Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

[Peter Saracino]

Thanks guys!
Pete

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 3:41 PM Regi Teasley  wrote:

> Maybe Rousseau had it all wrong.  The first contract was between people
> and animals….especially clever, social animals. 
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> Regi
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> Creativity is the heart of adaptive evolution.
> Terry Tempest Williams
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> On Jan 19, 2024, at 10:28 AM, Geo Kloppel  wrote:
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> I know quite a few humans who do what strikes me as much the same kind of
> thing: their dining tables and kitchen windowsills are decorated with
> trinkets and natural objects like polished stones, pine cones, crystals,
> snake skins, and dried flowers. On mine there are currently several bits of
> beach glass and a bowl of oak galls… guess it’s just my animal nature.
>
> -Geo
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2024, at 9:21 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
>
>  Some people have observed this trinket -leaving near food source with
> Crows & wondered if it was a gesture of gratitude for the feeder food.
> Maybe just us anthropomorphizing?
>
> Donna Scott
> Kendal at Ithaca-377
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jan 19, 2024, at 6:58 AM, Peter Saracino 
> wrote:
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> 
> Hey folks.
> I hear some people tell of blue Jay's leaving pebbles and bits of twigs on
> feeder trays. Anyone else ever hear of such things? If so, what might be
> the reason?
> Thanks!
> Pete Saracino/NY State Master Naturalist Volunteer
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

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Maybe Rousseau had it all wrong.  The first contract was between people and animals….especially clever, social animals. RegiCreativity is the heart of adaptive evolution.Terry Tempest WilliamsOn Jan 19, 2024, at 10:28 AM, Geo Kloppel  wrote:I know quite a few humans who do what strikes me as much the same kind of thing: their dining tables and kitchen windowsills are decorated with trinkets and natural objects like polished stones, pine cones, crystals, snake skins, and dried flowers. On mine there are currently several bits of beach glass and a bowl of oak galls… guess it’s just my animal nature.-GeoOn Jan 19, 2024, at 9:21 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:




Some people have observed this trinket -leaving near food source with Crows & wondered if it was a gesture of gratitude for the feeder food. 
Maybe just us anthropomorphizing?

Donna Scott

Kendal at Ithaca-377
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Hey folks.
I hear some people tell of blue Jay's leaving pebbles and bits of twigs on feeder trays. Anyone else ever hear of such things? If so, what might be the reason?
Thanks!
Pete Saracino/NY State Master Naturalist Volunteer 

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Eastern Bluebirds around Mount Pleasant

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Hi Eveline,

You may be interested in looking at the most recent abundance maps from
eBird Science --
https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/species/easblu/abundance-map
.

These visualizations were created using data from 2008-2022, and show
the relative abundance of Eastern Bluebirds in different seasons, as well
as year-round. You can see that with the exception of the Adirondack region
(and around NYC? That seems odd...), there is at least some amount of
purple shading throughout New York, indicating areas where the species
could potentially be found at any time of year. Darker shading basically
means a more dense population.

The maps at All About Birds (and really any static range maps) are always
going to lack some of the subtleties around how likely one is to see a
species at a particular place and time, and, as you alluded to, can go out
of date (sometimes quickly) as species' ranges shift. The eBird Status and
Trends maps get updated regularly and offer additional insights about how
dense populations are, and how species move throughout the year. They're
pretty rad.

You could also use eBird to check how many others have reported bluebirds
around Mt Pleasant in January--one way to do this is to go to
https://ebird.org/map/easblu, set the custom date range for Jan-Jan, then
set the location for Ithaca, NY.  Then zoom in on Mt Pleasant and click the
pins in that vicinity to see details about January sightings.

Marc

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM Eveline V. Ferretti 
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> Hello friends,
>
>
>
> In my frequent walks around the Mount Pleasant fields, I’ve noticed a
> number of  Eastern Bluebirds there over the past few weeks. I’m used to
> seeing/hearing them in spring/summer/early fall. Not so much over winter.
> The distribution map
>  at All About
> Birds suggests that this area is part of their breeding season stomping
> grounds, and shows only downstate as part of their year-round area.  Are
> the bluebirds starting to overwinter here with us now too? Or are these
> just late leavers, so to speak (and if the former,  I guess that makes me
> wonder when new distribution maps will end up getting compiled, though I
> realize the erraticness (spelling? Is that even a word?) of global
> warming’s effects may be making the creation of reliable new maps/databases
> a bit difficult).
>
>
>
> Wondering,
>
>
>
> Eveline
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

[Geo Kloppel]

I know quite a few humans who do what strikes me as much the same kind of 
thing: their dining tables and kitchen windowsills are decorated with trinkets 
and natural objects like polished stones, pine cones, crystals, snake skins, 
and dried flowers. On mine there are currently several bits of beach glass and 
a bowl of oak galls… guess it’s just my animal nature.

-Geo


> On Jan 19, 2024, at 9:21 AM, Donna Lee Scott  wrote:
> 
>  Some people have observed this trinket -leaving near food source with Crows 
> & wondered if it was a gesture of gratitude for the feeder food. 
> Maybe just us anthropomorphizing?
> 
> Donna Scott
> Kendal at Ithaca-377
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Jan 19, 2024, at 6:58 AM, Peter Saracino  wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> Hey folks.
>> I hear some people tell of blue Jay's leaving pebbles and bits of twigs on 
>> feeder trays. Anyone else ever hear of such things? If so, what might be the 
>> reason?
>> Thanks!
>> Pete Saracino/NY State Master Naturalist Volunteer 
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[cayugabirds-l] Eastern Bluebirds around Mount Pleasant

[Eveline V. Ferretti]

Hello friends,

In my frequent walks around the Mount Pleasant fields, I’ve noticed a number of 
 Eastern Bluebirds there over the past few weeks. I’m used to seeing/hearing 
them in spring/summer/early fall. Not so much over winter.  The distribution 
map at All About Birds 
suggests that this area is part of their breeding season stomping grounds, and 
shows only downstate as part of their year-round area.  Are the bluebirds 
starting to overwinter here with us now too? Or are these just late leavers, so 
to speak (and if the former,  I guess that makes me wonder when new 
distribution maps will end up getting compiled, though I realize the 
erraticness (spelling? Is that even a word?) of global warming’s effects may be 
making the creation of reliable new maps/databases a bit difficult).

Wondering,

Eveline



Eveline Ferretti
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Albert R. Mann Library
Cornell University Library
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

[Donna Lee Scott]

Some people have observed this trinket -leaving near food source with Crows & 
wondered if it was a gesture of gratitude for the feeder food.
Maybe just us anthropomorphizing?

Donna Scott
Kendal at Ithaca-377
Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 19, 2024, at 6:58 AM, Peter Saracino  wrote:


Hey folks.
I hear some people tell of blue Jay's leaving pebbles and bits of twigs on 
feeder trays. Anyone else ever hear of such things? If so, what might be the 
reason?
Thanks!
Pete Saracino/NY State Master Naturalist Volunteer
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[cayugabirds-l] Incredible hummingbird video

[Peter Saracino]

Incredible 50 minute video on hummingbirds for viewing on a fine winter's
day. Everything from their evolution to their co-evolution with flowers to
how they fly, how they get through the night, metabolic requirements, etc-
complete with incredible footage (picture yourself within a flower at the
bottom of a pool of nectar looking up through the liquid at the
hummingbird's tongue)!!
To top it off, exquisitely narrated by the incomparable David Attenborough.
If you love hummers this is a video for you. Enjoy!
Pete Saracino/NY State Master Naturalist Volunteer
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[cayugabirds-l] Blue jay question

[Peter Saracino]

Hey folks.
I hear some people tell of blue Jay's leaving pebbles and bits of twigs on
feeder trays. Anyone else ever hear of such things? If so, what might be
the reason?
Thanks!
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