i stopped by Stewart Park this morning (Mon 19 Oct): ZERO Pied-billed Grebes from the shoreline out to the shimmer & mist. The Snowsotrm last Thursday night seemed to cause a wave of migrants to stop here with the unprecedented 100+ Pied-billed Grebes initially hunting close to shore and later coalescing into loose rafts further out, a new sight for many of us, I think. They stuck around through Saturday, but numbers were about half on Sunday, and now they're gone. Also absent were Common Mergansers and a few other waterfowl which had been present in smaller numbers. What was at Stewart Park:
Canada Geese Wood Duck - 2 on lagoon Mallards American Black Duck - 1 Mallard x American Black Duck - 1 American Wigeon - 2 Bufflehead - 2 males Double-crested Cormorant - 2 on breakwater Great Blue Heron - 1 BALD EAGLE - 1 adult flew down the lake at 0815, cruised the shore from East Shore Park to the swan pond, then rested awhile atop a snag opposite the boathouse before continuing west American Coot - 20+ mostly in southeast corner by houses & docks Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Dunlin - 1 on breakwater Rock Pigeon Downy Woodpecker - 1 drilling into boathouse Northern Flicker - 1 foraging in gutter of boathouse eaves Blue Jay American Crow American Robin European Starling Carolina Wren - 1 calling & singing Winter Wren - maybe one glimpsed Yellow-rumped Warbler - 10 around swan pond House Finch - small flock atop spruce by boathouse House Sparrow - several clinging to shingled side of boathouse ---Dave Nutter -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
