field Ornithologists > Kestrel Haven Migration Observatory > 5373 Fitzgerald Rd > Burdett, NY 14818 > 42.443508000, -76.758202000 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Indigo buntings > From: Linda Post Van Buskirk <l...@cornell.edu> > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 00:37:27 +0000 > X-Message-Number: 4 > > I am fortunate to have some fruiting mulberry trees that bear particularly > delicious fruit. Indigo buntings are among the birds that savor the berries, > and as I stand under the tree eating berries, I see buntings only 10 to 15 > feet from me. What a treat! > > > Also, towhees have been particularly common this year (or maybe I'm just > spending more time looking for them). > > > Linda VB > > > > --- > > END OF DIGEST > -- 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/ --
