January 2023 Meeting Minutes
Cayuga Bird Club
Meeting Minutes
January 9th, 2023
7:30 pm via Zoom
Call to Order
We will have a very brief business meeting prior to tonight’s Share Your
Photos Night!
Corrections offered from the floor for last month’s meeting minutes?
Last month’s meeting minutes were approved as written.
Just a reminder, everyone can access the meeting minutes on the club website Home Page via the “See Meetings and Speakers Page” link.
https://sites.google.com/site/cbc14850
Next Meeting
Monday, February 13th (2nd Monday of the month)
In person @ the Lab of Ornithology auditorium
Presentation: A Birding Tour of Morocco
Speakers: Ken Rosenberg, Diane Morton and Ken Kemphues
The three speakers, along with seven other participants, experienced a memorable birding tour of Morocco last spring. Their exploration went from the city of Marrakech to the High Atlas Mountains, Middle Atlas, plains, Sahara Desert, and the Atlantic coast. Each area had birds specialized to their unique habitats. We are encouraged to come share their experience in this beautiful country — birds such as a gorgeous Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, vibrant culture, and varied landscapes.
Young Birder Program Continues
Saturday, January 21st
Sunday, February 5th
Sunday, March 12th
Locations: CCETC @ 615 Willow Ave•9:30-11:30a.m.
FMI: cayugabirdclub.org/youth
The location is CCETC, or trip TBD. If the weather looks good we can meet elsewhere. Future location may include Montezuma in March or the Cornell Raptor Program
Field Trips
Upcoming
Birding the South End of Cayuga Lake
Meena Haribal
Sunday, January 15th/ 8:00 a.m. –1:00 p.m.
Meet at Stewart Park (1st parking lot)
Check the website calendar @ cayugabirdclub.org/calendar
We have not had any field trips since our December meeting but we do have one upcoming this weekend…
This trip will be mostly along the lake to look for waterfowls and field birds like
Horned Larks and Longspurs. It is a half day trip to three fourth day trip depending on the birds we find. Dress warmly for weather with gloves and hats. Bring a hot beverage and some snacks. Bring scopes and binoculars if you have one. Trip is open to the general public. If the weather is bad it may be changed to a different date and will be announced on the calendar a couple of days earlier. Keep watch on the CBC
calendar and Cayugabirds listserv.
2023 Spring Ornithology with Steve Kress
Reminder that registration for the 2023 SO course is now open. This 8 week course will be held Wednesday evenings, March 29 to May 17, 7 - 9 pm. at Kendal at Ithaca and may also be attended via Zoom for registered students who live further away or who don’t want to drive. All lectures will be recorded and may be
reviewed by students at their convenience. Steve Kress is a great lecturer, and
this is a course not to be missed! Many folks enroll many years in row and Steve promises new material each year.
Club Newsletter –February and on…Email Jill newsletter@cayugabirdclub.org
MANY thanks, Suan, for filling in!
Share Your Photos Night!
Thanks to Kevin McGowan for putting it all together!
And now, tonight’s presentation! In the “old days”, Cayuga Bird Club
members would bring 5 SLIDES (remember those?) to share in one meeting a year.
Sadly, that tradition paused somewhere in the 1990s, when the main contributor passed away.
Meanwhile, Kevin, who had already been super into sharing photographs, started putting digital photographs on the internet in the mid 1990s, starting with scanned images. He got his first digital camera in 2000, and with his son, Jay, innovated
digiscoping immediately. He started putting digiscoped bird photos on the web right away, mixing local rare birds with museum collections.
In early 2004 he created some web pages for the Cayuga Bird Club where people could share their bird photographs. Right away, it was a huge hit. From there, it seemed a natural progression and, according to old newsletters, somewhere around 2007 Kevin decided to revitalize the Cayuga Bird Club tradition of sharing bird
photographs once a year. This now 17 year old event has been super popular ever since, and Kevin is glad to help make it happen.
Warm welcome and thanks to Kevin McGowan!
11 yr old Rita Otto – got a camera for xmas & all 5 pix are from their CBC on New Year’s Eve… get them started early!
Jane Bain – decide to pick a theme of photos from a single, local place: Purvis Road Wetlands Area
Meena Haribal – traveled to India (Rajasthan) in 2022: birds and sunsets
Wes Blauvelt – trip to Hawaii a little over a year ago: 4 of the 5 birds are “tipping point species”
Ann Mitchell – birds from Argentina to the “end of the world” in Nov/Dec 2022
Kevin Murphy – pictures of birds in flight
Judy Burrill – beauty & grace in birds… or not
Barbara Clise – birds of Montezuma & Fair Haven
Bob McGuire – bird behavior
Tom Shepard – local birds
Tracy McLellan – Birding trip to northern Peru in October
Diane Morton – November birding in Columbia (Western and Central Andes)
Laurie Michelman – birding around Las Vegas
Sandy Podulka – “strife”
Muhammad Arif – bird behavior
Ken Haas – Cape May & Stone Harbor in October
Kevin McGowan – what birds will do when you don’t guard your picnic!