Around 4:30 this afternoon I found a female KING EIDER in the channel of the Wilson piers on Lake Ontario. She was closer to the west pier and swam out of the channel as I walked out on the east pier. She refused to lift her head, however, until I started running, which allowed me to finally identify her - just in time as I was running out of pier!. Whether or not she will return to or stay in the channel when there are fishermen on the east pier is questionable (there were none when I was there). She did return to the channel after I left, as I checked from the parking lot. On the west pier were a couple dozen CASPIAN TERNS along with Herring and Ring-billed Gulls, which also took off even before I started running but returned shortly (it's the scope and tripod that scares them). I did not see the small unidentified tern that was reported earlier in the afternoon.
Good birding! Willie ---------------- Willie D'Anna Betsy Potter Wilson, NY dannapotterATroadrunner.com http://www.betsypottersart.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
