It was a greyish day, but still lots of good sightings. Total of 43 species
between 8 and 4. Started at Myers with a juvenile red-tailed hawk sitting on
one of the "campsites". A pair of ospreys on the lakeside of Salt Point
demonstrated how to collect sticks for nesting material as a pair of
k
Next Monday, April 10, will be the next monthly meeting of the Cayuga Bird
Club. Bruce Smith and Katherine [Kit] Muma, will give their presentation,
"Kiwis and Kokakos: Wildlife Conservation in New Zealand". Although they have
both been on faculty in the Biology Dept. at Ithaca College, Bruce
I have an extra copy of the October to December 2016 North American Bird
Bander peer-reviewed journal if anyone wants it. I can bring it to the
next Monday meeting or arrange for a downtown pick up. Let me know!
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I'm not a bird bander (yet), but I went to the recent 2017 meeting anyway
to learn more about it and see if I would want to do the training. I was
impressed by the passion and comradry of this group and left with a great
appreciation for all the people who put in tens of thousands of hours
laying
A few days ago a new Osprey platform was installed on a pole along the east
side of the Flood Control Channel on the north side of AJ Foreign Auto on
Cherry Street, about here: 42.438, -76.516. Some nearby trees were cut down,
and the platform was baited heartily with large bushy branches. I hav
A pair of SANDHILL CRANES was calling (10 am) from the marsh just south of
where Hile School Road crosses the marsh. Within Tompkins County - out of the
Basin.
Bob McGuire
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