Hi Meena and John Have to chime in here, as the lake and I are rather good friends, from a few thousand hours of rowing and sailing! From Taughannock State Park it's 8 miles on the water to Stewart Park at the bottom end of the lake, and the west shore down there (Hog Hole) is only 1.8 miles east of a direct southerly line from the shore at Taughannock. I don't know how you figured those large numbers of miles; below Taughannock, around about Myers, the lake actually bends more southerly, not to the east. On the other hand, Watkins Glen at the south end of Seneca Lake is about 17 miles WSW from Taughannock, a direction that would be just right if the Loons were migrating to Pittsburgh.
I do wonder where they go from here though. The Susquehanna takes an extremely twisty course with a large easterly excursion in Pennsylvania, it would be interesting to know whether they follow it or just go straight, which would save hours of flight. Cheers, John Greenly On Nov 14, 2015, at 6:42 PM, John Confer wrote: > Hi Meena, > > Good to see you at Taughannoch. > > John and Sue Gregoire and I thought that some of the big, loose flocks of > loons that were well north of the point we stood on at Taughannoch was far > more likely to take them over the southern tip of Seneca Lake than to the > southern tip of Cayuga Lake. As I look at Google Earth, that seems a much > more likely location that they fly over over than the southern tip of Cayuga. > Measured in Google, it looks to me that the southern tip of Cayuga Lake is > more than 10 miles east of due south from the tip of Taughannock. > > Cheers, > > John > > ________________________________________ > From: bounce-119895794-25065...@list.cornell.edu > <bounce-119895794-25065...@list.cornell.edu> on behalf of Meena Madhav > Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> > Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 4:00 PM > To: k...@empacc.net > Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re:[cayugabirds-l] Loon watch and foy here > > John, > I am not sure if they are following Susquehanna or they are just taking a > direct route. If you look up on the map, it seems they can fly directly to > Chesapeake Bay in direct line, they don't need to follow Route 15 as we do. > Route 15 is at least 20 miles left to their target destination in our area. > Also, as I mentioned earlier the Cayuga Lake southern tip bends to east > substantially by about 4 or 5 miles to the east from Taughannock State park > if draw straight line south. They know what they are doing! > > Cheers > Meena > > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > 42.429007,-76.47111 > http://www.haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > Ithaca area moths: https://plus.google.com/118047473426099383469/posts > Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/dragonflies/samplebook.pdf > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: John and Sue Gregoire <k...@empacc.net> > Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:03 PM > To: Meena Madhav Haribal > Cc: CAYUGABIRDS-L > Subject: Re: Loon watch and foy here > > Meena pls pass to Wes and Diane. Sue and I continued on to Seneca Lake where > we > found no loons. In thinking about those high Southwestward flyers we believe > they > had plenty of altitude to spot the Susquehanna and thus took a bit more > direct route > down Rte 15! (runs alongside the river from Corning south). > > At home we also had Fox Sparrow and our FOY American Tree Sparrow. > > Terrific morning with good company! > > John > -- > John and Sue Gregoire > Field Ornithologists > Kestrel Haven Avian Migration Observatory > 5373 Fitzgerald Road > Burdett,NY 14818-9626 > N 42 26.611' W 76 45.492' > Website: http://www.empacc.net/~kestrelhaven/ > "Conserve and Create Habitat" > > On Sat, November 14, 2015 10:37, Meena Madhav Haribal wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Today morning Loon Watch trip somebody seem to have lost the eye piece cap >> for Nikon > > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > > > -- > > 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/ > > -- > -- 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/ --
