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Member Meeting – Member Photo Night
Our May Program gives club members a chance to share 10 to 15 of their favorite photographs with fellow club members. Please go through your photographs and select some to share. You may bring your pictures on a CD or thumb drive. If possible make arrangements ahead of time so that digital images can be preloaded on to the computer and avoid any computer related difficulties at the meeting. Only members are invited to share photos. If you have any questions…
Find out more »June Picnic
Bring your family to our annual picnic! This year’s picnic will be at Veterans River Park in the town of Kirkwood. We have reserved Pavilion #1 for our festivities. Please bring your own table service and a dish to pass. Drinks (soda, water, juice) will be provided. If you don’t have a dish to pass, come anyway, as there is always plenty of good food. After dinner we will enjoy a walk next to the river. Directions to Veterans River…
Find out more »Member Meeting – An Insider’s View of Denali
Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska is a shining star in the National Park system of the United States. Larger than the state of New Hampshire with nearly a third of it designated as “Wilderness”, this intact ecosystem houses incredible diversity, landscapes, and a magic all its own. Framed by the Alaska Range and Mount Denali, visitors can enjoy charismatic megafauna, incredible wildflowers, and unimaginably large vistas. Come enjoy a photographic journey of some of our favorite parts of…
Find out more »Member Meeting – Member Photo Night
Our December Program gives club members a chance to share 10 to 15 of their favorite photographs with fellow club members. Please go through your photographs and select some to share. You may bring your pictures on a CD or thumb drive. If possible make arrangements ahead of time so that digital images can be preloaded on to the computer and avoid any computer related difficulties at the meeting. Only members are invited to share photos. If you have any…
Find out more »Membership Meeting – Across Siberia: Birding with a Microphone
Join us as guest speaker Bob McGuire talks about spending several weeks in the summer of 2017 traveling across Siberia, from the Mongolian border to the Arctic Ocean. Join him for photos, recordings, and videos of some amazing birds as well as landscapes, street scenes, and then a few stories from an experience he will never forget. Bob is a former president of the Cayuga Bird Club and editor of “Birding the Cayuga Lake Basin”. An avid birder and sound recordist, he has…
Find out more »Member Meeting – Understanding Threats to Amphibians and How to Get Involved
Human activities are threatening freshwater ecosystems across the globe. Amphibians are particularly vulnerable to human activities with populations declining worldwide. Understanding the myriad ways our activities influence amphibians is paramount to conservation efforts. Members of the Hua lab will provide a broad overview of recent work examining various threats to amphibians, including light pollution, road salt, and invasive species. Specifically, graduate student, Grascen Shidemantle, will discuss her recent discoveries regarding the effect of light pollution at night on amphibian growth and development. Graduate student, Nicholas…
Find out more »Member Meeting – Pollination Biology and Pollinator Conservation
Pollination is a critical ecosystem service, and one that is mostly provided by flower visiting animals. In addition to supporting terrestrial ecosystems, pollination is also directly responsible for much of the food human populations consume. Unfortunately, global change is weakening these critical interactions, and some pollinator species and communities are in decline. In this talk, I will explore some interesting facts and examples of plant-pollinator interactions and conclude with some simple steps we all can take to promote pollinator diversity…
Find out more »Member Meeting – The Magic of Monarchs
Tannar Cliffe will be presenting his Magic of Monarchs program at our May meeting. He has had a life-long interest in insects which in the past few years has broadened to include birds and many other forms of wildlife. These interests have been enhanced by his expanding abilities as a photographer. He has been a member of the Bainbridge-Guilford Envirothon Team which has represented his region in the state competition for the past two years. For several years he has…
Find out more »Member Meeting – Collected Stories from 2019
Crowd favorite Rick Bunting will be back this September to share a variety of experiences and photos from his daily outings in the area and also from his time in Florida this year. Rick has a regular email post “the Roadside Naturalist” that many of us receive and his photos, stories, and insights into the wide variety of flora and fauna he observes never ceases to amaze me. Rick’s presentation is sure to be a great kickoff for our 2019-20…
Find out more »Member Meeting – Fish Crows
Guest speaker and Binghamton University graduate student Connor Loomis will talk about how Broome and Cayuga counties represent a unique area of North America in that they have 3 Corvus species living together in a shared landscape, including the Common Raven, the American Crow and the Fish Crow. The smallest of these species, the Fish Crow is a new arrival to the north, becoming established in the late 1970’s. They exist here, in one of their northernmost breeding colonies, in…
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