Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT

[Dave Nutter]

The birds Nari celebrated painted a picture for me of his yard. 

- - Dave Nutter

> On Jul 3, 2021, at 9:49 AM, Candace E. Cornell  wrote:
> 
> He was alway interested in the Ospreys and sent me many reports and 
> commentaries. He will be sorely missed. My condolences to his family.
> Candace Cornel
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 9:38 AM bob mcguire  
>> wrote:
>> Here is the Journal obituary:  
>> https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/theithacajournal/name/nariman-mistry-obituary?pid=199315381
>> 
>> I will always remember Nari for his enthusiasm, his smile, and his kind 
>> words. My condolences to his wife, Ginny.
>> 
>> Bob McGuire
>> 
>>> On Jul 3, 2021, at 9:16 AM, Laura Stenzler  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Nari was also a long-time participant in the Ithaca Christmas bird count 
>>> for area IV, usually counting along Dodge Road and Ellis Hollow Road.  He 
>>> was an enthusiastic birder and Cayuga Bird Club member.  He will be missed! 
>>> Condolences to his family.  
>>> Laura
>>> 
>>> Laura Stenzler
>>> l...@cornell.edu
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: bounce-125747424-8866...@list.cornell.edu 
>>>  on behalf of Donna Lee Scott 
>>> 
>>> Sent: Saturday, July 3, 2021 9:10 AM
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>>> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OT
>>> 
>>> I just read the interesting obituary of Nari Mistry in the Ithaca Journal. 
>>> Nari in the past was a frequent contributer to this bird list.
>>> 
>>> Donna Scott
>>> Lansing
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT

[Alicia]

Such sad news - Nari was an exceptionally kind & wise man.  In addition 
to all his other talents, he and Ginny created a beautiful bird-friendly 
garden on their land which they invited people to visit, and they 
generously shared advice.  We finally planted a Japanese quince this 
spring entirely because of Nari's gentle insistence that his quince 
always blooms just in time for the first hummingbirds.  I am grateful we 
have this reminder of this wonderful man visible from our front door.

A great loss to the community.

Alicia


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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT

[Candace E. Cornell]

He was alway interested in the Ospreys and sent me many reports and
commentaries. He will be sorely missed. My condolences to his family.
Candace Cornel

On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 9:38 AM bob mcguire 
wrote:

> Here is the Journal obituary:
> https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/theithacajournal/name/nariman-mistry-obituary?pid=199315381
>
> I will always remember Nari for his enthusiasm, his smile, and his kind
> words. My condolences to his wife, Ginny.
>
> Bob McGuire
>
> On Jul 3, 2021, at 9:16 AM, Laura Stenzler  wrote:
>
> Nari was also a long-time participant in the Ithaca Christmas bird count
> for area IV, usually counting along Dodge Road and Ellis Hollow Road.  He
> was an enthusiastic birder and Cayuga Bird Club member.  He will be missed!
> Condolences to his family.
> Laura
>
> Laura Stenzler
> l...@cornell.edu
>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT

[Deirdre Anderson]

Oh, how very sad! He was such a wonderful soul. I remember going on a bird
trip to Canada with he and his wife to see the Snowy Owls. Spending time in
the car to and fro gave me a glimpse into his fascinating life! What a
gentle soul, an avid bird watcher and loyal supporter of the CBC. I loved
reading his occasional post through the years. He will be missed.

Deirdre

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT

[bob mcguire]

Here is the Journal obituary:  
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/theithacajournal/name/nariman-mistry-obituary?pid=199315381
 


I will always remember Nari for his enthusiasm, his smile, and his kind words. 
My condolences to his wife, Ginny.

Bob McGuire

> On Jul 3, 2021, at 9:16 AM, Laura Stenzler  wrote:
> 
> Nari was also a long-time participant in the Ithaca Christmas bird count for 
> area IV, usually counting along Dodge Road and Ellis Hollow Road.  He was an 
> enthusiastic birder and Cayuga Bird Club member.  He will be missed! 
> Condolences to his family.  
> Laura
> 
> Laura Stenzler
> l...@cornell.edu
> 
> 
> From: bounce-125747424-8866...@list.cornell.edu 
>  on behalf of Donna Lee Scott 
> 
> Sent: Saturday, July 3, 2021 9:10 AM
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> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OT
> 
> I just read the interesting obituary of Nari Mistry in the Ithaca Journal. 
> Nari in the past was a frequent contributer to this bird list.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT

[Laura Stenzler]

Nari was also a long-time participant in the Ithaca Christmas bird count for 
area IV, usually counting along Dodge Road and Ellis Hollow Road.  He was an 
enthusiastic birder and Cayuga Bird Club member.  He will be missed! 
Condolences to his family.  
Laura

Laura Stenzler
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From: bounce-125747424-8866...@list.cornell.edu 
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I just read the interesting obituary of Nari Mistry in the Ithaca Journal. Nari 
in the past was a frequent contributer to this bird list.

Donna Scott
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: fireflies, bats, avian visitor

[Peter]

Dave Kyle Gage and I saw a black and white while birding at Shadagin 
Hollow yesterday (Thursday).


Pete Saracino


On 6/20/2017 9:49 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:

Again this year my overgrown yard at the base of West Hill in the City of 
Ithaca supports a show of fireflies. We first noticed them yesterday evening 
and it's too soon to tell if numbers are down, but at least they are not 
missing.

Bats are scarce, though. We saw one during an early warm spell this spring, and 
we worried it might not have aerial plankton to sustain it. Then we saw none 
for weeks. Recently we've seen one on a few evenings but not every evening. In 
past years there were commonly 2 or 3 pretty reliably. It's possible that this 
year we are not out looking as diligently though.

To redeem this as a birding post, I will add that this morning in an unusual 
occurrence a male Black-and-white Warbler visited our yard, singing 
persistently while foraging in a maple tree (okay, it was our neighbor's tree, 
but I'm still counting it!). Eventually his songs moved farther off to another 
yard down the street. I guess he was cruising rather than defending a territory.

--Dave Nutter


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Re:[cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

[Bill Evans]

Hello Josh,
Sedge Wren (NY Threatened) should be added if there are fields within FLNF that 
are not managed for cattle and putting greens. I recall being a part of July 
surveys during the early 90s where we found a Sedge Wren with young and lots of 
Henslow’s in late cut hayfields around the periphery of FLNF, but none within. 
I suspect both species may still be irregular breeders in small numbers at FLNF 
& vicinity, especially in fields with no grazing contracts.

Bill Evans



On Mar 15, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Joshua Snodgrass  wrote:
  Hello all, 
  I've been volunteering in the Finger Lakes National Forest checking on the 
condition of bird boxes for the new biologist there. He is currently updating 
the Regional Forester Sensitive Species list for the forest, and asked for my 
input on any birds that should be added to the list that are in trouble. It 
would be irresponsible of me to give advice without asking for input from this 
community, who are far more knowledgeable than I am. 
  What I have done in my efforts to make good recommendations are to crosscheck 
eBird sightings with the NY DEC's list of state Endangered, Threatened, and 
Species of concern, as well as the most recent State of the Birds report for 
species that are in trouble versus those that occur in the forest. I included 
any birds in the SotB report that received a score of "13" or higher. If any of 
you have recommendations for additional species, or other edits, please let me 
know. Thank you all for any input. Below is the list of bird species I came up 
with that have been recorded in eBird as occuring in the Finger Lakes NF, with 
NYDEC sensitive species first.

  Short-eared Owl- NY Endangered
  Golden Eagle- NY Endangered (usually a migrant, one recent record of a 
perched bird)
  Pied-billed Grebe- NY Threatened
  Bald Eagle- NY Threatened
  Northern Harrier- NY Threatened
  Henslow's Sparrow- NY Threatened
  Upland Sandpiper- NY Threatened (flyover record, but habitat seems amenable)
  Northern Goshawk- NY Species of Concern (SoC)
  Cooper's Hawk- NY SoC
  Sharp-shinned Hawk- NY SoC
  Red-shouldered Hawk- NY SoC
  Common Nighthawk- NY Soc
  Horned Lark- NY SoC
  Vesper Sparrow- NY SoC
  Grasshopper Sparrow- NY SoC

  Birds not listed by NY DEC, but in trouble globally according to 2016 State 
of the BIrds report follow.  The State of the Birds Watch List includes any 
species with a score of 14 or higher, as well as those with a score of 13 and a 
rapidly declining population. I have included all species that scored a 13 or 
higher that are known to occur in the Finger Lakes NF below: 

  Bobolink- 14 breeding
  Wood Thrush- 14 breeding
  Canada Warbler- 14 breeding?
  American Woodcock- 13 breeding
  Black-billed Cuckoo- 13 breeding
  Blue-winged Warbler- 13 breeding
  Prairie Warbler- 13 breeding
  Cape May Warbler- 13 migrant
  Connecticut Warble- 13 migrant

  Honorable mentions- birds that score a 12 that breed on Finger Lakes NF lands:
  Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Chestnut-sided Warbler
  Louisiana Waterthrush
  Mourning Warbler (breeds?)
  Veery
  Field Sparrow
  Rusty Blackbird (migrant?)

  Links to the State of the Birds, and NYDEC species list, and breeding bird 
atlas
  http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/

  http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7494.html

  http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/bba/


  State of the Birds species table: 
http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/resources/species-assessments/

  Thank for any input!
  Josh

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

[Geo Kloppel]

Yep, but the BBA's granularity is very coarse. It will tell you if Cooper's 
Hawks were recorded breeding somewhere in a given block 5 kilometers square, 
but it won't tell you if the selective cut you're planning at GPS coordinates 
___  goes through the heart of a traditional Cooper's Hawk nesting territory. 
For that you need more precise location info.

-Geo

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Joshua Snodgrass <cedarsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was able to use the DEC website for the Breeding Bird Atlas- Maps by 
> Species to look at color coded maps that show breeding occurrence at specific 
> locations to come up with my list for the Finger Lakes NF. It may not be as 
> current as eBird data, and I am not sure how land management entities use 
> that information, but it is accessible 
> http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/bba/  
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Wesley M. Hochachka <w...@cornell.edu> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi Geo,
>> 
>>No, breeding-code information is a standard part of the most widely-used 
>> pre-packaged distribution of eBird data, the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD).  You 
>> can't call up this information on the eBird website, if I'm not mistaken, 
>> but then I wouldn't recommend using website output to do anything major in 
>> regard to research or management anyway.  Instead, the most appropriate 
>> thing to do would be to request access (always granted, for free) to the 
>> pre-bundled data in the EBD.  The EBD packages are rather large (i.e. you're 
>> not going to load it into Excel), but with some fairly basic 
>> large-data-management experience, one can pull out all of the breeding code 
>> information that's available without much effort.
>> 
>> Wesley
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu 
>> [mailto:bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel
>> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:24 PM
>> To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg
>> Cc: Joshua Snodgrass; CAYUGABIRDS-L
>> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help
>> 
>> During the last NYS Breeding Bird Atlas period (2000-2005), field workers 
>> who submitted breeding records for Threatened species or species of Special 
>> Concern were subsequently asked to provide DEC with additional information 
>> (locations).
>> 
>> Is it true that eBird has not yet implemented data output for breeding 
>> records? If so, does this mean that a land management entity like DEC or the 
>> US Forest Service can't just consult eBird for Confirmed or Probable 
>> breeding locations of Threatened or Special Concern species that might be 
>> impacted by management, but instead has to make special requests? Do 
>> management planners routinely make such requests?
>> 
>> I ask this because in my area (Danby/Newfield) I've seen several recent DEC 
>> actions that look like they could easily have been modified if location 
>> information had been available.
>> 
>> -Geo Kloppel
>> 
>> > On Mar 15, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg <k...@cornell.edu> 
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Josh,
>> >
>> > Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds!
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

[Joshua Snodgrass]

I was able to use the DEC website for the Breeding Bird Atlas- Maps by
Species to look at color coded maps that show breeding occurrence at
specific locations to come up with my list for the Finger Lakes NF. It may
not be as current as eBird data, and I am not sure how land management
entities use that information, but it is accessible
http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/bba/

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Wesley M. Hochachka <w...@cornell.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Geo,
>
>No, breeding-code information is a standard part of the most
> widely-used pre-packaged distribution of eBird data, the eBird Basic
> Dataset (EBD).  You can't call up this information on the eBird website, if
> I'm not mistaken, but then I wouldn't recommend using website output to do
> anything major in regard to research or management anyway.  Instead, the
> most appropriate thing to do would be to request access (always granted,
> for free) to the pre-bundled data in the EBD.  The EBD packages are rather
> large (i.e. you're not going to load it into Excel), but with some fairly
> basic large-data-management experience, one can pull out all of the
> breeding code information that's available without much effort.
>
> Wesley
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-121340368-
> 3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:24 PM
> To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg
> Cc: Joshua Snodgrass; CAYUGABIRDS-L
> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help
>
> During the last NYS Breeding Bird Atlas period (2000-2005), field workers
> who submitted breeding records for Threatened species or species of Special
> Concern were subsequently asked to provide DEC with additional information
> (locations).
>
> Is it true that eBird has not yet implemented data output for breeding
> records? If so, does this mean that a land management entity like DEC or
> the US Forest Service can't just consult eBird for Confirmed or Probable
> breeding locations of Threatened or Special Concern species that might be
> impacted by management, but instead has to make special requests? Do
> management planners routinely make such requests?
>
> I ask this because in my area (Danby/Newfield) I've seen several recent
> DEC actions that look like they could easily have been modified if location
> information had been available.
>
> -Geo Kloppel
>
> > On Mar 15, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg <k...@cornell.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Josh,
> >
> > Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds!
>
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

[Wesley M. Hochachka]

Hi Geo,

   No, breeding-code information is a standard part of the most widely-used 
pre-packaged distribution of eBird data, the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD).  You 
can't call up this information on the eBird website, if I'm not mistaken, but 
then I wouldn't recommend using website output to do anything major in regard 
to research or management anyway.  Instead, the most appropriate thing to do 
would be to request access (always granted, for free) to the pre-bundled data 
in the EBD.  The EBD packages are rather large (i.e. you're not going to load 
it into Excel), but with some fairly basic large-data-management experience, 
one can pull out all of the breeding code information that's available without 
much effort.

Wesley



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[mailto:bounce-121340368-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:24 PM
To: Kenneth V. Rosenberg
Cc: Joshua Snodgrass; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

During the last NYS Breeding Bird Atlas period (2000-2005), field workers who 
submitted breeding records for Threatened species or species of Special Concern 
were subsequently asked to provide DEC with additional information (locations).

Is it true that eBird has not yet implemented data output for breeding records? 
If so, does this mean that a land management entity like DEC or the US Forest 
Service can't just consult eBird for Confirmed or Probable breeding locations 
of Threatened or Special Concern species that might be impacted by management, 
but instead has to make special requests? Do management planners routinely make 
such requests? 

I ask this because in my area (Danby/Newfield) I've seen several recent DEC 
actions that look like they could easily have been modified if location 
information had been available.

-Geo Kloppel

> On Mar 15, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg <k...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> Josh,
> 
> Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds! 

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

[Geo Kloppel]

During the last NYS Breeding Bird Atlas period (2000-2005), field workers who 
submitted breeding records for Threatened species or species of Special Concern 
were subsequently asked to provide DEC with additional information (locations).

Is it true that eBird has not yet implemented data output for breeding records? 
If so, does this mean that a land management entity like DEC or the US Forest 
Service can't just consult eBird for Confirmed or Probable breeding locations 
of Threatened or Special Concern species that might be impacted by management, 
but instead has to make special requests? Do management planners routinely make 
such requests? 

I ask this because in my area (Danby/Newfield) I've seen several recent DEC 
actions that look like they could easily have been modified if location 
information had been available.

-Geo Kloppel

> On Mar 15, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg  wrote:
> 
> Josh,
> 
> Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds! 

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

[Joshua Snodgrass]

Thank you all for your support!
Ken, Thanks so much for the great Partners in Flight resource and species
list! I'll be sure to include those birds as well. Some of those Common
Birds in Steep Decline are pretty alarming, given just how common they seem
here. I'll give Greg your email as a further contact. I'm not sure of the
process involved in updating the RFSS, or what will come of it. I am
optimistic that the information provided will be taken into consideration
for the management of woodland habitat and grazing practices in the Finger
Lakes NF. Thanks again for all your help!
Best,
Josh

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Kenneth V. Rosenberg 
wrote:

> Josh,
>
> Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds!
> Sorting through all the various lists at state, national, and global scales
> can be very challenging. I think you’re approach of combining state-listed
> species, global concern lists, and eBird records is exactly the right
> approach to take.
>
> Another recent source with additional information on these species is the
> Partners in Flight Landbird Conservation Plan, also published in 2016:
> http://www.partnersinflight.org/  The only minor change since the State
> of the Birds report, is that Evening Grosbeak was added to the Watch List
> because of its steep declines — it could be added to your list as a winter
> visitor (now rare) on FLNF. Olive-sided Flycatcher (also on the Watch List)
> also could potentially be added as a migrant.
>
> The Partners in Flight Plan also lists a group of “Common Birds in Steep
> Decline,” which are not yet on the Watch List, but have lost 50% or more of
> their global population since 1970 (according to the BBS), and are often
> representative of degraded habitats. These include the Yellow-billed
> Cuckoo, Field Sparrow, and Rusty Blackbird, which you have already listed
> as “honorable mentions,” as well as some other common local species — Bank
> Swallow (B), Blackpoll Warbler (migrant), Pine Siskin (W), Eastern
> Meadowlark (B), Chimney Swift (B), Wilson’s Warbler (M), Least Flycatcher
> (B), American Tree Sparrow (W), and Common Grackle (!).
>
> If the FLNF has additional questions, or is going through a formal process
> to update their list, I would be happy to provide more input.
>
> KEN
>
>
> Kenneth V. Rosenberg
> Conservation Science Program
> Cornell Lab of Ornithology
> Office: 607-254-2412 <(607)%20254-2412>
> cell: 607-342-4594 <(607)%20342-4594>
> k...@cornell.edu
>
> On Mar 15, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Joshua Snodgrass 
> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I've been volunteering in the Finger Lakes National Forest checking on the
> condition of bird boxes for the new biologist there. He is currently
> updating the Regional Forester Sensitive Species list for the forest, and
> asked for my input on any birds that should be added to the list that are
> in trouble. It would be irresponsible of me to give advice without asking
> for input from this community, who are far more knowledgeable than I am.
> What I have done in my efforts to make good recommendations are to
> crosscheck eBird sightings with the NY DEC's list of state Endangered,
> Threatened, and Species of concern, as well as the most recent State of the
> Birds report for species that are in trouble versus those that occur in the
> forest. I included any birds in the SotB report that received a score of
> "13" or higher. If any of you have recommendations for additional species,
> or other edits, please let me know. Thank you all for any input. Below is
> the list of bird species I came up with that have been recorded in eBird as
> occuring in the Finger Lakes NF, with NYDEC sensitive species first.
>
> Short-eared Owl- NY Endangered
> Golden Eagle- NY Endangered (usually a migrant, one recent record of a
> perched bird)
> Pied-billed Grebe- NY Threatened
> Bald Eagle- NY Threatened
> Northern Harrier- NY Threatened
> Henslow's Sparrow- NY Threatened
> Upland Sandpiper- NY Threatened (flyover record, but habitat seems
> amenable)
> Northern Goshawk- NY Species of Concern (SoC)
> Cooper's Hawk- NY SoC
> Sharp-shinned Hawk- NY SoC
> Red-shouldered Hawk- NY SoC
> Common Nighthawk- NY Soc
> Horned Lark- NY SoC
> Vesper Sparrow- NY SoC
> Grasshopper Sparrow- NY SoC
>
> Birds not listed by NY DEC, but in trouble globally according to 2016
> State of the BIrds report follow.  The State of the Birds Watch List
> includes any species with a score of 14 or higher, as well as those with a
> score of 13 and a rapidly declining population. I have included all species
> that scored a 13 or higher that are known to occur in the Finger Lakes NF
> below:
>
> Bobolink- 14 breeding
> Wood Thrush- 14 breeding
> Canada Warbler- 14 breeding?
> American Woodcock- 13 breeding
> Black-billed Cuckoo- 13 breeding
> Blue-winged Warbler- 13 breeding
> Prairie Warbler- 13 breeding
> Cape May Warbler- 13 migrant
> Connecticut Warble- 13 migrant
>
> Honorable mentions- 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT- Finger Lakes NF sensitive species help

[Kenneth V. Rosenberg]

Josh,

Great job compiling conservation status information on these birds! Sorting 
through all the various lists at state, national, and global scales can be very 
challenging. I think you’re approach of combining state-listed species, global 
concern lists, and eBird records is exactly the right approach to take.

Another recent source with additional information on these species is the 
Partners in Flight Landbird Conservation Plan, also published in 2016: 
http://www.partnersinflight.org/  The only minor change since the State of the 
Birds report, is that Evening Grosbeak was added to the Watch List because of 
its steep declines — it could be added to your list as a winter visitor (now 
rare) on FLNF. Olive-sided Flycatcher (also on the Watch List) also could 
potentially be added as a migrant.

The Partners in Flight Plan also lists a group of “Common Birds in Steep 
Decline,” which are not yet on the Watch List, but have lost 50% or more of 
their global population since 1970 (according to the BBS), and are often 
representative of degraded habitats. These include the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 
Field Sparrow, and Rusty Blackbird, which you have already listed as “honorable 
mentions,” as well as some other common local species — Bank Swallow (B), 
Blackpoll Warbler (migrant), Pine Siskin (W), Eastern Meadowlark (B), Chimney 
Swift (B), Wilson’s Warbler (M), Least Flycatcher (B), American Tree Sparrow 
(W), and Common Grackle (!).

If the FLNF has additional questions, or is going through a formal process to 
update their list, I would be happy to provide more input.

KEN


Kenneth V. Rosenberg
Conservation Science Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Office: 607-254-2412
cell: 607-342-4594
k...@cornell.edu

On Mar 15, 2017, at 12:42 PM, Joshua Snodgrass 
> wrote:

Hello all,
I've been volunteering in the Finger Lakes National Forest checking on the 
condition of bird boxes for the new biologist there. He is currently updating 
the Regional Forester Sensitive Species list for the forest, and asked for my 
input on any birds that should be added to the list that are in trouble. It 
would be irresponsible of me to give advice without asking for input from this 
community, who are far more knowledgeable than I am.
What I have done in my efforts to make good recommendations are to crosscheck 
eBird sightings with the NY DEC's list of state Endangered, Threatened, and 
Species of concern, as well as the most recent State of the Birds report for 
species that are in trouble versus those that occur in the forest. I included 
any birds in the SotB report that received a score of "13" or higher. If any of 
you have recommendations for additional species, or other edits, please let me 
know. Thank you all for any input. Below is the list of bird species I came up 
with that have been recorded in eBird as occuring in the Finger Lakes NF, with 
NYDEC sensitive species first.

Short-eared Owl- NY Endangered
Golden Eagle- NY Endangered (usually a migrant, one recent record of a perched 
bird)
Pied-billed Grebe- NY Threatened
Bald Eagle- NY Threatened
Northern Harrier- NY Threatened
Henslow's Sparrow- NY Threatened
Upland Sandpiper- NY Threatened (flyover record, but habitat seems amenable)
Northern Goshawk- NY Species of Concern (SoC)
Cooper's Hawk- NY SoC
Sharp-shinned Hawk- NY SoC
Red-shouldered Hawk- NY SoC
Common Nighthawk- NY Soc
Horned Lark- NY SoC
Vesper Sparrow- NY SoC
Grasshopper Sparrow- NY SoC

Birds not listed by NY DEC, but in trouble globally according to 2016 State of 
the BIrds report follow.  The State of the Birds Watch List includes any 
species with a score of 14 or higher, as well as those with a score of 13 and a 
rapidly declining population. I have included all species that scored a 13 or 
higher that are known to occur in the Finger Lakes NF below:

Bobolink- 14 breeding
Wood Thrush- 14 breeding
Canada Warbler- 14 breeding?
American Woodcock- 13 breeding
Black-billed Cuckoo- 13 breeding
Blue-winged Warbler- 13 breeding
Prairie Warbler- 13 breeding
Cape May Warbler- 13 migrant
Connecticut Warble- 13 migrant

Honorable mentions- birds that score a 12 that breed on Finger Lakes NF lands:
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler (breeds?)
Veery
Field Sparrow
Rusty Blackbird (migrant?)

Links to the State of the Birds, and NYDEC species list, and breeding bird atlas
http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/
http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7494.html
http://www.dec.ny.gov/cfmx/extapps/bba/

State of the Birds species table: 
http://www.stateofthebirds.org/2016/resources/species-assessments/

 Thank for any input!
Josh



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: tagged Snowy Owl video

[Laura Stenzler]

Sorry, it's from NPR, not the NYTimes. 

Laura

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> 
> http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/479223874/we-followed-a-snowy-owl-from-maryland-to-ontario
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT? FYO bear nr West Danby

[Geo Kloppel]

That's my neighborhood, too. (Tupper Road). Yesterday I found a scat filled 
with coarsely chopped acorn shells, which made me think of bear. 

What a weird winter!

-Geo

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> On Feb 1, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Nigel Dyson-Hudson  wrote:
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> This morning we got up and noticed that our bird feeders were on the ground.
> Upon closer inspection I found that the 4 hook rod was bent almost
> flat to the ground - I should have gotten a picture before
> straightening it.
> The stand-alone wooden box feeder had the plastic hinge for the lid
> torn and the suet block on that feeder had fallen out and had chew
> marks all around.
> So we are taking the bird feeders down tonight.
> 
> We are just north of VanBuskirk Gulf Rd and west of NY Rt 34/96.
> 
> Our home designed deer fence doesn't seem to be damaged - it must be
> strong enough for the bear to climb. (4 ft field fence wire 2 runs
> high - cable tied together; heavy duty road sign U posts from Seneca
> Supply - 10 ft so 8 ft exposed, but next time I would use 12 ft; rebar
> woven through the wire at 16  ft intervals between the U posts; As
> grape vines grow on the fence scraps of wood or tree branches are
> added for bracing the wire.)  Nigel
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Snowy Owl Seneca Falls Seybolt Rd

[Suan Yong]

The snowy owl was present at 11:30 when I arrived at Seybolt Road, on the gas 
pipe installation across from Reese Road about 300 yards out. Semi-recognizable 
with binoculars; much better with a scope. It swiveled its head quite 
frequently, keeping a lookout in several directions, before presently jumping 
behind the cement block on which it had been perched, and out of sight.

There was also a small flyby skein of snow geese while I was there - flying 
east to west - and many larger ones moments earlier further south as I was 
driving up - those flying west to east.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: bear scat at Niemi Rd ponds?

[Ann Mitchell]

I saw it and was curious as to who had their dog in a restricted area.
Obvious I wasn't thinking bear.
Ann

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> Did anyone else notice possible bear scat at the Cornell Research Ponds Unit 
> II on Niemi Rd? It was at the east end next to the black plastic covered 
> structure with a couple of work tables inside, sitting in the road/path 
> immediately on the south side. There was a pile of large turds containing 
> apparent fruit remains. I'm not an experienced tracker but bear scat comes to 
> mind.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: bear scat at Niemi Rd ponds?

[AB Clark]

Possibly interesting:  this morning, my neighbor found a large bear scat (with 
fruit stones, fur, and corn intermixed) well back from the road on N side of 
Hile School Road, about midway between Ed Hill Rd and 38.  It had to  have been 
left last night, between dusk and about 10 am today.

this is a good time of year for dispersing young bears.

Anne

> On Oct 11, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Ann Mitchell  wrote:
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> I saw it and was curious as to who had their dog in a restricted area.
> Obvious I wasn't thinking bear.
> Ann
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>> Did anyone else notice possible bear scat at the Cornell Research Ponds Unit 
>> II on Niemi Rd? It was at the east end next to the black plastic covered 
>> structure with a couple of work tables inside, sitting in the road/path 
>> immediately on the south side. There was a pile of large turds containing 
>> apparent fruit remains. I'm not an experienced tracker but bear scat comes 
>> to mind.
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: computereeze messages from me

[Peter]

Thanks for the reply Dave.
Very much appreciated.
As I said in my post, I know no one is doing anything on purpose.
And to further aggravate the situation, when someone who IS able to read 
your posts places a reply to them, I can THEN read your initial post in 
the other person's reply???!!!???
Go figure (smile)
Anyway, as I also said, a number of others have voiced the same issue 
but, from the sounds of it, it seems to difficult a task to even 
troubleshoot the cause of the issue so I am content to leave it as it is.
Again thanks for your response and I look forward to birding with you in 
the days, months and years to come.
You are a very valuable asset to we birders of the Finger Lakes Regions, 
and I appreciate your presence in our midst.
Be well Dave.
Pete

On 8/28/2015 7:27 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:
 To Pete,
 To the few (I hope) others who receive my CayugaBirds postings garbled,
 To anyone who knows someone in that situation and is willing to 
 forward this info to them, and
 To anyone who understands and/or is willing to fix the problem:

 I have heard before that a few people in some situations only get 
 garble from me via CayugaBirds-L. Others obviously are able to read 
 the messages perfectly well, so these people do not understand the issue.

 Although I like to think of myself as a pretty good birder and writer, 
 I am not a technical computer person.

 I know that what I type shows up on my keyboard with only the usual 
 number of typos. When I send it, it gets communicated and transformed 
 numerous times by my software, then by my internet service, then by 
 Cornell's lyris system of listservs, then in Pete's case by the 
 ABA's collection of CayugaBirds-L postings, then by whatever internet 
 sevice you use, by whatever device you are receiving it on and the 
 software it uses. All of these were designed by good but flawed people 
 working for good but flawed companies who sort of care about you and 
 me in a general way, but not specifically enough to have solved this 
 problem yet. Or maybe they deliberately created the problem because it 
 made something else more convenient, because it doesn't affect enough 
 people who make enough noise yet.

 The system works for most people, and what I receive looks as good to 
 me as when I sent it out. Yet something deep on my end of the chain is 
 incompatible with something deep on your end if it doesn't work for 
 you. It doesn't seem to be a Cornell problem necessarily. Rather it 
 seems to be how somebody else is handling messages from Cornell and 
 getting them to you.

 Is it possible that I could change something and make it better for 
 you? Probably, since other people are able to send messages which 
 don't arrive to you garbled. However, I have neither the expertise to 
 diagnose the problem, nor the money to buy new stuff, nor the desire 
 to change an email and record-keeping system that mostly works for me. 
 Sorry. Of course you can wait hopefully until my system irrevocably 
 crashes or is made incompatible with the rest of the world I care 
 about. Then I will have to buy something new, which may or may not 
 work better.

 Would Cornell be able to figure out and solve the problem? Doubtless 
 they have experts, but their service mostly works for their actual 
 subscribers (which seems not to directly include you), so they may not 
 be interested, but one could ask. You could start with the 
 CayugaBirds-L manager Chris Tessaglia-Hymes (cth4 at cornell dot edu) 
 and see what he says or who he connects you with. For a head start I 
 copied this email to him.

 Maybe the ABA folks should be asked what they are doing to my posts. 
 It seems pretty irresponsible of them to garble or delete my messages 
 while claiming they are providing a record.

 Perhaps you could try something other than the ABA's service. For 
 instance, at the bottom of every CayugaBirds-L post there is a link to 
 ARCHIVES. Choice #1 works for me, but of course that proves nothing 
 because I never had a problem reading my posts. Anyway how about 
 looking here:
 http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html

 I hope this direct email to you works, and I hope to see you tomorrow at 
 Knox-Marsellus.

 --Dave Nutter

 On Aug 28, 2015, at 04:15 PM, Asher Hockett veery...@gmail.com wrote:

 I looked at the ABA posts taken from CayugaBirds. Dave Nutter's show 
 header information and the content appears to be lacking. I doubt 
 this has anything to do with his posting, but rather something which 
 happens when ABA lifts the CB data.

 On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Peter psara...@rochester.rr.com 
 mailto:psara...@rochester.rr.com wrote:

 Dear folks:

 Perhaps there is a misunderstanding due to the word(s) I used in
 my previous email.
 When I go online to the American Birding Association site and
 choose the Birdingnews tab it populates a list of clubs around
 the country.
 From that list I 

Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT : Comet Lovejoy is visible right now

[Geo Kloppel]

Two clear nights in a row! Green slushball Comet Lovejoy is easy to spot right 
now, about a hand's breadth (1.5 binocular fields) SW of the Pleiades. Thanks 
Meena.

-Geo



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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Shutter bruin

[Pete M. Marchetto]

I think you mean the photographer.

On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Carl Steckler 
c...@cornell.edumailto:c...@cornell.edu wrote:




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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Monarch caterpillar rescue opportunity?

[Betsy Darlington]

Hi, Suan and Candace-
We went down there this morning and hunted thoroughly for the caterpillar,
but couldn't find it.  There were quite a few milkweed plants, so I hope if
we somehow missed it, that it will find its way to one of them.  I'm hoping
that someone else rescued it.
Betsy


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Candace Cornell cec...@gmail.com wrote:

 I can not make it downtown tomorrow. If someone is willing to bring the
 caterpillar out to Salt Point, Lansing, the point is now registered Monarch
 Way Station #8782 (www.MonarchWatch.org http://www.monarchwatch.org/) and
 has a field of milkweed and other butterfly attracting plants. The best
 place to place the caterpillar is in the milkweed field behind the Monarch
 Waystation sigh. It is across the path from the dog litter station at
 second entrance on the north side of the point (not the entrance next to
 the RR tracks).

 I've been very concerned about the Monarchs this year. I have seen very
 few Monarch caterpillars or adults around Tompkins or Cayuga County this
 summer and I've been checking milkweed stands as I survey osprey nests.

 Helping this little fellow may seem trite, but it will make a big
 difference to its progeny.
 If some one does this kind deed, please let me know. Many thanks,

 Candace
 Friends of Salt Point
 Many thanks to whomever can rescue the caterpillar. Every Monarch is
 important!

 Candace


 On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Suan Hsi Yong suan.y...@gmail.com
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 This morning I found a small monarch caterpillar in an unlikely spot
 downtown, and my untrained instinct tells me it's unlikely to survive to
 adulthood at this location, so if anyone is up for it, I think it would be
 a good idea/opportunity for someone to effect some level of rescue,
 anything from moving it to a bigger patch of milkweeds to trying to raise
 it at home (or better yet, in an educational setting somewhere).

 It is located on Seneca Street next to the bridge over the inlet, in
 front of the Finger Lakes Electric Supply Company, here: 42.440079,
 -76.511573

 There is a very small bed of mulch with some decorative plants and two
 very small stray milkweeds (half a foot tall, about a dozen smallish
 leaves), and the still very small caterpillar (less than an inch in length)
 was in the easternmost of the two milkweeds.

 Here's a photo of the would-be adoptee:

   https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204734943071423l=0218fab00e

 IMO the two milkweeds (not _that_ close to each other) will not provide
 enough nourishment, and are likely to be pulled anyways by anyone tending
 that bed (I assume they're considered weeds by gardeners). Thus, I would
 recommend that anyone effecting the rescue just pull out the entire plant.

 Feel free to let me know (offlist, if you want) if you adopt it, need
 more info, or think this message was a good/bad idea.

 Thanks.

 Suan

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] OT: New York State Ornithological Association Annual meeting here in Ithaca!!

[Linda Orkin]

Correction. Please read high energy as GOOD energy after some concerned 
inquiries from leaders who don't want to be running while birding. 

Linda 

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On Aug 27, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Linda Orkin wingmagi...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 Come one, come all! The Cayuga Bird Club hosts the New York State 
 Ornithological Association’s annual meeting this year the weekend of 
 September 19 through September 21.  Registration is in full swing and we are 
 excited to have people coming from all around New York State to participate 
 in this.  We are especially hoping that many of our wonderful local birders 
 will also attend, so that not only our great birding spots but our wonderful 
 friendliness and local hospitality will be showcased for all to enjoy.
 
 The Friday night reception will be held at the Cornell Laboratory of 
 Ornithology from 6-9 PM. We thank Melissa Walker for working along with us to 
 make this happen.  There will be “heavy” hors d’oeuvres provided by Cornell 
 Catering, along with a wine and beer cash bar.  Two presentations will be 
 offered:  All About Bird Biology given by Mya Thompson , the author of this  
 newly launched web resource, and a recently produced film called Inside the 
 Lab  (which is not currently available to the general public). Guests can 
 join either of two tours of the employee areas of the Lab. The innovative 
 sound ring, a wooden soundscape sculpture by Mya Lin, part of her “What is 
 missing?” series dealing with extinctions, will be turned on for all to hear 
 and experience.  And the wonderful new mural of bird silhouettes, a tribute 
 to Roger Tory Peterson and his first field guide, will captivate our visitors 
 who will have a check list to challenge their ID acumen. 
 
 Bob McGuire has organized many wonderful field trips and you can select the 
 ones which may interest you.  These will be high energy walks to many of our 
 favorite hot spots. 
 
 Saturday at the Ramada will see a series of interesting paper presentations 
 from 1:30 to 5, with topics ranging from The Hidden World of Bird Language to 
 Earlier Arrival Dates of Spring Migrants, to Piping Plover Recovery in NYS 
 and many more.  There will be posters on display, and of course, the NYSOA 
 delegates business meeting in the morning.  A silent auction will be ongoing 
 throughout the day. 
 
 The banquet Saturday night at the Ramada will be buffet style, with a cash 
 cocktail reception preceding this.  Announcements of award winners will be 
 followed by our keynote speaker. We are very excited to be presenting Dr. 
 Bridget Stutchbury, who will talk about her groundbreaking research and whose 
 talk is titled Frequent Fliers: New Discoveries in Bird Migration.  For those 
 who may not know Dr. Stutchbury, you still have time to read her three great 
 books  written for general audiences: Silence of the Songbirds, Bird 
 Detective, and most recently, The Private Lives of Birds: A Scientist Reveals 
 the Intricacies of Avian Social Life.
 
 Doesn’t this sound like a must-attend weekend?  Don’t brush it off just 
 because you don’t have to travel long distances and stay in a hotel to 
 attend.  As a matter of fact, this is a wonderful reason for you to make sure 
 you are part of this.  Go to Cayugabirdclub.org to register and for more 
 information.  And please note,  if you are registering and choosing banquet 
 or reception, the deadline for this is Sept. 12.  
 
 
 
 Contact me if you need more information.
 
 
 
 Linda Orkin
 
 Ithaca, NY
 
 
 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: disposing of monofilament fishing line

[Candace Cornell]

Thanks, Dave. We are pursuing putting up these containers in strategic
locations and finding people to monitor them.
Candace


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 On the Natural History listserv Norm Trigoboff sent this link to
 directions to make a container in which to collect and recycle monofilament
 fishing line. I thought birders, particularly the club's Conservation
 Action Committee, might find it interesting.

 http://www.boatus.com/foundation/monofilament/

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: disposing of monofilament fishing line

[Linda Orkin]

Thanks Dave and Norm, yes. The conservation committee will be organizing a 
Cayuga bird club work party very soon to put together at least 3 disposal bins. 
Candace noticed stranded monofilament line at Myers the other day in the same 
tree that the kingfisher died in last spring. She is getting in touch with the 
town to remove it. But Myers will be our first installation site. 

Linda Orkin. 

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 On the Natural History listserv Norm Trigoboff sent this link to directions 
 to make a container in which to collect and recycle monofilament fishing 
 line. I thought birders, particularly the club's Conservation Action 
 Committee, might find it interesting. 
 
 http://www.boatus.com/foundation/monofilament/
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] OT-Request for Stewart Park photos - CLARIFICATION

[Marie P. Read]

HI everyone,

Just wanted to clarify: We are NOT requesting photos to be reproduced in the 
interpretive panels. We ARE ONLY requesting photos to be included in a 
celebratory slide show that we will present at the September CBC meeting, in a 
similar format to the one we hold in January. It's just so people can share 
their images and show how much Stewart Park means to us all as a birding 
community.

If you'd like to submit images (3 per person please) , please email me jpegs 
sized at no more than 1000 px on the longest side, and I'll include them in the 
presentation. Deadline is midnight September 5th.

Thanks

Marie


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[bounce-107874256-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Linda Orkin 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 3:00 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OT-Request for Stewart Park photos

Hello All,

The Cayuga Bird Club is in the process of design planning for an interpretive 
panel at Renwick Wildwood. This panel will detail the history of these woods 
including the importance of several names familiar to all such as Fuertes, 
Allen and Needham and will highlight early Cayuga Bird Club involvement with 
the preservation of these woods.  We will also provide pictures and natural 
history of many bird species there, and describe the habitat and it's relevance 
to bird abundance.

We will be discussing this project at our first club meeting of the year on 
Sept 9.

We are hoping to have a slide show of images  at this meeting, provided by 
local birders and photographers, of  both birds and birders. These would be 
photos from anywhere in Stewart Park,  to highlight the importance of this 
sight as a birding hotspot.  We first approached our member list but have not 
had much luck with that.

We would greatly appreciate it if any of you could provide some slides.  The 
format is planned to be the same as it is for our January meeting with people 
presenting there slides and talking a little about the captured moment, but if 
you can provide some photos and are unable to come to the meeting, I would be 
glad to narrate your slides for you if you provide me with context.

Please contact Marie Read, who is compiling this for us, at 
m...@cornell.edumailto:m...@cornell.edu as soon as possible. She can give you 
the parameters for the file size and other advice you may need.

The deadline for this is Sept. 5.  If you plan to send something it would be 
great if you could let Marie know.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to get in touch with me.  And 
all are welcome to attend the meeting, as usual.

Thank you.

Linda Orkin
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] OT Request- July 27 Cayuga Bird Club-Help with Dryden Lake Festival

[Linda Orkin]

In case anyone was still contemplating this, Carl Steckler has stepped
forward to volunteer and I am very grateful. If anyone else is around, I
will be tabling from 10-1 so stop by and help me talk up the bird club. And
especially the birds.

Best
Linda

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 --Hey All,

 A general appeal. The Cayuga Bird Club will be hosting a table at the
 Dryden Lake Festival Event this coming Saturday, July 27.  I will be there
 selling books, distributing Bird Club info and providing information about
 some of our conservation activities.

 I am writing to ask if anyone would be available and willing to lead a
 bird walk. I have not committed to a table time as yet. I think I will
 probably go from around 10 to 1 or 2.  If anyone can do this, I will tell
 them we will be leading a walk at 10AM.

 It sounds like there is a lot going on with this day including a
 triathlon,  an additional 5 K race, fun race etc.  I think the bird walk
 will be for very casual and inexperienced people and can just be one hour.

  I plan on bringing the club's 8 pair of binoculars to provide to
 participants.

 Here is a link to the festival page.

 http://drydenlakefestival.com/EventsSchedule.html

 Please get in touch with me if you think this might be something you would
 like to help with.

 And thanks very much in advance.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT O Canada

[Donna Scott]

We can all Blame Canada! for this cold, bitter wind that is preventing all 
the birds from migrating to and thru here.
Maybe Dave Nicosia has a more learned view on this... I think Dave did say that 
soon it might actually warm up with some southerly winds on which our little 
friends can fly north, to that land of future, adventure and opportunity, as 
Meena put it! :-D
Donna
  - Original Message - 
  From: Pete M. Marchetto 
  To: Meena Madhav Haribal 
  Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Redpolls gobbling seeds


  I thought they thought of it as O, Canada!

  Sent from my iPhone

  On Apr 2, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal m...@cornell.edu wrote:


Donna and all, 

I think that they think of frozen land as land of future, opportunity and 
adventure  J

Meena



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[mailto:bounce-78609236-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Donna Scott
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 5:10 PM
To: Michael Czarnecki; CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Redpolls gobbling seeds



Why leave for the frozen wastelands of the north when there's plenty of 
good eats right here in the Finger Lakes?

(I know... Kevin McG will answer that sometime they have to get going on 
mating and chick rearing...)



Donna Scott

  - Original Message - 

  From: Michael Czarnecki 

  To: cayugabirds Cornell 

  Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:35 PM

  Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Redpolls



  Here on Wheeler Hill, Steuben County, we've had 100 plus Redpolls daily 
  since January 18. Still here, still devouring niger seed.

  Michael

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT - cat tracks

[Mo Barger Rooster Hill Farm]

FWIW we have a farm in Willseyville almost directly across 96B from
there, and have several bobcats in the area. I have no doubt they
would range that far.

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Asher Hockett veery...@gmail.com wrote:
 A friend who lives on Durfee Hill has taken some photos of large cat tracks,
 w/ a ruler for scale, and I am wondering who might be willing to look at
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 Please contact me off-list.

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Comet visible in western sky now

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Re:[cayugabirds-l] OT: 2013 Ithaca Christmas Bird Count

[Paul Anderson]

All:

The link Linda gave may not work for all users. Try the following instead:

http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/Resources/christmas-bird-count

-Paul

On 12/10/2012 3:23 PM, Linda Orkin wrote:


Hello to All of You,

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Cayuga Bird Club is once 
again organizing the Christmas Bird Count to be held, as always, on 
January 1, 2013.


As co-coordinators, Bob McGuire and I are always interested in getting 
as many people involved as we can.  It is a very prodigious endeavor 
and has been going on for 113 years.  An amazing data collection and 
these statistics become ever more important as we strive to document 
and minimize our negative impacts and birds and equally, labor to help 
all bird species. And this will be the 60th consecutive year that the 
Cayuga Bird Club has organized this.


There are several ways you can participate, you can choose one or do 
all.  We have area leaders for all nine areas of a 15 diameter count 
circle centered in Ithaca, each of them will greatly welcome your 
inclusion in their area. They will tell you where to go within their 
slice   You can do a feeder count at your own feeder and submit 
those numbers by phone as described on our website. Or you can choose 
to count birds on your own property as your count site and then submit 
these numbers to the appropriate area leader.  You should let me know 
in advance if you plan to do this so I can advise the area leaders.


Instead of putting all the details in this email, I invite you to go 
to this  link on the Cayuga Bird Club website.


https://sites.google.com/site/cbc14850/Resources/christmas-bird-count?pli=1

There you will see a map and descriptions of the  nine areas.

You will note when you read this that we will find ways for all to get 
involved.  If you would like to practice the counting protocol, I am 
willing to meet people at Sapsucker Woods on Saturday Dec 15 and/or 
Saturday, Dec. 22 in the morning at 8:30. We can go on a bird walk and 
tally birds as we would for the count.  Please respond to this email 
off list if you are interested in doing this.


I hope all will join in, there are several area leaders pleading for 
more help.


Feel free to email me with any questions.

Thanks very much.

Linda Orkin
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT Springhouse Rd. Dryden

[Linda Orkin]

So sorry to hear this Carl,  what a crummy experience.  Bad karma to the
thief.

Linda


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Carl Steckler c...@cornell.edu wrote:

 FYI Warning.While parked at the pull-off on Springhouse Rd. this morning
 to take my dog for a walk, my car was broken into. My binoculars, spotting
 scope camera and other stuff was stolen.  Be careful when you park, don't
 leave valuables in your car. Even though it is all covered by insurance, it
 is still a pain in the A**.
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Re:[cayugabirds-l] OT: first word is bird

[Candace Cornell]

A final grandma post. Today while wearing his future birder t-shirt, wee
Liam pointed at two parrots outside a laundry mat and yelled BIRD! BIRD!

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Candace Cornell cec...@gmail.com wrote:

 Pardon this OT post, but I'm a ultra-proud first-time grandmother. My
 grandson Liam, just 1 year old, spoke his first word today—not mama or
 dad but BIRD—and repeated it clear as a bell four more times while
 pointing to the bird mobile I made him. A future ornithologist perhaps?

 BTW: Two of his favorite toys (and mine) are the Audubon plush singing
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Bats roosting in my house

[Linda Orkin]

Richard. Cave hibernating bats establish separate maternal roost sites in the 
summer. They will return to their winter roosts and not remain in your siding 
over the winter. 

If you are serious about doing them no harm as I am sure you are I think you 
should get in touch with Bat Conservation intl who can give you advice and 
perhaps put you in touch with a local representative who can offer some 
assistance. 

Best
Linda

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Richard Tkachuck rictkal...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 
 The other evening it came to my attention that I have bats roosting under the 
 siding of my house. Last evening over 20 flew out from two different 
 openings. I consider them to be rather large bats as the bodies seem larger 
 than other bats I have had experience with. What I would like to know is how 
 best to preserve these bats and at the same time seal up the openings. 
 According to the web, most NY bats are non-migratory. I was hoping that they 
 might leave in the fall, and then I could close up the entry ports when it 
 got cold. This does not appear to be an option. I also thought of waiting 
 until fall when there is a minimal chance of young, wait for them to leave in 
 the evening and then close the hole while also putting up bat houses. With 
 the advent of the fungus that is killing bats, I don't want to be part of any 
 additional destruction.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Richard Tkachuck
 
 
 
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Guide to Birding in the Cayuga Lake Basin article

[Marty Schlabach]

Not sure of the scope of Sue's question.  This may be the only research paper 
based on our local first arrival dates, but there are many, perhaps hundreds of 
articles on spring arrival dates and climate change/global warming.  Is Sue 
specifically interested in local data?

Marty

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Head, Collection Development, Mann Library, Ithaca  607-255-6919
Food  Agriculture Librarian
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853


From: bounce-47243050-3494...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-47243050-3494...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Wesley M 
Hochachka
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:03 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: FW: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Guide to Birding in the Cayuga Lake Basin 
article

Hello,

   The only relevant research paper that I can think of using bird club-related 
data is this one:

 Butler, C. J. 2003. The disproportionate effect of global warming on the 
arrival dates of short-distance migratory birds in North America. Ibis 
145:484-495.

that made use of the weekly readings of the lists to look at long-term changes 
in arrival dates of migrants in spring into Ithaca (a second data set of a 
similar type was also used in the paper from MA, if I remember).  While the 
paper doesn't talk about changes in abundance, the climate-related link is via 
changes in timing of migration.

Wesley





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Assistant Director, Bird Population Studies Program
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
ph. (607) 254-2484


From: 
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 [bounce-47216061-3494...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Linda Orkin 
[wingmagi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:37
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L; 
cny-naturalhist...@darkstar.cortland.edumailto:cny-naturalhist...@darkstar.cortland.edu;
 NYSBIRDS-L
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OT: Guide to Birding in the Cayuga Lake Basin article
For those who may be interested, Sue Heavenrich has written an article about 
this Guide and it appears in this week's Tompkins County Weekly.  A good 
overview of the book. Here is a link to the pdf page.

http://www.tompkinshosting.com/tompkinsweekly/TompkinsWeekly120409.pdf

Also, she had emailed me with the following request which I forward in the 
event that someone may wish to help her with this. I am reluctant to just give 
out names of people to her without some expression of interest beforehand. If 
anyone does want to take this on, please email me and I will put you in touch 
with her.


Now I have another question for you - or maybe I already asked it  we didn't 
have time to explore:
Does anyone in the club have bird count numbers or data that might show 
whether/how bird populations have changed over past 35 years? Am working on 
something re: climate change  bird range expansion or northward expansion
~Sue

Thanks in advance if  you can help out.

LInda Orkin
Ithaca, NY
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: aurora forecast

[Laura Stenzler]

Please post if anyone sees an aurora. I just checked from Hunt Hill Rd and 
nothing yet. 

Laura

Laura Stenzler
l...@cornell.edu

On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Geo Kloppel geoklop...@gmail.com wrote:

 For those who haven't heard, we're hoping for a northern lights display 
 tonight.:
 
 http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/2
 
 -Geo
 
 Geo Kloppel
 Bowmaker  Restorer
 227 Tupper Road
 Spencer NY 14883
 
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: but still very cool..Buckeye

[Jay McGowan]

This has been a remarkable buckeye irruption year here in central New York
(and presumably elsewhere in the northeast), with dozens showing up at
places along the Lake Ontario shoreline and quite a few here in the Ithaca
area as well. I have seen them multiple times in the last couple months
around Freese Road and in Dryden.  Here's a photo I took of one in
September, if anyone wants to know what they look like:
https://picasaweb.google.com/37855303614931880/Fall2011#5666403685459225058

-Jay

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:14 PM, bilba...@pop.lightlink.com wrote:

 While Shannon and I were doing some late harvesting this morning I noticed
 a medium sized butterfly that I initially thought was a Painted Lady.  When
 it landed though I realized it was a Buckeye (Junonia coenia), which is
 quite unusual/rare around here,  rather more unusual than the Giant
 Swallowtails we sometimes see. This is the first live one I have seen in
 many years...

 To add a few bird notes soon after the Buckeye sighting we had a Raven
 cruise quietly by heading north. We have had quite a few House Finches
 showing up,  after not having basically any at all over the summer.

 As of yesterday there was still a large flock of Red-winged Blackbirds just
 up the road from our house.

 Bill
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT (Found parrot)

[l_bergmey]

Try www.911parrotalert.com
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-Original Message-
From: Donna Scott d...@cornell.edu
Sender: bounce-38029475-13359...@list.cornell.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:48:05 
To: Michele Emerick Brownm...@cornell.edu; 
CAYUGABIRDS-Lcayugabird...@list.cornell.edu
Reply-To: Donna Scott d...@cornell.edu
Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] OT (Found parrot)

please tell the SPCA of Tompkins Co.
257-1822 x-237
They may get a call about the lost bird.
-- donna scott
  - Original Message - 
  From: Michele Emerick Brown 
  To: CAYUGABIRDS-L 
  Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 8:49 AM
  Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OT (Found parrot)


  A friend of mine found a Quaker parrot in Brooktondale this week-end, not far 
from the Community Center. Let me know if you know of someone missing this pet 
and I’ll give you his contact information.

   

  Michele Brown

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] OT: herbicide for Cayuga Inlet invasive plant

[Geo Kloppel]

It's quite possible that birds (migratory waterfowl) were the vector  
that introduced H. verticillata to the Ithaca waterways, in which  
case we could expect more of the same.


-Geo


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RE: [cayugabirds-l] OT -White-faced Ibis video

[Marie P Read]

OMG!!!







Marie Read Wildlife Photography
452 Ringwood Road
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Phone  607-539-6608
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***NEW***  See my beautiful photo notecards:

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[bounce-24095425-5851...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of John and Sue Gregoire 
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 12:02 PM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OT -White-faced Ibis video

A friend from Vermont took his ornithology class to Plum Island, Massachusetts 
to
see a rare White-faced Ibis. In a right place- right time video he shows the 
Ibis
and what happened next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyqijh2sMao
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] OT: One more for the road

[Meena Haribal]

Even butterflies do it. They drink straight neat alcohol.  I was working on 
fourth floor of my chemical company where there was an alcohol drum, which had 
some spilled alcohol on its surface on the top. I think it was Black Rajah, a 
Nymphalid, known to feed on rotten fruits was merrily drinking from the spill. 
Generally, this butterfly is never seen in that area on the ground level, but 
somehow, either a migrating or a dispersing Rajah had found the drum. It drank 
for quite some time.

Yes animals like alcohol and get high on other chemicals, so I think this habit 
evolved way early in the evolutionary time, well before humans came to the 
scene.

Meena




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[mailto:bounce-7744966-3493...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Candace Cornell
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:10 PM
To: cayugabirds-l
Subject: [cayugabirds-l] OT: One more for the road

Cayuga Birders-

Raptor news from across the pond 
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,740157,00.html.
I've read about birds and other wildlife getting tipsy from eating fermented 
fruits and berries but I didn't realize they'd also go for raw distillates like 
German Schnapps-yuk. From it's picture, the owl certainly looks like an ornery 
drunk.

Candace

[http://www.spiegel.de/static/sys/v9/spiegelonline_logo.png]Internationalhttp://www.spiegel.de/international

Thursday, January 27, 2011

German Police Pick up Drunken Owl
[http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-165278-galleryV9-fxud.jpg]

A wild owl apparently had a wild time in southern Germany.

An owl that had evidently drunk too much Schnapps from two discarded bottles 
was so inebriated that it got picked up by police. The bird will be released 
once it has sobered up.

German police said on Tuesday they had discovered a paralytic owl that appeared 
to have drunk too much Schnapps from two discarded bottles.
A woman walking her dog alerted the police after seeing the bird sitting by 
the side of the road oblivious to passing traffic, Frank Otruba, spokesman for 
the police in the southwestern city of Pforzheim, told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

The Brown Owl didn't appear to be injured and officers quickly concluded that 
it had had one too many. One of its eyelids was drooping, adding to the general 
impression of inebriation.

It wasn't staggering around and we didn't breathalyze it but there were two 
little bottles of Schapps in the immediate vicinity, said Otruba. We took it 
to a local bird expert who has treated alcoholized birds before and she has 
been giving it lots of water.

The bird will be released once it has sobered up, police said.

cro

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