Those must have been the ones I saw streaming BACK from the South
heading North, definitely in the lake direction from here about 5pm.
Don't know why they changed course and came back again. Weather? Wind? Lake?
Stephanie
On 12/27/12 9:25 PM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote:
At dusk I stopped by Stewart park - the churning lakeshore was pretty bird
less, but then I noticed the western sky filled with SNOW GEESE pouring in from
the south. The skeins were flying north but drifting east over the lake, flying
very strongly into the stiff wind. I'm sure I missed the beginning of this
return flight, but I counted 5,300 birds. They seemed to be dropping onto the
lake somewhere up near myer's.
So it seems not all (any?) of the snows left the cayuga lake basin today.
Ken
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On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:20 PM, "Bill Mcaneny" <bmcane...@fltg.net> wrote:
Interesting to hear that they were still streaming at 2:30. I was digging
out my driveway at about 12:15 when I heard the Snows and saw them heading
south. I wondered whether they were going to the corn fields because the
Canadas fly in the same direction in the morning and back to the lake later
in the day. When the good folks south of us started to report the flights,
it was obvious the destination was not the corn fields, at least, not the
local ones. I think the early reports started coming in about 12:30, just a
few minutes after my first sightings. The timing and direction were perfect
for an escape to the south. I think Geo's count was accurate. While I
watched for just a few minutes, I saw perhaps 1000 to 2000 birds. I wonder
what Geo's final tally was. Too bad the birds couldn't have waited until
the census day next week.
Bill McAneny, Tburg
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Still streaming out the south gates of the Cayuga Basin at 2:30!
-Geo
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