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Winter/Spring 2008 Meetings & Trips

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All meetings and trips are open to the public, although we strongly urge everyone to join so you can receive our monthly newsletter.

For information about joining and/or any of the trips, please contact Ann Mitchell, alm9413@aol.com.

Our meetings are on the second Monday of every month at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd., Ithaca, NY.

Information on past trips and meetings can be found in the archives of our monthly newsletter, now available for download here.

Cayuga Bird Club meetings and field trips are listed below. Some club meetings coincide with the Monday Night Seminar series at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Follow that link for other Monday Night Seminar events.

The Cayuga Bird Club has agreed to host the weekly reading of the basin list each Monday night, a long standing tradition in which attendees respond with the species they have seen in the preceding week.

May 3
Field Trip: Local Hot Spots. Leader: Bill Baker
Saturday, 7:00 a.m. - noon
Meet at Johnson Center, far parking lot
Meet at the Lab of Ornithology’s north parking lot (closest to 13) to carpool for this trip to local areas where birds have been reported recently, especially new spring arrivals. Dress for the weather and bring a snack. Contact Bill at 275-0540 or at bilbaker@lightlink.com with questions.

May 5
Monday Night Seminar
7:30 p.m.
Johnson Center Auditorium
In rainforests of Southeast Asia more woodpecker species coexist than elsewhere in the world. Martjan Lammertink, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has examined niche evolution among woodpecker species in recent man-made forest fragments and on small islands that have been isolated since the last ice age. He also has researched the impact of rainforest logging on woodpeckers. In his presentation, “Spectacular Southeast Asian Woodpeckers: Niche Evolution and Logging Responses in Highly Diverse Communities,” Martjan will present his findings and photographs from fieldwork with woodpeckers in Indonesia and Myanmar.

May 10
Field Trip: Local Hot Spots. Leader: Gladys Birdsall
Saturday, 7:00 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Meet at Johnson Center, far parking lot
As songbird migration is reaching its peak, this half-day trip will look for the latest arrivals. Meet at the Lab of Ornithology’s north parking lot (closest to 13). Dress appropriately. Bring a snack and drink. Contact Gladys at 257-0130 or at gjb5@cornell.edu for more information.

May 12
Cayuga Bird Club Meeting
Monday, 7:30 p.m.
Johnson Center Auditorium
Meena Haribal will present “Needles in the Haystack and Sparkling Gems Around the Ponds,” an illustrated talk on Dragonflies and Damselflies (collectively known as odontaes) found around the Cayuga Lake Basin and other nearby areas. Odonates, found in a variety of habitats, are amazing creatures with wide ranges of colors and habits. They have evolved a very distinctive mating system that no other insect seems to have. The talk will highlight their characters as well as interesting stories of the individuals whose photos will be presented. Of course, odontaes are not birds, but they are an important component of the birds’ food chain.

May 17
Field Trip: Lindsay Parsons Preserve. Leader: Ryan Douglas
Saturday, 6:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Meet at the south end of Wegmans parking lot to carpool
We will be looking for new arrivals. Dress for the weather and wear appropriate footwear. Bring water and a snack.

June 9
Cayuga Bird Club Meeting Annual Dish to Pass Picnic
Monday, 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Myers Park, Pavilion A (near the birding kiosk), Rt 34B, Lansing
Bring a generous dish to share - a main dish, appetizers or desserts. Also birng you own place setting and something to drink. A bird walk will be held for those who come early. Bring binoculars.

Past Activities - Fall 2007 through Spring 2008:

September 8 - Montezuma Muckrace
September 10 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting: Meena Haribal, "Home Country Birding: India and Beyond"
September 15 - Field Trip: Sapsucker Woods, Mark Chao
September 17 - Monday Night Seminar: Bill Evans, "Calling Patterns of Night-Migrating Birds Over Central New York"
September 23 - Field Trip: Fall Migrants, Meena Haribal
September 24 - Monday Night Seminar: Dick Hutton, "A bird's-eye View of Forest Fires in the West"
September 30 - Field Trip:Cayuga Lake, Bob McGuire
October 1 - Monday Night Seminar: Nina Schoch, "Mercury and Migration: Conservation through the LIves of Adirondack Loon"
October 5, 6, 7 - NYSOA Annual Meeting, Batavia, NY
October 6 - Field Trip: Exploratory, Shawn Billerman
October 8 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting: Carlos Botero, "Song and Song Learning in the Tropical Mockingbird"
October 15 - Monday Night Seminar: Jeff Walters, "Conservation of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker: The Power of Science in an Imperfect World"
October 20 - Field Trip: For Children - Sapsucker Woods and Stewart Park, Mark Chao and Linda Clougherty
October 2 - Field Trip: Around the Lake, Bob McGuire
October 22 - Monday Night Seminar: Bernd Heinrich,“The Ravens’ vs. the Wood Frogs’ Sharing Systems”
October 29 - Monday Night Seminar: Evan Cooch, “One Bird Too Many: The Conservation Management of Snow Geese”
November 3 - Field Trip: Mount Pleasant, Paul Hurtado
November 5 - Monday Night Seminar: Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, "The State of North American Birds of Prey”
November 10 - Field Trip: Loon Watch, Bob Meade
November 12 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting: Martha Fischer and Geoffrey Keller, "Recording Birds in Newfoundland"
November 18 - Field Trip: Where the Birds Are, Bill Baker
November 19 - Monday Night Seminar: Ann Warde, “Natural Sound: Science, Music, Experiment"
December 1, 2 - Field Trip: Niagara Falls, Canada. Leader: Kevin McGowan
December 3 - Monday Night Seminar: Scott Sillett, “Connecting the Seasons and Populations of Migratory Birds."
December 10 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting: Benjamin Clock and Michael Andersen,“Collecting the Sounds and Images of Alaska’s Birds: A Chronicle of a Macaulay Library Big Year Expedition.”
December 15 - Field Trip: Searching for Short-eared Owls. Leader: Ann Mitchell and Marty Schlaubach
January 1- Ithaca Christmas Bird Count
January 13 - Field Trip: Around the Lake. Leader: Bob McGuire
January 14 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting. Kevin McGowan: "Share Your Photos!
January 26 - Field Trip: Summerhill. Leaders: Susan Danskin and Bill Baker
February 4 - Monday Night Seminar: Andre Desrochers, “Conservation of Boreal Forest Birds and the Relevance of Behavioral Ecologist.”
February 11 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting: Matt Young, “Bird Irruptions, Resource Partitioning and Finch Nesting Events in New York.”
February 15 - 18 - Great Backyard Bird Count
February 18 - Monday Night Seminar: Eric Strauss, “The Frontier of Urban Ecology and the Challenge of Rejuvenating
America’s Cities.”
February 24 - Field Trip: Hot Spots. Leader: Tom Johnson
February 25 - Monday Night Seminar: Irby Lovette, “Desperate housewives with feathers: sex and infidelity, cooperation and conflict in the family lives of birds."
March 3 - Monday Night Seminar: Robert Prys-Jones, “The ornithological frauds of Richard Meinertzhagen.”
March 8 - Field Trip: Around the Lake. Leader: Susan Danskin
March 10 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting: Stephen Kress, “Birding around the world in 26 days.”
March 24 - Monday Night Seminar: Erick Greene, "Behavioral ecology of communication in birds." Cancelled
March 29 - Field Trip: Where the Birds Are. Leader: Nick Sly
March 31- Monday Night Seminar: Gerald MacDougall, “Kiptu (Bald Eagle) the Protector of the Mi’kmaq People."
April 7 - Monday Night Seminar: Julie Zickefoose, “Letters from Eden: A Year at Home, In the Woods."
April 13 - Field Trip: Dryden Lake. Leader: Bard Prentiss
April 14 - Cayuga Bird Club Meeting: Maiken Winter, "Local, regional, and global issues in grassland bird conservation."
April 19 - Field Trip: Children's Trip. Leader: Mark Chao
April 21 - Monday Night Seminar:Ted Floyd, “Charles Darwin, Roger Tory Pererson, and the Future of Birding."
April 26 - Field Trip: Derby Hill. Leader: Gladys Birdsall
April 28 - Monday Night Seminar: Rosalie Winard, “An Itinerant Photographer of the Wetlands."