Visiting Ben Winger
at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Mother's Day - May 9, 2004
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Mother's Day weekend Bob Finkelstein, Paula
Lozano and Jane Berger went to Ithaca, New York,
to visit Ben Winger. Since Ben's classes had
ended and finals were a week away, he had time
to give them the grand tour of Ithaca, Cornell
University and the Laboratory of Ornithology at
Sapsucker Woods. In addition, they visited the
fish ponds, the site of Dr. David Winkler's
swallow project where Ben and Ted Gilliland
worked during the summer of 2002. Besides seeing
a lot of Tree Swallows, they watched Dr. Winkler
-- aka "Wink" -- working with Ben in preparation
for Ben's summer job at Dr. Winkler's Mono Lake,
California, site. The following photos were
taken on Mother's Day.
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Paula took this photo of Bob, Jane and Ben at
the entrance to Sapsucker
Woods Sanctuary.
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Then Jane took this one of Paula
with Bob and Ben.
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Half way around the Wilson Trail, Ben spotted
a male Scarlet Tanager, the perfect Mother's Day
present for Jane -- and Paula, too!
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This was the view of the Johnson Center for
Birds and Biodiversity from the Sherwood
Observation Platform.
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Back inside the building, Ben gave them a
behind the scenes tour. First stop was the
Specimen Prep Room to see Ben's study skin of a Swainson's
Thrush.
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There were other study skins to see, too!
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Dr. David Winkler (in background) met them at
the fish ponds. While Jane, Bob and Paula
took a walk in a nearby woodlot, Ben and Dr.
Winkler caught and banded Tree Swallows and
discussed Ben's summer project at Mono Lake,
California.
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It was hot work taking measurements inside
"Wink's" mobile lab -
a vintage Volvo!
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For more information about Dr. Winkler:
http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/winkler/winkler.html
For more information about Mono Lake:
http://www.birdchautauqua.org/
Photos courtesy Paula Lozano
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