Andy Johnson and I checked Ladoga Point, Myers marina and point, and Salt Point at lunchtime this morning. We found most of the area frozen, with the ice at Ladoga extending several hundred meters out on the lake and no open water close enough to scan. Over 100 TUNDRA SWANS continue on the point off Ladoga proper (visible from the end of the road looking out on the lake). The marina was mostly frozen with a concentration of dabblers (including a male NORTHERN PINTAIL) and coots in the open area in the middle. The bay north of Salt Point is open and hosted most of the waterfowl that we were able to find, including several hundred Aythya, but not the Tufted. It seemed like there were more birds out of view around the point to the north, so that may be where the Tufted flock has moved to, or they may have moved back south along the lakeshore.
At the compost piles this morning, Livia and I found two GLAUCOUS GULLS, one the probably continuing 3rd-cycle, and one adult or near adult, as well as a medium-brown 1st-cycle ICELAND GULL. -- 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/ --
