Myers Point was fairly quiet this morning. Despite seemingly much better migration conditions today than yesterday (very calm northwestish wind instead of strong south), I saw VERY few birds moving, in contrast to yesterday when dozens of loons and good numbers of geese were moving. Stupid birds.
At any rate, it was much more pleasant there today than yesterday, and I still saw a few birds. A male LONG-TAILED DUCK was on the water to the south of the lighthouse, along with three female-type SURF SCOTERS, 4 LESSER and 6 GREATER SCAUP (and more Greater Scaup flying by), and 200 AMERICAN COOTS (the coots and scaup best viewed from the marina). At least 140 COMMON LOONS were on the water, most in a huge group pretty far offshore due west, but as I said, I saw ZERO loons flying south today. The only birds I saw moving south at all, actually, were 7 BONAPARTE'S GULLS, all apparently adults. No Dunlin or interesting gulls on the spit, but a SNOW BUNTING landed there for a while, before it heard another Snow Bunting flying over and flew joyfully up to join it and continue north. Two male BUFFLEHEAD were out on the lake, and a pair were close in at the marina. A single DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT was foraging off the marina, and I heard two flyover AMERICAN PIPITS. Good birding, -Jay -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology jw...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
