The third entry has your name on it!
Also melissa groo posted on facebook pool noodle support.
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> On Jul 6, 2017, at 12:02 AM, Upstate NY Birding digest
> wrote:
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> CAYUGABIRDS-L Digest for Thursday, July 06, 2017.
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> 1. Eagles
> 2. slightly off-topic - 18th century maps of Montezuma and Cayuga Lake
> 3. MNWR highlights today
> 4. Indigo buntings
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> Subject: Eagles
> From: Bard Prentiss
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 08:43:50 -0400
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> Has anybody seen eagles lately?
> Juveniles? at Dryden lake
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> Subject: slightly off-topic - 18th century maps of Montezuma and Cayuga Lake
> From: "Liisa S. Mobley"
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 19:15:43 +
> X-Message-Number: 2
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> Hi everyone-
> I've been out of town, so I hope I am not duplicating anyone's previous email
> - I know there are some other library people on this list.
>
> I thought people might enjoy this tidbit from the Cornell University Library
> - historic maps of NYS, including one which describes the area we know of as
> the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge as ""Resort of gees and ducks of all sorts all
> the year."
>
> http://www.newyorkupstate.com/ithaca/2017/07/cornell_buys_rare_map_showing_upstate_ny_before_revolutionary_war.html
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> If you click on the image at the top, the gallery will open; images number 3
> and 7 show the Montezuma area, and number 9 shows where there was a "tarry"
> or canoe ferry to take people across the north end of the lake. This would
> be useful for those days when you see an interesting bird on the lake, and
> the bird somehow always seems closer to the other shore.
>
> -Liisa
>
>
> Liisa Mobley
> Electronic Resources Unit Supervisor, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY
> 14853
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> Subject: MNWR highlights today
> From:
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 22:41:15 +
> X-Message-Number: 3
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> While doing odonate surveys today we had a lovely run of seldom seens.
> At Tschache we had 2 each of Virginia rail, Dora and Least Bittern.
> Counted a minimum of 20 Black Tern individuals including three newly
> fledged birds. Later at the Sandhill Crane unit we had an American
> Bittern fly across Van Dyne Spoor just at the beginning of the wetlands.
>
>
> Lots of other birds around to disturb the concentration on bugs! Never
> did see the reported pelican. Saw three new Bald Eagles and two adults.
>
> John and Sue
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> John and Sue Gregoire
> Field Ornithologists
> Kestrel Haven Migration Observatory
> 5373 Fitzgerald Rd
> Burdett, NY 14818
> 42.443508000, -76.758202000
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> Subject: Indigo buntings
> From: Linda Post Van Buskirk
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 00:37:27 +
> X-Message-Number: 4
>
> I am fortunate to have some fruiting mulberry trees that bear particularly
> delicious fruit. Indigo buntings are among the birds that savor the berries,
> and as I stand under the tree eating berries, I see buntings only 10 to 15
> feet from me. What a treat!
>
>
> Also, towhees have been particularly common this year (or maybe I'm just
> spending more time looking for them).
>
>
> Linda VB
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> END OF DIGEST
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