What wonderful, poetic and emotive sentences introducing this report!! On Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:16 PM Shelley Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sometimes we bird with a sense of history, a sense of carrying on a > tradition of awe, wonder and stewardship from our ancestors. Today's > Thursday Birding Meetup at Frontenac Point put us in touch with the rich > history of Louis Agassiz Fuertes birding there and teaching Boy Scouts > about birding at this gorgeous stretch of lakeside beauty at the former > Camp Barton, now a public park in the making. We were fortunate that Tim > Gallagher joined us this morning and could share about this history > including letting us know about the commemorative metal arch to honor > Fuertes that is no longer there (we will investigate what happened to it!). > So, 15 of us birded in the footsteps of Fuertes and encountered 21 species > (thanks to Diane Morton for our ebird list) including some surprises. We > expected the 30 cormorants and the gang of gulls (270 ring bills and 3 > Herrings fluttering in the morning sun) as well as a cute kingfisher and an > immature eagle. A peregrine falcon streaked overhead! Plus four bluebirds > and seven yellow-rumped warblers brightened the morning! We birded along > the lake and left a gorge exploration for another day. We will definitely > be back in some other seasons to check out the birds at a place that seems > destined to be another Cayuga Basin birding hot spot. Afterward, seven of > us enjoyed the ever satisfying breakfast offerings at The Falls in > Trumansburg. > Want to join us next week Oct 23? Meet us at 7:30 am at the Sculpture > Garden parking area in the Cornell Arboretum. From Ithaca, take Rt. 366 > (Dryden Rd.) east and turn left on Caldwell Rd just beyond the Vet School. > At the bottom of the hill, turn right into the Arboretum and continue > straight to find the Sculpture Garden parking area. > Shelley Page > *she/they/ki* > > 313-550-1437 > 261 Coddington Road Apt. B > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/261+Coddington+Road+Apt.+B+Ithaca,+New+York+14850?entry=gmail&source=g> > Ithaca, New York 14850 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/261+Coddington+Road+Apt.+B+Ithaca,+New+York+14850?entry=gmail&source=g> > > https://uuma.zoom.us/j/2065380867 > "All that you touch you Change. All that you Change changes you. The only > lasting truth is Change. God is Change." Octavia Butler, The Parable of the > Sower > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> > Rules and Information > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > ABA <https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
