Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Asher Hockett
half Of Melanie Uhlir >>> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:17 PM >>> To: Carolyn McMaster <c...@briarpatchvet.com>; 'Ann Mitchell' < >>> annmitchel...@gmail.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> >>> Subject: Re: [cayu

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread RICHARD WOOD
ABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks Good grief! Thank you for the heads-up!! Melanie On 10/22/2015 1:39 PM, Carolyn McMaster wrote: Dr. Carolyn McMaster here, Just a note of caution for all you fellow birders. This is the season when

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Carolyn McMaster
Dr. Carolyn McMaster here, Just a note of caution for all you fellow birders. This is the season when ticks are most active. Even after it freezes, if it goes above freezing during the day, the ticks will be foraging for a blood meal. Only after continual hard frosts will they go dormant.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Melanie Uhlir
<cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks Good grief! Thank you for the heads-up!! Melanie On 10/22/2015 1:39 PM, Carolyn McMaster wrote: Dr. Carolyn McMaster here, Just a note of caution for all you fellow birders. This is the season when ticks are most active. Eve

RE: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal
:30 PM To: Asher Hockett Cc: Melanie Uhlir; Paul Anderson; CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks Oxpeckers and such birds on other continents could give us some purposes. Although apparently the story is muddy: see http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/2/154.full Anne

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Melanie Uhlir
Good grief! Thank you for the heads-up!! Melanie On 10/22/2015 1:39 PM, Carolyn McMaster wrote: Dr. Carolyn McMaster here, Just a note of caution for all you fellow birders. This is the season when ticks are most active. Even after it freezes, if it goes above freezing during the day, the

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Ann Mitchell
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Paul Anderson
] On Behalf Of Melanie Uhlir Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:17 PM To: Carolyn McMaster <c...@briarpatchvet.com>; 'Ann Mitchell' <annmitchel...@gmail.com>; CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks Good grief! Thank you for the heads-up!!

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Scott Haber
n Minnesota with Steve Weston and we made a game out of counting > how many ticks we each had pulled off of ourselves and each other. > > Richard > > -- > Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:57:02 -0400 > Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks > From: mpitzr

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Deer ticks

2015-10-22 Thread Glenn Wilson
Last night I walked the Marsh Trail at Binghamton University and there was a student dragging a 30 inch square white cloth on the ground. I inquired. She was collecting tics - and had collected about 10. As the cloth is dragged across the ground, they grab on. She flips the cloth over and there