Today I drove from Ithaca to Montezuma NWR & back on the west side of Cayuga Lake. Notable Snow Goose sightings included:
Around 11am flocks of hundreds in lines and vees over Covert flying east toward the lake. Around 5pm hundreds covering and grazing on the sheep pasture beside NYS-89 between Schuyler Creek and the Varick-Fayette Townline Road. They were nibbling grass, not rooting in corn. Quite a few moderate-size rafts on Cayuga Lake fairly close to the west shore as I drove south in the evening. I did not notice the single giant raft in the middle of the lake which I consider typical. I also recall that on 25 February, when Gary, Ann, & I went to Oswego to see the Clark's Grebe, we saw thousands of Snow Geese migrating north to, then northeast around Lake Ontario. I assume this was the exit of a big portion of the Cayuga Basin's first big wave of Snow Geese. I think we may have a different and smaller group now from a more recent wave. --Dave Nutter Sent from my iPad > On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:11 AM, Bill Mcaneny <bmcane...@fltg.net> wrote: > > Not all the Snows are heading for the corn fields. About an hour ago several > well-formed Vees flew fairly high over our place heading due north. On the > move?. > > Bill -- 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/ --
