Given the weather and the winds I decided to do a Lakewatch from Long Point State Par, arriving around 8 am. It was almost too windy to stand and look through a scope but I was able to huddle on the lee side of the small lighthouse on the point.
I did have two small groups of BONAPARTE'S GULLS but they were streaming up the far shore and almost in invisible in the heat shimmer. Almost nothing else came by in 2 hours and like Jay I was disappointed. 3 scattered COMMON LOONS Nd a group of 3 male RED BREASTED MERGANSERS. the most tantalizing sighting though was distant flock of 5 Cormorants flying fairly high up the middle of the lake. All were adults but the lead bird was 30% larger than the rest- both in bulk and in wingspan. I had the In my scope for about 20 seconds. It it was pretty bouncy and I could not make out any white or other field marks. It's hard to see how that wouldn't be a Great Cormorant, though. Up in the cedars above Long Point I saw a flock of 12 GOLDEN CROWNED KINGLETS and a very red FOX SPARROW. KEN Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
