Date: 10/16/25 5:42 pm From: Steve Donohue <sdonohue1632...> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Oct 16 Thursday Birding Meetup Recap and Oct 23 Plans
What wonderful, poetic and emotive sentences introducing this report!!
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:16 PM Shelley Page <shelleypage.imagine...>
wrote:
> Sometimes we bird with a sense of history, a sense of carrying on a
> tradition of awe, wonder and stewardship from our ancestors. Today's
> Thursday Birding Meetup at Frontenac Point put us in touch with the rich
> history of Louis Agassiz Fuertes birding there and teaching Boy Scouts
> about birding at this gorgeous stretch of lakeside beauty at the former
> Camp Barton, now a public park in the making. We were fortunate that Tim
> Gallagher joined us this morning and could share about this history
> including letting us know about the commemorative metal arch to honor
> Fuertes that is no longer there (we will investigate what happened to it!).
> So, 15 of us birded in the footsteps of Fuertes and encountered 21 species
> (thanks to Diane Morton for our ebird list) including some surprises. We
> expected the 30 cormorants and the gang of gulls (270 ring bills and 3
> Herrings fluttering in the morning sun) as well as a cute kingfisher and an
> immature eagle. A peregrine falcon streaked overhead! Plus four bluebirds
> and seven yellow-rumped warblers brightened the morning! We birded along
> the lake and left a gorge exploration for another day. We will definitely
> be back in some other seasons to check out the birds at a place that seems
> destined to be another Cayuga Basin birding hot spot. Afterward, seven of
> us enjoyed the ever satisfying breakfast offerings at The Falls in
> Trumansburg.
> Want to join us next week Oct 23? Meet us at 7:30 am at the Sculpture
> Garden parking area in the Cornell Arboretum. From Ithaca, take Rt. 366
> (Dryden Rd.) east and turn left on Caldwell Rd just beyond the Vet School.
> At the bottom of the hill, turn right into the Arboretum and continue
> straight to find the Sculpture Garden parking area.
> Shelley Page
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