An afternoon ride to the north end of Seneca and Cayuga Lakes produced a beautiful breeding plumage Lesser black-backed Gull at Seneca Lake Park along with a first year Iceland Gull. A Snowy Owl was along Martin Road in Seneca Falls on the east side of the Finger Lakes airport. Cayuga Lake was still mostly frozen off of Cayuga Lake Sate Park but everything north of there was full of Redhead and other expected ducks. One dark morph Rough-legged hawk was along route 318 at Black Brook Road.
The phenomenon of the afternoon was the huge numbers of Snow Geese everywhere from Macedon to Seneca Falls most between route 21 to the west and 89 to the east; both north and south of the thruway in many corn fields. Several fields had flocks of at least 5000 and at least one had an estimated 10000. Along the thruway whenever the sun came out large flocks could be seen against the gray background moving to the west. Another huge flock was along Canandaigua Road north of Macedon Center and another at Yellow-mills and Fox Roads south of Macedon. Mike and Joann Tetlow _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . SPAMfighter has removed 550 of my spam emails to date. Do you have a slow PC? <http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen> Try a free scan! -- 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/ --
