Livia and I checked Dryden Lake early this morning. We found it almost completely socked in with fog, but were able to make out 9 CASPIAN TERNS (a very high number for Dryden Lake, I don't think I've ever seen more than three or four at a time), 2 transitional-plumaged BONAPARTE'S GULLS, 30+ Bufflehead, 7+ Horned Grebes (Chris Wood had 38 there yesterday!), and a raft of 9 LONG-TAILED DICKS barely visible in the fog.
Stewart Park had 20+ Caspian Terns; 13 Bonaparte's Gulls (on the red lighthouse jetty, then flying north); Tree, Barn, and N. Rough-winged swallows, a large flock of scaup and Ring-necked Ducks, and several Horned Grebes, including one close in in the creek. Lots of good birds on campus today too, with students waking up early for pre-enrollment reporting Caspian Terns, Bonaparte's Gull, Bufflehead, and Bohemian Waxwings from Beebe Lake and another Bohemian with a Cedar flock from the Azalea Garden. -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/ --
