Chris, In case you have not already checked there, sightings like these may have been noted in the Cayuga Bird Club newsletter.
The library at the Lab of O has a significant run in the collection. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/4544118 There is a Cayuga Bird Club collection of archival materials in the Rare & Manuscript Collection at Cornell. I know that a run of the club newsletter was given a couple of decades ago, and the record indicates they have 1989-1997. I helped facilitate the transfer from a former member and officer. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/2067699 Marty =========================================== Marty Schlabach m...@cornell.edu 8407 Powell Rd. home 607-532-3467 Interlaken, NY 14847 cell 315-521-4315 =========================================== From: bounce-126999810-3494...@list.cornell.edu <bounce-126999810-3494...@list.cornell.edu> On Behalf Of Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 11:25 AM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Historical Harlequin Ducks -- Cayuga Lake I’m still digging, but here’s a historical Harlequin Duck sighting from 1968, thanks to Matt Medler for this! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n8jhxfva0peosb5/AAAFh4tEd1QTCI0ns7g4PkWka?dl=0 Dorothy McIlroy Sighting Notecard: “Harlequin Duck - Histrionicus histrionicus - Accidental - Female 5/7-9/68 [May 7-9, 1968] Sheldrake, Cay L. [Cayuga Lake] (D. McIlroy, M. Shephard, F. Scheider) Verification report on file.” 1968 Kingbird, Volume 18, Number 3, Region 3: “HARLEQUIN DUCK: female, May 7-9 Sheldrake Pt Cay L (DM and others; verification report on file), first record for Region.” Still trying to locate information about Bard Prentiss’s sighting from the Factory Street pond (aka “Harlequin Pond”) in Union Springs from sometime in the mid-1990s. If anyone has the original email, please forward to me. Sincerely, Chris T-H -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes — Field Applications Engineer K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Cornell University, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA Work: +1 607-254-2418 Mobile: +1 607-351-5740 FAX: +1 607-254-1132 https://bioacoustics.cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> BirdingOnThe.Net<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/ --
