Just a quick note with some of my highlights from the day. I went up the lake with Brad Walker, Livia Santana, and Flávia Guimarães. The east side was pretty quiet until north of Union Springs, where we could see the huge Snow Goose flock still out on the lake, closer to the west side. Cayuga, Harris Park, and Mud Lock were active with lots of the normal waterfowl, but nothing out of the ordinary. Similarly the Mucklands had lots of Northern Pintail and Tundra Swans but not much variety of waterfowl. Brad spotted a juvenile WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW in the weeds along the highway, though. On Van Dyne Spoor Road we found a nice adult NORTHERN SHRIKE and then had great looks at a beautiful juvenile GOLDEN EAGLE circling low over the forest edge. Carncross Road had a lot of gulls but nothing different. As Chris Posted, the Snow Goose flock was excellently viewed from near the south end of Lower Lake Road in Canoga. With some effort I relocated the adult male EURASIAN WIGEON, though it disappeared into the flock again before others could get on it. We eventually also found at least two ROSS'S GEESE in the group, one a typical adult quite close in the flock, and the other perhaps a mostly-adult plumaged juvenile even closer, right on the front edge, an absolutely TINY bird: https://picasaweb.google.com/111137855303614931880/LateWinter2013#5853525177778855906 Who knows how many more were farther into the flock. None that we could see.
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