Re:[cayugabirds-l] cayugabirds-l digest: September 26, 2017

2017-09-25 Thread Lynn Bergmeyer 
Bard. I'm missing why you are not happy?

On Sep 26, 2017 12:04 AM, "Upstate NY Birding digest" <
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> CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Tuesday, September 26, 2017.
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> 1. Loons at inlet?
> 2. RE: Painted ladies
> 3. Re: Loons at inlet?
> 4. Re: Loons at inlet?
> 5. Re: Loons at inlet?
> 6. Speaker: Oct 3, Bill McQuay, Audio Producer & NPR Contributor
> 7. Re: Loons at inlet?
>
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> Subject: Loons at inlet?
> From: Fredric Kardon 
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:44:10 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 1
>
> About 9:30 AM today while walking from Cass Park to Hog Hole,  we saw what
> we thought were loons swimming near the red buoy/lighthouse past the jetty
> at the south end of Cayuga Lake.  There were about 35.  I wanted to report
> them to Ebird but was advised they are rare for this date and location, so
> I haven't reported them yet.  The other possibility is that they were
> grebes.  When I put in PBGR,I was told this is a high count for this date
> and location.Based on size and sillhouette we think they are loons.  We
> only had binoculars with us.  Any suggestions?
>
> Fred Kardon
>
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> Subject: RE: Painted ladies
> From: David Ruppert 
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:46:36 +
> X-Message-Number: 2
>
> Saturday we have had at least 12 Painted Ladies in our zinnia bed.  I took
> numerous photos with a long lens and every one was a Painted Lady, no
> American Painted Ladies.  They returned yesterday and again today.
>
> David Ruppert
>
> From: bounce-121865723-17096...@list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-121865723-
> 17096...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Suan Yong
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 9:11 PM
> To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Painted ladies
>
> Big Painted Lady irruption this year, was detected early elsewhere, and
> now coming through our neck of the woods. The species has an almost
> worldwide distribution, and is famous for their migrations, but they're
> irruptive and irregular (another way of saying we don't fully understand
> when and why it happens, I think).
>
> Haven't noticed any American Painted Ladies among this lot; they're harder
> to tell apart from above, easier from below (four small eyes instead of two
> big eyes). I'm using this opportunity to get familiar with the few
> upperside patterns that distinguish them from American.
>
> FMI: http://www.e-butterfly.org/help-us-record-painted-lady-
> butterflies-move/#more-1089
>
> Suan
> _
> http://suan-yong.com
>
> On Sep 24, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Bard Prentiss > wrote:
> I had three ladies in my yard yesterday am not happy to see what appears
> to be increased interest in butterflies. Butterflies and moths were my way
> into nature studies although my parents were bird watchers. My interest in
> birds came much later.
> Bard
>
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> Subject: Re: Loons at inlet?
> From: Asher Hockett 
> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:21:39 -0400
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>
> Are you sure they were NOT Double-crested Cormorants? They are plentiful in
> that area.
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Fredric Kardon 
> wrote:
>
> > About 9:30 AM today while walking from Cass Park to Hog Hole,  we saw
> what
> > we thought were loons swimming near the red buoy/lighthouse past the
> jetty
> > at the south end of Cayuga Lake.  There were about 35.  I wanted to
> report
> > them to Ebird but was advised they are rare for this date and location,
> so
> > I haven't reported them yet.  The other possibility is that they were
> > grebes.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Loons at inlet?

2017-09-25 Thread Donna Lee Scott 
The only time I have seen loons in large groups on Cayuga Lake is during 
migration, but that wouldn't happen till at least the end of October or early 
November.
We can sometimes see a hundred or more spread out on the lake then.

Donna Scott
Cayuga Lake, Lansing
Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 25, 2017, at 6:29 PM, Paul Zarnowski 
> wrote:

I agree with Asher and think what you saw were almost certainly Cormorants.   
They are both fishing birds, diving for their meals like Loons do, and they 
look very similar.  I know they hang out in the area you identified, in a 
couple of tall trees on the inlet, and also in a deadfall tree nearby in the 
lake.  Loons tend to be solitary birds, not hanging out in large groups like 
Cormorants do.

..Paul

On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Asher Hockett 
> wrote:

Are you sure they were NOT Double-crested Cormorants? They are plentiful in 
that area.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Fredric Kardon 
> wrote:
About 9:30 AM today while walking from Cass Park to Hog Hole,  we saw what we 
thought were loons swimming near the red buoy/lighthouse past the jetty at the 
south end of Cayuga Lake.  There were about 35.  I wanted to report them to 
Ebird but was advised they are rare for this date and location, so I haven't 
reported them yet.  The other possibility is that they were grebes.  When I put 
in PBGR,I was told this is a high count for this date and location.Based on 
size and sillhouette we think they are loons.  We only had binoculars with us.  
Any suggestions?

Fred Kardon
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[cayugabirds-l] Speaker: Oct 3, Bill McQuay, Audio Producer & NPR Contributor

2017-09-25 Thread Karen Edelstein 
SOUND MEETS SCIENCE: RADIO PRODUCTION AND THE NATURAL WORLD
By Bill McQuay, Audio Producer, and NPR Contributor
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 7 p.m.
Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing

​In celebration of autumn at Salt Point, Bill McQuay, an audio producer and
NPR Contributor, will give a presentation entitled SOUND MEETS SCIENCE:
RADIO PRODUCTION AND THE NATURAL WORLD.  The talk will take place Tuesday,
October 3, 2017, at 7 PM at Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road in Lansing.
Sponsored by the Friends of Salt Point, it is free and open to the public.

McQuay will talk about radio production with a focus on production
techniques for stories about science and the natural world. He will share
samples of his work and discuss techniques and technologies used in his
award-winning productions.

McQuay is an audio producer and NPR Contributor. Prior to that, he worked
with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Macaulay Library of Natural Sound and
Video. For fifteen years McQuay was an NPR sound engineer, technical
director and producer for NPR programs including Morning Edition, Weekend
Saturday and Sunday, Performance Today and NPR's Radio Expeditions. Radio
Expeditions is where McQuay began his long time collaboration with NPR
science correspondent Christopher Joyce, a creative relationship that
continues today.

Salt Point and the Salt Point Speaker Series are managed by the Friends of
Salt Point Ltd. group of volunteers in cooperation with the Town of Lansing
Parks and Recreation Department. For more information, visit
www.saltpointlansing.org

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Loons at inlet?

2017-09-25 Thread Paul Zarnowski 
I agree with Asher and think what you saw were almost certainly Cormorants.   
They are both fishing birds, diving for their meals like Loons do, and they 
look very similar.  I know they hang out in the area you identified, in a 
couple of tall trees on the inlet, and also in a deadfall tree nearby in the 
lake.  Loons tend to be solitary birds, not hanging out in large groups like 
Cormorants do.

..Paul

On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:22 AM, Asher Hockett 
> wrote:

Are you sure they were NOT Double-crested Cormorants? They are plentiful in 
that area.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Fredric Kardon 
> wrote:
About 9:30 AM today while walking from Cass Park to Hog Hole,  we saw what we 
thought were loons swimming near the red buoy/lighthouse past the jetty at the 
south end of Cayuga Lake.  There were about 35.  I wanted to report them to 
Ebird but was advised they are rare for this date and location, so I haven't 
reported them yet.  The other possibility is that they were grebes.  When I put 
in PBGR,I was told this is a high count for this date and location.Based on 
size and sillhouette we think they are loons.  We only had binoculars with us.  
Any suggestions?

Fred Kardon
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Loons at inlet?

2017-09-25 Thread Linda Orkin 
We were at Cass Park yesterday. Cormorants flying everywhere.


Linda Orkin

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Asher Hockett  wrote:

> Are you sure they were NOT Double-crested Cormorants? They are plentiful
> in that area.
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Fredric Kardon 
> wrote:
>
>> About 9:30 AM today while walking from Cass Park to Hog Hole,  we saw
>> what we thought were loons swimming near the red buoy/lighthouse past the
>> jetty at the south end of Cayuga Lake.  There were about 35.  I wanted to
>> report them to Ebird but was advised they are rare for this date and
>> location, so I haven't reported them yet.  The other possibility is that
>> they were grebes.  When I put in PBGR,I was told this is a high count for
>> this date and location.Based on size and sillhouette we think they are
>> loons.  We only had binoculars with us.  Any suggestions?
>>
>> Fred Kardon
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Loons at inlet?

2017-09-25 Thread Asher Hockett 
Are you sure they were NOT Double-crested Cormorants? They are plentiful in
that area.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Fredric Kardon 
wrote:

> About 9:30 AM today while walking from Cass Park to Hog Hole,  we saw what
> we thought were loons swimming near the red buoy/lighthouse past the jetty
> at the south end of Cayuga Lake.  There were about 35.  I wanted to report
> them to Ebird but was advised they are rare for this date and location, so
> I haven't reported them yet.  The other possibility is that they were
> grebes.  When I put in PBGR,I was told this is a high count for this date
> and location.Based on size and sillhouette we think they are loons.  We
> only had binoculars with us.  Any suggestions?
>
> Fred Kardon
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RE: [cayugabirds-l] Painted ladies

2017-09-25 Thread David Ruppert 
Saturday we have had at least 12 Painted Ladies in our zinnia bed.  I took 
numerous photos with a long lens and every one was a Painted Lady, no American 
Painted Ladies.  They returned yesterday and again today.

David Ruppert

From: bounce-121865723-17096...@list.cornell.edu 
[mailto:bounce-121865723-17096...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Suan Yong
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 9:11 PM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Painted ladies

Big Painted Lady irruption this year, was detected early elsewhere, and now 
coming through our neck of the woods. The species has an almost worldwide 
distribution, and is famous for their migrations, but they're irruptive and 
irregular (another way of saying we don't fully understand when and why it 
happens, I think).

Haven't noticed any American Painted Ladies among this lot; they're harder to 
tell apart from above, easier from below (four small eyes instead of two big 
eyes). I'm using this opportunity to get familiar with the few upperside 
patterns that distinguish them from American.

FMI: 
http://www.e-butterfly.org/help-us-record-painted-lady-butterflies-move/#more-1089

Suan
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http://suan-yong.com

On Sep 24, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Bard Prentiss 
> wrote:
I had three ladies in my yard yesterday am not happy to see what appears to be 
increased interest in butterflies. Butterflies and moths were my way into 
nature studies although my parents were bird watchers. My interest in birds 
came much later.
Bard

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[cayugabirds-l] Loons at inlet?

2017-09-25 Thread Fredric Kardon 
About 9:30 AM today while walking from Cass Park to Hog Hole,  we saw what
we thought were loons swimming near the red buoy/lighthouse past the jetty
at the south end of Cayuga Lake.  There were about 35.  I wanted to report
them to Ebird but was advised they are rare for this date and location, so
I haven't reported them yet.  The other possibility is that they were
grebes.  When I put in PBGR,I was told this is a high count for this date
and location.Based on size and sillhouette we think they are loons.  We
only had binoculars with us.  Any suggestions?

Fred Kardon

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