September 2022 Meeting Minutes
Cayuga Bird Club Meeting
Minutes
In person
Lab of Ornithology/Cornell University
7:30 pm September 12th, 2022
Many thanks for the cookies goes to Ann Mitchell
Next month’s cookies will be brought to you by Gladys Birdsall
Next Meeting
Monday, October 10 (2nd Monday of the month)
Possible 7:15pm start time TBD
Annual meeting and officer elections
Presentation: Birding South Texas
by Suan Yong, to-be former President of Cayuga Bird Club
Officer Elections in October
Nominations: (*incumbents)
President: Stephanie Herrick
Vice President: Ken Haas
Corresponding Secretary: Colleen Richards*
Recording Secretary: Poppy Singer*
Treasurer: Ken Kemphues*
Director: Suan Yong
(Continuing Directors: Diane Morton, Susan Danskin)
Nominations accepted: Other possibilities send to Diane Morton/Susan Danskin
Conservation Action Committee led by Jody Enck
Lighthouse Point Woods birding and conservation work
Upcoming major engagement September 28-29 (Wednesday-Thursday) 10am-12noon
New Roots Charter School students and teachers
Sense of place and resiliency are topics especially of interest to be discussed
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED (sign-up clipboard) or contact Jody at jodyenck@gmail.com
Migration Celebration
This Saturday, September 17, 10am-3pm
CBC will have a table
Volunteers needed to attend this table,
sign-up on clipboard being passed around or contact Jody at jodyenck@gmail.com
Financial Report
See Newsletter for details
Basically we have a lot of money
Even after setting aside a generous reserve of $18,000, we have $15,000 left.
If you have ideas for where to spend this money, contact an officer or submit a special project request form available on our website.
2022-2023 PROPOSED CBC BUDGET
See Newsletter for details.
A few items of expenditure are increasing, including sending incoming presidents Stephanie Herrick and Ken Haas to NYSOA.
With an estimated income of $3000 from Spring Ornithology, which we're not sure if we'll offer, budget is balanced. Absent that, we may be in the red and need to draw from reserves, which we can currently afford.
Question: will we get more income from future trips to Central and South America?
Answer: with Jody planning two trips, to northern Ecuador and to Belize/Guatemala, probably, and this amount is not currently in the proposed budget. But the budget approval is really for the expenditure part; I don't expect members to vote against extra income.
Jane moved that we approve the budget, Donna seconded.
Budget is approved with about 20 for and 0 against.
Montezuma Muckrace
Held last Friday-Saturday (7pm-7pm)
CBC sponsored three teams:
Arrogant Bustards: 101 species
Veery Serious: 69 species
Shutterbirds: 90 species (photo category winner)
Gladys’ trip at Stewart Park saw some of the following:
mallards, osprey, many juvenile red bellied woodpeckers,northern flickers, speckled robins, peewee, yellow rumped warbler.
Upcoming Field Trips
Thank you to Bob Mcguire for years of field trip coordinating
Meena Haribal taking over as field trip coordinator
Check Website Calendar
Sunday, Sep 18, 7:30am-noon: Diane Morton & Ken Kemphues, Meet at Lab of O
Saturday, Sep 24, 8am-noon: Fall Migrants (Bob McGuire), Register with Bob, meet at Stewart Park
Saturday, Oct 8, 7:30am-noon: Dryden Lake (Laura Stenzler), Meet at Lab of O
Saturday, Oct 29, 8am-noon: West Side of Lake (Ken Haas), Meet at Ithaca Children’s Garden
Motus Mt. Pleasant
Club's second Motus tower installed in June
First detection: Semipalmated Plover
Tagged in Manatoba and detected at multiple stations all the way to southern North Carolina
Reading of the List, by Bob McGuire
Long tradition of the Cayuga Bird Club
Species observed in the Cayuga Lake Basin in the last week (since last Tuesday)
Tonight’s talk:
Through the Lens of Birds: Connecting Kids to Nature
Jennifer Fee
Manager of K-12 programs
Cornell Lab of Ornithology