Force of habit. There's a certain threshold of persistence required to
accomplish an honorary name change, and the Cayuga Bird Club seems never to
have risen to it. Even the club website refers to the place as Renwick
Sanctuary, so club members can't be faulted for following along.
Fuertes
Having grown up in Ithaca and after 64 years it is hard to change old
habits. Also some of us are resistant to change :?)
Having said that here is a piece of Ithaca history that you might find
interesting.
In the late 1790s, Andrew Moodie received Military Lot No. 88 as part of
his land grant
Thanks, Carl for the history lesson. I agree with you about the name. I've
lived in the area nearly 51 yrs. have NEVER connected the name Fuertes with
Renwick or Stewart because NO ONE ever, in my hearing, called it that, even the
elderly woman I knew whose bro., a conductor on the trolley,
Sorry for re-sending Carl's letter with my comments.
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I found an interesting article from the Cornell Daily Sun, Issue 128, 22
March, 1928, page 5, titled Fuertes Bird Sanctuary Will Represent Extensive
Development of Stewart Park. Subtitle: Dredging on project to develop
marshlands at head of Cayuga Lake in memorial to Louis A. Fuertes '97 begun
This morning, I decided to check out the Hawthorn Orchard, in the event of a
potential fallout, despite the drizzle and wind. I birded there from about
8:00am to 8:45am.
Highlights are below:
1 GREEN HERON (likely built a nest, growls heard and bird later seen in
flight, SW corner near
Hi all,
Highlights at Stewart Park around 8:00-8:45 this morning included 8 COMMON
TERNS on a log near the red lighthouse, 1 CLIFF SWALLOW with the dozens of
(mostly Barn) swallows way offshore, and a Western PALM WARBLER singing in
the willows along the shore near the tennis courts. No sign of
Thanks to Bill Hecht, I have placed his scan of said article here:
http://www.northeastbirding.com/FuertesSanctuary.jpg
After reading this article, it would appear that the Swan Pen is actually the
Fuertes Memorial Bird Sanctuary, (a.k.a. Fuertes Sanctuary?), following the
untimely death of
Chris wrote:
After reading this article, it would appear that the “Swan Pen” is actually
the Fuertes Memorial Bird Sanctuary
Well that would certainly give us good excuse for having retained Renwick
Sanctuary as the proper name for the woods!
-Geo
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On May 8, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes c...@cornell.edu
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What is the label on the cement archway at the old SE entrance to Renwick?
I’m wondering when that was created
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Don't remember the name for certain, but I do recall that there's a date on it.
On May 8, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes
c...@cornell.edu wrote:
What is the label on the cement archway at the old SE entrance to Renwick?
I’m wondering when that was created
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Rick wrote:
I have a photo. I would love to work with Bird Club to restore the Arch.
That ought to cement the proper name of the sanctuary into the minds of
present-day club members!
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I have been reading the e-mails on Fuertes vs Renwick Sanctuary.
I was wondering how did or could Cayuga Bird Club rename a place by something
else. Did they have to go through town administrators to change the name?
Secondly, if CBC can give names could some one in future change the name
According to a hiker's account that I've come across, the inscription on the
arch reads:
Renwick Wildwood
Sanctuary
Cayuga Bird Club
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An article appeared in the Ithaca Daily News, Monday evening June 11,
1917:
BIRD CLUB GIVES ARCH TO THE CITY
Several Hundred Attend Impressive Ceremony In Renwick Wildwood
The arch at the entrance in the Renwick wild woods presented to the
city by
the Cayuga Bird Club was dedicated
Cayuga Bird Club was formed by luminaries like Andrew White, Anna Comstock,
James Needham and other Cornell related people.
Andrew White was a President and I think Anna Comstock was secretary at one
time. Bill Hecht has some old articles that he had sent to me. Some of these
are (or were)
When Drew called me about the rare Yellow-throated Warbler, and I sent out the text message from my phone, I had to be concise but clear. "Fuertes" and "Renwick" are the same number of characters, but "Renwick" is, I think, a bit less ambiguous. "Renwick" refers to a couple streets in a
This is from:
New York: A Guide to the Empire State
Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Progress
Administration in the State of New York
Copyright 1940
page 243
Stewart Park, at the head of Cayuga Lake, the principal public park of the
city, includes a bathing beach with
Just now (6:45PM) at our feeders in Danby. Life bird and yard bird in one.
We saw the blue and snagged the bins and when it returned (here again right
now} made a positive ID. Blue with some reddish cheek spots (1st year?),
chestnut-red wing bars, an absolutely gorgeous bird!
Lot of activity at
At the dedication ceremony (June 10, 1917) the Cayuga Bird Club was represented
by Louis A. Fuertes, who presented the new arch to the Mayor of Ithaca,
Frederick E. Bates
Meena wrote:
Cayuga Bird Club was formed by luminaries like Andrew White, Anna Comstock,
James Needham and other Cornell
So Matt's puzzler devolves to the question whether the Renwick Wildwood
Sanctuary was actually renamed after the untimely death of L. A. Fuertes, or
whether that claim only represents a garbled memory of the creation of the
Fuertes Memorial Waterfowl Sanctuary (which we've forgetfully dubbed
I am recording and listening live right now in Etna, NY. There is a nice
assortment of birds thus far:
Veery, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Solitary Sandpiper, Warblers.
Good birding!
Sincerely,
Chris T-H
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I have been reading all of these posts with a great deal of interest. The 100th
anniversary of the Cayuga Bird Club's founding will soon be upon us.
It would be a wonderful project for club members to continue research into
this history and come up with a plan to bring the names and honors
I spent most of the morning in Stewart Park, Renwick Wildwoods, along the Cayuga Waterfront Trail by Pier Rd, along the east and north sides of Newman Golf Course, at the Cornell Biological Field Station (aka Jetty Woods), and even out to the lighthouse. It rained much of the time, which made
Hi Dave and All,
I should have said this in my original message about Renwick vs. Fuertes, and
that is that my message was not meant in any way to criticize you or anybody
else for using the name Renwick for the area in question. I apologize if my
message was taken as criticism of any sort--it
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