East Shore Park is a very small Town of Ithaca park located a half mile north of Stewart Park on East Shore Drive (NYS-34) opposite the large concrete building which houses the pumps for Cornell’s Lake Source Cooling system. The driveway for East Shore Park crosses the railroad tracks directly to a parking lot for about a dozen cars. South from that parking lot is another driveway for the Cornell Boating Center with a large orange building and a marina and a sign aimed at deterring non-Cornellians. The park has a small pavilion with a few picnic tables & grills, some lawn & shrubs, and rows of large boulders going down to the shore of Cayuga Lake. There are a few signs, including one which describes the lake and the view. Although swimming is prohibited, people swim here, including in December. For birding, East Shore Park gets you half a mile farther into the lake, where the water is deeper, and where ice usually ends in winter.
- - Dave Nutter > On Dec 6, 2022, at 4:18 PM, madonna stallmann <madonnaoftheprai...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Newby here. Where exactly is East Shore Park? > > Madonna Stallmann > >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022, 3:59 PM Jay McGowan <jw...@cornell.edu> wrote: >> All set, Chris, these should show up in eBird now. >> >> And in the interest of keeping this relevant to current sightings, the East >> Shore Park Harlequin was still present as of early afternoon today, still >> hanging with Mallards and Buffleheads on the north side of the park, >> sometimes quite close to shore. >> >> Jay >> >>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 3:49 PM Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes >>> <c...@cornell.edu> wrote: >>> Excellent find, Jane, thank you very much!! >>> >>> I’ve added a screen shot from that 1995 Kingbird page to the dropbox link >>> below. >>> >>> It would be great to figure out a way to enter these sightings into eBird >>> as historical Cayuga Lake Basin records…all original observers of both >>> historical sightings are (sadly) deceased (McIlroy, et. al., and Prentiss). >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Chris T-H >>> >>> >>> On Dec 6, 2022, at 2:13 PM, Jane Graves <jgra...@skidmore.edu> wrote: >>> >>> "Kingbird,v45n3 1995 p193. Region 3 "Harlequin Duck: one Union Springs 24 >>> Mar (BP,NYSARC). >>> >>> Jane Graves >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On Dec 6, 2022, at 11:25 AM, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes >>> <c...@cornell.edu> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>> Rules and Information >>> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >>> Archives: >>> The Mail Archive >>> Surfbirds >>> BirdingOnThe.Net >>> Please submit your observations to eBird! >>> -- >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> Rules and Information >>> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >>> Archives: >>> The Mail Archive >>> Surfbirds >>> BirdingOnThe.Net >>> Please submit your observations to eBird! >>> -- >> >> >> -- >> Jay McGowan >> Macaulay Library >> Cornell Lab of Ornithology >> jw...@cornell.edu >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> BirdingOnThe.Net >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to 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/ --
