November 2022 Meeting Minutes
Cayuga Bird Club Monthly Meeting
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
14 November 2022
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Any corrections from last month’s meeting?
Minutes approved
New attendees introduced themselves
Thank you for cookies to Susan Suarez
Next meeting
Monday, December 12th
7:30 pm
(2nd Monday of the month)
Next month’s presentation
Ian Owens Executive Director of Lab of Ornithology
Topic: Technology in Citizen science and bird watching
Recent Field Trips
10/29: Ken Haas reported on West Side of the Lake trip
7 Folks met and the Children’s Garden:
Highlights on Black Diamond Trail: Chickadees, Juncos, White Throated Sparrows, Pileated, Cedar Waxwings, Carolina Wrens, White Crowned Sparrow, Fox Sparrow
Highlights at Treman Marina and Hog Hole:
Common Mergansers
11/05: Steve Kress reported on trip Around the Lake
Perfect day and delightful group
47 species, 23 at Stewart Park!
Some Highlights: Bufflehead, Black Bellied Plover, Trumpeter Swan
11/12: Wes Blauvelt & Gary Kohlenberg –
Franklin Mountain Hawkwatch
Bald Eagles seen on the way there
Cold and west wind
Highlights: 14 species, mostly feeder birds, ie.Grackles and Red-winged Blackbird
Bald Eagle and Red tailed Hawk (the golden eagles didn’t show up till the next day – 20 of them!)
Upcoming Field Trips
Saturday, Nov 19, 6:40 am–10:00 am
(or when loons stop coming)
Annual Loon Watch, South Point of Taughannock
Trip leaders: Jared Dawson and Stephanie Herrick
Beginner Bird Walks at Lof O
Saturdays and Sundays at 8:30 am
Check the website calendar
Young Birder Programs
Saturday, Nov 5, Sapsucker Woods, 9:30-11:30
“It was great!”
Jody, Colleen, Beth Bannister, John Confer.
youth & family members attended
Upcoming Young Birder Programs
(register with Beth Bannister at Cornell Cooperative Extension)
Sunday, Dec 11, 9:30-11:30 at CCETC
For more information: cayugabirdclub.org/youth
Conservation Action Committee
Looking for…
1. Folks to “adopt-a-plot”
2. Individuals to help design school bird habitat garden
3. People interested in assembling community-based grant for:
Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Grant Program (www.nfwf.org/fivestar)
~ $1.6M is available nationwide for projects meeting program priorities.
Awards range from $25,000 to $50,000 with an average size of $40,000
40-50 grants awarded per year
Grants should span 12 to 18 months with a start date in late summer/early fall 2023.
Participating partners include: U.S. EPA Five Star Restoration Training Program, Urban Waters Federal Partnership, U.S. EPA and U.S.D.A. Forest Service, U.S. FWS Urban Programs (including the UBT Program), Southern Company Five Star Restoration Program, and FedEx
Full proposal due 1/31/23
Applicant webinar 12/8/22, 2-3:15 EST
Contact Jody Enck for more information (jwe4@cornell.edu)
Club Newsletter
Email Suan Yong
suan.yong@gmail.com
For submissions to December and January newsletters
Chemung Valley Audubon Society
Thursday November 17th, 7:30 pm
The Audubon Mural Project
Where Birds Meet Art
Take a virtual tour of New York City’s outdoor murals that feature birds threatened by climate change, and learn about the artists who created them. Join project coordinator, Avi Gitler, by Zoom cal. Send request to join to windingwayhorse@aol.com
Project Proposal: Binoculars for CBC
Overview: Purchase 10 binoculars and cases to be used for Weekend Beginner Bird Walks at Sapsucker Woods, for Youth Birding events with Cornell Cooperative Extension, and for
other Cayuga Bird Club outreach events
Proposed by: Diane Morton & Suan Yong
Cost:v$1,700: 10 Celestron Nature DX’S @ ~ $170 each (mix of 8x42 and 8x32)
$60: 2-3 containers for storing binoculars in Cornell Lab seed closet
$1,760 TOTAL (maximum)
Ken Haas presented proposal
Bob Maguire Motioned
Donna Scott Seconded
Proposal passed
Christmas Bird Count
2022
Count Day:
01/01/2023
Reading Day:
01/02/2023 at the lab and remotely
Question is should this be a dish to pass? This has costs that are not included in this years’ budget. Informal vote taken. Most people are not sure they would attend, so likely will just be reading, not a meal.
Reading of the List by Ken Haas
Tonight's Presentation by Jody Enck, Stephanie Herrick and Robyn Bailey
Ecuador 2022
Birding the Southern Highlights
& Machalilla National Park