This afternoon I scanned the Cayuga Lake for awhile from East Shore Park. Very little of note, but I did pick up a fast flying flock of about 10 smallish gray and white shorebirds flying down the lake, which I took to be DUNLIN. Leading this flock was a larger black and white bird, which was puzzling at first (I was thinking large shorebird), but when it broke off and circled back to land on the water, I realized it was a LONG-TAILED DUCK. My count of RUDDY DUCKS off the east end of Stewart Park is up to 54.
Earlier today, I scanned from Myer's Point, 9:30-11 am, and had even fewer birds of note. A few high flying small flocks of cormorants and geese, and a few migrating raptors over the distant hills on both sides of the lake. KEN Ken Rosenberg Conservation Science Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2412 607-342-4594 (cell) k...@cornell.edu<mailto:k...@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/ --
