Bob or Jay or anyone: what are the access rights to the Yacht Club? I don’t want to trespass and have never been there so don’t know the signage or access.
For what it’s worth (and I think it is): I did stop at the Lansing Marina back in the Fall and personally asked the manager if it was OK to use the little parking area on the East side of the marina to scope the bay south of the marina and he said no problem as long as I wasn’t blocking traffic. I was always very uncomfortable driving right past the ’private property no trespassing’ sign when SFO leaders took us there so had not done it on my own until after I had this conversation. I am not offering this as a blanket permission to anyone reading the list; in our conversation i was only asking about myself: I think each person should make the effort on his/her own though of course it is unlikely anyone is there right now. The manager was pleasant (I think his name was John, but don’t hold me to that.) Too many nuts with guns and ‘rights’ to be cavalier about this issue. Read the NYS trespassing laws: the trespasser has essentially no rights and even signage laws are liberal favoring the owner: signs have to be maintained once a year but if they fall down, it’s still their property and you still have no right to trespass. Not busting on anyone! If this site is ‘open’, we should add it to the Birding in the Basin list. ChrisP On Mar 4, 2015, at 15:08 , bob mcguire <bmcgu...@clarityconnect.com> wrote: > Utterly chagrined that I missed the Tufted Duck at the yacht club yesterday, > I stopped back this morning for a longer/closer look. Sure enough, it WAS > feeding with the small aythya flock just off the swim dock. In addition, I > had a close-in group of 7 Long-tailed Ducks and a distant group of 21 > Red-necked Grebes plus four Horned Grebes. > > The most curious sighting was the upside-down carcass of what appeared to be > a Red-breasted Merganser floating offshore. A first year Greater Black-backed > Gull was sitting with it on the water, occasionally pecking at it, trying to > find a way in. At one point it reached over, grabbed the duck by the bill, > and gave it a shake. > > In the inner harbor was a pair of Common Goldeneye. The female swam behind > the male with her neck outstretched and chin flat on the water. He led her in > a couple of broad circles before quickly turning along side and mounting her. > Copulation lasted a few seconds, and he was off. She rose up, shook herself, > and swam off in the other direction. I assumed, anyway, that they were > copulating. Though it does seem early in the season. > > Bob McGuire > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
