Perhaps the local Audubon Chapter or some other constituency could contact the power company and explore the possibility of refraining from disturbing/destroying essential habitat during the spring nesting season. From our experience on Long Island the power company, in a couple of cases, has been amenable to postponing vegetation management and control efforts during the nesting season, once they understood the potential impacts and realized they could undertake the management actions during a significant fraction of the year, outside the nesting season window.
John Turner ----- Original Message ----- From: Dawn Hannay Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:25 pm Subject: [nysbirds-l] Sterling Forest, Ironwood Drive powerline To: "[email protected]" > Together with Adele Gotlib, I spent the day walking the power > line cut and > the Sterling Valley trail at Sterling Forest today. We were > disturbed to > see that crews with chainsaws were hard at work along the north > right-of-way, usually the more productive direction for Golden-winged > Warblers. I understand that the right-of-way needs to be > maintained, but > the timing seems less than ideal for the warblers. > Since the noise was disruptive, we walked south, and saw only one > Blue-winged and 2 Golden-winged Warblers. We did see Prairie, Indigo > Bunting, Field and Chipping Sparrows, Great-crested Flycatcher and > Yellow-throated Vireos, and a pair of Broad-winged Hawks along > the power > line. > We then turned southwest to follow the Sterling Valley trail to > the lake. > The birding was tough and bugs abundant, but we saw Worm-eating, > Cerulean,Black-and-white, Ovenbird, Black-throated Green and > Yellow Warblers, and an > abundance of Scarlet Tanagers. Wood Ducks were on the pond, and > there was a > pair of Kingbirds at the lake. > I won't list all the birds here, but we concluded with an Eagle flying > over. Bald is the expected species. but the bird was completely > silhouettedand any markings were obscured. It definitely had no > white at all on the > head and tail, but it was impossible to see the mottling, if > any, on the > body. > Still, an exciting conclusion to a good day! > Dawn Hannay > > -- > > NYSbirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
