I dig up the entire plant, including the substantial taproot, when I see the
big heart-shaped leaves, well before the burrs form. Then I leave it
upside-down to dry out & die, or in a pile of other plants I’m pulling out,
again with roots in the air.
- - Dave Nutter
> On Oct 4, 2022, at 9:06
At Salt Pt we discard whole burdock plants & burrs cut up in big garbage bags.
Don’t want the things we cut out to seed elsewhere!
Donna Scott
Kendal at Ithaca
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On Oct 4, 2022, at 9:01 AM, Dave Nutter wrote:
Burdock is one of the non-native invasives which I actively
Burdock is one of the non-native invasives which I actively eliminate from my
property for this reason. But it’s not just small birds and big burrs which can
be a problem. I once rescued an exhausted Gray Catbird ensnared in a stand of
what I think was Virginia Stickseed, a native plant.
On a
;
CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch mishap
We cut out all burdock we find at Salt Point, Lansing.
I have found some here at Kendal to cut.
Donna Scott
Kendal at Ithaca
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On Oct 4, 2022, at 8:01 AM, bob mcguire wrote:
So good of you, Sara. This happens all too often
Donna how do you discard that?
Linda
> On Oct 4, 2022, at 8:49 AM, Donna Lee Scott wrote:
>
> We cut out all burdock we find at Salt Point, Lansing.
> I have found some here at Kendal to cut.
>
> Donna Scott
> Kendal at Ithaca
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>>> On Oct 4, 2022, at 8:01 AM, bob
We cut out all burdock we find at Salt Point, Lansing.
I have found some here at Kendal to cut.
Donna Scott
Kendal at Ithaca
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 4, 2022, at 8:01 AM, bob mcguire wrote:
So good of you, Sara. This happens all too often. I came across a goldfinch
several years ago, stuck
So good of you, Sara. This happens all too often. I came across a goldfinch
several years ago, stuck fast in the burrrs of a burdock along the East Ithaca
RecWay (near Game Farm Road). Sadly, by the time I came by, it had perished.
Bob
> On Oct 3, 2022, at 10:19 PM, Linda Orkin wrote:
>
> So
So glad you happened along and rescued him. Small birds getting caught in
noxious weeds as they’re foraging for the seeds is a know hazard. Lucky for him
you came along.
Linda Orkin
> On Oct 3, 2022, at 10:10 PM, Sara Jane Hymes wrote:
>
> Yesterday as I was out walking, a couple pointed
Yesterday as I was out walking, a couple pointed out to me, that there was a
Gold Finch flapping about in a burdock plant! I went up to the plant and saw
that the bird’s wing was clearly stuck and attached to the burdock, so I
gathered the bird in my hand and gently pulled its' stuck wing
, 2022 4:59:34 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch eye disease
A number of goldfinch at my feeder in
W. Danby have eye disease. They’re so disoriented they
often land on me as a perch
-126569463-82496...@list.cornell.edu
on behalf of Peter McDonald
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2022 4:59:34 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch eye disease
A number of goldfinch at my feeder in W. Danby have eye disease. They’re so
disoriented they often land on me as a perch trying
A number of goldfinch at my feeder in W. Danby have eye disease. They’re so
disoriented they often land on me as a perch trying to find the feeders, which
I scrub each week with warm water and a touch of bleach. Is the LabofO still
keeping tabs on this? If so where to report my data. Other
The eldest are documented at around 9 years. There's no way to compute
an average.
For this and other longevity questions, this is the most accurate
source:
https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/longevity/Longevity_main.cfm
John
---
John and Sue Gregoire
Field Ornithologists
Kestrel Haven Migration
How long, on average, do goldfinches live?
*"True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar; it comes to see
that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." — Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
*
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Peter
Folks.
I've read in both the book "Into the Nest (by Laura Erickson & Marie
Read) and on the Lab's Birds of North America online that, on the
average, male goldfinch live longer than females. Can anyone shed light
on why this is so? I recently purchased a new niger tube feeder that is
3
Two days ago, in the early evening, when the heavens opened up and heavy
rains fell steady, cold, and dreary, I was outside and ran to seek
shelter. As I entered my back porch, I turned around to watch the rain and
noticed several small birds fluttering in an amongst a tall and leaning
Norway
:[cayugabirds-l] goldfinch with injured eye
Forgot to add:
We are in Caroline, off Level Green.
-Heidi King
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Heidi Bardy
hbardyk...@gmail.commailto:hbardyk...@gmail.com wrote:
We have a goldfinch with an injured or infected eye who has been visiting our
feeders
We have a goldfinch with an injured or infected eye who has been visiting
our feeders. Last week the eye looked cloudy, but at this point all the
feathers on that side of her face look clumped together, and the eye can't
be seen. It seems to be getting worse.
In addition to being heart-wrenching,
I believe Wes is correct and I should add that this bacterium can be spread by
contact. The implication here is that we should be cleaning our feeders often
and
then treating them with a 10% bleach solution. Let that air dry and do not
rinse.
Over the last 25 years we saw a rise and then fall
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch conjunctivitis?
I'm wondering whether goldfinches get conjunctivitis the way House Finches have
been-- my cousin found a goldfinch that looked to be suffering from something
similar to the conjuncitivitis I've seen in House Finches, though I
: [cayugabirds-l] Goldfinch conjunctivitis?
I'm wondering whether goldfinches get conjunctivitis the way House Finches have
been-- my cousin found a goldfinch that looked to be suffering from something
similar to the conjuncitivitis I've seen in House Finches, though I couldn't
see details from
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